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Feb. 10, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 10, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Snerdley, I was just talking to Snerdly in his orifice here at the top of the hour break, and he said he couldn't sleep last night.
I said, Why?
He said, because of your show.
What about my show was so frightening?
He said that Obama statement on what small business need to do.
I mean, he's he was asked a question by Jake Tamper.
And I I did, I think for the first time become speechless for a couple seconds yesterday when I heard this.
Jake Tapper said, Well, what does small business people say?
It's not that they can't get loans, they can.
It's that they don't know what's coming down the pike policy wise.
Uh make it harder for their business to grow than cap and trade coming if there's going to be health care tax increases.
And Obama said, no, no, no.
I've talked to a lot of small business people.
And uh they tell me that they they can't have access to credit.
And it got me to thinking.
Here's a guy who has to go out and talk to small business people, because he doesn't know anything about it.
He doesn't have one person in his cabinet that has private sector experience in business.
Well, John Kerry ran a muffin shop, yeah, but look at how that turned out.
It didn't turn out well, but there's not one person in his cabinet.
They all they all they have is a bunch of theoreticians.
And these people live in their own world and they look at the real world and they start criticizing what they think about it doesn't work.
They've never been in it.
We have whenever he walks into a room, we have the most exp inexperienced and unqualified guy as president.
I don't care what room he walks into.
He never even was a full-fledged professor.
So if he walks into a uh uh uh uh smoke room uh spending after the class day, he's still the most inexperienced, unqualified guy in the room.
He happens to be running the country.
That quote was it it is sort of frightening.
They go out, he says small businesses they need to borrow money to expand payroll.
You never do that.
My gosh, you hardly ever borrow to make payroll.
If you're having to do that, you're in deep doo doo already.
But you never borrow money to expand payroll.
Business circumstances cause that to happen.
And he says he's talked to small business people who said, yeah, they would love to do that, but they can't get loans.
Which is not true.
So today, I get up and I'm I'm bombarded with uh news that uh the left is just livid at Obama.
From the Huffington Puffington Post to an MIT professor.
They are livid, and you know why?
Because Obama's got an interview coming out with Bloomberg on Friday, in which he says, yeah, it's okay.
Uh I have nothing to say and against these big bonuses at uh JP Morgan Chase for Jamie Diamond and Goldman Sachs for Lloyd Blankfine.
I think Blank Fine's bonus is nine million, and uh Jamie Diamonds is 17 million.
Yeah, 17 million.
And Obama said, well, um, they're very savvy businessmen.
I know both those guys.
I, like most of the American people, don't begrudge people's success or wealth.
It's part of free market system.
And his his supporters are going, they're just livid because they think he sold them out because he was he just not long ago was calling these bonuses obscene, and was wanting to punish all these people.
And he had a Pazar out there that was going to make sure that this didn't happen.
So the Huffington Post is fit to be tied.
This MIT professor, uh Simon Johnson, says taken separately, these statements are undeniably true, but you put them together in the context of the Bloomberg story.
We have to wait until Friday for the full text of the interview, and the White House has a major PR disaster on its hands.
Meaning with its base.
Does the president truly not understand that Diamond and Blankfine run banks that are regarded by policymakers and hence by credit markets as too big to fail?
This is the antithesis of a free market system.
We bailed these people out.
They're the ones surviving because of the taxpayer.
Free market system.
Not only were their banks saved by government action in 08 and 09, but the uh the overly generous nature of this bailout means uh that the uh the uh uh the playing field is now massively tilted in favor of these banks.
So it appears that Obama has chosen J.P. Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs as his two preferred banks, and they're gonna be fine, and they're gonna be able to pay bonuses whatever they want.
And this Mr. Simon, professor, sorry, uh Professor Simon Johnson at uh MIT, the incentives for the people running these mega banks is now to take on reckless amounts of risk.
They get the upside, for example, these compensation packages, and when the downside materializes, this belongs to taxpayers, nobody else who loses a job.
Being nice to the biggest banks will not save the midterm elections for the Democrats.
Uh and here's here's the exact quote from Obama in the upcoming Bloomberg piece.
Here's the question.
Let's talk bonuses for a minute.
Lloyd Blankfine, nine million, Jamie Diamond 17 million.
Now, granted, those were in stock and less than what some had expected, but those numbers okay.
Obama.
Well, first of all, I know both those guys.
They're very savvy businessmen.
And I, like most of the American people, don't begrudge people success or wealth.
Uh, you could fool me.
He's targeting success and wealth.
He says that's part of the free market system.
I I do think that the compensation packages that we've seen over the last decade at least have not matched up always to performance.
I think that shareholders shareholders oftentimes have not had any significant say in the past, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So not happy.
They are not happy out there.
Let's listen to a couple sound bites, and this will help you to understand why people are upset.
Obama blasted bonuses last year.
This is March 18th, 2009.
People are rightly outraged about these particular bonuses.
But just as outrageous is the culture that these bonuses are a symptom of that have existed for far too long.
A situation where excess greed, excess compensation, excess risk taking, have all made us vulnerable and left us holding the bank.
I hope that Wall Street and the marketplace don't think that we can return to business as usual.
Now, that was in the South Lawn of the White House before he was leaving for California for something.
They blasted the bonuses.
And then December 13th, last year, on 60 minutes, Steve Croft said at three of the biggest banks, they're expected to total 30 billion dollars.
That's roughly what it'll cost the government to finance the surge in Afghanistan.
And President Obama is furious.
I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of you know fat cat bankers on Wall Street.
The only ones that are gonna be paying out these fat bonuses are the ones that have now paid back that tarp money, and the people on Wall Street still don't get it.
They don't get it.
They're still puzzled.
Why is it that people are mad at the banks?
Well, let's see.
You know, you guys are drawing down 10, 20 million dollar bonuses after America went through the worst economic year that it's gone through in decades.
And you guys caused the problem?
And we got 10% unemployment.
Why do you think people might be a little frustrated?
So the left heard all that, and of course, his base hates corporations, his base hates bonuses, hates these people.
They believe the banks are the ones that got us all into trouble, and so they expect Obama to hammer them.
He comes out and says, I know these guys.
These are savvy businessmen.
I don't begrudge people's success or wealth.
A little known factor, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, JP Morgan Chase is just one of many Wall Street firms who are fed up with donating money to Democrats and in exchange being made the whipping boys for all these problems.
So J.P. Morgan Chase has declined Democrat Party solicitations this year and instead have given $30,000 to the Republicans.
Now, could that be a factor?
Could Obama be that petty?
Could he see that J.P. Morgan Chase is going to not give any more money to Democrats?
Oh, I gotta go back and make these guys think that I'm their friends.
I wouldn't doubt that at all.
So for you people on the left, those of you who are fit to be tied, and I'll tell you some of the some of the headlines of the HuffPo anyway are just are just livid.
Chicago teams sinking Obama presidency.
Meghan McCain disagrees with Palin's double standard on the R word.
Andrea Mitchell mocks Palin with notes written on by the way, so did Gibbs.
You know, are these people a bunch of kids?
Gibbs went out there with some stuff written on his hand amid stories that there's no laughter in the press room anymore because Gibbs is not forthcoming with any news.
Uh and it's much more serious and somber in there because nothing's working.
And uh has to take a uh this this little petty shot at at Palin, which does nothing but elevate her.
But this is the office of the president of the United States to be engaging in this kind of stuff.
It just these it shows you who these people are, how small time and how petty.
So, all you people on the left.
Obama's done a 180 on you.
And I know you hate corporations.
I know you hate these banks.
You hate high bonuses.
You hate big time compensation.
You hate the free market.
There's Obama out there praising it.
So I want to take you back.
October 29th, just before the election in 2008, Charlie Rose show.
He had uh Tom Brokaw on, and they had a conversation trying to figure out who Obama is.
I don't know what Barack Obama's worldview is.
No, I don't know how he really sees where China is.
We don't know a lot about Barack Obama and the universe of his thinking about foreign policy.
I don't really know.
And do we know anything about the people who are advising them?
You know, it's an interesting question.
He is principally known through his autobiography and through very aspirational speeches.
I don't know what books he's read.
What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?
There's a lot about him we don't know.
Uh, this is these guys were covering their bases just before the election in case he turned out to be exactly what he is.
Uh so that you'd have people running away from this guy in droves here, and here are the Republicans ready to ride into the rescue on February 25th on his health care televised mumbo jumbo.
Quick timeout.
Your phone calls are next after this.
Well, just as sure as you could have predicted it, here are a bunch of Democrats now all over television this afternoon, touting this Washington Post poll that says sixty-three percent of the American people want the Republicans to work with the Democrats to forge a compromise on Obamacare.
So now they're out there saying, see, the American people blame the Republicans for not doing enough.
There's no other poll that says this.
Not one.
This is a coordinated attack.
It is designed to bring pressure on the Republicans.
The real numbers are 80 to 90 percent of the American people disapprove of the Liberal Democrat Congress.
Obama's approval ratings are in the mid to low forties now, depending on which poll you look at.
Uh there is not all the the Republicans are leading everything in the generic ballot uh to re to winning elections everywhere.
The idea that Republicans are being held accountable for this is just BS.
Pure BS.
I mean being held accountable or to blame by the uh by the American people.
So the hard press is on, which means that this thing on the 25th at the White House is a pure setup.
And don't forget, don't forget uh the uh the uh National Journal has a story.
Somebody in Pelosi's office told him what the end game here is.
And it is to get the House to pass the Senate bill.
You send that up to Obama, he signs it.
Then the reconciliation begins in the sense then then they start adding things to it that the House wants.
That's the plan.
Without talking to the Republicans, just bringing the Republicans in there.
Look at the Republicans are smoking.
The Republicans are hot as hell.
The Democrats have to cool them off.
The Democrats have to somehow, along with their willing accomplices in the media, make it look like Obama's failures are only due to Republicans not willing to compromise, not willing to engage in bipartisanship.
That's the trap.
Now they know that's what the trap is.
But if they go up there, even knowing it, can they avoid falling for it?
Because he's gonna run the meeting.
If they want to have a meeting with him, why don't they call it and they run it?
Yeah, never happened.
To the phones we go.
De Bell in Manhattan, on the way to sixteen inches of snow.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Good afternoon, Lembo.
Um afternoon, DeBell.
I want to know why is that you cannot say anything good about your president.
Uh I haven't seen anything yet uh to praise.
Are you serious?
Uh yeah.
No, no, it cannot be serious.
Well, he's the president of the biggest country in the entire world.
It's a shame, too.
No, it's not.
It is a shame.
It's a joke.
It is a travesty, and our country, as we've known it, hangs in the balance.
All right, you you you just want uh uh uh a clip earlier about uh uh Tom Barker saying they don't know anything about Obama when he was winning for president.
So who knows anything about anybody who's running for for election?
Let's take you for example.
You think it's what is DeBell, wait a minute.
I played that sound based on Charlie Rose.
Those were two of Obama's most ardent supporters.
I was playing the sound bite to show irony.
Obama's now out there disappointed his base by approving of these big bonuses for Wall Street hacks, and the base is upset about that.
His most ardent supporters, and I played that sound bite to illustrate that nobody knew who this guy was, and they except the people who didn't know who he was, nevertheless ardently supported him for reasons that had nothing to do with who he was.
But rather what he was clearly a reason for you to go on a rampage day in, day out on uh on his case.
That's not fair.
Uh well, I don't actually go on a rampage, I do news analysis and commentary.
No, you think you're making commentary, but when I'm when I'm listening to you on the radio, remember I've been listening to you when I go to even speak English back in 1988.
Now here 22 years later, I'm listening to you.
You haven't been improved at all.
It's always bashing the Democrats all over and over.
Yeah.
And because of you, I changed my party.
Because the Democrats are not able to push back against your image.
Really?
Um fascinating.
What part you mean you you changed and became a Democrat?
No, I was a Democrat.
Now I'm on the family life party.
Uh Family Workers Party, I'm sorry.
Okay, family workers' party.
Oh, the Communist Party.
Communist party.
Okay.
Finally, family workers party.
Yeah, family workers, the Communist Party.
They're not communists.
What are you talking about?
Well, anything with workers in it's a communist party.
You you making that up.
That's not true.
No, no, no, no.
Why do you have to back it up?
No, I don't make things up.
Why do you have to back it up?
Well, I have to back it up.
I've heard of them.
You've heard of them?
Back it up.
The Communist Party USA has changed the name of their magazine from the workers' daily or whatever it was to I I forget what it is, but they're out there, and the Communist Party's endorsed every agenda item Obama has.
So that's why you call him uh a communist, huh?
Uh well, you know, I don't I don't I don't hedge around here.
And you know, I don't I don't play around the edges.
You know, I I do, I've I've got to tell you something, De Bell.
I think the only way to save this country is we've known it is every liberal democrat must be unseated.
They are destroying the country.
It's not gonna be.
When's the last time any of those people had something nice to say about me, DeBell?
No, you you don't have to worry about them being nice to you as long as you do you're doing the right thing.
Because that that's what you do, and you always think about that.
That's exactly what I should be nice to you.
I don't care.
And I don't think if Obama thought he was doing the right thing, he wouldn't care what I say about him.
Okay.
I got a piece of advice for you.
Remember, Obama is your president.
Yeah.
He's our president.
Right.
So get that into your head.
So when you think about that, you will see is the president of the United States of America, and it cannot be wrong in all aspects as as you've been saying every day in and every day out.
Uh DeBell, just so you have uh no doubt about this.
It is in my head that he is our president.
So much so that it keeps me awake at night.
I will never ever, ever forget that he is our president.
Do not that don't worry about that.
I I can't escape it.
He's on television a thousand times every month.
The Super Bowl.
We're trying to watch the Super Bowl pregame show, and there we hear this phony offer to republicans to come up and and save his on health care.
Don't worry that.
We don't have care in this country.
They're having a national escape.
Why can't we have it here in America?
Uh the Prime Canada Premier just came down here for heart surgery, not available in Canada.
We don't want to destroy ourselves.
Okay, time for a shout out to De Bell in uh in Manhattan, who um said he's been listening to me for twenty-two years before he learned to speak English, and that I haven't improved at all.
Twenty-two years.
I haven't improved it all.
De Bell, look at I I felt a little guilty of having a little fun with you about not being able to say anything good about Obama.
So I will.
I mean, I everybody has uh good qualities, everybody has aspects about them that are likable.
So here you go.
He's clean, he's articulate, he's light skinned, and he can speak without a negro dialect when he wants to.
And he's not an F R word.
Although he is the P word.
But uh not not the F and R word.
Is that better?
I had a lot of people uh sturdling ask me, was was De Bell speaking with a uh uh a Negro dialect.
No, no, no, that was liberal dialect.
DeBell was speaking with a liberal dialect.
Uh there's there's a there's a distinct difference.
Here's Dean in Chicago.
Dean, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Yeah, hi, Rush.
Actually, this is a liberal dialect.
I don't think the Dell really had it.
I I I think I can I can put it out there more.
Well, I'll sit here and I'll compare and let you know.
Okay, you do that.
I'm I I'm a liberal.
You were asking about how liberals are are running for the hills uh because of the things Obama's failing at.
And I don't think he's failing at much of anything considering the the state we were in uh last September when Lehman was going down.
Now I know I know you guys want to want to throw the deficit around and how he's destroying the country.
And I know a lot of your listeners really want to believe that, but some of us actually know where the deficit stood before he took office, and we also understand what the ramifications were.
Uh in the the things that were PS in Congress, even with the prior administration through the initial TARP bailouts and the bank bailouts and the Yeah, do you know how much of the TARP money that bailout which was crucial to save the world financial system is left?
You got four banks holding ninety percent of the deposits in this country.
Let them go down.
Would that be a brilliant move, Rush?
That would be brilliant.
Uh no, I f uh from the outset, I questioned whether we were being conned by everybody in Washington, Republicans, Democrats, whoever.
We still have two hundred million of the seven hundred million for TARP unspent.
What crisis was there really?
Bush spent a lot of money, but nowhere near what Obama has spent.
There was nowhere near that Bush ever had a one trillion dollar deficit.
But that's beside the point, too.
No, that's not true.
This I I'm stunned at you.
What do you do for a living?
Actually, I'm I'm a uh I'm uh I'm a neocapitalist.
I'm a trader for a living, and I've been accused of my fellow traders that I how can I support socialism?
I support socialism on a on a scale that the country needs it because I understand that big populations uh uh uh uh ki uh countries like it's it's not the eighteen hundreds anymore.
You can't throw around you want to go back to capitalism, you know, uh hardcore capitalism where some people make it and some people die in the gutter.
You got the GOP plan now, they're gonna they want to get rid of Medicare and Med and uh Social Security.
wow, that's really brilliant.
No, no, no, no, no, no, People are going hungry and are out of work because of Obama's socialism.
Where can you point to me where anywhere in the world?
Point to me anywhere in the world where socialism has led to prosperity for anybody.
In a year, have they?
Show me anywhere.
Show me anywhere in the world where socialism has led to prosperity for everybody.
Pretty much everywhere other than us.
Really?
Don't you guys get it?
Well, you telling all those countries that are.
You're telling me you're telling me that Greece the problem in Greece people.
I can't understand what you're saying.
I understand exactly what I'm saying.
And I also understand.
Are you gonna cite Greece to me?
You're gonna cite space.
These people are bankrupt.
They had to be bailed out by Germany.
Did the people of Soviet Union live a prosperous life?
Are the people in Cuba living a prosperous life?
There's a big difference between uh social capitalism and communism, and you know that.
You know there's a real social capitalism?
At least you should.
Social capitalism?
Yeah, social market capitalism or free market socialism.
Most of the Western...
Well, there's no such thing are defined by one of those two letters.
There's no such thing.
Free market socialism doesn't exist.
Free market socialism is fascism.
That's really cool because fascists weren't even want to be anything around socialists or communists.
You know that too.
Uh fascists have are blood brothers.
They're all leftists.
Fascists, socialists, communists are all blood brothers.
Uh Mussolini, Hitler, all the wrong books, Rush.
Big left.
You know, you're gonna have to wake up.
You're a traitor.
You're gonna I I I I don't know what guilt has gotten hold of you.
I don't know where it is you've learned your history.
I don't know what it is that got into your head that capitalism leaves people s dying in the gutter.
Capitalism led to the most prosperous population of human beings in the history of the world.
I just I d I think you you people like you are ashamed.
People like you are gonna facilitate the destruction of this country.
Anyway, I'm I'm I'm glad you called out there, Dean.
My heart's my heart's with you.
I I I'm hoping for a revelation for you someday because this is you sound like a smart guy.
This is I d you d you're the you're the kind of guy that really perplexes us.
Because you've obviously got a brain, but you're falling for all this guilt stuff and believing that capitalism is why some people are poor and why others aren't, when socialism makes everybody miserable.
And that's the equality of it.
Uh Eric in San Mateo, California, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thank you again for a wonderful program.
And that last call is it was perplexing.
That's very interesting.
Um my point has to do with uh Obama trying to call the Republicans to what he calls a health care summit.
And I think the Republicans have an incredible opportunity.
Obama's called great attention to the fact that the uh Republicans haven't been heard.
Well, the Republicans should on the exact same date at the same time proposed, hold their own summit just for themselves, called health care unfiltered, Put their plan out there and make their own media event leveraging Obama's media event.
Maybe.
I I'm I think that's not a bad idea.
The the the um the odds of it being covered, however, are slim because you know the media is on their side.
Why they they could try doing that if they're gonna go up.
I it sounds to me like they're gonna go up there.
It sounds like they're getting enough advice.
White House calls, president calls invite you, you gotta go.
You don't you don't you don't say no to that.
Uh but they're gonna have to be really careful when they get up there and they're gonna have to stand their ground when they do.
Uh I I think folks, there is another reason why Obama wants this.
I want to take you back to the Republican retreat a couple weekends ago in Baltimore.
They invited Obama to show up and Obama showed up.
And you it it's as I said on Monday.
You cannot have whatever number of Republicans in the room debating the president of the United States.
There is not a Republican elected leader with anywhere near in our party the stature that Obama has.
We don't we just don't have that.
So here's Obama as the president talking to 15 or 20 or how many Republicans are gonna be there, just as it was in Baltimore at the retreat.
What happened after that retreat?
After that retreat, the press and the blogs went nuts.
They thought it was the smartest thing Obama had ever done.
It revived Obama.
It showed Obama to be much smarter and much more nuanced than the Republicans.
And it showed the Republicans to be nothing but petty, and they were just trying to sink a battleship with BBs.
And I think the White House heard that.
Wow, here's a way to get our stature back.
Because you have to treat the president, whoever he is, if you're a Republican, you treat him with a certain amount of respect.
The Democrats, of course, throw that out the window.
So it's a it's a risk to go up there, even if they do hold firm.
Because the whole point of this is for the press to write how much smarter and how well informed and much more nuanced on this than uh the uh the uh Republicans are, and secondly, to portray the Republicans as the obstacle here, which is nothing could be further from the truth.
And I you know, I have my instincts say that this is a a risky thing to go do because what we need to be focusing on here is conservative victory and rolling all this back and continuing to stop it.
Stopping it dead in its tracks, health care, stopping cap and trade and anything else.
Now we've got folks, we've got w a lot of things to do here and not a whole lot of time to do them.
Now you look at uh you look at the uh fact that the elections are coming.
Well, I gotta take a break, but the elections are coming up in in in November.
And that's that's the first opportunity we're gonna have to put the brakes on this.
But much, much more than that needs to be done.
And I'll explain that when we come back after this obscene profit timeout here at the EIB network.
What did that guy from Chicago, what did he think?
Market socialism?
Is that was that what his term was, or free free market socialism.
It turns out that there is.
And I was dead right in analyzing that there is actually if you go to Wikipedia, there is a definition of it.
Market socialism refers to various economic systems where the means of production are publicly owned.
That means the government, but the market is utilized.
That's fascism.
Socialism is where the government owns and operates everything.
Uh not far from communism, but fascism is the government owns things, but you run it according to their dictates, and they define what market conditions are, as you can clearly see happening now is they gun after Toyota.
Make no mistake the feds are gunning after Toyota because the general orders in crisis.
It's uh it's it's plain as day.
Here's uh Aaron in Duluth, Minnesota.
Welcome, sir to the EIB network.
Nice to have you with us.
Hey, Rush, really nice to speak with you.
Thank you, sir.
I'm uh I'm a rush baby.
I've been listening to you since I was probably uh nine years old, I guess.
Well, that's a good thing for you and for me.
Thank you.
Yeah, and actually, I don't know if you've coined the term yet, but I'm working on a rush grandbaby.
We've got my two-year-old really really enjoys listening to you.
Well, good.
So anyhow, I'll get into my point.
Say, you were speaking about uh the this these comments Obama was making Yesterday.
And one of the things he said is I I know that uh small business owners are saying that they're they want to hire people, that they're hiring people, and that all things are looking positive, and generally speaking.
I I just have a hard time believing that.
I mean, if I if I had the I'm a small business owner myself.
Um if I had the president of the United States coming to talk to me, I don't think I'd have the guts to say much negative, if anything negative, even though I'm I'm about as anti-Obama as a person can get, but I just really I don't I don't buy it that that he's out there getting having these one-on-one meetings with the small guy, the the little business owners, and they're they're being real.
Well, he might have.
You know, he's done a lot of workshops in the White House.
He might have had one of those workshops, some small business people in there, but that's not the point.
The fact is he has to.
He has to.
What he's being told, I'm like you, I don't believe it.
He's being told that they have profits now enough to uh to uh uh whatever.
They've got profits to sell pro i it made no sense.
It was it was it was a frightening quote that he had.
I it it just bugaboo all over the place.
But i you don't go borrow money to expand your payroll.
It's just it's never ever done.
That's not not the uh point of it.
Now people say what can we do?
What can we do?
Look, uh we we're gonna have to hold on till November, but but folks, even that is just barely a stopgap.
There are several things at work here that we're gonna have to stay on top of.
Uh most of you know these.
We need a conservative victory, not a Republican victory per se, because if we get what is said to be a Republican victory, not much is going to change.
Uh the GOP leadership, to me now, I hope I'm wrong about this, but the GOP leadership still doesn't understand what we're facing and who we're facing and the perilous state of the nation.
They're inside the beltway, and it to them it's just, oh, this is the latest Democrat president, Democrat Congress.
Although I I I do think that they're a little bit uh uh more aware of the genuine radicalness of this bunch than they were at the outset.
But this election in November is the first step in what must be several electoral cycle victories if we are to start the process of returning to a limited and legitimate government.
We have to find or nurture leaders who are articulate and strategic and can actually make a difference, not all at once, but with a big picture view that puts in pace uh plans and policies that will reverse all of this from one generation to the next.
This is going to be an ongoing thing.
It took the Democrats a hundred years to get to this point.
Now we still have not taken back the GOP.
There will continue to be some confusion about the GOP of old and uh conservative efforts to uh remake it as a conservative party.
We have to continue to challenge in the primaries win or lose, advance our philosophy.
And you know, you can't go out and demand perfection from anyone or expect it out of anybody at any election, but you have to demand that every reasonable effort be made to return to constitutional government so that every compromise, should there be a compromise, must be focused on this purpose.
We don't have a whole lot of time to stop what's occurring and promote our principles.
We are confronted by people who believe in the destruction of this society.
And we have to get hold of the levers of power as fast as possible to stop this.
Now there are people out there claim to be conservative or libertarian or some third way or promoting third parties or worse, uh lecturing that we should uh ignore politics.
They argue that all the parties are the same, all politicians are dishonest, and it's uh you know, it's it's a new form of populism, and it is not the case.
I I don't think you can find one Republican.
I know why I know you haven't.
Take it back that that idiot from Louisiana who voted for the uh uh stimulus bill, but you won't find a Republican fingerprints on this health care bill.
There's there's a there's just a a huge difference.
So what we we all have our roles, and we all have our motivations, and we all have Our opportunities.
We all should do all that we can in our own way to advance our ideals.
There's there's simply no alternative here if you love the country.
And the uh the ideals that we hold dear are under assault, and they have been for decades.
It wasn't until this election cycle that the American people got befuddled by a cult leader and you know airy promises of utopia after a strategic seven-year hit on the Bush administration, which gendered up a personal hate for the man so that anybody else would look better and make the whole concept of change and hope uh to anything an improvement.
But it took them 50, 75, 100 years to get to this point.
And it's it's gonna take a long time concerted effort to reverse all this.
And it's gotta start now, and the first election we're gonna have a chance to put the brakes on this is in November, but it's got to continue long past that as well.
Obama is meeting with people at the White House today who will tell him how to create meaningful jobs.
They are Al Sharpton, Benjamin Jealous of the NAA's LCP, Mark Morial, President CEO National Urban League, Dr. Dorothy I. Who he hopes will tell him how to create meaningful jobs.
I need to ask a question.
Have any of these people ever run anything besides their mouths?
This cannot possibly be a meaningful job summit.
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