Jan. 20, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast. | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in my life, I am proud of Massachusetts. | |
| As I paraphrase Michelle Mybel Obama, for the first time in my life, I am proud of Massachusetts. | |
| I seem to remember some hack saying you never want to waste a crisis. | |
| Some hack in the White House said that. | |
| I think his name was Rahm Emmanuel. | |
| That's exactly right. | |
| Well, they are in a crisis right now, and turnaround is fair play. | |
| So let me say, ladies and gentlemen, you never want to waste a crisis, especially when it's the libs experiencing the crisis. | |
| So keep up the pressure. | |
| Now is the time to keep hammering away. | |
| This is not just one election. | |
| This is the third blowout involving two, or actually three dark blue states. | |
| It is not about Coakley's campaign or Corzine's problems or Creed Deeds being a lightweight. | |
| The common thread here is Obama. | |
| This one's for you, Mary Joe. | |
| This one's for you, Judge Bork. | |
| And EIB twin spin party day on the EIB network. | |
| These are the good times. | |
| We're all feeling good and we will revel in it. | |
| Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the one and only Rush Limbaugh program and the EIB party zone today. | |
| The telephone number, if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882, email address, lrushbow at EIBnet.com. | |
| So much to comment upon today, and I'm going to relish every moment of it, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| So many wonderful sound bites. | |
| It is perfectly fine to gloat today. | |
| It is called for. | |
| This is a day of celebration, but it is also a beginning. | |
| It is not by any means the end of anything. | |
| There is a common theme that I am seeing through state-controlled media. | |
| From Howard Feynman to Jonathan Alter to a guy named Tim Rutin here at the Los Angeles Times, the lesson of Massachusetts, anger. | |
| Yes, it's angry white voters. | |
| Angry white, they've gone back to that meme. | |
| They have revived that template. | |
| Even had Donny Deutsch on MSNBC today saying, well, you know, Scott Brown, voters were just comforted by Scott Brown's white maleness. | |
| This was substance, Mr. Deutsch. | |
| This was issues. | |
| They continue to group people in victimization status. | |
| They continue to see people by the virtue of the color of their skin or their gender, sexual orientation, or what have you. | |
| Now, this guy in the L.A. Times, the lesson of Massachusetts, anger. | |
| The electorate is increasingly arrested, and it's not just about the Democrats. | |
| See, my friends, this is the danger. | |
| L.A. Times, voters are mad at both parties. | |
| This is the danger that we not allow the liberals and the Democrats to reinterpret what took place here. | |
| Conservatism won. | |
| Statism, liberalism lost. | |
| If you are a Republican and you run against government-run health care, if you are a Republican and you run against massive spending and deficits and taxes, if you run for smaller government, you will win. | |
| You do not need to throw Ronald Reagan overboard. | |
| You do not need to cross the aisle. | |
| The independents came to us. | |
| Big. | |
| Ras Mustin's numbers are incredible. | |
| 69, 70% of the independents went for Scott Brown. | |
| And that was an issue-oriented campaign that he ran. | |
| These are Reagan Democrats that crossed over. | |
| Conservatism is the answer. | |
| The era of Reagan is not over. | |
| We don't dare use this as a launching pad for a third party. | |
| We have shown it's totally unnecessary. | |
| Just get back to Reagan conservative roots. | |
| We don't need any more people like David Brooks or From or any of these people in the middle who got this all wrong. | |
| One year ago, they're telling us we had to cross the aisle. | |
| We had to hope Obama succeeded. | |
| We had to work with him. | |
| We had to show the electorate that we were for larger government because they were. | |
| We had to show the electorate that, look, all the services we want are going to require a lot of high taxes. | |
| That's what our pundits, that's what some in our party were actually saying one year ago. | |
| There was one man, ladies and gentlemen, who stood tall and opposed every aspect of that. | |
| And I don't mind saying it was I, your host, El Rushbow, at 800-282-2882. | |
| Do not make the mistake that there's anger at both parties. | |
| There need not be any anger at the Republican Party if they finally learn the lesson of what happened last night and the past three weeks in Massachusetts. | |
| Do you understand? | |
| Despite how you're seeing Democrats on television, this, folks, this is the Berlin Wall coming down. | |
| This is a Ted Kennedy seat. | |
| They're still calling it that, and they've lost it. | |
| And they lost it to a rookie. | |
| And they lost it to a rookie who was talking anti-Washington, anti-government, anti-spending, anti-Obama. | |
| He was talking conservatism. | |
| He may not be a full-fledged conservative. | |
| In fact, the press conference today that he had, the first question, first question, why are you so eager to get down to Washington? | |
| He said he's going to make a courtesy call. | |
| Now, why are you so eager to get him down to Washington? | |
| Let's see, the see, next question, what are you going to do concretely to prove that you are an independent? | |
| The third or fourth question, you ran as an independent. | |
| How are you going to prove to voters that you are an independent? | |
| What they're trying to do, what the press is trying to do is get this guy to say he's not a Republican and he's not a conservative, he's a moderate. | |
| They want the Republican Party to continue to fall for the things that got them in trouble. | |
| That we got to be like Democrats, that we've got to be more moderate, that we've got to cross the aisle. | |
| We have to work with Obama. | |
| The lesson is right in front of us. | |
| And it's no time to let up, folks. | |
| This is pedal to the metal time. | |
| Keep the hammer down. | |
| The health care, the health care system that extended Ted Kennedy's life may have been saved. | |
| The health care system that extended Senator Kennedy's life may well have been saved. | |
| This was a great victory for all Americans who desire the same quality health care that Mr. Kennedy received during his life and especially during his courageous and well-fought battle against cancer. | |
| If Obama's health care succeeds, the great health care system that sustained and elongated the life of Senator Kennedy will be for me. | |
| It will be over. | |
| Pete Wayner today, writing a piece at commentary at the blog. | |
| Number six, this is important. | |
| There is a slew of bad data for Democrats to pour through in the aftermath of Scott Brown's victory, but here is the most frightening data point of all. | |
| Mr. Brown won unaffiliated voters by a margin of 73 to 25 percent, according to pollster Scott Ressmussen. | |
| This is a three-to-one margin. | |
| And it comes after independents broke for Bob McDonald and Chris Christie by two to one margins in Virginia and New Jersey, respectively. | |
| This is a stunning and for Democrats an ominous development. | |
| More than anything else, it explains why they now face the prospect of losing both the House and the Senate in November. | |
| Folks, this is bigger than 1994. | |
| The level of outrage and disgust with the statism, the expansion of government, the accrual of wealth or debt that is being piled up, it's worse. | |
| The public outrage, the fright, the fear, the demand for something different is worse than 1994 when the Republicans took the House. | |
| Boston Globe editorial page today, Brian McGrory, has a column. | |
| I'm thinking about reading it to you. | |
| It is a column that somebody who got date raped would write about. | |
| Date rape. | |
| Voters were date raped by Scott Brown. | |
| I kid you not. | |
| I kid you not. | |
| I'm going to need some Advil and a cold compress, please. | |
| I'm the Massachusetts electorate, and I have what is bar none, the absolute worst hangover of my entire voting life. | |
| Seriously, I was so drunk on power, so caught up in the moment, so free of any of my usual inhibitions, I can't remember what's going on these last two weeks. | |
| Think, electorate, think, what did I do? | |
| This much I'm starting to remember. | |
| Martha and I walked into the party. | |
| Everything seemed to be going fine. | |
| She wasn't talking much, but she never really does. | |
| She wasn't exactly pushing me to bare my soul either. | |
| That's what I've always liked about Martha. | |
| She's a low-maintenance politician. | |
| And now I'm vaguely recalling that stranger across the room, the one in the barn jacket who kept smiling at me, seemed to know my name. | |
| Martha vanished for a while. | |
| And is it bad that I'm saying this? | |
| I didn't really care. | |
| Suddenly, that tall, handsome man was standing at my side doing something that Martha rarely did, offering to pay for drinks, chatting me up, curious what was on my mind. | |
| Every time I tried telling Martha about my day, my hopes, my dreams, she shushed me, and she was preparing a legal brief for watching Law and Order, and now there's a stranger telling me he could change my entire world. | |
| Scott, that was his name, yeah, lived near the outlet stores, talked a lot about being smarter with money. | |
| I know, not like Martha, who always had some expensive home renovation project up her sleeve. | |
| And then I remembered that time itself seemed to stop. | |
| The mundanity, which I don't think there's a word, but he puts it in radio, everyday events gave way to the exhilaration of my suddenly unpredictable existence. | |
| No more Martha taking me for granted. | |
| No more Martha calling all the shots. | |
| I was living the moment, immersed in the life I always wanted before caution overwhelmed desire. | |
| We were on the dance floor, Scott and I, moving to the music, his hands all over my body politic. | |
| Everyone was watching, and I mean everyone, fellow partygoers, bartenders, passers-by staring in the windows. | |
| Look at me, the Massachusetts electorate, the bellwether of America. | |
| I think I took my shirt off. | |
| I think I didn't care. | |
| I remember something about Scott in a pair of Calvin Klein jockey shorts, but it may have been a picture he showed me from his wallet. | |
| Out of nowhere, there were video cameras filming us from every angle. | |
| Analysts were describing the events. | |
| Scott's important friends were texting and calling my cell. | |
| Get this. | |
| Kurt Schilling talking to a regular old electorate like me. | |
| And just like that, there she was. | |
| Martha's back at the bar giving me that aloof prosecutorial look I all knew too well. | |
| I went back to her sweaty and out of breath. | |
| Amazingly, she didn't seem angry. | |
| She didn't really show any emotion at all. | |
| She just pretended like nothing ever happened and tried to continue on. | |
| Oh, but something did happen. | |
| I knew it. | |
| She knew it. | |
| So did Scott, who was still beckoning from the other end of the bar, asking me to take a walk outside. | |
| And now it's coming clear. | |
| I did. | |
| He was talking nonstop, but I noticed he was repeating himself over and over again. | |
| 41st vote, drawing boards, being a Scott Brown Republican, he was starting to lose me until we were standing in front of a GMC pickup, and he said, This is my truck. | |
| Oh, you bad boy, you bad, bad boy. | |
| I remember catching my breath. | |
| I remember pulling a curtain shut. | |
| I remember having to make a really important choice. | |
| I needed to send a message. | |
| I don't know much about Scott. | |
| I have no idea how long he'll be in my life, but I do know that nobody will ever take me for granted again. | |
| This is a metaphor column for being date raped. | |
| Can't remember what happened, but you ended up liking the guy. | |
| You ended up with the guy, but you're fuzzy on the details. | |
| You woke up with a hangover. | |
| I mean, it's unreal. | |
| It is unreal. | |
| We double-checked. | |
| Mr. McGrory is purported to be a male. | |
| We double-checked on this. | |
| But I mean, this is hilarious. | |
| Even according to the globe standards, these people on the Democrat side and in the state-controlled media, ladies and gentlemen, are literally flipping out and losing it. | |
| They have lost it. | |
| And we have only just begun. | |
| Rush Limbaugh and the EIB party zone today. | |
| Mary Joe, this one's for you. | |
| A lot of Democrats are running for the tall grass, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| Bill Delahont in the House. | |
| Massachusetts, let's break this health care bill into a whole bunch of smaller bills. | |
| Jim Webb from Virginia had an incredible, incredible statement. | |
| Let me find what Jim Webb had to say. | |
| It is, it's just, it's just great. | |
| He said, in many ways, the campaign in Massachusetts became a referendum not only on health care reform, but also on the openness and integrity of our government process. | |
| It is vital that we restore the respect of the American people in our system of government and in our leaders. | |
| To that end, I believe it would only be fair and prudent that we suspend further votes on health care legislation until Senator-elect Brown is seated. | |
| Ladies and gentlemen, there are a number of Democrats coming out of the woodwork. | |
| If the vote, the vote on the Senate bill today took place, five Democrats would vote against it. | |
| That's the extent of the fallout. | |
| And what this tells me is that there have been a whole bunch of Democrats privately, totally uncomfortable with this whole process, thumbing their noses at the American people, not listening to them, passing legislation that nobody wants, having it done behind closed doors. | |
| There are apparently a few Democrats who are breathing a sigh of relief over this. | |
| And let's not forget, ladies and gentlemen, as President Obama himself has sung, white comedian Paul Shanklin and the day Obamacare died. | |
| Got to take a break here, folks, as the EIB party zone continues. | |
| We come back. | |
| I'm going to compare the number of working days in the Senate Obama had before he ran for president and between now and 2012 for Scott Brown, should he decide that he wants to run for president, hint he will have many more days of experience in the Senate than Obama had. | |
| We'll be back. | |
| Stay with us. | |
| My friends, who knew? | |
| Who knew that there were so many racist, red-necked bitter clingers in Massachusetts? | |
| Even in Hyannis, well, Obama, when he was at a fundraiser in San Francisco, was talking about bitter clingers. | |
| And when things weren't going well, they dipped up their guns and they went to church and so forth. | |
| He was talking about people that didn't agree with him. | |
| I mean, who knew there were so many racist, red-necked, bitter clingers in Massachusetts? | |
| I mean, I'm just throwing their reasoning back on him. | |
| I have here a letter or It's an op-ed maybe from Andy Stern, who is the president of the Service Employees International Union. | |
| And you know where this op-ed is published? | |
| In the People's World magazine. | |
| It's the Communist Party USA's magazine. | |
| And it carries a theme that I have seen throughout state-controlled media and some Democrats today. | |
| Massachusetts voters' message to Washington, it's time for action. | |
| Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern released the following statement. | |
| Today is no different than yesterday or the day before or the day before that. | |
| Pat DeJong is still wake up in Libby, Montana. | |
| Pat's still mourning the loss of her husband and the selling of his family's ranch because of his medical bills. | |
| And Pat will still go to the bedside of her patients each day providing excellent care, still lacking coverage of her own. | |
| Pat's reality is the reality millions of working people face every day. | |
| The reason Ted Kennedy's seat is no longer controlled by a Democrat is clear. | |
| Washington's inability to deliver the change voters demanded in November 2008. | |
| Make no mistake, political paralysis resulted in electoral failure. | |
| What he's saying is, and I hope they believe this, I really hope they believe it, and I hope they keep saying it, and we must encourage them to, that the reason this happened is because they have not passed health care. | |
| They really, these people are delusional, but let them keep thinking it. | |
| They really believe this was a repudiation of the attempt to nationalize one-sixth of the economy. | |
| This is a repudiation of a president who has destroyed the private sector on purpose. | |
| This is a repudiation of a president who, by the way, has just announced today that he is going to appoint, actually announced it yesterday, Obama is going to appoint a special commission to make it easier for Congress to raise taxes. | |
| He is going to appoint a commission to make it easier for Congress to raise taxes. | |
| You don't believe me on that, Snerdly? | |
| He also has announced today, today, his intent to nationalize the student loan program, which he already has done. | |
| They own the student loan program. | |
| We had that story for you back in December. | |
| But on the day after this shellacking, he said he was going to double down. | |
| He said that he was going to get serious. | |
| He was going to fight just twice as hard. | |
| So he is announcing the nationalization of the student loan program. | |
| By the way, Brian McGrory, Boston Globe, who thinks that he got date raped, put some ice on it, Brian. | |
| Just put some ice on it. | |
| That's Bill Clinton's way of dealing with it. | |
| Hey, just put some eyes on that, Brian, and go away. | |
| Okay, let's compare Brown's days in Orifice before 2012 elections to Obama's. | |
| From January 3rd, 2005, when Obama became a senator, to Wednesday, November 4th, 2008, when he was elected president, 1,401 days, or three years, 10 months, and a day. | |
| From January 19th, today, or yesterday, Brown was elected, to November 6th of 2012, Election Day, 1,022 days, or two years, nine months, and 18 days. | |
| So Brown will have 400 fewer days under his belt than Obama did. | |
| However, however, let us never forget that Obama was on the campaign trail for many of those days. | |
| He actually worked 150 days in the Senate combined. | |
| Most of those days were prior to the announcing of his campaign. | |
| But then after that, it was mostly on the campaign trail. | |
| Went back to solve a financial crisis with McCain a couple times, go back for a couple of votes, go back to listen to a State of the Union speech. | |
| But 150 days is what Obama was elected to president on. | |
| That kind of experience in the Senate. | |
| Public policy polling. | |
| Tom Jensen here, my biggest takeaways from tonight's results. | |
| This was a repudiation of Barack Obama. | |
| Certainly, Martha Coakley was a bad candidate, ran a terrible campaign, but that does not change the fact that we found Obama's approval rating at only 44% with the electorate for today's contest in Massachusetts, a huge drop from 62% of the vote that he won in the state in 2008. | |
| Brown won over 20% of the vote from people who voted for Obama in 2008. | |
| And we found that most of those Brown Obama voters were folks who no longer approve of the job the president is doing. | |
| Can you say Reagan Democrats? | |
| And in one of the bluest states in the country, barely 40% of voters expressed support for the Democrat health care bill. | |
| Only 40%. | |
| And yet there's Andy Stern out there saying that this happened because nobody got the health care bill passed. | |
| And Nancy Pelosi saying the same thing. | |
| They're all the leadership. | |
| You know, there's a, oh, by the way, did you see? | |
| I was channel surfing around last night. | |
| What a metaphor. | |
| I have never enjoyed watching meltdowns like I saw last night on CNN at PMS NBC. | |
| Did you see, did you see John Kerry on CNN hobble up to the stage on crutches? | |
| What a metaphorical heaven it was. | |
| What an idiot. | |
| John, just stay off the stage. | |
| I mean, the whole party's been crippled. | |
| The whole party's on crutches. | |
| Massachusetts voters just cut the legs out from under the Democrat 60-seat majority, which could cripple Obamacare and cap and tax. | |
| And Kerry gave us that image. | |
| Oh, man. | |
| I was digging it, folks. | |
| I was digging it up. | |
| One year ago, one year ago, we were told that Republicans had to become a regional party with no chance of winning in the Northeast. | |
| We were told, sadly, by some alleged conservatives, that it was time to get over Reagan, that the era of Reagan was over. | |
| We were told Republicans were doomed to wander in the wilderness for a generation, that we were a white regional party. | |
| But then came Virginia, and then came New Jersey, and then came Copenhagen, where we got booted out of the Olympics on the first vote. | |
| And then came Climate Gate. | |
| We had all those fake emails showing that email showing the whole man-made climate debate is a hoax. | |
| And then we had Virginia and Washington. | |
| And then, of course, we had New Jersey and Massachusetts. | |
| The people of Massachusetts have been liberated. | |
| It's been almost 60 years, but the so-called Kennedy seat has been returned to the people. | |
| In New York, recent polling puts former two-term Republican Governor George Pataki 13 points ahead of Hillary's replacement, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. | |
| And by the way, ladies and gentlemen, I think that it is time for Mrs. Clinton to start gearing up for a run for the White House in 2012, as I firmly believe that she is. | |
| I think the Clintons are waving out there. | |
| They are watching this. | |
| They are watching a lackadaisical failure response to the hurricane or earthquake rather in Haiti. | |
| They are watching this election result, and they've been loyal. | |
| They've been spouting the Obama talking points all over the place. | |
| Hillary has dutifully gone wherever she'd been told to go by Obama. | |
| And now we had a referendum on Obama. | |
| His approval numbers are plunging. | |
| No issue he supports enjoys majority support with the American people. | |
| Mrs. Clinton start gearing up for 2012. | |
| Her loss was narrow. | |
| Operation Chaos, orchestrated by me and executed by many of you, kept her in that race longer than she otherwise would have been. | |
| But Obama has failed miserably in record time. | |
| And my gal Hillary, who so many of you voted for, the Democrat primary, could be well poised to springboard back into the race in 2012. | |
| I hope she's pondering it. | |
| Nobody could have ever expected, except me, this big and this fast a failure on the part of the President of the United States. | |
| But I had no doubts because I know and knew that his policies were going to take us right where we are. | |
| So, make no mistake about it, even without my urging Hillary Clinton salivating, Bill Clinton salivating, because that's a few years ago. | |
| That guy has been getting us coffee. | |
| In a couple more years, that guy can get his coffee. | |
| Maybe three. | |
| In California, land of a thousand liberals, another liberal icon, Barbara, call me Senator Boxer, polling under 50%. | |
| She's leading Republican challengers by only three or four points in a state where Republicans haven't won a Senate seat in 42 years. | |
| In Nevada, Democrat Majority Leader Dingy Harry Reid is in deep doo-doo. | |
| In Arkansas, Blanche Lincoln has her hips. | |
| Well, she got her boots on up to her hips. | |
| Seven-term Arkansas Democrat Congressman Vic Snyder announced he's not seeking reelection. | |
| That's number five. | |
| The myth that conservatives cannot win in Blue Straits, their states, is exploded by this year's elections in New Jersey and now Massachusetts. | |
| Liberals can be beaten in their own backyards. | |
| We have been aided and assisted by the liberals being arrogant and conceited and showing us who they really are out in the open by virtue of their policies and their arrogant, condescending attitudes. | |
| And when people see it, they don't want to be part of it. | |
| Properly articulated, issue-oriented conservatism will beat liberalism every time it's tried in whatever part of the country. | |
| This has now been established with what happened. | |
| Reagan also carried Massachusetts in a 49-state landslide. | |
| The myth that conservatives can't win, the myth that conservatives have to cross the aisle, the myth that conservatives have to change who they are to adopt and attract moderates, all of that, all that we were told by the alleged intelligentsia on our side, in our media, in our party, has been blown to smithereens. | |
| Those of us who are conservatives from morning to night, 24-7, 365, we are the ones who are vindicated here. | |
| Liberals can be beaten. | |
| This is the time. | |
| This is the year. | |
| No more excuses. | |
| Hi, welcome back, Rush Limboy, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have. | |
| Here it is, Mr. Spirdley. | |
| It's a Reuters story. | |
| The White House laying the groundwork for a task force that could make it easier for lawmakers to approve tax increases. | |
| That's the slug line. | |
| The White House laying the groundwork for a task force that could make it easier for lawmakers to approve tax hikes. | |
| By the way, I was watching CNN and MSNBC last night, and they kept, when Brown was going on and on with his speech, they cut out of it. | |
| They went to Haiti. | |
| They gave up. | |
| CNN gave up even before Brown spoke. | |
| I mean, they cut out of election coverage and headed straight to Haiti. | |
| Oh, it was funny. | |
| It was hilarious. | |
| Now, there is a, I think the defining issue in the Democrat Party right now is busing. | |
| Stick with me on this, folks. | |
| The defining issue, yes, is bussing. | |
| Here we are in the morning after. | |
| The Democrats are already splitting the not liberal moderates Democrats. | |
| There really are no moderate Democrats anymore, by the way. | |
| Let's get that out of the way. | |
| But the not-lib moderates, it's between the, here's the split, is between the Harry Reids, who would throw swing state members under the bus in order to pass health care, and people like Jim Webb, who would throw leadership and health care under the bus to save their own seats. | |
| So it's about busing. | |
| It's about who's going to get thrown off the bus. | |
| Jim Webb's trying to throw the leadership off the bus, and Harry Reid's trying to throw these other guys off the bus. | |
| So bussing has come back to rear its ugly head and poison the Democrat process. | |
| We of good cheer, ladies and gentlemen, should offer our friends on the other side of the aisle some good advice today. | |
| Don't change a thing. | |
| Not one thing. | |
| You keep doing what you are doing, Senator Reed and Madame Pelosi. | |
| Follow the lead of the President of the United States. | |
| Support the strategy of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. | |
| That's what the unions want you to do. | |
| We urge you to do the same thing. | |
| Warren Buffett. | |
| People are wondering, why are the markets down today? | |
| Everybody expected the markets to be up. | |
| Could it be these next two soundbites? | |
| Warren Buffett on Squawk Bucks. | |
| The host, Joe Kernan, said, we've got so many things to go over here. | |
| I mean, I think of Wells Fargo. | |
| I think about the bank tax. | |
| Is that a good idea to pay for the GM bailout with a bank tax, Mr. Buffett? | |
| No, I don't understand that. | |
| I mean, it's some kind of a guilt tax or something of that sort, because banks were among the whole United States that was saved back in 2008. | |
| The government's made a lot of money off Wells. | |
| They made a lot of money off Goldman. | |
| They made a lot of money off J.P. Morgan. | |
| And where they're going to lose money, well, at least where it's possible to lose money, is in the auto company. | |
| So if you're really looking for the people that benefited from government losses, you'd have to look there. | |
| Or if you look at Fannie and Freddie, I mean, you know, are you going to go and tax the members of Congress who ran Freddie and Fanny? | |
| Whoa, what a 180. | |
| This is a guy who was in the back pocket of Barack Hussein Obama. | |
| And now Warren Buffett is just, I mean, dumping all over the bank tax. | |
| He still doesn't understand. | |
| Was it some kind of a guilt tax? | |
| No. | |
| It's populism. | |
| He thinks everybody hates the banks. | |
| He's trying to get people on his side by thinking they have the same enemy. | |
| After saying we had it to save them, Mr. Buffett, we had to make them profitable. | |
| Now he's going after their profit. | |
| So Joe Kernan said to Buffett, well, that's exactly what I said. | |
| You can almost tax any company in business that wasn't going to be able to float any commercial paper. | |
| You could tax them too. | |
| Warren, don't give them any ideas because that'll be next. | |
| What was done in the fall of 2008 was designed to save the American economy. | |
| It wasn't designed to save the banks. | |
| It wasn't designed to save me. | |
| It was designed to save 309 million Americans. | |
| And a good job was done. | |
| They've paid it back with huge interest. | |
| The government's made a lot of money on that. | |
| And to say that they should be paying for the fact that the government lost a lot or may lose a lot of money in Freddie and Fannie and perhaps with the auto companies, it just doesn't make any sense to me. | |
| I just think a tax that's enacted with the idea that the headlines will be appealing and that a certain amount of vengeance will be achieved. | |
| I don't think that's the greatest form of tax policy. | |
| Warren Buffett no longer in Obama's back pocket, folks. | |
| Let us remember, ladies and gentlemen, success has a thousand fathers. | |
| Failure is an orphan. | |
| Scott Brown deserves all the credit in the world for turning Washington upside down, but we must also recognize the contributions of the following people. | |
| David Rodham Gergen for asking the question that inspired Senator Brown to respond, it isn't the Kennedy seat. | |
| It's the people's seat. | |
| Thank you, Mr. Rodham Gergen. | |
| We must also thank President Obama, who came to town for Coakley and added, added to the energy of the pro-Brown supporters. | |
| Thank you for that trip, Mr. President. | |
| And of course, we have to thank Nancy Pelosi and Dingy Harry, without whose bad ideas and bad leadership and even worse tactics, this would not have been such a triumph. | |
| And of course, my friends, we must also thank the state-controlled media who did everything in their power to push Obamacare, Obama cap and trade, Obama banks, Obama automobiles, Obama takeover, everything. | |
| I mean, I could go on forever in thanking so many people on the left for contributing mightily to the result in Massachusetts yesterday. | |
| But I can't, ladies and gentlemen. | |
| I must pause for an obscene profit break. |
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