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Jan. 15, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 15, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
I called it.
I called it, and right there it is, and I'm holding it in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers.
It's an AP dispatch claiming Obama is doing much better in Haiti than Bush did with Hurricane Katrina.
We've got that and so much more.
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The bottom has fallen out of the uh of the uh polls for Martha Coakley.
Bottom has fallen out.
The Democrats are now preparing to explain the defeat and to protect Obama.
That's the headline to a Byron York story today in the Washington Examiner.
Um I'll tell you how to gauge this.
Uh the White House, I'm sure they've got 24-7 polling going on, and I they're polling internal polling probably better than anything we're seeing.
And they're talking about the disguise discussing whether or not send Obama up there.
And they're saying, well, if we send him up there, it's going to look like he's leaving Haiti.
But he's not in Haiti.
And Clinton isn't in Haiti.
And all this aid is not yet reached anybody in Haiti, by the way.
More on that in just a second.
So the the conventional wisdom is, uh, if Obama does go up to Massachusetts before the election on Tuesday, it'll mean that their internal polling in the White House shows that his appearance would push her over the finish line.
If he doesn't go, it'll be as good an indicator as any poll is that they don't think she can win, that Brown is going to win, and that distance Obama from the whole mess.
I you know, he did not help Craig Deeds when he went in.
And he didn't help um, he didn't help uh Corzine in New Jersey when he went in.
Uh just like Clinton doesn't help people uh when he goes in.
Clinton is gonna go in uh to Massachusetts.
So I uh also, ladies and gentlemen, um I'm gonna have an extensive model of oh yes, I snurdly, yes, yes, I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna respond to this absolute BS that I said don't donate.
I mean, uh but you know, I do not make this program about me.
I try very hard not to make this program about me.
So if I have time to deal with that, I will.
I'm confident everybody in this audience knows what I said, what I didn't say.
I mean, even the Washington Post says we even with even without the context, what Limbaugh said is horrible.
It's one I all I said was you paid your income taxes.
That's how you donate to government for aid, and sure enough, here comes Obama announcing a hundred million dollars from the government for aid to Haiti.
Fine and dandy.
But you paid for it.
It's your taxes.
All I said was if you're gonna donate, do it outside the government.
Pure and simple.
I was attacked, folks, because I am the leading voice of mainstream conservative views, not for any other reason.
And this outrage is totally feigned just as Tony blankly said, all this outrage at me is totally faked up.
They know exactly what I said, and they know for a fact that I would never tell people not to donate to any charitable cause like this.
Uh so it is what it is.
It's been going on like this for 15 years, and I just shove it aside, but I am gonna have an extensive monologue as the program unfolds today about where we were a year ago and what we as conservatives were being told.
The era of Reagan is over.
We're a regional party.
We're a white man's party.
We can't win in the Northeast.
Remember all that?
Remember all of the uh the wise men, all of the wizards of smart on our side who were urging us to forget Reagan to forget Goldwater.
And I and several others stood firm.
And I want to go back and relive what has happened in this past year.
And uh we'll do that in mere moments, but let's start with this Haiti business.
Oh, by the way, uh a little weather.
North Florida has the longest stretch of cold weather in one hundred years.
North Florida, the longest stretch of cold weather in one hundred years, National Weather Service meteorologist Jason Hess said that it's the length of the cold that is most significant.
This is the longest stretch ever in one hundred years of a record keeping.
In the midst of climate change and global warming.
I predicted it yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, that it wouldn't be long before the drive-by media, the state controlled media, started praising Obama for doing a much better job responding to Haiti in the earthquake than Bush did in Katrina, and right here it is, by Ben Feller at the AP.
Very deep analysis here.
Obama heating lessons of Katrina.
This is what President Obama wants people to think about the U.S. reaction to the catastrophe in Haiti.
Swift, coordinated, aggressive.
He promised that stellar response in his first comments about the earthquake on Wednesday, and then repeated it twice on Thursday.
In other words, this will not be Hurricane Katrina.
Sorry, folks, it already is.
It's worse.
The aid hasn't yet been distributed.
Seventy-two hours, they said, by the way, they were lying.
The seventy-two hours Bush dithered didn't do anything.
It's been seventy-two hours.
If you were watching Sky News, I was watching Sky News streaming video, it is an utter catastrophe.
Sky News discussing Haiti as utter pandemonium.
Sky News showing people screaming at the top of the hour.
We need help.
We're getting nothing.
We're going to die.
People were not even buried under concrete in New Orleans.
Seventy-two hours is the benchmark.
So if they're going to say Bush dithered for 72 hours, Obama certainly has made a lot of speeches.
He's made a lot of comments, and we've seen um pictures of uh airplanes landing and so forth.
We've seen a lot of pictures of the media standing around down there, but in terms of the aid being distributed, you can't tell that it's happened yet.
Not that it won't, but I'm just saying keep this in context here.
They're building a case that Bush screwed around and dittered, and Obama is on the case.
In other words, says AP, this will not be Hurricane Katrina.
Obama is determined to show that the U.S., even consumed with its own troubles, can get this right, and that he can too.
The world is watching because of the expectations that come with being a rich, powerful democracy that's supposed to look out for its neighbors, and because the stain of Katrina is not gone.
This is one of those moments that calls out for American leadership, Obama said.
There are huge contrasts between Katrina, the most destructive natural disaster in U.S. history, and the sorrowful scene unfolding in Haiti.
One was a hurricane on U.S. soil that killed eighteen hundred people.
The other was an earthquake hundreds of miles away that may have killed 50,000 people.
Yet as the wrenching images come in of people clinging to wreckage of bodies piling up on the street, the comparisons are inevitable.
The botched federal response to Katrina in 2005 became the standard by which emergency responses are measured and presidents are held accountable.
I predicted this.
Well, the lie that the federal response to Katrina was botched has certainly become the standard, and it is a lie.
The federal response to Katrina was not botched.
In fact, the federal response, especially from the military, was spectacular, and this is the key, once the local Democrats let them in.
Once Kathleen Blanco and once, school bus Nagan let them in.
The federal response was great.
The United States is seen in the world as the first responder to this kind of humanitarian crisis, said Paul Light, professor of public service New York University.
Can we get there fast enough?
There's a risk there for the president.
Oh, world's policeman is bad, but uh the world's EMT, that's good.
We can do yeah, well, we can be the world's first responders.
Oh, yeah, it's great to be the world's EMT.
It's bad to be the world's cop.
Obama has responded with urgency.
The White House has tried to make sure that people know it.
Uh that sounds like politicizing this to me.
The president has dispatched ships, soldiers, marines, loads of other assets to the reeling Caribbean nation.
He's pledged one hundred million dollars for relief efforts now and promised that that number will grow.
One hundred million dollars of tax money, or we don't have the money, so we're borrowing it or printing it.
You're gonna pay for it, your kids, your grandkids someday down the line are gonna pay for it.
So you you're donating to the government.
Here, folks, let me expand on this.
You may have forgotten that President Obama eventually, he said this, wants to eliminate all tax deductions for charitable contributions.
Do you remember this?
Do you know why?
He wants the government to be the sole provider of charity.
He wants the government to be seen by people as their lifeline, their primary means of existence.
If you eliminate the tax deductibility of donations to charity, you're not going to give to charity as much.
You'll have your pet causes, the ones you really care about, and you'll give, but charitable giving will decline precipitously.
The government will take over.
And in this context, um is why I suggested many days ago that if you're going to give, you already have in form of income tax, you will make additional donations, do it with other charities already on the ground.
Even David Brooks today has a piece in the New York Times essentially saying the same thing I said.
Essentially saying the same thing I said, and also pointing out that we've given more aid to Haiti over the years than any other country in our hemisphere, and it hasn't mattered.
Just as I said about Africa, local African leaders say, stop the aid.
It's it's it's retarding our progress.
So President Obama was quick to claim that it cost U.S. taxpayers a billion dollars for every thousand soldiers sent to Afghanistan.
Remember this?
And he has yet to mention how much it costs to send a soldier to Haiti.
He has not, he didn't it didn't in fact, it didn't even matter to him.
But it was a factor in sending soldiers to Afghanistan.
That's about U.S. national security.
This is about domestic U.S. politics.
Haiti is about domestic U.S. politics in addition to the humanitarian effort that is uh that is behind this.
But by the of course we are not suggesting that we shouldn't send soldiers to Haiti.
Do not misunderstand.
But why is there no concern about the cost from the White House when there was so much concern about Afghanistan?
After all, isn't the job of the U.S. military, first and foremost, to protect the national security and interests of the United States?
No, it's not.
The U.S. military is now meals on wheels.
It always is with Democrat presidents.
Back to the AP story.
He has positioned the United States as a coalition-building leader.
The UN itself has been rocked by the collapse of its headquarters in Haiti.
He has pledged for donations from his old campaign list of supporters, more than 13, he's pleaded for donations from his old campaign list of supporters, more than 13 million strong.
They really got mad at me in the drive-bys for suggesting that if you donate to White House.gov, you're going to end up on a mailing list.
Well, they're already sending out requests to an existing mailing list that you'll be added to.
Uh like most Americans, we have somehow ended up on several of Obama's email lists.
Uh I'm I'm on a bunch of them as show prep, and I haven't received anything from him or any of his myriad organizations about Haiti yet.
Um at any rate, I want to go through a uh list of uh headlines about Haiti and ask, is this really different than Hurricane Katrina?
But first I want you to listen to the wizard of smart Danny Glover.
He was on a liberal website, grit TV, and the anchor Laura Flanders interviewed him about the earthquake in Haiti.
And Laura Flanders remember this guy loves Hugo Chavez.
Danny Gleber goes down there, breaks bread with Hugo Chavez.
Flanders says, with respect to the role of the U.S. government, clearly the U.S. government has the capacity to send troops more or less wherever it wants.
It can send forces.
The request for a hospital ship, I believe, has been made directly in Washington.
Now here's Glover's response, and Glover does not believe our response has been timely.
He does not think we've done enough.
Here's what he said.
We have to find a much longer after the U.S. This is going to be a divining moment for this administration.
Other countries is a region.
I think Benzwheel of Brazil, Cuba, and other countries have already stepped to the point.
What would happen to Haiti?
Is it said it can happen anywhere in the Caribbean cities, island nation, you know, because of global warming, because of climate change and all of it.
And we need to find we do what we did at the climate summit in Copenhagen.
This is the response.
This is what happened.
You know, we have to act now.
All right.
Venezuela, Brazil, Cuba, other countries have already stepped up.
He's saying we haven't done enough.
But he also said, if you caught this, that because we botched the climate summit at Copenhagen, that the earth, that nature responded with the hurricane, uh, with the uh earthquake in in Haiti.
Did you catch that?
And we need to find we did what we did in the climate summit in Copenhagen.
This is a response.
This is what happened.
You know what I'm saying?
But we have to act now.
A quick timeout.
We'll be back.
We've only just begun.
Carpenter's 1969.
And we are back open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, talent on loan from God.
So the AP has its big story out saying it uh presidents can't avoid making things like this political.
But of course, if I say something about it that Obama's making it political, I get ripped to shreds.
Uh, every excuse in the world is being offered, every comparison, Bush, horrible.
Bush, dithering Obama right in the mix, right on time.
Obama knows how to do it.
He's not going to be staying.
Well, let's just go through some of these headlines.
Despair, panic set in as food, water, and medical supplies are delayed.
Death toll estimate at 50,000 to 100,000.
UN to launch Haiti emergency appeal for 550 million.
Anarchy.
Who's running the country?
Aristide offers to return.
Predicted that too.
U.S. military mobilizes thousands.
War zone.
Gangs do battle in streets with machetes over food.
Rescuers race against time.
Wire.
Angry Haitians block roads with corpses.
Horror.
Corpses impede traffic.
Pyres of burning tires incinerate cadavers.
Growing desperation.
Survivors face diarrhea, malaria outbreaks amid lack of clean water, looting, earthquake in pictures, satellite photos before and after.
Actor Danny Glover says earthquake response for screwing up climate summit in Copenhagen.
Sky News video, pandemonium, just about everywhere.
And at the top of the hour, Sky News showed people screaming at the top of the hour, we need help.
We're getting nothing.
We're going to die.
We're going to die.
Aren't these the same sort of hysterical headlines we saw after Katrina?
Are they not?
And the Katrina numbers were not nearly 50,000 to 100,000 dead.
U.S. military did a marvelous job.
We've got we have a giant lie that has uh that has stuck about Bush and Hurricane Katrina.
And Mr. Obama need not ever worry that such thing will happen to him because as this AP story so clearly illustrates, the state controlled media will be there every step of the way to make sure their readers and viewers understand that Obama's doing far better.
Far, far, far better than Bush, who didn't care.
Remember, they said Bush didn't care because there's a lot of black people in New Orleans.
Obama himself even implied that at the time.
Yeah.
Oh, yep.
Oh, my memory is long on these matters.
Now, here we are in the middle of a horrible disaster, and CNN is reporting that Colin Powell, he finally speaks, Colin Powell, very impressed with the Obama initial response to Haiti earthquake.
Why do we care if Colin Powell's impressed or not?
What's newsworthy about that?
But he's there.
We've been waiting for him to speak up, and he's impressed.
Colin Powell, really impressed by Obama's initial response.
The fact that the same military and charities and alike are working like hell to help these poor people down there, just as they did in Katrina is ignored.
It's all about Obama.
There are charities on the ground year-round in Haiti trying to help.
But now it's all about Obama.
And yet we have report after report about how the aid can't get to where it's needed, and how there'll be days before it does.
And it's right here in these headlines that I just shared with you.
Death toll estimate 50,000 to 100,000.
Despair, panic set in, food, water, medical supplies are delayed.
The aid can't get where it's needed because of issues like the gangs, piling up corpses, blocking travel on roads.
It's not because of a lack of effort on the part of the first responders.
And there were lots of obstacles to getting the aid to New Orleans, too.
I'm not trying to be controversial.
At all.
I am simply making this point to highlight how the reporting is so so different.
A brief timeout.
We'll be back and continue after this on the EIB network.
Open line Friday, El Rush both serving humanity simply by showing up.
David Brooks today, the New York Times basically saying what I said yesterday and was attacked for.
That giving aid money to countries does not help them grow.
Here it is, right here in the New York Times, and nobody's mad at them.
Do I need to, yeah, let me say on October 17, 1989, major earthquake, a magnitude 7.0 struck the Bay Area Northern California, 63 killed this week.
7.0 struck near Port of Prince, Haiti.
Red Cross estimates, 45,000 to 50,000 have died.
Not a natural disaster story.
This is a poverty story.
Story about poorly constructed buildings, bad infrastructure, terrible public services.
On Thursday, Obama told the people of Haiti you will not be forsaken, you will not be forgotten.
If he's going to remain faithful to that vow, then he's going to have to use this tragedy as an occasion to rethink our approach to global poverty.
He's going to have to acknowledge a few difficult truths.
The first of these truths is that we don't know how to use aid to reduce poverty.
Over the past few decades, the world has spent trillions to generate growth in the developing world.
The countries that have not received much aid like China have seen tremendous growth and tremendous poverty reductions.
The countries that have received aid like Haiti have not.
Oh my gosh, this is deja vu, except I'm the one that said it.
I'm using our own war on poverty.
How much money have we given to the poor in this country, and we still have the same percentages of poor people?
And we're never supposed to examine the results, right?
Only the good intentions of the givers.
And of course, the givers are us.
Our back pockets are looted by our own government, and the money is redistributed.
And as Mr. Brooks is saying here, there is no upside to this.
In a recent anthology, what works in development, a group of economists try to sort out what we've learned, and the picture is grim.
There are no policy levers that consistently correlate to increased growth.
There is nearly zero correlation between how a developing economy does one decade and how it does the next.
There's no consistently proven way to reduce corruption.
Even improving governing institutions doesn't seem to produce the expected results.
More than 10,000 organizations perform missions of this sort in Haiti.
The second hard truth, micro aid is vital but insufficient.
Given the failures of macro development, aid organizations often focus on microprojects.
So we have 10,000 organizations performing missions of this sort in Haiti.
Exactly what I said.
We got charities on the ground 24-7, 365 in Haiti.
Haiti has more non-governmental organizations per capita than any other place on earth.
They're doing the Lord's work, especially these days, but even a blizzard of these efforts does not seem to add up to comprehensive change.
Third, it is time to put the thorny issue of culture at the center of efforts to tackle global poverty.
Why is Haiti so poor?
Well, it has a history of oppression, slavery, colonialism.
Yes, All the things we pointed out earlier this week.
Dictatorship.
But so does Barbados and Barbados is doing pretty well.
Haiti has endured ruthless dictators, corruption, foreign invasions, but so is the Dominican Republic, and the DR's in much better shape.
Haiti and the Dominican Republic share the same island, the same basic environment, yet the border between the two societies offers one of the starkest contrasts on earth.
Trees in progress on one side, deforestation and poverty, and early death on the other.
As Lawrence Harrison explained in his book, The Central Liberal Truth, Haiti, like most of the world's poorest nations, suffers from a complex web of progress-resistant cultural influences.
There is the influence of the voodoo religion, which spreads the message that life is capricious and planning is futile.
There are high levels of social mistrust.
Responsibility often not internalized.
Child rearing practices often involved neglect in the early years and harsh retribution when kids hit nine or ten.
In this country, we first tried to tackle poverty by throwing money at it just as we did abroad.
Then we tried microcommunity efforts, just as we did abroad, but the programs that really work involve intrusive paternalism.
These programs like Harlem's Children's Zone and the No Excuses Schools are led by people who figure they don't understand all the factors that have contributed to poverty, but they don't care.
They are going to replace parts of the local culture with a highly demanding, highly intensive culture of achievement, involving everything from new child rearing practices to stricter schools to better performance.
And none of these programs are sponsored by government, and certainly not by liberal government.
So the things that end poverty are cultural, and they start bottom up, and they're done by citizens and real people who can't take it anymore.
Throwing money at it accomplishes nothing.
It's been demonstrated all across the world, but most near to us, it's been demonstrated in Haiti.
And I I mention all this as a rebuttal to all of the feigned outrage at me.
The lying note that I urged people not to give to charity for Haiti.
Nobody in their right mind would ever believe that about me or anybody else for that matter.
However, I did say, find some way to do it other than giving it to Obama.
Because I know he's going to eliminate the charitable deduction.
He wants to wipe out individual charitable giving.
He wants the government to be the go-to person for all charities.
That's the only reason you wipe out the uh the deduction for charitable contributions.
So one more thing.
One more thing.
As as a man who is often accused of um making everything racial.
This is a CBSAP dispatch, the human suffering from Hurricane Katrina, and the images of mostly black hurricane victims and looters have provoked new debates about tough public policy decisions.
The nation's troubled racial history, and the racial and economic barriers that still separate Americans.
CBS Radio News reports that New Orleans City Councilman Oliver Thomas said people are too afraid of black people to go in and save them.
He added that rumors of shootings and riots are making people afraid to take in people who are being portrayed as thugs and steeds.
This is the story, one of the many in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
That Bush didn't want to go in there because he didn't want to help black people.
People are afraid to go help black people, and the U.S. military was on the scene and they were rescuing people, and we've got the video to prove it.
And yet we have two clear contrasts.
How the media reports both.
You want me to go through those headlines again about Haiti?
You want me to go through them again?
Okay.
Because we've got the story out there that Obama's doing wonderfully well.
He's doing great, much better than Bush.
Despair, panic set in as food, water, and medical supplies are delayed.
Death toll estimate 50,000 to 100,000.
UN to launch Haiti emergency appeal for fifth or five hundred and fifty million dollars.
Anarchy.
Who's running the country?
Aristide offers to return.
U.S. military mobilizes thousands.
War zone, gangs do battle in streets with machetes over food.
Rescuers race against time.
Wire, angry Haitians block roads with corpses.
Horror, corpses impede traffic, pyres of burning tires incinerate cadavers, growing desperation.
Survivors face diarrhea, malaria, outbreaks amid lack of clean water, looting, earthquake in pictures, satellite photos before and after.
Actor Danny Glover says quake response for screwing up climate summit in Copenhagen.
Sky News Video, pandemonium just about everywhere.
Sky News at the top of the hour, people screaming at the top of their lungs, we need help.
We are getting nothing.
We are going to die.
The Associated Press, if that's your sole source for news would make you believe that the aid has arrived, it's being distributed, lives are being saved much, much differently than it was.
During Hurricane Katrina with George W. Bush.
Do you know what the most viewed story was yesterday?
The most popular story at the Boston Globe website yesterday.
You would probably think that the most popular story, the most emailed, the most looked at story on the Boston Globe would be about the race, Cockley and Brown.
It wasn't.
The number one story all day at the Boston Globe beating Haiti and the Senate race was Rare hummingbird hospitalized in Massachusetts.
Not kidding.
A hummingbird rarely seen in Massachusetts trying to survive a brutal Cape Cod winter has wound up in the hospital.
How does that happen?
How does a hummingbird end up in a hospital?
The Cape Cod Times reports that the Allen's hummingbird was brought to the wild care of Cape Cod Animal Rehab Center after being found in the snow with ice crystals on its wings on Sunday.
This was the most popular story all day yesterday at the Boston Globe.
What does that tell you?
All right, ladies and gentlemen, look at me.
Listen to this.
You've heard me twice go through the headlines two days after the earthquake in Haiti.
There are one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, and a nineteenth headline added.
Here is the list of headlines at the Drudge Report two days after Hurricane Katrina.
Navy ships and maritime rescue teams sent to region may have killed thousands.
Bush views damage from Air Force One.
White House to release oil from reserves.
Officials helpless against looters.
25,000 Superdome evacuees to be moved to Houston Astrodome.
Carnival cruise lines.
Feds ask about using ships.
That's it.
Two days after Hurricane Katrina versus all this.
I mention this, not, ladies and gentlemen, to be critical of anybody who's trying to do anything in Haiti.
I'm simply telling you, you're being lied to once again by the state-controlled media.
Katrina was botched.
Haiti is not being botched.
The aid has not yet gotten anywhere, appreciably.
There's no way to get it there.
There are gangs, there are lootings, there are similar things.
Which place do you think is more corrupt?
New Orleans or Haiti.
And they already got me up on MSNBC talking about it.
I figured that.
I can play these people like a stratovarius.
What are they saying?
What did they what are they uh?
Oh, it's for two days ago.
Snow run, oh, the light skinned blacks in uh the they still don't get that I'm making fun of Harry Reed.
I told you by the end of this week, those comments are going to be mine.
As far as the media is concerned, I will be the author.
I will be the one who spoke.
Light skinned, dark-skinned.
Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot remember a time.
I cannot remember a time when politicians in Washington so completely rejected the interests and desires of their own constituents.
That is because of the radicalization of the Democrat Party under Obama, Pelosi, and Reed.
It is more important to destroy the country and detach the public from decisions that affect them than to win temporary temporary reelection.
These people are willing to throw their seats away and their jobs.
Permanent transformation of this country to a welfare state is the objective.
And they figure they'll come back in a couple election cycles and finish the job, even if they do lose their majorities.
Obama has already been rejected by the people.
35, 36% support him on health care.
That's it.
No issue that he's pushing has majority support.
Zilch Zero Nada.
The nation has already rejected Obama and socialism.
And people, when they have a chance to show it, they are, whether in Massachusetts, New New Jersey, or Virginia.
And by the way, folks, if there's no difference in our two parties, then why do we care who wins in Massachusetts?
Really?
No, no, no.
I'm I'm not I'm dead serious.
If the if both parties are the same, if there's not a dime's worth of difference, if we got to throw all the bums out, why do we care who wins in Massachusetts?
What's the big deal?
Coakley no different than Brown, Brown no different than Coakley.
Is that what we're being asked to believe?
No difference in the two parties.
I cannot remember a time when politicians in Washington so completely rejected the interests and desires of their own constituents.
And let's go back.
National Press Club, April 25th, 2005 in Washington, Barack Obama spoke about social security reform.
Remember, Bush was trying to privatize, partially privatize social security.
And the Democrats just said, ain't no way, Jose, eh?
Just all over the place.
And during the QA, an unidentified moderator asks Obama, somebody in the audience would like to know what should the American people do to stop privatization.
It's a different perspective.
You know, I think the American people have already done it and are in the are continuing to do it.
Uh I mean, the fact of the matter is that the president has been uh on his 60-day tour, and everywhere he goes, the numbers just get worse.
The American people have essentially voted on this proposal.
And really, what you have is a situation now where I think that the president and uh the Republican Congress are gonna need to figure out a way to safe face and and step back a little bit.
And and if if they let go of their egos, listen, I've I've been on the other side of this where, particularly with my wife, um, where I've I've gotten in an argument, and then at some point in the argument it dawns on me, you know what, I'm wrong on this one, and it's it's it's irritating, it's frustrating.
You you don't want to admit it.
And so to the extent that we can provide uh the president with a graceful mechanism to uh to say we're sorry, dear, then I think that'd be that'd be helpful.
So, at the time there was 35% support for Bush's social security reform.
And Obama said the people have already voted.
The people have already voted everywhere Bush goes, the numbers just get worse.
The American people have essentially voted on this proposal, and really what you have is a situation now where I think the president Republican Congress uh need to let go of their egos and just apologize and and then take it off table.
Mr. President, you have the guts to follow your own advice.
You are at 35, 36 percent on health care.
You are governing against the will of the people.
The fact of the matter is, wherever you go, your numbers go down.
Your numbers get worse.
The American people have essentially voted on your health care proposal.
And really, what you have now, Mr. President, is a situation where I think that you and the Democrat Congress are gonna need to figure out a way to save face and step back a little bit, maybe drop your ego and apologize to everybody.
Well, I'm just turning his words around on him.
This is what he suggested to George W. Bush.
In the midst of the attempt to privatize social security.
We were told ten months ago we couldn't win in New England.
We shall see.
The entire argument a few months ago by liberal Republicans and Democrats alike.
GOP was a regional party, conservatism's dead, must become more moderate.
Demographics make Reaganism impossible, the era of Reagan is over.
All these pundits who said this, many of them on our side need to quit.
Many of them are people who denounced me and other conservatives.
And look where we are now.
We're on the verge of taking Teddy Kennedy's seat.
And a large number of people in our own movement a year ago said nothing like this was ever possible.
We couldn't do it as conservatives.
We're doing it precisely as conservatives.
We'll be back.
And we're back, Rush Linbohr and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network at 800-282-2882.
This, this is rich.
This is rich.
From the Politico.com, a new ad from the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee for Martha Cockley uses an unlikely symbol of Wall Street Greed, the World Trade Center.
The image in the attack ad on Scott Brown for his alleged closeness to Wall Street pictures the Trade Center and the destroyed Marriott Hotel on its western side.
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