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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 Anchor Man is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in.
Mark Stein, honored 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 uh it's a terrific program.
Uh 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 Chernenko School of Public Speaking and Sparkling Repartee in Krasnoyask.
So it works out well for everyone.
Rush is back tomorrow.
He's judging the Miss America pageant.
Uh 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 uh was one of the uh very first Rush affiliates.
I think that's right, one of the very first 50 affiliates, way back when uh 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 one eight hundred service here in this remote part of the Northern New England wilderness.
Uh speaking of which, breaking news from the Scotsman.
Now climate change scientists say ozone hole stops global warming.
Who'd have who'd have thought it?
Let's uh let's all get out the old aerosol deodorants and have a celebratory party.
Yesterday I made a joke about the uh Miss Saudi Arabia contest.
And I got some emails from people offended uh 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, uh true.
And this is what Rush, if Rush was on the air on Radio Saudi, uh Radio Saudi, if he was doing the morning show on Radio Saudi, Rush bin Limbaugh, uh, he would be judging the only beauty contest uh in Saudi Arabia for women, and that's Miss Beautiful Morals.
And all the girls line up wearing the same uh black head-to-toe abaya and uh and an Islamic veil.
So the only little bit of them you can see is the tiny little islet uh right uh uh 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 uh Islamic morals.
And the winner uh of this uh competition becomes Miss Beautiful Morals.
Now, um as I I don't know whether there's other rounds as well.
I don't know where obviously there's not a swimsuit round, but I wonder if you have to demonstrate your perfection of Islamic morals uh while twirling a bat on and singing windmills of your mind or whatever, like uh on uh the talent round of Miss America.
I don't know.
But anyway, that is the only uh 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 uh Miss Beautiful Goat Competition, uh, which they hold in Mazayan Al Mars.
And uh I've got the picture here.
I was trying to find the picture of the most recent uh Saudi Arabia Miss Beautiful Goat Most Beautiful Goat competition, uh, but I can only find the the 2008 winner, and that is one smoking hot goat.
It is a uh Damascus goat, got the cutest floppy ears, and uh it shows the goat here uh uh doing her victory lap while all the men, the men are all standing around looking looking lost in wonder and awe at this smoking hot goat's beauty.
Um it's a Damascus goat.
Uh what's the name of the goat here?
Oh, the goat is the winner winner of the most Saudi Arabia most beautiful goat award uh is Carr carr.
Baby you can drive my car, as the uh goat herds of Riyadh like to say.
Uh another one bites the dust.
Bo Biden, uh, the son of the little glimpsed 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.
Uh 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?
Uh uh Joe Biden, uh, Joe Biden's son is Delaware's attorney general, and he told supporters in an email uh that he will uh run for re-election to his state post instead, but he will not be uh running against uh 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, and usually when politicians uh back out of these things, they talk about needing to spend time more time with their family.
But uh Bo Biden says he needs to spend more time with this child molesta.
It's uh it's a novel excuse.
Anyway, Bo Biden's uh decision uh to make Peter Philia the better part of Valor follows hard on the decision by Congressman Marion Berry, uh no relation to Mayor Marion Barry.
Uh mayor uh Congressman Marion Berry, Democrat of Arkansas, has also decided to throw in the towel.
Uh 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, Barry said.
They just kept telling us how good it was gonna be.
The President himself, when that was brought up, said, Well, the big difference here and in 94 was you've got me, unquote.
The big difference here and in 94 is this time you've got Barack Obama.
And uh, and amazingly, uh Representative Barry dis uh took this reassurance from the president, went home, and decided to resign his uh his seat.
Uh but that's 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 uh what Bill Clinton has to say about that.
Uh in other news, President Obama has opened up his heart about how lonely uh he is.
In fact, he's given several exclusive interviews about how lonely he is.
Uh Betsy Glyke, 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, uh he misses being out among regular people like uh Jeremiah Wright and uh and William Ayers.
But evidently it's not good to be the king.
Uh Betsy Glyke of People Magazine on the CBS Morning News with Harry Smith, uh, explaining to Harry how lonely Barack had told her he was.
And Valerie Jarrett, do you remember Valerie Jarrett, senior White House advisor, last heard from telling Fox News that this administration was going to speak truth to power?
Uh 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.
Uh, 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 uh Prime Minister of India.
Pretty much anyone can get into those.
Uh actually I gather he met a random stranger at a cabinet meeting the other day.
Uh it turned out to be Hillary Clinton, and he said, uh, 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, uh, talking in Ohio.
The truth is, being president is also a little confining.
I I can't just walk around and visit people like I used to.
I can't just go to the barber shop or or sit at a diner.
Uh and it's true, uh, Barack Obama Carney walked into a diner the other day and said, Hey, look, you guys just need to hear one more health care speech from me, and then you'll get it.
And uh all 47 customers went check please and fled in terror.
So uh hey there, uh hey there, lonely boy.
Uh what who did that song?
Was that back here?
Hey, hey there, lonely boy.
One of those uh falsetto soul singers uh from from the from Jersey.
Yeah, which who which guy was it, though?
Hey, there Philadelphia was it was it Philly Soul.
Hey there, lonely boy.
But uh 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, um So Barack Obaba 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 uh uh hot young gals from reality TV shows like Chloe uh Kardashian.
Um but you'll be all no matter how lonely he is, he's graciously agreed to slog on for your sake.
As he told uh 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 post the best of both worlds and and be a really mediocre one-term president?
Ever thought ever thought of that?
Um 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.
Uh this is why it all went wrong for him.
Uh the health care debate as it unfolded legitimately raised concerns, uh, 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 gonna bring all of you into the back room, uh, and then Mr. Lonely won't be lonely anymore.
So we'll get to that uh in the next uh three hours while uh while we're waiting for Rush to return from his grueling judging experience uh at the Miss America pageant.
1800 28282 will be talking about uh the loneliest populist in town, Barack Obama and his promise to freeze, his new promise, he's going to freeze public spending.
Or a little bit anyway.
It's gonna be like uh like what they used to say about getting a little bit pregnant.
This budget is gonna 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.
Uh have you heard about this 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 not all, not all federal funding, of course.
If you look at the uh first sentence in the Washington Post today, it says that uh 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 that sounds reasonable enough.
We wouldn't want to freeze the national security budget.
There are gran Easter strip search, we're at war, we gotta uh we gotta keep on with it, we've got to stay focused on it.
Uh but then uh then you you say, okay, uh 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.
Uh so they won't be subject to this federal funding freeze on non-national security uh budget.
Uh they won't be affected by that.
So they all be continue to spend.
Uh also the uh the the federal dramatic three-year federal funding freeze will not, quote, restrain funding for the 787 billion dollar economic stimulus package, unquote.
You know, the one that put in all the uh scarified pavement across the 40 uh lower 48.
And um I noticed, by the way, uh, in this in 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 and they were when they were doing this uh business with the uh stimulus spending and I was uh driving to the airport and I would be driving on a hundred miles of scarified pavement, one lane, take hours to get to the airport.
Uh 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.
Uh but anyway, you'll be glad to know that uh this federal funding freeze won't apply to the 787 billion dollar 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 s either, quote, saved or created, unquote, by now forty-seven 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, uh apparently the uh unemployment rate refuses to shift, except if it when it does shift, it goes up.
So he's gonna uh 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 nine hundred billion dollar health care bill.
Well, at this point you're starting to wonder, hang on a minute.
So you're saying it's like a total federal funding freeze on everything in the budget, uh, but it doesn't actually freeze anything in the budget.
No, no, no, it does.
Apparently, uh he's looking to save, he's looking to save 250 billion dollars over ten years.
250 billion dollars over ten years.
And uh the good news is that that is less than three percent of the roughly nine trillion dollars uh in additional deficits that the government is expected to accumulate over that time.
So uh essentially here we we don't even have a line item, we have a rounding error.
We have a rounding error.
He's gonna he's gonna save over ten years two hundred and fifty billion dollars uh out of uh roughly nine trillion dollars in additional deficits.
Uh I don't even know whether this qualifies as a joke.
Uh, but even in even this uh this year for uh uh financial year 2010, for example, uh it would even if he were you were to take this seriously as he's defined it, it would only apply to uh 447 billion uh uh out of uh out of the uh three uh God, I can't even do these numbers now.
What is this?
Three trillion three three hundred and seven three thousand three hundred and seven billion in this in this year's budget.
So in other words, he's not planning to cut anything.
Uh he's not planning uh to peel back government.
What he's doing is saying we're taking one tiny little bit of government, uh, the bits you don't even notice.
Uh it's not uh 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 health care, but if there's anything left in that, we're gonna s when we're not gonna save money here, we're not gonna cut it, we're just gonna freeze it.
So this tiny little sliver of the pie, this tiny little sliver of the pie is going to be frozen uh while all the rest will continue to expand uh exponentially.
And this is and this supposedly demonstrates that this president has heard the message in Massachusetts and that he's going to be fiscally uh 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 uh to spend on something the government does, that's uh that's uh a uh 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, uh, but spending on this scale is a colossal liberty issue.
And when you look at these uh amounts of money, uh this is a joke.
And I think I think even the liberal press see it as a joke because they can't they they're they're covering it in a slightly sheepish way.
They're covering it as if even they uh cannot uh haven't figured out a way to pass this off as a serious proposition.
Uh in the end, we have to find a way to not just to freeze uh freeze three percent or freeze five percent or freeze eleven percent 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.
Uh otherwise this stuff is just gonna explode and bankrupt uh America's future.
1800, 282, 2882.
Lots more to come.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away.
He will return live from Las Vegas, Nevada tomorrow.
This is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in live uh from New Hampshire.
Uh it's uh it's great uh great to be with you from New Hampshire.
Normally I fly down to New York, but uh because of the excess bovine flatulence levels uh 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, uh the the soulful falsetto guy who was uh singing, hey the only boy.
And it was uh Eddie Holman, great uh great guy.
And um uh that's Barack Obama.
He's the lonesomest populist in town.
He was complaining he's complaining to his audience in Ohio that he'd 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 like stroll out of the Capitol and go to the barbershop 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 four thousand dollar haircuts from Armand, uh their coiffeur, and he just can't do regular guy stuff like uh that anymore.
Let's go to Angel, uh calling from um uh Joe Biden and Bo Biden's home state of Delaware.
Angel, great to have you with us.
Thank you.
I'm glad to be uh 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.
What's uh how do you say it?
Rehoboth beach.
Rehobath Beach in in uh in Delaware.
And is that uh Biden country?
Is that where uh the Bidens have their beach house at Rehoboth Beach?
Um, 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 or any of that.
Unfortunately not.
Okay, I don't know.
Life in Delaware is a mystery to me, so I'm just like fantasizing here.
But uh are you um you're disappointed, are you that Bo Biden is unlikely to be your next Senator?
You know, I'm devastated, really.
I mean it's it's it's really no no no come.
Angel, Angel, please.
Just uh just so we can get you uh nominated for an Emmy or an Oscar or a Tony, try and do that line with a little more conviction.
I'm I'm devastated.
If I felt it, then maybe I would have it.
But you but you're not.
You're not.
So uh do you think because it looks like we might be uh getting Congressman Castle as your next Senator?
Yeah, and well, you know, the the whole thing on that is kind of up in the air because he's voted for some things that um I guess they would say real Republicans don't really appreciate, like he voted for cap and trade.
Right.
Um and he's voted for a lot of things that would increase the case.
You well, just just a minute, just a minute.
He voted for cap and trade, uh representative.
Why did he do that?
Did he explain that to you?
He didn't.
He didn't justify it at all.
Um you know, a lot of us have been you know, we he's what we call a rhino.
Hmm.
Well, that's that isn't encouraging.
And 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 that the hole in the ozone layer is good for preventing global warming.
Apparently the Antarctic ice caps would have entirely melted by now, uh if it hadn't been For the hole that was punched in the ozone layer by all those nineteen seventies underarmed deodorants.
So the idea of voting for like cap and trade and allowing big government to make a d uh a disastrous intervention uh in the uh in the interests of uh changing the climate of the planet is only going to lead to even more cockamamy weird side effects that will do nothing uh 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 uh that's marvelous.
Well, I hope you uh uh g get your neighbors together and uh next time uh he's when he's running uh and he's uh 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 uh should be called to account for it.
The wheels are falling off the whole climate change ranked.
They don't really do town halls down here anymore because we tend to boo people off the stage.
Really?
Oh my.
That's that we you know, if if you if you don't represent us the way you're supposed to, we let you know.
Well, look, why don't they do uh the cookout?
Why don't you say skip the town hall?
Let's have a cookout on the beach at Rehoboth Beach, and uh that way if it all gets too hot for him, he can just uh pull off his clothes, uh dive into the water and swim off uh one way forever, like some Australian Prime Minister did thirty or forty years ago.
Why don't you that that might be the easiest get out for all of them?
But but the good news is that the hereditary Biden seat in the Delaware House of Lords is not going to be going to Bo Biden, so you at least got to be partially happy today, Angel.
Well, you know, when they when they let that news slip yesterday, he he wrote this letter to the local stations here saying it's because of this case, you know, with um Dr. Bradley, who is uh a horrible, horrible pedophile, you know.
Um, and he said that, you know, as attorney general he 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 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 he's a sitting vice president.
Right, right, right.
Yeah.
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 for the f 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 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 are falling off the whole thing.
Thanks for your call, Angel.
1800-282-2882.
Um you know that I I don't I take Angel's word for it on uh Congressman Castle.
I I certainly wouldn't claim to know his uh his votes inside out.
But there is a danger.
The danger is always meeting people halfway.
Uh and all you do when you when you meet the opposition halfway, you don't you don't move to the center as as the Republicans are always being advised to do.
You don't move to the center.
Uh what you do is you you move the center to the left.
Uh every time you say, Well, my my uh left-wing opponent, I've decided to agree with him on sixty percent of the issues, you've in fact moved the cent 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 uh 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 uh political uh leadership does.
And you know, we had somebody on yesterday, he was just like uh Leo calling us from Texas, and he was just like kind of fooling around.
I don't think he was really uh being uh 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.
Uh so if your solution to an issue is to say we need a huge government regulatory ma 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 uh part of, and no Republican candidate should be any part of.
Uh when you look at the issues that are out there in the world, uh you're more likely to find a dynamic, creative answer to health care issues uh from the private sector.
You're more likely to find a dynamic creative answer uh to environmental issues from the private sector.
Uh I I'm I'm very touched by some of these stories you get from Haiti uh, like there's a guy up in Utah, I think it was, who uh he he's got a bit of money, so he just got some doctors and aid together, and he flew in uh his own helicopters, he chartered two or three helicopters, he flew them to Haiti, and he started helping people.
Meanwhile, hil Hillary Clinton is out there uh trying to explain to the world uh, you know, that uh that uh she quote deeply resents foreign criticism of the US response to the earthquake in Haiti.
She's uh she's worried that uh that the world is gonna make this Barack Obama's and her Katrina moment.
But the reality is that if you depend on government, government uh is is not ultimately a solution to real long-term problems.
The solution uh to Haiti's problems is not gonna be government.
The solution to Haiti's problems is gonna 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 uh 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 uh the government stays out of their way.
Mark Stein in Farush, lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in For Rush on the EIB network.
Uh great to be with you.
1800-282-2882.
Breaking news.
Breaking news.
Uh Congressman Mike Pence, Republican of Indiana, will not be challenging Senator Evan Bye this November.
Uh Senator Bay, you recall, he's one of these blue dog guys, uh, who mysteriously decided last Tuesday, uh that, as he put it, the Democratic Party has been taken over by the extreme left.
This is what he told um the Los Angeles Times.
It's very interesting to me.
Well, I wonder what happened on Tuesday to make him suddenly deliver this insight to the Los Angeles Times.
Well, they weren't holding an election in Massachusetts, were they, or or anything like that.
But Senator Bay has decided that the uh uh that the Democratic Party is in the hands of the extreme left.
Congressman Mike Pence is not going to challenge him uh 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 uh right now.
If you seriously want a political career, this is the season to do it.
Uh and if you seriously want to run as a principled conservative candidate, uh please jump in and join uh and and get into the primary and get ready to r to run now.
Because the the way things are going here, it looks like there's gonna be uh the uh Democrats may even lose control uh of Congress.
They will certainly have a diminished majority, significantly diminished majority in the Senate and the House.
And when that situation happens, uh 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 uh forgive me mangling metaphors.
Uh they they get dragged in on the cake coattails of a vast sweeping hurricane that blows through, and then you r 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, uh 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 gonna run, you don't know whether you're gonna run and all the rest of it.
This is the if you don't get in this season, there's no need for you.
This is the season to get in uh 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.
Uh the electorate wants authentic candidates.
They don't want trimmers.
They don't want uh Scott Brown is the antidote to a uh a guy like Arlen Spector.
Arlen Spector suddenly decided he was a Democrat after he didn't like the polling uh from 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.
Uh this year of all years, the electorate wants authentic candidates.
Let's go to Jay in Stillwater, Maine.
Uh grey 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 uh I'm I'm happy to salute my fellow Northern New Englander.
Which which which part of Maine is Stillwater in?
Uh we're right near Bangor, just north of Bangor, uh very close to the University of Maine, actually.
Oh, right, right.
So you are you near to all the uh r Rockefeller vacation palaces on Bar Harbor?
Yeah, I served them many a lobster in my time uh during my summers uh earning money for my college vacation.
Okay.
Keep keep serving lobsters.
It's it's it's it's one of those jobs everyone should do, by the way.
Uh it's it's it's uh that's that's the problem with the Obaba plaid that everyone should get a a loan you don't have to uh pay back from the government to go to college is uh is is that you you uh you don't get the experience of serving lobster.
And I think uh as a HR says, a lobster at every pot.
It's the new populism, a lobster in every pot.
Uh very good.
I don't uh Jay, what's your what's your point?
We've got we've got some uh hideous noise uh in the background here, but make your point and we'll see what we can do about it.
Sure.
Um I've been uh absorbing a lot of the uh commentary over the last couple of weeks across the spectrum from the brilliant Charles Krautheimer to the less than brilliant E. J. Dion.
And uh I've been re it's just called to mind the the intellect of George Costanza, the famous character from the uh Seinfeld episode, who when he found himself at at the the absolute pit of his his uh misery, found that if he could just simply manage to do the opposite, everything would turn out just fine.
And I I think that's where Mr. Obama would would do well to to uh turn is just it's simply do the opposite of of every natural inclination he might have, with perhaps the odd exception of uh extraordinary renditions and the odd predator strike, which he uh you know he's been co-opting from the Bush administration.
I I really believe that uh, you know, I would I would happen to disagree that uh authenticity might uh might be shelved just simply for the um for the uh um the pure epithet efficacy of uh Obama doing the right thing for the country country, which is doing the opposite of his inst in in 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 and 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 that's good advice.
I'll pass that on to him.
I unf there is a problem there, at least tonally, in that we uh we saw the impact of that in Ohio when he was suddenly turning into Mr. Angry and uh threatening to reach through the screen and grab any watching uh bank presidents uh and personally throttle them.
Uh that he he wasn't quite persuasive.
But that was a tonal thing.
But I think you're right there that uh 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 uh 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 Stein in Farush.
Just uh 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 that that that sound wrenching the air that you heard while we were talking to Jay, that was uh an uh an emergency alert.
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 uh or whether it it uh it's turns out to be a false alarm.
I don't know whether we've got uh uh loaded underwear with PETN coming in from Yemen overhead.
It seems an unlikely destination for the jihadists, but uh but we'll keep you posted as to as to what that is.
But it wasn't one of these tests of the emergency system.
It was actually uh a genuine emergency of some kind.
So, but the United States as a whole uh apparently only rates an F on the uh on the biological readiness for biological attack.
Uh coming up, we're gonna be talking about Obama's new class warfare, the class warfare that uh uh the administration is waging on bank presidents and why it is popular and why it shouldn't be.
Uh Mark Stein, Infrarush on the EIB network.
Rush is busy judging the Miss America pageant.
Uh that's going on all week.
You'll be able to see it live, I believe, Saturday, and you can keep up with Russia's adventures on Rush Limbord.com.
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