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Jan. 28, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 28, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
What was that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I know, I know, I know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I think we all did found out.
Yeah, we felt yes, Snerdley.
Yes, yes, yes, yes.
Why didn't you tell me this before the program started?
Everybody wants to get in on the act.
I know.
We did.
We found out what it's like last night to sit through a speech by Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro.
And if you didn't see it, and if you want to know what sitting through a speech by Castor or Chavez is like, find a way to watch a little bit of it, and you'll get a grand idea.
It was disjointed.
I thought it, I thought it was uh I thought it was pathetic.
I you know it's it's uh it's striking to me, and it's utterly predictable.
You listen to the pro-Obama people in the media, and they talk about oh, it was great, it was the most wonderful speech, it was right what call for it was a horrible speech.
It was disjointed, it was contradictory.
Uh it was all over the place.
Heritage Foundation Today says it is like it had uh uh numerous offers, authors, and and Chris Matthews.
Did you hear what Chris Matthews said?
Chris Matthews said while he was watching, it was a lecture last night, it wasn't a speech.
Chris Matthews said while he was watching the lecture, he forgot Obama was black for an hour.
He forgot Obama was black for an hour.
I forgot he was president for an hour.
I watched a community agitator, and not a very good one.
I saw a guy that's angry.
I saw a guy that's defiant.
And Nancy Pelosi, she missed her calling.
I mean, she's up and down, jack in the box.
She should have been a trained seal at SeaWorld, the way she was behaving last night.
And she and Biden, everybody color coordinated in purple.
Uh I don't know, folks.
Uh I I be serious here for a second.
By the way, welcome.
It's the Rush Limbaugh program and this.
Of course, the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
I I really do believe this guy thinks he's the savior.
I think he's delusional.
I mean this seriously.
Uh he's he's he's delirious in the way that Castro and Chavez and other dictators through history were dangerously delusionally megalomoniacal.
Uh I uh I just I this is really, really scary.
I don't quit, I don't quit.
That means he's gonna he and all the left, the left tried to say that he's uh gonna do a Reagan, they're gonna do a Clinton uh and and move to the center and triangularly.
Didn't do any of that.
He said, I'm not quitting.
And what that means is I'm gonna I'm gonna keep governing against you, I'm gonna force feed or jam a liberal agenda down your throat, whatever it takes.
Uh it was I don't know, folks.
I don't like saying these kinds of things about the uh the president of the United States, but it was it was a speech that was not even presidential.
I mean, I is there is there one sane person left in the country not sick of being lectured by a petty little man with the political instincts of a Chicago thug?
Because here's the here's the truth, folks.
No matter where he is, Barack Obama is always the least experienced, most condescending guy in the room.
He has a personality uniquely unsuited for constructive leadership.
Community organizing, yeah.
Leadership, no.
He's boorish.
I mean, Bill Clinton knew all this and hasn't uh hasn't received sufficient credit.
Credit he tried to tell us about this guy.
And I guess for Chris Matthews to say forgot he was black for an hour, and it must mean Obama was not using his black dialect last night.
According to Dingy Harry Reid.
But I don't know, this this must I this must be what it feels like to live in a monarchy when some little kid becomes king due to a premature death.
When Obama ignores the will of the people, it's because he's resolute and principled.
And when Republicans and independence survival by the Democrats stand up to Obama's power grabs, they're pigheaded, and they are insolent.
And I'll tell you something else.
This this Alito thing last night, this this is uh so unpresidential and uh it was Unbecoming of the uh of the Congress, those Democrats led by Schumer to stand up and cheer Obama's direct hit on a Supreme Court decision that expands the concept of free speech.
They can't get over it.
They can't get used to the court, it can't get over to the court, expansion expanding free speech to a constitutionally protected level.
They just they're showing everybody who they are, folks.
And it's wide out in the open now.
No doubt about who they are.
Also notice Obama is free to smouse smash mouth whoever he wants.
He can stand up there and rip anybody he wants, rip anything, including the Supreme Court.
But if someone even mouths a silent response, like Alito did, that someone is the subject of the media's attacks.
That someone is insolent.
That someone is disrespectful.
But Obama can trash and try to destroy anything or anybody.
And he is praised.
So here's what he's done.
He's turned the House against the Senate.
We'll have sound bites to show you that.
He wants to turn the people against free speech decision by the court.
He wants to turn insurance companies against policyholders.
He wants to turn banks against their customers on and on.
He's pitting one group of people against another.
He's a disaster.
Is an utter, utter disaster.
CNN has a poll.
Their headline, half of speech watchers have very positive reaction.
Then you read, and the first line is nearly half of Americans who watched Obama's State of Obama address said they had a very positive reaction to his speech, according to a poll of people who viewed the address.
CNN, opinion research corporation survey, indicated that 48% of speech viewers had a very positive reaction.
Three in ten saying they had a somewhat positive reaction.
21% with a negative response.
The 48% who indicated they had a very positive response is down 20 points from the 68% of the speech watchers who felt the same way a year ago about the president's uh February 24th primetime address to a joint session of Congress, which sufficed as a State of the Union, but uh it actually uh was not one.
So uh they found a way to uh say nearly half half of the people loved it.
But you know, attacking the Supreme Court, folks, that is pure banana republic.
This guy is gonna have to learn the founding fathers of this country were not Sol Olynsky and Karl Marx.
Banana Republic to sit there and attack the Supreme Court for protecting the First Amendment, the least accomplished man in the room, folks, lectured everyone as if they were freshmen in their first year of college.
I'm as I was uncomfortable.
The most uncomfortable State of the Union I've ever.
In fact, I I I had to go get dressed for last night's preliminary competition, the Miss America pageant, and I I left the TV even earlier than I planned to, because it was I've heard it all before.
Nothing new in this speech at all.
Every bit of it we've heard before, even the same words.
And I just I just stood there, sat there shaking my head, finally got up, left, and I'd missed the last five minutes, and apparently the last five minutes were delusional.
The last five minutes are inexplicable.
I don't know what happened in the last five minutes, but everybody said, Whoa, that last five minutes, I've never seen anything like it.
Uh, here's one note that I got somebody tried, but didn't tell me what it was.
The last five minutes of that downer was strange to the point of needing psychological analysis.
It's above my pay grade, but the best spin I can put on it would be to say an elitist professor was speaking to a freshman class.
The worst case is I found his final comments to be disturbing, meaning I don't know anybody who speaks that way to adults, as if Congress has no idea why it's even there.
As if his stupid little pep talk was inspirational.
It was a failed attempt at wisdom.
He came he came off as an amateur out of his league who bounced this makes me want to know what he said.
And I'd have no idea what he said.
But I've had a bunch of people comment on the last five minutes uh being crazy.
Now, one thing, did did he did he concede last night that Sarah Palin was uh was right about more drilling and nuclear energy?
Because I think I think Obama just nominated Sarah Palin to be the next energy secretary.
He said we needed more domestic drilling and we needed uh clean nuclear energy, as though we don't have clean nuclear energy now.
And I think that it was just a throwaway line for for phony bipartisanship.
Uh, but he's now on the record drill baby drill.
That's what it made it sound like he is uh he is in favor of.
So we have sound bites uh on all this.
The uh and this it's strange too.
We have a bunch of polling data uh uh and stories that talk about this the the despite the uh the all the applause the Democrats gave Obama last night that they are really royaled.
Um, that the the House is angry at the Senate, uh the Senate is angry at the House, the Democrats, uh and the uh the House is in danger here of folding in terms of Pelosi being able to get her 218 votes, she may lose control of it.
Uh behind the scenes, the Democrat Party is falling apart.
The Democrat Party is not unified, whereas even public policy polling out of North Carolina surveys Republicans, they found that there's much more unity in the Republican Party than there is right now in the Democrat Party.
Uh and it's because the Democrats and Obama and the uh the radical leaders of the House and Senate have tried to take this country so far left that they have imperiled uh every Democrat running for re-election in November, and they're starting to realize that that Scott Brown election had a uh had a profound impact, much more, and I knew it, much more so than they're even willing to admit.
We'll get your calls in on this uh uh day as well as three or four great stacks of stuff here.
Glad to be back, glad to be with you.
Take a brief time out, get started with all the rest of it right after this.
And we're back, El Rushbo's serving humanity in Las Vegas for the remainder of the week, judging the 2010 Miss America pageant.
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Uh Mary Landrew.
Oh, by the way, I wanted to comment on this uh this strange story.
James O'Keefe and another guy got caught in Mary Landrew's office.
In the original report in the Washington Post said that O'Keeffe is the guy who with the girl did the uh big government.com videos that uh blew the top off the acorn acorn scams.
Uh, and he was in there and it got caught in the phone room, and the Washington Post reported what he was doing was bugging the phone lines of Mary Landrew.
Then the police said, no, no, no, no.
That's not what he was doing.
Uh we don't quite know what he was doing, but he was not bugging it.
I'll tell you what he was doing.
I know exactly what he was doing.
These people have turned off their phones, or they're redirecting calls from constituents to go somewhere to a deadline.
Uh, and then they're saying, Ah, our phones are jammed, nobody can get through.
We don't know what's wrong.
And I bet you, I don't mean I don't know this, I'm just speculating, but I'll bet you O'Keefe and his buddy who posed as uh as as telephone repairman, I'll bet they were in there to try to find out if somebody had jimmied with the lines so that constituents could not call the office and complain.
Because remember, during amnesty, a couple summers ago, nobody had trouble getting through.
And the members of Congress, House and Senate both got fed up with it.
Uh, but it was enough to convince everybody that uh not to vote for it, uh, put together behind closed doors just like the Senate was.
And I've always, you know, during the August recess and during last fall, I was always puzzled why in the world.
I mean, Michelle Buckman called and a couple other people called.
So look, these phone calls aren't doing it anymore.
We have to have people actually show up.
Have to have people show up in the Capitol and eyeball these people, Congressmen and Senators, and let them see firsthand the rage, because the phone calls aren't working and the email isn't working.
Well, maybe it wasn't working because the calls were not getting through.
Calls were being jammed or uh forwarded, uh redirected somehow.
I just wild guessing, but don't doubt me.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's what O'Keefe was doing.
Anyway, Mary Landrew says that uh if Obama hoped that his State of the Union speech would revive the health care debate on Capitol Hill signs of movement were not immediately apparent Thursday.
He talked about how complicated it is.
Why didn't he talk about it when he went up to speak for Martha Coakley?
He didn't even mention it.
That Sunday before the special election in Massachusetts.
Why didn't he mention it?
And if it's so complicated, why was he trying to rush it?
Well, we these are all rhetorical questions, obviously.
But Mary Landrew said the health care reform is on a life support, unfortunately, and the president should have been more specific with how Democrats should move forward.
See, he's farmed it all out to both the House and the Senate.
And that's one of the reasons that they haven't been able to get anything done with it, because you got 530.
Well, not 535, you get uh 218 and uh about 270 cooks here trying to bake the cake.
He should have been more clear, and I'm hoping that in the next week or two he will, because that's what it's going to take if it's at all possible to get it done.
Mailing in general suggestions, sending them over the transom is not necessarily going to work.
Um what the hell's he been doing for the last year?
He's given over a hundred speeches.
You yesterday was his 487th public remarks for 487th time.
And then she said the cr the president's criticism of the Senate in the speech was a little odd.
That's my point.
He's turned the House against the Senate, the Senate against the House.
Uh he can he can sit there and smash mouth whoever he wants.
And when any of them respond, it's them.
It's the people responding to the attack, which the Supreme Court cannot do, the people responding to an attack, uh, that get held up for ridicule by the uh by the uh state control media.
Speaking of um speaking of uh uh state controlled media have this at the top of the stack.
You're gonna love this.
State controlled associated press.
They've got a new phrase.
A drop in new jobless claims came in short of expectations.
Short of expectations.
That's the new phrase.
Anyway, it's not working, uh, Obama.
A new drop in jobless claims came in short of expectations, and factory orders rose only slightly.
Fresh evidence the economy is recovering at a slow, uneven pace.
It is not recovering.
The labor department said uh Thursday that first-time jobless claims dropped by 8,000.
Uh and analysts had expected a much steeper drop.
Uh, according to Thompson Reuters.
Uh and then they say that separately orders to U.S. factories for big ticket manufactured goods rose 0.3% in December, much less than the two percent uh advanced economists were expecting.
Now we're back to normal.
Uh much less than surprising uh all that.
This is um as they continue to try to pump the guy up, and it becomes more and more transparent uh each and every day.
I want to play a couple sound bites here.
Uh, yesterday on this program.
In fact, let's this is uh actually me.
Uh on this program yesterday, this sets up what's coming next.
I'm talking about process Dukakis, that kind of thing.
You will hear it.
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 year this program debuted, 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.
And I went on to say that process never gets to a solution.
And this is what community organizers do.
Leaders get to solutions, organizers just keep agitating and like the policy.
They like the policy and the process.
They don't want the process to ever end.
So last night on MSNBC, Time Magazine, Mark Halpern, and Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, were on with Chris Matthews.
Matthew says, So I I have to start with the obvious question: how does he change the game tonight?
I have great respect for the president for David Axerod for Rama Manual, Robert Gibbs.
I confess I come here telling you I have no idea what they're doing.
Based on the way they've set this up, based on the excerpts that have been released.
If they have a strategy here to change the game effectively, I cannot discern it.
I'm suspending my disbelief because from these excerpts, this is Barack Obama as Ronald Reagan.
I see what Andrea means that the Reagan stuff in here.
I see as much Michael Dukakis.
You were being mean.
That is capital punishment.
You are you are vicious.
They're talking about the excerpts that were released prior to Obama giving the speech.
But it was uh it is he likes policy, likes process.
Uh, and so did Dukakis.
And when Halpern points that out, you know, Matthew, well, you are vicious, because he knows the earth shattering devastation of that kind of comparison.
Uh Time magazine has a piece I'm stunned, that's on their website by Michael Shearer.
When I'm still stunned, confident Republicans give Obama a frosty reception.
This is a this is a review of the speech that I I would never expect to see anywhere on a blog or in the dead tree version of uh of Time Magazine.
Stand-up comics call it a tough crowd, but then tough crowds are part of their business.
It's a whole other matter to be met with cold stares when you are the president, talking in prime time before a joint session of Congress when your party controls both chambers by historic margins.
President Obama spoke the first 676 words of his address Wednesday night before the first hand clap.
His tone was so somber, and the room's mood was so grave that no one moved when Obama said we must answer history's call.
There were no ovations when he called for Democrats and Republicans to work through our differences to overcome the numbing weight of our problems.
The reason was nobody believes him.
The Democrats have no desire to work with Republicans.
All they want to do is say Republicans won't come to the table.
The Republicans know there's nothing in it for them to work with Democrats.
Obama got no love for saying the worst of the storm has passed.
By the time he announced that we cut taxes for eight million Americans paying for college, he was forced to go off script.
He said, I thought I'd get some applause on that one.
The reason he didn't is because he hasn't cut taxes.
He's referring to a tax rebate of a couple hundred bucks that people got.
But not a tax cut.
It was a lie.
But remember, as long as I'm here, it really doesn't matter where here is.
The Limbaugh Institute is a traveling institute.
Back to this Michael Shearer piece in uh at TimeMagazine.com, which is really stunning.
This is the line.
I thought I'd get some applause on that one when Obama talks about tax cuts for eight million Americans paying for college, and there aren't any.
He has not cut anybody's taxes.
He's talking about tax rebates.
It's a one-time thing.
Uh Shearer points out that there was some giggling.
Obama was laughed at a lot of times last night.
Uh and and some of the uh some of them relented, offering the congressional version of a golf clap, you know, make a point that it was not really applause.
And uh Shearer says so it went all night for the president, who a year ago came before the same body to announce now is the time to act boldly and wisely.
That bold wisdom has in the course of a year been transformed into a much more qualified vision of something short of significant legislative failure.
To Democrats, I would remind you that we still have the largest majority in decades, and the people expect us to solve some problems, not run for the hills.
While the Democrats at times seem to be considering the exits.
Have you heard this analysis of this speech anywhere in the state-controlled media?
It's right there at Time Magazine.
And it gets funnier.
Democrats at times seem to be considering the exits.
The Republicans in the crowd handle the event with a renewed sense of confidence.
A few minutes before Obama arrived, Mike Pence stood in statuary hall explaining why he had turned down a chance to run for the Senate so that he could help lead Republicans back to power in the House.
He said this is a genuine, authentic American movement of the conservative ascendancy here, talking about New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Virginia.
Inside the House chamber, the GOP did away with the pranks and gimmicks they displayed the last time Obama was there.
Uh, as chewing paper signs or rude interruptions, they seemed content to pass the time with a sort of cool confidence that accompanies a sense of ascendancy.
John Boehner, uh bronzed and cocky, kept making faces and spreading his hands in disbelief at Obama's applause lines.
When Obama spoke about creating jobs for small business, Boehner spread his hands and cocked his head as if to say, so now you're getting it.
When Obama congratulated himself for not raising income taxes by a single dime, Boehner looked incredulous as if to say really he wants credit for that.
When Obama asked if anyone from either party has a better approach to health care reform, Boehner shot out of his seat and raised his hand but was not called on.
Obama's not interested in anybody else's ideas.
Anyway, uh it uh it it goes on uh like this to the last paragraph.
Our administration has had some political setbacks this year, and some of them were deserved, but I wake up every day knowing that they're nothing compared to the setbacks that families all across this country have faced this year.
Once again, in response, the chamber before him declined to offer a round of applause.
Pelosi was trying to, you I mean, she looked like a trained seal at SeaWorld.
She was trying to get everybody out of their seats, and there was some, but it wasn't, it was, folks, the speech was a downer.
It was, it were this was not raucous applause.
Even the speech, the traditional applause rather that greets the arrival of the president was not uh what it was.
So I I penned a message to Obama that I would like to deliver now.
Because Mr. Obama, I think it's time we had a heart to heart talk.
Let me be the father that you never had or never really knew.
Because I think you need some guidance.
It's time to man up.
It's time to grow up.
That speech last night was an embarrassment.
You couldn't focus.
You lashed out in all directions, you refused to accept responsibility for your own actions, and you were angry.
And he was voted mad.
Being president is a big job.
It's a big responsibility.
You wanted the position, Barack, you campaigned for it.
You told the public to trust you with it, and they elected you.
And you're now president of the greatest country mankind has ever known, and yet you act like this was all coming to you like you deserve it, that you're better than the people you are supposed to serve, and that you have no tolerance for debate or dissent.
It's not the way it works, is President Barack.
We have a constitution, we have checks and balances, we have separation of powers, we have states, and most of all we have the people.
You don't get to impose your programs and policies on the nation and the people without our consent.
This is a representative republic, not a banana republic.
And let me remind you, Karl Marx and Saul Alinsky are not our founding fathers.
This is a nation built on individuality, built on liberty, free markets, and faith.
Yet you, Barack, demand fidelity to a different belief system, a system that crushes individual initiative and free will.
The president does not berate Supreme Court justices who are guests of the Congress and who have no ability to respond to your attacks.
You've made such a mess of things, Barack, and it's time to stop deluding yourself.
Time to stop blaming others.
You are delusional.
You are delirious.
It's time for you to assume the responsibilities of a president rather than pretending to be one.
You've driven the nation's debt over the edge.
It is your responsibility to fix it now.
Otherwise, our young people will have no future.
You were wrong to grant terrorists constitutional rights.
Even the libs in New York don't want the trial there now.
You, Mr. President, are endangering the security of this nation.
Now fix it.
Reverse course and send the terrorists, all of them, back to Guantanamo Bay, where they belong.
You are wrong to nationalize one industry after another, from automobiles to banks.
You are destroying competition and jobs.
You need to stop what you were doing before millions of more families go broke from your misguided policies.
It's not too late to stop this.
I know you're not going to stop it because last night you said you don't quit, and I know what you mean.
You're going to keep plugging for the same agenda, which is going to destroy this country even more.
Which makes me think, Barack, that's your objective.
You know, Barack, unlike uh most presidents, you're dealing with a Congress that has supermajorities in both houses.
Fellow Democrats.
It amazes me that with all the talk about your ability to persuade and communicate that you can't even hold your own party members together anymore.
Is that Bush's fault too?
Is it the fault of the banks or the insurance companies and the lobbyists?
That you can't keep your own Democrat Party unified, or is it a is it a problem with your leadership, Barack, or lack of leadership?
It's the latter, Mr. President.
I'll tell you, you are not a leader.
You're an agitator and an organizer.
And a process guy, but you are not a leader.
It is you who are doing something wrong.
The people in Virginia don't like it.
The people in New Jersey don't like it.
The people in Massachusetts don't like it.
The people in Massachusetts, all over the country have the ability to inform themselves outside of your sycophant press corps, and they are doing so.
Members of your own governing majority don't like what you are doing.
I mean this calls for some self-reflection and some circumspection.
Has it occurred to you, Mr. President, even once that you're not as cool as you think you are?
Has it occurred to you that you are screwing up?
And if it has, are you happy about that?
Has it occurred to you that you have a great deal to learn?
And you need to take your own measure?
Or are you Mr. Perfect?
Are you God sent?
Are you the one that you've been waiting for?
See, I have a little concern there may be a psychological issue at play here.
I don't say this to demean you, Barack.
I say it because I'm concerned.
I mean, Tom Dashell was always concerned, and I like the word, I'm concerned.
You seem to have a whole lot of enemies, at least in your own mind.
A partial list would include Fox News, insurance companies, banks, oil companies, the special interests, the Supreme Court, Republicans, talk show hosts, executives, uh, anyone or any business that earns over 250,000 a year, mortgage companies, credit card companies, and the list goes on and on and on.
You have the longest enemies list of anybody I've ever known.
These people are not your enemies, though, Barack.
They are Americans.
They are part of this country.
They are part of what makes this nation work.
You are not.
You have nothing to do, and have had nothing to do with this nation's greatness.
You can't lay claim to greatness on any scale, not even rhetorical.
But you have no direct relationship to the greatness of this country.
You are damaging the possibility of further greatness.
Nevertheless, like a bully, you continue to threaten all of these people, the Supreme Court, big oil, big pharmaceutical, big retail, talk show host, Fox News, the list goes on.
You threaten anybody who does not agree with you.
You try to intimidate them.
You smeared them.
Your sycophantic media goes right along and carries your water.
But this is not what presidents do.
You're supposed to lead not by threatening people, but by encouraging them.
By embracing them, by thanking them, by inspiring them.
Most of all, you don't seem to appreciate the magnificence of this nation.
I know you don't.
The way you've been educated about this country is painfully obvious.
You think this country's guilty, period.
Guilty and unjust.
You seem to think this country needs to be torn down so you can rebuild it.
But you were elected to be president, not some kind of dictator.
You must operate within the confines of the Constitution.
You are not bigger than the law, and you are not bigger than the people.
You were elected to serve the people, not dictate to them.
Anyway, I'm uh I'm sure this little lecture will not do you much good, particularly given the spectacle of your speech last night.
You really are full of yourself.
But I truly hope that this little talk does do you some good down the way, because something is gonna have to uh change in you, or we are doomed for at least the next three years.
We'll be back, folks.
Your phone calls coming up right after this.
And we're back, Al Rushmore and the excellence in broadcasting network meeting and surpassing all audience expectations on a daily basis.
In case you missed it last night, here is Chris Tingle up his leg, Matthews.
I was trying to think about who he was tonight, and uh it's interesting, he is post-racial by all appearances.
Uh, you know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.
Well, he spoke for an hour, ten minutes.
What do you think of him for the other ten minutes?
Doofus?
I forgot post racial.
Post racial.
I mean, there there is a lot of dementia that is happening on the left side.
I forgot he was president for an hour.
There was nothing presidential about anything Obama did.
How about this?
This is why jobs must be our number one focus in 2010.
And that's why I'm calling for a new jobs bill tonight.
People are out of work.
They're hurting.
They need our help.
And I want a jobs bill on my desk without delay.
He offered no details, just leaves it up to Congress.
A jobs, what the hell is a jobs bill?
The government cannot create a single job.
Not in the private sector.
But what was last year?
What was what was last year?
Golf and parties at the White House?
What was the focus last year?
He couldn't figure out the jobs were a number one focus in 2009, and every year for that matter.
In the private sector, people this kind of incompetence gets people fired.
I mean, this is weapons grade failure we're talking about here.
Obama admitted he didn't understand the single biggest problem facing Americans last year.
He's admitted here his stimulus bill hasn't worked.
He's admitting he wasted our money.
And this failure is lecturing us.
Barack Obama, the least experienced guy in whatever room he walks into.
Just amazing.
Let's grab a phone call.
Oh, oh, wait, one thing before before we go to the phones, health care.
I mentioned this uh Mary Lander at the top of the program, Landers uh life support here in the Senate.
I don't the president didn't give us any guidance.
He didn't tell us really how to do it.
I'm I'm really, really worried.
Nancy Pelosius, the LA Times Pelosi suggests maneuver to pass health care overhaul.
These people, folks, do not trust them and do not believe anything about this being dead.
They are still scheming behind the scenes.
The speaker says the House should go ahead and pass the Senate's version of health care and then use budget reconciliation to make changes that some lawmakers in the House want.
The procedure could then circumvent a Republican filibuster.
Ansi Pelosi said Wednesday the House should pass the Senate's version and uh then use this bug budget reconciliation.
And make it worse down the road, like adding $300 billion to the to the price tag, because that's what they ought to do.
The Democrats have demanded elimination of a new tax on uh on high-end Cadillac insurance plans.
They want more subsidies to help low and moderate income Americans buy health coverage, and altogether these changes could increase the cost of the health care overhaul by 300 billion over the next ten years, bringing it to a uh another lie, a total of 1.2 trillion, according to uh Senate Democratic aid, it would actually be 2.8 trillion by the time if you factor this without any accounting gimmicks.
So, do folks, I'm telling you, they're working on this behind closed doors in the House, they're trying the scheme, I guarantee you.
This is what this is what happens in Cuba, this is what happens in Venezuela, this is what dictators do.
And he told us last night.
I'm not a quitter, I'm not quitting.
He's going to he's gonna do whatever he can to get this stuff done to hell with what we think or want.
A quick uh quick phone for before we have to go to the break, Meridian, Mississippi.
This is Sarah, and I'm glad you called.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
Thanks for taking my call.
Um I watched the State of the Union speech last night, like you, and uh a lot of it uh I was amazed at a lot of it, but the the part that really stuck out in my mind was when he basically used his bully pulpit to call out uh the Supreme Court, part of a co-equal branch of government uh publicly and basically castigate them uh in the same breath uh which he said with all due deference to separation of powers.
By the way, he was wrong too.
He uh with the foreign corporations, yes.
Yeah, foreign corporations are they they have long been banned from contributing to campaigns.
They can't do it, and the Supreme Court did not touch that law.
And that's why Leto was mouthing you're wrong.
You're wrong.
Not true, not true.
But do you see those Democrats stand up and jeer the Supreme Court right behind them, Chuck Hugh Schumer and all this?
I was I was just absolutely appalled at that.
It was like they were jumping up and ganging up on them, and it like I said, that the Supreme Court, uh, you know, anybody that's gone through Civil's class or uh a constitutional law class, the independence of the Supreme Court and their apolitical nature is very important to our judicial system.
So at the State of the Union speeches, they're basically held captive, they don't clap for political lines, they're kind of glued to their seats.
And so he's calling them out in public, and you have these people, you know, Schumer and all those people jumping up and kind of praising the uh criticism of them, they can't really do anything.
Well, I don't I I I bet you what's gonna happen here is that uh uh as long as this guy's president, you're not gonna have maybe one or two of the lib Supreme Court justices show up in there.
Uh Anthony Kennedy wrote this opinion, and this he is not gonna forget this.
This is this is so unwise, and of course, the political carrying uh the his water, they've got a story today.
Obama was right, White House was right about what Obama said about Supreme Court ruling back in a minute.
So Obama's out there demanding jobs.
The president of the United States demanding jobs, demanding a jobs bill.
That's what agitators do.
They demand, they never produce stiddly squat.
It's also very third world and banana republic-like to humiliate other political people in public, like Obama did the Supreme Court last night.
Chavez does it all the time, and Fidel Castro used to do it all the time, uh, as did Joseph Stalin, who's getting a soft drink named after him in Russia.
Very, very soon.
We'll be right back.
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