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Jan. 25, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 25, 2010, Monday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's anchorman is away and he'll be back Wednesday.
Rush will be back Wednesday.
Until then, this is your undocumented anchorman coming to you live from New Hampshire.
Rush will be coming to you live from Las Vegas where he is judging the Miss America pageant.
HR, how many days of the judging, because he's got the preliminaries and things.
There's like all 57 states, the 57 Obama states have all got one gal in the final and then they eliminate seven of the girls and it's just down to the regular 50 states for the main part of the pageant.
Is that how it works, HR?
He started today.
So he began actually the preliminary rounds of the Miss America pageant today.
Wow, I had no idea it was so grueling.
Yes, exactly.
I was a judge once on the Miss Saudi Arabia beauty contest.
It was a terrific time, but hopelessly organized.
I remember sitting there, I think it was next to David Hasselhoff, who was one of the other judges, and glancing at my watch and for crying out, when are they going to raise the curtain?
And he goes, they have raised the curtain.
Those are the girls.
And I looked at the black shapeless line of cloth, and yeah, it turned out they were all the hot gals from Miss Afghanistan to Miss Zionist entity.
So that was the fun for me when I got to do the Miss Saudi Arabia contest.
But it's a great honor to be here.
We're here in New London, New Hampshire.
I don't like to complain.
I hadn't been to New London for a while.
But I was coming in on, I think it's Route 11, New Hampshire Route 11, and on the outskirts of New London, they've got a roundabout.
Do you know these things?
They have roundabouts in every state now.
I've lived in countries with roundabouts.
And I correlate the decline of civilization to the incidence of roundabouts.
When I was living in the United Kingdom, the roundabouts had roundabouts.
Seriously, if you went to towns, big towns, they'd have huge roundabouts with mini roundabouts sort of circling round them like planets around the sun.
And if you happened to hit them in the right combination, you'd never get off.
It'd be like one of those little where you loop the train tracks and the train just goes round and round forever.
You'd be going round and round on the mini roundabouts forever.
And I've noticed them cropping up all over.
This is what I regard as the purpling of New Hampshire, the decline of the live-free or die state.
These roundabouts popping up more and more towns.
And I think it's like a European thing.
People think it's like, you know, voting for John Kerry, having a croissant, putting a roundabout in your town.
You become more sophisticated and European.
And I was giving a talk.
I was booked to give a talk at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, which is in a town called Hanover, New Hampshire.
And I'm always, I'm usually completely punctual.
Always get there, give my speeches right on time, especially when I've got to gird my loins, as Joe Biden would say, and you're speaking to a bunch of left-wing college professors.
But I arrived for the first time in years.
I arrived a little bit late at this speech at Dartmouth College because they've installed these stupid roundabouts all over town.
And I said to the left-wing college professors, look, because they were all like, it was the sort of height of the Iraq war and they were all anti-war.
And I said, look, I don't question your patriotism if you oppose the Iraq war.
But I do question your patriotism if you install roundabouts all over your damn town because that is just plain un-American.
Plain.
Could be jug handles.
That's patriotism.
I can't stand it.
I can't stand these.
I can't stand these roundabouts.
Look, I've seen it.
It's like in New York, you go to the Statue of Liberty, and Emma Lazarus, in her poem that's on the bottom of the Statue of Liberty, it says, Give me your tired, you're poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse dying for a chance to get into third gear before the next mini roundabout.
That's why some of us came to America.
So don't install roundabouts all over your town.
If you're a highway engineer, by the way, and you want to make the case for roundabouts, I'd be interested to hear it because I can't stand them.
I always make a point, by the way.
If you're a New Hampshire police chief, you might want to step away from the radio while I say this.
But I always make a point of just driving straight over the roundabout.
I don't care what you got on there.
I don't care if you've got a decorative flowerbed.
I don't care if you've got the attractive sign saying Dead Moose Junction is twinned with Pyongyang, North Korea.
I don't care if you've got a statue of Jacques Chirac up there.
I just, whatever's on the roundabout, I just drive straight over it.
I don't acknowledge the jurisdiction of roundabouts at all.
So I was very disappointed to see that New London, New Hampshire, in time for my guest hosting stint, has managed to put up a roundabout.
It's a very, very worrying sign.
Lots of good signs, though, other than that, in this country over the last week.
It's hard to believe it's only six days since Scott Brown won that victory in Massachusetts.
New Hampshire used to be the least insane New England state.
And it's very depressing to see that Massachusetts has now usurped our position and that in liberal demonology, Massachusetts has now become Mississippi.
And the previously effete coastal latte sippers are now regarded as a bunch of knuckle-dragging Neanderthals speaking in tongues with gun racks in their prop pickup trucks in the new liberal demonology.
Ah, well, that's where do you expect?
Massachusetts, that's just inbred swamp country.
They don't know what they're talking about there.
They just, you know, they just have a jig of moonshine and a bunk up with their sister and then they go vote for some crazy right-wing loon like Scott Brown.
They don't care.
I love the way.
Oh, that's Massachusetts.
They've just written off Massachusetts.
Massachusetts was a one-party state.
It's something like 72, 74% of elections go uncontested in Massachusetts because there's no point.
The Republican Party has no organization in Massachusetts, which probably is why Scott Brown won.
If they'd had an organized Republican Party, the guy probably wouldn't have won.
But they don't have one.
And this guy, they've got a de facto one-party state.
And that's why this isn't just, I think this is actually more significant than what happened in New Jersey and Virginia.
This is something that if the Democrats, serious Democrats, I think they fall into two kinds now.
You have Evan Bay, Evan Bay, who responded to Scott Brown's victory by saying that the extreme left wing has seized control of the Democratic Party.
So Evan Bayh in Indiana is going to be running against his own party.
And that's the choice for these Democrats in broadly purple states.
Are you going to run as part of the administration or run in opposition to the administration?
And Evan Bay, you know, he would have been more persuasive on this point if he hadn't waited until Scott Brown's victory party to tell the LA Times this.
But Evan Bayh in Indiana can see the writing on the wall, and he still wants to be in the United States Senate after November.
And so he has decided that the trick for him and other so-called blue dog Democrats is to run against the party.
And if Ben Nelson hadn't been so stupid to cave in to Harry Reid on the Cornhusker kickback, he'd be doing that in Colorado.
He can't do that now, of course, because he'll look like a total joke.
But that's going to be the choice for senators like Blanche Lincoln and for whoever has the thankless job of taking over Byron Dorgan's role and running on behalf of the Democrats for the North Dakota seat, is whether you're going to run as part of the administration or in opposition to the administration.
And by the way, it's interesting to me that the idea that we're now all talking about Obama's speechifying, there's a big piece in USA Today today, other speech writers essentially commenting on Obama's speech.
And this guy says, the speech he made in Cairo, Harry C. McPherson, who wrote speeches for Lyndon Johnson, says, quote, the speech he made in Cairo, I remember the intelligence, the breadth, and the reasonableness, McPherson says, but I can't tell you, and this is one of the shortcomings of the kind of speech he makes, I can't quote anything or cite anything off the top of my head.
And that's a very interesting point, too, because like if this guy is the greatest thing since Henry V at Adgincourt, if he's Lincoln and Churchill and Socrates combined, why don't you remember a single word he says?
Well, don't worry about it.
There's a reason for that.
I think there are memorable lines in certain speeches, says Adam Frankel, who is one of Obama's speechwriters.
But what makes him unique as a speaker is not necessarily a single line, but the overall story he tells and the seriousness with which he tells it and the trust he puts in people to understand a complicated argument.
Now, I think there is an element of truth in that.
I think that for all the dreariness of these speeches, we did understand over this last year what it means.
And it was that line that Jill Dawson, this Obama voter who now says it was the biggest mistake of her life, it is that line that Jill Dawson uses, that change is a euphemism for big government.
And if you just go back, take all the speeches that Obama's given since he was a candidate and replace the word change with the words big government, they suddenly fall all into place.
Big government we can believe in.
Big government we can believe in.
And God bless the United States of America, because I've been very worried since the election of Obama that this country was actually voting to become Scandinavia, was voting to become a European social democracy, mired in unaffordable entitlements, voting it six weeks, itself six weeks of paid vacation and socialized health care and cradle-to-grave welfare and more and more expensive and unsustainable programs.
But people have got the message.
People have got the message.
And this is where the Obama populist racket, the wheels completely fall off it, because the idea that he's fighting for you is completely the opposite of what's happened this last year.
He got all the special interests on board for his stupid healthcare thing.
He invited in the healthcare lobbyists.
He invited in the pharmaceutical companies.
He invited in the insurance companies.
He invited in the American Medical Association.
And he got all the special interests on board to one degree or another by promising this, that, and the other.
Because the one people he, the one element he didn't get on board was you, the people.
You are the ones he frosted out of those discussions.
And instead, he and the other special interests cooked up a racket that suited them.
I mean, what's populist?
What is populist about making it a crime for you not to buy an expensive health insurance program?
What is populist about saying that if you don't make the health care arrangements that meet with the approval of the federal government thousands of miles away, you will be guilty of a criminal offense and the IRS can freeze your bank accounts.
What's populist about that?
This populism is a complete fraud.
He got the special interests in the package and then he frosted out you, the dumb schmucks who aren't smart enough to understand his sophisticated nuance message.
Mark Stein, in for rush, lots more and lots of your calls straight ahead.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein, in for rush on Ice Station EIB, coming to you direct from New Hampshire today.
Usually I'm in New York and I get to get to sit with HR and the rest of the gang, but I'm exiled to Ice Station EIB in New London, New Hampshire today.
The funniest picture I've ever seen, by the way.
If you're one of these people who still thinks Obama is the smartest president we've ever had, a couple of days ago, he visited the Graham Road Elementary School in Falls Church, Virginia.
Okay, elementary school, grade schoolers.
So he's talking to like third and fourth, fifth graders.
And there's this hilarious picture of him in a classroom.
You know the way classrooms, they don't look like they did when it was the good old days of the New Hampshire one-room schoolhouse where there would be a blackboard and the Stern School Mom, and then you'd have your arithmetic and your history and your Latin and whatever up on the blackboard.
Now they're all full of day glow, pretty pictures and nice little artsy projects and all the rest of it.
So they look like kindergartens these days.
So he's standing in this kindergarten and he's talking to these grade schoolers and he's got his teleprompter.
He's got his teleprompter on both sides.
The President of the United States, and these kids are like all sitting at knee height, right?
These kids are at knee height, and he's not looking them in the eye because they're staring at his kneecaps, and he's staring at the teleprompter, doing that head swivel thing where he goes from the left teleprompter to the right teleprompter to the left teleprompter to the...
You can set your watch by him.
It's like a man who's managed to get center court tickets for Wimbledon and is watching the world's slowest tennis rally.
That's Obama with the teleprompter.
He's sitting there left, right, head, not making eye contact with the six-year-olds and seven-year-olds in his audience.
The man is giving a talk to grade schoolers and he's using a teleprompter.
And there's no one around him to say, Mr. President, maybe we should ditch the teleprompter when you're talking to the school kids.
Because maybe it won't matter if you don't manage to pull up the relevant statistic about GDP per capita or whatever it is in Sudan.
You're just talking to a bunch of school kids.
Maybe you could just like interact with them, rekindle your relationship, as we say, and just interact with them one-on-one.
If Michael Moore was the guy he pretended to be, you know Michael Moore when he did his Fahrenheit 911 or whatever it was called, 9-11 film?
And he opens with Bush on the morning of September 11th with what he called my pet goat, doing the my pet goat thing.
And the my pet goat moment became a huge thing with lefties during the Bush play.
Oh, look at this idiot.
He's reading it's morning of September 11th.
He's reading my pet goat to a bunch of school kids.
Well, at least he's not reading my pet goat off the teleprompter to a bunch of grade schoolers.
This is like, this is Obama's My Pet Prompter moment.
And you know what will be interesting?
Osama bin Laden.
Do you remember Osama bin Laden popped up just before the 2004 election?
And it was as if someone had shipped him a Michael Moore DVD to play back in the cave in Waziristan or wherever he's hold up.
So they manage to, they get an extension cord and they snake it out of the cave all the way 30 miles away to the one working electrical outlet in Waziristan.
And he's watching My Pet Goat, Osama.
And he starts doing My Pet Goat jokes in this message to the American people, advising them to vote for John Kerry before the election.
I will be interested to see if Osama bin Laden starts doing My Pet Prompter jokes about President Obama.
Look at this picture.
Where did I get this picture from, Tiffany?
I think it's from, what's that website?
Powers.
It's from somebody, a guy called Powers.
I think you could actually find it at the White House.
I think they think it's such a great picture, they got it up at the White House.
Yeah.
But whatever, whitehouse.gov, you could watch the president addressing grade schoolers.
Do you think he does this with his daughters?
Do you think when they come home from school and he goes, well, what did you do at school today, Sasha?
He's reading that off the prompter.
These are the jokes they used to do about Bob Hope.
You know, Bob Hope loved the prompt teleprompter.
And all the other guys, Jack Benny and George Burns and all the other fellas would make jokes that when Bob Hope came down in the morning and there was Dolores at the breakfast table, he'd have the teleprompter behind her head and he'd be reading, How are you this morning, darling?
Did you sleep well?
Obama is living it.
He's living 30-year-old Bob Hope jokes in grade schools in Falls Church, Virginia.
A man who requires a teleprompter to speak to children of six, seven, eight years old.
This is very bizarre.
Let's find out.
Doug Powers, this guy, that's right, look him up, just Google him.
He's a guy called Doug Powers, and he'll have this up at his website.
Hilarious picture.
My pet prompter.
And if Michael Moore had any guts, he would be mocking my pet prompter the way he mocked George W. Bush with the My Pet Goat moment.
Now, people say, okay, Obama is in free fall.
Obama's speechwriters are in free fall.
They've no idea what they're doing.
They're promoting this insane, angry version of him.
What is it that Republicans should be doing to capitalize on this moment?
And we're going to talk about that on the show today, too, because that's important.
This is not a time.
This is a time for learning the real lessons of Scott Brown, which I think are about authenticity in a candidate and a candidate who understands the most obvious thing that's going wrong here, the three or four most obvious things that are going wrong, and is prepared to resist them.
Mark Stein, Infra Rush from Ice Station EIB in New Hampshire, 1-800-282-2882.
Lots more straight ahead.
And don't forget, Rush live from Las Vegas and the Miss America pageant.
He'll be back on Wednesday.
Hey, great to be with you.
Your undocumented anchor man sitting in for America's Anchorman today.
Don't forget, Rush will be back on Wednesday.
Let's go to Terry in Columbia, South Carolina.
Terry, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hi, Mark.
It's wonderful to be able to talk to you.
I just want to say, talking or listening to you reminds me of the first time I watched a Christmas story, and I just fell into the floor in a convulsive heap, just crying so hard.
Well, laughter.
Well, don't fall.
Don't fall to the floor in a convulsive fit until you finish.
Well, I just want to say, while we're throwing compliments around that I love, I can think of few greater, more pleasant experiences than talking to a Terry with a creamy southern accent.
Terry is one of my favorite.
Hey, hey, HR, where does Terry come on Rush's list of top 10 ladies' names?
Oh, oh, no, it's easy.
It's not up.
It was one of the 57 things.
Yeah, that's right.
It's bubbling under.
HR says it's bubbling under at number 11.
I think we got to, that list is fixed.
I think we're going putting you straight in number three with a bullet.
You're there with a shot at number one, Terry.
I love Terry's with southern accents.
Thank you for waiting, Terry.
And what point did you want to make?
My point is that when Rush says don't doubt him, you should listen.
Because I remember a good while back he was talking about how if government gets control of health care, that people will have to legitimately worry about whether or not their political affiliations or activities will have any kind of an impact on the care that they get.
And I know that people have kind of this idea in their head that what that is going to look like is, you know, you go and you have an accident and you go to the hospital and the clerk says, oh, be right back.
And, you know, they run down to the registrar's office to find out if you have a D or an R behind your name on your voter registration card before they'll treat you.
But that isn't what it's going to look like.
What it is going to look like is what, you know, everybody wants to talk about this union deal.
Well, it's right there and it's staring you in the face.
And so far as I know, nobody has remarked on it.
But when you levy a tax and then you specifically exempt people who are your political supporters, that's a payoff.
When you levy a tax on a medical good or service against people who are either your political enemies or who do not promote you sufficiently as to garner your interest on their behalf, that is rationing.
And that's what they've done.
If you had a 40% tax on your medical plan, and some of these plans, $20,000, that's a significant tax, that's going to reduce your ability to buy into that plan.
You're going to have to reduce your payment by reducing your coverage, which will, in effect, reduce your benefit.
So that if you make a claim, you are going to have less access to medical care than you would have if he had not taxed you, and you will have less access to that medical care than someone who supported him would still have.
That, my friend, is political rationing of your enemies.
That's right.
And you make an excellent point there, Terry, because you're saying that if you happen to belong to such and such a union, you'll keep your Cadillac tax plan, tax health plan tax-free.
But if you have the misfortune to work for a company like, I don't know, Mark Stein Enterprises, to pick a particularly dismal example, your Cadillac health plan will be taxed at 40%, which, as you say, is actually a real diminution.
That's real money.
And it's not just real money, but as you say, a real diminution in the health care that you will be entitled to.
Because one thing you can say for certain is that you don't tax something at 40% and expect people to buy the same quantity of it.
So people who have these so-called Cadillac health care plans will be downsizing to other kinds of health care plans.
And that's an important point, Terry, because as you say, it's an explicit reward for the president's political supporters.
And that's why, as I always say, government health care in the United States is going to be way worse than government health care in Canada or in Europe, because whatever you say about it in Canada, there is an equality of lousiness.
They at least subscribe to the principle of equality of lousiness.
Here, it's all going to be special deals for this or that preferred opt-out and exemption.
And it's going to be a horrible thing that, as you say, at the bottom line is real people will be getting worse health care for it.
And as you say, in effect, political rationing.
Well, I mean, I guess he just is going on to hope that since he thinks the American electorate is composed of people who have IQs roughly three points lower than an eggplant, that we just won't figure it out.
You know, but the sad thing is, is he's right because, you know, the reason that I'm calling this show is because I know millions of people listen to it because I want them to understand, you know, all these pundits were saying, oh, that would never happen.
Well, not only did it happen, they were going to put it in the bill.
Nobody noticed.
They're all talking about payoffs.
No, no, no.
Quite discredit.
But by the way, you're wrong that people have the intelligence of an eggplant.
In Massachusetts, where they eat a lot of eggplant, they call it aubergine, I think, at the fancy restaurants in Boston.
They eat a lot of them, and they still figured this out and they voted against it.
And that's the thing to remember.
It's not that people hasn't done a good enough job at getting the message out.
It's that people understand the message.
People were disgusted by what Ben Nelson did.
Ben Nelson must be the most stupid man in the United States Senate.
Believe me, that's a competitive title.
But Ben Nelson, because what Ben Nelson revealed is that even the sort of we're all in this together rhetoric of government health care is phony.
That what it is is just going to be a big, festering, great stew of toxic pork of the worst kind, paying off political clients of the Democratic Party and sticking you with the tab.
And that's what all of this has in common, by the way.
There's a column in the New York Times today by the so-called conservative columnist who says, you know, well, why can't we agree on certain things?
Democrats have a sincere wish to help those too poor to buy health care and those who can't because of pre-existing conditions.
And let's stop right there.
Let's stop right there.
Because is that why Democrats have spent the last year doing what they did?
No, it isn't.
If it was about health care, it would be relatively easy to do.
You'd have portability for one thing.
You'd restore it to something closer to a genuine free market instead of distorting it with massive government interventions.
But it's not about health care.
In the end, it's about government.
And if you look at every move that Obama makes, it's always about government.
This is just a preview of the state of the Union.
Okay, college affordability.
I don't agree, by the way, that everybody should go to college.
I think that's a complete waste of time.
If you go to a lot of European countries, like Germany, Germany, they stay in college till 34 and they take early retirement at 47.
And they're surprised that they can't make that arithmetic add up.
If you have everybody going to college, it'll just be an excuse to teach in college what they teach in high school.
In fact, they more or less do that already because too many people go to college.
So it'll become, in effect, an excuse to teach in college what they should teach in middle school.
But anyway, Obama, as Rush was talking about a couple of days ago, has basically nationalized college loans.
Now, here's what he's talking about: how he's going to make these student loans more affordable.
It will keep the total cost of loan repayment manageable by forgiving all remaining debt after 10 years for those in public service work and 20 years for all others.
So in other words, you come out of college and you make the mistake of working for a private company, you're going to be paying off that college loan for 20 years.
But if you go into public service work, which means the government bureaucracy, you get that loan forgiven after just 10 years.
In other words, he's saying, let's hand government workers another advantage.
If you're working in the private sector in the United States right now, you're a fool.
You'd be better off going and getting a job at the DMV because the Obama plan for you is that everything should be bureaucracy.
If you work for the government bureaucracy, you get your student loans forgiven, you get more vacation, you get earlier retirement on more pay.
And if you're a schlub who's trying to build his own business and is working around the clock and never takes any holidays, you're just working around the clock to pay for all the people getting their loans forgiven and getting paid vacation and taking early retirement because they had the sense to go and get a job in the government bureaucracy.
If you look at what every single thing that Obama does has in common, it's prioritizing and rewarding government and bureaucracy at the expense of the poor boobs who have to pay for all of it.
Mark Stein, in for rush, lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network.
HR was worried that I might have offended Massachusetts voters by suggesting they eat a lot of eggplant down there.
But I mean, it's true.
It's true.
I remember the last time I was in Boston, and as you drive north back to New Hampshire on I-93, they got like a big sign saying, last eggplant before the border.
You know, it is simply a fact.
I mean, I don't know.
Maybe it's all changed since Scott Brown, but I bet you if you looked in the back of Scott Brown's pickup, there would be a hell of a lot of eggplant back there.
Mark Stein in for Rush, let's go to Leo in Port Arthur, Texas.
Leo, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey, how are you doing, Mark?
I'm doing great.
Thanks for waiting, Leo.
Yeah, you're pretty animated today more than usual.
Oh, yeah.
Having a good time, huh?
Yeah, well, if I sound unanimated, usually that's I'm in New York and HR just like drains all the energy.
HR and Snerdley, those guys just drain the energy.
I'm all get all somnolent and pericomo-like, but I'm pumped up today because I'm up here in the hills.
Great to have you with us.
Great to be here.
Hey, you know what I'm hearing when I tune in to talk radio?
A whole lot of rhetoric and power on with regards to the Obama administration.
I'm hearing everything from conservatives that's wrong with what's going on in Washington, but what I'm not hearing or seeing also from conservatives is no offering to the solutions.
The politicians in the opposition party since the 08 elections have been rendered sterile and impotent leadership and solutions, and you all won't be able to talk your way back into power.
Oh, I'm offering up some kind of solutions to make us want to vote for them.
Oh, I don't think our sterility and impotence is anything to worry about.
You'd be surprised, as you saw in Massachusetts.
The Obama agenda is like Viagra to us sterile and impotent conservatives.
So you don't need to worry about it on that front, Leo.
Here's the thing.
We do have solutions, but we weren't invited to be part of the discussion.
I just said, for example, on healthcare.
The obvious thing is healthcare portability.
It's ridiculous.
People move.
I think the last time I looked at this statistic was a few years back, but I think at that point, people moved on average once every seven years in America, in the United States.
People move once every seven years, something like that, maybe even a little lower now.
But it's absurd to have a unified labor market across 50 states from Maine to Hawaii.
But if you move across the Connecticut River from New Hampshire to Vermont, you've got to make a whole lot of different health care arrangements.
The only argument for getting the federal government into the healthcare business would be actually to nationalize the health care market.
That's the one thing they're not doing.
So that's the healthcare thing.
This big bureaucratic special interest boondoggle, though, you've got to vote that down.
You've got to kill that.
You've got to drive a stake through its heart.
And then you can talk about real health care reform.
Secondly, you look at elsewhere what Scott Brown ran on.
He ran on the spending.
It's unaffordable.
There's not going to be an American dream.
People won't know that expression in 50 years' time because there won't be an American dream, so there'll be no need for the phrase.
The phrase will not be necessary.
No need for the phrase, the American Dream.
Gone.
History, obsolescent.
Because we're spending our children's and grandchildren's future.
Obama's thing is a lousy committee, a lousy blue ribbon commission to investigate the deficit.
It's not the deficit, it's the spending.
The deficit deficits come and go.
But the spending, the monstrous spending, is unsustainable even in good times.
And that's why if you're just looking at the deficit, in other words, if you're trying to find an accounting trick to make the deficit look smaller, you're not, which is what Obama wants to do.
No, what you need to do is get a grip on the spending.
And that's what Scott Brown understands.
And the third thing is that when you're in a war, you don't give Miranda rights to terrorists.
This guy, Dennis Blair, the big intelligence honcho, goes on TV and basically says a guy tries to blow up an airliner over Detroit, he lands, and the intelligence apparatus of the United States that was reformed at great expense, the national security apparatus, the homeland security apparatus, the $50 billion that we spend on this thing,
has no say before this guy who was blabbing away gets hustled off and delivered into the hands of a criminal lawyer who then tells him to quit yapping.
And from now on, he's going to be treated like a defendant, as if he'd held up a liquor store.
Scott Brown said very clearly he thinks we should, instead of spending money buying lawyers for terrorists, we should be spending money to kill terrorists.
That's not a do-nothing GOP agenda.
That's not just sterile, impotent opposition to what Obama's doing.
That's a fundamental reorientation of philosophy from the disastrous policy of this administration.
So you don't have to worry about that, Leo, because as I said, if you're sterile and impotent, maybe it's from walking through these new full-body scanners they're going to install at great expense at the airport.
But if you've got a little problem in that area, you'd be surprised at how the Obama agenda is like a triple shot of sialis to old conservative impotence on that front.
We got great policies and we're beginning to articulate them.
Mark Stein in Faroche from Ice Station EIB, more to come.
Mark Stein in Faroe, let's go to Margaret in Defiance, Ohio.
What a name for a town, Margaret.
Does it live up to that name?
I think it does.
It's Middle America.
Excellent.
Well, you stay defiant.
And it's great to have you on the show with us today.
What's your point?
My point is that Obama should realize the problem with the demonizing success is that I don't want my son to grow up resenting the CEO.
I want him to grow up to be the CEO.
Oh, well, you're one of these old-fashioned types, Margaret, who still has aspirations, who still thinks the point of life is to wish for your children to fulfill their opportunity to the fullest of their ability and to enjoy the fruits of the American dream.
Whereas Obama is saying, forget all that.
It'd be much easier if you just went and got a government job.
that these CEOs and these bank presidents are just standing in the way of all that.
Yes, I picture my sons climbing the ladder of success, and I don't want Obama telling them how high they can climb.
Well, they've lopped off the top 40% of the ladder of success because that's the special punitive ladder tax they've just introduced, Margaret.
Thanks, Fiocol.
You know, though, this is right.
I mean, this is why this crazy thing now is attacking banks, attacking banks.
He's going to levy a punitive tax on banks.
Okay.
So that sounds great, isn't it?
Really stick it to all those lousy bank presidents and vice presidents who've been living high off the hog.
Okay, now picture this.
It's six months after he's introduced the bank tax, and you decide you've got to go into the first National Bank of Dead Skunk Junction to apply for a loan, and they tell you, no, they can't give you the loan because they've had to give all their money to the government instead.
Taxing banks?
What's that going to do for the economy?
This guy is out of it, and he's getting crazier and crazier.
Mark Stein Inforus, we'll talk about that and about Abe Foxman's attack on Rush, by the way.
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