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Feb. 16, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 16, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Greetings, my friends, welcome back.
It's Rush Lindboy and a one and only.
Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Great to have you here, as always.
I'm tired.
I don't know why, but I'm sitting here fighting fatigue from behind.
No!
Wasn't that partying last night?
Well, but I gave up on the ice skate.
I I um I gave up on the ice skating before the ChICOM team came on.
I had to watch 24.
But I mean, that was up till midnight.
I'd normally up later than that.
I don't know.
Uh nevertheless, I'm not complaining.
I mean, I'm just telling you what is.
Telephone number 80082-2882, the email address, L Rushmaugh at EIVNet.com.
That's right, ladies and gentlemen.
Lake Erie is now frozen over for the first time in 14 years.
The 241-mile-long lake virtually frozen over from one end to the other.
Now, this will prevent a bunch of lake effect snows.
Because what happens?
Yeah, cold air that passes over the relatively warmer waters of the lake.
And it rises up there, it condenses in the clouds, and bamboo, you got lake effect snow.
Not cold front snow, but lake effect.
So lake effect snow will be way down since the ice on the surface of the lake is uh not nearly as warm as the water, relatively speaking.
Now, the reason that this is uh important is because we find ourselves here each and every day, more and more is for example now, the IPCC.
Somebody's gonna have to run in there and take the peace prize away from these people and from Al Gore.
Because every day there's a new revelation.
Now an independent scientist who's not either a global warming believer or a denier, he doesn't care, he's just a scientist.
He's examined the data from which they concluded that global warming is calling causing more and more intense hurricanes.
It's not true.
The data doesn't support their conclusion.
It just isn't true.
He says, I defy anybody to show me where my reading of their data is wrong.
And of course nobody's gonna step for the whole thing's made up.
The whole thing is made up.
And the bottom continues to fall out, and yet the Obama administration, and not one U.S. media outlet other than Fox, and of course us, is reporting any of this.
Not one.
Because our media is no longer media.
They are repeaters and propagandists.
So I take you back to um April 13th of 2007.
Uh Lori David, who's a big environmentalist person uh out in Hollywood, the ex-wife of uh Larry David.
Uh an open letter to me via the Huffing and Puffington Post.
Dear Mr. Limbaugh, global warming causes extreme weather in both directions.
For example, the reason the blizzards are getting worse in the Northeast is because the Great Lakes are no longer freezing over, thus fueling the stronger snowstorms that are topping the headlines and disrupting the start of the baseball season.
This is April 13, 2007.
But today, Lake Erie is frozen for the first time in 14 years.
So now we're gonna hear, well, yeah, that just means there's global warming.
Uh, it just doesn't work that way.
Climate change now, but it's this is all becoming it.
I think.
What did I see?
I know this can't be right.
My memory must be failing me.
I think I saw somewhere today where less than 20% now believe it.
Man-made global warming.
I'll have to find it somewhere here in the stack.
Now, here from uh another UK paper.
Uh paper called The Register.
More trouble looms for the IPCC.
The uh UN body may need to revise statements made in its fourth assessment report on hurricanes and global warming.
A statistical analysis of the raw data shows that the claims that global hurricane activity is increased cannot be supported.
Now remember, this was a central feature of Al Gore's propaganda movie, Earth in the Lurch.
Less Hatton, once fixed weather models at the Met office, having studied maths at Cambridge.
He completed his PhD as a meteorologist.
His PhD was the study of tornadoes and water spouts.
He's a fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society currently teaches at the University of Kingston, well known in the software engineering community, and his uh studies include critical systems analysis.
And he goes on uh to cite that Al Gore uses a fluke year of 2005, one year to push the agenda that global warming or climate change, whatever it is, is causing more and more intense hurricanes.
This guy has analyzed it.
Uh 1999 and 2009, and then between 1946 and 2009, the averages of storms and their strength almost exactly balances out.
And Al Gore picked one year in that range, 2005, to make a 100-year prediction that everybody bought into.
Then, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh the Obama administration scientist on snowstorms is out there saying that weather is not climate.
Uh this is yesterday on uh on an NPR radio show in Washington, the NOAA, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration administrator, Jane Lubchenko.
She got this question.
Last last week we saw some really unusual weather patterns, not only through the Mid Atlantic, but even today in the southern part of the U.S. What do you think has made this year so different?
It's important that people recognize that weather is not the same as climate.
And record-breaking storms neither negate nor prove climate change.
This year we have indeed seen a lot of seemingly strange things, record snowfalls in the mid-Atlantic region, even though the planet is warming.
And this isn't a contradiction, and it's not really unexpected.
The multiple snowstorms we've been seeing this winter, with more on the way, likely, are a result of the confluence of El Nino and the Arctic Oscillation.
That's exactly right, and they are cyclical and they happen all the time, regardless of man-made activity.
Now, she says here, the planet is warming.
Well, we just had Phil Jones, the architect of all of this, and Michael Mann, the guy at Penn State who put together the bogus hockey stick, have admitted, well, Jones has admitted, there hasn't been any warming since 1995.
The medieval period was in fact warmer than it is today, and of course, there was no man-made activity to cause it back now.
The whole, the bottom has fallen out of this.
And yet Obama's NOAA administrators out there still promulgating a hoax.
Promulgating a lot.
I I think this Lubchenko woman needs to resign.
She's she's not phased in the least after learning Dr. Jones is a fraud.
So she got another question.
Well, one last word.
Um, and then what is your reaction to the growing sense around the country, perhaps even around the world, that global warming is a hoax?
Climate change is underway.
It's happening now.
It is resulting in many changes that will affect the way people live and do business.
And the fact that we are getting more and more requests for information about droughts, about future heat waves, about air quality, forest fires, sea level.
Wait, stop the tape.
She just said that weather is not climate, didn't she?
And now she's citing a bunch of weather phenomenon to suggest that there's warming.
Or she said uh heat waves, forest fires, sea level rise, inundating coasts.
Does this woman not know that the hoaxers have pretty much come clean?
You know, this this woman, um, this guy's name is Phil Jones.
You remember Billy Paul song, me and Mrs. Jones, we got a thing.
She could sing the duet with the guy.
A normal person would be outraged over how they have been misled here by these people.
A scientist would be curious to know all the facts, so we don't get that with Obama's propaganda scientists.
Weather may not be climate, but years of weather where there's no warming is climate.
We're not talking about today's cold weather or yesterday's cold weather or last summer's cold weather.
We're talking about the cumulative weather since 1995.
The climate.
Dr. Phil Jones is talking about when he says there hasn't been any warming since 1995.
Folks, do you realize that we're talking uh fifteen years?
And we were told 1998 the hottest year ever, and it's gonna get worse.
We're gonna bake, we're gonna fry.
And Obama's out there saying, Let this be the boy.
Let the C levels began to fall.
Right oh, right over.
Uh these people have vilch zero nada credibility.
And I think what's happened here, Jane Lubchenko of NOAA has given herself away.
A really good liar would feign some concern here.
A really poor liar just keeps pitching the same lie with no emotion after learning that one of her co-conspirators just turned state's evidence.
This is like Al Capone's henchman continuing to say we never did anything after Capone just admitted everything.
What legitimate scientist wouldn't call timeout on anything connected with global see the bottom line is this is not science.
This has been my point for 25 years.
There's nothing about this that's science.
It's pure left-wing politics.
Your phone calls are next.
As promised, it's back to the phones.
I'm gonna let you people carry this show for a while.
As I'm tired out there, we're gonna go to Reno, Nevada.
Kevin, hello, and welcome to the program.
You gotta talk for two minutes without me saying a word.
Oh, that's gonna be tough.
Maha Rushi, uh 20 plus year listener and second time caller.
My pleasure.
Um I'm a retired uh city worker here in Reno, and Nevada is a right to work state.
I want to comment a little bit on uh getting government benefits after not paying anything in.
Um I worked for 28 years, and if I remain retired for 28 years, God willing, uh, I will have uh made just a little over two million dollars.
But that again was was my investment.
Now wait, well, let me ask you a question about this.
Is it two million total or is it two million in retirement only?
It'll be two million in retirement only.
There is also a health benefit there.
And I'm I'm being blatantly honest with you.
Uh it's a it's a good retirement.
It's uh Well, yeah.
Uh PERS here was uh we we self-contributed to this.
We were there was no unions involved.
Um when the money came out of the checks, uh the paychecks, that of course was salary that we did not receive.
So we're getting it back on the end, and certainly we're getting it back in spades.
There's there's no argument about that.
But the reason that that PERS has grown so financially uh well here in the state is it was very well invested in the stock market.
Now wait a let's just define PERS as the public employee retirement system.
Yes, I'm sorry, public employees' retirement system.
Um in California they got two of these.
They got the public employee retirement system and a public teachers retirement system.
Okay, this is this is not it.
I worked for the the police department here.
Okay.
Um I believe the teachers I have a couple of sisters that are retired teachers, I believe that was uh was generated by the unions and paid out by the we were not not a union shop at all.
But anyway, the the money that we contributed that was deducted from our paychecks at the time we were receiving it uh was ex uh uh invested in stocks, bonds, that sort of thing, and it was very wisely invested to the point where Nevada Purr's public uh employee retirement system has about a twenty billion dollar uh um investment right now.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
But is it running a surplus or a deficit?
It's running a surplus, right?
Well, that's one of the few.
Not as much of a surplus as it as it was a few years ago.
But of course, the politicians here now, we've got a guy running for governor here that says, hey, let's look at that money.
And that's the one.
Well, hey, the Reverend Jackson's been looking at that money for twenty years in every state there is.
Yeah, that's gonna be a fight.
We're gonna fight that tooth and nail.
Um but uh anyway, uh oh, by by the way, I forgot that I wrote these notes on my hand.
Um I'm also a rush to excellence veteran uh when you came to Reno several years ago.
Uh that's the last note I have on my hand.
Well, then you probably remember early on in this program's um history that I had to ban callers from Reno.
I remember that for a while.
We we weren't happy with that.
We're uh we're definitely in the conservative part of the state.
We're in the northern part of Nevada, we're not gonna Well, it wasn't, it was just it we had a genuinely stupid caller one day that just really rubbed me the wrong way and said, I'm not gonna put up with this.
So just ban Nevada callers, Reno callers for a while.
You didn't take a call from Harry Reid, did you?
No.
No.
Not knowingly.
Yeah.
Anyway, that's uh that's my only point is the the money that I'm reaping, and again, it is quite a benefit is money that we contributed.
All right, how much yeah, but how much did you contribute, if you want to say you know, I don't know.
It certainly wasn't two million dollars.
I I know that.
Um I'm reaping the benefits of some very good investments by the uh the handlers of uh Okay, so what it what it sounds like to me here that that your your PERS system basically took money from your paycheck and invested it for you.
Exactly.
Uh and the pool grew.
The investments were done wisely, and the pension fund is such that your share of it when you retire is gonna be equal to whatever you said at two million dollars.
Yeah.
Um that it's paid for and it's covered, and that it was uh if if it had not been invested wisely, or if that pension fund had been rated, uh, which they New Jersey, they're $90 billion.
They don't have the money in the pension plans.
That's terrible.
No, we're in a word.
They have rated it and rated it just like they've they've rated the future in all kinds of states uh to pay for current salaries spending, whatever it is the politicians want to spend to secure their power and and so forth.
Um But yours you're not to work right uh right to work state, you're not union.
Uh this was the deal when you were made when you accepted the job as a cop.
This was the Did you know you were gonna get two million dollars when you retired?
When I hired on, I couldn't spell PERS.
Um, you know, I was a 19-year-old kid when I walked into the police department and uh everything everything just contributed and added up and uh again I'm we're we're very thankful for it, but but I don't want to, you know, I I agree with you 99.9% of the time, but um our system here is we are not dependent on on the government.
We're not dependent on the union.
So maybe we're in the in the minority, I don't know.
But we're well, I I definitely think you are if your pension plan is still showing a surplus and nobody's gotten their mitts on it.
Well, they want to, though.
The politicians coming up for this next election are are looking at that big nest egg there.
Yeah, and I'll tell you what they're gonna do.
I want you to be prepared for how they're gonna go after your money.
They're gonna say, it's just not fair that uh police officer Kevin here gets two million dollars when he retires when so many people can't even afford the dime slot at the Bellagio.
If there are dime slots at Black.
Yeah, I shouldn't say the Bellagio.
The dime slot of Planet Hollywood, whatever.
You're that's the way they're gonna come after your money.
Okay.
Well, we'll keep our eyes open for that.
All right.
Keep us informed.
That's Kevin from Reno.
This is John in uh Diller, Nebraska.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush, it's glad to talk to you.
My wife and I have been watching and listening to you since the uh Clintons were in office and you're on TV.
Uh thank you, sir.
Appreciate that.
Um I just got a quick question for you.
The uh governor of New Jersey is talking about cutting uh union jobs.
What about the white collar jobs?
Is he going to cut into them as much as a cutting everybody the three hundred and fifty-seven programs are gonna be cut.
Everybody's gonna be affected.
Some of the union people are getting out.
Uh they're gonna they're gonna they're gonna take their retirement now.
They don't want to they don't want to wait around to see all this stuff depleted.
Yeah, but everybody's gonna get cut.
Everybody that's on a government paycheck one way or the other is gonna have some kind of a cut somewhere.
Oh, okay.
Well, that's good.
No, thank you, sir.
All right.
Now see, I know what was going on there.
I know what's going on there.
Blue collar versus white collar.
Any white collar people gonna be white collar people folks, the point here, it's who do you.
Look, I don't want to get any class indie business.
I don't want to pit people against each other here, because that's not how this is gonna get fixed.
But I'd have to say right here that the the vast majority of the unemployment in this country is going to be white-collar private sector people.
Or even blue-collar private sector people who are not members of unions.
That's where most of the unemployment is.
By definition, we know what the stimulus money was for.
It was to make sure that the the states were able to continue to pay the cops, the firemen, whatever the the redundant payments that people were giving in the state.
They always claim that the cops and the firemen will be the first to go the teachers uh as a means of scaring the citizenry into not supporting budget cuts.
But there's so much fraud and there's so much theft and there's so much abuse in all of these state budgets, city budgets, little town budgets, village budgets.
And they always scare you by saying the teachers are gonna go, then the cops are gonna go, and then the firemen are gonna go, then your house is gonna burn down, you're gonna get robbed and maybe killed, and it's all because you demanded a budget cut.
And you No, no, I don't want to die, and I don't want to get robbed, please don't cut that's how they that's how they uh they s hook you.
But I vast majority of people that are unemployed now are going to be joined soon by state and city union employees because the slush money has run out, and these states have done nothing.
You just heard th Chris Christie, the state's running a huge, huge deficit.
Tax receipts are down everywhere because unemployment is up.
There are simply fewer people paying taxes, corporate and private.
This is not complicated.
This is economics one oh one.
And after a while, uh when this round of stimulus spending expires, you're gonna see a bloodbath out there.
We've been predicting this for three to four months now at various states.
I'm talking about state employees union uh or otherwise.
You know, everybody's looking at Greece and and and the pigs, uh, which is what they're calling uh the the the four countries over there causing real stress on the Euro uh and the European Union, and uh business insider.com says, Well, okay, what really got Greece into problem?
What caused it?
And the speculation here is that it was the Olympics.
The Olympics broke the bank in Greece.
Government deficits rose every year after 1999, and they had they spent money they couldn't afford that they didn't have in order to put on the Olympics.
That's what they say.
That's the latest excuse.
That's maybe a factor.
But I don't think it's anywhere near the total picture.
Well now, this is just playing weird.
I have never ever heard this complaint before, as long as I've been hosting this program on the EIB network, dear rush.
I have listened to you religiously for years at work.
Today I was told by my boss at turn you off.
A reason?
I had my radio turned up to hear the low volume caller, and I was away from my desk during the commercial break when you pot up the volume level three or four DB, and I wasn't able to turn the volume down.
A boss is screaming it's too loud, turn it off.
Why is it you have to turn down the volume on callers and turn up the volume on commercials?
Thanks for nothing.
Sincerely, Bernard.
Bernard, what do you think this is?
A TV station?
We don't do that.
You obviously have an inferior radio.
We send all our levels through a compressor.
Everything's matched.
One of those days.
Great show, and you still can't please.
There is still some malcontents out there.
Pat Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Maha New Mexico Ditto's to you.
Thank you, sir.
Uh, I watched a little bit of the Olympics over the weekend and opening ceremonies and so forth.
Interesting contrast to what the ChICOMs did last time.
Uh but anyway, afterwards, MBC.
Wait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
What what was interesting about the opening ceremony and what the Chicoms did?
Well, they had uh malfunction with the equipment, and obviously they didn't have a lot of people.
Oh, they had trouble lighting the flame, right?
Right, right.
Only three out of the four flames uh lit the main.
Well, thank God the doves are saved.
Last time it worked in Japan, the doves got fried.
Exactly.
But uh what I was calling about is afterwards they interviewed Joe Biden, and apparently he addressed the U.S. athletes before, which you would assume would be a pep talk.
So they asked him what he said to our athletes, and I kid you not, he actually said, and I'll paraphrase.
Well, I told them that I was impressed with their abilities, but really what blows me away is that they're risking failure in front of millions of people, and yet they still do it.
And I just thought that was a hell of a thing to say to our athletes.
That is the strangest attitude about Olympic competition or athletic comp you guys are risking failure in front of millions of people, and yet you still do it.
Right.
I mean, I I think that they probably are surrounded and smothered with encouragement and positive thinking as part of their training.
Uh And this was probably a shock to them, especially to hear from our vice president.
Well, he knows failure uh in front of lots of people.
There's been a year of it.
So I haven't seen that anywhere in the drive-by media, but one thing I did see uh in the drive-by media.
Did you hear that our great Olympic uh skater uh uh Peggy Fleming was injured in an auto accident?
I did hear that.
You know, it was in Biden's motorcade.
Yes.
I mean, this guy's a walking calamity.
I mean, forget the athletes risking failure in front of many retired athletes risk their lives.
In Biden's motorcade.
Yeah.
We've had a few uh You know what it tells me says Biden doesn't do anything unless he knows it's gonna work.
Right, right.
And that's not a good attitude.
Well, it's not.
But these are the guys trying to take risk out of everything, Pat.
There's no question they are.
That's what the it'll limit it in the business cycle.
Let's talk about this February twenty-fifth.
Blair House meeting, Republicans and Democrats on health care.
This is from Ezra Klein at the uh Washington Post.
It appears that Obama has prepared a health care proposal.
There's been one person in this country who has been pointing out for a year that he has not had his own program.
That person would be myself.
And they hasn't.
They have not had their own program purposely.
The Senate's had their own health care bill, the House has had their own health care bill.
What I'm told is that posting their proposed health insurance reform, the White House, is nothing more than a compromise bill taking parts of the White House likes out of both and making it their own.
Ezra Klein writes, I spoke to the White House over the weekend, they indicated the President's package will not be a new White House plan, but a compromise between the House and Senate bills.
That is to say, the White House expects the House and Senate will have a compromise plan by the time of this meeting that's supposed to be bipartisan for the Republicans to present their ideas so Obama can hear them.
I hope that the Republicans are going up there.
I I I just I hope they know what they're doing.
Here's Jonathan Cohn writing in the Liberal Journal of Opinion, The New Republic.
Friday brought yet more reason to think health care reform has a pulse.
Still a bit weak, perhaps, but getting stronger.
It came when Obama issued his formal invitation to the bipartisan meeting on February 25th.
The invitation sketched out the uh the who, uh, the where and the what.
But the letter's most important passage was this one.
Since this meeting will be most productive, if information is widely available before the meeting, we will post online the text of a proposed health insurance reform package.
This legislation would put a stop to insurance company abuses, extend coverage to millions of Americans, get control of skyrocketing premiums, out-of-pocket costs, and reduce the deficit.
Of course, neither the House or the Senate bill does any of that, folks.
I'm getting so weary.
House and Senate leadership have nearly finished negotiating a new compromise version of their legislation.
So it's two places now it's been reported in the state controlled media, and I want to know.
What in the world of Republicans think that's gonna happen up there?
So now they've put together a compromise bill, they've done it outside of the legislative process in the get in having this meeting, and Republicans are gonna I I'll tell you what it is.
It's exactly it's exactly as I felt.
They're gonna go up there, they've got this compromise now, they finally got together, and guess who's gonna say no to it?
The Republicans.
They want to be able to position the Republicans as the party of no, which would be fine if they were the party of no by not participating.
But if they go up there and participate is under the auspices in the premise that Obama puts forth, yeah, we want to hear your ideas.
And then none of them get adopted, and Republicans say, well, we're not gonna they're just look.
I d I just hope they know what they're doing.
Pure and simple.
Frank in Harbor Springs, Michigan.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
You are next.
Yes, Rush.
Thank you.
Yes.
Uh it's an honor to talk to you.
Uh I'm having a long time listener, uh, and I'm a retired systems engineer for a Ford Motor Company.
Uh And I such obviously I've uh survived uh a number of fairly major recalls, but I do find it interesting uh the way both the government and the media are continuing to bash Toyota.
You know, they seem to be going after him with continued gusto.
In fact, today uh I hear that they're uh Democrat demands for congressional investigations, which I'm sure will be televised.
Uh but uh I haven't heard anyone in the media mention the fact that Toyota, uh, who currently operates five assembly plants in the U.S. uh has no UAW uh members in any of the plants.
I'm just wondering, I find it interesting.
I know you were talking earlier about the way Obama uh kind of takes care of his buddies in the UAW.
And I'm just wondering if it uh if you think it's possible that uh Ron Gettelfinger maybe could have been the uh a recent visitor or guest at the White House.
What do you think?
I think it's a rather distinct.
I think your instincts on this are pretty on.
I think your instincts look at they own General Motors and Chrysler.
They're using the power of government ownership here to go after a competitor on the uh the basis that competitor is killing its customers.
Uh and yeah, they're not unionized, and then it's it's out there for one and all to see.
This is Chicago thug politics.
It's interesting too that uh Toyota did have a unionized plant at the uh the Fremont uh California NUMI facility.
Uh and they announced uh late last year that they uh they were going to mouthball the plant.
That's the one that they inherited from General Motors, and uh such inherited a bunch of uh uh of GMUAW workers along with it.
But uh that was their highest cost assembly plant, and that was the reason given for their shutting it down this year.
I think your instincts are out of the money here.
There's I mean, there's no question that that's what this is all about, uh, in addition to taking slams at a competitor.
No question whatsoever.
Look, I'm glad you called out there.
Uh Frank.
Thanks.
Uh thanks very much.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limbaugh and the EIB network.
Back to our caller, I think his name was Frank for Ford Motor Company talking about the government and UAW, the U.S. government, I just saw it on Fox.
U.S. government, which is GM Chrysler and the UAW.
I mean, that's written that's who this is now.
GM Chrysler, Obama and the UAW demanding to know what Toyota knew and when did they know it regarding the brake problems and all these recalled cars.
And according to Fox, Obama, GM, Chrysler, and a UAW are demanding that Toyota hand over all related documents to him.
Now, this clearly, ladies and gentlemen, is harassment.
There are literally hundreds of car recalls every year.
We almost never hear about them in the news.
You know, more people die from lightning strikes than have died in Toyotas.
And if they could unionize lightning start lightning strikes, I'm sure they'd do it.
And maybe they should, because it never happened then.
But now all of a sudden Toyota being attacked by the UAW for plant closings like the one out in Fremont, California, and for trying to avoid hiring union workers, suddenly they are getting all of this attention from our government, which is in partnership with the UAW in the car business.
Holy folks.
I know I've got a smile on my face, but sometimes that's all you can do.
This is hideous.
Do you people know the name Leslie Gelb?
I'm sure some of you do.
CFR.
Leslie Gelb, a former New York Times columnist, and former senior governor offici uh senior government official.
Uh and um he is either the yeah, he's President American uh President Emeritus of the CFR, the Council on Foreign Relations.
He's also the author of Power Rules, How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy.
Harper Collins, 2009.
And he's got a a piece.
Three pages of advice.
I don't know where it appears, but uh he's got a uh three pages of advice.
He's one of these wise guys, a wise old man.
You know, Know how to run the country.
New York Times columnist CFR President Emeritus.
He says President Obama desperately needs a sweeping staff shakeup to save his presidency.
Leslie Gelb says he must reassign Rahim Manuel, get rid of Larry Summers, and get rid of the National Security Advisor Jim Jones.
And then Leslie Gelb offers a thoughtful analysis and suitable replacements.
From his perch as President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations, CFR, and New York Times columnist.
But Leslie Gelb doesn't get it.
If Obama were to reshuffle his advisors to get things right, how can he leave out replacing Eric Holder?
I mean, Eric Holder has had twin fiascos, Miranda Rights for Terrorists in a Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial in civilian court in New York City.
And if you're going to shake up this administration, how do you not get rid of little Timmy Geitner for allowing that waste of a trillion dollar stimulus it didn't stimulate?
Or how do you not get rid of Janet Napolitano for anything she says?
How do you not get rid of the White House terror chief John Brennan for his latest two wackos?
Criticizing a policy is aiding Al Qaeda, he said, followed by bragging that only 20% of release terrorists are recidivists.
As though that's something to be proud of.
Only 20% of captured terrorists returned to the anti-U.S.
battlefield.
That's not bad.
Where do you stop when you start talking about getting rid of people in this administration?
And how in the world do you do it seriously without saying we also got to get rid of Obama?
I mean, if you got to get rid of all these people, you got to get rid of the guy who put them there.
This is amazing to me.
Obama's the guy that put him there.
Axelrod, Rahm Emanuel, they're all part of the Chicago thug acracy.
And it's as though Obama's this innocent little waif.
Running around playing golf and shooting hoops, ill-served by these people that were somehow forced upon him.
When he chose them, we don't even know who all his czars are for crying out loud.
Oh, Robert Gibbs, the press secretary and stand-up comic who makes fun of Sarah Palin.
Someone ought to ask uh Leslie Gelb who shouldn't be replaced in this administration.
I mean, Kathleen Sibelius.
The that that that H1N1 pandemic?
And showing us how to cough safely on our sleeve.
How in the world, if you're going to replace people, do you not start with replacing Obama?
Boy, Obama must really, really want this trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in New York.
He sent Biden out there to really attack Mayor Bloomberg in New York.
Biden's surprising outburst is an indication of just how upset Obama is at having one of his foreign policy goals showing a kinder face to the Muslim world meet a solid wall of opposition in New York.
Biden saying it uh uh Bloomberg's inflating the cost of the trial not gonna be nearly They really want this trial.
They really want this trial to go after Bloomberg.
We'll see you tomorrow, folks.
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