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January 13, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #2

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	I tell you what, folks, there's more coming in here that I can keep up with, and I'm good at keeping up.
	Rush Limbaugh, L Rushbow.
	The all-seeing, all knowing, all caring, all sensing, all feeling.
	All everything maharashy.
	Behind the golden EIB microphone, telephone number 800 282-2882, the email address.
	L Rushball at EIB net.com.
	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 about John McCormick, who's the uh 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 uh 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's as 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 is trying to do too many things at once and he just fell.
	And they reported it, mehan then oh, was 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 at 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 uh a question about this.
	I uh said Michael Graham at uh National Review Online mentioned that this could be a turning point in the campaign.
	I mean, uh because it's it's symbolic here of uh 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.
	They we are told that if Republicans ever utter a critical, not just one critical word of Obama, that's it, and they're gonna run fast as they can to the Democrat voters.
	And a run to the Democrat Party.
	McCain believed it.
	That's why he was not any time there was any criticism of uh of Obama in his campaign, whoever did the criticism was denounced, some cases canned.
	The Republican, 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 um uh question that I might ask, where is Martha Coakley's statement on this?
	She saw it.
	She'll witness.
	And where is the media demanding that she make one about her aid 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 Brokow circled the wagons and gave him some makeshift award.
	They circle the wagons.
	You know, there's even an organization uh protect the safety of journalists, uh, get killed or wounded uh 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 at least she could say that her aide acted stupidly.
	You know, like like Obama accused the cop in Cambridge.
	At least you can say that the aide was stupid here, because it clearly aid 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 uh that he had on Monday.
	Uh I didn't mention the uh 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 losing a lot of money.
	Limbo's asking his mind them robots to send him out.
	Well, hell, if I had an audience of 22 million, then he asked them to send him.
	Of course, anybody.
	I didn't want to be able to say that.
	I wanted 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 gonna help them.
	There were pictures of Bush and Cheney, and then me and uh Mitch McConnell.
	And the dirty word in the ad was republican.
	And uh, you know, this is so that bring me into it, and then F. Chuck Todd go back and grab Soundbite Six.
	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 um any rate, she's she's just a uh a sock puppet.
	You know, for Harry Reid and the Democrats.
	Well, we shall see.
	I'm guessing that Rush Limbaugh sot might make its way into a Democratic ad soon.
	So F. Chuck SOT again is sound on tape.
	It's an abbreviation acronym.
	Uh, and uh F. Chuck suggesting that they make another commercial with me in it with that.
	She's just gonna 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 um I have spies that are on uh the Daily Cause list, the uh the uh the what all these people send out fundraising letters.
	Somebody's on John Kerry.com, a friend of mine, and here's 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.
	Well, 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 Cochley.
	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.
	At any rate.
	I need you to dig deep and help Martha Coakley in these final crucial days in her slug fest 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 uh 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 on 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.
	Um the White House saying that the stimulus has saved two million jobs.
	Or created.
	I just and here's the the the gullible Reuters version.
	President Obama's emergency spending measures from his slush fund last year saved up to two 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 uh uh uh what what uh what is two 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.
	We the private sector creates jobs, Christina.
	You don't.
	There's uh 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 one and a half and two 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, Roamer said.
	Now, see, here's 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 vendacious.
	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 shrinking, the public sector is growing.
	So this is a new technique.
	This is right out of those those emails from the climate university, Hadley uh 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 uh the country's evenly split on whether Obama's first year is a success or failure.
	There's the word, it's Quinnipiac.
	Um 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 percent 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 a six forty-six percent in uh at CBS.
	He's under 50% in Gallup, 45% uh uh approval here in Quinnipiac.
	Uh so Rasmussen leading the pack on all these, because he's had Obama below 50% for a long time.
	Uh look at it's uh 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.
	Forty-one to fifty-four approve his handling of the economy.
	34, 59 approve of his uh creating jobs.
	And they're out there saying these created two million.
	Uh 35 to 58 approval disapproval health care.
	36 CBS.
	Nobody's digging it.
	4844 for handling terrorism.
	Okay, back to the phones or to the phones.
	We're gonna start Raleigh, North Carolina.
	Justin, you're first today.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hello.
	Mega Rush, baby did of my question is why did Obama uh 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.
	Yeah, you know, 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 White House.gov page and look at that propaganda.
	Exactly right.
	Would you trust that the money's gonna go to Haiti?
	No.
	But would you trust that your name's gonna 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 is uh was going to be on a missionary trip.
	She was gonna leave at 4 30 this morning to go to Haiti.
	You know, our church.
	That's that's another point, too.
	Churches.
	No government money, Rush.
	There are people exactly right.
	There look it, there are people that do charitable work every day in Haiti.
	It's not as though, like Debbie Wasterman Schultz, it's our fault.
	Uh, 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.
	Uh 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 uh and incompetent ones.
	At uh at that, Michelle in Tampa.
	Glad you called.
	Hello.
	Oh my God, Russ, I can't believe I'm talking to you.
	I'm so excited.
	Thank you very much.
	I am so glad that you're helping.
	Thank God don't go anywhere we need you.
	Uh, thank you.
	I um I did actually get a clean bill bill of health out in uh 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 um, 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 gonna focus on that.
	So you predicted that was gonna happen as well.
	So, of course.
	And again, it's not because I'm exceedingly intelligent, although I am.
	It's not because uh I have a crystal ball.
	It's it's it's it's because I know liberals.
	And I know I know that frauds are eventually exposed.
	And and uh this this is a big one.
	She's right, thank you, Michelle.
	Uh uh 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.
	The that whole sense of changing how Washington works, Obama said in an interview with People magazine.
	The uh 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 My Bell Obama, at the White House last Friday.
	Now, if Mr. Obama really feels um this way, why has he done so many things to have hurt the economy and our national security?
	We all want work that's satisfied.
	These are just words.
	We all want work to satisfy.
	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.
	That's a major failure.
	Concease uh concedes is a big problem, but he's gonna make it uh a focal point of his uh second yeah uh 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 gonna get worse, folks, by design and on purpose.
	Hi, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh on the cutting edge always of societal evolution.
	America's truth detector and the doctor of democracy.
	I get this.
	This is from MSNBC.com 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 ten years for those of you in Rio Linda.
	We have not all been getting fat for the last ten years and let 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 ten years, and that's not a good thing.
	Well, why?
	I read stories like this, and I have an endless curiosity about so many things.
	If we haven't gotten fatter in the last ten 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 ten 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 a hundred percent right for months.
	Uh or what was it that jumped me up two points uh uh in the in the in the last quarter there was some major thing I was oh uh something global warming, global warming, the hoax of global warming.
	To see that powerful thing, because I had 10 years or 20 years of being right about that.
	So um being thin is the exception.
	The heaviest boys are getting heavier, but not heavy enough to raise the obesity.
	Now we got Carol from uh from Coopville.
	I'm pronouncing it right.
	Coopville, Washington, is that right, Carol?
	Carol?
	Yes.
	Is it Coopville, Washington?
	Yes, Coop, Washington.
	Thank you.
	Formerly uh from Sacramento.
	Oh, good.
	Well, my adopted hometown.
	Were you there when I was there?
	Yes.
	In fact, uh, when we signed our house papers, I looked up at a billboard across the street, and it said it had a picture of somebody's mouth, and it said Rish Rush Limbaugh's mouth actual size.
	And I've been a fan ever since.
	Yes, 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 is that what you wanted to say about the billboard?
	No, I wanted to say that I thought that um since uh President Obama said he was go going to donate his money from the Nobel Peace Prize to charity, Haiti would be a perfect um 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 be he say that he was going to donate the Nobel Peace Prize.
	What is that?
	A thousand seven hundred dollars or some such a million, no, it's a million dollars.
	Oh that's right, it's a million dollars.
	Um million dollars.
	I wonder if he's donated it all yet.
	What do you bet?
	Well, you know, most presidents release their tax returns.
	Uh well, we'll see.
	We'll see it at uh what 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.
	Northern Kenya, and and this guy makes the equivalent of fifty cents a year.
	If di if Obama would give this guy twenty dollars, I mean the the percentage increase in this could twenty dollars would would be like giving an average person a thousand.
	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 gonna send money to Haiti?
	I never thought he was anyway.
	I just thought it'd be a good to call him on it.
	Well, I'm glad you did.
	I'm glad you called Carol.
	Thanks very much.
	I had somebody go to White House dot gov to see what it what what 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 gonna 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 gotta read what Obama said.
	The maximum leader.
	You gotta 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 ten dollars 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.
	Uh now that's pretty easy.
	Text Haiti and uh and ten bucks.
	You're gonna get bill for ten bucks, and that money ostensibly uh 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.
	Um it has to do with unfunded mandates and the this uh transfer of the cost under the Medicaid program rush.
	In nineteen ninety-five, Congress passed a no unfunded mandates bill, which was supposed to prevent them from passing on unfunded mandates to the state.
	Yet it seems that's exactly what they're doing, and that's why Nelson and um what's her name down in Louisiana is that would be uh Mary Landrew, yes.
	Yes, are getting these special deals.
	But you know, and I've I've been on this unfunded mandate kick for a long time, and I remember it was Senator uh Kemp Thorn 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 assure that the that it does not exceed fifty million dollars.
	Oh, come on.
	Why here have you billed?
	You act 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 I I I get you on that right, but I just was uh curious as to uh why it doesn't seem to be a part of the discussion at all, and uh 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 they the the unemployment in the in the uh uh private sector is huge.
	It's really ten and a half to seventeen percent, depending on how you calculate it.
	In the construction business alone, unemployment is at twenty-two percent.
	However, unemployment in government jobs is three point six percent.
	Most of the slushless or the stimulus 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 uh 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, the making them take the money.
	So the states got it, but these unfunded mandates coming along in health care that all these people are complaining about, and of course uh Nebraska's been exempted from from new Medicare recipients to get attached.
	Uh this is going to lead to a uh these states and cities are soon to be out of money because this they artificially close their deficits.
	Uh and well, they artificially reduced their deficits with federal stimulus money, but 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 uh 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.
	Uh my someplace I'll find this.
	I got a huge huge stack here today.
	But one of the things that the uh let's just say a local community, next St. Louis, it's St. Louis.
	St. Louis, and these are this this is the way cities and counties do things.
	St. Louis is saying to itself, we're out of money, woo, woo, uh budget, whoa, deficit, woo-day 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 in the city's, oh well, we don't have any money.
	Uh out of money, uh not much more we can do.
	Uh so the city then the public clamors for the trash be picked up.
	Of course, that means, well, we're gonna have to raise some fees, uh, some levees, uh, something.
	The next way they'll do it is they'll say we're gonna 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 you 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, we th they 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 to take away the firemen, or have the trash pile up.
	It's a will 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.
	Uh slush fund money has run out or soon will.
	I look, folks, you know, I I 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, but this is being done on purpose.
	And I I have to tell you, and it's it's only fair, I think.
	Uh it would sit here and be.
	I mean, I I 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 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 you know good things happening, optimistic things that to look forward, but it it it's it's gonna 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 it's but you did you need to know the truth here.
	This this it's it's gonna 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, uh Mr. Snurdley was just doing a little show prep for me uh during my last monologue segment.
	He was watching MSNBC and the program hosted by Enrea Mitchell, NBC News in Washington, and she had on as her guest, Mark Halperon, 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.
	Uh a few years ago this guy got his coffee.
	So she asked Halpron, Mark, was this really a racial comment, or was he just talking about Obama's inexperience?
	And Halpern came back and said, Oh, no, no, no.
	Not only was it a racist and racial remark in real, after he made that comment to Kennedy, he then said to Kennedy, Ted, come on, look.
	Admit it, let's be true 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 uh this is Wednesday.
	This book has been out and about since last Friday.
	So they they finally got to the real and the Harry Reed stuff.
	I mean, Harry Reed said it's true, it's just illustrative if somebody's thinking.
	Can we play um F. Chuck Todd again uh from this morning MSNBC uh 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 um any rate, she's she's just a uh a sock puppet.
	You know, for Harry Reed and the Democrats.
	Well, we shall see.
	I'm guessing that Rush Limbaugh sought might make it sway into a Democratic ad soon.
	Jessica Van Sack, Boston Herald, added 15 minutes ago.
	Rush Limbaugh blessed A. G. Margaret Coakley as Democrat sock puppet.
	The seemingly tightening race for the U.S. Senate gained national steam yesterday as conservative radio yakker, Rush Limbaugh took the airwaves to blast Martha Coakley as an entrenched machine candidate and a sock pucket 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 Cochley used a picture of him in a negative ad targeting uh Scott Brown as a lockstep Republican.
	Limbaugh, who said he had purposely stayed out of the race, could not resist responding.
	Yeah.
	That's that's what it says here.
	Limbaugh's assault on the Democratic.
	Hey.
	Uh uh, what was that?
	The only assault, yes, right.
	The only assault has been on the reporter.
	Assault?
	Limbaugh's assault on the 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.
	Say 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 uh approved by uh a doting Senate.

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