I tell you what, folks, there's more coming in here than I can keep up with, and I'm good at keeping up.
Rush Limbaugh, El Rushball, the all-seeing, all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all everything, maha-rushy.
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Where is it?
Where did I put it?
The Boston Globe has taken down the story after I read the story.
They've taken it down.
I put it somewhere here in the stack.
They have replaced the story after my monologue.
The Boston Globe.
This is a story about John McCormick, who's the reporter for the Weekly Standard, following Martha Coakley outside her lobbyist fundraiser dinner last night in Washington.
She was pushed.
He was pushed down to the ground and in a metal railing by Michael Meehan, who has recently been hired by her campaign to help her messaging.
And she watched it all.
She saw it all happen.
She made no effort to stop it.
It says a taught tactic.
You push somebody down and you run in and you help them up.
And the Boston Globe reported that this poor guy McCormick, he's trying to do too many things at once and he just fell.
And they reported it, Meehan and a Good Samaritan helped him up.
Well, now they've replaced the story and the headline.
Weekly Standard Reporter says he was pushed by Coakley aid.
A reporter for a conservative magazine says he was pushed by someone as he followed Coakley and tried to ask her questions when she was leaving a fundraiser in a Washington restaurant Tuesday night.
John McCormick gave his version of the incident.
It's on YouTube for there's no version.
It's on YouTube.
I have seen it.
I have watched it.
I have described it exactly as you would see it if you watched it.
Anyway, my friends, I have a question about this.
Michael Graham at National Review Online mentioned that this could be a turning point in the campaign.
I mean, because it's symbolic here of the way Democrats are pushing all of us around, bullying everybody.
But aren't we told, ladies and gentlemen, that independents want everybody to get along and they don't like acrimony.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
We are told that if Republicans ever utter a critical, not just one critical word of Obama, that's it.
And they're going to run fast as they can to the Democrat voters.
And I run to the Democrat Party.
McCain believed it.
That's why he was not anytime there was any criticism of Obama and his campaign.
Whoever did the criticism was denounced, some cases canned.
The moderate Republicans have fallen for this myth that's been put out by the Democrats.
So if that's the case, these independents who are already trending toward Scott Brown are not going to like this incident, are they?
A thug actually pushing a journalist to the sidewalk.
And an interesting question that I might ask, where is Martha Coakley's statement on this?
She saw it.
She's a witness.
And where is the media demanding that she make one about her aide attacking a reporter?
A reporter.
I thought reporters circled the wagons.
When Dan Rather ran fake quotes, fake reports, fake stories, Peter Jennings and Tom Brokoff circled the wagons and gave him some makeshift award.
They circle the wagons.
You know, there's even an organization to protect the safety of journalists who get killed or wounded in action.
Quote unquote, where, I mean, where are the media?
One of their own was bullied, was literally shoved to the ground.
It happened last night right before Martha Coakley's eyes.
She is an attorney general.
She witnessed assault and battery.
She should say something about it.
At least she could say that her aide acted stupidly, you know, like Obama accused the cop in Cambridge.
At least you could say that the aide was stupid here because the aide clearly was.
I'll tell you something else, folks.
I strategically and purposefully stayed out of this race in every way, shape, manner, or form.
And I did it for reasons I announced yesterday.
I didn't mention the big fundraising day that he had on Monday.
I didn't mention the huge turn that was happening in the last two weeks in polling data.
I didn't say a word about it because if I had, they would have simply diminished what he was accomplishing.
Well, of course he's wasting a lot of money.
Limbaugh's asking his mind them robots to send him out.
Well, hell, if I had an audience, $22 million, then he asked them to send him, of course, anybody.
I didn't want to be able to say that.
I wanted it to be genuine.
I wanted it to appear as though it was grassroots, just like the Tea Party movement, just like all those appearances at the town hall meetings last August.
Because that's important.
And yet, they put me in this race anyway.
Their first negative ad puts me in the commercial, Martha Coakley's ad.
And they think that that's going to help them.
There were pictures of Bush and Cheney, and then me and Mitch McConnell.
And the dirty word in the ad was republican.
And, you know, this is, so that brings me into it.
And then F. Chuck Todd, go back and grab Soundbite 6.
After they drag me into the campaign, and I thus began talking about it, F. Chuck Todd on MSNBC said this.
Another sign this race is finally getting even more national attention.
Rush Limbaugh weighed in on his radio show.
She is the entrenched machine candidate here.
She's attorney general or has been.
I never heard of her until all this got started.
But at any rate, she's just a sock puppet, you know, for Harry Reid and the Democrats.
Well, we shall see.
I'm guessing that Rush Limbaugh sat might make its way into a Democratic ad soon.
So is F. Chuck.
Sot, again, is sound on tape.
It's an abbreviation, acronym.
And F. Chuck suggesting that they make another commercial with me in it with that.
She's just going to be a sock puppet for her.
Do it.
The Democrats in Massachusetts deserve to know this.
I have, ladies and gentlemen, sent to me by somebody.
We have spies everywhere out there.
And I have spies that are on the Daily Cause list, all these people send out fundraising letters.
Somebody's on johnkerry.com, a friend of mine.
Here's Carrie.
I'm sure this is a letter.
He never in his wildest dreams imagined writing, hello, Robert.
Not a lot of time left.
So here are the three quick reasons why I need you to dig deep and help Martha Coakley.
You guys, Senator, you're asking for a lot here.
You're asking to bail out Haiti.
You're asking people to bail out banks and bail out, and now you wanted to bail out Coakley, another Democrat bailout.
Do you never stop asking people for money, especially when they don't have any, because you have taken their job away.
any rate.
I need you to dig deep and help Martha Coakley in these final crucial days in her slugfest down to the wire against the National Republican Party and the powerful special interest bankrolling his campaign.
Meanwhile, she has the fundraiser last night bankrolled by big pharma and big health insurance.
More on that as the program unfolds.
Here are the three reasons cited by Kerry, who served, by the way, in Vietnam.
It's not the Massachusetts way to see the seat Ted Kennedy served in for 47 years handed off to somebody who has pledged again and again to destroy Ted's life work, health care reform, too.
It's wrong to allow Republican money to pour into Massachusetts at the last moment to distort, deceive, and divide the way to a Republican win.
But the anonymously funded, shadowy right-wing groups are blanketing the air with ads attacking Martha Coakley.
She started the negative ads.
They're counting on you taking a pass in this race.
Number three, jobs, jobs, jobs.
We're losing 800,000 jobs a month under George W. Bush, and Martha Coakley's opponent didn't stand up and fight.
Those are the stakes.
I need you to contribute what you can to help before you send money to Haiti.
There's no time left for excuses.
Thanks for all you've done.
The Republican Party drove us into a ditch, and we're not going to let them stop us as we climb our way out of it.
I mean, it's just the exact opposite of what's actually happened.
I still can't get over, folks, the White House saying that the stimulus has saved 2 million jobs.
Or creative.
I just...
And here's the gullible Reuters version.
President Obama's emergency spending measures from his slush fund last year saved up to 2 million U.S. jobs, the White House said Wednesday.
But it warned the outlook for the economy remained uncertain.
Christina Romer, head of Obama's Council of Economic Advisors, said she expects positive job creation by this.
What is 2 million saved jobs if it's not positive job creation?
Why do you have positive in there in the first place?
We're just creating jobs.
No.
The private sector creates jobs, Christina.
You don't.
There's uncertainty about where the economy is going.
When will the private sector come back?
When you get out of their way.
So the White House, using two different approaches to figure out the impact of the slush fund, estimates U.S. employment had been raised by between 1.5 and 2 million jobs by the end of 2009 as a result of slush fund measures.
So I guess using Obama's new math, which now counts any job which gets any money, no matter how indirectly from the slush fund, as a saved job.
So all pretense at accuracy or honesty has been thrown out the window.
They're not even trying to pretend.
After all, they have their midterm elections to win.
And then roughly a third of the slush fund has already been spent or received in the form of tax cuts.
A third of the White House estimates that this added between three and four percentage points to growth in the third quarter, between one and a half and three percentage points in the fourth quarter.
If you look at it, all the growth is in government, not in the private sector.
Without the Recovery Act slush fund, we would have continued to decline in the third quarter, Romer said.
Now, see, the flaw here is, folks, that throwing government money into the economy to artificially and temporarily boost unemployment numbers and to keep the GDP out of recession is known in climate circles as hiding the decline.
And it's just as mendacious.
You cannot put money into the economy until you first take it out.
There is no net increase in finance in the private sector.
In fact, it's being depleted.
There's been much less put into it than has been taken out of it.
And that's why there is not only no growth, that's why we are shrinking.
The private sector is shrinking.
The public sector is growing.
So this is a new technique.
This is right out of those emails from the climate university, Hadley Climate Center over there at East Anglia University, which I always thought was in Africa for some reason.
I was stunned to learn it was in England.
But nevertheless, those emails were all about fabricating data to hide the decline in temperatures.
And the White House picks right up on the technique to hide the decline in jobs.
Back after this.
Before we hit the phones real quick, another poll out showing that half the country is, the country is evenly split on whether Obama's first year is a success or failure.
There's the word.
It's Quinnipiac.
American voters are split 45 to 45 on whether Obama's first year in office is a success or a failure.
And they are split 35 to 37% on whether we would be better off if McCain had won the 2008 election.
As he marks his first anniversary of his inauguration, Obama's approval has slipped slightly into an even 45-45% split for the first time.
Nowhere to go but down.
He's down to 46% at CBS.
He's under 50% in Gallup, 45% of approval here in Quinnipiac.
So Ras Mussen leading the pack on all these, because he's had Obama below 50% for a long time.
Look at, except for terrorism, just as in the Gallup poll, Obama's approval numbers on specific areas of domestic policy are lower than his overall rating.
41 to 54 approve his handling of the economy.
34, 59 approve of his creating jobs.
I mean, I'm out there saying he's created 2 million.
35 to 58 approval, disapproval, health care.
36 CBS.
Nobody's digging it.
48, 44 for handling terrorism.
Okay, back to the phones, or to the phones.
We're going to start in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Justin, you're first today.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Mega Rush, baby Ditto's.
My question is, why did Obama, in the soundbite you played earlier, when he's talking about if you wanted to donate some money, you can go to whitehouse.gov to be directed to direct you how to do so.
Why would if I want to donate money to the Red Cross, why do I need to go to the WhiteHouse.gov page and look at the propaganda?
Exactly.
Would you trust that the money is going to go to Haiti?
No.
But would you trust that your name's going to end up on a mailing list for the Obama people to start asking you for campaign donations for him and other causes?
Absolutely.
Absolutely right.
That's the point.
Besides, we've already donated to Haiti.
It's called the U.S. income tax.
Rush, my mother was going to be on a missionary trip.
She was going to leave at 4.30 this morning to go to Haiti.
You know what that is?
That's another point, too.
Churches.
No government money, Rush.
There are people.
You're exactly right.
Look, there are people that do charitable work every day in Haiti.
It's not as though, like Debbie Wasserman Schultz, it's our fault.
Reverend Wright, it's our fault.
There's no excuse for such poverty when there's a nation as rich as we are so close.
There are people that have been trying to save Haiti, just as we're trying to save Africa.
You just can't keep throwing money at it because the dictatorships there just take it all.
They don't spread it around.
And even if they did, you're not creating a permanent system where people can provide for themselves.
It's a simple matter of self-reliance.
Nobody takes that approach down there because this has always been a country run by dictators and incompetent ones at that.
Michelle in Tampa, glad you called.
Hello.
Oh, my God.
Rush, I can't believe I was talking to you.
I'm so excited.
Thank you very much.
I am so glad that you're healthy.
Thank God don't go anywhere we need you.
Thank you.
I did actually get a clean bill of health out in Hawaii.
I know, but I want you to keep up all the healthy, the working out and the eating.
I'm very proud of you.
Thank you very much.
Yes, I intend to.
Okay, my comment is this.
And you had actually said earlier that you made a prediction and your prediction came true like you usually do.
Well, I want to remind you that you also had another prediction come true in the AP article this morning when Obama himself said that he has not unified this country, that he's actually divided it, and that next year he's going to focus on that.
You predicted that was going to happen as well.
So that's unusual.
And again, it's not because I'm exceedingly intelligent, although I am.
It's not because I have a crystal ball.
It's because I know liberals.
And I know that frauds are eventually exposed.
And this is a big one.
She's right.
Thank you, Michelle.
People magazine, via the AP.
President Obama says he has not succeeded in bringing the country together, acknowledging an atmosphere of divisiveness that has washed away the lofty national feeling surrounding his inauguration immaculation a year ago.
That's what's been lost this year, that whole sense of changing how Washington works, Obama said in an interview with People magazine.
The president said his second year agenda will be refocused on uniting the country around common values, whether we're Democrats or Republicans.
Well, I'll tell you what, Mr. President, a good way for you to start this second year agenda would be to end this relentless push for health care reform, which, in case you haven't noticed, has no support from anyone outside the Democrat Party and not even a majority of them.
We all want work that's satisfying.
It pays the bills, gives children a better future and security, Obama said in the interview, which the magazine conducted with the president and his wife, Michelle Mybel Obama, at the White House last Friday.
Now, if Mr. Obama really feels this way, why has he done so many things to have hurt the economy and our national security?
We all want work that satisfies.
These are just words.
We all want work that satisfies.
Yeah, pays the bills.
Yeah, gives children a better future.
Well, why are you doing what you're doing then?
Because what you're doing is not advancing any of those ideals.
And why are you pushing more initiatives like cap and trade?
It'll do even more damage than you've already done.
So he hasn't united us.
It's a major failure.
Conceal concedes it's a big problem, but he's going to make it a focal point of his second year agenda.
Well, I thought that's what he was doing this year.
I thought all of this was to bring us all together and get postpartisan and all that.
It's only going to get worse, folks, by design and on purpose.
Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh and the cutting edge always of societal evolution, America's truth detector and the doctor of democracy.
I get this.
This is from MSNBC.com's staff and wire service reports and state-controlled media.
America's rapid rise in obesity appears to have leveled off with new government figures showing no significant increase in a decade.
In a decade, that's 10 years for those of you in Rio Linda.
We have not all been getting fat for the last 10 years and yet the last two years has been a near panic.
And some British dating website has just kicked fat, ugly people off and not allowed them to sign up for the dating service anymore.
They used the word, they're banning the ugly, a phrase that I popularized in the 80s.
But there's little reason to cheer, says the story.
What?
We have not gotten fatter over 10 years and that's not a good thing.
Well, why?
I read stories like this.
I have an endless curiosity about so many things.
If we haven't gotten fatter in the last 10 years and therefore there's no need to panic, why is that not good news?
And why is there little reason to cheer?
Says here, more than two-thirds of adults and almost a third of children are overweight and there are no signs of improvement.
Experts say that they're not sure whether the lull and the battle of the bulge can be attributed to more awareness and better diets or whether society has simply reached a maximum level of tubbiness.
In other words, folks, we are as fat as we can get.
We can't get any fatter and that's why the obesity rate has leveled off for the past 10 years.
Gary Foster, director of the Temple University Center for Obesity Research and Education, said, maybe in this environment, this is as overweight as we'll get.
That's it, folks.
We cannot get any fatter.
It's kind of like we're all so fat now that it would take, we'd have to all double in size to have the obesity rate go up.
It's kind of like my accuracy rating.
When you're almost always right 99.5% of the time to raise it to 99.6, you've got to be 100% right for months.
Or what was it that jumped me up two points in the last quarter there?
It was some major thing.
Oh, something global warming, global warming, the hopes of global warming.
To see that powerful thing, because I had 10 years, 20 years of being right about that.
So being thin is the exception.
The heaviest boys are getting heavier, but not heavy enough to raise the obesity rate.
Now, we got Carol from Coopville.
I hope I'm pronouncing it right.
Coopville, Washington.
Is that right, Carol?
Carol?
Yes.
Is it Coopville, Washington?
Yes, Coopville, Washington.
Thank you.
Formerly from Sacramento.
Oh, good.
Well, my adopted hometown.
Were you there when I was there?
Yes.
In fact, when we signed our house papers, I looked up at a billboard across the street, and it had a picture of somebody's mouth, and it said Rush Limbaugh's mouth, actual size.
And I've been a fan ever since.
That's right.
A giant billboard, Rush Limbaugh's mouth, actual size.
Well, welcome to the program, Carol.
Great to have you here.
Thank you.
Is that what you wanted to say about the billboard?
No, I wanted to say that I thought that since President Obama said he was going to donate his money from the Nobel Peace Prize to charity, Haiti would be a perfect, you know, and he's calling for us to donate money.
This would be a perfect thing for him to donate his charitable money to, which I don't believe I'd say.
Did he say that he was going to donate the Nobel Peace Prize?
What is that, $1,700 or some such?
No, it's a million.
No, it's a million dollars.
That's right.
It's a million dollars.
Million dollars.
I wonder if he's donated it all yet.
What do you bet?
Well, you know, most presidents release their tax returns.
Well, we'll see.
We'll see it at.
What?
What's so funny?
Well, I think he's a phony.
When he was over in Hawaii.
Let me tell you something.
Let me tell you something, Carol.
If he hasn't, you realize he's got this brother living in a hut.
Yes, I know.
And this guy makes the equivalent of 50 cents a year.
If Obama would give this guy $20, I mean, the percentage increase in this, $20 would be like giving an average person $1,000.
I know.
And if he hasn't given his brother any money or any of his family any money, what makes you think he's going to send money to Haiti?
I never thought he was anyway.
I just thought it'd be a good call him on it.
Well, I'm glad you did.
I'm glad you called, Carol.
Thanks very much.
I had somebody go to whitehouse.gov to see what the donation process is.
And this is all the guidance you get on donating to Haiti at the White House site.
And what I'm going to read to you is buried in a very long blog post about what Obama said about the earthquake.
You get that first.
And then at the end, you got to read what Obama said.
The maximum leader.
You got to read what he says.
And then you get to the bottom.
And here's what it says.
You can also help immediately by donating to the Red Cross to assist the relief effort.
Contribute online here or donate $10 to be charged to your cell phone bill by texting Haiti.
Find more ways to help through the Center for International Disaster Information.
So that's all the guidance you get.
Now, that's pretty easy.
Text Haiti and $10.
You're going to get billed for $10, and that money ostensibly is going to go to Haiti.
Bill in Southampton, in New York.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
God bless you, Rush, and thank you for all you do.
Thank you very much, sir.
I appreciate that.
I am one additional American who is so afraid of what this health care debacle is going to do to our individual freedom and to the debt of our nation.
But here's my question.
It has to do with unfunded mandates and this transfer of the cost under the Medicaid program, Rush.
In 1995, Congress passed the No Unfunded Mandates Bill, which was supposed to prevent them from passing on unfunded mandates to the states.
Yet it seems that's exactly what they're doing, and that's why Nelson and what's her name down in Louisiana is getting these special deals.
But, you know, and I've been on this unfunded mandate kick for a long time.
And I remember it was Senator Kempthorne and it was Gary Condit of California who carried this unfunded mandates bill.
And again, whenever they present a bill that's supposed to cost the states, there's supposed to be a point of order called to ensure that it does not exceed $50 million.
Oh, come on.
Why have you billed?
They have blown up every Senate rule that stood in their way.
Why would you expect this one to matter?
Well, actually, you're right.
I get you on that rush.
But I just was curious as to why it doesn't seem to be a part of the discussion at all.
And it just seems like somebody could hang their hat on it.
Maybe not.
It is a part of the discussion.
This is why Schwarzenegger's out trashing it.
They can't afford it.
I said earlier this week that there is going to be, so far, the unemployment in the private sector is huge.
It's really 10.5% to 17%, depending on how you calculate it.
In the construction business alone, unemployment is at 22%.
However, unemployment in government jobs is 3.6%.
Most of the slushulus or the STEMU slush or the slush fund, most of that money that has been spent has gone to the states to help them with their own deficits and to get the governors on the side of Obama and so forth.
This is what Mark Sanford got in trouble with in South Carolina.
He didn't want it.
He didn't want it.
And the bill allows state legislatures to override governors on this, making them take the money.
So the states got it.
But these unfunded mandates coming along in healthcare that all these people are complaining about, and of course, Nebraska's been exempted from new Medicare recipients that get attached.
This is going to lead to these states and cities are soon to be out of money because they artificially close their deficits.
They artificially reduced their deficits with federal stimulus money.
But state tax receipts are down big time because of unemployment.
So this artificial pump-up or artificial reduction of state deficits is going to end soon.
And there's no genuine money being created because so many people are out of work.
And the only thing left is for state and city workers to be laid off, to be fired.
That's the next wave that's going to happen.
Now, Miami, I think it's Miami.
Someplace, I'll find this.
I've got a huge, huge stack here today.
But one of the things that the, let's just say, a local community, it's St. Louis.
It's St. Louis.
St. Louis.
And this is the way cities and counties do things.
St. Louis is saying to itself, we're out of money.
Budget.
Whoa, deficit.
Money.
They've reduced trash collection.
They're picking up the trash much less frequently.
All of the trash bins are overflowing.
The lids are all open.
Of course, the citizenry is outraged, demanding that the refuse be picked up.
And the city says, oh, we don't have any money.
We're out of money.
There's not much more we can do.
So the city, then the public clamors for the trash be picked up.
Of course, that means, well, we're going to have to raise some fees, some levies, something.
The next way they'll do it is they'll say we're going to have to cut some policemen and we're going to have to cut some firemen because we don't have any money.
This is how they do it.
They panic everybody.
You get a situation that's perfect for rats and vermin to swarm in neighborhoods by not picking up people's trash.
And the people naturally go, come on, come on.
They never cut the real dead weight.
They never cut themselves.
They never get rid of the three or four people it takes to do one job and just have one person do it.
They never, they always threaten to take away the cops, then they take away the firemen, or have the trash pile up.
It's a well-used technique.
So expect all of this to happen as the states and the cities and the counties run out of money because of Obama's unemployment, no tax receipts, slush fund money has run out or soon will.
Folks, you know, I know that this is a program of good cheer and optimism.
It's also a program of literal reality.
And if we had a president in these same economic circumstances who was actually employing policies to help people find their own way out of circumstances, then I would be in there as optimistic as I've ever been and cheerful and say, you make it happen.
You're in charge.
You don't have to participate in this recession if you don't want to.
This is being done on purpose.
And I have to tell you, and it's only fair, I think, to sit here and be, I mean, I don't mind doing a pep talk because there are ways around this.
You know what a lot of people are doing?
A lot of people are simply starting their own businesses.
They have to.
And a lot of them are finally exploring the stuff they really love.
They have to.
It's the only way you can still create your own job in this country.
Now, existing small businesses aren't growing because they don't know what they're going to be dealing with, but people are starting their own small businesses, very small and so forth, because that's the only choice that they have.
So there are good things happening, optimistic things to look forward, but it's going to involve people doing for themselves, not waiting around for something to be done for them.
And we already have too many of those.
So it's, but you need to know the truth here.
It's going to be doubly difficult to overcome all this because we have a president and his political party governing against us.
They are standing in our way.
That's not the case usually.
Well, Mr. Sturdley was just doing a little show prep for me during my last monologue segment.
He was watching MSNBC and the program hosted by Enria Mitchell, NBC News, Washington.
And she had on as her guest, Mark Halperin, one half of the author team that wrote this big book out there.
And finally, they got around to talking about Bill Clinton's comment to Ted Kennedy.
Hey, Ted, come on, man.
A few years ago, this guy got his coffee.
So she asked Halperin, Mark, was this really a racial comment?
Or was he just talking about Obama's inexperience?
And Halperin came back and said, oh, no, no, no.
Not only was it a racist and racial remark, Henri, after he made that comment to Kennedy, he then said to Kennedy, Ted, come on, look.
Admit it, let's be truthful here.
The only reason you're endorsing the guy is because he's black.
It's because of his race.
Clearly a racist comment.
Now, this is Wednesday.
This book has been out and about since last Friday.
So they finally got to the real, and the Harry Reid stuff, I mean, Harry Reid said it's true.
It's just illustrative if somebody's thinking.
Can we play F. Chuck Todd again from this morning, MSNBC, audio soundbite number six.
Another sign this race is finally getting even more national attention.
Rush Limbaugh weighed in on his radio show.
She is the entrenched machine candidate here.
She's attorney general or has been.
I never heard of her until all this got started, but at any rate, she's just a sock puppet, you know, for Harry Reid and the Democrats.
Well, we shall see.
I'm guessing that Rush Limbaugh sought might make its way into a Democratic ad soon.
Jessica Van Sack, Boston Herald, added 15 minutes ago, Rush Limbaugh blasts A.G. Martha Coakley as Democrat sock puppet.
The seemingly tightening race for the U.S. Senate gained national esteem yesterday as conservative radio yaker.
Rush Limbaugh took the airwaves to blast Martha Coakley as an entrenched machine candidate and a socket puppet for Washington Democrats.
So, F. Chuck Todd says it on TV, and the Boston Herald picks it up in mere moments.
Limbaugh's assault on the Democrat Attorney General came at the top of his broadcast after Coakley used a picture of him in a negative ad targeting Scott Brown as a lockstep Republican.
Limbaugh, who said he had purposely stayed out of the race, could not resist responding.
Yeah, that's what it says here.
Limbaugh's assault on the Democrat Attorney General.
Hey, what was that?
The only assault, yes, right, the only assault has been on the reporter.
Assault!
Limbaugh's assault on a Democrat A.G. Look, I was minding my own business staying out of this.
They dragged me into this.
We'll be back.
Hey, look at this buried in the economy section of the New York Times.
Lack of Medicare Chief is a strike against reform.
It's by David Leonhardt.
He writes a big, it's almost like an editorial ripping the Obama administration.
He said, we're not going to get health care because we don't have a Medicare chief.
We also don't have anybody at the Transportation Security Administration or Safety Administration or the Border Patrol.
There's a whole bunch of top-level positions Obama hadn't appointed because he's got czars running them who have not had to be vetted or approved by a doting Senate.