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Feb. 8, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 8, 2010, Monday, Hour #2
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Rush Limbaugh, the EIB network, and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Yeah, and look, I'm still thinking about that Audi ad last night because at the end of the day, it leaves you with the thought that there's a great product out there.
And from a pure business standpoint, also, you know what else?
I really don't talk about myself much, as you people know.
But it is now a-okay to make fun of the left.
But it used to not be fun to make fun of the left.
You used to not be able to do that.
But then some guy started a radio show, started making fun of them.
Environmentalist wackos, the feminazis, started doing satire and parodies about all these people.
And everybody was shocked.
Well, you just can't do that.
You can't do it.
Why not?
You've been making fun of us all these years.
Well, you can't.
Our positions are morally superior.
Our positions are saying, you can't make fun of us.
Our work is too serious.
Your work is a joke.
Your work is dishonest.
The satire is easy.
It's simply telling everybody who you really are and what you're really all about.
And the left to this day still has no sense of humor.
This business of Rah Emmanuel using effing retarded to describe his own radical leftist Democrats for getting in the way on health care and so forth.
I never used the word.
I never once used the word.
It never crosses my mind to use the word.
And yet, Obama or Rah Emmanuel did it.
So because Sarah Palin, you know, this is making fun of people.
And so I decided, well, if it's okay for the Democrats to do it, and the Democrats are out there defending Emmanuel, then, okay, I'll go ahead and do it.
And everybody in this audience knew full well what I was doing.
Having fun with a Democrat finally in the same position they always put us in.
You know, they're the PC police and they hammer us out of office.
They drive us out of our careers when we violate their speech codes.
So here is Rah Emmanuel stepping in at big time.
And I thought I would just make fun of it.
And you would not believe the left out there thinks independently of Emmanuel that I started using the word.
And that Sarah Palin should demand that I get fired, just like she did of Emmanuel, or apologize.
When I was clearly making fun of Emmanuel, and everybody in this audience knew it.
And I actually think that most on the left know it too.
They just love all this feigned, faked outrage.
And they love using the speech police to drum people like me out of our work or out of office or what have you.
So it was, in fact, let's grab number 27 first, Mike, before we get back to In Order at number 3.
Even today on The View, Barbara Walter and Whoopi Goldberg talking about me as though Ram Emmanuel had nothing to do with what I was doing.
In this interview, they talked about Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh was using satire.
Ram Emanuel should be fired.
Rush Limbaugh was using satire.
Yeah, well, when he appears at Caroline's the Comedy Club, I'll believe it was satirical.
I don't love these people.
So you have to go to a comedy club to use satire.
You have to be a comedian to get away with satire.
That was this morning, Snurdley.
That was the Whoopee Goldberg.
Did that performance at, well, it was a Democrat convention.
It was a fundraiser for John Kerry.
Yeah, that same Whoopee Goldberger used the F-bomb, I think, a number of times at a fundraiser at Radio City Music Hall for John Kerry, who served in Vietnam.
Yeah, same Whoopee Goldberg.
I mean, the I know, they really do.
The liberal mind, you know, it scares me.
I understand it.
It really frightens me.
I understand it, because I predicted this is going to happen.
I predict it every time we do it.
I predict what's going to happen, and it happens.
So here's what they're talking about.
Sarah Palin, Fox News Sunday yesterday.
She and Chris Wallace had a discussion about this.
It's two soundbites.
Rush Limbaugh weighed in this week, and he said this.
Our politically correct society is acting like some giant insults taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards retards.
He was satirical in that.
I mean, these people, these liberal activists, are kooks.
Should Rush Limbaugh apologize?
They are kooks, so I agree with Rush Limbaugh.
Rush Limbaugh was using satire to bring attention to what this politically correct word using satire.
Name-calling by anyone.
I teach this to my children.
You teach it to your children and your grandchildren too.
Name-calling by anyone.
It's just unnecessary.
It just wastes time.
And Wallace kept going, but Palin stuck to her guns.
I didn't hear Rush Limbaugh calling a group of people whom he did not agree with effing retards.
And we did know that Rom Emmanuel, it's been reported, did say that.
There's a big difference there.
But again, name-calling, using language that is insensitive by anyone, male, female, Republican, Democrat, it's unnecessary.
It's inappropriate.
And let's all just grow up.
Yes.
So there you have it.
Sarah Palin sticking to her guns there.
And it did not die.
It was going on all weekend.
It was happening on Friday.
This is this morning on Bloomberg TV's In the Loop.
The guest, political capital host, Al Hunt, and the anchor babe, Betty Liu, who says, moving to Sarah Palin on the Tea Party Convention, mocking Obama.
Is she serious about a presidential run?
This weekend demonstrated two things about Sarah Palin.
What a terrific performer she is.
She gave a very effective speech.
She had some great lines.
She delivered them very effectively.
She got in trouble, however, on another issue where she said Rahm Emmanuel ought to resign because he used the word retard.
And then Rush Limbaugh said something far, far worse and intentional as opposed to Emmanuel.
And she sort of took a dive on Rush Limbaugh.
It shows she can't quite hit big league pitching when it's not put down the middle for her.
Far, far worse.
I quoted him.
But you know what?
You know, they've moved on.
Well, they have moved on.
But they are livid.
The left is livid over a picture in which she had written some crib notes in the palm of her hand.
And they were just little reminders of areas to discuss.
You know, they used to make fun of Reagan for having index cards to remind himself of where he was going.
And of course, their guy can't even make sense without a teleprompter.
And even with the right words on a teleprompter, he still doesn't know how to pronounce them.
As in corpseman.
Three times.
Corpseman.
So here these spoiled brat, whiny little R-words are sitting there, upset that Sarah Palin had some little notes on her hand.
Well, Sarah Palin might have the media tweak of the day because she's in a campaign appearance with Rick Perry, the governor of Texas.
She has written, hi, Mom, on her palm as a reminder to say hi to mom.
She's right there.
She's holding up for everybody to see, clapping her hands.
The media can see it.
These people are so easy to tweak and make fun of.
And I'm glad that somebody besides me has learned how to do it.
Because it just agitates them even further.
It just irritates them all the more.
Here, CNN's, they have a stalker at CNN who does nothing but follow me around, Carol Costello.
Figurative stalker.
She's not actually tried to get in my gate yet.
Don't misunderstand.
We have a montage of a Carol Costello report about the R word.
You'll hear some other people in this as well.
The president's chief of staff called liberal Democrats eff and retarded.
A Huffington Post columnist jokes Sarah Palin would run on a retardation platform in 2012.
And then there's this.
Our political correct society is acting like some giant insult's taking place by calling a bunch of people who are retards.
Retards.
It's very hurtful to those who are trying to live in this community.
Let's stop using the R word.
It's time we come up with a new word, respect.
But thanks to the constant R word banter in the world of politics, Frank might get his wish.
Because of Rahm Emmanuel's eff and retarded remark, Special Olympics officials were able to meet with the president's chief of staff in the White House.
Manuel and the Huffington Post columnists apologized for their use of the R word, but Rush Limbaugh did not, telling his audience he was only quoting Rahm Emmanuel.
And in explaining that, that's why he used the term R word.
It was satire, he said.
And he wasn't just quoting Rahm Emmanuel.
He went off on his own rant as well.
Based on Emmanuel, based on continuing to embarrass Emmanuel.
You people don't understand.
You drive us out of our jobs for violating your speech codes.
You drive us out of our elective offices for violating your speech codes.
And this was just a golden opportunity to ram it back down your collective throats.
So you sit around and you sound like stuck pigs and whining little baby.
It went wait.
It went wait.
And he got over here and he was waiting on a minion and he didn't apologize.
He's mean.
We'll be back after this.
Hey, we're back, Rush Limbaugh.
This is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
One more soundbite before we get back to your phone calls.
And this is MSNBC's special coverage Saturday night of Palin's address to the National Tea Party Convention.
After the speech, they spoke out there with Democrat strategerist Bob Schrum, who's ofer, trying to get people elected to something.
He's of question, talking about family and people and where America needs to go, military freedom, Ronald Reagan mentioned numerous times, Bob Shrum.
It was almost too predictable.
The difference with Ronald Reagan was that he always had an alternative vision of where America should go.
And what we heard tonight was more a masterful exercise, masterful in paranoid politics.
I mean, she came across to me as a merchant of hate with an oh gosh smile.
A merchant of hate, which is one of the many left-wing clichés about conservatism.
Reagan, don't forget, they said at the time, was a merchant of hate.
Reagan was.
He was responsible for AIDS.
He was responsible for homelessness.
He was a racist.
This is a clichéd response.
These people have been knocked back on their rear ends, folks.
That election in Massachusetts, coupled with the other two, has discombobulated them.
And I said at the top of the program, these people are never happy.
I've made this observation over many, many years of casual observance.
And she is.
She comes across as happy all the time.
And I think that bugs them as much as anything.
As best anybody can figure it out.
But I think that's part of it.
All right, back to the phones.
Mike in Livermore, California.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Program.
Great to have you here.
Good afternoon, Maha.
How are you, sir?
Fine, sir.
Thanks much.
Rush, I was thinking when you came up with the monologue in the beginning, why is it that the meacopas, Clinton Fis turnarounds happen, and they're just dumb.
I mean, they just make these, they come back and say, well, we need to sit down and talk with the Republicans.
Why?
In a whole year, they've been unwilling to do that.
And behind the closed doors now, I'm sure they're saying that.
But why do both sides do that?
They take something, takes them a long time to figure it out, then they come out like it's brand new, wonderbred.
Why is that, Rush?
What do you mean both sides do it?
I'm not sure.
I'm not expressly sure what you're asking me.
Republicans and Democrats, generally, when they run into trouble, they come out and they move to the center and they say, well, we have to meet and be bipartisan.
Not exactly bipartisan, but meet behind with the Republicans, talk about jobs, talk about health care.
Let's have your suggestions after a year of saying no way.
But it always happens.
When they get themselves in trouble, they all run to the center.
Oh, I misunderstood you.
I thought you said, why do both sides do it?
And I'm not aware of the Republicans doing that in this instance.
Why do the Democrats do it?
Well, they only do it when they realize they haven't gotten away with being who they are.
And so they have to once again come back and mask who they are.
It doesn't last long, but it's an admission.
It is an admission that who they really are doesn't fly and isn't flying.
And here's a new Rasmussen national survey.
75% of likely voters now say they are at least somewhat angry at the government's current policies.
That is up four points from late November, up nine points since September.
The overall figure of 75% includes 45% who are very angry with current government policies.
They are madder than ever at the current policies of the federal government.
So Obama wants to have a six-hour meeting on the one-year anniversary of his failure.
And 75% of the people, likely voters, don't like government policy.
Just 19% now say that they're not very or not at all angry at the government's policies down eight points.
This will not stop the Democrats.
They will still try by hook or by crook to ram through what it is they want, governing against the will of the American people.
I guess the thing to say here, folks, is that really isn't new.
They always have to do this.
Ever since I've been old enough to study and learn from this stuff, that's always what they've done is govern against the will of the people.
And back before they had to deal with an alternative media when they had only the drive-bys, they could decide what was news and what wasn't news.
And they could do polls and say that most of Americans agree with Democrats when they didn't.
They always, liberalism in the United States of America has never been a majority-held point of view.
Liberals, Democrats, especially the modern incarnation of Democrats, has to always govern against the will of the people.
And when it gets down to make or break time, then they'll put the mask on in the facade and say, we need to move to the center.
And they make it look like they're moving to the center in order to compromise.
Robert, Smithtown, Long Island, nice to have you, sir, on the EIB network.
Hello.
Oh, Rush, it's an honor to talk to you.
Longtime listener.
And like you, I'm a long-time Steeler fan.
I heard you talking earlier about the graphic they put up on CBS yesterday.
It was the first on-side kick attempted, not in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl.
And I remember back in 1980, like it was yesterday when we beat the Rams.
First quarter, Chuck Noll, after the Steelers had scored the kickoff in the, I'm sorry, after they scored a field goal in the opening quarter, tried an on-side kick in the very first quarter of the game.
And it was unsuccessful.
That was a Super Bowl against the then Los Angeles Lams.
The Rams, correct.
19 January, 1980.
Well, I had forgotten that, but something told me that back in, I guess, 95, Steelers and Cowboys, Cowers did a surprise on-side kick, but I don't know what quarter was in.
I know it was in the second half.
Yeah, that I wanted to look up afterwards, but I had no way of getting in touch with CBS at the time.
I want to let them know that that's definitely not a true statistic that they put up there because I remember Chuck Noll doing it, and I remember being a little upset about it because the Steelers were such a dominant defense, and they gave the ball to the Rams to start the game.
And then they drove down, they kicked their field goals, and it was a surprise move.
It was a gamble.
And I've got that game on tape.
I had forgotten that aspect of it.
Yep, first quarter, Rush.
First quarter, and it was at the Rose Bowl, right?
Yes, it was.
It was 31 to 19 final.
Yeah, that was slot right.
60 prevent hook and goal was the 73-yard bomb.
Bradshaw to Stallworth that was a game winner.
Yeah, Lynn Swan had been knocked out of the game.
He had a little trouble.
He did his share before he got knocked out, but you're right.
Stallworth had a big game, and Franco put in the final touchdown to give them that.
Yeah, I remember, I remember.
At halftime, Jack Lambert and Joe Green had a meeting, and they said, this is not Steeler football.
We're not playing defense Steeler football.
Jack Lambert was scaring people in the huddle.
He was so intense during that game.
Yeah, he said they were sleepwalking.
Absolutely.
Bradshaw told me, not told me, Bradshaw read Bradshaw say that the Steelers flew to Los Angeles for that game on a DC-9.
A DC-9 is a sardine can when you put a football.
They had to stop in Salt Lake City to refuel.
Wow.
That's how, I mean, different day in the National Football League.
Now they take wide buddies everywhere they can because of the behemoth size of these guys.
At any rate, yeah, that game frightened everybody.
Everybody thought it was going to be a walk-on for the Steelers, just a walk-in.
Vince Farragamo had an excellent game as a quarterback for the Lambs.
And I think that was the game in Jack Youngblood played on a hairline fracture, one of his legs.
I'll never forget that game, and I don't remember the onside kick in the first quarter.
Don't remember that.
I'll grab that tape out.
Anyway, I'm glad you called out there, Robert.
We'll be back here, my friends, in just a mere moment.
By the way, I should point out this Rasmussen poll that says 75% likely voters angry at current government policies.
Almost 80% of independents are angry.
Almost 80%.
And those are the people, it is said, that propelled Obama to victory in 2008.
Speaking of Whoopee Goldberg, let's not forget this.
September 28th, 2009, during a discussion of Roman Polanski's case, she said that Polanski's rape of a 13-year-old in 1977 was not rape rape.
Not rape rape.
And she's, of course, had her foul-mouthed appearances for John Kerry and other Democrats during campaigns.
Upset that I can't use satire because I wasn't at Caroline's comedy club.
Toyota, here it is.
Toyota plans to recall about 300 Prius hybrids worldwide over a break problem, and they'll notify the U.S. and Japanese governments tomorrow.
A top executive will testify before U.S. lawmakers over recall woes that have tarnished its reputation for quality and safety.
300,000 Priuses are going to be recalled.
And this is just a little throwaway item here, but it's interesting when you realize that there are now more public sector union employees than there are private sector union employees.
This is from the Madison, it's in Madison.com, the Wisconsin State Journal.
Madison's highest paid city government employee last year was not the mayor.
It wasn't the police chief.
It was not even the head of Metro Transit.
The highest paid city employer or employee was a bus driver, John Nelson.
He earned $159,258 in 2009, including $109,000 in overtime and other pay.
His colleague Greg Tatman earned $125,598.
We're among the city's top 20 earders for 2009.
It's just a sign of the Times.
Well, rush, rush, yeah, you don't get people making money.
No, no, no, no, folks.
No, no, no.
But I'm just saying everybody's worried about who the rich are and how it's not fair and how the rich are getting rich by stealing from the others and so forth and so on.
You have to put this in perspective.
Whitehall, Pennsylvania, Sam, welcome to the program, sir.
Nice to have you here.
Matthew, can you hear me, Rush?
Sure, I hear you fine.
I'm calling by a cell phone.
I'm a Democrat.
I'm nervous.
I hope I don't go too fast.
Okay, you're not going faster.
Actually, a cell phone's the best one I've ever heard.
All right.
I am disagreeing with something you said.
I'm fed up with Obama and the way he's running this company, the country.
That's why I'm a Democrat.
I'm telling you right off the bat.
I think the Republicans today should come out and say, if you, Mr. Obama, would come to the table right now to the public with your whatever you need to talk and say, I have heard you speak in Massachusetts, Virginia, and New Jersey.
I was wrong.
I should not have pursued with the economic conditions we had this health plan.
I am going to take your advice and listen to what you said.
I am publicly going to admit I was not transparent in my promises.
I will in the future do that.
I am publicly announcing we are restarting the whole health plan all over again, and we will have everything up to date.
And we are scrapping it.
It will not be published.
It will not be produced this year.
And start from there and then meet on those conditions.
And I think the Republicans should accept it.
Well, that is a huge theoretical.
Hypocritical, hypothetical and it'll never happen.
But I think that's putting him on the spot, because he's putting the Republicans in the spot, saying, all right, you want a transparency, i'm give it to you.
Now he has to admit he didn't give it to us for a year, since he lied during his campaign.
Why are you suggesting this is a Democrat?
Because you want the Republicans to come out and say, okay, mr president, if you'll admit you were wrong, if you admit you overreached, if you admit that this plan has no chance, if you really want to talk to us fine, why?
Why is a Democrat?
Why are you uh suggesting that they do this?
I told you i'm fed up with the way he's leading this country.
I'm fed up with all the Chris Madams i'm sorry, Chris Mathis is Chris Matheson or whatever is on on hardball and the ex-announcer in sports that can't carry his own weight in sports, doesn't know he's talking about, are rallying people and talking to people and giving them falsehoods and they make fun of somebody like Sarah Paling, who's the first unique person coming along the patch.
She could put anything you want in her hand.
She doesn't have to speak to us.
He does that, he fumbles and says Corpson three times and you don't hear that anywhere at all.
You don't hear that except from you and Sean and some of the other ones.
I disagree with you many, many years in the past, rush.
I've disagreed with Sean many, many years in the past, but I cannot take what they said you guys were doing with with Bush.
I cannot take what they're doing with him, because it what you were doing to Bush wasn't harming us or anybody else.
Doing with Bush, I mean back at him as much as what Obama is doing to our country, and it's bad.
It is bad, it is bad.
Are you alone in this view or do you know some other Democrats who share your perspective?
Know very many people like that, I think.
If you look at the polls, I I think i'm not alone.
I know that's what I was going to say.
The polling data would tend to bear you out very.
You know I got ped up when they got you off football.
You know more than that Keith Overman does and what.
What a fraud that that idiot is.
I'm sorry about using certain words I shouldn't use.
Well that's, that's all right you're.
You're.
You've made enough great points here that uh, you need not apologize for anything.
I admire you Rush, for what you went through.
I i'm glad your health is good.
I'm a very, very overweight person.
I've lost a lot of weight, but i'm glad you went through it.
I mean, you're weights boss and thank god, you're okay after that heart problem.
Thank you very much.
What it was.
I wish you nothing but the best in this world.
Thank you sir, very much.
I really really appreciate this pretty good work, rush, you bet now that's an interesting idea.
Republicans come out and say, mr Obama, if you'll renounce yourself, if you basically say your plan was horrible, that you've learned.
The American people want no part of it, it's never going to happen.
I mean they, the Republicans, might do it, but Obama is never.
His ego will not permit it.
Yeah yeah, they asked him to start from scratch.
I think didn't they do that, didn't they they?
They asked him to start from scratch and he won't hear any of it.
He won't hear of it.
It's.
Oh, that's right, it is.
It's in the NEW YORK Times today.
I knew i'd seen it.
It's in the NEW YORK Times that he wants to start from scratch and he won't do it.
He will not do it.
This this this, is a sucker play.
It is designed to get those Republicans up there and and make it look like they're the reason he can't get his precious health care done.
They ought to get nowhere near it.
I'm going to say it again, you Republicans, you don't be afraid of being the party of no, in fact, go out there and proudly become the party of hell.
No, 80 of independents don't like anything going on in the government.
You can't lose by becoming the party of hell.
No, it's how you win.
You forget bipartisan.
It doesn't work.
It's a sucker ploy.
It has no possible benefit to you.
I think they've heard the message out there.
I really do.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's.
Uh, you watch Lost?
Certainly you're watching Brian.
You watch Lost?
Well, I do, I do.
And one of the big things of Lost, especially the last couple, three years, has been time travel.
And it's kind of misleading, because if you want to have a brief discussion about the notion of time, time travel, it's very simple.
It doesn't exist, and that's why you you can't turn back the clock.
Say to before you lose all your data on your hard drive when it crashes, because you were gonna, it's gonna happen, and you can't turn back the clock and say, oh gosh, if i'd only backed it up.
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Hi, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
It's not just Rasmusin, it's Gallop.
80 percent of Americans disapprove of liberal Democrat Congress.
80 percent of Americans disapprove of liberal Democrat Congress.
Could be another reason Obama wants to meet with Republicans.
But this is, while this is good news, it still frustrates me.
Well, it frustrates me because these guys are no different than they've been the last 30 years.
Liberals are liberals, they're socialists marxists, statists.
I guess the difference is they have unchecked supermajority power now, And I guess the difference is that they are open, wide open, about who they really are, as they implement what they want and as they speak what they really believe.
I hope people don't forget it this time.
They will.
You think people will forget this?
You think you think, well, the Republicans better not let them forget it.
You know, this is why.
This is why, again, you know, I don't like talking about myself and I don't pat myself on the back very much, folks.
You know, I don't have to.
This is why I think all of these campaigns ought to be ideological.
Conservative versus liberal.
Not Republican versus Democrat.
Not moderates versus everybody else.
Liberalism, when people see it without any confusion, they reject 80% in Gallup.
80% disapprove of the liberal Democrats in Congress.
They better not forget this.
I mean, the liberal message has been exposed.
It's a myth.
It's a lie.
And here's that New York Times piece that I just referenced.
Jeff Zelvany, Mr. Obama challenged Republicans to attend the meeting with their plans for lowering the health cost of health insurance and expanding coverage to more than 30 million uninsured Americans.
Republican leaders said they welcomed the opportunity and they called on Democrats to start the debate from scratch, which the president said he wouldn't do.
He won't do it.
So you're not going to come up there and say, I was wrong.
I was overreached.
It's terrible.
I'm very happy, but we're not going to do it.
No, I'm not going to start over.
You got to remember, folks, if you disapprove of the Liberal Democrat Congress, you've got to disapprove of the president.
He is them.
He is one of them.
And I guarantee the Liberal Democrats in Congress are going to trust Gallup.
And when they see this, they're going to understand exactly why it's them.
It's because he doesn't have a plan.
He doesn't put a plan out there, and he doesn't go to page 4,454 to tell you how 30 million uninsured people are going to become insured.
He doesn't have any of that.
He does not.
That's why even Democrats are now complaining and he doesn't give them any guidance.
He wants to be far, far away when these polls come out.
80% disapprove of Liberal Democrat Congress.
Somebody needs to get the message out beyond this show, the Republicans on TV, to the American people.
Hey, we know you like President Obama.
Some of you do.
But if you disapprove of the policies of the Liberal Congress, I mean, here's their architect.
Here's their leader, Barack Obama.
It's time.
Greg in Durham, North Carolina.
Great to have you, sir, on the program.
Nice to have you here.
Nice to talk to you again, Brother Limbaugh.
Hey, it's Ditto's, and it's a great time to be an American.
We weren't here for the founding, but we are here to write the ship of state.
That's true.
I think that our Republican leaders, John Boehner, excuse me, Mitch McConnell, should borrow a Ronald Reagan approach on this offer to meet and raise the stakes.
They should today say, Mr. President, you've spent a year trying to defend the indefensible while the country is hurting.
Jobless rates show no sign of decreasing.
We'll meet with you to discuss getting the country back on the right track economically.
But until that happens and until you scrap this divisive health care takeover, there can be no bipartisanship.
So in the great words of Ronald Reagan, as he reached out to Mikhail Gorbachev, if you're really serious, Mr. President, tear down this bill.
I like it.
If you're really serious, throw away this bill, which he's already said he won't do.
But I like that idea, too.
This audience has thinkers.
That idea is really good.
We'll meet with you.
But let's get people back to work first, Mr. President.
Let's talk about that.
Then we can dump your health care bill and get started on that.
If they came out and said that, now, I know the Republicans are going to be very reluctant to do any of that because they know the media, they're scared to death, the media, and the media is going to call a party of no, at which point they respond, yep, party of hell no.
They've got all the ammo they need.
80% of Americans disapprove of a liberal Democrat Congress.
What more evidence do you need that it's okay now?
Go after them.
It doesn't say Obama.
You don't have to go after Obama.
They're afraid of going after Obama because of race.
You don't have to do that.
You go after the Democrats in Congress.
Go after Pelosi and Reed.
They're white.
They can take it.
They don't speak with a black dialect except if they want to.
Bill in Marietta, Ohio.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yes, sir.
Rush.
Super mega dittos from the first settlement in the Northwest Territory.
Thank you, sir, very much.
Yes, sir.
My question for the day is, a friend and I, staunch conservative, both of us, I've watched your, actually I watched your program when I was in high school, and I was into it.
Before I was a conservative, you were there, and that's what awoken me when I was a youth, let's say.
Thank you, sir.
Yes, sir.
My question for today is a friend of mine, both of us are staunch conservatives.
I'm wanting to start a business aside from the one that I work in.
And he says, apply for a federal grant.
He says, it's free money from the government.
He says, the man that's in the White House, he says, let him give you the money.
And I say, no, because I don't want the government's handout.
Let me tell you another reason why not to do it.
And I'll back this up.
I've got a story in my stack of stuff here.
Yes.
Companies that get into business with the government, like the stories about an organic moo farmer, a milk farmer, and all of the people that distribute his milk have gone out of business.
So he's got nothing to do with his organic milk.
So he's gotten some help from the government.
He's a 3LC, limited liability corporation.
And now, because he's taken money from the government, he is now what's called a low-profit company.
The government is willing to keep him his business if he will promise to keep his profits low.
You don't want any part, Bill, of this administration and any government grant of any kind.
You don't need it.
You don't want it.
You don't want them telling you eventually how you're going to run your business and what you can and can't do with it.
Don't worry about it.
Don't go anywhere near it.
If it's a real dream you've got and you don't have the financing yet, hold off.
Be patient.
We're going to rebound and you're going to be able to get financing through regular channels at some point.
But don't, don't take a grant.
In these Gallup numbers, by this even worse, 90% of independents disapprove, along with 90% of Republicans, disapprove of a Liberal Democrat Congress.
90% of independents, that caller was a brilliant idea for the Republicans because Obama has said his focus laser-like this year is jobs, right?
The Republicans, Mr. President, if you want to talk about jobs, we'll be glad to come talk to you about restarting the economy, which you obviously don't know how to do.
We'll talk about health care after we get people back to work.
Guy was a brilliant.
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