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Jan. 26, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 26, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in Mark Stein.
Honoured to be here.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
I'm from the foreign exchange student wing of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a terrific program.
Penniless foreigners like me get to come and study here.
And in return, guys like Barack Obama get to do a master's degree at the Konstantin Chenyenko School of Public Speaking and sparkling reportee in Krasnoyarsk.
So it works out well for everyone.
Rush is back tomorrow.
He's judging the Miss America pageant.
It's a crummy job, but somebody has to do it.
But he'll be here tomorrow live from Las Vegas, Nevada.
I'm here live today from our friends at WNTK, New London, New Hampshire.
WNTK was one of the very first Rush affiliates.
I think that's right, one of the very first 50 affiliates way back when, 20-something years ago.
So they've been part of the Rush family a long time.
But even though we're here at Ice Station EIB, it's still the same telephone number: 1-800-282-2882.
We do get 1-800 service here in this remote part of the northern New England wilderness.
Speaking of which, breaking news from the Scotsman.
Now, climate change scientists say ozone hole stops global warming.
Who'd have thought it?
Let's all get out the old aerosol deodorants and have a celebratory party.
Yesterday I made a joke about the Miss Saudi Arabia contest.
And I got some emails from people offended at me for suggesting that the Saudis would have a beauty contest with the girls all lined up draped in black from head to toe.
But it is in fact true.
And this is what Rush, if Rush was on the air on Radio Saudi, Radio Saudi, if he was doing the morning show on Radio Saudi, Rush bin Limbaugh, he would be judging the only beauty contest in Saudi Arabia for women, and that's Miss Beautiful Morals.
And all the girls line up wearing the same black head-to-toe abaya and an Islamic veil.
So the only little bit of them you can see is the tiny little eye slit right at the top.
So you can say, wow, wow, she has got really hot eyes.
But otherwise, you can't see anything else.
And they judge the competition on the girls' perfection of Islamic morals.
And the winner of this competition becomes Miss Beautiful Morals.
Now, I don't know whether there's other rounds as well.
I don't know.
Obviously, there's not a swimsuit round, but I wonder if you have to demonstrate your perfection of Islamic morals while twirling a baton and singing windmills of your mind or whatever, like on the talent round of Miss America.
I don't know.
But anyway, that is the only beauty competition for women in Saudi Arabia, Miss Beautiful Morals.
It's not the only beauty competition in Saudi Arabia, of course, because the big one there is the Saudi Arabian Miss Beautiful Goat Competition, which they hold in Mazayan al-Mars.
And I've got the picture here.
I was trying to find the picture of the most recent Saudi Arabia Miss Beautiful Goat, Most Beautiful Goat competition, but I can only find the 2008 winner, and that is one smoking hot goat.
It is a Damascus goat, got the cutest floppy ears, and it shows the goat here doing her victory lap while all the men, the men, are all standing around looking lost in wonder and awe at the smoking hot goat's beauty.
It's a Damascus goat.
What's the name of the goat here?
Oh, the goat winner of the most Saudi Arabia Most Beautiful Goat Award is Carr Carr.
Baby, you can drive my car, as the goatherds of Riyadh like to say.
Another one bites the dust.
Bo Biden, the son of the little glimpse vice president Joe Biden, will not be running for his father's old seat in the House of Lords.
He's out of here.
He's done.
Bo Biden announced yesterday that he will not seek election to the U.S. Senate seat long held by his father, putting another Democratic-held Senate seat in jeopardy and dealing another potential blow to the Flailing Party.
The Flailing Party?
What's this kind of talk?
Joe Biden, Joe Biden's son, is Delaware's Attorney General, and he told supporters in an email that he will run for re-election to his state post instead, but he will not be running against Republican Representative Mike Castle for his father's seat.
He cited a need to focus on prosecution of a high-profile child molestation case, which you've got to admit is a different excuse.
You know, usually when politicians back out of these things, they talk about needing to spend more time with their family, but Bo Biden says he needs to spend more time with this child, Molesta.
It's a novel excuse.
Anyway, Bo Biden's decision to make Peter Philippia the better part of Valor follows hard on the decision by Congressman Marion Berry, no relation to Mayor Marion Barry.
Congressman Marion Berry, Democrat of Arkansas, has also decided to throw in the towel.
Representative Berry fears that these midterm elections are going to go the way of the 1994 midterms, when Democrats lost control of the House after a failed health care reform effort.
But, Berry told the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, the White House does not share his concerns.
Quote, they just don't seem to give it any credibility at all, Berry said.
They just kept telling us how good it was going to be.
The president himself, when that was brought up, said, well, the big difference here at in 94 was you've got me, unquote.
The big difference here at in 94 is this time you've got Barack Obama.
And amazingly, Representative Berry took this reassurance from the president, went home, and decided to resign his seat.
But that's the way Obama's looking at it.
This isn't 1994.
Get real, you guys.
You've got Barack Obama on your team, not some loser like Bill Clinton.
I can't wait to hear what Bill Clinton has to say about that.
In other news, President Obama has opened up his heart about how lonely he is.
In fact, he's given several exclusive interviews about how lonely he is.
Betsy Gleich, People's Executive Editor, filled CBS early show viewers in on the candid session.
Quote, he just talked about the loneliness of the job and some of the loneliness he embraces.
He realizes that he has big decisions that he alone needs to make, she said.
But he misses being out among regular people.
I don't know.
She didn't give any names, but I guess he means, you know, he misses being out among regular people like Jeremiah Wright and William Ayers.
But evidently, it's not good to be the king.
Betsy Gleich of People magazine on the CBS Morning News with Harry Smith, explaining to Harry how lonely Barack had told her he was.
And Valerie Jarrett, you remember Valerie Jarrett, senior White House advisor, last heard from, telling Fox News that this administration was going to speak truth to power.
She's now speaking truth about the loneliness of power.
Quote, I think that the bubble is a lot for him.
He's never really liked feeling like he's cooped up.
I think he misses the ability to just meet a random stranger and have a conversation.
You know, only the other day, the newspapers were full of how he was meeting plenty of random strangers at that White House dinner for the Prime Minister of India.
Pretty much anyone can get into those.
Actually, I gather he met a random stranger at a cabinet meeting the other day.
It turned out to be Hillary Clinton, and he said, what are you doing here?
I thought you were still on that fact-finding mission to Chad.
Anyway, here's the president, the lonely boy himself, talking in Ohio.
The truth is, being president is also a little confining.
I can't just walk around and visit people like I used to.
I can't just go to the barber shop or sit at a diner.
And it's true, Barack Obama Kandy walked into a diner the other day and said, hey, look, you guys just need to hear one more healthcare speech from me and then you'll get it.
And all 47 customers went check please and fled in terror.
So hey there, hey there, lonely boy.
Who did that song?
What's that back here?
Hey, hey there, lonely boy.
One of those falsetto soul singers from Jersey.
Which guy was it, though?
Hey there!
Philadelphia.
Was it Philly Soul?
Hey there, lonely boy.
But yesterday, he's so lonely.
This is what he's reduced to.
Yesterday, Mr. Lonely received Chloe Kardashian, the star of the reality show, keeping up with the Kardashians at the White House.
So Barack Obama has figured out he needs to reconnect with reality.
This is the message he's getting from the people in Massachusetts.
So to start with reconnecting with reality, he's meeting with hot young gals from reality TV shows like Chloe Kardashian.
But you'll be, no matter how lonely he is, he's graciously agreed to slog on for your sake.
As he told another interviewer in, I believe, the 37th exclusive interview he gave yesterday afternoon, I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.
Hey, why not get the best of both worlds and be a really mediocre one-term president?
Ever thought of that?
Here we have his latest explanation now for why he's so lonely.
This is from his interview with Diane Sawyer.
He told Diane Sawyer that locking the public out of key discussions was a mistake.
This is why it all went wrong for him.
The healthcare debate as it unfolded legitimately raised concerns not just among my opponents but also among supporters that we just don't know what's going on and it's an ugly process and it looks like there are a bunch of backroom deals.
Right.
Now why does it look like there's a bunch of backroom deals?
That's because you guys were all in the back room making deals.
But he's now saying locking the public out.
Mr. Populist, the world's loneliest populist, Barack Obama, is now saying that locking you, the people, out of these backroom deals was a big mistake.
So we're going to bring all of you into the back room and then Mr. Lonely won't be lonely anymore.
So we'll get to that in the next three hours while we're waiting for Rush to return from his grueling judging experience at the Miss America pageant.
1-800-282-2882 will be talking about the loneliest populist in town, Barack Obama, and his promise to freeze his new promise.
He's going to freeze public spending.
A little bit anyway.
It's going to be like what they used to say about getting a little bit pregnant.
This budget is going to be a little bit frozen.
And we'll get to that and all your calls straight ahead.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein, in for Rush on the EIB network.
Don't forget, Rush returns live from Vegas tomorrow.
Have you heard about this exciting new three-year freeze on federal funding?
Isn't this the news you've been waiting for?
The three-year freeze on federal funding.
Not all federal funding, of course.
If you look at the first sentence in the Washington Post today, it says that the president, quote, will propose in his State of the Union address a three-year freeze on federal funding that is not related to national security, unquote.
Well, okay, that sounds reasonable enough.
We wouldn't want to freeze the national security budget.
There are grannies to strip search.
We're at war.
We've got to keep on with it.
We've got to stay focused on it.
But then you say, okay, so what comes under national security?
And they say, well, you know, that's the military, veterans affairs, homeland security, and certain international programs.
And at that point, you think, well, certain international programs, and the first alarm bell goes ringing off on your head.
And then you turn over on the Washington Post story to the next page, and you discover that this freeze on federal funding for anything not related to national security also applies to, quote, entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, unquote.
So they won't be subject to this federal funding freeze on non-national security budget.
They won't be affected by that.
So they will continue to spend.
Also, the federal dramatic three-year federal funding freeze will not, quote, restrain funding for the $787 billion economic stimulus package, unquote.
You know, the one that put in all the scarified pavement across the lower 48.
And I noticed, by the way, in what is still early in a New Hampshire winter, that all the repaving that was done under the stimulus budget, you know, when I was here a few months ago when they were doing this business with the stimulus spending, and I was driving to the airport and I would be driving on 100 miles of scarified pavement, one lane, take you hours to get to the airport.
You will be good to know that they you'll be glad to know that they finished all that work and that the newly paved roads paved for by your federal stimulus dollars have already cracked up with frost heaves in the first weeks of a New Hampshire winter.
So we need another stimulus package just to repave them all over again.
Thank you very much.
But anyway, you'll be glad to know that this federal funding freeze won't apply to the $787 billion economic stimulus package and it won't apply to a new bill aimed at creating jobs, unquote.
Now, as you know, from listening to all the experts, Obama has either, quote, saved or created, unquote, by now, 47 billion, trillion, bazillion new jobs.
But he's not satisfied because no matter how many bazillion, trillion, gazillion new jobs he creates under the stimulus package, apparently the unemployment rate refuses to shift, except if when it does shift, it goes up.
So he's going to put in a new bill aimed at creating or saving even more jobs, and that won't be affected by his federal budget freeze.
Nor would the federal budget freeze, quote, affect the approximately $900 billion health care bill.
Well, at this point, you're starting to wonder, hang a minute.
So you're saying it's like a total federal funding freeze on everything in the budget, but it doesn't actually freeze anything in the budget.
No, no, no, it does.
Apparently, he's looking to save, he's looking to save $250 billion over 10 years.
$250 billion over 10 years.
And the good news is that that is less than 3% of the roughly $9 trillion in additional deficits that the government is expected to accumulate over that time.
So essentially here we don't even have a line item.
We have a rounding error.
We have a rounding error.
He's going to save over 10 years $250 billion out of roughly $9 trillion in additional deficits.
I don't even know whether this qualifies as a joke, but even in even this year for financial year 2010, for example, even if you were to take this seriously as he's defined it, it would only apply to $447 billion out of the three, God, I can't even do these numbers now.
What is this?
$3,307 billion in this year's budget.
So in other words, he's not planning to cut anything.
He's not planning to peel back government.
What he's doing is saying we're taking one tiny little bit of government, the bits you don't even notice.
It's not the military, it's not international programs, it's not Social Security, it's not Medicare, it's not Medicaid, it's not the stimulus package, it's not the job creation bill, it's not healthcare.
But if there's anything left in that, we're not going to save money here, we're not going to cut it, we're just going to freeze it.
So this tiny little sliver of the pie, this tiny little sliver of the pie is going to be frozen while all the rest will continue to expand exponentially.
And this supposedly demonstrates that this president has heard the message of Massachusetts and that he's going to be fiscally responsible.
It's spending.
It's the spending.
Before anything else, it's the spending.
Because the spending is the means to control.
Because spending is a liberty issue.
Because every time he takes money from you to spend on something the government does, that's a dollar that the state decides how to spend and the citizen doesn't get to decide how to spend.
So spending on this scale, spending is always a liberty issue, but spending on this scale is a colossal liberty issue.
And when you look at these amounts of money, this is a joke.
And I think even the liberal press see it as a joke because they can't, they're covering it in a slightly sheepish way.
They're covering it as if even they cannot haven't figured out a way to pass this off as a serious proposition.
In the end, we have to find a way to not just to freeze 3% or freeze 5% or freeze 11% of an ever more bloated budget, but we have to find a way to take those government programs and end them, to take those government agencies and close them down.
Otherwise, this stuff is just going to explode and bankrupt America's future.
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Lots more to come.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away.
He will return live from Las Vegas, Nevada tomorrow.
This is your undocumented anchor man sitting in live from New Hampshire.
It's great to be with you from New Hampshire.
Normally I fly down to New York, but because of the excess bovine flatulence levels in Vermont airspace, I wasn't able to fly out of Burlington, Vermont.
So I'm doing the show live from New London, New Hampshire, and great to be with you.
Eddie Holman was the guy.
I was trying to think of the falsetto, the soulful falsetto guy who was singing, Hey there, And it was Eddie Holman, great, great guy.
And that's Barack Obama.
He's the lonesomest populist in town.
He was complaining, he's complaining to his audience in Ohio that he can't just go to a barber shop like he used to in the old days.
You know, like when he was in the United States Senate, he just used to be able to stroll out of the Capitol and go to the barber shop and sit in the chair and shoot the breeze between John Kerry and John Edwards.
They'd all be getting the their they'd be getting their $4,000 haircuts from Armand, their coiffur, and he just can't do regular guy stuff like that anymore.
Let's go to Angel, call in from Joe Biden and Bo Biden's home state of Delaware.
Angel, great to have you with us.
Thank you.
I'm glad to be part of the show today.
Hey, hey, tell me the name.
How do you pronounce your town?
Because I don't want to come the unassimilated immigrant on you and make a hash of it.
How do you say it?
Rehoboth Beach.
Rehoboth Beach in Delaware.
And is that Biden country?
Is that where the Bidens have their beach house at Rehoboth Beach?
You know, if they do, I've definitely never been invited.
Okay.
Okay, you've never, you don't get to walk your dogs past Joe Biden's beach house and see him out on the deck having his hair plugs reinstalled anyway.
Unfortunately not.
Okay, I don't know.
Life in Delaware is a mystery to me, so I'm just like fantasizing here.
But are you disappointed, are you, that Bo Biden is unlikely to be your next senator?
You know, I'm devastated.
Really, I mean, it's really.
Come on.
No, no, no.
Come.
Angel, Angel, please.
Just so we can get you nominated for an Emmy or an Oscar or a Tony, try and do that line with a little more conviction.
I'm devastated.
If I felt it, then maybe I would have it.
But you're not.
You're not.
So do you think, because it looks like we might be getting Congressman Castle as your next senator?
Yeah, well, you know, the whole thing on that is kind of up in the air because he's voted for some things that I guess they would say real Republicans don't really appreciate.
Like he voted for cap and trade.
Right.
And he's voted for a lot of things that would increase.
Just a minute.
He voted for cap and trade representative.
Why did he do that?
Did he explain that to you?
He didn't.
He didn't justify it at all.
And, you know, a lot of us have been, you know, he's what we call a rhino.
Well, that isn't encouraging.
And I don't know whether you heard that thing I mentioned at the top of the show, that they've now discovered that the hole in the ozone layer is good for preventing global warming.
Apparently, the Antarctic ice caps would have entirely melted by now if it hadn't been for the hole that was punched in the ozone layer by all those 1970s underarm deodorants.
So the idea of voting for like cap and trade and allowing big government to make a disastrous intervention in the interests of changing the climate of the planet is only going to lead to even more cockamame-y, weird side effects that will do nothing for the planet but will have the effect of destroying the global economy.
And your guy, you say, voted in favor of that.
Yes, he did.
That's marvelous.
Well, I hope you get your neighbors together.
And next time when he's running and he's doing some town hall meetings, Angel, go along and ask him to explain his vote on that.
Because everyone who voted for that cap and trade monstrosity should be called to account for it.
The wheels are falling off the whole climate change random.
They don't really do town halls down here anymore because we tend to boo people off the stage.
Really?
Oh, my.
You know, if you don't represent us the way you're supposed to, we let you know.
Well, look, why don't they do the cookout?
Why don't you say, skip the town hall, let's have a cookout on the beach at Rehoboth Beach.
And that way, if it all gets too hot for him, he can just pull off his clothes, dive into the water, and swim off one way forever, like some Australian prime minister did 30 or 40 years ago.
That might be the easiest get out for all of them.
But the good news is that the hereditary Biden seat in the Delaware House of Lords is not going to be going to Beau Biden.
So you at least got to be partially happy today, Angel.
Well, you know, when they let that news slip yesterday, he wrote this letter to the local stations here saying it's because of this case, you know, with Dr. Bradley, who is a horrible, horrible pedophile, you know.
And he said that, you know, as Attorney General, he needs to really focus on this case.
Well, he was Attorney General when it happened.
He didn't stop it from happening.
No one could have prevented it from happening.
But just because he, I think his dad sat him down and said, look, you know, we just lost in Massachusetts.
We cannot afford to have you lose now.
Because how would it look?
He's a sitting vice president.
Right, right, right.
No, that would be a major setback.
So you're reckoning he's just using this paedophile as a beard, as it were, as the cover for the way it is.
Because he didn't announce this until after Scott Brown won in Massachusetts.
And if Scott Brown won in Massachusetts, then certainly the Republicans can take Delaware, can't they, Angel?
I hope so.
Okay, well, you work hard on it, but you demand of your candidates that they explain that Republican candidates should be made to explain why they're jumping on the climate change bandwagon just as the wheels have fallen off the whole thing.
Thanks for your call, Angel.
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You know, that I don't, I take Angel's word for it on Congressman Castle.
I certainly wouldn't claim to know his votes inside out.
But there is a danger.
The danger is always meeting people halfway.
And all you do when you meet the opposition halfway, you don't move to the center as the Republicans are always being advised to do.
You don't move to the center.
What you do is you move the center to the left.
Every time you say, well, my left-wing opponent, I've decided to agree with him on 60% of the issues, you've in fact moved the gravity of center of American politics further to the left.
And that is not what effective leaders do, and that's not what transformative leaders do.
What did Ronald Reagan do?
He moved the center toward him.
What did Margaret Thatcher do?
She moved the center toward her.
That is what effective political leadership does.
And you know, we had somebody on yesterday.
He was just like Leo calling us from Texas.
And he was just like kind of fooling around.
I don't think he was really being terribly serious about this, but he wanted, he said, oh, the Republicans don't have any positions.
They're just the party of no.
Actually, there's a lot to be said right now for being the party of no when you're saying no to spending.
Republicans should be saying no to spending.
So if your solution to an issue is to say, we need a huge government regulatory regime and we need to tax you more and more millions and billions and trillions of dollars, then the chances are that's not an answer you want to be any part of and no Republican candidate should be any part of.
When you look at the issues that are out there in the world, you're more likely to find a dynamic, creative answer to health care issues from the private sector.
You're more likely to find a dynamic, creative answer to environmental issues from the private sector.
I'm very touched by some of these stories you get from Haiti.
There's a guy up in Utah, I think it was, who he's got a bit of money.
So he just got some doctors and aid together, and he flew in his own helicopters.
He chartered two or three helicopters.
He flew them to Haiti, and he started helping people.
Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton is out there trying to explain to the world that she, quote, deeply resents foreign criticism of the U.S. response to the earthquake in Haiti.
She's worried that the world is going to make this Barack Obama's and her Katrina moment.
But the reality is that if you depend on government, government is not ultimately a solution to real long-term problems.
The solution to Haiti's problems is not going to be government.
The solution to Haiti's problems is going to be the people of Haiti figuring out that their country is a third world basket case and doing something for themselves without whatever ramshackle government happens to have seized control of that dump for that particular year standing in the way of them.
It's private innovation.
Everywhere on the planet, you measure successful countries by the degree to which the government stays out of their way.
Mark Stein in for rush, lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein, in for rush on the EIB network.
Great to be with you.
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Breaking news.
Breaking news.
Congressman Mike Pence, Republican of Indiana, will not be challenging Senator Evan Bay this November.
Senator Bayh, you recall, he's one of these blue dog guys who mysteriously decided last Tuesday that, as he put it, the Democratic Party has been taken over by the extreme left.
This is what he told the Los Angeles Times.
It's very interesting to me.
I wonder what happened on Tuesday to make him suddenly deliver this insight to the Los Angeles Times.
They weren't holding an election in Massachusetts, were they, or anything like that.
But Senator Bayh has decided that the Democratic Party is in the hands of the extreme left.
Congressman Mike Pence is not going to challenge him for that Senate seat.
You know, maybe he has very good reasons.
Maybe he's happy in the House or whatever.
But listen, this is not a time for faint-hearted candidates.
If you're a Republican, you need to get in the race right now.
If you seriously want a political career, this is the season to do it.
And if you seriously want to run as a principled conservative candidate, please jump in and join and get into the primary and get ready to run now.
Because the way things are going here, it looks like there's going to be the Democrats may even lose control of Congress.
They will certainly have a diminished majority, significantly diminished majority in the Senate and the House.
And when that situation happens, we want to have the best candidates get their elected.
We don't want to, like a lot of these accidental landslides, and I'm mentioning no names here, but it was true in 1994.
There's a lot of people who kind of get dragged in on the coattails of the tsunami, if you'll forgive me mangling metaphors.
They get dragged in on the coattails of a vast sweeping hurricane that blows through.
And then you suddenly realize when you need a vote for this or a vote for that, that you've got some very wobbly guys who've been elected.
This time, this November, the Republican Party needs good, strong, conservative candidates.
And if you're one of these faint-hearted types, you're not sure whether you're going to run, you don't know whether you're going to run and all the rest of it.
If you don't get in this season, there's no need for you.
This is the season to get in and do it and stand up for what you believe.
And the lesson of Scott Brown, by the way, isn't about where he stands on this and where he stands on that.
It's about authenticity.
It's about authenticity.
The electorate wants authentic candidates.
they don't want trimmers, they don't want...
Scott Brown is the antidote to a guy like Arlen Specter.
Arlen Spector suddenly decided he was a Democrat after he didn't like the polling from the guy who wanted to run in the primary against him in Pennsylvania.
So suddenly he decides he's a Democrat.
We don't need candidates like that.
This year of all years, the electorate wants authentic candidates.
Let's go to Jay in Stillwater, Maine.
Jay, great to have you with us on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hi, Mark.
Love your wit and wisdom in interchangeable order.
Well, I'm happy to salute my fellow northern New Englander.
Which part of Maine is Stillwater in?
We're right near Bangor, just north of Bangor, very close to the University of Maine, actually.
Oh, right, right.
So are you near to all the Rockefeller vacation palaces on Bar Harbor?
Yeah, I served them many a lobster in my time during my summers earning money for my college vacation.
Okay, keep serving lobsters.
It's one of those jobs everyone should do, by the way.
That's the problem with the Obama plan, that everyone should get a loan you don't have to pay back from the government to go to college, is that you don't get the experience of serving lobster.
And I think, as HR says, a lobster in every pot.
It's the new populism, a lobster in every pot.
Very good.
Jay, what's your point?
We've got some hideous noise in the background here, but make your point and we'll see what we can do about it.
Sure.
I've been absorbing a lot of the commentary over the last couple of weeks across the spectrum from the brilliant Charles Krautheimer to the less than brilliant E.J. Dion.
And it's just called to mind the intellect of George Costanza, the famous character from the Seinfeld episode, who, when he found himself at the absolute pit of his misery, found that if he could just simply manage to do the opposite, everything would turn out just fine.
And I think that's where Mr. Obama would do well to turn, is just to simply do the opposite of every natural inclination he might have, with perhaps the odd exception of extraordinary renditions and the odd predator strike, which he's been co-opting from the Bush administration.
I really believe that I would happen to disagree that authenticity might be shelved just simply for the pure efficacy of Obama doing the right thing for the country, which is doing the opposite of his instincts.
Right.
So you're saying we want the inauthentic Obama.
So every time he gets the urge to tax or regulate or introduce another trillion-dollar program, instead he should just do the exact opposite.
He should trust his instincts to tell him what not to do.
It served George Costanza very well, and I think Mr. Obama would do well to take that political lesson.
Okay, that's good advice.
I'll pass that on to him.
There is a problem there, at least tonally, in that we saw the impact of that in Ohio when he was suddenly turning into Mr. Angry and threatening to reach through the screen and grab any watching bank presidents and personally throttle them.
That he wasn't quite persuasive.
But that was a tonal thing.
But I think you're right there, that every time he gets the urge to add another trillion-dollar entitlement to the federal government, if he was just to introduce another trillion-dollar tax cut, then everything would just work out swell.
That's great advice, Jay.
Thanks for your call.
Lots more straight ahead.
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Mark Steinen for Rush.
Just more breaking news.
The United States only gets an F in its readiness for a biological attack.
Apparently, we're not ready for a biological attack.
By the way, that sound wrenching the air that you heard while we were talking to Jay, that was an emergency alert.
It wasn't like this thing you hear when you're listening to Eddie Holman singing, Hey there, Lonely Boy, and it's suddenly so this is a test of the emergency board.
It was an actual emergency alert.
So I don't know whether we're under biological attack or whether it turns out to be a false alarm.
I don't know whether we've got loaded underwear with PETN coming in from Yemen overhead.
It seems an unlikely destination for the jihadists, but we'll keep you posted as to what that is.
But it wasn't one of these tests of the emergency system.
It was actually a genuine emergency of some kind.
But the United States as a whole apparently only rates an F on the biological readiness for biological attack.
Coming up, we're going to be talking about Obama's new class warfare, the class warfare that the administration is waging on bank presidents and why it is popular and why it shouldn't be.
Mark Stein infraus on the EIB network.
Rush is busy judging the Miss America pageant.
That's going on all week.
You'll be able to see it live, I believe, Saturday, and you can keep up with Rush's adventures on rushlimboard.com.
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