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Feb. 23, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 23, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #2
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All right, I just got an interesting theory.
I just got an interesting theory in the email about why McCain was endorsed by Romney.
Why Romney, and that is it's sort of like LBJ.
You'd rather have him inside the tent urinating out than outside the tent urinating on you.
I don't buy it, but I think it was funny.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
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All right, so I spent some time checking email during the break here.
I'm gonna tell you something.
I am this close, ladies and gentlemen, turning off the ditto cam.
I am so sick and tired of negative people.
Negative people are all around us.
And like my friend Roger Ailes says, negative people make healthy people sick.
And I am a healthy person, and I don't want to be sick.
And now they're complaining out there again that the sink between my mouth and my words on the ditto cam picture is not working.
Uh we're we've got that fixed.
We went through the whole mixer mix minus, the C console, a B console.
I mean, we've got we got so many wires running in and out of this thing, and and we're checking here and again uh to make sure.
This this could be somebody just trying to uh taunt me.
Uh we'll check into it.
But really, uh I understand all the pent-up rage and anger out there, but you know the best way to deal with that is action.
And I'm not talking about fingers on a keyboard kind of action.
And as another piece of advice that I like to give everybody here.
And I've said this countless, countless times.
Remember to put your faith in ideas and not people.
People will always, always disappoint you.
I'm one of the few who will never disappoint you.
You will never, ever.
As long as I am alive, detect me changing a core belief.
It will never ever happen.
But others do because they have different motivations than I do.
I uh the uh the ideas are what matter to me, and the people who have those ideas at the moment are worth supporting.
But you don't get into involved in supporting personalities, or that that's how we got Obama.
Uh, and that's how we're stuck with it.
Now we're this this takes time.
Where were we a year ago?
Look at the hopelessness everybody felt a year ago.
Look, we thought we'd lost the country a year ago, and now it's Obama who's getting shelled every day.
Now, I probably am correct when I say that the the Republican Party right now is not trying to harness the fervor behind the Tea Party in the town halls.
They're not there yet.
We know this.
We know the Republican Party.
We've talked about it.
They're run by a bunch of country club blue blood Rockefeller liberal types.
And I've told you exactly why they don't like abortion.
You think that's too simplified, but it's not.
It's exactly what it's about.
This is why the country club blue blooders do not want any part of any Tea Party or any town hall stuff, or any people who believe that social issues are a matter.
The reason the only reason social issues are a matter is because the government has made them issues.
We haven't voted on all these things.
Supreme Court dictated abortion, all these kinds of other things, cultural rot.
They ought not be political issues, but we had no choice.
We didn't make them political issues.
They did, and so we have to fight them.
It's the nature of the game.
The Republican Party is not yet there trying to harness the fervor behind the Tea Party in the town halls.
For any any non-conservative, they're trying desperately not to get run over by the Tea Parties right now.
They're trying to hold on to what they think is their is their right, and that is um birthright, in fact, is leadership of the Republican Party.
A lot of them have left.
Others are facing serious conservative challenges they're trying to hang on.
This is the first inning of the first game of the World Series.
And a year ago, it didn't even look like we had a chance to make the World Series.
So we're here we are in the midst of what anybody with any kind of objective view and a memory of at least one year's worth of history would have to proclaim is an amazing success story.
We all thought that by last August they would have health care.
We all thought they'd have cap and trade.
We all thought that we have we're gonna be witnessing the actual makeover of this country from capitalist to socialist.
And after a year we've held it off, but it's an everyday thing.
There's no rest.
There's no respite from it.
Now if you happen to think a third party is the best way to go, then go out there and form it.
You think a third party, you want to do you go form it.
You people who think everybody sucks, then go show us how not to suck.
You form a third party, find your candidate, name your party, go out there and name your congressional candidates and your Senate candidates.
Show me how you're gonna put together a third party governing force.
Show me I g you if you sit out there and say everybody else sucks.
Okay, so if you're the only ones that don't suck, then you go show us who do suck how not to.
Do it!
You got all the answers?
You make an all a success.
You're in such a powerful mode here.
I guess you can all call me and write me and tell me what you've done to bring about this massive success in this past year.
Yeah, I want to hear about it.
I want to hear about it.
I'm gonna hear who your third party leaders are.
Who are you gonna run for president in a third party?
Who is it?
Tell me who it is.
Well, I can't come up with one.
Well then, why are you so insistent that Republicans name one today?
If you can't come up with somebody in the third party, if you think you've got somebody out there, call and tell me.
And uh we'll discuss it.
Ideas, my friends, and not personalities are what matter.
Let's go to the audio soundbite.
I got some of these things out of the way here.
Um one of the reasons I waited, uh, ladies and gentlemen, to discuss Scott Brown voting for the jobs bill, and uh one more one more thought on that.
You have to realize that Scott Brown's a Republican in Massachusetts, and he's gotta vote at some point this way.
He's got to, if he wants to get reelected.
He's got he's up in a couple years.
He's a chump change little bill.
Fifteen billion dollars instead of eighty-five billion.
Now, his voice box is his voice email boxes full, and a lot of people mad at him, and he does have some explaining to do, but he's gonna do this a couple three more times.
But he's gonna hold fast on health care, and he's gonna hold fast on uh cap and trade.
And he's out there making that point again today in a local media, the Boston Herald.
The reason I waited for almost an entire hour to go by to weigh in on it was because of this sound bite from last night on MSNBC.
At this point the chances look good, although God, you do not want to be manning the phones in Scott Brown's office tomorrow morning.
I mean, if you look on the internet now or on Twitter on the the Scott Brown hashtag, I mean i i it's unbelievable the backlash that's gonna be pouring in tomorrow.
I mean, there's just gonna be tremendous denunciations, Rush Limbaugh, everyone is gonna be going down the line.
And I knew because of that sound bite that all these drive-bys gonna be tuning in here at twelve.
So I wanted him to have to wait for an hour to hear it, say some other things more important before I got to that.
Diane Sawyer practically having an orgasm over this.
And speaking of bipartisanship, one fresh sign of it tonight.
Newly elected Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown was among a handful of Republicans joining Democrats to clear the way for the passage of the president's fifteen billion dollar job creation bill.
And Majority Leader Harry Reid praised Brown, saying, I hope this is the beginning of a new day, at least in the U.S. Senate.
What a laugher.
What so we've got grid luck.
The Democrats can't get anything to do anything done with the supermajority, but here comes the Republican voting with ah, maybe now we're gonna get some things done here.
So we find out that gridlock is simply Democrats unable to get their agenda through.
But now that Brown and a couple other Republicans voted for it, I guess Washington is not broken anymore.
It's a beautiful thing.
I mean, God, yesterday and Sunday and say, oh, it's a horrible thing.
Washington's broken.
Oh no, can we ever put it back together?
It's like Humpty Dumpty today, last night.
Washington is not broken anymore.
Scott Brown voted with Democrats.
It's a new day, said Harry Reid, who also said this from the floor of the Senate.
Grab audio soundbite number five, Harry Reed from the floor of the U.S. Senate yesterday.
I met with some people while I was home dealing with domestic abuse.
It has gotten out of hand.
Why?
Men don't have jobs.
Women don't have jobs either, but women aren't abusive most of the time.
Men, when they're out of work, tend to become abusive.
Our domestic crisis shelters in Nevada are jammed.
It's the way it is all over the country.
There you have it.
Um Harry Reid, uh, men have become abusive because they're out of work.
Women not nearly as abusive, although statistics show it's about 50-50 in in domestic abuse stories.
Women instigate half of it, and men the other half.
I met with some people while I was home dealing with domestic abuse.
Uh, it's gotten out of hand.
Why?
Men don't have jobs.
Women don't have jobs either, but women aren't abusive most of the time.
This is your Democrat Senate majority leader.
Oh, um, from the Savannah, Georgia morning news, police say that violence erupted during one couple's Valentine's Day outing as the suitor's former lover burst into the restaurant and beat the man with her high heel shoe.
Uh, women rarely abusive, but it did happen early Sunday morning.
Officers were called to the Waffle House at 1012 East U.S. 80, finding a blood-covered floor in tables in a state of disarray.
A 33-year-old man had suffered cuts and scrapes on his face.
Marks left by the spiked heel from a shoe.
The victim told officers that he and his girlfriend were at a booth at the Waffle House when a pair of sisters, one of whom is the mother of his children, came in and started an argument.
He tried to ignore them even as they began hitting him.
A Waffle House manager told police the women also hurled sugar and salt containers through a window.
But then women don't they don't they're not as abusive as men, according to most of the time.
Uh according to Harry Reid, you believe.
Now, okay, Senator Reed, let's take this step further.
Democrat policies have caused massive unemployment.
Have they not?
Democrat policies and the election of Barack Obama led to massive unemployment.
And we just saw that there were mass layoffs in June, and they didn't even say at Reuters, they were surprised this time.
They didn't even say experts were shocked.
They didn't say experts expected the unexpected.
They didn't say experts were surprised.
They just said mass layoffs were up in January.
Who's running the show here?
And everywhere you choose to look, it's the Democrats.
So Democrat policies cause massive unemployment.
So according to Denji Harry, Democrats are responsible for domestic violence increases in the country and at waffle houses in Georgia.
The Democrat Party, according to Harry Reed, is now responsible for the perpetuation of violence against women in this country because they are the reason men are unemployed.
Okay, here's that David Rodham Gurgen soundmind I was looking for.
And the reason I didn't find it is because I look now never mind.
Um it's a labeling thing.
Anyway, this is on CNN's uh situation room last night.
And Wolf Blitzer is talking to Gloria Borger and David Rodham Gurkin about Obama's health reform bill.
And blitzer says it's unlikely to get the 60 votes to break a filibuster.
They may not even be able to get 51 votes in this so-called reconciliation procedure.
What are you hearing, Gloria, from your sources outside, which are just other people in the media?
Everybody feels like their back is to the wall.
We have no choice but to get this done.
I'm told the president is going to refer to this as a quote, starting document, so that he can invite Republicans to join in and change the legislation.
David, you're smiling.
Why are you smiling?
Because it's not a starting document.
They're putting it forward as the as the bill itself, and you guys can come and make a few amendments and the Republicans are saying nonsense.
You know, if you're serious about this, let's start over.
President may have some trouble getting us through the House if he goes to the reconciliation process.
Rounding up the votes in the House is not going to be an easy task.
David Rodham Gurgen's right about that.
Everybody's looking at the Senate here, and that's not the place to look anymore.
Uh Because they likely can get 51 votes if they go reconciliation.
I still think they're bluffing about that, but they might they might not be.
But the House is where they're going to have real problems.
That's where they're going to have problems.
And you got people like Heath Schuler, who on a normal day has an IQ a little bit north of a pencil eraser, saying, why are they bringing it back?
Can't we just let this die?
These blue dogs don't want any part of this.
And Newt had a good idea.
Yes.
Newt had a good idea.
So Obama says this is a bipartisan fine.
Republicans ought to say, you take three hours of this six hour thing on Thursday, and you give us three hours to run it ourselves.
You run three and we'll run three.
Of course, Obama will reject that.
And uh out the door will go the notion of uh bipartisanship, which it doesn't exist anyway.
All right to the phones in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
This is Karen.
I'm glad you called.
Welcome to the program.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
I am so pissed off at Mitt Romney.
I mean, I just couldn't be more pissed off.
I was upset when Sarah Palin I think.
Did you say Oh, did she not have the guts to back away?
But then this that I heard today about Mitt Romney.
You know, I was pissed off when we didn't get to vote in the primary election here.
It was already decided in June of, you know, in the last election.
Because we wanted to rot for uh vote for Mitt Romney.
But I am so pissed off at him.
Don't they get it?
Do they not get it?
We are so mad.
We have had it.
We want Republicans to act like conservatives.
They don't get it.
There's this is what I'm telling you now.
I've tried to say that the Republican Party is trying to fight this off right now.
They're trying to fight off the Tea Party people.
They're trying to avoid being run over by them.
Nobody is willingly going to give up a position of leadership they think they hold.
Uh and a lot of people it's very difficult for people to change their core.
Now, again, with with Romney endorsing McCain, uh, this is all about the future.
This is Romney wanting McCain's endorsement in 2012 if he runs for president.
This is all about Republicans hanging together.
And this is one of the things that irritates people, especially newer rivals, to what is considered to be the same old politics.
Uh it is tone-diff.
It's it's suicidal, at least it seems to me.
But at least you find out where people think things are important early on in process like this.
So it's it's it's got its value, even though it does make you mad.
Yeah, but who the hell wants McCain's support?
I mean, I wouldn't want his support.
He's an idiot.
A total idiot.
Well, it's imagine, and they keep talking about the Republican Party tent, right?
Okay, so imagine you got this tent, and uh we all know that McCain still ticked off that he didn't win the presidency.
And uh still ticked off that he had to, you know, fight so hard to win the nomination.
So two t 2012 comes along.
Let's say McCain loses this Senate run.
So now he's out there, really ticked off, and some people just throwing this out there, I'm not trying to convince you of this.
I'm just I don't even know if it's true or even accurate.
But may they maybe they're just figuring down the road they'd rather have McCain not outside the tent throwing bombs at him, however, have him inside the tent doing whatever he's doing.
I think it's either way, it's it's it's irrelevant because I think you're right, the era of McCain's over.
Yeah.
And he's gonna throw bombs anyway.
Yeah.
Because he's McCain.
Okay, so this this now um you you sound so ticked off that this is it for you and Romney.
Well, just about.
I mean, he's gonna have to really turn around and start making.
You know, I I tell you what, um, I've gone to these Tea Party things, and I'm not alone.
There are a lot of people there that are so mad at the Republican Party, and they and they keep saying, Well, we need a third party.
And I'm, you know, I'm afraid for that because, you know, I think it'll split the party.
Let me ask you a question.
These Tea Party people you're talking to.
Are they mad at the Democrats as well?
Well, that that goes without saying.
I mean, well, uh no, no.
See, I've if if if all this anger, you people only have so much anger in their reservoir, and if it's so much of it's directed at the Republicans, I wonder if they're gonna be able to channel it at the real problems we face here.
And right now, I hate to say this because I know it's gonna make people tell me I suck.
But the Republicans are not the problem right now.
The Republicans are not trying to take over the country and make it the Soviet Union West.
Oh, you're right.
The Democrats are.
The Republicans are not trying to take over any portion of the U.S. private sector and run it and make sure that people who are over 70 don't get medical care.
The Democrats are.
You're right.
Thank you.
You're absolutely right.
So all this anger focused at the Republicans?
You know, I I don't believe in conspiracies out there, Karen.
But the best damn thing that could happen for Obama and the Democrats is for something to cause the Republican Party to split up.
Because if that happens, then you can say you can kiss a country goodbye, you can say hello to Obama, re-elected in the landslide in 2012, and it won't matter who our candidates are.
Well, I hope people are gonna remember when Clinton got in, because that idiot would never have gotten in if it hadn't been for the Republican Party splitting.
And I hope people remember that.
Depends.
Depends on the level of rage.
What I've often found is that the more enraged and angry people are, the less rational they are, and the rationality declines proportionally to the rage increasing.
So I you you tell me there's all this rage at the Democrats that it goes without saying, but I don't know that people have that much anger to be split around equally.
Uh, and if the if the focus is not taking power away from the Democrats first, then we're sunk.
Because they're the ones that pose the threat to this country like we have never faced in our lives.
And welcome back, Rush Limboa, talent on loan from God.
Just in from the Hill.com, House Minority Leader John Boehner told his colleagues today that Republicans plan to attend the president's high profile health care summit on Thursday in order to crash the party.
According to a House GOP leadership aide familiar with Boehner's remarks at the weekly closed door conference meeting, Boehner appealed a skeptical Republican lawmaker saying we shouldn't let the White House have a six-hour taxpayer-funded infomercial on Obamacare.
We need to show up and we need to crash the party.
Bayner explained that leaders are waiting for a response from Rahm Emanuel to a letter they sent earlier this month that asked a series of questions.
It's our intent to be there on Thursday.
We're waiting on a response.
We're hopeful that we'll receive one soon.
I remember that letter.
Sounds to me like you guys already have your minds made up here, uh, that this is just a trick.
Um many of your own people, Rom are saying it's just a trick to get us up there.
Is this true?
They also sent the letter to Harry Reid and uh and Pelosi.
Now, I mentioned earlier in this program that there's a guy out there teaching political science.
He's in Hofstra.
His name is David Michael Green, and if if any of you in the Secret Service are listening to this program, I want to give you a heads up.
You need to keep an eye on this guy.
Not only is he in charge of teaching young skulls full of mush, this guy is so angry.
We might be looking at another Amy, what's her name that uh that professor that w Amy Bishop went nuts down there in Alabama.
All right, here it goes.
You gotta hand it to the agents of the regressive right for playing the weakest imaginable hands so well.
I'm talking about the Lee At Waters and the Frank Lunzes of the world, who both understand human psychology and are absolutely pitiless about employing it for purposes of assisting the rich and powerful in raping the rest of us.
If you can get past the absolute amoral viciousness of these sociopaths, you have to admire their handiwork at some level.
These guys are good.
They understand the necessity of remaking the world when the actual one we live in would never dream of embracing their destructive initiatives.
This guy is talking about us, folks.
He's a poly sci professor at Hofstrom.
These guys could not only sell ice to Eskimos, they could pedal dirt to an ant colony.
They could market garbage at the county dump.
They could sell crap to the local Sewer district.
We know this because they do it all the time.
The entire regressive agenda is based on lies, most of them both whopping in scale and utterly transparent to any remotely sentient human being.
How then has it succeeded so well in these last 30 years?
There are many answers to that question, including especially the collapse and confidence of alternative ideologies, the wholesale marked down today only outright purchase of the Democrat Party by corporate interests, and the stunning derogation of duty by the mainstream media.
But one key answer involves the work of these masters at the marketing of deceit.
And one of the greatest achievements has been to pick up the whole ideological playing field and move it about a thousand miles to the right.
This is what I mean by remaking reality.
They have created a whole new normal.
And in this new normal, anything to the left of Dick Cheney is liberal, if not far left.
And that, of course, includes the hated Barack Obama sitting like some squatter in their White House.
As it happens, our Secret Service, are you listening?
This guy's name is David Michael Green, polyci professor Hofstra.
As it happens, I hate Barack Obama too.
And my reasons for doing so are piling up fast, but I would never mistake him for a liberal.
And that in fact is one of the things I most despise about this disastrous fool of a president.
I couldn't possibly care less what happens to him, other than hoping for fate to return the favor after all he's done and especially failed to do to the country he promised a rescue.
But I do care about progressivism or liberalism if one prefers.
I typically avoid that term now that the Atwaters and Lunces have turned it into something slightly less hated than pedophilia, which makes my point.
These guys don't like the term liberal.
Because it's dead on right.
They want to be called progressives.
Yeah, he knows that Atwater has long been dead.
He knows that.
He references in this.
I just kind of skipped past that.
I did a quick edit out of it.
But he he repeats this lie that Atwater apologized on his deathbed for all of the evil that he had produced.
It's not what happened at all that the left portrayed it that way.
Anyway, I am furious that this pathetic President Obama and his horrid little whorehouse of a political party, who are about as liberal as George W. Bush was, are taking down the political ideas I care about with their own sinking ship.
By not refuting the false accusations that he is a liberal or even a socialist, and by running an abysmal presidency, Obama has done as much as the scum on the right in service to wrecking a set of ideas that are not only noble and correct, but are desperately needed now by a country imploding under the weight of the regressive politics which has been ascendant for 30 years now.
Worst of all, and quite by design, Americans are forgetting what any sort of progressive politics would even actually look like.
And by the way, this guy never defines it for us.
This is as close as he gets to telling us what the hell he really wants to see.
Orwell understood the significance of this phenomenon so well that he made it the existential nightmare of his protagonist, Winston Smith.
All Winston wanted to do was to hold on to some sense a tangible reality.
O'Brien, his torturer, showed him what happens when power not only wants to win battles, but better yet, uh end them forever by eliminating the very opposing ideas people might embrace.
This guy thinks, for all you people out there who think I suck, and everybody else sucks, and the Republicans, you gotta read this.
This guy has nailed it.
They are losing big time, and he is as ticked off at Obama as you are at anybody on our side.
Maybe you guys on the far right or whoever, whoever you are that want to break off before the third, maybe you need to call this guy at Hofstrom and join forces.
Since you both think everybody sucks.
No, I'm serious.
I find this fascinating.
Here you have a political science profess a professor.
Yes, a professor.
A professor at uh at Hof.
Um, some of you equate that with the New York Jets, but it is a school.
A Jets just trained there at where they used to have wee Bubank Hall there, but they moved it over to Florida Lee, New Jersey or whatever it is, Floral Park, Florum, Forum, Floor, whatever.
They're over there now.
The left Hofstress.
This guy's probably ticked off about that too.
But this guy is livid.
He hates Obama.
Obama's destroying what he believes in.
This is the greatest testament in the world to the fact that we are winning here.
So let me continue.
In that spirit, it's well to remember what a progressive America might actually look like and how different that is from the botched abortion of bogus liberalism that is supposed to be the Democratic Party policy today.
Let's start with the Democrats who, after all, control a government.
They should have started with the economy.
People are miserable and frightened today because they have so much job insecurity.
The so-called liberals in Washington provided them with a job summit as a remedy.
And then there was that amazing stimulus bill that was one-third tax cut sopped for Republicans who still wouldn't vote for it, mostly otherwise pork barrel legislation for the benefit of members of Congress, and still too small anyhow to do any good.
The right's been apoplectic ever since, calling it the socialist takeover of America.
Hell, it wasn't even remotely liberal.
A real progressive solution would have been big and would have involved government spending to stimulate the economy and create jobs either directly on the government payroll or through incentives to the private sector.
In reality, the Democrat plan has failed to revive the economy, not because it was progressive, but quite the contrary, because it wasn't remotely so.
Now, how do you deal with insanity like this?
How do you deal?
You talk about people not having one foot or both feet in reality?
This guy has just described how the Democrat Party, and they are liberal, has destroyed and not accomplished anything they set out to accomplish.
What this guy doesn't understand, that I do understand is this is all being done on purpose by the guy he hates.
Barack Obama.
This is all being done on purpose.
If it had been any bigger, it would just happen faster.
I mean the destruction.
But this is an interesting exercise, my friends, because this is a professor.
And Hofstrom, who openly admits to hating Obama, hates the fact that all this is being called liberalism when in fact progressivism isn't even being tried.
Well, I don't know if he wants to do it.
I think he thinks he already has failed.
The same is true with respect to what got us into this mess.
Conservative catechism teaches that regulation is evil.
Like Satan and Saddam.
Real progressives understand that it's entirely necessary.
Take it away, and greedy pigs masquerading as human beings will sell their own children for a buck, discounting them on a volume deal if you buy the whole brood.
Even after the experience of the Great Depression, regressive predators couldn't satiate their greed enough, so they dismantled a regulatory structure of the mid-20th century that had brought prosperity to so many Americans.
An old system was real liberalism, ladies and gentlemen, calling what Obama or Bill Clinton have done by that name is an insult to the intelligence of people everywhere, even in America where intelligence is so scarce.
The same is true of government spending.
Obama's now proposing cuts to federal spending, a pretty unliberal thing to do.
How do you?
How does this guy not understand what's going on here?
He has just ramped up federal spending, he's outspending FDR, and now he's freezing it.
He's not...
I love running across these things.
Now Obama's pushing his bipartisan deficit reduction committee to be led by irksome balls, a Clinton hack, an Alan Simpson, a Reagan-era regressive whack job.
Guess how that's going to turn out.
Look at what supposedly constitutes socialized medicine for another great example of the total disconnect between rhetoric and reality that regressive myth-makers have so successfully fabricated.
A Democrat plans a complete exercise in idiocy for one reason.
It twists itself into pretzel-like contortions in order to avoid confronting the simple basic problem at the core of our problem.
The useless and parasitic private insurance industry.
What's this?
Mr. Green, Professor Green, you just need patience.
The private insurance business Is being targeted for destruction at this very moment by the president that you so hate.
Now jumping to the end of this, but what's really amazing is how Obama is broadly perceived as being liberal.
This is just yet another framing victory by the right, and one of stunning proportions, by erroneously tagging Obungster, that's his name for him.
Secret Service, you getting this.
By erroneously tagging O'Bunkster with the bleeding heart liberal moniker, they manage to simultaneously tear him down, make liberalism unpalatable to the public, and shift the center of political gravity so far to the right that even a right wing president like Obumber and his banded democratic merry men become unacceptable because they are insufficiently regressive.
So this guy is now totally off the deep end because he now thinks Obumber O'Bunkster is a right winger.
And this guy, I don't know how much you people that send your kids to Hoftra are paying, but this is what you're getting if they're taking political science.
Like I said, you have to admire these guys for their craft, you know, just like you have to admire the Holocaust for its good old German efficiency.
Meanwhile, though it's scary that America has so little in the way of real progressive opinion in our politics, and it's scary that we keep following the same right-wing prescriptions decade in, decade out, even though they've done nothing but wreck the planet, wreck the country, and wreck the lives of individual Americans.
What's really scary is that we're now losing the capacity to even contemplate what a progressive set of politics would look like.
And this guy he really doesn't define them for us.
These ideas are now so marginalized that people increasingly can't.
So this guy feels left out.
He just feels like he's been marginalized and is a kook and a freak, which he is, but not for the reasons he thinks.
Orwell would be horrified.
Comrade O'Brien would be very proud indeed.
David Michael Green, Professor of Political Science at Hofstra University out on Long Island.
Professor Green at that Hofstra is the same kind of guy, folks, that would blame Stalin and Castro for not doing enough for communism.
He probably thinks that Stalin and Castro suck too.
Now, this guy, Professor Green at Hofstra, illustrates that if we need a third party in this country, it's him forming it.
And maybe putting Ralph Nader in charge of it or Dennis Kucinich.
That's where we need to focus our third party efforts.
Ladies and gentlemen, Heritage Foundation is weighed in on Obama's latest health care plan and the health care summit this Thursday.
You heard me yesterday, if you were listening.
You heard me give my idea of a health care plan on this program, and you heard Stacy, our insurance woman, from Georgia, immediately review the Obama plan.
She's the insurance guru here.
Heritage calls this meeting on Thursday a press stunt, which it is.
They've said if it's truly a sham of a meeting, conservatives ought to boycott the event and call it for what it is.
But if they're gonna go, if they're gonna attend, and the liberals are serious about bipartisan reform ideas, then Heritage has a whole bunch of them.
And of course, they always say that we never offer any ideas.
Well, how about allowing Americans to buy health insurance anywhere in the country?
How about opening up state insurance markets and forcing the nation's health insurance companies, a 1,300 of them out there, to compete directly for consumers' dollars without a bunch of state mandates getting in the way.
That's what Herod is thinking, and they've got a hundred and one other ideas all related to this press event on Thursday, good ideas for Americans, and they're born at Heritage every day.
That's why they're more important than ever before.
Why you should be a member of this great organization, and you can become a member at Askheritage.org.
You got to donate, but it's worth it.
Consider your donation an investment in America's future.
Ask heritage.org.
Yesterday, I don't have it here.
But yesterday I had in this stack of stuff, a story about how aging baby boomers are sitting around just smoking marijuana all over the place.
Bunch of you saw it, I'm sure aging hippies, baby boomers, just getting stoned out there.
And now, from NBC Chicago, nursing home residents form a biker gang.
Ninety-year-old Lydia Scheltz.
I want to be the first one on the bike.
Bikers at a nursing home to go along with all these people toking up.
Folks, take it from me.
I am a baby boomer, and those of you who are and aren't, particularly those of you who aren't, part of my generation is going to be the biggest bunch of sponges you have ever seen.
They're going to expect you to take care of them.
If they want to be a biker group, they're going to want you to buy the bikes.
If they want marijuana, they're going to expect you to pay for it.
I'm going to tell you here, nothing about baby boomers is going to go well, including and especially watching them age.
Get this from State Controlled Associated Press.
I'll look no brighter for Obama's new health plan.
Starting over on health care, Obama knows his chances aren't looking much more promising.
A year after he called for a far-reaching overhaul, Obama unveiled his most detailed plan yet on Monday.
Realistically, Obama's just hoping to win a big enough slice to silence the talk of a failing presidency.
Yeah, it's uh from State Controlled Associated Press.
And in Stanley Hoyer's out there saying, How many times are you gonna hear this?
Public option on health care, likely did.
Those union thugs who want to fight out there in Ohio, not gonna be happy to hear about these two stories, my friends.
And yet.
Never mind.
I'm not gonna say it again.
We'll be back.
One hour left to go.
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