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Jan. 26, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 26, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman filling in.
Rush will be back tomorrow live from Las Vegas, Nevada, where he's been busy uh judging the Miss America pageant.
And uh I don't know how uh how it's going out there, but he'll I'm sure he'll fill you in on how the preliminaries have gone uh tomorrow.
You can also go to Rush Limbaugh.com and uh get all the details.
I think it's going to be going out this Saturday night.
So uh I'm here from the studios of WNTK in New London, New Hampshire today.
So go, Miss New Hampshire.
A neighbor of mine who's uh n big honcho in the New Hampshire Trappers Association always presents the winner of Miss New Hampshire uh with a uh uh uh a premium New Hampshire animal pelt.
I'm not sure I'm not sure what uh what particular pelt it is, but it doesn't matter, you can shoot pretty much anything in this state.
Uh but he always presents uh the winner of Miss New Hampshire with this pelt.
So I don't know whether she'll be uh wearing it uh in the I it's a long time since I've seen a fur bikini, so maybe that'll show up in the swimsuit round uh round.
No, no, I don't want a flannel bikini, like a nice little fur-trimmed bikini.
I like like uh rackle Welsh in whatever that movie was, you know, where she was running around uh yeah, whatever it was, eight billion years BC, where she was running around from the dinosaurs.
I mean, that's what what what kind of country it is.
Uh Obama promises to turn things around, and I still can't walk out on the street and see anybody running around in a fur-trimmed bikini.
Uh anyway, we have uh so Rush will be back to fill you in on all that uh uh t tomorrow.
I'm still getting mail about roundabouts, by the way.
This is uh this isn't just an insignificant issue, incidentally.
I notice, I'm become very sensitive uh to uh street signage.
I notice driving down here, for example, that they now have little uh markers every fifth of a mile, every point two of a mile on the on the interstate, uh, to tell you that you're only one-fifth of a mile from the last sign, telling you uh you were one-fifth of a mile from the sign before.
And uh the the signage thing is is a big government is a big it's not just a big government makework project.
It's the delusion of make government.
It's by saying, look, if we put signs everywhere, you're safer.
You're safer.
We'd be a lot safer without most of these signs if we had to drive along trying to figure out for ourselves what's going on.
The sign I mentioned, the the sign I really can't stand is the sign that warns you that there's a stop sign coming up.
They have a sign saying uh in fifty yards time there'll be a stop sign.
Well, why don't they have uh fifty hours before the sign saying there's a stop sign coming up, a sign saying there's a sign saying there's a stop sign coming up.
The minute you get into this, there is no end uh to it.
And uh so I'm getting all still getting all this mail from people on the on the transportation issues.
Uh still getting mail, by the way, on Scott.
We talked about pickups uh with a lady from Texas uh yesterday uh about uh about pickups and uh a guy wrote to me and said uh well one reason why people are buying uh pickups now is because since big government started mandating this and that for the cars, the cars can't do anything now.
He's saying when he used to go to his local beach, the parking lot was full of cars, because the car could tow the boat.
Now, if you try, if you if you get your little Honda Civic and you hook the car up to it, uh hook the boat up to it, and you drive off, uh, you'll wrench off the trunk of your car and you'll be going down the road unaware that you've left your rear axle and the boat back in uh the uh the Yardio house.
And so he's saying, and he's saying, you know, that you can't pull anything in a uh that's why people are dry wanna buy trucks rather than Priuses, um, which uh I don't know actually whether that's that's true.
My uh assistant uh who's sitting across the desk, so I'll spare her blushes and not mention her husband by name, but he got the global warming fever, and he traded in his truck for a Prius.
And this guy gets this thing anyway.
You can be seven miles deep in the woods on the other side of a a roaring freschette of a brook where the bridge is washed out, and you'll see my assistant's husband's little Prius sticking there.
And he's how the hell did that get there?
Uh and it will have uh it will have some dead uh buck uh parked uh stick it out the trunk with the head hanging off one side and the the the uh little white cute little white-tail butt hanging out the other side.
And he's he's trying to jab the truck of his Prius out of this dead uh dead buck.
You see it all, you see, you'll go be going down a town, he'll be driving in his little Prius, he'll have like a 1200 pound moose in there with uh fantastic uh rack sticking out one side and the little hooves out the other, the whole thing right and low, the bumper grinding along the road making a huge noise.
So it's not true that you have to uh that you can't be environmentally responsible.
You can you can still buy a Prius and kill uh as many uh animals and uh as as you did before in an environmentally friendly Vik vehicle.
It does, it does rapidly.
The trunk fills up with blood very quickly, I should warn you.
Uh but but uh but other than that, there are no there are no downsides to it.
So if you're skilled enough, you should be able, you should be all his friends mock him, by the way, for going hunting in a in a Prius.
Um by the way, when another thing I want to just go back to with from yesterday, I was I was uh defending Rush over Abe Foxman's comments.
And I got uh emails from people saying, oh, well, uh Abe Abe Fox, you shouldn't be so hard on Ape Foxman.
Yes, I should.
He represents a very important organization, and he has an inability to prioritize.
Look at look at what are the threats to to Jews in the in the world today.
Uh radical Islam, uh, where you're taught that Jews are filthy and unclean.
They're lower than pigs and dogs, and you should kill them.
The attack on Bombay, the attack on Bombay, which if you read the New York Times, you would have thought it was some territorial dispute between India and Pakistan.
Those guys who attacked Bombay deliberately sought out the one rabbi in town and killed him and his wife.
Uh so it's it's the idea that that's a territorial dispute, uh land for peace or whatever, is uh is nonsense.
It's a psychosis in that particular uh demographic.
So you got radical Islam.
Then you've got uh the the the uh the educated left, where it's become more and more acceptable, uh routinely acceptable, uh, to cross the line from criticism of Israel into downright uh denial of Israel's right to exist into downright anti-Semitism.
And then you've got Rush.
And then you've got Rush.
How stupid do you have to be when you've got Islam, the left, and Rush, and you're leading a Jewish organization to think that um to think that Rush is the one you need to be uh sending press releases about.
This guy's an idiot.
Uh and I stand by every word I said.
And uh, you know, Rush got into this because he was talking about Norman Pod Horitz's book, Why Are Jews Liberal?
Norman Pod Horitz uh wrote this book, uh came out a couple of weeks ago, Why Are Jews Liberal?
And the whole stupid Abraham Foxman response uh to Rush's comments demonstrates uh Norman Pod Hor the point of Norman Pod Horitz's book.
Uh Abe Foxman is his own worst enemy.
Uh because he he's not identifying, I mean, I can understand what's in it for him.
He gets uh he gets whatever it is.
I think it's 700 grand plus benefits to be the head of this uh uh anti-defamation league.
So it worked out swell for him, but it's not doing the in the half-witted inability to prioritize is not doing anything for Jews who are in greater peril around the world today uh than they have been since the end of the Second World War.
And his stupidity absolutely makes the point of Norman Pod Horitz's uh book, uh Why Are Jews Liberal.
Now, Obama, the loneliest populist in town.
He's complaining he's lonely.
He's complaining that he can't walk into a diner or a barber's uh or a barber shop like he used to.
He's been reduced to hosting which Kardashian girl is it?
Is it Kim or the other one?
I can't remember w I can't remember which uh what's the other one called?
Uh Chloe?
Chloe Kardashian.
I don't know, I'm not up on my Kardashians.
Uh he's been reduced to hosting Chloe Kardashian at the uh at the White House, but he can't go into a barber shop and he can't go into a diner.
Uh and so he's instead doing this uh this populist routine, man of the people.
Interesting piece in the New York Times.
First sentence.
Who is Barack Obama?
Thank you, thank you, New York Times.
Wouldn't it have been great if you'd asked that question two years ago?
Wouldn't that was the question you should have been asking then.
But in fact, the guy asking it today is Bob Herbert.
Now Bob Herbert is a doctrinaire left-wing columnist.
He's not one of these witty and amusing uh and insightful left-wing columnists like that crazy guy savaging Obama that I read out yesterday.
He's like the dullest left-wing columnist in town.
He's the most doctrinaire, most boring left-wing columnists in town.
He sees racism under under every stone.
If any guy, if any pasty-faced white uh bloke had written who is Barack Obama, Bob Herbert would be the first one to say this is racism.
You didn't you didn't ask those questions uh back when uh back when it was uh George W. Bush when it was the uh old white bred presidents.
He goes, Who is Barack Obama?
Mr. Obama is in danger of being perceived as someone whose rhetoric, however skillful, cannot always be trusted.
Uh it's very interesting to me that.
What is he saying to him?
He's saying he's saying that Barack Obama cannot be trusted.
This is a classic doctrinaire left-wing partisan columnist saying he cannot trust Barack Obama.
Mr. Obama will deliver his State of the Union address Wednesday night.
The word is that he will offer some small bore assistance to the middle class, but more important than the content of the speech will be whether the president really means what he says.
Americans want to know what he stands for, where his line in the sand is, what he'll really fight for, and where he wants to lead this nation.
They want to know who their president really is.
He's tiptoing up, he's just tiptoeing up to the line of calling Barack Obama a phony, of calling him a three dollar bill, of calling him uh uh when he says, Oh, we the the rhetoric is skillful, but we don't know whether he can we can trust it.
You know, that's the point when you praise rhetoric, which in presidential terms is meaningless anyway, because it's all written by somebody else and it's just a question of whether the guy can deliver it.
And I always found with George W. Bush, by the way, that he was actually uh that that his speeches were uh often his speeches were well written.
You were certainly clear on what he was saying.
He didn't always deliver it well.
With with Barack Obama, you have a peddler of slick generalities.
And for the left to finally be asking this question, for the New York Times to be asking this question, this man is president.
This man is president because you never asked that question two years ago.
You guys who say we're all gonna miss you when you're gone.
The New York Times, which is now half-owned by some Mexican uh and is having to m remortgage its fantastic building uh on uh whatever it is, 43rd Street, uh 44th Street, whatever, whichever one it is, uh, is now is now saying, Oh, who is Barack Obama?
You keep saying that when you finally go bankrupt, we'll all miss you guys when you're gone.
Well, the reason we won't miss you is because you didn't do your due diligence when you were selling us this guy as your candidate two, two and a half, three years ago.
So thanks, thank you.
Thank you, Bob Herbert, for finally getting around to the question you guys should have been asking way back in the 2008 election campaign.
Mark Stein in for Rush, lots more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
Hey, let's go to Gene in Harvard.
Oh, don't worry, it's not that Harvard.
It's not the Harvard weather all hot for Scott Brown.
Harvard, Illinois.
Uh Gene, great to have you with us.
Great to have you on the show.
Hi, Mark.
Thanks for taking my call.
My p my pleasure.
When Bill Clinton was president, he used to encourage us before the State of the Union show to uh to tape a piece of paper saying this man is a convicted liar, or something to that effect on our TV show, so that we so that we wouldn't be sucked in by his lies.
Right.
Now, last year, when Obama was speaking to a joint session of Congress, he said uh he said something and and and Congressman Wilson shouted out uh you lie.
And you know, he got he got beset on because of what he'd said.
And my suggestion is not to shout out you lie, but but for everyone to just start laughing will be a lot.
If the Republican I called my congressman on this this morning and left you know, left the message.
If they all started laughing, are you allowed to tell jokes?
Yeah, yeah, no.
You know, people laughed when something funny said.
Oh, no, no, no.
That would be if the entire Republican caucus sitting there just went in a real kind of TV sitcom laughter track laugh where they just go, ah!
On and on.
And it's such a big laugh that Obama stops and he can't continue.
I think it would take him off teleprompter.
No, no.
And I think that would give the American people a much better view of of who he is when they see how he responds to laughter.
That that is that is an ingenious suggestion, uh, Jean, a brilliant suggestion.
And I'll tell you something, I know how it works.
Uh I think it was this was the night before the primary, uh, the 2008 primary in uh Manchester, New Hampshire.
And at the Radisson in whatever it is, ballroom A, Bill Clinton was talking to all these bust-in union workers and telling them why they should vote for Hillary.
And in ballroom B, uh I was there with my pals from National Review, Jonah Goldberg and Rob Long, and we were doing a little kind of political cabaret act to cheer up uh depressed conservatives, and the waves of laughter sweeping through from our ballroom into Bill Clinton's ballroom totally threw him off his rhythm.
So that every time Bill Clinton did one of his like, you know, it's about the future of all our children, there'd be these howls of laughter coming through uh from the other side of the partition.
And it completely disrupted his rhythm and threw him off his game.
And I think that would be, as you say, that would absolutely it's not like if you lie, if you say you lie to Obama, he can look there as the he can stand there looking like the aggrieved party, uh, more in sorrow than in anger, and take the high road and be aloof.
If you just laugh at him, which is what the world is doing, you don't think Vladimir Putin's laughing at him.
You you don't think Mark Muka Akhmadinajad's laughing at him, you don't think Kim Jong il's laughing at him.
If you just do what the rest of the world does and laugh at him, uh that would really that would really send a message.
So when he promises to cut spending, you laugh.
That is the best suggestion of the day, Gene, and I hope your congressman and every other congressman uh take takes uh takes uh you up on that.
Uh that uh that's uh that's a that's a uh terrific suggestion.
Uh who who is your congressman, by the way, there in Harvard?
And you and is he got a wonderful.
Okay, he's got a good laugh, has he?
I don't know if he has a good laugh I've met him, I don't look at what his laugh's like, but it he's he's he's uh right there with all the the good Republicans.
Oh, okay.
Well I hope I hope that gets some momentum because you know this is ridiculous.
We're not actually proposing to freeze spending here.
This is this is like saying, uh, look, I uh I've got this is this is uh like a uh didn't didn't I think it was Mike Dukarkis when uh when when George Bush Sr. announced that he was going to have a flexible freeze, uh spending freeze, uh what he called a flexible freeze in the 1988 campaign.
And Mike Dukakis, in the only funny line he's ever said, uh called it something like a partial slurpy, which it is.
I mean, what what you're saying is I'm gonna take this brick of ice cream and I'm gonna freeze uh this this one point three ounces in the corner, and the rest of the brick will just carry on melting and running all over the floor uh as before, and I'm gonna make no attempt to stop that.
But this little bit will be will be preserved.
It is ridiculous, it is laughable, and we should laugh at it.
It's as I said right at the top of the show, it's it's like uh girls thinking they can get a little bit pregnant.
Uh and that's what this little bit, this this this so-called freeze of uh whatever it is, savings of two hundred and fifty billion dollars uh over ten years, while the other nine trillion dollars just sprawls and expands, and we're still paying interest on the debt, and those in intend to be uh will uh turn out to be low-balled figures, but all that spending will still be unconstrained.
It's a joke.
And the best response to a pitiful joke is to stand there and mock and laugh and hoot and clutch your sides and fall in the aisle.
It'll be it'll it'll be a the take-home moment.
I hope your congressman and all the others take you take you up on that, Gene.
Thank you for your call.
It's been great to uh great to have you on the uh on the show with us.
Uh they're all turning against him now.
I love this line.
Eugene Robinson.
Washington Post.
You know, we're talking about Bob Herbert in the New York Times.
Who is Barack Obama?
He's asking the question, these are the smart guys, by the way.
They're not idiots like you.
They're not knuckle-dragging morons.
These are the smart guys.
The knuckle-dragging morons were saying, Oh, who is Barack Obama uh three years ago?
But the smart guys are just kind of catching up now.
So like uh the Washington Post, Eugene Robinson.
Here's the headline.
Obama can't create change with Words alone.
Oh, really?
Why didn't you tell us that two years ago?
What has he ever done except words?
He's a words man.
He's what is he, what has he built, what is he made, what's his legislative record?
He's got he's got his name on no significant legislation.
He voted present.
Uh all he has are words.
As Hillary Clinton said uh all those years ago, when she was touting her experience of this and her experience of that, I mean, let putting aside that that's bunk for the most part, uh, and she said, Oh, uh, what are Barack Obama's qualifications to be president?
Oh, he gave a good speech.
Well, for a start, the speech wasn't that good.
And if you take away Barack Obama's speeches, there ain't anything left.
Why is Eugene Robinson in the Washington Post only catching up to this uh three years late?
Mark Stein, in for Rush, 1800, 282-2882, lots more straight ahead on the EIB network.
And don't forget, Rush returns to the Golden EIB microphone tomorrow, live from Las Vegas.
Great to be with you.
Rush back uh tomorrow.
Uh those Oregon taxes, by the way, I mentioned earlier, where they're gonna levy these taxes on the rich, uh families with more so-called rich families with more than 250,000, uh, individual incomes of 125,000, and corporations.
The interesting thing about that, by the way, is those taxes are retroactive to last year.
So again, it's a job killer, it's a job killer.
Why would you want to make an uh investment?
Why would you want to hire somebody?
Why won't you want to grow your business uh when the legislature next year uh might might uh pass some new tax bill and not just do that, but might backdate the taxes uh to uh 2009.
So you're gonna you're gonna need some extra cash to pay uh pay taxes you thought you'd settled eighteen months earlier.
It's a job killer.
That's what all this stuff has in common because it encourages people to say, I'm just gonna try and this is crazy stuff.
You don't know what the rules are anymore.
And that's uh that's that's essentially the environment the Obama administration operate in.
It's the Barney Frank thing.
We'll make up the rules as we go along and backdate them if necessary.
So it's like walking out onto a tennis court and the guy says, Oh, by the way, I won the first set already.
And you go, uh, hang on, uh, what are you doing?
And he and he goes, Well, I always lower the net when I'm serving.
And then we raise it uh seven foot in the air when it's your serve.
If you don't know what the rules are beforehand, you just sit tight, think, well, maybe maybe this is just a bad period in American history, and if uh one day I'll wake up and it will all have been a bad dream, and then I can start hiring people and grow my business again.
But this stuff is all a job killer.
That's what it that's what it all has in common.
You know, we were talking earlier at the beginning of the show, all these people going on TV now, all these people like the the editor of people and uh who and Valerie Jarrett, who's the senior White House advisor, and saying, Oh, well, the President's problem is he's so lonely, because he'd really just like to go out.
The his Majesty would like to go out and be able to take a walk in the Royal Park and greet his humble subjects and sit with them and enjoy the simple pleasures that you common folk enjoy.
But unfortunately, he's in the bubble and he can't do it, so his majesty cannot get out of the palace.
Uh the interesting thing is that like a lot of what Valerie Jarrett says, there is a huge grade of truth to this, because as we've seen, uh politically speaking, the president is getting lonelier and lonelier.
Uh when we had those columnists we were talking about yesterday, who said, That's it, I'm done with this guy.
He's the most inept president of my lifetime.
These are the left-wing guys, by the way.
Now Bob Herbert says, Who is Barack Obama?
I don't want to sit next to him in a barber shop or a diner.
I don't know who this guy is.
Uh and and the third piece of this puzzle is that all those smart reach across the aisle bipartisan uh types are now uh beginning to turn on him too.
Christopher Buckley, uh, who's a colleague of mine, who was a colleague of mine at National Review, he's William F. Buckley's son.
William F. Buckley, you know, is a great friend of Rush.
Uh Rush admired uh Bill Buckley uh immensely, and Bill admired Rush immensely too.
But Christopher Buckley, his son, a couple of months before the last election, declared that he was going to vote for Barack Obama.
He endorsed Barack Obama.
He's now written a piece today called The Audacity of Oops.
It's out there in uh on the internet.
The Audacity of Oops, scathing, mocking, scathing and mocking uh Barack Obama's first year on every front, on the economic front, on the health care front, and on uh the national security front.
A speech mocking this man, uh a sort of fake uh State of the Union speech mocking this man.
I don't want to pile on to Christopher.
But you know, what you should say, some point in this is I was, yes, folks, uh, this guy sold us a bill of goods, but I was suckered too.
I was duped, I was taken in in in by this.
We're happy to have you come home.
Recross the aisle.
It's getting cold and chilly over there.
There's all kinds of uh moderate types uh over on this side now.
There's Scott Brown waiting to embrace you.
Come back home, Christopher.
But uh, you first have to recognize uh that you were suckered uh last year.
You were suckered in 2008.
If you look at uh what he said, Christopher Buckley and David Brooks, they praised Obama's temperament, temperament.
I don't know what temperament means in this context.
I think it's like when you read Tiger Beat and uh and and the Tiger Beat colonists are going on about the Jonas brothers' hair.
Uh temperament for uh uh bipartisan uh moderate uh Republican, soft conservative colonists, temperament is the equivalent of the Jonas brothers' hair.
Uh and so uh Christopher Buckley's gone on uh and David Brooks, all these guys going on about Obama's temperament, which has now got him into all the trouble.
That's the problem with the temperament is he stands there, he's calm, cool, and collected, uh, and that's it.
Uh uh what that means when something goes badly wrong, like with the panty bomber, is that he g or the Fort Hood massacre, where he stands there and he gives no impression that fourteen people have been hideously murdered, slaughtered, or uh that three hundred people have avoided a narrow death over the skies of Detroit.
That's what is cool so much for his cool temperament then.
But in the day-to-day sense, the all the cool temperament means is that he just lets Harry Reed and Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank make all the running.
So that uh he he doesn't he he's got no you know, why doesn't he take a lead on health care?
Why does he say what he wants in the bill?
Uh why does it why do why did he mortgage uh his administration's reputation uh to uh Barney Frank and uh Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reed.
That's because of his cool temperament, too cool to get in the game.
Let's go to Dan in Lebanon, Missouri.
Dan, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to have you with us.
Yeah, it's good to talk to you.
Good to talk to you too.
To go along with what you're saying earlier about uh uh who they uh the the left leftists don't know who they have in the office of the White House.
Um there's no wonder that they don't know because they haven't been asking him any questions.
And I'd I'd like to just make an observation of the uh statement that he made today, President Obama, that he would be willing to freeze the domestic spending in the budget for the next three years.
If you recall, I mean, as they bring this forth, he's brought forth as a very open-minded, uh willing, a fair participant in this, as he brings this forward, which I think is quite bold.
But then if you remember a few years back when President Bush did this, you remember what they called him?
Rightonian.
Right.
He was draconian.
Right.
And he didn't feel the people's pain as he was not calling for any cut.
They were just gonna hold everything in a steady line item.
Uh but it was draconian, it was like Count Dracula running around letting the blood of the people uh at nighttime taking from them, and it was anything but that.
But that's just an observation.
I'd like to know what your thoughts are.
No, no, you're right.
That's a very good way, the vampiric analogy, by the way, because they'll be reduced to that.
They they've really taken as much as they can take in daylight.
So they're gonna find ways metaphorically uh to sneak into your home while you sleep and sink their teeth into your neck and suck it out of you that way, because uh the problem with the United States, uh, as in many other countries.
Well, actually, no, it's not true.
They're in in in uh at least in Scandinavia, they're willing to tax you to the hilt to pay for all the big government goodies.
Here what they're doing is they're saying, uh, well, we're we're going to we we we we don't we're not quite ready to be honest about this.
So we're not putting an honest figure on the on the cost of the program.
We're not putting an honest figure on what you're gonna have to pay in taxes by it.
We're deluding you into thinking that you can somehow have it all.
You can have monstrous big government bulked up with entitlements, but that somehow you'll still be free to live your life the way you used to, and that it that isn't true.
At some point, you you've got it you've got to decide on this.
But the idea, too, by the way, as you say that when Bush tried to cut any not actually cut, but just hold the growth.
Hold the remorseless growth of big government, which grows while you sleep.
It's there.
It's it's it's like it's like uh it's like the little new London roundabout, and you may wake up the next day and it's this huge thing that squats all over the town like a dead toad.
That's how government grows remorselessly in the dark of night.
Whatever s so they say, oh, this little rinky dink nothing program, don't worry about it.
It's just two billion dollars, and then a generation later it's half a trillion dollars.
That's always how it goes with government.
Which is why you shouldn't waste time worrying about the deficit, you've got to cut the programs.
And whenever Bush tried to do it, he was told it's draconian, it's draconian.
Uh you you're not.
You find it so interesting that uh Obama proposes the same thing, and he's his caricature is so much different than President Bush's was.
Because he because he supposedly cares for you.
I mean, this idea for a start, when you get the government to do anything, it's gonna be more wasteful than any other way of doing it.
Because there's no economies of scale with government.
It's not like when you when uh Pepsi Cola buys mom and pop coke of nowhere's Villunction, uh th and and they reduce the cost of that bottle of uh Coca-Cola because of the economies of scale.
There's no economies of scale with government.
The bigger government gets, the more expensive it gets.
It's the opposite of uh the private sector in the in in that sense.
You know, that's why it's important to have government done at town level, at county level, at state level, uh, but a very, very minimal amount done at national level, and certainly none done, which is what this stupid Copenhagen thing was gonna be, at the international level.
Because you can im you you can guess what your tax rate's gonna be once the United Nations has revenue raising powers.
That way all bets are off.
Uh 1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein in for rush, more to come.
Mark Stein in for ush.
I'm I'm getting tons of mail, by the way, over this Oregon back dating, which gets worse the more you look at it.
Uh just had an email here from a small business owner in Eugene, Oregon, who says that not only are the taxes uh retroactive to 2009, but they're on gross receipts, not net profit.
In other words, if your business didn't make a profit in 2009, you'll still be required to pay this uh retroactive tax on your gross.
And equally, the personal tax increase uh is also retroactive, and if you meet the criteria, you'll be required to pay it from the beginning of 2009.
Free societies, by the way, do not go in for retroactive taxation.
Everybody who made it to December the thirty-first, two thousand and nine has the right at that point to know uh have a sense of what their tax liability, personal or corporate, should have been for the year two thousand and nine.
It's as disgusting and disgraceful, and free citizens should not put up with this.
Uh if if uh if George the Third had tried this kind of wacky stuff in 1776, you guys wouldn't have just held a uh an uh a revolution.
You'd have sailed to London and strung him up outside Buckingham Palace.
You're Americans.
You shouldn't put up with being told, well, I I've settled my I've spoken to my accountant, I think I'm all square on my two thousand nine taxes, and then the government tells you, no, we're going back to square one again, and this is taxation uh not on profits but on gross receipts.
It's disgusting, and free societies do not do this stuff.
Let's go to Jeff in Hastings, Nebraska.
Jeff, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Hey, Mark, uh greetings from the land of uh Senator Tippito.
Um That's right.
It's not working out too well for him, though, is it?
He's uh tippy toad this far, but I think he uh stepped on the landmine this time.
Yeah, yeah, that's that's true.
That's the that's the remains of his foot hanging all over all over the wall, unfortunately for him.
Hey, this uh spending freeze that uh the president's talking about doesn't actually he's promising to start the spending freeze next year.
That's right.
And it's like a alcoholic saying, Well, I'll I'll quit drinking, or a drunken sailor saying, uh I won't go on a bench next time on shore leave.
No, no.
Plus, they've already they've already inflated the discretionary spending by nine to twelve percent the last two years.
Yeah.
If they did follow through, it would be whatever that is.
Yeah.
Well, to pursue your to pursue your drunken sailor analogy, it's like saying I'm gonna quit drinking next year, uh, but in the eighteen months running up to when I'm gonna quit drinking, I'm gonna triple my I'm gonna triple the number of pints of beer I I intake between now and then.
Uh as you as you say, that's uh there's uh z this is absurd.
And it and and uh Jean uh was right when we s she said we should just laugh at it.
I mean, no serious man could stand up and propose this in public.
Uh uh his speech writers are gonna have to find some form of words for this that is not inherently ridiculous, and I don't know whether they're that good at it.
No, I don't think so.
Hey, thanks, Mark.
My pleasure, Jeff.
Great uh great to have you with us.
Let's uh go to Colleen in Prairieville, Louisiana.
I love the name Colleen.
Why thank you, Mark.
It is such a privilege and an honor to speak with you.
I so enjoy your commentary and everything you write, and you're just a joy, a gift from God.
Oh, I've always wanted to meet a Colleen who said that that kind of thing to me.
Don't I'm I'm I'm getting all trembly now.
Uh what's what's the view from Prairieville, Colleen?
Well, I'll tell you, Mark, I have a problem.
The President has endorsed the Saints.
He's rooting for the Saint.
I I'm beside myself.
It's like the kiss of death.
You know, we've been waiting for this forever, and he's gonna go and sign on with the Saint.
Uh um I know the White House monitors, you know, conservative talk, and I'd like to appeal to their sense of decency.
Please get the president to throw his support to Indy.
And if possible, go there personally and and take photos with the team and the stuff.
Yeah, that's right.
Do the full works.
Go go in there and give his Chicago Olympics speech one more time.
Yeah, because look what happened to Copley and uh Corzine and that other dweeb.
So please, people at the White House, get him to back Indy a hundred percent.
Well, I've just I've just heard from the Oval Office that he is willing to fly in uh and appear with the Saints and re-deliver his Martha Coakley speech for you down in Prairieville uh before before uh just a quick road trip to Indy.
That's all I'm asking, White House.
Okay, okay.
Come on, come on.
He only gave four hundred and eleven speeches in his first year.
Let's make the four hundred and twelfth uh the the the one that that actually delivers your team Super Bowl victory uh by getting Barack Obama to go and put his arms round the other guys.
You're right, it's the magic touch.
He's got the magic touch.
It's the uh it it's the whole uh Chicago Olympics pitch all over again.
Let's see what it does for him.
Uh let's see what it does for the Saints.
And I hope, by the way, I hope, Colleen, that it doesn't uh that it doesn't all his magic touch doesn't prove uh disastrous uh for you.
Good luck with the uh good luck with the Super Bowl.
Uh Mark Stein in for Rush, more straight ahead on the EIB network.
Mark Stein, Infrarush at the EIB Network.
Uh it's been uh it's been great to be here at Ice Station EIB, WNTK in New London, New Hampshire.
Uh I mean it's been uh terrific to be able to do the show from my home state and not have to fly down to New York and hang out with all those uh decadent i effete metropolitan types uh like HR down in the big city.
Uh it's uh it's it's uh stressful for me because I I normally have to I normally got the full beard.
Like when I'm here in New Hampshire, I got like the full Muller Omar, and always have to trim it into this sort of uh assistant choreographer on Lacas O'Fall look when I fly down and do the show from New York.
So it's been a terrific uh fun for me to be able to do it here from the great uh state of New Hampshire.
I would like to thank all the guys at WNTK.
I would like to thank Matt and Dave and Bob, who owns the station and has been uh very kindly hosting us.
This was one of the first fifty uh Rush affiliates, by the way, and they're still sticking with this show uh twenty years later.
Uh by the way, uh tomorrow Rush will be back live from Las Vegas, where he's been hosting the Miss America pageant, and I believe uh they've booked him for when uh uh Obama delivers the State of the Union.
Uh uh uh Rush is gonna stand in the aisle of the Senate and sing there he is President America.
But we'll see whether we can hold him to that.
Rush back tomorrow live at the Golden EIB microphone.
Thanks for listening.
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