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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 Snerdley 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 was asked a question by Jake Tapper.
And 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 and make it harder for their business to grow.
There's a 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 they tell me that they can't get 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.
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 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 smoke room spending cigars 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 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've 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 bombarded with news that 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.
I have nothing to say against these big bonuses at J.P. Morgan Chase for Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sachs for Lloyd Blankfein.
I think Blankfein's bonus is $9 million and Jamie Dimon's is $17 million.
Yeah, $17 million.
And Obama said, well, they're very savvy businessmen.
I know both those guys.
I, like most of the American people, don't begrudge people success or wealth.
It's part of free market system.
And 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.
He had a PASAR 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, 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 Blankfein 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 overly generous nature of this bailout means that 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 going to be fine.
And they're going to be able to pay bonuses whatever they want.
And this Mr. Simon, professor, sorry, Professor Simon Johnson at 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.
And here's the exact quote from Obama in the upcoming Bloomberg piece.
Here's the question.
Let's talk bonuses for a minute.
Lloyd Blankfein, $9 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.
You could fool me.
He's targeting success and wealth.
He says that's part of the free market system.
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 oftentimes have not had any significant say in the past, blah, blah.
So, not happy.
They are not happy out there.
Let's listen to a couple soundbites.
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 on 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.
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 fat cat bankers on Wall Street.
The only ones that are going to 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 guys are drawing down $10, $20 million bonuses after America went through the worst economic year that it's gone through in decades.
And you guys caused the problem?
And we've 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 expected Obama to hammer them.
He comes out and says, I know these guys.
These are savvy businessmen.
I don't begrudge people success or wealth.
A little-known factor, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, J.P. 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 got to 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 headlines of the HuffPo anyway are just livid.
Chicago teams sinking Obama presidency.
Megan 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.
And it's much more serious and somber in there because nothing's working.
And has to take this little petty shot 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 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 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.
Don't know what books he's reading.
What do we know about the heroes of Barack Obama?
There's a lot about him we don't know.
This is these guys were covering their bases just before the election in case he turned out to be exactly what he is.
So you got 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 healthcare televised mumbo jumbo.
Quick time out.
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 63% 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 40s now, depending on which poll you look at.
The Republicans are leading everything in the generic ballot 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 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, the National Journal has a story.
Somebody in Pelosi's office told them 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 that 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 going to 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.
DeBell in Manhattan, on the way to 16 inches of snow.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Good afternoon, Lambo.
Good afternoon, DeBell.
I want to know why is that you cannot say anything good about your president?
I haven't seen anything yet to praise.
Are you serious?
Yeah.
No, no, it cannot be serious.
He's the president of the biggest country in the entire world.
It's a shame, too.
No, it's not.
It is.
It's a shame.
It's a joke.
It is a shame.
It's a travesty.
And our country, as we've known it, hangs in the balance.
Hi.
You just want a clip earlier about Tom Baco saying they don't know anything about Obama when he was running for president.
So who knows anything about anybody's running for election?
Let's take you, for example.
You know, that's what is going to happen.
No, wait, nobody.
DeBell, wait a minute.
I played that soundbit from Charlie Rose.
Those were two of Obama's most ardent supporters.
I was playing the soundbite 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 soundbite to illustrate that nobody knew who this guy was, 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 than what he was.
What's really a reason for you to go on a rampage day in, day out on his case?
That's not fair.
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 listening to you on the radio, remember, I've been listening to you when I couldn't 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.
So the Democrats are not able to push back against your rampage.
Really?
Fascinating.
What party?
You mean you changed and became a Democrat?
I was a Democrat.
Now I'm on the Family Life Party.
Family Workers' Party.
I'm sorry.
Family Workers' Party.
Oh, the Communist Party.
Communist Party.
Okay.
Family.
Family.
Family Workers' Party.
Yeah, Family Workers, the Communist Party.
They're not communists.
What are you talking about?
Well, anything with workers in it is a Communist Party.
You making that up.
That's not true.
No, I don't know.
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?
The Communist Party USA has changed the name of their magazine from the Workers' Daily or whatever it was to, I forget what it is, but they're out there.
I mean, the Communist Party's endorsed every agenda item Obama has.
So that's why you call him a communist, huh?
Well, you know, I don't hedge around here.
I don't play around the edges.
You know, I do.
I've got to tell you something, DeBell.
I think the only way to save this country, as we've known it, is every liberal Democrat must be unseated.
They are destroying the country.
It's not going to destroy.
And frankly, I'm not interested in being nice to them.
They're not nice to me.
When's the last time any of those people had something nice to say about me, DeBell?
Well, you don't have to worry about them being nice to you as long as you're doing the right thing.
Because that's what you're doing.
You always think about that.
That's exactly what you're saying.
So why should they 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.
He's our president.
Right.
So get that into your head.
So when you think about that, you will see he's the president of the United States of America, and he cannot be wrong in all aspects, as you've been saying, every day in and every day out.
DeBell, just so you have 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 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 Republics to come up and save his on health care.
Don't worry, Debbie.
We don't have care in this country.
You got next door to us Canada having a national.
Why can't we have it here in America?
The Premier Canada Premier just came down here for heart surgery, not available in Canada.
We don't want to destroy ours.
Okay, time for a shout-out to DeBell in Manhattan, who said he's been listening to me for 22 years before he learned to speak English, and that I haven't improved at all.
22 years.
I haven't improved at all.
DeBell, look at it.
I felt a little guilty having a little fun with you about not being able to say anything good about Obama.
So I will.
I mean, everybody has 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 effing R word, although he is the P-word.
But not the F-ing-R word.
Is that better?
I had a lot of people sternly ask me, was DeBell speaking with a Negro dialect?
No, no, no.
That was liberal dialect.
DeBell was speaking with a liberal dialect.
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 Dido really had it.
I think I can put it out there more.
All right, well, I'll sit here and I'll compare and let you know.
Okay, you do that.
I'm a liberal.
You were asking about how liberals are running for the hills because of the things Obama is failing at.
And I don't think he's failing at much of anything considering the state we were in last September when layman was going down.
Now, I know you guys 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 in that things that were passed in Congress, even with the prior administration, through the initial TARP bailouts and the bank bailouts.
Yeah, do you know how much of the TARP money that bailout, which was crucial to save the world financial system, is left?
You should have let it gone down.
You got four banks holding 90% of the deposits in this country.
Let them go down.
Would that be a brilliant move, Rush?
That would be brilliant.
No, from the outset, I questioned whether we were being conned by everybody in Washington, Republicans, Democrats, whoever.
We still have $200 million of the $700 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 $1 trillion deficit.
But that's beside the point, too.
No, that's not true.
I'm stunned at you.
What do you do for a living?
Actually, I'm a neo-capitalist.
I'm a trader for a living, and I've been accused of my fellow traders that how can I support socialism?
I support socialism on a scale that the country needs it because I understand that big populations, countries like it's not the 1800s anymore.
You can't throw around, you want to go back to capitalism, you know, hardcore capitalism where some people make it and some people die in the gutter.
You got the GOP plan now.
They want to get rid of Medicare and Social Security.
Well, that's really brilliant.
No, no, it's the Democrats that cut $500 billion in Medicare and the health care bill and there were nobody dying in the gutter because of capitalism.
People are going hungry and are out of work because of Obama's socialism.
Point to me anywhere in the world.
Point to me anywhere in the world where socialism has led to prosperity for anybody.
In a Europe, have they?
Show me anywhere.
All of those things have gone up.
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?
Really?
All those countries that are... You're telling me... You're telling me that... You're telling me...
Wait a minute.
You're going to have to work two more years to learn 60% of the country.
I can't understand what you're saying.
I understand exactly what I'm saying.
And I also want to say that.
Are you going to cite Greece to me?
You're going to cite Spain.
These people are bankrupt.
They had to be bailed out by Germany.
Did the people of the Soviet Union live a prosperous life?
Are the people in Cuba living a prosperous life?
There's a big difference between social capitalism and communism, and you know that.
Social capitalism?
At least you should.
Social capitalism?
Yeah, social market capitalism or free market socialism.
Most of the Western people are defined by one of those.
There's no such thing.
Free market socialism doesn't exist.
Free market socialism is fascism.
That's really cool because fascists wouldn't even want to be anything around socialists or communists.
You know that too.
Fascists are blood brothers.
They're all leftists.
Fascists, socialists, communists are all blood brothers.
Mussolini, Hitler, all of them.
All the wrong books, Rush.
Big leftist.
You know, you're going to have to wake up.
You're a traitor.
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 dying in the gutter.
Capitalism led to the most prosperous population of human beings in the history of the world.
I think people like you are ashamed.
People like you are going to facilitate the destruction of this country.
Anyway, I'm glad you called out there, Dean.
My heart's with you.
I'm hoping for a revelation for you someday because this is you sound like a smart guy.
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.
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 perplexing.
That was very interesting.
My point has to do with Obama trying to call the Republicans to what he calls a healthcare summit.
And I think the Republicans have an incredible opportunity.
Obama's called great attention to the fact that the 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 Healthcare Unfiltered, put their plan out there and make their own media event leveraging Obama's media event.
Maybe.
I think that's not a bad idea.
The odds of it being covered, however, are slim.
Because you know, the media is on their side.
They could try doing that if they're going to go up.
It sounds to me like they're going to go up there.
It sounds like they're getting enough advice.
White House calls, president calls, invite you.
You got to go.
You don't say no to that.
But they're going to have to be really careful when they get up there, and they're going to have to stand their ground when they do.
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 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 just don't have that.
So here's Obama as the president talking to 15 or 20 or how many Republicans are going to 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 Republican, you treat him with a certain amount of respect.
The Democrats, of course, throw that out the window.
So 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 the Republicans are.
And secondly, to portray the Republicans as the obstacle here, which nothing could be further from the truth.
And I have my instincts say that this is 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, healthcare, stopping cap and trade, and anything else.
Now, we've got, folks, we've got a lot of things to do here and not a whole lot of time to do them.
Now, you look at the fact that the elections are coming.
Well, I got to take a break, but the elections are coming up in November.
And that's the first opportunity we're going to 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 say?
Market socialism?
Was that what his term was?
Or 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.
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 as they gun after Toyota.
Make no mistake, the feds are gunning after Toyota because the general orders in Christ.
It's plain as day.
Here's 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 a Rush baby.
I've been listening to you since I was probably nine years old, I guess.
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 enjoys listening to you.
Good.
Anyhow, I'll get to my point.
Say, you were speaking about these comments Obama was making yesterday.
And one of the things he said is I know that small business owners are saying that they want to hire people, that they're hiring people, and that all things are looking positive, generally speaking.
I just have a hard time believing that.
I mean, if I had the, I'm a small business owner myself.
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 about as anti-Obama as a person could get.
But I just really, I don't buy it that he's out there getting having these one-on-one meetings with the small guy, the little business owners, and they're being real.
Well, he might have, you know, he's done a lot of workshops at the White House.
He might have had one of those workshops with some small business people in there, but that's not the point.
The fact is he has to.
In fact, he's annoying about it.
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 whatever.
They've got profits to sell.
It made no sense.
It was a frightening quote that he had.
Bugaboo all over the place.
But you don't go borrow money to expand your payroll.
It's just, it's never ever done.
That's not the point of it.
Now, people say, what can we do?
What can we do?
Look, we're going to have to hold on until November.
But folks, even that is just barely a stopgap.
There are several things at work here that we're going to have to stay on top of.
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.
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 to them, it's just, oh, this is the latest Democrat president, Democrat Congress.
Although I do think that they're a little bit 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 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 100 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 conservative efforts to 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 claiming to be conservative or libertarian or some third way or promoting third parties or worse, lecturing that we should ignore politics.
They argue that all the parties are the same, all politicians are dishonest, and it's, you know, it's a new form of populism, and it is not the case.
I don't think you can find one Republican.
I know I know you haven't.
Take it back, that idiot from Louisiana who voted for the stimulus bill, but you won't find any Republican fingerprints on this health care bill.
There's just a huge difference.
So 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 simply no alternative here if you love the country.
And 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 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 to anything an improvement.
But it took them 50, 75, 100 years to get to this point.
And it's going to take a long time concerted effort to reverse all this.
And it's got to start now.
And the first election, we're going to 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 LCP, Mark Morial, President, CEO, National Urban League, Dr. Dorothy I. Height, chairwoman of the National Council of Negro Women, and the Reverend Sharpton.
These are the people Obama is meeting with today 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 jobs summit.
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