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Jan. 27, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 27, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24-7 podcast.
Are you people ready for the state of Obama tonight?
Because that's what it's going to be.
Or you might say it's the State of the Unions.
And tonight's State of the Union show, President Obama and his first such speech.
Although it's what is third or fourth address to a joint session of Congress.
Anyway, greetings, my friends.
Great to have you here.
Rush Limbaugh.
Remember, as long as I'm here, it doesn't matter where here is, although we are in a super secret location.
No one could possibly find us.
We are somewhere near Las Vegas.
As you know, I'm out here judging the uh the Miss America pageant 2010.
And it's been a blast.
It's uh it is a tremendous amount of work.
On Monday, we had well, Sunday afternoon for about six or eight hours, got an orientation on Monday.
Uh 12 hours of interviews, nine and a half minutes with uh some of the I guess 38 of the uh of the contestants, and we finished it up Monday morning.
Uh and last night, Tuesday night was the first of the preliminaries over at the uh the Plant on Hollywood Theater.
That goes on for the next three nights in the big televised finals on on Saturday.
And you know, these interviews are are kind of interesting.
I've I've um I I've talked to some of these young women who uh who know more than elected people that I've interviewed uh here on the radio.
It's uh it's it's fun to see this up close.
And it is the people at the Miss America Foundation are just the best I've uh I've encountered.
They are uh just straight down the middle solid people, and they take this very seriously.
It is uh it is a scholarship program, they award millions and millions and millions of dollars uh to women in college scholarships throughout the year.
It's uh it's just a very wholesome, wholehearted great program, and it's an honor for me to be a part of it.
And I can't discuss uh any details of uh of the of the contest, of course, because of uh conflict of interest and so forth.
I cannot reveal a thing uh about any specifics, but uh it is a it is a fun thing.
It's televised on Saturday night from eight to ten Eastern on the TLC cable network.
Well, let's get into the uh the the hot news.
And there's all kinds of it, folks.
The Democrats, this is a New York Times from today, Democrats put a lower priority on the health bill, which is a nice way to say, slam on the brakes.
Could we also say that maybe it is a failure?
With no clear path forward on major health care legislation, Democrat leaders in Congress effectively slammed the brakes on Obama's top domestic priority on Tuesday, saying they no longer felt pressure to move quickly on a health bill after eight months of setting deadlines and missing them.
The Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry, Democrat Nevada, deflected questions about health care.
We're not we're not on health care now, Dingy Harry said.
Uh, we've talked a lot about it in the past, but there's no rush.
We have that audio sound bite right now.
I've had a number of meetings with the speaker.
Um spoken to the White House on several occasions, and uh, we're gonna find out how to proceed.
But there is no rush.
This from the guy who had to have it passed before the August recess.
Then they had to have it passed by Thanksgiving.
Then they had to have it passed by Christmas.
And of course, Nancy Pelosi said there will be a health care bill.
Uh all of that went out the window.
And I I'm I'm still not sure, even if if Martha Coakley had won that election instead of Scott Brown, I'm still not sure that uh this would have happened because as I pointed out the last time we were together, the Democrats are fleeing this ship.
And now we've got Evan Bye and Blanche Lincoln.
They're they're categorized uh in the drive-by's as two moderate centrist uh Democrats, and there's no such thing in the Senate.
I mean, these the that's just how they're categorized with the drive-by's.
They're saying they would never, they they would stop the reconciliation process if uh if the Senate tried to go that way.
They're up for re-election.
They've got uh conservative states for the most part that they need to win if they're to be re-elected, and so they uh and we have all kinds of people, and the Democrats are now at war with one another, folks.
It is just everybody is blaming everybody uh for what went wrong in the in in uh uh Massachusetts, what's gone wrong with all of these pieces of legislation that didn't happen.
Uh let's see, and a CNN poll.
A couple days ago, most Americans applaud Democrats' loss of a supermajority.
Americans are divided on whether Democrat control of Congress is good for the country.
Uh divided.
70% is not divided.
A CNN opinion research corporation survey released uh Monday also indicates that seven in ten Americans believe that the Democrats lost that's seven in ten is 70% CNN.
It's a big number.
We're not going to let you get away with this 7 in 10 garbage.
70% of Americans believe that the Democrats'loss of their 60-seat supermajority in the Senate is a positive move for the country.
70%.
It's a number people get their brains and arms around.
70%.
And this, how about this spending freeze?
What a trick this is.
What's it going to do by by 2019?
It's going to save 250 billion dollars.
That's the price of mustard for one hot dog in a baseball game.
When you consider the trillions this guy's wasted as far as the eye can see, all this is doing is locking in place massive over the top spending increases last year.
It's just locking them in place.
There isn't any I mean, the the the freezing discretionary spending, the entitlement spending, it's it's all but defense.
It's it's there's it's this is like Jennifer Granholm saying that the green industry in Michigan is going to create uh 40,000 jobs in the next 10 years.
40,000 when they're losing 600,000 a million jobs a year.
And so this is this is uh uh the the populist Obama, the left doesn't like this, Obama going triangulation, James Carville's out there urging Obama, you gotta bash Bush more, you gotta bash Bush more.
I think that's sabotage.
I think that's setting Hillary up.
And make no mistake, ladies and gentlemen, Mrs. Clinton is out there eyeing this.
I know she is in Afghanistan now.
I just saw I just saw some pictures.
It's not pretty.
The AP.
The AP has run a series of pictures of Mrs. Clinton arriving.
I understand this, arriving after a long flight from somewhere.
I don't know how long the leg was.
But uh remember I got in all kinds of trouble during the primary before Operation Chaos by by correctly pointing out that a number of Americans would not want to watch a 60 plus year old woman age in office.
Uh and these uh remember I caught hell for that.
I caught that's you know, there are many obvious things that you're just not supposed to say because of political correctness or sensitivity or what have you.
But these pictures.
Despite all that, I think Mrs. Clinton is out there, and the uh Bill Clinton and her are eyeing this situation.
Obama's even I I'm willing to be a one one-term president.
Yep, I I want to do the right thing, if even if it means uh being a one-term here it is.
Grab audio soundbite number nine.
This is last Monday, uh, on ABC's world news tonight with the new anchorette info babe Diane Sawyer, and she said, even or ever if in the middle of all this coming at you, you think maybe one term is enough?
I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.
And I believe that.
I uh you know there's a tendency in Washington to think that our job description of elected officials is to get re-elected.
That's not our job description.
I will not slow down in terms of going after the big problems that this country faces.
I don't want to look back on my time here and say to myself, all I was concerned about was nurturing my own popularity.
That's not why I came.
It's exactly why he's coming.
Look at if he doesn't care about being re-elected, why go through all the machinations here of changing his perception?
Why why go after the banks?
Why change his procedure?
Why uh why change his image if he's not concerned about being re-elected?
You know, they've got to be in a state of shock in the White House because the sole thing that they were relying on was what they what they perceived, and it was real during the campaign.
Obama is a messiah.
Obama as an empty canvas, a blank slate, anybody could make him to be whatever they wanted him to be.
Uh, and he's now just he's is nothing more than a standard ordinary everyday political hack who really isn't very competent, who doesn't have any experience, certainly no executive experience.
Uh, He's got some legislative experience from the Senate in Illinois and from the U.S. Senate for 150 days and from community organizing and agitating, but he does not have any uh any executive decision, like governors do or CEOs.
You know, that Buck stops with them.
Hey, he farmed everything out.
Health care let Congress do it.
Now he's out there saying, by the way, I I wasn't, I had nothing to do with that uh corn husker uh uh buyback uh and I had nothing to do with the uh uh Louisiana Persian.
I did it.
Well, his people were up in the Senate negotiating all that.
Ram Emanuel and the boys were up there uh putting together all of these plans.
So he doesn't want any blame whatsoever.
He's now washing his hands of it.
This is why he didn't have his own plan ever.
He just let Congress do it.
Same thing with the slush fund on stimulus.
Charlie Cook, Investors Business Daily, Democrats' Car Wreck in Slow Motion continues.
Veteran election analyst Charlie Cook wrote today that uh this is yesterday's uh uh dispatch.
2010 is not 1994 all over again, but though the circumstances and dynamics are different, it appears to be a nationalized election.
Often in these elections, inferior, underfunded or less organized candidates and campaigns beat more amply funded and better prepared candidates and campaigns.
Uh the Cook political report now predicts Republicans will win 25 to 35 House seats in the fall.
That's up from 20 to 30 seats about a month ago and 15 to 25 seats a few months before.
And uh, if if the election were held today, somebody somebody's analyst analysis said the election were held today, it would be a hundred and three seats.
I read that yesterday that the uh that the Democrats would lose, Republicans would pick up.
Uh looks like the Senate, if the election were held today, the Democrat number would go from 59 now to uh to 52.
Anyway, brief time out here, folks.
Rush Limbaugh in Las Vegas for the next three days on the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for advanced conservative study.
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New Republic.
Barack Obama faces a moment where his presidency just might collapse.
This is a liberal journal of opinion.
Do you people realize how prescient I was?
I was the only voice over a year ago now.
Using the word failure, I hope he fails.
And I knew that this kind of stuff.
My only fear back then was I didn't know because of the election.
I I had I was worried seriously that uh this country had turned that uh so many people on welfare, so many people receiving some sort of government assistance that we had gone socialist.
Because that's what I knew Obama to be.
Uh uh, but most people do not look at these people, uh presidential candidates uh ideologically.
I, of course, do.
Uh and that's my new mission, as you people know, to make sure everybody looks at liberals and understands who they are.
They lie.
They can't be honest about what they want to do.
They wouldn't stand a chance, they wouldn't get 20% of the vote in the country now, I'm convinced.
Uh so they have to lie and they have to uh confuse and hide behind a mask.
Uh and they've unmasked themselves this past year in their arrogance and conceit with their supermajority in the Senate.
Uh and the the country has finally been able to see what happens when unchecked liberalism rolls on down the highway.
And it's it's important that this realization be made and not lost.
This this uh this ought to this ought to be a uh uh if in a in a sane world with a super informed populace.
This would be uh a 20-year death knell for liberalism in this country in this new republic.
Barack Obama faces a moment where his presidency just might collapse.
How does this president handle the crisis?
Thus far, uh the answer is not at all encouraging.
The current crisis is the election in Massachusetts of Scott Brown.
Uh now the 41st Republican senator, his arrival in Washington has sent Democrats into panic mode, fearful that they two will be swallowed by a seething electorate and cause many of them to flee in the other direction from health care reform.
In short, Barack Obama faces a moment where his presidency just might collapse.
Or rather, he risks heading into a wilderness where it would uh accomplish next to none of its ambitious goals, which would be a godsend.
If that actually happens.
Listen to this.
Never before has a Democrat president inherited uh more propitious circumstances for advance.
I'm I've got a huge black line through uh the page here of the printer's got a problem, so I have to pause to figure out what a word here is.
We're trying to get it fixed, so bear with me.
Um, for advancing reform to fruition.
And although liberals might have griped as reform uh uh pulled its way through the various uh fiefdoms of the Senate, fiefdoms, a monumental bill uh ultimately emerged uh an impressive work of consensus that survived the interest group ringer.
Congress was one or two perfunctory roll call votes away from sending a bill to Obama's desk, and that's when Brown won his upset, instantly making the dis is I I'm really as I said earlier.
I think we had a chance to stop this beforehand because these people all knew they were governing against the will of the people.
They all knew that's what they were doing.
Now, they I uh don't doubt that they would have uh twisted arms and done everything they could to ram that bill through.
Uh but the the anger, the seething rage of the American people is understood by the left.
And of course, the answer is well, they're just too stupid.
They they aren't they aren't bright enough to figure out what we are doing.
Uh, in fact, let's see.
Uh I've got a soundbite that says that, but I can't find out where it is right now.
But I do have uh Obama blaming Congress for the health care debacle.
This is number 10, and this is also last night on uh ABC's World News Tonight with Diane Sawyer.
She said, People think you must say at the end of the day that this is not who I was in 2008.
Uh these ideas, uh, these deals with Nebraska with Florida, she means 2009, I believe, and this is what Obama said.
Well, no, no, well, let's let's hold on a second.
I mean, I I think that uh this gets into a big uh mush.
Um so let's just clarify.
Uh I didn't make a bunch of deals.
All right.
There is a legislative process that is taking place in Congress, and I am happy to own up to the fact that I have not changed Congress and how it operates the way uh I would have liked.
So that's point number one.
Oh, so he had nothing to do with it.
It was Bush's fault, and now it's Congress's fault.
This guy is so full of it.
Wait a minute, Diane.
I mean, let's get this in a big much.
Let's uh let's clarify.
I didn't make a bunch of deals, all right.
He sent people up there to make a bunch of deals.
It was Obama's Ram Emanuel and everybody that was twisting arms.
The news gets even worse for these people.
CNN, opinion research corporation survey released today, indicates that 25% of the public thinks the stimulus package has benefited the middle class.
And once again, CNN playing with numbers.
Seven out of ten, uh blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Seven out of ten think it's good the Democrats lost their supermajority at 70% CNN.
And now they say 25% of the public thinks the stimulus has benefited the middle class.
So for those of you who are math challenged out there, that means 75% do not believe it's helped.
This is CNN, way to hide the impact of the numbers again.
One-third of the people questioned think the stimulus has helped low-income Americans with just over 40% saying the plan has benefited business executives.
Now, those 40% are idiots.
Uh the stimulus plan hasn't gone to business executives.
That's TARP money.
But you can't blame people for being confused.
We got stimulus, we got slush funds, we got the TARP money.
Uh and it's it's uh it's just a mess.
None of it's working.
Everybody has had a year now to uh to see full-fledged that Obama's recipes for fixing things don't do anything but make it worse.
And by the way, it was Obama who totally Made the deal with the with the unions.
He says, I didn't make any deals with Congress.
I didn't make any deals with Congress on their own.
Oh, yeah.
He has all these union thugs come into the White House and they threaten him with whatever.
And he ends up exempting them from his Cadillac tax, 40% tax on Cadillac insurance plans.
And he did that right out in the open.
And then of course he canceled his promise or didn't he broke his promise to have C-SPAN televise all of the uh health care hearings.
We have that.
That's audio soundbite number eleven.
And let's see.
It is.
Sound bite number 11.
Uh this is what he said.
Your question points out to a legitimate mistake that I made during the course of the year.
And that is that we had to make so many decisions quickly.
In a very difficult uh set of circumstances.
Oh, yeah.
That after a while, we started worrying more about getting the policy right than getting the process right.
But I campaigned on process.
Part of what I campaigned on was changing how Washington works, opening up transparency, and I think it is, you know, I think the health care 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.
Well, he says he made a mistake.
I don't know if he's really apologizing there.
Uh, but did you hear he's interested in policy and and process.
Folks, that's community organized kind of stuff.
Process is not what you want in a president.
You know people that love process.
They love the process.
As long as the process is ongoing, they're happy.
But what stops process is a solution.
The problem being culminated with a solution.
And then the process is finished.
And he loves process because that's where he gets to show his intelligence, supposedly.
So it's uh it's all falling apart right around the Democrats, and they're still blaming Bush.
And they're still blaming me and Sarah Palin.
We'll be right back.
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Great to have you here, folks.
Great to be back with you as well.
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You know, I th I think what's going on here, the liberals are hiding the decline in all of these surveys they're taking.
75% stimulus not working for the middle class, not working for anybody.
Uh they report it as 25% say it is.
Uh and they say seven out of ten think it's good the Democrats lost their supermajority rather than say seventy percent.
They're hiding the decline just like they did in the global warming hoax.
Which now has been doubled down on.
Have you heard about the guy at the IPCC, uh the whose uh Pachari, I think is his name.
Uh they've been totally exposed again on the melting glaciers of the Himalayans.
Totally, totally exposed.
I mean, it they the whole thing is uh is is this an outright and always has been a hoax.
It's always been a political, just like everything the liberals do.
It is it is designed to tug your heartstrings to make you feel guilty to get you go along with tax increase because you're destroying the planet.
Uh and this is how you get uh you're get your mind right.
This is how you say you're sorry.
Uh you let people go ahead and grow governments around the world and tax you and roll back your lifestyle, all for the purposes of empowering them.
I mean, this is this has been an incredible twelve months.
Just an incredible twelve months.
And here from the uh uh disappointed Washington Associated Press with his prospects for another term brightening, Ben Bernanke will lead the Federal Reserve this year in pulling back the stimulus money it pumped out to fight the financial crisis that erupted in his first term.
The challenge will be how and when to do so.
At their first meeting of the year, Fed policymakers are likely weighing such matters, including which tools to use.
The officials began meeting Tuesday and will issue a policy statement today.
It's not known whether they will signal their time and uh strategy to uh to reverse course.
With the worst of the financial crisis over, not according to my stack.
Foreclosures continue, new home starts are down, three different foreclosure programs designed to help people are failing in in I think it's Kentucky or Tennessee.
The uh the unemployment bottleneck is so bad that people cannot get on the phone, can't connect with a human being to renew their unemployment benefits.
Everybody just swamped.
And And we've got a guy who's totally enamored of process.
You know who else loved process?
Michael Dukakis.
I remember him discussing that in the presidential campaign of 1988.
The uh the year this program debutted, uh debuted for those of you in uh in Rio Linda.
And and he said, I love policy.
I love the process.
I love the process of making policy, and Obama does too.
Uh and Jimmy Carter, Jimmy Carter love process.
Uh and and this this is turning into Jimmy Carter too, his second term, only worse.
So the Fed considering stimulus exit strategy, I'm not I don't know what stimulus this is.
Uh but with the worst of the financial crisis over, the Fed's gradually moving to remove some of the stimulus money before it can trigger inflation.
Some analysts think the Fed might bump up the rate it charges banks for emergency loans.
Uh now, remember that the Fed loaned two trillion dollars to people and still hasn't told us who got it.
Is that the money they're talking about?
Or are they talking about Obama's stimulus?
Uh in any case, if it's Obama's stimulus, does it mean it failed?
If they're worried about it causing inflation, does it mean that it failed?
Look, I'm I don't mean to depress you here, folks, but uh you have to know the reality of Obama's policies.
You have to know what liberalism will do.
You have to know what it will do every time it's tried, so you never give it a chance again at the ballot box.
Sales of new homes sink 7.6% last month, worse than expected December results and the weakest year on record.
How can this be?
How can the how can the wizards of smart at AP be shocked again?
Did they really believe all the government involvement was going to help the housing market?
The answer is yes, because these people place all of their hope and all of their faith in government.
They really do.
Sales of new homes unexpectedly fell 7.6% last month, capping the industry's weakest year on uh on record.
The results were the weakest since March and indicated demand remained sluggish despite newly expanded tax incentives to spur sales.
Only 374,000 homes were sold last year, down 23% from a year earlier, and the weakest year on record, dating back to 1963, and can staying on the same basic uh uh line here.
This is the uh MSNBC.com flaws, plague foreclosure relief problem.
Do you really nothing?
Nothing he has done is working.
Nothing now from from his standpoint, uh it might be working.
I still firmly believe that all of this was to create this kind of chaos and to create the demand for more government.
It's backfired on him.
I think I think uh I think what he really wanted to do here was just totally get as many people on the welfare rolls as possible.
Cloward driven uh and and uh empower himself of the Democrat Party in power in perpetuity, but it's backfired because he's misread the American people.
The American people do not want to be wards of the state, and they don't want their country to be a failure, and they don't want to be uh having their president run around the world and apologize for things we've done.
They don't want terrorists being given Miranda rights.
They don't want terrorists uh being given U.S. constitutional rights the same as if they were U.S. citizens.
Uh they don't want show trials of terrorists beating up their own country uh at a cost security alone of 200 million dollars a year.
They do not want what Obama is.
They do not want anything to do with his ideology or his policies.
And the thing that that uh if I ran the Republican Party, what I would be having them do is say, look at Obama's no different than Barney Frank, no different than Harry Reid, no different than Nancy Pelosi, no different than John Kerry, no different than Al Gore, no different than Clinton.
It doesn't matter which one of these people you elect, Obama may be the most radical of all of them, but they all are liberals, and liberalism is this.
Liberalism is failure of capitalism, It is failure of freedom.
Liberalism is outright failure of prosperity.
It's right there for everybody to see now, as clear as it's ever been.
And the Republican Party ought to be pointing this out.
But I'm sure that that would be a little too controversial, a little too mean-spirited.
I'm sure that that would uh wouldn't well moderates in our party wouldn't appreciate that kind of criticism.
In fact, uh, ladies and gentlemen, let's some bites four and five, Mike.
This is uh last Sunday afternoon CNN's Farid Zakaria, GPS.
During the panel discussion, he had this exchange with uh the New York Times book review editor and the author Sam Tannenhouse about conservatism conservatism.
Even though there is a political revival of conservatism, you don't quite see an intellectual revival.
There are, you know, the William Buckleys and Irving Crystals of the World have yielded to the Rush limbows.
There were a number of books about a possible Republican and conservative revival.
David Fromm wrote one, Ross Dowthett, and Michael Gerson wrote one.
And they all accepted that there was a major role for government to play.
They were kind of accepting what seemed to be the shift in the inevitable interrelation between government and society.
Those ideas have not been picked up at all, as far as I can tell, by the movement on the right.
Yeah, damn right, and they won't be.
We've just what do you think the hell is failing here, Mr. Tannin House?
How many people read from in Brooks' books?
You could probably count them on one hand.
This is last week, maybe the week prior.
I spent a lot of time on this program excoriating these people.
Remember, these were the people that said Reagan's era was over.
And that we had to go get moderates to win.
This is in the aftermath of Scott Brown's election.
And we we had to, yeah, we get American people want higher taxes.
They want a bigger government.
They want a government more involved in their lives.
And Tannehouse says, I don't see the right picking this up.
Why should we pick it up?
It's failing to the max as the Democrats try it.
Let's skip number let's go ahead and play number five.
Uh she's talking if Farid Zakaria next talks to uh Perry uh sorry, uh Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal, who said this about conservatism in recent elections.
Purism took a hit in New Jersey, in Virginia, in Massachusetts.
They voted for Republicans who are conservative economically but are very non-snarling, who are not guys who you can look at and say, that is an ideologue.
I interviewed uh Scott Brown, the senator elect, I guess, from Massachusetts two days ago.
The first thing he did was compliment Obama.
Something new is going on.
It is a certain, it's a growing pragmatism among the Tea Party people who voted in Jersey, Virginia, and Massachusetts for guys.
They were not 100% on the page.
You hear that, the non-snarling Republicans.
There's something new going on out there.
Scott Brown actually complimented Obama.
The growing pragmatism among the Tea Party people who voted in Jersey, Virginia, Massachusetts for guys they were not 100% on the page with.
Yeah, well, they're 100% on the page opposing Obama.
150% on page opposing Obama.
And all they had to hear from Brown was he's the 41st vote against health care.
I mean, that's ball game, Peggy.
That's the end of this country as we know it, if that if that debacle had passed.
So at the end of his program, Zakaria makes a commentary, and it's to us Republicans, and he warns us to forget Massachusetts.
The Tannenhouse premise is compelling and not so easy to refute.
Today's conservative movement he says is dying because it is harshly ideological, very different from the grounded philosophical movement of the past, in which there were great thinkers like William F. Buckley, Irving Kristol.
Those were the people who personified the right.
Today Rush Limbaugh speaks for the movement.
Tannenhaus argues that right now, conservatism serves as a kind of movement of obstruction, recrimination that is not offer a thought-out set of ideas, nothing voters will hold on to in the long run.
So despite the Massachusetts message, I think it's a uh Interesting book to read.
And there you have elitism and out of touchness, unmasked and on parade.
No ideas on this program, no ideas from Mark Levin's book.
No ideas in any of the uh the movement conservative people here.
Uh the too ideological.
We're dying.
There is an ascendancy going on.
And it's harshly ideological.
Of course, the left, you see, it's not harshly ideological.
No, no, no, no.
Obama's not ideologue.
This is the point.
Obama is.
They all are.
Liberalism is ideological.
It is governed by it, it is propelled by it.
That's all it is.
It's not pragmatism.
It's not compassion.
It's not love and tolerance and all that.
It is a destroyer of freedom.
Anyway, I'm long here, folks.
A brief timeout.
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Now these clips from Farid Zakaria and uh and and Peggy Noonan, uh they're they're hilarious.
They're actually hilarious.
You have elitism on parade, you have a bunch of strident ideologues who, because of their manner of speaking, think that they are not.
And they convince you that you're not, and that they are pragmatic and flatical and thoughtful and very, very, very intellectual, smarter than the rest of us, and of course we mean the Andethals on the right.
Uh no ideas here.
Uh how can you speak of ideas as I do and not be an ideologue?
An ideologue for liberty is an ideologue for free society.
That's a good ideologue.
I, we are great ideologues.
It doesn't mean we agree with all details and all points.
It doesn't mean we're close-minded.
It doesn't mean that we're narrow-minded, but it means we agree in the natural rights of man.
And uh an ideologue on the left means promoting one or more forms of tyranny.
It's the opposite of promoting liberty.
And so it's an ideology to be rejected and detested, and it's on parade, unfettered right now.
In fact, they're going it's starting with the State of Obama speech tonight.
They're gonna do their best to say that they're moving in a different direction.
Gonna be populist now, gonna bash the banks.
In fact, I have some hilarious pieces.
I've got my own State of Obama stack and monologue segment of the next hour.
Uh, I'm gonna show you and and and uh illustrate for you the Various pieces of advice Obama is getting what he should do.
For example, somebody at the political uh political staff.
Democrats differ on advice for speech.
They ask Democrats on Capitol Hill and in state houses around the country what they want to hear from Obama during the state of Obama speech tonight.
Number one, show your anger.
Number two, talk about jobs.
Number three, make a decision on health care.
Number four, bash Wall Street.
And number five, keep blaming Republicans.
Now that is the recipe of a bunch of anti-liberty ideologues, ladies and gentlemen.
Blame Republicans, show your anger.
My God, you people have done the best job of showing your anger of any political party I have ever witnessed.
Talk about jobs.
Well, he's had jobs so much, he's had the stimulus package.
What more do you want to do?
Bash Wall Street.
He doesn't need the advice to do that.
He's doing it.
And keep blaming Republicans.
It's part of Obama's natural existence.
Blame Bush.
Uh these people are getting exactly what they want, and they're still not happy.
It's the fastest three hours in media, and the first one is already gone.
Now, I promise uh we'll get the phone calls early in the next hour.
People have been lined up and on hold for the entire hour, which uh is the natural situation here, and I appreciate your patience.
I really do.
Uh some people wait two hours and a half to get on his program.
That's how big a deal it is to most people.
You shall be rewarded for your patience soon.
In the next hour, we'll be back and continue and get into what the Democrats are telling Obama he needs to do in his state of Obama speech tonight.
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