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Feb. 18, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 18, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
The sad comedy and a big lie continue, ladies and gentlemen, unabated.
And although it's not a laughing matter, it nevertheless is hilarious.
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Let's see here.
From Reuters.
You remember, just yesterday, Joe Biden told us how well the stimulus worked and that Obama had saved us from depression.
The number of newly laid-off workers filing applications for unemployment benefits unexpectedly surged.
Last week, after having fallen sharply in the previous week, the game dampened hopes about how quickly the labor...
This is a joke.
The people in the media have become a recurring joke.
Unexpectedly surged.
Jobless claims, unexpected.
What in the world?
Who are these experts?
I think they're doing this just to irritate me.
They've got a macro.
They hit Command M and it just types this garbage.
The increase followed a drop of 41,000 in the previous week, which had raised hopes.
Who's that the labor market, which has lost 8.4 million jobs since the recession began, could be improving?
The temporary boost appears to have worn off.
From the Associated Press.
I guess we should all be confused here because Obama says that all this is a success.
Maybe, folks, we are just too dumb to understand all this.
Maybe Obama needs to be clearer.
He says, let me be clear a lot.
Maybe he's not being clear enough because the economy's growth rate may be ebbing.
Leading indicators rise for the 10th straight month, but at a slower, there isn't a recovery.
And anybody who is marginally engaged in their life every day has full awareness there isn't any recovery.
Nevertheless, here's state-controlled AP a forecasted future economic activity rose for a 10th straight month in January.
But, but, but the pace of growth is slowing, according to the conference board, who said its index of leading economic indicators rose 0.3% last month, which is weaker than a 1.2% rise in December and a 1.1% rise in November.
It's also a short of the 0.5% gain economists polled by Thomson Reuters expected.
Some economists have been worrying that growth in the economy will stagnate this year as government support programs wind down and unemployment remains high.
The next one.
And this is from Associated Press, Wholesale Prices.
This is inflation, folks.
This is what we've all been worried.
I mean, it was inevitable.
It was going to happen.
Wholesale prices shot up at double the expected pace in January, propelled higher by big increases in energy costs.
The surprisingly large jump was viewed as a temporary blip and not the start of inflation problems, however.
Really, the annual projection for inflation this year is now 16.8%.
We haven't seen anything like that in I don't know how long.
By land.
The Labor Department said Thursday wholesale prices rose 1.4% last month, reflecting higher costs for gasoline and other energy products.
Private economists have expected half that.
Do these people not realize?
Look, folks, I'm doing my best here today to maintain an even keel.
Realize I could have started this show literally screaming and laughing.
Do these people not realize how absurdly stupid they appear?
The labor department said today wholesale prices rose 1.4%.
Private economists had expected a 0.7%.
Do you think it's maybe time for these schlubs at AP and Reuters to go out and find some new economists?
Like maybe call me.
Core inflation at the wholesale level, which excludes energy and food, rose 0.3% in January faster than the 0.1% increase economists had predicted.
I've been doing this show, ladies and gentlemen, well, for 20 and a half years, and I don't think in the last 10 we've had an economic story on labor, jobs, energy, overall economic growth or not, that has not featured the word unexpected or surprised or shocking.
For 10 years, the increase is unexpectedly twice and even three times what the expert economists had predicted to hell, you say.
But over the past 12 months, core prices at the wholesale level are up a moderate 1%.
Economists believe that inflation is not a problem at the moment and is not likely.
Oh, God, folks, that means we're in deep trouble.
I mean, 10 years and their economists have been wrong about everything, and now they're telling us that economists believe inflation is not a problem.
Book it.
Well, because of all the downward pressure on wages and prices as a result of the recession.
Oh, no, no, no.
We're in a recovery, I thought.
I thought there was going to be upward pressure on wages and prices because we're in a recovery.
We've been hearing that for the past year.
If that's what the economists are saying, we are reassured there's nothing to worry about.
The next one, jobless camp.
This is AP, a very robotic AP.
The AP seems to have automated their reporting on the unemployment rate.
We ought to just make a loop that I play once a week when these labor statistics numbers come out.
Just make a loop.
The number of newly laid off workers filing applications for unemployment benefits unexpectedly surged last week after having fallen sharply in the previous week.
The game dampened hopes about how quickly the labor market may improve this year.
Claims at the beginning of this year had been affected by a holiday backlog.
The easing of the backlog had elevated the number of previous three weeks.
The temporary boost appears to have worn off.
There was no boost if it's temporary.
And all of us non-expert non-economists had predicted all of this.
Lucky this news didn't come out yesterday, folks.
It's damn good that this unexpected news didn't come out yesterday, or it would have thrown cold water on all the claims about the amazing success of the slush fund.
Isn't this strategically interesting?
They had the slush fund meeting yesterday.
Things are great.
We don't know how bad it would have been if it hadn't been for us.
Then the news of the truth comes out.
Here's CNBC.
Jobless claims, inflation jump as economy wobbles.
Both the number of workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance and producer prices unexpectedly surged, dealing a setback to hopes the economy was showing a strong recovery.
When has it ever shown a strong recovery?
So Obama has you, look, if you combine this with the coming state, county, and city layoffs, I don't know if the media experts are tuned into that, but we are here at the EIB network.
So Obama has set the table for future pain.
Thanks to a slush fund bill designed to primarily stimulate public service unions.
Unemployment across the fruited plane continues to deteriorate, and that means tax revenues and the deficit will remain in free fall.
And you combine that with Obama's never-ending spending binge.
Oh, let's go to the audio soundbites.
The comedy, the comedy continues.
I'm watching this this morning.
There's Obama.
He's got Plugs Biden with the carbon no longer on his forehead today.
And he's got irksome bowls up there from the University of North Carolina and Alan Simpson.
And we're going to have a blue ribbon deficit commission.
What is the liberals' answer to out-of-control government spending?
You create more government to study it.
There's not a person who is engaged in this in the world who doesn't know why this has happened.
It's called Barack Hussein Obama Barry Sotero.
Who has spent us into this state of ruin in one year?
Barack Hussein Obama.
And now he's calling in these two retreads with 18 other people or 16 other people to study this.
Here, listen to it and laugh.
This is Obama announcing all this.
Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles are taking on the impossible.
They're going to try to restore reason to the fiscal debate and come up with answers as co-chairs of the new National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
I'm asking them to produce clear recommendations on how to cover the costs of all federal programs by 2015 and to meaningfully improve our long-term fiscal picture.
Why are these guys even accepting the gig?
What's in it for Irksome Bowles and Alan Simpson to accept the gig?
Because if they're going to approach this honestly, they can produce their report today.
And it would say, Mr. President, either resign or put somebody else in charge of spending because you are bankrupting and destroying the country.
We've studied it here for the past year, and there's nothing that can be done to fix this if you don't change.
And if you don't change, then you're going to have to, for the good of the country, resign.
We don't need to study it.
Nobody needs to study this.
What we need to do is change it.
Here's Obama, who now is on track.
If he hasn't already, he's on track to spend more than anyone since FDR.
Now tells us this.
Last week I signed into law the PAYGO bill.
Recue it.
When Nancy Pelosi and her cronies took over the House of Representatives in 2007, they announced PAYGO.
This means you don't pay for anything until you got the money.
You either cut spending to pay for it or create new revenue somehow.
It's a sham.
They haven't done it.
And now here's Obama signing into some executive order, a PAYGO bill.
If they're going to do that, why do we need Irksom Bowles and Alan Simpson up there?
Oh, this wears me out.
Here's the bite.
Last week I signed into law the PAYGO bill.
Says very simply that the United States of America should pay as we go and live within our means again.
Just like responsible families.
I can't take it.
Folks, I just can't take it.
There's only one guy he should be talking to, and that's himself.
We need to send you him into a carnival booth surrounded by a thousand mirrors so that whenever he talks, all he sees is himself because he's the well, yeah, I'll put the prompter in there too, but he's the problem.
Yeah, keep going.
Boys and businesses do.
After taking steps to cut taxes and increase access to credit for small businesses to jumpstart job creation this year, I've called for a three-year freeze on discretionary spending starting next year.
Stop the tape.
That's a 1% freeze after he's already bumped it up 25%.
This freeze won't affect Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security spending.
Stop this, which means there's going to be no end insight to the spending no matter what Irks and Balls and Alan Simpson and their 16 other worthless blue ribbon panel people.
What in the world is the president for?
What is Congress for?
What are all these czars for?
Why do we go out and get these two guys and 16 other people to absolve everybody of responsibility?
Everybody that is culpable in this is to be absolved of responsibility.
I can't wait.
I really can't wait because I bet you I can predict what the outcome of this blue ribbon panel is going to be.
I can't wait for it because they're going to fix it.
These people are going to fix it so that there is going to be a quiet revolution in November.
And virtually anybody that reminds the voters of this country of anybody in the past year and a half, he is gone.
Never to get back to Washington ever again.
And it won't affect national security spending, including veterans' benefits.
But all other discretionary spending will be subject to this freeze.
These are tough times, and we can't keep spending like they're not.
We can't keep spending.
Yeah, let's be a lesson to all of you people.
We can't keep spending like this.
We just can't do it.
You realize it's our fault.
And we can't keep spending like that.
And Daddy Obama is going to put the foot down now.
It's gotten out of hand.
Oh, man.
This is just.
I guess I ought to be honest with everybody in the audience today because I always am.
And you people are used to me being in a great mood each and every day.
And as a highly trained professional, that's my instinct.
But I am so irritable today.
I am in, I'm just that close to exploding over a whole bunch of stuff.
And I'm doing my best to rein it in.
But I am, it has nothing to do with any of you people.
Nothing whatsoever to do with any of you people.
I just want to warn you in case I have one of these eruptions today.
It has nothing to do with you.
Even if Sturdley gives me Obama-type thinking phone callers, I promise.
And now watch him try to do it just to get me to erupt because he gets entertained by it.
So we just listen to all of this BS, this total crap from the President of the United States with the appointment of two total retreads who represent exactly what got us into this mess in the first place.
Does this mean that Obama is now going to retract his budget, which has a $1.6 trillion deficit in it?
Hmm.
Is that going to happen?
All of this is nothing more than a big lie.
And I do not retract that this is being done on purpose.
There is nobody, nobody who's this stupid, no collection of people this naive and ignorant.
I don't care how well-intentioned they are.
This is purposeful.
And I, for one, I am 59 years old.
I have worked and worked and worked, and I know you have too, your whole life.
And I didn't do all of this to spread the wealth for this guy so that he can change the makeup and very foundation of this country, which made all of this prosperity for so many of us possible.
I'm not suggesting do this by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm just going to tell you, if Obama needs some help in reducing his spending, what if we just all stop paying taxes?
The IRS didn't have enough people to come get it.
I'm not suggesting it.
I'm just pointing out here, they don't have this stimulus.
There's no such thing.
The government does not have an endless stash of money sitting back somewhere that's not being used.
We don't have any money.
We are future Greece.
We don't have it.
We don't have, what was it, $8 billion to guarantee loans for a nuclear plant.
And by the way, we don't want the federal government involved in a nuclear power business anyway.
That's just a trick to advance his cap and trade idea.
This guy is a destroyer.
And for some reason, he's doing it purposefully.
And he's not fooling a majority of people.
CNN poll.
By the way, did you see CNN?
Oh, I got to get this number right.
CNN's numbers, 2554, the big-time demographic, in prime time, the last two months are lower than at any time in their history.
They were beat out by a test pattern on a local station in Oshkosh after midnight.
Nobody's watching CNN.
Yet they're coming out with this poll.
The vast majority of Americans believe Congress is not tackling the nation's problems.
This is CNN Opinion Research Corporation.
84% of Americans think Congress has not done enough to create jobs, and only 14% said that they're satisfied with the effort so far.
Congress cannot create jobs.
Where do you think the stimulus money comes from?
A, we don't have it, so we're either borrowing it or we're printing it.
In other words, it's money that's being taken out of the private sector and then put back in.
There's no net increase of money.
They're just redistributing it and reallocating it to their political cronies in the public employee unions.
Pure and simple.
Trying to shore up states, making sure they don't go bankrupt.
But that's just a little finger in a dike business.
That's not permanent either.
None of this is permanent.
It's all stopgap while Obama tries to come up with a way to pass the buck.
Now, here's this from the Associated Press.
A forecast of future economic activity rose for a 10th straight month, but the pace of growth is slowing.
Some economists have been worrying the growth in the economy will stagnate this year as government support programs wind down and unemployment remains high.
You know, folks, I'm a fairly smart guy here, but I'm so confused now.
Obama yesterday said it's a huge success.
So did Biden.
All of this is phony, and there isn't any of it anyway.
There is no growth, economic growth, or there's zilch zero nada.
There's government growth, but there's no investment, there's no consuming, and there's no job creation happening in the private sector, which is where it matters for the health and the future of all of us in the country.
Small plane crashed into a northwest Austin, Texas office building not long ago.
The building is looks like a miniature version here of the World Trade Center.
Although the building's still standing, but I mean, it's a disaster down there.
You know what floor was hit was the IRS.
The IRS is on the first floor of this building.
Paramedics have set up a triage center at the scene, though it is unclear how many people are injured.
Mathilde Sanchez, a spokeswoman for the Seton family of hospitals, said that University Medical Center Breckenridge received two patients and that no other hospitals had received any.
The IRS has offices in the building, including its civil enforcement and criminal investigations division.
Special Agent Michael Lamon, a spokesman, said that some IRS offices are on the first floor, which was hit by the airplane.
He said that the Criminal Investigations Division personnel are safe and accounted for, did not have information on the civil division workers who conduct audits and other activity at the offices.
Now, an FBI agent says this is not terrorism.
An agent who asked not to be identified because he isn't authorized to release information, who's going to authorize release information anyway, said the incident is being investigated as an accident, although eyewitnesses said the plane seemed to come in at full throttle, said the plane was out of Waco, and that FAA officials are en route to the scene.
Whoa.
Yeah, he also burned his house down first, the pilot of the airplane.
So we get a kamikaze mission here, with who knows whatever else the intent was.
Now, well, it could be a professor who was denied tenure.
We don't know.
We don't want to speculate here on this.
We might be one of the 95% who did not get his middle-class tax cut.
Who knows?
We really don't want to speculate on this.
And we don't really want to attach any confirmed, shall we say, confirmed motivation to the fact that the IRS office was hit and at full throttle.
We'll just have to wait and see for the official report on this.
I think the only thing we can say is that the pilot of the plane who first burned down his house and then rammed this plane into the building containing the, well, the FBI is next door.
The IRS is in this building.
I can safely say this guy had lost all hope that it may not have been working for him out there.
Now, back to this, back to this irritable, sporkulous, piculous slush fund.
I have two observations about this.
Just yesterday, just yesterday, we had the near criminals that run this administration, Biden and Obama, up there telling us that all of this porkulus spending, the slush fund, saved us from the Great Depression.
If that's true, why do we have to stop now?
If that spending staved off a second Great Depression, why in the name of Sam Hill are we stopping?
One other observation about this.
Despite what Obama said yesterday, the stimulus was not ever supposed to protect us from a depression.
Do you know what was?
TARP!
TARP was supposed to save us from a depression.
TARP was supposed to save the world financial system.
TARP was supposed to make sure that this disaster that we faced, if we didn't fix it in 24 hours, we were all going to be essentially smoke and mirrors.
If we didn't fix it in 24 hours, TARP was supposed to stave off the depression.
And that was Bush.
Bush was TARP.
Obama urged it.
He was all for it.
And apparently it did, if we were to accept, which is hard to do, what anybody in government tells us about that.
the stimulus.
Obama's stimulus was supposed to keep unemployment from getting too high and lasting too long.
Obama's stimulus is a disaster.
It is an absolute failure.
He has failed to do anything he said he was going to do.
And the TARP program has been paid back with a profit.
Apart from the automakers part, which Obama and the Democrats tacked on, the stimulus has been a total failure.
Meanwhile, the price for Obama's stimulus has been ratcheted up another $75 billion because of unexpected unemployment claims and compensation or payments.
None, none, Zilch Zeronada, of the $862 billion taxpayer dollars will ever be paid back except in one way.
And let me tell you how.
And all of you Democrats, I don't care whether you're blue dogs, if you're half-breeds, whatever kind of dogs you want to describe yourselves as, the way this $862 billion stimulus is going to be paid back is in the form of votes kicking you out of town.
I mean this from the bottom of my heart.
The people of this country right now are bordering on hate for all of these establishment politicians.
And that hate, that borderline hate is ratcheted up each and every time Obama and Biden, whoever else, Pelosi and Reed, get on TV and insult their intelligence.
The people who are going to repay the stimulus by getting rid of everybody who's responsible for it love their country.
They love the founding principles and they have a borderline hate for the people who have caused this.
Mark my words.
Do not doubt me.
Now, here's more on the non-terrorist event at the office building housing the IRS in Austin, Texas.
CNN is reporting the pilot's house was on fire, that the airplane was stolen, and federal officials, is this somebody who's authorized to speak or somebody who's not authorized to speak is speaking anyway.
Another anonymous federal official speaking under the auspices of anonymity because he's not authorized to speak, speaking anyway, saying that the pilot apparently crashed into the building intentionally.
But then over at the Obama channel, Mess NBC, they're citing AP, state-controlled AP, which says the crash does not appear to be a crime or terrorism.
So who do we believe?
An anonymous government official who is speaking because he's not allowed to without using his name, saying apparently the pilot stole a plane, set his own house on fire, flew in the building intentionally?
Or do we believe these schlubs at the Associated Press, to whom every bit of economic news every day is unexpected, say there's no crime here?
Okay.
We played for you excerpts and we read portions of Governor Chris Christie's speech to the legislature in New Jersey where he said, we're going to cut programs.
We've got to get 375 programs.
We can't go on.
We're bankrupt.
We're cutting back.
We're cutting back.
And we are not raising taxes.
As predicted, the New York Philadelphia media has unloaded.
They are attacking Chris Christie with all their might.
The same thing happened when Rudy took office in New York City.
It happened when Reagan took over California.
Here's a montage of New York and Philadelphia media.
New Jersey citizens railed about Governor Chris Christie's proposed budget cuts, criticizing the Christie cuts as unfair and unwise.
Governor Christie is not budging on his plan to cut the agency's funds, and officials say that means writers are going to have to pay the price.
Rail and bus commuters today voiced their anger.
Chris Christie unveiled his painful budget for the Garden State.
Governor Chris Christie gets ready to slash state funding.
I heard one key word in a board meeting today.
It was painful.
So the media predictedly outraged.
Nobody wants these cuts.
It's only why he was elected.
I just looked at the roster of calls.
Are you really snirdly?
Are you wanting me to explode today?
Okay, so that's the media.
Now let's go to the Democrats in New Jersey.
Going back to the same old page in the same old playbook, a parade of victims to blast Chris Christie's budget cuts.
Here we have at the state house in Trenton at an assembly budget committee meeting, a 13-year-old blind student, Rocco Florentino Fiorentino, testified, and here's what the 13-year-old blind student said.
These budget cuts would directly affect the education of each and every child who deals with a visual challenge.
Cutting costs at all costs is not going to solve the long-term budget challenges in this great state.
So who wrote this guy's statement?
Same old page, same old playbook, bring out a blind 13-year-old.
This is no different than a 95-budget battle where they brought out all these students saying, the Republicans want us to starve.
They want us to dive.
No, it's Google Lynch.
It's just the same old playbook.
I'm telling you, people are fed up with this.
They are fed up.
We'll have Chris Christie's reaction and response when we come back.
We'll get back to Chris Christie's response here in just a second.
I just want to tell you also the media is starting to trash the new Virginia governor, McDonnell, who also just put out a budget that cuts significantly government spending.
And all morning, residents of Virginia on their local media have heard from the teachers union lobbyists and spokesman ripping the governor.
I love the sound of stuck pigs.
You know, I've been on my share of farms and I love the sound of stuck pigs, particularly union pigs.
I love hearing it.
So the more they act like stuck pigs, which is what they are, the better.
The Duke La Crosse accuser.
You remember this, babe?
Durham police arrested Duke La Crosse accuser, Crystal Gail Mangum, 33, late yesterday after she allegedly assaulted her boyfriend, set his clothes on fire in a bathtub, and threatened to stab him.
Her bond was set at $1 million.
Mangum has been appointed a public defender.
Now, the source for this is news station W-R-A-L in Raleigh.
And not even, not even now, can this station quite bring themselves to say lacrosse players were falsely accused?
She said, this is what they say.
Mangum is the author of the memoir Lost to Her Last Dance for Grace.
She's a student at North Carolina State U in 2006, also worked as an exotic dancer.
When she performed at the now infamous Duke La Crosse party, it was there, she claimed, that three white members of the team trapped her inside a bathroom and raped and sexually assaulted her.
The three players were indicted on rape and other charges, were eventually exonerated after North Carolina's Attorney General dismissed the case.
They can't even bring themselves to say that they were falsely accused, even now.
Okay, I'm going to grab a couple of phone calls here, share the burden of this show with some of you all.
Here's Sam in Saginaw, Michigan.
Welcome to the program, Sam.
Great to have you here.
Thanks, Mr. Limbaugh.
I'm just trying to figure out why are you so much against the debt reduction task force?
If we're trying to reduce debt and get out of the deficit, why against the task force?
Okay, let me ask you a question.
Let me give you an analogy.
You have a house, Sam, or an apartment building you live in?
I have a home, yes.
You have a home.
Okay.
Suppose I come to your home tonight and fly an airplane into it after I bail out.
I destroy your home, and then I call for a commission to examine how it happened.
The people who are destroying the country in front of our eyes, Sam, are asking a bunch of retreds to come up with basically an idea that can't be pinned on the administration to raise our taxes through the roof.
That's why this is being done.
They're absolving themselves of any blame.
These two retreds and their 16 members are going to come up with one plan and one plan only, and that's massive across-the-board tax increases.
That's why, because they're responsible for it, and they're trying to shovel it off to a bunch of people who had nothing to do with it.
And those people didn't get to prescribe the fix, which shields Obama from the accusation he's raising taxes.
Because when it happens, I'm just listening to suggestions of blue ribbon committal pointed.
I'm agnostic about this, but I think we've got to do it.
Raise tax.
That's the next stage.
But if we get these guys in there and they say, okay, let's raise taxes and so forth and so on, isn't that just another reason for us to really get behind some change and some things?
Because folks are fed up with taxes.
I mean, I pay my fair share.
What I'm hearing you say is, let's go ahead and let Obama destroy the country so we can show everybody else what Democrats do, and then let's fix it.
We don't need this.
Everybody has all the evidence they need that this guy is a walking, talking disaster.
We're interested in fixing this, not trying to show a bunch of doomcops about 6% who still don't get it.
Because the people that still don't get it are never going to get it because they're just nothing more than pure partisans who are brain dead.
They're flatlined out there while still breathing and spending everybody else's money.
I'm glad you called.
I appreciated my analogy.
Josh in Kansas City, you're next on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hello, Mr. Limbaugh.
I have got to say, it is such an honor to be talking to you.
I am the truest form of a rush baby.
You started broadcasting in 88.
My dad started listening in 88, and I was born in 88.
Thank you, sir.
Well, it's great to have you on the program today.
Yeah, I really want to thank you for the impact that you've had on my life.
And if you're ever in Kansas City, I would love to buy you a beer or a hamburger or something to show you my appreciation.
Stroud's.
But Stroud's.
No, Stroud's.
Screw the burger.
Okay.
No, I'll buy you a chicken dinner at Stroud's.
And gravy.
And gravy, of course.
And the nice little cinnamon rolls that they have.
Yeah, I was just going to say cinnamon rolls next, and they got to have some cottage fries in there, too.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
But no, I'm 100% serious.
I would love to buy you dinner there.
Thank you.
Thanks very much.
But anyway, I wanted to say that I have never been a supporter of Obama.
I've never liked Obama.
I've always seen him as a disaster for this country.
But I've got to say, with him talking about opening up these new nuclear power plants, nuclear power is the way of the future.
I see it so much more efficient than the solar panels, than the wind power.
And I'm actually going to be signing my contract to go into the Navy on Saturday, and I'll be going there.
I'll be working on the nuclear reactors in the aircraft carriers.
So knowing that there's going to be more nuclear power plants out there providing power for our country and knowing that that provides me a future job opportunity after I leave the Navy, I'm actually kind of tempted to be a little bit proud of Obama.
I need to put you to the real test here of being a rush baby.
You've got a lot of experience listening to this program.
Would you explain to me why it is in this case you have fallen for an absolute lie and a trick played by the President of the United States designed to coerce people just like you into thinking he's doing a good thing?
Don't you realize that this is nothing more than a roundabout way of getting cap and trade legislation to get the Republicans to sign on to it?
This is nothing more than a trick.
There aren't going to be any new nuclear power plants.
The government's going to be loaning money.
The government don't know how to build anything.
It's going to take years and years and years for regulatory approval.
Obama's own base is going to stop them.
Obama's own base is going to oppose it.
Ain't ever going to happen, but he's going to get a lot of praise.
He's coming around.
No more windmills, no more solar panels.
Obama's going nuclear.
It's a lie.
Everything they say is a lie.
You know, I have to agree that most of everything that comes out of his mouth is a lie.
So why do you believe this?
I don't 100% believe it.
I don't.
I can't say that I 100% believe it.
But I do think that by him introducing the prospects, especially with this coming election, Democrats are going to be out of office.
In 2012 starts up, no, not 2012, but 2011 starts up and we get all the new people in office.
Democrats are going to be a minority then.
And these people, I believe that the Republicans are going to try to hold him to his word on this.
I believe that they're going to say, yes, nuclear power is the way.
We're going to drive it home.
I don't disagree with nuclear power is the way, but Obama is genuinely not interested in it.
Please don't doubt me.
Okay, we'll open the next hour with Chris Christie, governor of New Jersey.
A number of soundbites of his response to the media and the Democrats acting like stuck pigs over his budget speech in which he announced massive cuts in the bloated, near-bankrupt New Jersey state budget.
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