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Feb. 18, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 18, 2010, Thursday, Hour #3
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Herbert Meyer, great piece today in the American Thinker.
Herb Meyer served with Reagan.
He was a special assistant to the director of Central Intelligence, I mean Bill Casey, who was, I mean, Bill Casey and while Bill Donovan, they were the CIA.
They were the OSS during World War II.
Also Herb Meyer, vice chairman of the CIA's National Intelligence Council.
And he's written a couple things, how to analyze information and the cure for poverty.
A piece here entitled The Reestablishment of America in theAmericanThinker.com.
America is on the verge of something unprecedented in history, the peaceful constitutional replacement of our country's entire political establishment.
This is what lies behind the decisions of so many elected officials at every level to step aside rather than fight for re-election.
And it explains how the Tea Party movement can exert so much political leverage without nominating its own candidates or even without formally choosing its own leaders.
Now, most of the time, we Americans don't pay much attention to politics.
We focus all of our energy on jobs, families, and our faith.
We work hard.
We play by the rules, and we only just want to be left alone.
We love the country.
We consider ourselves blessed to be living here.
And we ask little from the men and women we elect except to keep from messing things up.
But in just the last decade, Americans were shocked by two catastrophes we had not imagined our political establishment would allow to happen.
The first was 9-11, when 19 terrorists successfully attacked our homeland, and by doing so, revealed that for years, Al-Qaeda and its allies have been waging holy war against us.
The second was the 2008 financial crisis, which revealed that our economy is a house of cards built on a pile of debt so high that we cannot possibly repay it.
Republicans blame Democrats.
Democrats blame Republicans.
To ordinary non-political Americans who grasp intuitively and correctly that both parties share some responsibility here, these politicians seem like children who've turned a party into a good fight.
Now, what do parents do when a children's party gets out of control?
They turn off the music, they turn out the lights, and they send everybody home, including those few who were not behaving badly and just got caught up in the melee.
Americans don't like getting tangled in the details of politics.
We prefer to stand back and see the big picture, which, by the way, helps explain the extraordinary appeal of Ronaldus, Magnus, and Sarah Palin.
That's what they do, too.
What the big picture is showing now is that our entire political establishment has failed.
These were the men and women, both Republicans and Democrats, we relied upon to focus on the details, and by doing so to keep us safe from terrorists and to keep the world's most powerful economy from imploding.
And they blew it.
So we'll replace them with a wholly new establishment, some of whom will be Democrats, others may be Democrats, a few independents here and there.
And we'll hope that our next political establishment will get it right.
Now, in a looming political battles, persona will matter more than policy.
As we move toward the 2010 elections, of course, we'll ask candidates to outline their plans for how to improve the healthcare system and what to do about illegal immigration, how to bring down the unemployment rate, how to fight the war, and all the rest.
what will determine who gets elected this year won't be a set of specific policies, but something simpler and in a way deeper.
A recognition among grassroots voters across the spectrum that character is more important than personality, that education isn't the same thing as judgment, and that expertise without common sense is dangerous.
Stand back from politics and you'll see the same reestablishment trend unfolding in other public arenas.
Americans have decided that the mainstream media has failed.
So we are replacing the New York Times, the television news departments, and all the rest with an entirely new media, including Fox News, websites like AmericanThinker and LucyAnn.com.
Americans have decided our country's education establishment has failed.
Our kids are barely learning to read and write, let alone taught our country's history.
So we are seeing the rise of private schools, charter schools, and homeschooling.
Would anybody like to bet that within just a few years, we'll have a wholly new financial establishment on Wall Street to replace the greedy idiots who run it now?
The reestablishment of America is not going to be easy, and we'll make mistakes along the way.
Some of the new people will prove to be just as worthless as the ones they replaced.
And some very good people who now hold key positions in politics and the media, education, finance will be swept away by the avalanche.
That's too bad, but collateral damage is unavoidable.
No other country in history has ever attempted to replace its establishment so smoothly, so peacefully, and so cheerfully as we're doing it right now.
And it isn't likely that any other country will ever attempt something like this.
How exhilarating to realize that 234 years after our revolution, the U.S., still the most dynamic, forward-looking, optimistic place on earth.
And he concludes with, boy, what an exciting time to be in America.
I would disagree with elements of this.
I do think the Democrats are going to be held much more to account for this, particularly this financial mess, than the Republicans are.
The Republicans have already been held to account.
The Republicans have already voted their guilty out.
The Republicans have already said, you guys failed us, and they gave control of the House to Pelosi.
So the big bloodletting, political bloodletting, will be on the Democrat side.
I have no doubt about it.
But nevertheless, I wanted to share this with you because Herb Meyer's writing this from a positive perspective, that all this is good and we still have the freedom to affect these changes in a peaceful way.
Now, that's his assessment of all this.
We'll see how it shapes out.
But I do think there's a revolution coming, huge and big time.
And it's going to be directed at Barack Obama and the Democrats.
I haven't seen a Democrat get elected in Massachusetts to replace Kennedy.
I didn't see a Democrat get elected to replace Corzine in Massachusetts, New Jersey.
And I didn't see a Democrat elected to be the new governor of Virginia.
And I don't see a whole lot of Republicans quitting.
I see Democrats dropping like flies, some of them changing parties.
But I don't see one Republican becoming a Democrat.
I don't see one Republican afraid of his own political future to the extent that all of the Democrats are.
Now, normally, ladies and gentlemen, when we are treated to celebrity opinions, it's always the left.
But yesterday on Fox News, American Live with Megan Kelly, she interviewed the rock and roll super crooner Kid Rock, who is from Detroit.
And he's a conservative guy for the most part.
Lots of troop visits to entertain them, Afghanistan and so forth.
She said to Kid Rock, what do you make of the situation in Detroit, which is where he's from?
Because that's something you've grown up around.
You live in that area.
It's been rough, rough haul there.
What's your experience on the ground in Detroit?
I have nightmares sometimes that, you know, I'm going to wake up.
I actually have a nightmare that I'm going to wake up, everyone's driving like a Prius and living in a condo, or I'll get health insurance.
Detroit was such, we have so much style, you know, the cars that we built and not only the cars, the tanks, the airplanes for World War IIs, the things we did, you know, just such ingenuity, but cool stuff.
You know, a 57 Chevy.
It came in 17 colors, every one of them red, white, and blue.
So cool.
And now it's like they're just trying to, it just reminds me of Europe.
Like everyone's going to be driving a smart car and living in a condo and that's not the American dream.
And you see it kind of starting to die.
Or at least it's left for a little while from Detroit or there with everything that's going on.
And, you know, everyone still wants it to come back and, you know, be present again.
Kid Rock, on with Megan Kelly yesterday afternoon on the Fox News channel.
Here we have some audio updates here on what happened down there in Austin, Texas.
Audio soundbites 24, 25, and 26.
A press conference regarding the plane crash.
Here's the Austin police chief, Art Acevedo.
And we have three soundbites of what he said.
I can tell you categorically that there is no cause for concern from a law enforcement or a terrorism perspective.
This incident is contained.
It's under control.
The one point that I need to put out is that this is an isolated incident here, that there is no cause for alarm, and that people should continue their lives as they would any other day of the week.
I wish I were there.
I would love to ask Mr. Acevedo a question.
Chief Acevedo, we were told after 9-11 that we had to take time to understand why there was so rage against us, so much rage against us from the militant Islamists.
And even now, our own president has said that we must have policies that show the Muslim world that we mean them no ill will.
We're willing to try their convicted terrorists and their actors, well, the masterminds of 9-11 in our own symbol carts to show that we mean no ill will.
Will there be a similar request on the part of government officials to make sure we show no ill intent toward this pilot and maybe find out what it is that had him so ticked off?
I mean, if we're going to spend now, what, 10 years trying to figure out, 12 years, what happened at 9-11 and why they hated us so much, should we not spend some time to figure out why this guy hated Bush, hated his wife, hated the IRS, hated his accountant?
Who am I leaving off that the guy hated?
Oh, yeah, the Catholic Church.
The guy hated the Catholic Church, hated Bush, hated the IRS, hated his accountant, and hated his wife.
Now, should we endeavor to understand why?
I mean, I would love to ask that question.
An unidentified reporter did say, Chief, how do you know it's an isolated incident?
You know what?
You have to take me on my word now, don't you?
That's all I want to tell you.
The second piece that I think is really important is we're starting to get news reports that this aircraft was stolen.
There is a lot of speculation.
I can tell you right now that your reports are inaccurate and it is irresponsible journalism to put out information that is not confirmed from law enforcement.
Please do not put out speculation because this aircraft, I can tell you right now that it was not a stolen aircraft.
Whoa, so the media got something wrong.
Who would have thought the hell you say?
The hell you say, the media got something wrong?
No, can't possibly be.
I mean, this is just, I'm shocked, folks.
I don't know if I can deal with this in my fragile state of near anger and irritability today.
After all of this, I've had to put up with it.
Now find out the media gets things wrong.
What are you going to call them now?
The fly-by media, along with a drive-by media, along with state-controlled media.
So, let's see.
Another unidentified reporter then says, Well, look, we've been seeing on blogs and all that the connection between a house fire in North Boston and a man who put out a suicide note regarding the IRS, his CPA, the Catholic Church, George W. Bush, and his wife.
In terms of the investigation, the investigation is fluid.
It is ongoing.
Well, there we have it.
There we have it.
All right, a brief, brief.
No, snurdly.
No, no, no, no.
You asked me that already this week.
You asked me if I'm coming down, so I'm not coming down with anything.
Oh, am I not allowed to have, you know, can I not just be normally when I come in here with a motor not feeling 150%?
I don't tell everybody.
You know, I just gut it up and get professionalism here, rain.
And, you know, I don't bleed on people.
Some days I just feel like I'd be honest with people.
I'm just, I'm, I'm short few.
All right, I'll take he just said take some Zycam.
Just I have some.
I took some Monday.
I'll take it again.
I'll take it.
What do you mean I look peaked?
Look at the ditto cam HD.
look peaked uh oh he didn't mean peaked He meant another P-word.
Zycam.
You know what?
It's in my briefcase.
I need to get that oral spray thing because I did it out in Las Vegas.
But we didn't have a DittoCam out there.
I ought to demonstrate how easy this new stuff is.
This is my favorite kind, by the way.
It's Zycam.
This is the cold medicine.
If you use it early enough, the moment you think you're coming down with a cold, you use this as directed, and it will reduce the severity and shorten the length and the symptoms and all that.
But you've got to catch it early.
It's Z-I-C-A-M.
My favorite.
Now, they've got a lot of delivery systems, lozenges and such, but this is an oral spray like a mint spray.
Four different strategic spots in the oral cavity just below the epidermis.
Every three hours.
And that's all it takes.
Well, it's a flash in a pan group.
I don't even know why they're in our bumper rotation.
Dexis Midnight Runners.
Title of this tune is Come On Eileen.
It's okay.
It's a good enough one-hit tune, one derby.
All right, I have here, folks.
I'm holding it in my formerly...
And those of you watching on the new HD Ditto Cam, you can see it.
This is the new Zycam, my favorite delivery system for the medicine is the mouth spray, the oral mist.
It's also a breath spray, but it gets rid of a cold.
There it is, right there.
And what it says here, four times in the mouth inside of the cheeks.
Let's do that.
Oh, wait, the cap came off.
There it is.
Four times inside the cheek.
One.
Two.
And what's the third?
Roof of mouth.
All right.
Okay.
I got it halfway there.
And what's the other one?
Gums.
And don't swallow for 15 seconds.
And repeat every three hours.
Stuff magical.
It works.
All right.
Here is Linda somewhere in New Jersey.
She doesn't want anybody to know where because she's going to be disagreeing with a bunch of Democrats there.
Great to have you on the program, Linda.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
Greetings from New Jersey.
Listen, I am a teacher of the visually impaired and blind, and also an orientation and mobility specialist in New Jersey.
Wait a second.
Now, I know what the visually impaired are.
And I know what the blind are.
I mean, those are Democrats.
What is orientation and mobility specialist?
That is a person who is trained to work with kids who are blind or visually impaired on their travel skills.
Oh.
So using a cane, crossing streets, that kind of thing.
Gotcha.
Okay, thank you.
Okay, so I'm a freelancer, and there are not very many of us in New Jersey.
New Jersey educates its blind kids a little bit differently than other states do.
In New Jersey, there is a state agency called the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired out of Trenton that sends out teachers to different school districts to provide Braille instruction and O ⁇ M orientation mobility instruction to blind students.
Because the other teachers can't do it?
Right.
It's a different certification.
It's a completely different training college experience.
Other states, school districts will hire their own teachers or O ⁇ M people.
So they're a member of the school staff and they're paid by the school and they're held accountable.
Yeah, okay, I had to do that when I was in grade school.
They had a speech, what was it?
What did you call them?
It was not a speech defect.
It was a speech impediment.
Speech impediments.
I had a lisp.
When I was a kid, people said, you sound like you need a drain in your mouth.
My parents sent me off to this speech impediment per yeah, exactly.
So I know what you're talking about.
So, yeah, actually, O ⁇ M is a related service just like speech or occupational therapy or physical therapy.
Let me step in from tell people why you're calling.
The reason she's calling is because we played an audio soundbite.
Democrats in New Jersey opposing budget cuts brought out a 13-year-old blind student to rail against the new governor's budget cuts, saying it's just not fair, it's not right, or Republicans don't care about kids with impairments.
I am so outraged at the parents of this student.
I may even know them.
I didn't get to hear the clip.
I don't know the student's name.
Well, hang on a minute.
Let's find the clip.
Hang on just a second.
It's audio soundbite number.
Here's the clip.
And this is from earlier in the program.
These budget cuts will 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.
That's the 13-year-old blind child they brought out, the Democrat.
It's the same page of the same playbook that they've been using for as long as I've been alive.
Absolutely.
Now, what this student probably doesn't understand, but his parents should, if they're this involved with their child's education, is that the Commission for the Blind, cutting the budget, Governor Christie cutting the budget and therefore probably cutting funds from the Commission for the Blind or not increasing funds results in less free services to school districts or very minimal,
minimal fee, like a couple thousand dollars a year for services.
Right, so you don't like them using the kids this way, exploiting them, basically.
They're exploiting the kids, and the kid doesn't understand what the kid is asking for is quality services so that he can be an independent and competent adult.
And I agree with him 100%.
And what I disagree with is that this entitlement that these services should be free or a couple thousand dollars a year.
Now, if the pay rate...
Well, wait a minute.
Now, welcome to people.
Welcome to people who vote for Democrats.
Who do you think created this sense of entitlement for the last 50 years?
Let's go back to FDR, shall we?
Who created it?
And guess who's afraid to tackling it up until now?
Republicans.
Elected Republicans.
Well, some of them have been afraid, not all.
Linda, thanks very much for the call.
Quick timeout.
We'll be right back.
Quick snirdly, you know the name of the group doing this bumper tune?
Oh, come on.
No, no, no, no.
It's not George Harrison.
He ripped off the chiffons.
My sweet lawyer.
No, this is a Traveling Wilberries.
Roy Orbison and Tom Petty.
Is this Roy Orbison?
Oh, this is not the Traveling Wilberries.
I thought it was.
Oh.
Well, if I were feeling better, I'd have not made that mistake.
By the way, do you remember?
Do you remember the New York Yankee pitcher Corey Lytle flying around with his flight instructor?
And they flew into a building at the Bel Air Condominium is 524 East 72nd Street near the East River back on October 12th, 2006.
And I remember Charlie Wrangell was on Neil Cavuto that day.
Actually, the day the crash happened was October 11th, 2006.
This is the soundbite that we had of Charlie Wrangell.
I thank God it wasn't a terrorist attack.
Having been in New York on that Tuesday, September 9th, I thought it was an accident.
And of course, it broke my heart.
And there's less aching in my heart now that it was a terrorist attack.
But I get no comfort at all believing that we're prepared for a terrorist attack.
The jets went up after the fact.
I still wonder how a plane could fly up the Hudson and be able to do this type of damage.
So he had to take the obligatory shot at Bush.
So if we turn this around, how could some loco weed who hated Bush get in his little single-engine piper, whatever it was, and fly all around, leave a bunch of suicide notes on a website, plow into the first floor of a building that housed the IRS, leave a full-fledged, I've read it now, full-fledged manifesto on a website in which he rails against Bush, his accountant, the Catholic Church, his wife, and who else?
Well, I'm always leaving somebody out there.
Catholic Church, Bush is an IRS.
Now, if we wanted to play Wrangell's game, how in the world could this possibly happen?
Are we not prepared for terrorism?
And they did put a couple F-16s up there after the fact.
NORAD launched them.
But, I mean, it's that's what these guys, everything is political to them.
It wouldn't, I would, in all of this, it never even occurred to me to attach this to Obama.
I mean, even after I learned this guy hated Bush, I mean, it could have been sitting here.
It's a Democrat that did this, a Democrat that caught it.
I wasn't going to say that I've said it now since, you know, remind myself what Wrangell had said after Corey.
And that, by the way, airplanes flying up the Hudson Rivers, this guy had an accident.
He was flying a plane with a flight instructor.
Something happened, wind gust or something, pulled a wing up.
They didn't do it on purpose.
This guy did it on purpose.
Anyway, back to the phone.
Stephen in Idaho Falls.
It's great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, good to talk to you, Raj.
Thank you.
Get to talk to you.
It's an honor.
Thanks very much.
I appreciate that.
My question.
Evan Bay, you know, he comes out with his big, I'm not running for re-election speech and all this.
Well, then all of a sudden it comes out that he's got $13 million in campaign funds.
What happens to that money?
He gets to keep it for a future campaign.
A future campaign.
Yeah.
He can't convert it to funds to pay the light bill.
And he can't go out and buy a single-engine airplane.
And he can't go out and use that money to fly to an IRS office somewhere.
But he can use it.
He can save it.
That's one of the reasons why it's getting out.
I'll tell you, look at, there are a lot of people that are writing things about this today and a whole bunch of other things.
They're just echoing me, things I've said earlier.
And people are sending him, hey, Rush, you ever think about this?
Yeah, I wonder if the people who stole it from me thought about that.
The reason Evan Bay quit is because if he does want to run for office in the future, he's got to keep the $13 million and he's got to distance himself from Obama because he's voted with Obama down the line.
Obama's driving Democrats into the graveyard.
Obama is causing Democrats to drop like flies.
This guy has got to get himself out of the circumstance where he's voting with Obama if he wants to run for future office.
Because believe me, invoking Obama and his policies in a campaign and a reason to elect you isn't going to work.
There is no question in my mind he wants to seek office down the road.
None whatsoever.
But he's got to get out of there in order to distance himself from Obama and to hold on to that $13 million.
And by the way, he's also, he's really hurting in the polls.
He's at 50% in some and below 50% in others, which would mean he'd have to use a lot of that $13 million to run again.
And he wants to save it.
This is another one of these rules that members of Congress have enacted for themselves.
If you quit, you get to take your unspent campaign war chest with you.
And by law, you're not allowed to use it personally for personal things, like cosmetic surgery or a new house or anything like that, a new gardener.
I don't know that some of them don't do that, but you're not by law allowed to.
But you are allowed to keep it and roll it over and allow it to keep growing.
You can invest it, have it keep growing, and then use it in your next campaign.
Stephen in Ogden, you're tall, you're next with Rush Limbaugh.
Hello, sir.
Yes, sir.
It's a pleasure to talk to you from the place that I call the Rodney Dangerfield of Towns.
But we're fastly becoming the emerging mecca for all outdoor activities here.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I know what he means by that.
And it's not that I can't keep my tie straight.
Hey, I called about, I think you're way too easy on Wall Street, but the overriding factor, I think, is that there's no accountability in the nation from the top, from all aspects, government or whatever.
But I called in about I think Wall Street gets off way too easy.
Why am I not hard enough on them or too easy on them, as you say?
Okay, well, I guess it's from, it's an example from the housing debacle.
You know, it was basically government, I believe, as you said, that caused it.
But if it wasn't for the fraud that was committed on Wall Street, these bonds would have never been able to get sold throughout the world.
And so help me explain or help me understand that.
What fraud did they commit?
They basically bundled up your loan with the most despicable person's loan and called it a AAA loan because Rush Limbaugh is AAA.
And they sold it to the world as AAA.
And so the world bought it.
Okay, now it was a lot of money.
I admit that's not cool.
I admit that's not cool.
But why do you think they did it?
They did it for greed.
Let out.
They sold it.
Well, let me present another possibility to you.
And you, you, I mean, just consider this.
Here you have Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, who are in charge of mortgages, and you have Chris Dodd and Barney Frank, who authored via the Community Redevelopment Act the whole notion of the subprime loan program, and its purpose was to extend loans to people that never, ever would ever have a chance of paying them back.
And this was, I remember Janet Reno threatened a whole bunch of Wall Street banks.
If you don't follow through on this program, we're going to investigate you.
They were.
Now, I'm not defending.
Look, I don't want to be misunderstood here.
These guys are not innocent little kids that got caught up in a scandal, but they were forced to do something left to themselves they wouldn't do.
They could have stepped down.
That's what I'm saying.
There's no accountability in our nation from the top.
The little guy, there's accountability all over the place.
They get fired.
I understand your mechanism.
No, I understand that.
And I have ripped into just this week and last week this whole notion of crony capitalism.
What has happened here is because of the oppressive Bigfoot, the threat of total ruination, it started with Bill Clinton and Janet Reno, continued with Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.
If these people didn't do this, they couldn't just walk away.
They would be punished.
They would be investigated.
These people, because of governments getting more and more and more powerful, wanted to be on the good side with them.
That's what's happening now.
It used to be that corporations and businesses of all size attempted to promote themselves by coming up with products and services that customers wanted and bought and earned a profit.
Now, businesses are forced to do business in a way to keep government happy so that they don't come and try to put them out of business.
So when they have these horrible loans that they know they're not going to get paid back on, rather than quit, what they said, my God, how do we stay afloat here?
So they would package the AAA people with these worthless things and then sell them.
They came up with all of these new financial products as basically insurance.
And then they sold the insurance, they created or convinced AIG to create an insurance policy to back all this garbage up.
Right, right.
Now, if you want to, if you want to, look, I'm not exonerating these guys, but I'm telling you, and the blame for this is the Democrat Party.
Okay, but there's no accountability there either, okay?
Yeah, exactly.
What there's going to be in November.
Right.
But, you know, in a way that I find it hard to hold the government accountable.
There's no mechanism there.
But how about, say, with the Great Society or something, if it would have linked that or, say, the health care bill with the Democrats and with them personally and say, listen, if this goes over budget, you're going to have to pay, your family's going to have to pay, and you're going to be, you have to step down from office.
If it goes over budget within XMX, and if they're out of office at that time, then they have to pay into the system that they created that was an abomination in the first place.
I understand.
We have to come up with some type of mechanism to hold these guys accountable.
It's not going to go over budget, then prove it to me.
Put your money where your mouth is.
Look, I understand all of this that you're saying.
I come at this from a different perspective, though.
I have an entirely different prism I look at this through.
It is this.
The Democrat Party for all of my life and since the days of FDR has been playing class envy in order to buy votes from unsuspecting people who the Democrats convince, vote for us, and we're going to make your lives better.
And we're going to attack these fat cats and we're going to make sure they don't get away with all these shenanigans.
And we're going to make sure you don't get cheated.
And what happens?
They become partners with them.
While they sit there and rip.
And class envy is horrible.
I hate the notion that a vast majority of American people were persuaded to despise the business community.
You look at the Democrat Party's enemy list.
It is big oil.
It is big pharmaceutical.
It is big retail.
It is anything, big, business, large and small, are targeted by these people.
And for the express purpose of making people like you hate them intuitively.
And I despise that.
I hate it.
This whole notion of, I'll tell you what we're going to do.
We're going to punish these rich people.
We're going to raise their taxes.
And you're supposed to feel better about it.
We're not going to give you another dime.
You're not going to get your taxes cut.
But boy, we're going to screw these people.
And you're supposed to sit there and say, good, good, I'm happy because they're getting shafted.
I hate that.
I resent it all to hell.
Besides, all these securities agencies, all these Wall Street things, it was Congress that had oversight of all this, supposedly.
And there were a number of people who tried to stop all these shenanigans going on.
And Barney Frank and Chris Dodge shut them down.
There's no accountability at Fannie Mayor Freddie Mac.
There's no accountability government for any of this stuff, although it will be in November.
I'm not.
All I'm telling you is, I have a much greater fear for the future of this country and a much greater animosity for the Democrat Party, which is ruining this country, than I do for anybody in business.
Much more.
And if we can't get past this notion of blaming business for what's happening to us, when we have a neophyte, socialist little markless, incompetent, destroying the country, then we're in big trouble.
We need to refocus our anger at the right place.
And it's this government that has power over all of these people, so much power that they can coerce these Wall Street people or anybody else to go along with what they want to do or they face ruination.
We have to get rid of the Democrat Party being in the majority anywhere.
That's the answer to this.
Not to string up a bunch of Wall Street bankers or have Acorn protesting on their front yards in Connecticut.
It may make you feel better, but it ain't going to save your country.
And we're back, Rush Lindboss, serving humanity as I execute assigned host duties flawlessly with zero mistakes.
York, Pennsylvania.
Rick, great to have you on the program.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Hello.
Flawlessly is correct, Rush.
I'm sorry you're having a bad day, but welcome to the club because there's so many listeners out here having a bad day.
Some of them, unfortunately, are having a bad life thanks to this incompetent president and the bunch of high schoolers that he's got working for him.
It's an honor to speak to you.
I've been listening to you since 1988.
And I got to tell you, I think as I get older, I get dumber.
I really do.
You said earlier today that this guy is trying to deliberately ruin this country.
And I agree with you, but I just don't understand what the alternative is.
Why is he trying to do this?
My question to you is, what is his ultimate goal here?
It can only be two things.
He wants complete control of every aspect of our life or some kind of monetary game.
And I just don't understand it.
I need some wisdom from you, Rush.
What is the ultimate goal of these liberal Democrats?
What's going on?
Well, I'm going to focus on Obama and his team.
Okay.
You have to look at who Obama was educated by, people who hated the country.
He was educated by a bunch of Marxists and communists.
Those were his mentors, including his father.
When he went off to school, wherever it was, it was people that hated the country.
When he chose a pastor, it was a pastor that hated the country.
I think Obama looks at this country as immoral and unjust.
He thinks that the poor and lower middle class have had the wealth that is rightfully theirs stolen by other people.
It is his intention to return the nation's wealth, quote unquote, to its rightful owners.
I think Obama thinks the United States is unfair.
He thinks capitalism is criminal because not everybody ends up with the same amount of things.
And he is, I think he's got a great animosity for the achievers of this country, a great animosity for the people who've made it work.
I think he abhors capitalism, and he's damn certain he's going to change it.
Now, whether there's financial remuneration in this for him, who knows?
Most presidents end up doing pretty well after the fact.
But I don't know whether that's his motivation.
I think his motivation is totally ideological.
I think this guy has been educated and raised to believe that this country is a joke, that it has been a horrible thing perpetrated on the world, that the U.S. military is the focus of evil in the modern world.
He believes all the clichés that we use to make fun of liberals.
And I think he's the real deal.
Look, there's only one of two things going on here.
Either he is a bumbling, inept, uneducated little idiot, or this is all on purpose.
And if it's on purpose, the why really doesn't matter.
Just has to be stopped.
I kid you not, I'm going to read you an actual Reuters headline.
International Atomic Energy Agency fears that Iran may be working to make a nuclear bomb.
The hell, you say?
Really?
Iran is working on a nuclear bomb?
Is this the same United Nations that is certain, without a shadow of doubt, that there is man-made global warming going on?
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