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Jan. 15, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 15, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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Yes, of course I've heard that Obama has been asked and has agreed to uh write a cover story for Newsweek magazine, which lost 25 million dollars.
I think in the first half of last year, Obama has been asked to write a cover story on Haiti.
He's agreed to do it.
Separation of church and state, anybody.
Uh I guess I guess it'd be wrong to say Obama's politicizing Haiti.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And the telephone number is 800 282-2882.
The email address L Rushball at EIB net.com.
By the way, one little note on Haiti.
Haiti is always on the United Nations list as one of the best places for the environment.
Back in 2001, and it hasn't changed much, I'm sure, because Haiti has not improved.
Back in 2001 from a World Wildlife Report, the three worst countries by ecological carbon footprint, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, the United States.
The best three countries, meaning they make the least carbon footprint.
The least pollution, Haiti.
Somalia, Afghanistan, Afghanistan being the best.
In other words, this is what we should aspire to.
Abject poverty saves the Earth.
Barney Frank says that multimillion dollar bonuses for government-owned Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are too high, but nothing can be done about it.
Nothing can be done.
Cybercast News Service, Obama administration recently approved base salaries of 900 grand plus 3.1 million in deferred payments, and another two million in bonuses for the CEOs of the failed mortgage giants, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which have not been bailed out or paid back their TARP money, the their bailout money, and they are not being taxed like Wall Street and financial institutions are.
When asked if tax dollars should pay those bonuses or if they should be canceled, the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Barney Frank, said the bonuses are too high, but nothing can be done now.
Federal government essentially owns uh Fannie Mae and uh and Freddie Mack, so why can't Barney Frank and the Democrats control their bonuses?
Simple, because they don't want to.
The headlines from Massachusetts are devastating for the Democrats.
Massachusetts bottom has fallen out of coakley polls.
Democrats prepare to explain defeat and protect Obama.
Poll shocker.
Brown urges ahead in Senate race.
Uh, and it's largely the independence.
The reason they might send Obama up there is is the uh urban vote, the black vote.
That's uh the the Democrat turnout, it's gonna be a low turnout of the Democrat side.
There's no energy.
The Republican side far more energized.
They might send Obama up there.
He might go only, I predict he'll only go if they have polling data that shows his appearance would push her over the top.
He's not gonna go up there if she's gonna lose.
It's that simple.
Uh Martha Cochley, devout Catholics probably shouldn't work in the emergency room because of separation of church and state.
Uh it's really convoluted.
She she told a radio host in Massachusetts that if you object to abortion, then you probably shouldn't work in an emergency room, meaning devout Catholics should not work in an emergency room.
This is about the conscience clause.
Uh I mean, it's she just uh all over the place.
Charlie Cook and Stuart Rothenburg moved the Massachusetts Senate rate uh race to a toss-up.
Uh it's a sign that the Massachusetts special election is moving in Scott Brown's direction.
The two leading political handicappers in Washington have moved the contest into their toss-up category today.
By the way, Charlie Cook, the Cook Report, colossal miscalculation on health care.
Obama and Hill Democrats should have focused much more on the economy.
This will be published tomorrow.
Honorable and intelligent people can disagree over the substance and details of what President Obama and Congressional Democrats are trying to do on health care and climate change, but nearly a year after Obama's inauguration, judging by where the Democrats stand today, it's clear that they have made a colossal miscalculation.
The latest unemployment housing numbers underscored the folly of their decision to pay so much attention to health care and climate change instead of focusing on the economy like a laser beam, as Clinton pledged to do during his 92 campaign.
Although no one can fairly accuse Obama and his party's leaders of ignoring the economy, they certainly haven't focused on it like a laser beam.
Mr. Cook, if I may add, more to the point, what they have done has screwed it up like a laser beam.
What they have done is made it worse.
We are we should be thankful they haven't focused on it any more than they have.
Last week's disappointing December unemployment report was the final blow in what was already a bad week for Democrats.
One of the most sobering findings in the report was that if 661,000 Americans had not given up even looking for work that month, the unemployment rate would have moved up rather than holding steady at a horrific 10%.
That's right.
So many Americans have given up hope of finding a job.
How's that hope and change working for everybody?
Most economists have been expecting an increase of about 50,000 jobs in December.
Instead, the total decline by 85,000.
Some 6.1 million Americans, the highest number in the post-World War II era, have been unemployed for 27 weeks or more.
The U6 rate of unemployment, which adds in people who are working part-time while seeking full-time work, and those who have stopped looking, stands at 17.3%.
The highest level in the 15 years the labor department's calculated it.
A number of economists expect that unemployment will get worse before it gets better since World War II.
Unemployment has exceeded 8% in a total of only 12 months in in even numbered, meaning congressional election years.
All 12 months were in 1982.
What this means is that Obama is failing.
This is an epic fail, an historic fail, because he has succeeded in way too much of his economic agenda.
He is in his own mind a success.
His agenda has succeeded.
The country is failing.
Obama has failed.
It's making the country fail.
This is why I wanted his agenda to fail.
So America would not fail.
I wanted him to fail implementing his agenda so this would not happen.
And everybody at the time knew what I meant.
I wanted him to fail.
I want him to fail on health care because I want the health care system to remain the best in the world.
Even before December's negative jobs report, economist Robert B. Rice, sh, who was labor secretary in the Clinton administration, wrote on Talking Points Memo.com the chances of unemployment being 10% next November are overwhelmingly high.
Another piece of bad news was the distressing late December report that the housing sector's slow improvement had stalled, raising the specter of a second dip.
If prices sink 15% from here, which is a possibility, and the 2008-2009 loans go bad, then we're back where we were before in a nightmare.
By the way, companion story, people are just walking out on their mortgages.
Just walking out of them.
Much of the political debate, meanwhile, has been obsessed with details of completing health care reform bills.
Some analysts have wondered whether Democrats in Congress would be better off passing an unpopular bill or risking the consequences of failing to pass one at all.
Mr. Cook, just look at the polls.
This is not a hard question.
This is why you're even writing the piece.
They're focusing on health care and they're going to lose their majorities.
They're going to lose seats.
It's not a hard question here.
More to the point, though, is the probability that if Obama and Hill Democrats had taken a more modest approach to health care, they could have pivoted back to jobs and the economy sooner.
Mr. Cook, God love you, but that's inside the Beltway groupthink.
A socialist statist cannot pivot back to the economy because everything they do by definition kills economic growth.
It's the mission.
Some people are starting to get it.
Charles Krauthammer now fully understands.
Can tell by his latest column, you can fully understands.
One year ago, I doubt Mr. Krauthammer would have used these words.
Then began the dissent, when more amazingly still, Obama devoted himself to turning the statist visions into legislative reality.
A year ago, Mr. Krauthammer would not use those words, nor would anybody else on our side, except.
Well, no Levin.
It's all through his book, Liberty and Tyranny.
Statist.
Everybody else started coming up with different words because they didn't want to be accused of stealing from Levin.
So fascist, whatever it was, socialist, communists.
First energy back to Krauthammer.
First energy with cap and trade, an unprecedented federal intrusion into American industry and commerce.
He had got through the House with its Democrat majority and supreme Soviet style rules.
But it will never get out of the Senate.
A year ago, this would not have been said by anybody on our side.
So people are beginning to catch up, and soon people like Mr. Cook are going to understand that this is purposeful.
They did not spend time on health care after they did or on the economy after they did their stimulus because they knew the stimulus would work exactly as it's working.
I know it's hard to get your arms around that.
It's hard to believe that.
Trust me, it's true.
Cap and trade and health care are just more of the same destruction.
More of the same expansion of government.
More of the same.
That's why they want to get it done as quickly as possible because they know they're going to lose majorities, lose seats.
They want to get this done.
Stenny Hoyer's out there saying, yeah, we might have this whole health care done in 72 hours.
You know why?
Because they had another special interest given a goodie.
The unions, the you know, the autoworkers and people who make if you add their salaries and their health care benefits, a combination adds up to 175,000 a year.
These people have Cadillac health insurance coverages which bankrupted their companies.
May we be blunt.
They've got Cadillac health insurance coverage, and under Obama's new health care reform, they're going to be taxed at 40%.
Except the unions yesterday struck a deal.
They're exempt until 2018.
And when 2018 comes up, they'll simply extend it again.
The unions are exempt from the 40% tax.
Now the tax, that 40%, is going to be levied on employers and on insurance companies.
And the purpose of this tax is to get them to quit offering insurance.
The purpose of that is to drive everybody to the public option, which still exists in the form of these exchanges.
The public option is still there, and it's always going to be there.
There's no other reason for these people to be doing what they're doing.
Public option, government run, single payer, that's where they're headed.
Forty percent tax, except the unions.
So if you're not a member of the AFL CIO, uh, if you're not a member, but it the way it's written is anybody's health care is a derivative of the uh of a collective bargaining agreement.
So if you're a member of the Service Employees International, if you're a member of the AFL CIO, United Mind Workers, uh Auto Unions, UAW, uh government unions, teachers' unions, national education associates, you are exempt.
It's not just Rich Richard Trump's boys, it's not just it's just it's not just Andy Stern's boys, it's everybody that's unionized.
Exempt, which means all the rest of us are going to be paying it big time.
And when that 40% tax is levied on insurance companies and on our employers, what the hell do you think is going to happen to employment?
People are going to be losing their jobs.
You think this isn't done on purpose.
As political analyst and data cruncher extraordinaire Rhodes Cook noted in the December issue of the Rhodes Cook letter, no other president in the past fifty years has seen his gallop job approval rating drop as far as Obama's has in his first year, down 21 points.
No president in that same half century has seen his approval ratings go up even as much as one point between The end of his first year and the eve of his first midterm election.
Obama and his party have no doubt taken on a big and important fight, but given the nation's tremendous economic troubles, they don't seem to have picked the most urgent ones.
Mr. Cook, it won't be long, and you'll realize here that the focus on health care and cap and trade was specific.
They had quote unquote fixed the economy.
They've had couple job summits.
They're getting everything they want.
Obama, this is Nihil.com.
Obama tells Democrats that the economy and health care will help in the midterms.
It's a suicide pact.
We'll be back.
Stay with us, folks.
All right, back to uh back to uh back to Haiti from WWW.sphere dot com.
Aid delays fuel desperation in quake battered Haiti.
It appears that Obama is not getting aid to dying Haitians.
Listen to this report.
Haiti seemed to hold its breath today, praying that enough aid would arrive before the fears of hundreds of thousands of hungry injured earthquake refugees turned to violence.
Every hour counts, said John Holmes, the UN undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs, who was dispatching search and rescue teams from New York.
His colleague in Haiti.
Peacekeeping Chief David Wimhurst told EAP that Haiti's survivors are slowly getting more angry and patient, impatient.
About 400 million dollars worth of aid has been pledged so far from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, with a quarter of that from the U.S. alone.
Some 10,000 U.S. military personnel are slated for deployment there by Monday.
But immediate efforts have been stymied by roads blocked by debris, by corpses, a damaged seaport, and an airport that turned away civilian aid planes for eight hours because of a lack of space and fuel.
Two Red Cross cross planes manage the land today carrying experts, as well as forty tons of mainly medical supplies.
The load includes a kit that can cover basic health needs of 10,000 people for three months.
Plus 3,000 body bags, and a ton of chlorine for water treatment.
But help could not come quick enough for throngs of increasingly desperate survivors who woke after a third straight night outdoors to find no one there to help them.
Camps sprung up in city parks with survivors building tents from tree branches.
Tension is rising hourly as the weight lengthens for a wide-scale delivery of aid.
American soldiers immediately took on a coordinating role at the airport upon arrival Thursday.
Another 5,500 U.S. soldiers and Marines are expected by Monday to provide security.
Many people have not eaten since Tuesday.
There are corpses everywhere, including pigtailed schoolgirls in their uniforms.
I was told at least five times that homeless people want to pray for me, all of which gives me some hope that riots and violence might not happen, but it'll depend greatly on when aid arrives.
I'm, again, to be clear, I'm responding to media reports.
I'm not criticizing Obama.
They did criticize Bush.
They politicized Katrina, and they criticized Bush, and they ended up having lies cemented in the public mind.
I am responding to media reports predicted by me yesterday that we would have stories, and the AP was first out of the jumping ship, We have stories.
Praising Obama, getting aid in there much faster and much thoroughly, and much better than Bush did.
It's not there yet.
It's pretty tough.
The place is a disaster.
The airport, they don't have enough fuel for planes to land to get out of there.
The seaport's a mess.
To the phones we go on Open Line Friday.
We're going to start in Fresno, California.
And uh Jerry, great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Megadetto.
Thank you.
I'd I'd like to know why the press uh isn't comparing this to the tsunami in Indonesia uh in two thousand four, where Bush uh I think he had a hospital ship there within about 48 hours.
He had P3 flying search and rescue missions uh immediately.
We got 35 million pledged uh uh committed almost immediately.
Another three hundred and fifty million within five days.
Um and we eventually, I think, committed almost nine hundred and fifty million to the uh uh damages and no, it's an excellent point.
It's uh the answer is the same answer.
Why didn't we get any good news coming out of Afghanistan in the early years because it was working?
Exactly, yeah.
And and the other thing, I think the the Red Cross um had been kind of depleted by the time Hurricane Katrina hit, and um and plus he didn't have uh Democrats blocking his way trying to get into uh uh industry.
Well, exactly, exactly right.
That is my point.
Ray Nagan and Kathleen Blanco blocked entry into New Orleans.
And it wasn't the hurricane, by the way, that did the damage, it was the levees bursting after the hurricane was gone that caused the floods and the levees as a combination of problems of local corruption and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the money was allocated, it was just not used for the levies.
Uh but look, we have to understand something.
The press, the state controlled media, the Democrat Party politicize everything.
That's what's so laughable about them jumping on my case for politicizing this business in Haiti.
They politicize everything.
And uh they look through everything through a political prison.
Uh you know, I could I could ask here's the here's the media tweak of the day.
Media tweak of the day.
I would like to ask Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel, Rom's brother, if they're planning on cost benefit considerations for the victims of the earthquake.
Remember, we're gonna have cost benefit analysis to assign health care to people in this country.
Does it make sense to invest the money in their survival?
Are we going to do the same thing in Haiti since we're the lead country?
Are we going to use the same principle in Haiti that we're going to use here when Clinton on Obamacare finally sees the light of day?
Are we just going to decide some people are not worth saving in Haiti?
Or are we going to try to save them all?
What are we going to do?
And welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh open line Friday.
Get this.
Following the earthquake in Haiti, millions of people are dealing with death, a lack of food and water, shelter in basic medical care, planned parenthood.
Sending a sensing a good time for a fundraising opportunity is asking for donations for its local affiliate to promote birth control and condoms.
Planned parenthood is asking for money to help it pass out condoms and birth control to children who are simply looking for a bite to eat and medical care for injuries that they and their family sustained in the earthquake.
I wonder uh, ladies and gentlemen in Martha Coakley would tell Catholics to not be part of the triage units uh down in uh down in Haiti.
And yes, I meant to say it.
Will somebody ask Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who is Rom's brother and one of the lead uh White House people on health care, whether they're planning cost benefit considerations for each Haiti victim.
Will they consider age, potential contribution to society, uh all the other factors that we are sured are not death panel guidelines in our own health care system.
And this this uh this rescue, however compassionate, should have at least the same transparency that Obama promised for our health care.
And remember, and uh he told uh he told a woman about her 95-year-old mother, no, no, we probably wouldn't give her a pacemaker.
Uh uh give him a pill.
How many Haitians will we decide to give a pill?
A legitimate question.
Here's Obama.
He had a little something to say this afternoon, right at one o'clock Eastern time on the earthquake in Haiti.
The port continues to be closed and the roads are damaged.
Food is scarce, and so is water.
It will take time to establish distribution points so that we can ensure that resources are delivered safely and effectively and in an orderly fashion.
But I want the people of Haiti to know that we will do what it takes to save lives and to help them get back on their feet.
That sounds like two different messages to me.
Sounds like sorry, nothing's there yet, but then we're gonna do whatever it takes to save lives and help them get back on their feet.
Saw President Obama asking Haitians for patience after the Associated Press has run a story saying Obama's doing a wonderful job, beating Bush far by a long shot.
In terms of how Bush dealt with Katrina.
I mentioned earlier I was gonna take a one-year look back at the Republican Party, the GOP.
Let's do it now.
The fact is that when the Republican Party and Conservatives were at their lowest morale twelve months ago, when they were completely out of sorts and near panic, it was I and others who stood up and insisted that we get back to basics, that we advance conservative principles, the only principles that had the answers for our time.
That we relearn them, that we become confident in them, that we spread them, that we push back against the moderate Republicans who had nearly killed the party.
That we reinvigorate the conservative movement, which had been left to die by successive Republican administrations in Congresses.
We fought the David Brookses, the David Fromms, the Colin Powell's, the Tom Ridges.
We fought some on our own side who proclaimed the death of Reaganism and Goldwaterism and insisted that we become more like those who defeated us.
They urged that we drop the matters of small government, tax cuts, limits on spending.
They urged that we embrace global warming and amnesty for illegal aliens.
They told us we had become a regional party.
They told us we had become a white man's party, that we either changed and became more like our adversaries or we would perish.
We heard this from the self-appointed sages who claimed to be conservative leaders and Republican leaders.
We heard it from so-called conservative columnists and commentators, and of course we heard it from the liberal media and their favorite liberal Republican guests.
We were being assaulted with the notion that conservatism was out of date and out of time.
The only way we could win was to become moderate, to attract independents and Democrats to our party.
We've got to drop the what is it, the uh incivility of our discourse.
We've got to stop being divisive.
Our own people were telling us this a year ago.
And they were wrong.
They were all wrong.
On this program, we refused to accept the death of conservatism.
On the contrary, my attitude, my position was to make our case for conservatism better than ever before, because it was the only thing that could save our society.
I said then, as I do now, that it was and is crucial to expose Obama and his allies, to defeat them, to insist that they fail, which I knew they would, and to offer the nation an alternative, not watered down arguments, not tweaks of their premises, not apologies.
We don't need to apologize for ourselves.
We don't need to excuse ourselves.
We need to offer a real solid, understandable alternative.
And that was and is conservatism.
Yes, Obama is failing.
In fact, he has failed.
His presidency is a failure.
I knew it would be because I knew his policies were exactly the wrong policies for this nation.
They were and are destructive of our institutions.
They were and are intended to be destructive.
I knew this was his intention because I know liberals and I know his kind of radical.
I knew this was his intention.
I knew he was inexperienced and incompetent despite the endless praise about his smarts, about his wisdom, about his cool, calm demeanor.
I knew that he was stubborn and arrogant as well.
Because leftists are all stubborn, conceited, and arrogant.
But, my friends, to be honest, it's not enough to say that his failures are the reason for the swift and deep change in American attitudes toward government in the Democrats.
A case has to be made.
And a case was made that our founding principles are more relevant, more significant, more necessary now, in a time when our nation's core is under assault than any time in recent memory.
I mean, we are a great nation at risk in a dangerous world, and for the first time in my lifetime, the greatest threat we face is internal.
You conservatives out there, you have carried the message.
You have made the case.
You have attended rallies, you have attended town hall meetings, you've made telephone calls, you've sent letters, faxes, you've emailed, you have made your voices heard.
Not only to the politicians who seek to diminish you, but you have taken the case to your family and friends, which is crucial.
It's necessary.
This is it's made a huge difference.
I've suggested that you all become the go-to person in your family.
Whenever anybody has a political question, you be the one that has the answer.
Rooted in conservative principles that you can articulate with persuasive confidence.
But despite all that we've done and all that you've done, there's much more to do, and there's much more that will be done.
We have a huge election in November, where we either throw out scores of statists, elitists, and slow down, if not halt, Obama's burning of the Constitution, or we reverse course and allow the Democrats to continue to run wild and drag down the nation.
One final point for now.
And it goes once again to the uh issue of a third party.
Third party, in my view, is the only effort that will derail all the progress and energy and early victories that we've seen in recent months.
A third party of the Ross Perot type, the Ron Paul type, bleeds voters away from the Republican Party, not the Democrat Party.
We've seen it happen time and time again.
If the Republican Party does not stand for conservatism, and this is going to be a tough fight because the liberal elites in the Republican Party don't like us as much as the Democrat elites don't like us.
But if a Republican Party does not stand for conservatism as it has failed to do many times in the past, then you change the Republican Party.
You take it back.
A little sick and tired of peoples.
Continue to reject the facts and history.
When they talk about the need for a third party, Ronald Reagan rejected a third party in 1977.
Made clear it would be a disaster.
We have the recent example of Perot in '92.
What Reagan did was take over the GOP, and that's what our mission is and must continue to be.
And if there's no difference in the two parties, then why do we care who wins in Massachusetts next Tuesday?
Scott Brown and Martha Cookley are no different, then what the hell difference does it make who wins?
Why do we care?
No difference in the two parties.
You really think there's anybody in the Republican Party doing what Obama's doing last I looked, nobody in the Senate on the Republican side voting for this health care bill.
Not even Snow and Susan Collins.
And only one in the in the House did.
That's a guy from Louisiana, Joseph Cow.
Not sure how you pronounce his last name.
Doesn't matter.
You know who I mean.
If there's no difference in the two parties, I think there'd be bipartisanship on all this, wouldn't there not be?
The fact that every single Republican senator votes consistently against government-run health care should be a clear indication that we are being heard.
The fact that all but one Republican in the House voted against it, does this mean conservatives run the GOP?
No.
Not yet, but it means we're making progress.
It means we're in an ascendancy.
It means we have more to do, but we should stay the course, not be diverted by the moderates in our party who want us to not be conservative, say we've got to moderate to attract those who don't like us.
We got to stop being defensive about who we are.
We have to stop thinking as a minority.
And we've got to stop this third party temptation.
It will it will it will only bleed votes from our side.
It will not bleed votes from Democrats.
Brief time out back after this, folks.
Okay, breaking news.
MSNBC is reporting Obama is going to Massachusetts to stump for Cochley, to stump for Martha Coakley.
Now they must, they must one of two things here.
They must have polling data which shows he can push her over the top.
Or else they are so desperate to hold on to this seat that they're willing to pull out all the stops and roll the dice.
I don't I can't imagine they would send him up there if they've got polling data that shows Brown's going to win this thing.
So we shall see.
I know he went in there for deeds.
Deeds was way, way down.
But they had already thrown deeds under the bus before he went in there.
I They haven't thrown Coakley under the uh under the bus.
Anyway, Bill Clinton, ladies and gentlemen, is also going in and has done an ad for Martha Coakley.
You heard it here, the exclusive the EIB network, the first ad for Martha Coakley from Bill Clinton.
And Obama's going in there on Sunday.
USA Today is reporting that the number of federal workers making salaries of 100,000 or more jumped from 14% to 19% of civil servants during the recession's first 18 months.
And that does not include overtime pay and bonuses are counted.
Federal workers are enjoying an extraordinary boom time in pay and in hiring during a recession that has cost 7.3 million jobs in the private sector.
Number of federal workers getting six-figure salaries has exploded from 14 to 19% during the recession.
The average pay of a federal workers 71,26 a year from the state controlled associated press.
And I'm wondering if uh the drive-by's would have ignored this.
This is from yesterday.
No, it's today.
We haven't heard anything much about it.
Let's see if we do.
This would be leading the news if Bush were president.
Consumer inflation was tame in 2009, prices rising 2.7%, but families felt squeezed as their spending power sank in the face of falling wages.
The numbers, inflation rises 2.7%.
Wages dipped 1.6%.
That's the biggest decline since 1990.
Inflation's out there, and it's knocking on the door.
Scott in Noakesville, Virginia.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Yes, sir.
This is a rule of honor for me.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, I was calling because I don't think anyone should listen to General Benedict Powell anymore.
The uh president could have dropped in the airborne units on Wednesday.
They don't even need airports.
Good point.
82nd Airborne could parachute in there.
And all their equipment and supplies.
I just saw that they're going in there now.
I guess better late than never.
Benedict Powell, did you say that I hear that correctly?
Yes, sir.
As in Benedict Arnold.
Yes, sir.
That's because uh uh voting and endorsing Obama, you mean?
Yes, sir.
As the quintessential Republican we should all model ourselves after.
Well, just like uh Benedict Arnold was a hero until he didn't get enough attention, and then he switched sides.
Ooh.
That's exactly right.
And an apt comparison.
Oh, and if I may, I wanted to thank you.
I was in the uh honor guard in the 90s.
And you got us through some really hard times with the uh they held hostage thing.
Yeah, I was tempted to reinstitute that with the Obama election, but I thought, why plagiarize myself?
Then they've done that.
But right before we tighten up and march on to the White House, we would say the day that you've mentioned.
All right, thanks for the call, sir.
I appreciate it.
Open line Friday resumes right after this.
Let's see.
Obama went into uh Virginia for for Cree Deeds.
Uh struck out.
He went, where was it?
Copenhagen for um uh the Chicago bid for the Olympics.
We were first of the nations to be eliminated.
Um so they will send him places where it's not a slam dunk.
Uh New Jersey.
It didn't help John Corzine.
Obama will go into Massachusetts on Sunday afternoon for Martha Coakley.
We have a track record of how his appearance is due.
But this is a very liberal state.
By the way, continue to get emails, where is the audio during commercial breaks on the high definition Ditto cam?
We hope to have that by Monday.
Keep saying over and over we are rolling this out live rather than having it all ready to go at one time.
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