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Jan. 8, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 8, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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By the way, President Obama, ladies and gentlemen, has scheduled a press conference or some kind of statement with the press 20 minutes before this program ends today.
The purpose of which is to no doubt rebut me on my take on the job numbers and whatever else he thinks he needs to rebut me off.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday.
And I promise, my friends, I really, really promise we'll get to your phone calls in this hour.
Telephone number, 800-282-2882.
If you want to talk about something I don't care about, we'll do that on Friday.
We don't do that on Thursday.
The telephone number again, 800-282-2882, the email address, El Rocho, Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Now, a couple more things here on this brave speech yesterday by the president.
Immediate twisting and turning, doing exactly as I predicted, blaming everything here on Bush systems that Bush and Cheney put into place.
It can't be our new young president.
He's only been there 10 months.
Remember, though, Bush had been there only 10 months, and they tried to blame him for 9-11.
At any rate, there's a story here, Politico.com, this from yesterday, that White House security report was further redacted before release.
Yeah, it was.
He said it was further redacted over concerns that any information divulged involved sources and methods.
One has to be extremely careful what's made public.
It can provide knowledge to your enemies.
Now, I don't think they care about that.
You know why?
Very simple reason why they don't care about that.
This upcoming show trial in New York City of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his henchmen budgeted $206 million a year.
New York wants the feds to pay them $206 million a year for security for that trial.
A year.
How long does that tell you it's going to go on?
If we are really worried about not making public that will give knowledge to our enemies, then why in the name of hell are we going to conduct a public show trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and give him a forum to reap up and beat up this country, make speeches, by the way, discovery?
He's going to be able to see all the evidence that we've collected.
It's an absolute disaster.
And if we're so concerned about not divulging sources and methods, then why the hell did the State Department announce that they screwed up identifying Abdul Mutalib because his name was misspelled in their database, and so he didn't show up as a terrorist?
By admitting that, all we got to do now is imagine that terrorists add a couple vowels to their names when they register and then use their real names when they show up, and they won't show up on the list.
So I don't believe this for a moment.
One has to be extremely careful what's made public.
It can provide knowledge to your enemies.
Something in that report was going to be shocking, and nothing was.
Whatever it was, was redacted.
And it was redacted, I think, not because it was shocking, but because it was going to be harmful to somebody.
And I think that's why it was redacted.
Now, let's listen to the drive-bys in the state-controlled media.
Last night, this is a montage of Diane Sawyer, George Stephanopoulos, David Rodham Gergen, Bob Schrum, Pat Buchanan, all talking about Obama and his remarks on the fruit of kaboom bomber.
The buck stops here.
It's an echo of another young president at another time.
Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs.
The president took responsibility.
Take personal responsibility for this, just as John F. Kennedy did after the Bay of Pigs.
Remember Jack Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs?
Presidents who are willing to do this, JFK, presidents who are willing to say this sort of thing when something bad happens, the country tends to respond.
It's just amazing.
They all say the same thing, and they all compare him to JFK when it was Harry Truman who said it.
But they don't want to compare him to Truman because Truman nuked the Japanese.
And why compare him to JFK?
The Bay of Pigs was an absolute disaster.
It was a flop, by the way.
Speaking of Bay of Pigs in Cuba, I have a story down in the snack here.
Do you know that doctors are defecting from Cuba?
Doctors.
Doctors are defecting from the best health care system in the world, folks.
That's what the American left tells us, and that's what Hollywood tells us.
Oh, yeah, the healthcare down there is better than anybody else.
They send their kids down there, but they never go for health treatment themselves.
But it's the best healthcare in the world because it doesn't cost anybody anything.
And so doctors are defecting from the best healthcare system in the world.
Last night on the Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer spoke with the former Clinton advisor, David Rodham Gergen, who David Rodham Gergen personifies conventional wisdom in Washington.
If you want to know what everybody else is thinking, you listen to David Gergen.
If you want to know what everybody's similar take is on anything that happens in that town, you listen to David Rodham Gergen.
So Blitzer asked David Rodham Gergen about Obama and his remarks on the attempted Christmas Day attack said, David Gergen, sir, four presidents.
What do you think, David?
What do you think of what he said?
It's going to take a while to digest this one, Wolf.
It was complex.
I thought the president taking personal responsibility, the buck stops here, was forthright and good.
Welcome.
I think it was harder to understand the intelligence failures.
And General Jones spoke that we would have a certain shock about what went wrong.
I thought what he described about what happened and what went wrong in intelligence was at a sort of a bureaucratic language to it that was hard to penetrate.
What is he really saying here about what went wrong?
And therefore, it's a little hard to understand what he's doing that's kind of correct it, especially on the intelligence side.
I thought it was clearer about the screen.
Sounds to me here, unlike JFK, it sounds like David Rodham Gergen had no idea what Obama was saying.
And this is his initial response, his initial response before he threw in the JFK reference.
Somebody sent the memo out.
It's JFK, JFK, JFK.
Now, all the drive-bys got it.
And they all started repeating it, JFK, JFK, JFK.
But he made this comment before the JFK memo went out.
And his initial response tells you all I need to know.
He has no idea what Obama's talking about.
It was complex.
It's complex.
Of course, everything intellectuals say is complex, and we're not meant to really understand what they say.
We're supposed to just be in awe.
It's not what they say.
It's how they say it.
Because, you know, they're so much smarter than we are.
They have to speak this way.
In other words, if we really knew what they were saying, we couldn't handle it anyway.
It's a shock and awe to our own brains about how insignificant we are would send us into suicidal notions.
We shouldn't even try to understand.
We're not capable of it.
See, that's the way it goes.
Now, yesterday afternoon on this, you know, cookie, I'm actually seriously thinking here, no more soundbites from MSNBC.
I mean, it's not even worth it.
It's not worth giving these people the time.
It's not even funny anymore, unless it's genuinely funny.
But this is just This is the height of irresponsibility and journalistic malpractice, if there is so many.
The latest example here is Nora O'Donnell and David Schuster.
And David Schuster, this is a guy who blamed Bush for letting people out of Guantanamo Bay to go to Yemen and come back and commit terrorist acts.
After David Schuster and his crowd demanding the place be closed.
And that those poor terrorists be released because then nobody's charging with anything.
And they're probably innocent young children.
There's Bush and Cheney.
They just put them in there to be mean.
They don't have any evidence against them.
We got to let them go.
This is trashing America's values.
It's making the world hate us.
Now you turn around and blame Bush for letting people out of there.
Anyway, David Schuster says to Nora O'Donnell, Nora, as far as the politics of the policy of Obama's speech, what's your reaction?
Where the president said, this is not a time for partisanship.
This is a time for citizenship.
And this baloney, essentially, he said, about this finger pointing and saying we're not at war is not appropriate when the enemy is who it is and is trying to kill Americans.
And I think that was a very strong message, and I think it was implicitly a very strong pushback to the former Vice President Dick Cheney, who has been the most vociferous critic of this president.
Oh, that's why she's squealing with delight.
Nora O'Donnell squealing with delight as though Bill Clinton had walked in the room and undressed.
Oh, he blamed Cheney.
She's so excited.
It was near orgasmic on MSNBC.
She blamed Cheney.
He obviously was blaming Cheney.
Not a time for partisanship, a time for citizenship.
No, it's a time for stepping up and accepting the constitutional role of commander-in-chief and protecting and defending the people of this country and the Constitution.
None of which is happening right now.
We'll be back.
And we're back, Rush Lindboy and the EIB Network.
And we go to the phones.
People have been patiently waiting.
And up first today from Sierra Vista, Arizona, Rich, nice to have you here, sir.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
Hey, thanks, Russ.
Ditto's from the desert, and quite honored being first up today.
Hey, I'm supposed to sarcastically thank you a little bit for ruining a little bit of our Hawaii vacation.
Also, we were there at the same time.
Were you?
Yes.
Well, I'm sorry about that.
Well, we thought it was going to be Obama trashing our travel plans, but as soon as the word got out that you were in the hospital, I kind of glued to the internet and the television trying to figure out what was going on.
Well, I appreciate that, but I'm very sorry.
Yeah, well, they'll get over it.
Hey, I tell you what, there was one thing I was shocked about with hearing Obama speak yesterday.
I didn't hear any will in his words whatsoever.
So I was listening to how he was speaking, and I heard somebody that was beating on his chest and somebody that was maybe a little bit desperate because he's probably heard some of the initial reactions from the press, some of the on his initial reactions to this thing.
And he realized that he already has two strikes with Fort Hood and the panty bomber.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
There's three.
There's the Army recruiter in Arkansas.
There's the near disaster at Fort Dix.
New York just arrested a couple of guys today.
And I think that may be the FBI arrested a couple of guys today that they've been surveilling for six months.
That could be on orders from the White House to show toughness here.
But it's certainly been more than three strikes.
Sure, but I'm speaking specifically since he took office.
You know, true, we had 9-11 with Bush, and that started the whole thing, but nothing happened here in the States after that.
This has all happened in the one year since he's actually taken office.
And I think he sees the writing on the wall that he's either got to do something to prove to the people that he can be the commander-in-chief, or else the people are going to rise up against him and say, hey, screw you.
We've had enough of this.
Your primary job is to protect us, not to take care of us out of your pocket.
Yeah, and out of our pocket.
Okay, our pocket.
And, you know, there was a masterful plot, masterful plot from Great Britain, Al-Qaeda terrorists who are going to blow up a bunch of airplanes en route from the U.K. to the United States.
That plot was hatched.
It was caught and observed and stopped by British authorities during the Bush administration, working with, I think, the FBI and the probably the CIA.
There were attempts made during the Bush administration.
We don't know how many because you don't ever advertise the things you stop.
Only your failures get noticed.
But that one was a big one.
Your point is well taken.
This kind of stuff did not happen in eight years with George W. Bush.
George W. Bush and Dick Cheney say whatever you want kept the people of this country safe.
Great call.
Great to hear from you, Rich.
This is Jen in Detroit.
Nice to have you on the EIB Network.
Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush.
Hi.
I'm so glad that you're doing well.
Thank you so much.
Well, it's just nice to talk to you.
And my point is that, well, you know, I don't even listen to this person speeches.
I listen to it vicariously through the sound bites because I can't stand them.
Okay.
I'm talking about Obama.
Anyway, you know, this thing that he did yesterday, it was just more of his own garbage, again, because, like this, I'm bringing up the point of you were saying about, you showed about the, he said we were finally said we were at war with Al-Qaeda.
Well, you know what?
He doesn't believe that because if he did, we would not be trying all these terrorists in the regular courts.
We would be using the military courts.
Exactly right.
Exactly right.
Especially the show trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his three henchmen.
I mean, if we're really concerned about not divulging our intelligence methods and secrets and so forth, then there's no way we'd be doing this trial.
This trial is going to expose everything, and it is going to be the largest anti-American rant ever to take place on American soil in a courtroom for the longest sustained time.
It's going to go on for years.
And these people have to know that.
And they claim they're out for a conviction.
And even if they don't get a conviction, by the way, in New York, after all this time has passed, well, you get a jury from the Upper West Side and down in the village, and I can see finding two or three people who think the U.S. made this happen.
Look at how many idiots believe that there is a conspiracy theory that Bush knew and was involved in blowing up the Twin Towers.
And a lot of them are in New York.
You're not going to have trouble finding a jury that thinks these guys are the victims of an evil, imperialistic United States.
Yeah, at least a hung jury.
Anything's possible.
That's why they said even if that happens, they're not being released.
So what are you putting them on trial for?
This is an utter disaster.
And I'm sorry, I cannot escape the conclusion that it's purposeful.
This is Kevin in Columbus, Ohio.
Great to have you here, sir.
Welcome.
Yes, how are you doing?
I want to say, where and when are we going to find one Republican or anyone of that ilk to stop undermining this country, undermining our commander-in-chief during a time of war and crisis.
Why don't we pull together and defeat this problem and stop sniping in every little detail everything that he...
Go ahead.
I'm listening.
Man.
When is that going to happen?
One brave Republican that is not in lockstep with everything that you, Glenn Beck, Alan Hannity, all you guys are saying the same thing.
I want to know when.
I don't know even how to deal with this.
I don't think I could reduce myself to your IQ level to be able to communicate.
Whatever, whatever.
That's what you want to revert to.
Is you're going to try to say something personal about me, but the fact is, you guys are undermining our security.
And this is.
This is a joke.
You are a satire writer, right?
You write jokes.
You're funny.
Kevin, frankly, you're not funny.
It's not really funny at all, though.
Kevin, you.
I'm a veteran of the United States Army, and the commander-in-chief is the one that is in charge.
He cannot be held responsible for every little thing that goes wrong.
Sure, he's going to take the responsibility, unlike Bush, who didn't want to take responsibility.
Kevin, Kevin.
You can't blame him for it happening.
Kevin, do you realize this is not playing well?
Nobody.
I don't care what your people think.
All I know is what I'm saying is right.
You're undermining our national security and the president of the United States.
No matter how you feel about him, after the bitter defeat, the people have rejected these policies already.
That's why he's in office.
You guys are rejected.
Don't you understand that?
I heard you say years ago that that is the consequences of elections.
And now you're suffering the consequences.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Ladies and gentlemen, there's an old adage that it's a mistake to argue with a fool because no one will be able to tell the difference.
That's right.
So that's why you should stop undermining this country and our national security.
Tell your other people the same thing.
That's what you're doing.
These terrorists are listening to.
And you're giving them all these details, telling them the president weak, Cheney running around.
He had eight years.
What did he do?
He didn't do anything.
What did he do?
No, just I'm not, Kevin, Kevin, you're not going to bait me here.
This is this is.
I'm not trying to bait you.
I'm just doing it.
Kevin, whether you're trying to bait me or not, you are just a glittering jewel of colossal ignorance.
It's not worth my time.
Your entertainment value is simply you alone.
From people like you for seven years badgering, destroying Bush and Cheney, who only kept the country safe.
People like you who are trying to secure the defeat of the U.S. military in Iraq.
People like you who were blindfolded and elected such a nimrod to be president of the United States, somebody who hasn't the slightest clue or care about national security.
For you not to understand that we Republicans or conservatives are totally devoted to national security, and this is, and we have a president who isn't, and that's the source of our concern.
If you don't, and you don't obviously see it, I mean, there's no point having a conversation with you.
You're lost.
You're irretrievably lost.
But I'll pass your message on.
Well, I don't have to.
I mean, everybody heard it.
You know, it's calls like this that make me question an age-old belief that I've had.
And that is, in the end, you can rely on the American people to do the right thing.
And everybody tells me, no, Rush, you don't know what the kind of stupidity there is out there.
And I'd rather not chalk it up to stupidity, but rather the education system, which has been corrupted for so many decades with the express purpose of creating mind-numbed people who are totally ill-educated and thus ill-informed and end up supporting the people who want to destroy the country as we've known it, thinking they're doing the right thing.
So maybe they're not just stupid, they just haven't been taught to think and, as such, they're ill-informed.
Back in a second, Just checking out the Investors BusinessDaily.com blog, and I found this post from late this morning.
Veteran political analyst Charlie Cook, who is renowned inside the Beltway for his political report and his polling and prognostication, says that retirements are creating a vicious circle for Democrat politicians.
For the first time, Charlie Cook sees a significant risk that Democrats could lose the House this year if trends continue.
Somebody needs to call Michael Steele and tell him.
Here's what Cook says.
How many other wavering House or Senate Democrats will look at the past five weeks and decide that spending the rest of this year as a lame duck is more attractive than spending a horrific year fundraising, scarfing down fast food, shaking hands all the while facing the real possibility of losing?
When the party starts singing endless choruses of this is going to be a lousy year, lawmakers can easily find themselves humming along.
And come November, Senate Democrats' 60-vote supermajority is toast.
It's difficult, if not impossible, to see how Democrats could lose the Senate this year, but they have a 50-50 chance of ending up with fewer than 55 seats in the next Congress.
And if Democrats suffer much more erosion in their solid and likely columns, control of the House will suddenly be up for grabs.
And there's a very important special election coming up in Massachusetts 19th of January.
This for Ted Kennedy's seat.
And a lot of people are shocked by how close this is.
Scott Brown, 41 years old and a very attractive candidate in a number of ways, is inching ever closer to the favored Democrat, Martha Coakley.
She didn't even campaign in December.
It was so thought to be in the bag.
She's now started running ads.
He's running ads, accusing her of raising taxes and so forth.
She says it's a dirty personal attack.
I don't know how every time you tell the truth about Democrats, it somehow is a dirty personal attack.
But Scott Brown is right.
Now, if this guy, if this guy Brown happens to win, it's nine points right now.
In Massachusetts, where there are a million plus more Democrats than Republicans, for any Republican to be within nine points here of Ted Kennedy's seat, I mean, they've even trotted out Ted Kennedy's widow to endorse Martha Coakley.
Well, Charlie Cook says here a GOP upset or even a narrow or close loss by Scott Brown could likely trigger a new wave of Democrat retirements.
Likewise, a smashing victory by Martha Coakley over Brown might slow the bleeding.
So, and people on the Democrat side are watching that race like hawks.
This is from Foxnews.com.
MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, one of the leading academic defenders of healthcare reform, is taking a little heat here.
He failed to disclose consistently that he was under contract with the Department of Health and Human Services while he was out touting the Democrats' health proposals in the media.
Does the corruption never end on these people's side?
Is there anybody who honestly believes what the Democrats are selling without being paid to say it?
Gruber, according to federal government documents, is under $297,600 contract until next month to provide technical assistance in evaluating health care reform proposals.
He was under a $95,000 health and human services contract before that.
But while he was being paid to provide his services to HHS, he was also fending off health care reform critics in the media.
He was one of the prominent analysts to rebut an insurance industry report from Price Waterhouse Coopers in October saying premiums would shoot up if a health care bill passes.
So here you've got a dishonest economist because everybody knows premiums are going to go.
There's no way they can't.
The government's going to subsidize people who can't afford the mandatory insurance.
And the government's going to mandate that insurance companies sell insurance to people the day before they get a heart attack or the day they get a heart attack or for pre-existing conditions.
I'm sorry, there's no way prices are going to come down.
Costs may come down for some Americans because they're going to be subsidized.
But only Americans who get subsidized, and that's people who family of four under 88 grand, a single person under 43, if you're under those levels, you're going to get subsidized.
Everybody else is going to be paying through the roof for the subsidies.
It's just absurd.
So PricewaterhouseCooper does this analyst analysis and they come out with this.
And here's this MIT economist refuting it because he's on a take.
And you remember when Armstrong Williams was found to be involved in some Bush administration agency, all hell broke loose.
And Armstrong had to go out there and apologize and resign.
And they kept it up for a week or two about all these nefarious activities going on.
And again, this little bit of news is at foxnews.com.
Now, I want to change directions here just before we hit this break because there's some people out there that I think we need to acknowledge.
You know, wherever you go in this country and in many places in the country right now, the story that's on everybody's mind has nothing to do with what's going on in Washington.
The story is the cold.
The story is what is happening to people, their businesses, and their crops because of this unexpected cold.
I mean, for all these years, we've been hearing about global warming, and nobody forecasts this cold front.
Nobody forecasts this cold spell.
Nobody forecasts this deep freeze.
A lot of cities and towns did not beef up and spend budgets on sand and snow removal equipment because it wasn't going to happen.
And we now have a deadly force which has struck not just us, but the planet.
And I think we need to thank all these first responders out there who are fighting the good fight while everybody else sleeps and waits in our homes for help.
I'm talking about this is an Arctic attack from Mother Nature and the people that drive the snowplows and other first responder services.
I mean, there are people in various parts of the country, restaurants that are open, cooking food to cops are coming and taking food to people who can't get out of their houses.
Here in Florida, some parts of the state, the low is getting down to 25.
The crops are threatened.
That's not good.
Pipes are bursting in a lot of places.
Even in my place, something I noticed this week, and this has not happened before.
I had to turn when I got in the shower, I had to turn the dial twice as hot as I normally do to get hot water because the pipes are cold.
Pipes aren't used to being cold.
Took water a long time running through the pipes to warm them up before I could dial back the hot water temperature.
Now, you know, in other parts of the country, what's happening is a near emergency.
You've got snow falling, and they've got no place to put the snow, and they've got no place to put the snow that they're going to be grading off the streets if they have the equipment to do it.
And I don't hear any of them complaining, by the way.
I don't hear anybody saying, Where's FEMA?
I don't hear anybody saying, Where's my $2,000 debit card?
I don't hear anybody saying, Where's Obama?
Where's the federal government?
Who's here to help bail me?
I don't hear anybody.
And we've got some category five winter storms hitting certain parts of this country.
And that's what's on people's minds in many, many parts of the country today.
I think where we are in South Florida may be the only state.
I mean, it's snowing in Alabama for crying out loud.
And they're expecting a major winter frost in the Gulf states starting tonight.
We got a little warmer yesterday, 74 here, but we're going to be down to 30s tonight through the weekend, barely making it.
I don't think we're going to get out of 50s for a couple days.
Now, I'm not complaining.
I'm just, that does not happen here.
We have, it gets cold here, but two or three days, and then bam, it warms back up.
I even checked the Bahamas because sometimes I bop over there during these cold snaps, and it's even reaching down.
That usually does not happen.
What happens to keep, and the Bahamas is not that far south from here.
It's 30 minutes and a little further east, but it's in a little bit more tropical zone, and there's a lot of water, which is very warm between here and there.
And that water generally warms up the cold air headed that way.
So by the time it gets there, it's not nearly as cold as it is here in South Florida.
They're getting, I mean, they're getting hit with unseasonably, unusually cold weather.
It's just happening all over the place.
And even in the midst of all this, the global warming hoaxers are right out there front and center saying, this doesn't mean anything.
This doesn't mean anything at all.
In fact, this means that climate change is still happening.
This is just a blip.
And of course, there's the state control drive-by media right there to carry that propaganda and that utter lie that we all now know is a total hoax, man-made global warming.
Destructive statists and the fools who believe their propaganda.
These are the people having a tough winter.
Their phony game has been canceled due to global warming.
We've got livestock dying in the fields.
People are dying of frostbite.
Some people snowed in.
Others are stuck in their Priuses in snowbanks.
Some can't get to a store.
Pets can barely go outside to relieve themselves in certain parts of the country.
So all you man-made global warming BS holdouts, do us a favor.
Why don't you man-made global warming?
Why don't you go out and shovel everybody's driveway and sidewalks for free?
And maybe we'll let you in the house for five minutes to tell us all about man-made global warming when you finish and the evil of fossil fuels.
Why don't you come in and tell us about the evil of fossil fuels while the snowplow is driving by your house to get your stupid little hybrid out of a drift so that you can head to the whole foods commune and pick up your bean sprouts?
Why don't you do that?
Why don't you march?
Why don't you do it?
Why don't you global warming people have a march, a protest march against the internal combustion engine that's being used on all these snowplows and all these rescue vehicles?
Yeah, yeah, that's when you really could prove your metal.
That's when you could really show us what you're worth.
You go out and you ram the roads free with your own man-made power.
You go out and get your green energy, that new green technology that's going to make us all safe.
Go get that green technology, your wind power and your solar power, and you use that to clean off the streets and get people out of their homes.
Yeah, why don't you guys do it?
Why don't you global warming people go out and show us how it really is to be done here?
Show us how we can improve our lives.
Show us how we can get the roads clear so that food can get to the stores, so that the stores can open so people can get there and eat.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Maybe you can maybe get us a snowplow, put a little hybrid engine in there and show us how it's really done.
While you sit out there and you fully benefit from the great inventions and the possibilities in the internal combustion engine and the fossil fuels that are now totally necessary to save lives, and you run around and tell us this is destroying the planet and we've got to get rid of all these kinds of things.
Windmills are the answer.
Solar panels.
Okay, show us how it's done.
Man-made snow removal.
And if you do that, shovel everybody's sidewalks.
I'm sure people let you in for five minutes so you can proselytize to them about global warming.
Okay, this next story is not a very long story, but we don't seek to shock anybody here.
And we don't live in the gutter on this program.
And it's also Friday, which means that a lot of screw students are not in school today, not just because of snow removal, but because school districts are out of money and they furloughed the teachers and the students are not in school.
Therefore, there might be that's happening in Florida.
What happened when I got my chest pains?
I was reading about that in Florida.
I get fewer instructional days in Florida and they're out of money.
Out of money and it's a mess.
But anyway, kids may be listening to the program and some of you adults may be offended by what's coming next.
It's about James Carville.
And I don't want anybody to be offended.
I'm not here to shock anybody, so I'm going to give you ample time to tune out.
And then you can come back in 30 seconds.
So I'm going to count down from five.
And when I reach one, if you're still listening and you're still offended by what I say, you can call, but nobody's going to listen to you.
You can call and complain of wine, but you've been warned.
Five, four, three, two, one.
The story today is from thehill.com.
It's a blog called The Washington Scene.
The debate over full body security scans just got a little more graphic thanks to James Carville.
He was speaking on the Tony Kornheiser show today in Washington.
And this is what Carville said about airport full body scanners.
He said, let me buy a security pass so they can scan me, search me, measure my penis, and then let me get on the plane.
James Carville worried that they could measure his penis in a full body scan.
James, don't worry.
It wouldn't take long.
Okay, we're now finished with the potentially embarrassing and offensive story, and you can now come back to the EIB network.
How much did our government grow over the holiday week?
Hell, two weeks over the holiday break.
How much did it grow?
Besides this program, I know of one other source that will tell you the truth.
And that source is the Heritage Foundation.
These are hardworking people in Washington.
They really do work hard.
They worked through the holidays following the Senate play the kinds of games they did with the healthcare, the national debt, and they share their analysis with every member of the Heritage Foundation.
I've been a member there for years.
I've watched them advocate for less government, more freedom, the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth.
They're like a magnet.
The Heritage Foundation, like a giant magnet.
They just attract the truth.
That's all they're interested in.
Now, one of your New Year's resolutions should be joining with me and other conservatives, becoming a member of the Heritage Foundation.
You can do it easily at askheritage.org.
For a donation as simple as $25, you're entitled to a year's worth of information produced by some of the smartest thinkers following our government and using your contribution to enlighten and inform those in Washington.
Now, this is, it's not all that new, but it's relatively new.
The Heritage Foundation, a lot of think tanks used to exist, and you had to depend on knowing somebody or having somebody there send you some of the reports that they compile.
And they're voluminous.
They're just constantly working.
And now you can access it all via the web.
It is a treasure trove.
It is genuine, raw, conservative research and intelligence, making no excuses, oriented to the truth.
Just like this show and my own website.
Askheritage.org, $25 a year, and there's room.
There's plenty of room left for you to join.
Do it now at the beginning of the year.
And you, in the process, are going to help them continue to do the work they do.
And thus, you will help to continue making a difference.
Speaking of the cold, the cold weather spell is causing a serious problem for animals in Florida.
We talked about manatees yesterday.
Iguanas are falling off of tree limbs.
They are falling off of tree limbs.
You know, the reptiles are cold-blooded.
They have no way of staying warm, and they're alive when they fall.
They're just paralyzed.
They've just fallen off tree limbs out there.
This, I'm not aware of this happening in a long time.
I am told I said Florida a moment ago when I meant to say Hawaii.
It is Hawaii schools that are closed on Friday.
They're called furlough Fridays because they're out of money.
I can't pay the teachers.
I can't pay them full and don't have the money to educate the pupils, which, given how the way they may be being educated, could be a plus looking at it in one way.
Okay, we got one hour remaining here on Open Line Friday.
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