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Jan. 29, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 29, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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Greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists, uh all across the fruited plain.
This is broadcast excellence, uh executed flawlessly every day by me.
Today's Friday's special day.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday!
And we will get to your uh phone calls fairly quickly in this hour.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushball at EIB netcom.
Remember Open Line Friday, pretty much whatever you want to talk about.
Uh if you have a question or comment, uh this is a day where you can bring up something I don't particularly care about.
You can't do that Monday through Thursday.
Here's a uh story from the Associated Press.
Argentina's president thinks eating pig meat is better than taking Viagra.
Many people in this beef-loving nation reacted with surprise Thursday after Christina Fernandez promoted pork in a speech during which she not only said pork is better than Viagra, but she suggested that she has personally proven it.
I didn't know that eating pork improves sexual activity, Fernandez said in a meeting with representatives of the swine industry.
It is uh much more gratifying to eat some grilled pork than to take Viagra.
Um, this is not a surprise, Dawn.
Uh everybody knows men are pigs anyway.
I just the country's president.
Okay, we have more sound bites from Obama and his uh meet and greet with the Republicans at their weekend retreat in Baltimore.
Here's the first of three.
We had lost six hundred and fifty thousand jobs in December.
Uh I'm assuming uh you're not faulting my policies for that.
We had lost, it turns out, seven hundred thousand jobs in January, the month I was sworn in.
I'm assuming it wasn't my administration policies that accounted for that.
We lost another 650,000 jobs the subsequent month before any of my policies had gone into effect.
So I'm assuming that wasn't as a consequence of our policies.
That doesn't reflect the failure of the Recovery Act.
Uh it does.
The rest of the year does.
You didn't do anything to stop it.
I don't know what the Republicans are saying to this guy because this is on right now, and I'm just I have a chance to reclose captioning uh during uh during commercial breaks.
But I mean he's this is this is how he goes up there and tries to deflect the blame all off of himself.
It's all Bush's fault.
It's all Bush's fault, even though he voted for every policy that led to all of this.
Here's the second bite.
We have three.
The notion that I would somehow resist doing something that caught costs half as much, but would produce twice as many jobs.
Why would I resist that?
I wouldn't.
I mean, that that that's my point is is that I am not an ideologue.
I'm not.
It doesn't make sense if somebody could tell me you could do this cheaper and get increased results, then I wouldn't say great.
The problem is I couldn't find credible economists who would back up the claims that you just made.
Well, now that's just silly.
I can find a zillion economists who can back up any claim that you could get twice the results by spending half as much money he's talking about health care here.
There's any number of ways that you could spend much less than two and a half trillion dollars to insure whatever number it is, 12, 30, 45 million people.
And there are any number of ways to start lowering costs, and there's all kinds of economists and the Heritage Foundation, any number of them.
He is an ideologue, precisely.
He only goes out and talks to friendly economists, Lib economists are gonna tell him what he wants to hear.
Uh Mike Pence follows up.
He says, Well, Mr. President, will you consider across the board tax relief as President Kennedy did?
What you may consider across the board tax cuts could be, for example, Greater tax cuts for people who are making billion dollars.
I may not agree to a tax cut for Warren Buffett.
You may be calling for a across the board tax cut for the banking industry right now.
I may not agree to that.
And there you have President Barack Obama still playing the class envy card, only the rich uh are getting away with with banditry here and so forth across the board tax cuts like President Key cut them for everybody, uh, as did Reagan.
And it was it was key, if Pance, I think, to throw in uh uh Kennedy's name and the uh in the whole mix there.
But you see, uh Obama, while he's I'm not I'm not an ideologue, but he is most definitely uh an ideologue.
The uh oh, health care.
You know, we talked about this yesterday, uh, ladies and gentlemen, about how Harry uh Reid and Pelosi are still plotting behind the scenes uh in order to move health care through uh reconciliation.
In fact, let me see.
I've got here's grab audio sound by number 12.
Now, this is Pelosi, and it's yesterday afternoon in in Washington at her weekly press briefing, and she said this about getting health care reform passed.
We go through the gate, the gates closed, we'll go over the fence, the fence is too high, we'll pole vault in.
If that doesn't work, we'll parachute in, but we're going to get health care reform passed for the American people.
That's Nancy Pelosi.
Now, every day there's a different story on this.
The Washington uh Times today, Democrats shelve health care overhaul.
Democrat leaders yesterday shelved plans to push through a major health care overhaul, casting aside Obama's top legislative goal, which is bedeviled congressional Democrats for more than a year.
Senate Democrats put a positive spin on it, arguing that they're sidelining it until later this year, possibly until the summer, so they could deal immediately with Obama's State of Obama call to address the economy and job creation.
But Pelosi, who said a comprehensive bill is still a priority, already has plans to pursue small targeted health bills, such as a repeal of insurance companies' antitrust protection.
Uh rank and file Democrats aren't optimistic about the fate of a comprehensive overhaul.
Then you go to uh Washington Post as recline.
Uh David Axelrod, reconciliation is a tool that is there to be used.
This is this is very interesting to read.
Uh they're they're they're I think they're they're stunned more than than I believed and more than maybe they know.
Axelrod said in a conversation with a handful of journalists uh yesterday, you know, Republicans uh they have it both ways.
They have the ability to block, but they assign us the responsibility to govern.
But pressed for the White House's answer to that dilemma, Apselrod fell back on platitudes.
They either work with us or they have to pay the price for working against us.
But what price?
For the last year, Republicans have worked assiduously and effectively to derail the Democrats' legislative agenda.
I I have a question How can they say that?
What did the Republicans do?
The Democrats have voting majorities or have until Massachusetts in both houses.
They have, they got their 219 votes in the House.
They they had stayed that's 60 votes in the Senate.
The Republicans could not have stopped them.
The Republicans didn't do anything.
If anybody did anything, it is the American people.
The Tea Party people, talk radio, everybody that does not want any part of this socialist takeover of the economy.
The Republicans didn't do diddly squat, they couldn't have, even if they wanted to.
If the Republicans had gone out and made massive press conference appearances, it wouldn't have been covered much.
And had they done it, it would have they just been portrayed as gridlock, a party that said no, which they are portrayed as anyway.
But this this for the last year, Republicans have worked assiduously and effectively to derail the Democrats' legislative agenda.
How can they say that?
And this, in fact, was a constant in Axel Rod's remarks.
So here they're trying to get the Republicans to join them.
Trying to get the Republicans to cross the aisle, bipartisanship.
So this must be noted, as it is the new talking point against the Republicans.
And the Republicans ought to stand up against it and be proud.
Absolutely.
Because the Republican Party is doing what the voters have said they wanted, and that is oppose this.
But the overall point is that there was nothing the Republicans could have done to stop any of this.
It was their own wishy-washy Democrats.
They couldn't unify.
Mr. Unifier couldn't bring his own people together.
And by the way, I warned you about this.
You notice all the people in Obama's orbit is close circle, how angry they are.
Obama doesn't even unify his own staff.
Reverend Wright's always angry at somebody.
Bill Ayers is trying to blow something up every other day.
I mean, there's no unity out there anywhere.
So it's not a surprise he can't unify his own party.
The thing that killed the Obama agenda so far was sunshine.
This light shining on everything he was doing.
When we were able to find out the stuff they were pulling and able to tell people, the light showed the shadows of the Democrats' motivations.
Axelrod says they made a decision they were going to sit it out and hope that we failed, hope that the country failed.
Bang.
Oh, I am in their head.
Except when they fail, the country breathes a sigh of relief.
When they fail, the country is spared.
If they succeed, we are in heap big doo-doo.
And this uh Ezra Klein writes, it's been an inarguable success for the Republican Party.
Health care reform is on life support.
Republicans just won a Senate seat in Massachusetts.
Election experts are beginning to talk about a potential Republican takeover in November.
There is no case to be made that the GOP is in a worse position than a year ago, which made Axelrod's threats of consequences a bit tinny.
If they want to block everything, well, they're going to be held to account.
Now, isn't that hilarious?
We can't block anything.
The Republicans in Congress cannot block anything.
But yet the bullying and the intimidation continues.
Later, Axel Rudd said, We're gonna, we're gonna very visibly seek their support moving forward, and we'll shine a bright light.
It'll shine a bright light on them when they don't.
Bring it on, babe.
Bring it on.
Turn the bright lights on because then people will see you too.
Frankly, take a load off of us.
But it's hard to shine a light on minority obstructionism.
It's entirely possible to launch an attack on the tools of obstructionism.
That's that's this is in the Washington Post.
This is the writer's thing.
If it's hard to shine a light on minority obstructionism, it's entirely possible to launch an attack on the tools of obstructionism.
So anyway, asked about reconciliation, which is the point here.
Axelrod chose his words carefully.
Reconciliation is a tool that is there to be used.
The bottom line is they haven't given this up.
They have not given up health care, despite all the stories that you see.
It is their signature, it is the thing on which everything else they want to do depends.
And Pelosi, Reed, whoever, they'll find a way.
And Obama wants it just as much as he always has.
So keep a sharp eye, folks, as we will.
Quick timeout, we'll be back.
Grab some of your phone calls next after this.
And we are back.
We go to the phones.
Uh, Santa Barbara, California.
Ron, you're next.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Rush, I'd like to say a lot more, but I know today's a rich vein for you, so I'll just say mega didos.
Um Rush, I don't believe in litless tests for Republican candidates, but I would love to see a revived, robust RNC.
And I'd like to hear you talk about one possible pledge for RNC candidates going forward, and that's for swearing earmarks.
I had a chance to ask Michael Steele that uh question last Friday, and if you'd like to hear that story, I'll I'll give it to you.
But I'd like to hear you talk uh about that possible pledge by Republican candidates.
I saw a story about this uh the other day, not specifically about pledges on earmarks, but um uh Steele was asked if there would be an ideological test, because whoever asked a question, and i I think it was a republican i'm I'm not sure I think he was speaking to a Republican group maybe it was to the media in general but it was uh it was a question that was oriented town around the or toward the fact that the Republican Party has this moderate liberal wing the old
guard which thinks they're still in charge of things and the conservative wing which the old guard hates and don't want any part of they the old guard is embarrassed they're just like the Democrat old guard the elitists the Ivy League Republicans they're they're just as embarrassed as Sarah Palin as the Democrats are and and other conservatives talk radio blah blah blah blah blah and so Steele was asked about this and he said I don't think there should be an ideological test to be a Republican.
I really don't think there should be so I doubt that he would go along with a uh a pledge on on earmarks uh what I think Republicans are working on is is a is a new revised contract with America and you could certainly you know a 10-point plan of objectives and uh it'd be a contract they'd all sign it and I you could put that in that the earmark uh claiming that I don't think I don't think anybody would oppose it.
The Republicans have made great hay in uh in in opposing it and and trying to stop it but it's it's such an ingrained thing that Congress does.
Hell that's how they got the TARP money or not the uh the the uh uh stimulus bill passed they kiss a 787 billion but it was really close to a trillion because it took over hundred and fifty billion of earmarks and pork to get a bunch of people on the Democrat side to go along with it who weren't weren't really in favor of it.
I want to go back, too, to Obama and his lecture to the Republicans in Baltimore, their retreat today.
And Obama made it in typical me, me, me and immature childlike fashion.
Obama looked at the Republicans and said, I'm sure you're not going to blame my policy.
I'm sure my policies aren't responsible for the jobs lost before I was inaugurated.
I'm sure my policies weren't responsible for job losses the first month I was inaugurated.
The thing about that is, folks, and I know, I know many of you out there will agree with this, businesses look forward.
I would say that any jobs lost after his election could be put on him.
Remember, elections matter.
There were a lot of people who knew what Obama's policies were going to be.
They knew we were going to get things like growth.
government growth tax increases it was in the campaign uh people at 250 grand or more that's a lot of small business people were going to get their taxes raised he was playing class envy all the way and I think a lot of people knew what was headed down the pack and and so uh people began laying people off and preparing for the future under Obama.
So I I don't think I don't I don't he can't he can't just slough it off I get I guarantee you this if the economy had turned around in January and February I guarantee him to you he'd be taking credit for it because of his election that's right even before my police and play people are so happy with me look what happened.
So you and the media would be echoing that as well Marion Illinois John your next open line Friday hello uh Mr. Rush Megaditos from Southern Illinois.
Thank you, sir.
It's a pleasure to talk with you.
I don't know if you've talked about the Toyota issue very much, but I read an article in the Wall Street Journal of where the Obama administration had talked with Toyota and they had put the onus on Toyota to do something about this quote-unquote problem with the gas pedal sticking and all that good stuff that's going on.
And I've sold Toyota for...
the last six years prior I'm not selling any more I know several people in the business including service managers that's worked on for years I've never had one customer complain.
I've never seen it they the service manager said that it's impossible for them To go in and recreate the situation that's causing, you know, the gas pedal to stick.
Well, wait a minute.
Now there is a recall, isn't there?
Well, Toyota is recalling them to change them, and the only reason they're doing that is to preempt the government from doing more.
And now I I know I'm not a Toyota executive, but I I worked in Toyota.
I know how they work, and they want to be above board no matter what's going on.
They want to have the best attitude and look the best they can to their customers by saying, okay, we don't even know if there's really a major problem.
Well, I think General I think I think Obama motor companies uh are also exploiting this.
Very much so.
They well no they're they're saying they're offering uh that in the midst of this, they're offering uh potential customers a thousand dollar rebate if they'll get rid of their Toyota and come buy an Obama mobile.
That's exactly right.
That goes to my main point of you know, this government motors that we own now still can't sell cars.
They're still losing major money because they're bending over backwards for these unions, and they're crying about jobs not being created, yet they're trying their best to cause Toyota to lose jobs in the United States, and then they just happen to have all these commercials ready to go for national television saying, Well, you bring your Toyota in dust, and we'll give you an extra thousand dollars for it.
Don't tell me that this is not planned out and that Obama don't know he knows exactly what he's doing, and this is just an another nail in the coffin, hopefully, in two thousand twelve when he runs again, and people have enough of this and and they're just sick of it.
And it just infuriated me.
I can tell that I can hear I can hear the infuriation in your voice.
I can hear it.
I'm trained that way, and I can tell that you're angry.
I also see that Honda uh is is gonna recall six hundred and forty thousand cars.
I don't know what the reason for is I'll find out.
But your theory is it'd be to keep Obama off their back back in a second.
And we're back.
Rush Limbaugh the I'm watching the latest YouTube Hitler Responds to video.
This day Hitler's responding to the iPad, and he's having a conniption fit over how he thinks Apple screwed it up.
It was these things are hilarious.
The last one was Hitler response to Scott Brown winning in Massachusetts.
Or maybe there was one after that, but uh it was the what?
Oh, yeah, you responded to Jay Lenox.
They've got they've got three minutes and fifty seconds of a of a Hitler made for TV movie that they have the uh I guess intellectual rights to use on these things.
Whoever puts these things together, and they do it closed captioning because it's in German, uh, the lingo.
Um I've lost all my faith in Apple.
They don't even make a phone call.
And they stuck with that crappy 18th.
Anyway, Marion in Pittsburgh, you're next on Open Line Friday.
Great to have you here.
Thank you.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Well, I'm glad to have you with us.
Thanks.
You just made my point exactly just a few minutes ago.
I just heard the audio of our president denying any responsibility for job loss in the early days of his administration.
And I just wanted to point out how conveniently blind he is to the fact that the mere anticipation of the redistribution of wealth, the big government health care, and the other policies he promised, put a chill on the business community that affected the hiring and the business outlook as early as November 5th, 2008.
Um I'm married to the owner of a very small business, and I can tell you that this is true.
It was a time to pull back, be cautious, batten down the hatches, just not knowing what was coming at us in terms of taxes, big health care mandates, the economy, and so forth.
So I guess just to back up your point then.
I it's true.
Well, uh that's it is I and I I arrived at it late.
It's something I the the brain neurons are not firing all cylinders simultaneously that I arrived at it late.
But it's still true, and I think we'd have to look this up.
But wasn't November, December last year.
I think November was the big uh in 2008.
Well, not nine, two thousand eight.
November was the first first real big month for job loss.
I'm gonna have to look that up.
Something tells me that it was in December too.
Uh, and and the reason I think that is because that's when Obama started saying, Oh, this is much worse than we are told.
Bush didn't tell us how bad it was.
We had no idea it was going to be this bad.
Was it November of 2008?
Was the largest November oh eight, the largest single month of job losses since November of nineteen seventy four.
I was right.
That is the case.
So, Marion, I mean, you're you're uh you're right on the money.
Here's the Honda story.
646,000 uh it's the Honda fit.
A hundred and forty thousand of them in the United States.
It's uh their best-selling model in Japan.
The recall was to fix a defective master switch, which could cause water to enter the power window switch and in some cases cause a fire.
There were three reported cases of fires due to the defect, two in the U.S. and one in South Africa.
Also, I went back, I keep a uh a a uh archived file here of various excerpts of Obama's books, his alleged autobiographies.
He just went up there, he just said to the Republicans that he's not an ideologue.
I'm not an ideologue, I'm not.
He was only the most partisan senator at the time he was in Congress.
And from his uh this is his second alleged autobiography, The Audacity of Hope, thoughts on reclaiming the American dream.
He admits to being a product of the radical sixties.
I've always felt a curious relationship to the sixties.
In a sense, I'm a pure product of that era.
As the child of a mixed marriage, my life would have been impossible, my opportunities entire foreclosed without the social upheavals that were then taking place.
But I was too young at the time to fully grasp the nature of those changes, too removed, living in Hawaii in Indonesia, to see the fallout on America's psyche.
Much of what I absorbed from the 60s was filtered through my mother, who in the end of her life would probably proclaim herself an unreconstructed liberal.
The civil rights movement in particular inspired her reverence.
Whenever the opportunity presented itself, she would drill into me the values that she saw there.
Tolerance equality standing up for the disadvantaged, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So this business is not an ideologue, it's just it's just a crock.
Because if you go back to his books, uh he is is he's written, if you want, well, allegedly, has uh has written.
Let's say I just got a couple more, but it's uh oh, we got a couple more bites.
He's still there.
The TV cameras have stuffed too.
He's still there lecturing the republic.
I guess so.
So we got we have he's lecturing them.
Oh, this is good.
Listen to this.
We have first of two sound bites, it's 26 and 27.
Let's hit 26 right now.
How some of you went after this bill, you'd think that this thing was some Bolshevik plot.
No, I I mean that's how you guys that's how you guys presented it.
The way these issues are being presented by the Republicans is that this is some wild-eyed plot to impose huge government in every aspect of our lives.
What happens is you guys then don't have a lot of room to negotiate with me.
If you voted with the administration on something, are politically vulnerable in your own base.
You've given yourselves very little room to work in a bipartisan fashion because what you've been telling your constituents is this guy's doing all kinds of crazy stuff that's gonna destroy America.
Yeah, exactly right.
He's he's up there, he's identifying exactly what they're doing.
And I didn't exactly hear a denial.
Did you?
In this particular bite, I didn't actually hear a denial.
And nobody booed.
Uh and in fact, there was uh there was some applause and laughter when he got it right.
If you're gonna have this stride in a position, you have no room to negotiate with me.
Um you uh very little room to work at a bipartisan fashion.
They don't want so far, thank goodness, to work in a bipartisan fashion.
Uh this next one's pretty rich, too.
Here's the last of the most too recent bites we have.
I couldn't find credible economists who would back up the claims that you just made.
If I get confirmation from health care experts, I've got to be able to go to an independent health care expert.
There's got to be a mechanism in these plans that I can go to an independent health care expert and say, is this something that will actually work?
I am happy to have any independent fact check or take a look.
Folks, this is so disingenuous.
It doesn't, I shouldn't even have to spend a whole lot of time commenting on this.
The Heritage Foundation alone has a hundreds of scholars that would tell him exactly why his plan won't work and could tell him exactly what plans would work.
He doesn't want to hear those things.
He doesn't want to have it on record that he has heard those things.
Independent expert.
Liberals don't like anybody independent.
There's no such thing.
They live and they practice among themselves.
Speaking of heritage in the afterglow of that of the uninspiring State of Obama speech.
Guess what the Democrats in Congress did?
They voted another 1.9 trillion dollars in debt.
One bill at a time, they are building a bridge that could lead to financial disaster, just like the CBO's guy is predicting for the next two years.
Now, if if yesterday's bill, it was passed yesterday with all 60 Democrats saying yes, if if if it should be enough to get you to thinking about how our government has to get smaller.
The Heritage Foundation is something you should introduce yourself to, where people think through and work on that premise every day, smaller government.
There's a tipping point for all of us.
And an increase in the government's debt limit by another 13%, the second such vote of a debt increase in 60 days.
I don't know, it might be yours, but everybody has a tipping point where they finally realize this is getting too big.
It's out of control.
If this is your tipping point, if you've had enough, join like-minded people like me.
Members of the Heritage Foundation start educating yourself on what to do.
No other organization spends the time analyzing problems, offering solutions, and putting forth ideas like the Heritage Foundation does.
And they're just down the street from Obama.
Just down the street.
It's a lot closer to get to the Heritage Foundation than it is to get to Baltimore.
To talk to the Republicans.
600,000 people are members.
I am one of them.
You can become two.
Ask heritage.org is the place to go.
Hello, heart music in the bumper rotation, Rush Limbaugh on open line Friday from Las Vegas, where we are facing the final night leading up to it tomorrow night of the judging and a Miss America pageant 2010.
I have gone back during the commercial breaks here, been doing some research on the premise here that uh uh the Obama election really intensified unemployment skyrocketing and so forth.
It's even better than that, folks.
If you look at the GDP and the jobless charts, uh, and the unemployment chart's an amazing thing.
You see it trucking along here at five, four point seven, five point two, and then bam, in two thousand seven, it starts inching up.
Two thousand seven.
And by the time you get to the end of 2008, it's almost going straight up on this chart to now ten percent.
Two thousand seven GDP at the same time.
If you look at a chart of the gross domestic product, economic growth, you'll start to see it come down shortly after the start of 2007.
That happens to coincide when the Democrats took control of Congress.
See, people who invest real money know when the when to hold on to it.
And the Democrats taking over Congress, they're in charge of all spending, they control the economy at that point.
Uh and then Obama's election in November of 2008, and they'd heard the campaign.
They knew all of this government growth and redistribution and tax increases were coming, and they started making plans to deal with it by downsizing their labor force.
And it's only continued as Obama then came in and implemented the policies that everybody predicted that he would implement.
And now he's he's up there talking to the Republicans here about you guys, you guys, you can't come in and negotiate with me.
I mean, you you're making me out be some Bolshevik.
Uh you can't, you can't, you can I mean, you can't everybody believe it or not, I'm gonna control everybody's life.
Exactly right.
And we heard Axelrod.
Axlerod says that uh the Republicans is a sit back and let the country fail or let Obama fail.
If that's what they want to do, we're gonna hold them accountable.
And lo and behold, from you know, I like, I like Mike Allen at the politico.
I really do.
But I'm noticing a trend here.
Whenever the White House wants to get a new policy or talking point or whatever out it seems at first, shows up at the politico.
Lo and behold, right around 9 o'clock this morning, White House calling GOP accountability coming.
The White House, this is for the political playbook, it's it's uh Mike Allen.
The White House plans to step up efforts to hold Republicans accountable for cooperation.
Uh Dan Pfeiffer, the communications director, there are 59 Democrat senators now.
They're at 41 Republicans.
They have a responsibility to govern.
In year one, they sat on the sidelines, are willing to leave governing in this challenging time to us.
They have a responsibility now to partner with the president to try to get things done for the American people.
With 59 senators, it is mathematically impossible for Democrats to do everything on their own.
So this is a new strategy.
It's a Republican's fault now.
It's all a Republican's fault.
Mean Republicans, they're to blame.
They have to join us and govern.
They're not going to.
Not with the agenda that you've put forth.
And try this.
This is uh New York Times on Wednesday.
The Securities and Exchange Commission, the SE, said Wednesday for the first time, public companies will have to warn, should warn investors of any serious risks that global warming might pose to their businesses.
Although the agency has long required companies to reveal possible financial or legal impacts from a variety of environmental challenges, it has never specifically cited climate change as bringing potentially significant business risks or rewards.
The SEC, on a party line three to two vote, issued interpretive guidance to help companies decide when and whether to disclose matters related to climate change, which is a hoax.
The Commission said that companies could be uh helped or hurt by climate change lawsuits, and business opportunities or legislation could uh uh uh promptly disclose such potential impacts.
Banks or insurance companies that invest in coastal property that could be affected by storms or rising seas should disclose such risks.
Rising seas.
So if you're gonna buy stock in a company, the company has to warn you, well, you may not want to buy stock with us because the sea level might rise, and uh we're invested here in a little condo project and might not be there next year.
It all depends on the climate.
The SEC, securities and exchange commission, Mary Shapiro, the SEC chair babe, who was appointed by Obama said that the commission was not creating new legal requirements for companies, and he didn't intend to endorse any particular scientific or policy view of global warming.
She said that including climate risks among other disclosures was just a logical step.
Uh right.
So what we have here is just another way the Obama administration is quote unquote helping businesses to grow.
More regulation, more disincentive to even be in business.
Thank you, The Rock Obama.
Well, all the while claiming he wants the economy to grow.
So what happens here?
This gives the radical environmentalist wackos the power to control corporations with just the threat of a possible lawsuit down the road.
That's all it takes now.
Radical environmentalists now have the power.
And remember, Obama wrote he's a product of the radical 60s.
That's where his roots are.
That's with who he identifies.
And we have no doubt, I mean, Sololinski was the architect there, and the and Tom Hayden and all these guys, Jerry Rubin.
I mean, the list of these people is long, Bill Ayers, uh blowing up the Pentagon.
So radical environmentalist wackos now have the power to basically control corporations, just threatening to sue.
And it also guarantees corporations are gonna have to go out of their way to pay these groups off to leave them alone.
And that will also happen.
And so many people ask me, and they have over the course of my uh uh sterling career here.
Rush, why is why is Exxon?
Why is Exxon giving money to the Sierra Club?
Buying them off.
Why, why, why is why is BP uh why why is ExxonMobil giving money to the environment?
I I thought, Rush, that those people, yeah, they are the enemy.
They're buying them off.
They're paying them to leave them alone.
And even that's not a guarantee that they'll be left alone, as evidence clearly shows.
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I, of course, serving humanity, exercising talent on a loan from God.
Now, Obama went up there, he told the Republicans he's not a Bolshevik.
If he is not a Bolshevik, can he point to one item in his agenda that the Communist Party USA does not support?
I'll give you a hint, there isn't one.
I have little headlines and two sentence uh summaries of all stories from August of 8th of 2008 of the Communist Party USA endorsing everything Obama says he wants to do.
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