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Feb. 3, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 3, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Folks, there is so much apologizing going on from members of this administration.
It's just, it's just amazing.
First place, there's there's there's uh Rom Emanuel out there, who is in big trouble for calling liberals for calling liberal activists effing retards.
Uh Sarah Palin demanded that he be fired.
Uh instead, he has apologized to liberal activists.
He was getting mad at them about health care.
Uh the liberal activists kept blaming the White House for all this health care debacle not happening and not getting done.
You know, Emmanuel's getting ticked off out there uh saying, uh, you blame us.
What are you blaming us for?
We didn't do anything about it.
You effing retards.
So now I think the big news is the crack-up going on.
But we're our political correct society is acting like some giant insults taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards.
I mean, these people, these liberal activists are kooks.
They are looney-toons.
I'm not going to apologize for it.
I'm just quoting Emmanuel.
It's in the news.
I think the big news is that he's out there calling Obama's number one supporters, effing retards.
So now there's going to be a meeting.
There's going to be a retard summit at the White House, much like the beer summit between Obama and Gates and that cop in Cambridge.
And then the Republican transportation secretary, Ray Lahood.
He's out there apologizing because he told people not to drive their recall Toyotas.
And he said, no, no, no.
I didn't say don't drive them.
I don't I didn't say that.
I said take it in and get it fixed.
But he he did say that's not what I didn't mean to say.
Don't drive them.
Um here's the story.
This is uh Transportational Secretary, don't drive recalled Toyotas.
Lahood called uh automaker a little safety deaf during probe of problem, is advising owners of recoy recalled Toyotas to stop driving them and get them fixed.
His warning came Wednesday in testimony before House Appropriations Committee, but he's since gone out to a different microphone.
And so, no, no, no, no, that didn't mean to say don't drive them.
Don't forget Toyota is a competitor to Obama Motors.
So you can't throw that out of the equation.
Obama owns GM and Chrysler, and Toyota is a number one competitor.
So they're out there.
This is no different than the CEO Ford going on TV or buying an ad and saying, don't drive a General Motors car.
Then Arnie Duncan is apologizing for what he said about Hurricane Katrina.
And the New Orleans public schools said a hurricane Katrina was the best thing that ever happened to New Orleans public schools.
He said it was the best thing that ever happened to education in the New Orleans school system.
He said that school system has improved so rapidly because we had to rebuild it from scratch.
It's a wonderful thing to watch.
The school system is strong again, where it was relatively weak before.
And uh that can happen when half the population moves to Houston, and you throw in even more cash.
Duncan uh called on New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagan to explain his remarks.
And then John Ensign, Senator from Nevada Republican, demanded an apology from Obama for remarks he made disparaging Las Vegas again.
Ensign took to Twitter to ask for an apology for the remarks, the latest the president made in several negative references to the city.
Obama slams Las Vegas again.
I'm calling on the president to apologize.
Las Vegas suffering through one of the highest unemployment rates in a country.
We cannot afford for the president to bring us down any further.
Wall.
Reed got a letter from Yeah, Reed got a letter from the president, but Ensign did not.
That's the news from our Las Vegas affiliate.
No surprise there.
This guy's an ideologue.
He's a partisan.
Says he's not.
From the Washington, uh, sorry, the Wall Street Journal, Emmanuel steps up his abology.
Ron Emmanuel privately apologized last week to the Special Olympics after the journal reported he used the word retarded in a derogatory manner.
But advocates for people with disabilities didn't think that apology coming in a phone call to the Special Olympics head Tim Schreiber was enough.
Now Emmanuel's taking his contrition one step further, hosting a delegation of advocates.
I in including two people with mental disabilities at the White House.
Just like they had the Beer Summit.
And by the folks, let's not forget, Obama insulted the Special Olympics on the Tonight Show.
I haven't forgotten this.
You know, I here's the thing.
If you want to look at how this is broken down, a manual compares Democrat activists to retarded people, then apologizes to retarded people.
Not to the Democrats.
Normally, if you call somebody a retard, you apologize to them for calling them a retard.
But he has apologized to the retarded people for daring to lump them with Democrats.
It's hilarious.
So in an effort, uh, ladies and gentlemen, to quell rising questions about the endless apologies necessary from Democrats, Obama is taking a short bus, little yellow bus full of uh retards, effing retards, to Las Vegas for the weekend.
Senator Harry Reid expressed appreciation for the gesture and hope that none of the effing retards spoke with a Negro dialect.
Arnie Duncan, the uh Secretary of Education, will also be with the delegation to Las Vegas, bringing some undereducated children from Katrina Rabbit New Orleans.
The goal is to teach them not to gamble with their college fund.
And that's what we have learned from what is happening with this administration.
I guess if this were dead, if this were Republicans making these statements, there wouldn't be any forgiveness.
There would be calls for resignation.
There would be calls for public humiliation.
There'd be calls for fines.
Oh.
The bomb I dropped on Fox Today was just the first part.
Part two will air tomorrow.
I checked it out.
The first part aired twice today in the 6 o'clock hour and the 8 a.m. hour.
So I assume it'll be the same times tomorrow.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, before we go to the break here, this is big.
This is from multimedia.
Bloomberg multimedia.
The U.S., the United States, may lose 824,000 jobs when the government releases its annual revision to employment data the day after tomorrow, showing the labor market was in worse shape during the recession than known at the time.
Folks, I have believed that they have been manipulating the numbers to keep them below 10% or at 10%.
The U.S. may lose, meaning we already have.
They will add 824,000 jobs lost when they issued the annual revision to employment data on February 5th.
They're playing with that percentage rate so that it doesn't go above 10%.
But now it can't help that's almost a million more jobs.
In the midst of all this, we hear about 600,000 jobs created or saved.
And if we hadn't done this, why we'd be not even be here today as a country.
Oh yeah, if we hadn't done this, well, who knows?
In actual worse shape than we are in now.
So 824,000 jobs, uh, additional lost when the figures are revised.
This from Bloomberg will keep a sharp eye.
Those uh numbers come out Friday.
And of course, of course, the experts will not be just surprised.
The yet work uh uh experts will be shocked.
They'll be stunned.
AP and Reuters probably already working on the uh on the language.
Speaking of Obama and uh heading out there to these uh jobs town halls.
This morning in Washington at the Democrat uh Senate Democrat Policy Committee issues conference at the neuseum, Obama spoke, commiserating with the poor Democrats, telling them that they'll get re-elected if they pass health care.
Uh by the way, uh there's a companion story of this later on in the stack that says the youth vote has simply lost its energy.
The youth vote that showed out in such force in the 2008 presidential election, with so much enthusiasm and so much idealism and so much love and devotion and cult like attraction to President Obama, that voting group is now not interested.
And you know why?
They're not interested anymore.
They've lost their enthusiasm because the Democrats have failed to pass healthcare.
That's the story from the AP.
That's the analysis.
Yes, the young have lost their enthusiasm.
Not not because Obama hadn't done anything, not because everything's getting worse, not because the future doesn't look bright for anybody.
No, no, no, no.
It's because the Democrats didn't pass health care.
That's why the youth aren't planning on voting.
They've lost their enthusiasm.
They didn't care about health care to begin with.
These are the people who don't ever think they're gonna die.
They're that young.
It's not they're not thinking about the catastrophic disease that's gonna wipe them out.
They're still thinking they got their parents to lean on if they do get wiped out by something.
This is patently absurd.
And now here's Obama.
I mean, he really must want to get rid of a lot of these Democrats.
But this he doesn't, he doesn't sound very convincing here when he says this.
I know these are tough times to hold public office.
The natural political instinct uh is to tread lightly, keep your head down, and to play it safe.
So many of us campaigned on the idea that we were going to change this health care system.
There's a direct link between the work that you guys did on that and the reason that you got into public office in the first place.
We've got to finish the job on health care.
We've got to finish the job on financial regulatory reform.
We've got to finish the job.
We've got to finish the job even though it's hard.
If if that's where we go, I'm confident that politics in 2010 will take care of themselves.
Go for it.
You just go for it.
You go ahead and you bring health care back up.
Uh I still don't know what to make of this.
You still get two stories on this, that they're working on it behind the scenes piecemeal and they're working on it behind the scenes comprehensive.
And then the the uh there's actually a third take.
The third take is they're going nowhere.
Lawrence O'Donnell yes, it is it's dead.
They're just saying this stuff to keep the effing retards in their base from going ballistic.
And that's probably the accurate theory.
Now here's Obama.
Uh, does he sound does he sound like rah-rah here?
You guys get out there and and uh finish the job.
We gotta finish the job with health care.
I don't know.
I it it just doesn't sound too convincing to uh to me.
Let's go ahead and one more bite from this thing.
Uh from the uh president at the Senate Democrat Policy Committee issues conference at the museum.
This is kind of funny.
We've got to constantly make our case, I think, and not play an insider's game, play an outsiders game.
Just turn off the TV, MSMEC, blogs, and just go talk to folks out there instead of being in this echo chamber where the topic is constantly politics.
We've we've got to, I think get out of the echo chamber.
Uh uh that was a mistake that I think uh uh I made last year was just uh not getting out of here enough.
And it and it's it's helpful when you do.
Well, he only went out there 427 times.
He only had 427 public speeches.
I didn't get out there enough.
But he has just told the Democrats to turn off the channel that's propping them all up.
I it just uh NBC, by the way, cut out of that speech right after that bite.
He'd also mentioned CNN and Fox earlier, but when he then told his own Democrats to basically stop watching the effing retards at MSNBC.
I mean, those are the only viewers they had left.
I mean, this this network is losing audience left and right anyway.
But it's the only network that Obama has 24-7 that constantly propagandizes for him.
And he just told the Democrats to stop watching it.
All right, nobody's watching MSNBC anymore.
The President said, Don't watch it.
The President said to Democrats, he told a Democrats in the Senate, you've got to stop watching MSNBC.
So nobody's watching it.
Uh, because Democrats believe and follow Obama, like a cult like figure, but they're still broadcasting, and uh uh here's just something of what they played this morning.
There is a lot going on in the world today.
Here are some things we thought you should know.
Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh says he is praying for President Obama.
But it's not exactly prayers of goodwill.
Here's what he had to say.
The fact that his agenda has totally failed this year is the best thing that could have happened to this country.
I thank God every day that this is going down the tubes.
And I referenced a moment ago that Ob Rob Emanuel and with his effing retard comment and uh Obama, you know, remember he had gone out on the tonight show and uh he'd made fun of uh Special Olympics bowlers.
Well, here, let's go back in time and remember how that happened.
There is a lot going on in the world today.
Here are some things we thought you should know.
Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh says he is praying for President Obama.
But it's not exactly prayers of goodwill.
Here's what he had to say.
The fact that his agenda has totally failed this year is the best thing that could have happened to this country.
I thank God every day that this is going down the tubes.
And I referenced a moment ago that Ob Robin Emmanuel and with his effing retard comment and uh Obama, you know, remember he had gone out on tonight's show and uh he'd made fun of uh Special Olympics bowlers.
Well, here, let's go back in time and remember how that happened.
He said it.
I bowl like I'm in the Special Olympics.
President Obama, by the way, state controlled AP.
Obama backs down after anti-Vegas remarks.
But by the way, I'm just saying, but just a little side note here, but uh gambling is forbidden in the in the Quran.
I just a little aside.
Just saying.
President Barack Obama known for having away with words, but some lawmakers from Nevada wish he would pipe down about trips to the city after sparking a firestorm of criticism from Nevada's elected officials for suggesting that people saving money for college shouldn't blow it in Vegas.
Obama told U.S. Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry in a letter, he wasn't saying anything negative about Las Vegas.
I was making the simple point that families use vacation dollars, not college tuition money to have fun.
And no place better to have fun than Vegas, one of our country's great destinations.
Obama said he always enjoys his visits to Vegas.
He's going out there next month or later this month.
White House spokesman referred to Obama's letter to read and said the administration had no further comment.
And again, the Quran uh prohibits gambling is forbidden in the Quran.
So I'm just saying.
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There's a fascinating piece today at Salon.com by Glenn Greenwald chiding the Democrats for giving Obama a pass on his Bush-like ways regarding terrorists.
In fact, the headline here, what exactly did Bush and Cheney do wrong?
Uh I think what Greenwald does here is trying to shame Obama and his liberal colleagues with this piece.
I'll give you details of it when we when we come back.
You know, folks, seriously, this this uproar, and you may not know this.
This uproar over Ron Emmanuel calling Democrat activists effing retards.
This demonstrates the power of Sarah Palin.
It was Sarah Palin who I think on her Facebook page this week demanded that Obama fire Emmanuel.
But this comment is from last August.
The effing retard comment, he made it last August.
And of course, the uh, you know, state-controlled media buddies tell us that she's irrelevant and she's stupid and so forth.
And she would be the instant death of the Republican Party.
She's the one that got all this bro ha going.
Uh late breaking news.
Attorney General Eric Holder, quote, I made the decision to charge the fruit of kaboom bomber.
Wait, no.
They're, you know, this administration is calling him the Christmas Day bomber.
Now, this is a bunch of people that you know they don't like Christmas.
Uh, it's happy holidays.
Notice they're not calling him the happy holiday bomber.
They're calling him the Christmas Day terror suspect, and Holder, who now says that um it was my decision to uh try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in civil court.
It's my decision to do that.
Which he couldn't.
I mean, that's that's Obama's.
And now he said I made the decision because everybody has been wanting to know.
Jeff Sessions, everybody on the Senate committee, who made this decision?
Did it was it made by the FBI?
Was it made by the Justice Department?
Who made this decision?
To mirandize this guy.
And Holder say, I did it.
He's he's he's he's taken the fall here for a lot of botched up stuff.
By the way, I think I've finally figured out what Obama is doing here with sending that Dolt Press Secretary Gibbs out there to say, don't worry about it.
The guy's guilty.
He's gonna be frying, he's convicted and he's gonna be executed.
And Obama's saying the same thing.
They're purposely polluting the jury pool so that they have no choice but then to take this back to a military tribunal.
That's that's what they're doing.
So it looks like they they desperately wanted to stick with the civil trial, but there's been such an uproar from so many quarters about this that what they're doing, rather than saying, okay, okay, we're gonna move it, they're making it impossible not to move it with their idiotic comments.
Because this, if they if they did proceed with the civil trial on this, uh, the lawyer for the terrorists could get this case thrown out like that.
And if it didn't get thrown out, it certainly grounds for an appeal.
Now, here's Glenn Greenwald at Salon.com.
What exactly did Bush and Cheney do wrong?
Democrat media elites attack Obama for departing from the prior administration's terrorism approach.
As I noted several days ago, it's not only Republicans, but Democrat and media establishment figures as well, who clearly crave the preservation of the Bush-Chaney approach to terrorism and civil liberties when Bush's popularity collapsed to historic laws.
Political and media elites pretended for a while to object to his administration's fear-based and radical policies as extremist and an assault on our values.
But that was all just such a transparent pretense.
In those few instances where Obama has rejected the Bush Cheney template, the outrage and hysteria from Democrat and media voices is pervasive and is growing louder.
Just look at these illustrative incidents.
Democrat Governor Ed Rendell went on Fred Thompson's radio show yesterday to demand that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed be put before a military commission at Guantanamo.
Over the weekend times, Joe Klein lamb-based to the Obama DOJ and embraced Bush's former CIA and NSA chief Michael Hayden by objecting to the criminal charges and constitutional rights afforded the accused Happy Holidays Day bomber, with Klein decreeing the bomber's an enemy combatant.
He doesn't deserve Miranda rights.
F. Chuck Todd and Savannah Guthrie at MSNBC chatted yesterday with their boss, the Washington Bureau Mark Whitaker, all agreeing the decision to grant civilian trials for terrorists a pure self-inflicted wound.
When uh Najibullah Zazi was arrested for allegedly plotting a serious terror attack, the new republic's Michael Crowley said he was so frightened by this that he was open to torturing Zazi.
Democrat senators are threatening to join the GOP and cutting off funds for civilian trials.
Democrat members of Congress joined with the GOP to prevent even modest reforms of the Patriot Act and other you get the picture here.
This guy Greenwald is is saying you guys are a bunch of hypocrites.
You are sitting around, you're doing the same thing Bush and Cheney did, and for all those years Bush and Cheney were doing it, you were ripping them to shreds.
So what exactly did they do wrong?
See, because these retards on the on the left, as Rom Emanuel calls them, these retards on the left do think that Bush was over the top, that his policies were fear-based and radical, and that he destroyed U.S. values and made us hated all over the world, that Guantanamo Bay was a terrorist recruitment area, and now all the people they vote for are openly suggesting that we continue Bush-Cheney policies.
And there's even stories out there from the state controlled media saying, you know, it's uh something you learn when you get into power that uh you can't really know what you're dealing with with this kind of issue, terrorism from the outside.
Uh you only know about it within terms and people who now realize that Bush and Cheney actually had some pretty good uh procedures in place here, some pretty good policies.
So it's kind of laughable.
I mean, if you read the whole thing, and I'm I'm not uh I'm gonna read this whole thing, it prints out to three pages.
But 9-11 turned Glenn Greenwald into a patriot who naturally began to worry that the people trying to destroy our country were not being given all the rights and privileges of American citizens.
He thought that was real patriotism, and so we were doing it.
We're going to grant civilian trial with constitutional rights to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his boys, and then the uh happy holidays day bomber.
And now he's upset that the Democrats uh have gone soft.
I this is hilarious.
It's fun to see baying at the moon liberals point out that his media colleagues and fellow Democrats excoriated Bush and Cheney for the exact same things they're now insisting that we do.
It is delicious, I have to say.
By the way, there was also little known little little referenced item a couple of days ago, that uh the Obama Justice Department cleared uh the two lawyers who approved that uh interrogation memo that included waterboarding.
They cleared him.
And this did not sit well with the retards and the kook Democrat base out there.
A little Rom Emanuel lingo there.
Then yesterday in Washington, America's top intelligence official told lawmakers that Al Qaeda and its affiliates had made it a high priority to attempt a large-scale attack on American soil within the next six months.
The assessment by Dennis Blair, the director of national intelligence, was much starker than his view last year when he emphasized the considerable progress in a campaign to debilitate Al Qaeda and said that the global economic meltdown rather than the prospect of a major terrorist attack was the primary near-term security concern of the U.S. Don't forget Obama's now got the CIA looking at potential problems caused by global warming.
He shut down NASA's manned space missions and turned NASA into a basically a global warming agency.
At Tuesday's hearing, Senator Diane Feinstein, Democrat California chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee asked Blair to assess the possibility of an attempted attack in the U.S. in the next three to six months.
He said the priority is certain, I would say.
A response that was reaffirmed by top officials at the CIA and the FBI.
Panetta, CIA director, with the biggest threats not so much that we face an attack like 9 11.
It's that Al-Qaeda is adapting its methods in ways that oftentimes make it difficult to detect.
They're in the country, we think they're here, and they're plotting events from inside.
I'm not.
And yet the New York Times, do you remember, assured us back in September, the U.S. faces no real risk of terrorism attacks.
It was by Scott Shane.
Rethinking our terrorist fears.
Eight years after 9 11, the specter of terrorism still haunts the U.S. But important as they were, those news reports masked a surprising and perhaps heartening long-term trend.
Many students of terrorism believe that in important ways Al Qaeda and its ideology of global jihad are on a pronounced decline with its central leadership thrown off balance as operatives are increasingly picked off by missiles and manhunts, and more important, with its tactics discredited in public opinion across the Muslim world, blah, blah, blah.
So yesterday the Senate said, yep, pretty pretty good chance they're going to be hit this summer, three to six months.
Last September, New York Times, rethinking our terrorist fears.
We don't face any real risk.
Anybody who thinks so is a fearmonger.
And of course, this was to set Obama's campaign up September of uh No, the campaign was already over.
This is just to give Obama credit for dealing with it, even though he hadn't captured uh bin Laden.
Anyway, uh my guess is in a final analysis, my good friends, there probably isn't all that much that's really new in yesterday's warnings, except that when we got such reports during the Bush administration, we were told by the media that Bush was using unfounded threats to scare and distract us from his horrible policies.
Now, under Obama, uh our media no longer calls these warnings a distraction.
In fact, our media says, ooh, serious stuff going on out there.
We have to be vigilant.
Obama wouldn't be trying to distract us from failed policies, would he now?
No, no, no, no.
That only is the template when you have Republicans in the White House.
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Back to the phones we go with people uh online here at Low, North Carolina.
This Jeff, great to have you on the program, sir.
Oh, thank you, Rush.
I'm a 20-year listener, and I am thrilled to be talking to you today.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I wanted to comment on the jobs uh stuff that you talked about earlier with the new numbers coming out and so on.
And I think that the a gross miscalculation that the administration has made, it really goes to their arrogance, is they think that companies are going to rehire at the same rate that they let people go.
And they are sadly mistaken.
Everybody, no one is gonna hire until they absolutely have to hire because they have way too much work to handle.
And there's nobody out here that I know of that's got way too much to handle.
Good point.
Good point.
I th there is a giant misunderstanding of capitalism by people who hate it, and they look at it and they see it as a perpetual machine producing dollars and profits that they can skim and tax and take.
Uh, and they look at these people as all greedy, and if they're not hiring people, it's because they just want their high profits to be maintained.
They did really it's a they have an ingrained hatred for the pursuit of profit, and they have a double ingrained hatred for the people who make profit.
Uh I the only look, your theory is solid.
It's dead on.
I I just I can't get past the fact that there's a part of me that believes Obama is very happy for unemployment to stay where it is.
Well, and here, you know, I'm in the construction industry here in North Carolina, and we're suffering.
I mean, it's unbelievable how bad we're suffering.
And he thinks that he's gonna, you know, turn it on here before the election and put that stimulus money out.
There's not enough time.
There's not enough time at this point for that to happen, and it's not nearly enough money to make it happen.
It depends.
Now remember, this much will manipulate numbers.
We've now passed the point or reached the point where there are more government union workers than private sector union workers.
And this stimulus money is gonna go to states and gonna go to cities where they'll be able to keep people or hire new ones.
He doesn't care where the jobs are, as long as he can say the unemployment rate's going down.
Yeah, I agree.
I agree, but I don't know that he's gonna be able to take it down.
Everybody is so strapped all the government.
Yeah, that's because if they put out these numbers that unemployment's coming down and it's going great guns out there, and people still aren't finding jobs, they're gonna wonder, well, where the hell are they?
I can't find a job.
Nobody I know's got a job.
Uh and yeah, they they've but see, I I really think there was a uh Paul Ryan of Wisconsin yesterday in a statement after reading uh the Obama budget came out and said, Look, there's no question what this is.
This is an attempt to turn this country into a collectivist society that is a predominantly government-run welfare state.
And I don't disagree with that.
In fact, I have been one of the first to say so.
The choice that we have in this budget is either the destruction of the United States as we've known it, or the maintenance and the promotion of the United States as we've known it.
That's what we face here.
Uh Heritage Foundation in their morning bell blog, the President's Permanent Political Slush Fund.
And if I may remind you that I, El Rushbo, was the first to call these slush funds.
After suffering major electoral and legislative defeats last month, Obama took to the campaign trail in Nashua, New Hampshire, pitching his administration's latest new plan to lower unemployment.
This time the president hopes to do for small businesses what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack did for home mortgages.
Specifically, he wants to create a new $30 billion small business lending fund, which will loan money to banks with assets under $10 billion at favorable new rates, as long as they comply with a slew of new regulations designed to incentivize them to loan that money to small business.
Never mind that a recent poll of small business owners by the National Federation of Independent Businesses ranked finance and interest rates as the second to last most important problem facing their business.
Interest rates are low.
The problem here is they don't want to hire because they don't want, they don't have no idea what they're going to be facing, in addition to Obama's massive tax increases coming down the pike.
They don't know yet if there's going to be a hook and crook way they get health care.
They don't know yet if Obama's going to succeed in getting cap and tax.
It's that simple.
But the Heritage Foundation asks a good question.
Where's Obama getting this 30 billion dollars?
The President explained it yesterday.
This proposal takes the money that was repaid by Wall Street banks to provide capital for community banks on Main Street.
In other words, TARP.
The $700 billion troubled asset relief program first signed into law by Bush and then used by Hank Paulson to force many financial firms into taking taxpayer money that never wanted in the first place.
But if Wall Street banks are paying back their TARP funds, then how can President Obama say the following, justifying his financial crisis responsibility fee?
We want our money back, and we're going to get it.
And that's why I'm proposing a financial crisis responsibility fee to be imposed on major financial firms until the American people are fully compensated for the extraordinary assistance.
So which is it?
Are Wall Street banks repaying their TARP obligations in full so the president can afford to spend $30 billion on his new small business lending fund, or is TARP gonna lose $117 billion?
And Heritage says the answer is both.
But again, the blatant hypocrisy and lie that Obama gave for uh raising fees on banks has been exposed.
They are paying the money back, and he's gonna take some of it to fund small banks so that they'll supposedly loan to people.
Campaign lawyers for Scott Brown have sent the Senate a letter demanding that he be seated immediately, saying a lot can happen in the Senate in a week.
The Senate is saying, no, you wait until February 11th, like we said.
Meanwhile, Paul Kirk is still casting votes.
And in a real sense, that is not legal.
Paul Kirk is still casting votes.
This tells me they may still be trying to do something on health care in the Senate.
We'll have to wait and see, and a lot more still ahead.
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