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Feb. 5, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 5, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
I am America's Truth Detector, America's Doctor of Democracy, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned.
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So I have a new nickname from a caller in Boca Raton.
I think that place is 100% socialist.
Based on everything I know, people I know who live there, the things that come out of there, I am now Rush Limbully.
I am bullying Obama.
Let's see if I taken over the White House.
Am I in charge of what he gets paid?
I haven't taken over any car companies.
I haven't bullied any people on Wall Street.
I'm the bully.
The bully is in the White House.
And I'm going to tell you something, folks.
I feel sorry for the next president who's going to inherit.
You talk about the next president going to inherit something.
This is going to be an absolute disaster.
Whoever the next president is is going to inherit all this debt and all of this bureaucracy.
One disaster after another created by this president.
You talk about inheriting.
Obama inherited a recession caused not only by the business cycle, but by the collapsing housing market resulting from decades of left-wing policies manipulating mortgages.
In all the subprime crisis, Obama saw an opportunity to blow the lid off the budget, off the debt.
And now he takes credit for anything he can cling to while denouncing everybody else while the whole situation gets worse.
And make no mistake about it, ladies and gentlemen, it's getting worse by the day.
I've had some people say, Rush, these people, there's too many, too many people to be involved to cook the numbers.
They can't manipulate.
I checked the email.
They can't manipulate the unemployment numbers.
Well, let me take you back to August 8, 2002, and a Robert Novak column.
The government's department, that the Commerce Department's painful report last week that the national economy is worse than anticipated obscured the document's startling revelation hidden in the morass of statistics.
There is proof that the Clinton administration grossly overestimated the strength of the economy leading up to the 2000 election.
Did the federal government join Enron and WorldCom in cooking the books?
Through all of Clinton's last two years in office, the announced level of before-tax profits was at least 10% too high.
Remember this?
We reported it at the time.
A discrepancy rising close to 30% during the last presidential campaign.
Most startling, the Commerce Department in 2000 showed that the economy was on an upswing through most of the election year, while in fact it was declining.
Bush inherited a little recession and then 9-11 hit.
The Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates before-tax profits of domestic non-financial corporations quarterly.
Revised figures last week showed that profits were really lower by 10.7% and 12.2% and 15.2% and 18% for the four quarters of 1999.
In 2000, the gap became a chasm.
The revised quarterly profits for the election year are lower than the announced figures of 23.3, 25.9, 29.9, and 28.2.
So don't tell me they don't make up the numbers.
They clearly do.
Now, one of the things, we spent a lot of time on Europe yesterday and explaining why what's happening over there could be having an effect on our stock market.
And of course, the problem that's happening now is that I mentioned this yesterday, that the Euro may actually collapse.
These are states equivalent to our states.
Greece is like a state in the European Union and they can't print their own money.
New Jersey can't print its own money.
And the four countries that are really providing problems are Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain.
They have huge deficits and no monetary policy, no national monetary policy that they can monkey with and manipulate.
And so a lot of people are fearful that they can't resolve the problems within the confines of the Euro because they don't know that the Euro, the EU, can bail them out.
The EU is not working.
I mean, it's a grandiose idea trying to mimic us, but of course, we are the product of ideas.
And they're not.
Now, Mike Munger thinks it's possible we're looking at the end of the Euro as we know it, as one or more of these countries may have to drop.
Normally, folks, I wouldn't bother you with all this, but it has an effect.
It's having an effect on the stock market here.
And a lot of these countries are socialist countries and hang on for the PS de résistance.
Now, Munger says that it's not impossible we're looking at the end of the Euro as we know it.
One or more of these countries may have to drop out of the EU and inflate a new national currency to get out from under their fiscal situation.
And he says this is a 37% probability.
He's run the numbers.
And the situation is getting worse rather than better because as the EU has demanded that Greece lower its deficit as a percentage of GDP, the announced austerity programs are causing rioting, striking.
Portuguese legislators appear to be thinking about increasing spending and raising rather than lowering their deficit.
Spanish stock market fell 6% today, yesterday.
Portugal, 5%, Greece, 3.5%.
And here's from the Los Angeles Times.
Protests in Greece over new austerity measures.
Tax and customs inspectors took to the streets of Greece on Thursday at the head of an expected wave of new labor unrest as the country tries to claw its way out of a debt crisis that threatens to engulf much of Europe.
The walkout was the first of several planned protests over the government's new austerity plan intended to restore confidence in its finances.
But you have all these dependent people and they hear an austerity program and all I'm not going to get my government goodies.
More labor unrest is expected as the government drafts a plan to trim the budget and raise levies, taxes.
That's a new word, by the way, to replace taxes.
Raise levies to cut the deficit, which has passed 12%.
So same thing could happen here.
I want you to put yourself in the future and imagine somebody like the Chikoms demanding that we do the same thing the EU is demanding of Greece.
Your debt as a percentage GDP, because we own it, Chaikam say, is way too high.
We need you to get that debt down to 8% instead of the 10.6% that it is.
Well, the only way to do that would be to really cut spending and lower taxes to create jobs and economic output.
Is Obama going to do any if he did?
If he cuts, can you imagine the howls of protest from at least the 36% of the people in this country that Gallup found like socialism?
Riots, strikes?
Same thing could happen here.
The situation is not that much different.
We can inflate our currency all we want.
We can continue to print it.
But in the end, it only makes it much worse.
And right now, what Obama and the Democrats are looking at, if you take a look at their budget and everything else, they're looking at getting out of town before we have to make the deal with the devil.
They're looking at getting out of town before the excrement hits the fan.
That's their plan.
Wreck the country and then flee.
We'll be back.
Your phone calls coming up on Open Line Friday.
Well, it just keeps adding up here, folks.
Patrick Kennedy, the son of the late Senator Edward Kennedy, has said that Scott Brown's election was a joke because Brown insisted on being sworn in early.
It's just a joke, said Patrick Kennedy.
Brown wanted to be sworn in early because he saw that the temporary replacement for Senator Kennedy, Paul Kirk, was still in there casting one illegal vote after another.
Soon as Brown was elected, Kirk's out of there.
Can't cast any more votes.
It's Massachusetts law and Senate law.
He kept going, and they finally had to get Brown in there to hold up some radical communist heading up the National Labor Relations Board, which ticked off Pat Kennedy.
They wanted a communist in there.
Now, from Hillary Chabot to BostonHerald.com, the Kennedy political dynasty is shaking in the aftershock of Scott Brown's earth-shattering election.
But the poll here shows U.S. Representative Patrick Kennedy losing ground as he faces a well-financed Republican candidate backed by Brown's top strategists.
WPRI 12 poll showed the Rhode Island Democrat 56% unfavorability rating in his district, a negative that grows to 62% statewide.
Camelot is crumbling out there.
There's only one surviving Kennedy brother, and that's Barack Obama.
Patrick Kennedy is in trouble.
Can you imagine if a Republican beat him in his district in Rhode Island?
It looks like that could happen.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, was it not a cable network owned by NBC which led the charge saying I was mean-spirited and bigoted, so forth in that Michael J. Fox thing?
Was it not a cable channel owned by NBC that has been trying to get Sarah Palin to denounce me for using in a satirical way the words of Barack Obama, or Harry Reid and Rahm Emanuel?
An ER word, yes.
So there is a sign posted at the NBC cafeteria celebrating Black History Month.
They post this menu in honor of Black History Month.
And a disgruntled employee took a picture of it and emailed it.
Fried chicken.
NBC, in honor of Black History Month, fried chicken, collard greens with smoked turkey, white rice, black-eyed peas, jalapeno cornbread, fountain soda, or aquafina water.
He wasn't the only employee to notice.
Fried chicken in honor of Black History Month.
I wonder if the servers at the NBC cafeteria in February, Black History Month, speak with a Negro dialect.
Well, I mean, it's NBC folks, and they're supposedly above the fray.
Those people would never, ever engage in anything so offensive, would they?
But there they are.
And it was a couple of disgruntled employees who snapped pictures with their cell phones, and the pictures are all over the net.
Here's where are we going on the phones?
Can we go back to the phones here?
Who's up first?
Oh, Bob in Philadelphia.
Glad you called, sir.
Your turn.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
It's a pleasure to speak to you.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Just an observation.
Do you think the Democrats are being very hypocritical?
Because during the Bush administration, I remember during when the Iraq war was really going really, really flying, they would have all these people come up and say, well, we support the troops, but we're not for the war.
And now they're saying that, well, we support Obama and Obama's ratings are very high, but his policies aren't really, we don't support them.
Now, here's what I'm thinking.
The reason I'm thinking that Obama's approval ratings are so high is because the people who are asked the question in these polls, they don't want to be seen, they don't want to be perceived as being racist.
So they say, oh, yeah, we like him.
And, you know, they're not racist, but, you know, they really don't like the guy.
I think that's a large factor.
It's been proven that people answering pollsters' questions don't want to be thought of by the pollster as either racist or bigoted or sexist or homophobic.
It is an interesting analogy that you draw.
We support the troops, but we hate the war.
Can't do both at the same time.
But you could like Obama.
He could have a likability that you like, but you don't like his policies.
I think to the extent that people are phonying it up on the answers because they don't want the pollster to think that they are racist, I also think that the media did such a marvelous job of ginning up pure hatred for George W. Bush that anybody, by comparison, is likable.
But it isn't going to be long.
And by the way, his approval numbers are below 50% now.
They're not that.
The likability is above 50, but the approval is not.
And that disparity is, I think, could be some number fudging, could be the Bradley effect.
You remember the Bradley effect?
Telling a pollster you're going to vote for a black guy, they're not doing it.
Telling a pollster you like the president when you don't.
Because I've really, I mean, if you don't like his policies and more and more people are opposed energetically to his policies, it does stretch belief that the likability factor is that high.
But we'll wait and see.
Time will tell.
Back to the phones, Boca Raton.
This is Jim.
By the way, I just got a fax or an email.
Jim, I'm told there are three conservatives in Boca Raton.
Well, I happen to be one of them, Rush.
Not all the folks down here are socialists or liberals.
And I want to bring up a point that has not been discussed on the air and get some advice from you on it.
As a matter of fact, you're the only person that mentioned it.
I am going to say two words, Rush Limbaugh.
China card.
In other words, what I'm talking about is because the United States is dependent on what will be the second largest economic power by the end of the year, taking that spot from Japan, they have started to flex their muscles as far as the control over the United States and how we do business.
Vis-a-v.
The severe consequences of Obama meeting with the Dalai Lama, the arms sales to Taiwan, and the refusal to devaluate their currency also to threaten severe consequences, as well as to flex their muscles in all these areas.
They are going to pull the plug on loans, and then where will we be?
Well, not as bad as if they called them.
Right.
I want to ask you something.
I've got a story from the Washington Times.
I didn't get into it in a lot of detail.
I just pulled one quote from it, but here's by David Dixon.
China has acknowledged that its export-driven economy took a beating in 2008 and 2009.
But Western analysts, most of whom are suspicious of Beijing's willingness to concede downturns, think China may have already slipped into a recession and that they're hiding it with phony trumped-up numbers that show rabid economic growth.
And more and more people are beginning to think that the CHICOMs are manipulating their economic statistics just like the Obama administration is.
Now, how do you expect?
When you say that the CHICOM is going to play the card, how is that going to manifest itself?
Well, you can see the move towards socialism right now as far as the government is concerned.
And I really am feeling more and more like they are going to have more of an influence economically as far as these loans are concerned.
They're supporting a lot of financing of this thing we're going through right now.
And if they pull the plug on that, they seem to be our major source of funds in order to even float this thing during this crazy time.
Well, it could be.
I know that they have, at least there have been reports that the CHICOMs have told Obama they're very, very worried about all of this debt and all of this borrowing.
And Obama is going to turn that around to say we've got to raise taxes.
And I think that's when he, you know, his trip over to China was a dud.
By all, by all measures, at all reports, it was a dud.
Yeah, this Chikom thing, it's got everybody a little unease out there because if they called the debt or if they did what the EU is doing to Greece and demanded that we get our debt down below 10% of GDP, well, they're kind of interlinked with us.
I mean, it might hurt their economy because they're export-driven.
Consumers here have to have money to buy their stuff.
And not only us, but around the world, too.
Anyway, Jim, thanks much for the call.
I appreciate it.
Let's see.
Greenville, South Carolina.
Hey, George, Open Line Friday.
You're next.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush, it's an honor.
Rush, I'm 45 years old.
I've got five kids, and I've seen my share of State of the Union addresses.
This last State of the Union address was the first time that I was actually embarrassed to sit there with my children in front of that television.
I just didn't know if you noticed the fact that, you know, my kids are homeschooled.
They're smart.
They know the condition of the nation.
They know what it used to be, what it is now.
And they know that 25, 27 million people are out of work, 40 million plus folks have lost their home.
My kids are aware of that.
And they're watching the State of the Union address, and it seemed like it was more like a Saturday morning cartoon, that there was so much jovialness and laughing and taunting the Republicans and making the Democrats.
Plus, it was defensive, and it was petulant, and it was childlike, and there was not one word of motivation or inspiration in that entire speech.
Amen.
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Hosting Open Line Friday from the sunny climes of the EIB Southern Command.
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The callers control the content of the program.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 107 points.
Meanwhile, Obama is out touting how he has brought us back.
We are climbing out of the hole we found ourselves in.
Yet the real money cannot be manipulated.
Obama can manipulate the jobs numbers all he wants, but he cannot manipulate the real money on Wall Street.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average down 107.
They are not buying this unemployment number.
Look at anybody with half a brain knows it's bogus.
We've added a million jobs lost that we didn't count last year.
We're up to say 8 million from 7 million.
We lost 20,000 jobs in January.
And the unemployment rate drops three-tenths of a point?
Uh-uh.
No way.
Even the new math people understand this.
So everybody knows the numbers here are cooked.
So they're not buying the unemployment numbers.
Blaming Europe is only going to go so far here.
You know, the Obama apologists are trying to focus all this blame on Europe.
But don't doubt the fact that people with real money in the game are frightened to hell of Obama's budget.
They are frightened to hell that he won't give up on healthcare.
And now they'll blame the snowstorm.
Big snowstorm, two feet maybe in Washington and New York.
Real money is on the line, not government-backed, not government-financed or government-created money on the line.
People tend to dummy up and hoard theirs.
And it is happening.
Now, a question.
Look at, I may be Rush Limbully here, but I just have to ask a question.
I want to know how Europe can be having economic problems at all.
Somebody's going to have to explain this to me.
How can they be having economic problems at all, as well as huge deficits?
Don't all of these countries have socialized medicine?
They do.
Well, hasn't President Obama told us that nationalizing our health care system will solve our deficit problems, that the number one contributor to our deficit is our rising health care costs.
And by nationalizing and socializing health care, we can solve the deficit problem.
Well, if that's true, then how come there are deficit problems in Europe?
They've all got socialized medicine.
By the way, that Canadian premier that had to come down here for heart surgery, he said he could not get what he needed in Canada anywhere, which is why he came here.
And Obama, Obama was just praising Spain recently, wasn't he?
High-speed trains, infrastructure improvements.
And now we hear that Spain's an economic basket case, impossibly high deficits and unemployment.
And they've got high taxes, too.
I mean, this is hilarious.
Obama is really in a bubble.
He is trying to convince you that his alternative reality is real.
And it's not.
From the Los Angeles Times blog today from Andrew Malcolm, the crucial independent voters of notoriously independent New Hampshire, the ones who are so vital to Obama's 08 victory, are fast falling out of love with him.
A new WMUR Granite State poll of 500 voters by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center finds the president's support has slipped below 50% now amongst independents.
In the early 2008 Democrat primary, voters preferred Hillary to Obama 3936.
Come November, they gave Obama 54 and McCain 45.
And now only 48% approve of Obama's presidential job.
47% disapprove.
The main sticking point is the economy.
The longer he is in office, the more responsible he is held for high unemployment and other sour economic news.
And he can continue to blame Bush all he wants.
Like a little child, he continued to try it.
And no doubt he will continue to blame Bush.
By the way, I'm reminded of something.
We've got that cafe, the NBC cafeteria sign in honor of Black History Month.
Fried chicken, collared greens.
It's a giant sign as you walk into the cafeteria.
And I'm reminded what happened to Fuzzy Zeller at the Masters after Tiger first won there.
And Fuzzy was asked what he would say to Tiger.
I just hope you don't bring fried chicken to the champions dinner next year.
And he lost Kmart, which was a million-dollar endorsement.
He lost all kinds of endorsements.
And, you know, there was, I happen to know, there's some people that would not let that die.
Well, here's NBC.
Hey, we're not only talking about it, we are offering in honor of Black History Month fried chicken.
The only thing that's not on the menu is watermelon.
Now, how could I, Snerdley?
How could I do a media tweak and turn this into my having written the sign?
How could I, how could I, because this is what they did with Ron Emanuel and the R-word thing, is I started it all.
So NBC in their cafeteria has got this sign in honor of Black History Month, fried chicken.
Oh, yeah, since I mentioned watermelon, that's right.
They'll put me in there.
Limbaugh insulted blacks on his program yesterday by saying a fried chicken dinner is not complete without watermelon.
You know what?
I'll tell you what, let's call it, that's what I'm going to do.
That's what I'm going to do.
Next month or next week, on Monday, we'll be here Monday.
It's President's Day, but we're going to be here.
We're going to call a place.
We're going to have chicken strips, chicken breasts, white chicken meat delivered here for the whole staff.
Well, I know Snerdley doesn't eat meat, but he can at least smell it.
And we will have, we'll make a big deal.
And Collard Greens.
We have Collard Greens.
And the watermelon.
We'll bring it all in here.
What doesn't matter?
Snerdley doesn't lie.
He can't eat chicken.
He's a vegan and he doesn't like watermelon.
Well, the rest of the staff does.
But that's not the point, Snerdley.
You'll still be black enough to criticize.
Don't worry about that.
What I'm going to do is make a big deal.
And we're going to turn this around.
You watch by Monday, since they haven't reported the NBC sign anyway, that's only because a couple employees were offended and took pictures with their cell phones and it's all over the net.
Oh, this is going to be fun.
Well, folks, don't tell anybody we're going to do this.
Keep it between us.
Don't tell anybody.
We're going to make a big deal of ordering fried chicken and watermelon for the whole staff here on Monday.
Honor of Black History Month.
I know what's going to happen.
We both, we all know what's going to happen.
Hopefully, Al Sharpton, the Reverend Jackson will go ballistic here.
And then on our website, we can put the picture of the NBC cafeteria sign.
Okay, quick timeout here.
Open Line Friday.
We'll continue, and we'll be back before you know it.
Okay, I just put the order in over the break.
Fried chicken, collard greens, cornbread, watermelon.
Lunch for the staff here at the EIB Southern Command on Monday in honor of Black History Month.
By the way, Spain is also highly touted as the future of green energy.
Spain, infrastructure, fast trains.
Oh, yeah, green energy, they're showing the way.
They're bust.
They're bankrupt.
What's the question, Snerdley?
No barbecued ribs.
No barbecued ribs.
Don't complicate this.
You don't eat, you don't eat.
You want some tofu?
We'll get some fried tofu.
But you don't eat barbecued ribs anyway.
Now, I'm going to show the picture on the ditto cam.
Let me zoom in tight here.
I'm on machine.
There we go.
This is the cell phone picture that went out.
Let me put it up there.
This is a cell phone picture that went out.
It was taken by a member of the band Jimmy Fallon Show.
This is the commissary at 30 Rock, NBC, in honor of Black History Month.
Fried chicken, collard greens with smoked turkey, white rice, black-eyed peas, jalapeno cornbread.
You'll see it.
I want to provide video of this so it can be spread even further all the way across the World Wide Web.
And of course, it helps that our camera here is HD, which will obscure, not obscure the quality of the whole thing.
So that's the picture.
That's it, 30 Rock.
And again, the employee, NBCU employee, was Questlove.
So far, 1 million people on Twitter have seen it.
Questlove is the band leader and drummer for The Roots, which is the house band on late night with Jimmy Fallon.
All right, back to the phones, Connie in Lucky, Ohio.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Dittos and God bless Rush.
Thank you.
I just wanted to know, now that you've had a taste of winning a dance contest, would you consider going on Dancing with the Stars if they asked you?
Oh, gosh, no way.
Oh.
No way.
I'd have to take six months off.
I mean, dancing with the stars is a five-day-a-week thing.
All the practice, all the rehearsing, you got to learn how to do it.
And then all the taping of the TV shows.
I could not do it.
I literally could not do it.
Well, I'm sorry to hear that because I would love to see you doing it.
Well, it might be fun to do it, but I can't take the time.
Oh, no, I couldn't.
I couldn't even think about it.
I mean, it's a full-fledged television show.
People work on those things five days a week.
Yeah, okay.
Well, I just wondered because, you know, I've always wanted to see you doing something different.
And when you won the dance contest like that, I thought it was pretty cool.
It was a lot of people.
And the left was particularly upset about it.
They were hoping for all kinds of racist and sexist fallout.
My being a judge at Miss America.
And it was just the opposite.
Anyway, Connie, thank you very much.
Glad you called.
Here's Joe, cell phone from Atlanta.
Open Line Friday, your next.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet.
I have the one point I wanted to make, and then I wanted to make a suggestion, not in any way to help you because you are the man.
But, you know, I'm watching TV like everybody else, and I hear them do everything they can to tout their unemployment numbers as not being as bad as they are by leaving out people that are not looking for jobs as if they're still not employed or unemployed.
And then when they want to talk about health care, they look under every stone that there is to call somebody uninsured, even though they're looking for a job in between jobs.
Excellent point.
Excellent point.
They never do count the people who've given up looking, but when they find even a sea turtle that doesn't have a health insurance, they talk about it.
That's right.
And I look at that, I'm like, God, are people that naive or that blind to the fact that I mean, it's just blatant lying to the American people.
Look at that.
Some people are because some people only see headlines.
Remember now, every television network is only reporting the headline.
Unemployment drops to 9.7%.
That's it.
I mean, it's the trick.
The trick here is not just lying about the number, but making the number the only story.
That's right.
Hey, and I had a couple says they've taken the liberty to create this new thing of jobs created or saved.
I thought maybe anytime a Democrat's in office, can we come up with number of poor maintained, elevated, or saved, number of middle class number of middle class maintained, elevated, or demoted, and number of upper class maintained, demoted into poverty?
Can we start tracking them?
I think we could do that.
The census could certainly do that beginning now.
I mean, we're getting ready to tabulate all that kind of stuff.
I've got a story here.
Where did I put it?
It's about how the middle class is vanishing, more and more people becoming homeless.
I'll find it.
I got two.
You've got me, for one.
I'm back reading my history books.
I'm going back and I'm trying to tell everybody I know.
I got a degree from college, but I got my master's listened to you, even at PhD.
And I thank you for at least putting this old boy back to work reading my history because God bless you, sir.
I love this country, and I'm glad your ticker's doing good.
You keep up the good fight, and I'll be helping you in my small little way.
God bless you, sir.
Thank you very much.
Sincerely appreciate that.
It was one week ago today.
We were out in Las Vegas one week ago today, and I discovered a new kind of Zycam.
Dawn had it with her.
The breath spray type of Zycam.
It is a breath spray.
It was mint flavored, and you spray it four different areas in your mouth whenever you think you're coming down with a cold, and the effect is immediate.
You can't drink anything very long after it.
Every three hours, or as often as you want, actually, because it is a breath.
Well, not as often as you want, but I mean, it won't hurt you, but it's just a breath mint as well.
Great mint flavor.
So there's another delivery system for Zycam, which really does shorten the duration of a cold and lessen the severity of your symptoms.
They've also got liquid lozenges.
They've got other products that have sore throat relief in them, as well as the cold medicine.
All kinds of different ways to take and use Zycam and this breath spray.
It's very small.
You can easily put it in a briefcase or a purse and keep it with you at all times.
I'm going to use it this afternoon.
I'm going down.
We've got my annual client dinner tonight at the Super Bowl.
I get a suite every year at the Super Bowl.
We put 24 clients in there and a couple more this year.
And I don't go to that, but I do go down there on Friday to host a big dinner for all of them.
And I'm going to be shaking hands left and right because it is a cluster, you know what, down there.
Rob Emmanuel would talk about it.
And so I'm going to be taking a Zycam.
I'm going to have a disinfectant on the hands and stuff.
And it works, folks.
I look forward to this because these are great people and it's always, we do it at a great steakhouse.
It'll be fun.
Okay, who's next?
Rob in Atlanta, we just talked to.
No, it's another guy from Atlanta.
This is Rob in Atlanta.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
Thanks for taking my call.
I appreciate it.
I'm a little uncomfortable calling to and disagreeing with you, but I have to take issue with a comment you made last, I think it was last week, about a comment David Brooks said about, I think he was making sort of saying that the Republicans shouldn't overreach after the Scott Brown thing.
And my point is that you and I, you know, wish, we wish it wasn't true, but unfortunately, he's right.
Most Americans are not as conservative as we think they are or we think they should be.
And, you know, a couple of, I got a couple of points that'll sort of prove the point.
The first thing is, what was the reason?
What is one of the main reasons why Obamacare failed?
You tell me because I don't remember ripping David Brooks for this, but you tell me.
Yeah, I think you've told him that he said Republicans shouldn't overreach.
And then you sort of, you know, but I guess my point is that one of the main reasons why Obamacare failed is because of the Medicare cuts and because the seniors are going to be mad about losing their Medicare.
And Medicare is in no means a conservative.
All right, all right, all right.
I've had some people ask me about that.
And I've got to come back later.
I've got a break here, but I'll explain that anomaly in mere moments.
Obamacare did not fail because of Medicare cuts.
It failed because it didn't reduce costs.
It didn't guarantee you could keep your plan if you wanted to.
It did raise taxes.
It did add to the deficit.
And after raising costs and adding to the deficit, it didn't cover everyone.
Everybody knew it was not a health care bill.
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