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March 2, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 2, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Looks like we'll start at the top of the audio soundbites up there.
And for those of you wondering where the ditto cam is, hang on, it's coming.
I got it zoomed in real tight because I got a picture to show you that I just got from the UK Sun.
It's about the four corners of deceit.
I also want anybody out there who knows Howard Feynman of Newsweek.
Howard wrote a column today about how he was in the hospital down in Argentina, and he's now learned what's wrong with American healthcare.
You know how to fix it.
Somebody call Howard Feynman and have him tune in here at 1233, a little bit less than a half hour from now, and I'm going to explain it to him.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's Rush Limbos serving humanity, doing what I was born to do behind the golden EIB microphone at 800-282-2882.
The email address, LRushbo at EIBNet.com.
DittoCam's coming in just a second.
Look, I'm auditioning for a job for ABC.
I don't need a union person to operate this camera.
I can do it myself, just like they're going to have their reporters do in their budget cuts.
Oh, wait, have you heard about the post office snarly?
Have you heard about this?
This is fabulous.
Obama says that ending Saturday mail delivery will save money.
Post office in deep doo-doo out there.
Now, this is not the Obama model.
When something is in trouble and is bleeding red ink, this is not how Obama deals with it.
If Obama were being consistent here on this post office problem, he would propose adding Sunday delivery in addition to Saturday delivery and then adding 30 million new customers.
You know, start delivering mail to 30 million people who don't get mail delivered.
Close all the post office boxes and start delivering to all those posts.
That's the way Obama would fix a budget problem is make it worse.
I mean, that's the Obamacare cost model.
But why the close the post office on Saturday and not have deliveries on Saturday?
I mean, they're cutting back.
When's Obama ever done that?
When's he ever cut back on any?
We're going to get to Jim Bunning.
We've got a lot to do today.
We're going to get to Jim Bunning.
The Ditto Cam is coming.
Folks, be patient.
I know what I'm doing here.
You want to get a sneak peek of it?
Here's what it looks like right now.
Okay.
I'll give you five, maybe four seconds of what it looks like right now.
I'm coming back here in mere moments.
We're going to get to Jim Bunning today.
This is fabulous.
And I've got the answer to this too.
I've got the answer to what Jim Bunning's doing and what's going on in the Senate.
And oh, oh, General Motors, the Obama car company, going to recall 1.3 million cars.
Cobalts, other small cars, Chevrolets and Pontiacs sold in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to fix what?
Power steering motors that could fail.
That sounds like a dangerous problem.
We're going to have a recall.
Little T is here with a Ditto Cam picture just to show you what's coming.
Now, are we going to have Obama be brought up to Congress to explain this?
Are we going to have anybody from Obama?
Oh, and GMAC.
Obama owns G-MAC.
That's General Motors Acceptance Corporation, a financing arm.
Big, big, big financial problems.
Their CEO is getting a pay package identical to Lloyd Blankfein at Goldman Sachs, which proves, ladies and gentlemen, that this whole business of Obama hating the banks and hating executive pay is a ruse.
It's a ruse.
One of Obama's executives at GMAC is going to make as much money in salary and bonus as the guy that runs Goldman Sachs.
By the way, Obama's in Savannah, Georgia today at some tech out.
He's got to get out of there.
There's a big global warming storm hitting Atlanta.
You know, Delta Airlines already closed, canceled 250 to 500 flights today.
It's snowing in Georgia now, supposed to hit Atlanta sometime later today.
They have to cancel them because they don't have the time or the ability to de-ice 250 to 500 flights.
So they've canceled them here on what is it, March the 2nd.
Global warming flight cancellations.
And by the way, Savannah, there's a company very dear to my heart in Savannah, General Dynamics.
They make Gulfstream jets.
And, you know, Obama doesn't like those.
You people at Gulfstream, keep a sharp eye.
I don't want Obama going up over there, getting into the avionics of your assembly line and making sure none of these jets can go to Vegas.
He's got a problem.
Okay.
I'm going to hold up this picture.
This picture is from today in the UK Sun.
Right there it is, ladies and gentlemen.
It is two polar bears trapped on what this UK Sun story says is a melting iceberg.
It is a story of tear-jerking proportions.
That's a mother and cub polar bear, and they're floating out to sea and there's nobody to save them.
And they had to take time out from hunting the seals and they're 12 miles offshore and oh, it's terrible.
And this is just more fraud do we get from the four corners of deceit.
That is science, that is the media, and so forth.
That's just an ice flow.
It's not a melting iceberg.
It is not a melting glacier.
It's just an ice flow.
And polar bears can swim 60 miles.
They're okay.
The polar bears are okay.
I'm telling you, they're okay.
But the picture is another one of these fraudulent things.
I just saw this right before the program started.
Okay, I got to turn.
The polar bears are not going to die.
Now, I turned the dental cam off so I can zoom back out and get back to our regular proportions here.
But no, the polar bears are not going to die.
I mean, all of this is, the hoax continues.
They're doubling down on this.
A polar bear cub is comforted by its mother as they drift 12 miles out from shore on a rapidly shrinking iceberg after hopping on board to take a rest from hunting seals.
The future looks bleak for the bears, but amazingly, experts said the pair probably made it safely back to shore.
Expert.
I'm sure they did, and I'm sure that they can swim 60 miles.
They're polar bears.
Anyway, just their future, the polar bears' future, because they can die out there.
I mean, this is designed to make us think that global warming is melting the icebergs, and these poor bears are going to die out there.
Polar bears do this.
And even if they did, no great loss.
There's a polar bear explosion in terms of population out there.
Now, I have a story here, ladies and gentlemen.
The story's headline is this.
Obama looks to undecided Democrats for health backing.
It is written by 15 people.
15 people to write essentially a two-page story.
15.
15 Associated Press state-controlled reporters to write a story.
And there's only one thing in it worth highlighting.
And it's this.
Gibbs indicated Tuesday that the president would not delve too deeply into the process of passing the legislation.
He's looking to undecided Democrats for health care backing.
Again, somebody call Howard Feynman out there and make sure he's tuned in here at 1233 Eastern Time so I can help him understand what the hell happened to him down in Argentina and why that doesn't happen here in American health care.
Okay, you know it's going to be bad.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, it's going to be bad when a White House economic advisor comes out and warns of the upcoming unemployment numbers on Friday and says the numbers are going to be distorted because of the snow.
White House economic advisor Larry Summers said yesterday winter blizzards were likely to distort February jobless figures due to be released on Friday.
Imagine if George W. Bush had tried this.
Imagine if Bush had tried something.
The blizzards that affected much of the country during the last month are likely to distort the statistics.
So it's going to be very, very, very important to look past whatever the next figures are to gauge the underlying trends.
He said this in an interview on CNBC.
So basically, folks, it's going to be in a tank.
I mean, it appeared it's going to be in the tank.
And so it's really not real.
It was affected by the snow and the blizzards.
It's just.
Now, this next story, ladies and gentlemen, this next story is just shocking.
An Elma Washington man was killed by accidentally urinating on a downed power line after a one-car crash near Montesano.
Grays Harbor County Sheriff's Deputy Dave Pimentel said that 50-year-old Roy Messenger was not seriously hurt after he collided with a power pole on Friday night and called a relative to pull his car out of the ditch.
But when they showed up, they found him electrocuted.
Messenger apparently urinated in a roadside ditch, but didn't see the live wire.
Shocking story.
Pimentel says there will be an autopsy, but burn marks indicated the way the electricity traveled through the...
Can you...
I can't even.
I don't even want to think about that.
And from Florence, Alabama, police there say a 38-year-old man is charged with beating another man in a motel with a bottle of Worcestershire sauce and a fire extinguisher.
Like all good spies, you use whatever weapons are available.
Police say that John Milton Lattrell of Florence is being held at the Lauderdale County Jail on a $6,000 bond on charges.
He attacked a 43-year-old Florence man who was returning to his motel room.
Officers say that as the man opened a door to his room Wednesday, Lattell hit him on the head with a bottle of Worcestershire sauce and then grabbed a fire extinguisher and hit him on the head and face.
So I'm assuming that pretty soon somebody is going to suggest that we recall Worcestershire sauce bottles or maybe ban them and demand that Worcestershire sauce now be sold in plastic, maybe to squeeze top like mustard and catch.
No, I was not making it up.
It's a Bloomberg story.
G-Mac, the auto and home lender that has not cracked a profit since 2008, gave its chief executive officer, Michael Carpenter, a pay package rivaling that of Goldman Sachs Lloyd Blankfein.
This guy's package is about $1.2 million for the month and a half he was employed.
That's equivalent to full-year pay of $9.5 million.
Scientific proof here of fake outrage in the White House about salaries, high salaries that heartless executives are pulling down in this country.
All right.
Something else.
Do Jim Bunning when we get back here.
And somebody call Howard Feynman and tell him I'm going to answer his questions at 1233 Eastern Time.
I also think this guy that was electrocuted, urinating, and it probably was listening to Bob Beckle on Fox, and that's probably why he had to urinate, unable to wait.
Do you hear Beckle uttered the S-word last night?
Oh, yeah.
He uttered the S-word last night.
Well, we bleeped it.
We've got it, but I bleeped it.
This show has standards.
This show has the highest broadcast standards you'll find in the broadcast industry.
He said it, so who knows?
But also, are you following, I'm sure a lot of you are, this Supreme Court oral argument today on whether or not Illinois has the right to ban guns?
Does the Second Amendment apply to states?
Is the question here.
Now, you might think, well, that's crazy.
How did the Second Amendment's got to apply to state?
Do you know that up until the 40s, it didn't?
The Bill of Rights did not apply to states.
I'll explain all of this.
You know what?
Look at this program as a classroom, ladies and gentlemen.
Look at this program.
Look at me as a, not a professor, as a teacher, and ask yourself, how much does it cost you to come here and learn every day?
How much do you have to pay for the textbook?
How much lunch money does it require for you to come here and learn?
Most of my staff actually gets paid for coming to the Limbaugh Institute for admin.
My point is, look at all that you learn here.
It doesn't cost you anything.
You go to the website, if you become a subscriber, yeah, 60 bucks for two years, big whoop.
Do you realize how much we could save on education if everybody just came here and three hours a day?
And we don't need a football program.
And we don't need, we don't need a basketball program, and we don't need any extracurricular activity.
We could do all that, but we don't need it for the express purpose of learning, which is what happens when people show up here.
Well, Howard Feynman just called, says he can't listen at 1233.
He's headed up to Capitol Hill, but he'll catch the show later.
We asked him, well, you want us to delay for when you have some free time.
No, no, no, no, no.
You go ahead and do it at 1233.
And I'll catch it later.
I don't miss your show at all, which, well, that's stunning, busy as Howard Feynman is.
Have you seen, by the way, the NAGs are now going after New York governor David Patterson.
What if his last name were Clinton?
And what if he were white?
Would you leave him alone?
If David Patterson's last name were Clinton and if he were white, would you nags leave him alone?
They're trying to get him to resign now.
And of course, Harold Ford, party bosses got to him.
Harold Ford says, okay, okay, okay.
I won't run.
I won't run.
It would be horrible.
It would be a devastating primary.
It would help the Republic.
Okay, I won't run.
Now, let me ask, folks, which party is it that has the big tent?
And which party is it that throws its moderates out?
Seems to me that if you are a black centrist in a couple of key areas, the Democrat Party wants none of you.
And if you are black and you want to be governor in New York, you have it a prayer.
Now, you might be saying, well, why do they care about Gillibrit?
Because she's a rubber stamp for Chuck Hughes Schumer.
Pure and simple.
She rubber stamps what Chuck Hugh did.
She's not, by the way, safe.
But anyway, poor Harold Ford, he's gone.
He wanted to run.
Party bosses, I don't know if it's Clinton or Cuomo that call him, but maybe it's Torrice Elliot.
I don't know how they're using him these days.
But I can imagine the phone call.
Hey, well, I know Schumer bullied him, but somebody had to make a phone call.
Hey, hey, hey, Harold, how you doing, buddy?
You think, you actually think, Harold, we're going to let you run in this dude.
Couldn't even hold a cheap ill seat in Tennessee.
You had Chris Matthews on.
People running dastardly ads against you down there, and you couldn't beat, you couldn't beat Corker.
I mean, and you think, you think we're going to let you run for seat in New York, Harold, stay on Wall Street, earn your millions, go back to being pro-life and all that stuff that you are.
We don't let you pollute our party anymore.
We love you.
And Harold, I heard Rush Limbaugh sing your prices.
You don't have a prayer, Harold, our party.
I don't know what you were thinking.
Have you heard of Bob Torcelli?
Do you know?
No, you know Andrew Cuomo.
Ask them.
Ask them about me.
Don't think my heart's all be down, Harold.
Don't you think that?
So after, I'm sure a phone call somewhat like that, Harold Ford writes a piece.
Okay, okay.
I'm not going to run because it would help the Republicans.
In the meanwhile, the Republican Party is said to have this no tent, no big tent, and no room for its moderates.
And yet, which party is it that throws its moderates overboard and apparently doesn't have a big tent.
State-controlled media hates Jim Bunning.
We have a montage.
Jim Bunning has been acting like not a real good guy.
Bunning is regarded as a very, very strange man with a nasty temper.
A bizarre character.
Bunning does not have a good relationship with his Republican leadership.
He slid into too many bases headfirst.
Known for throwing brushback pitches and isn't afraid to ruffle feathers.
Jim Bunning, he has a track record of saying terrible, terrible things.
He's been behaving in a way that's certainly outside the box.
Look, he's 78 years old.
He's really bitter.
He's been erratic for years.
Angry words and an obscene gesture.
Reputation for being prickly.
Bunning shot him the middle finger.
Yeah, it was in a Senate senator's only elevator.
All the guy's doing is standing up for a Senate rule called Pay Go.
You know, here's the real thing about this, folks, in all candor.
Now, we've, they got audio.
Oh, oh, Howard Feynman, this is what I wanted to say, and I really didn't have the guts to say it.
When he told Kit that he listens every day, I found it hard to believe because if none of it's sinking in, none of it's sinking in.
If he listens every day, he has got one of the biggest immune systems that I have ever.
I'm surprised he got sick down in Argentina.
He got food poisoning.
This guy is so immune to the truth, as espoused by me, your host, that I'm surprised he got sick.
Anyway, what is all this about?
All this is about unemployment compensation.
He's all for that.
Bunning said he's all for continuing benefits.
He said, we just got a new rule here, and we got to pay for it.
Senator Bunning, the next time you take to the Senate floor, suggest to Dingy Harry, look at how much unspent money from the Porculus bill is there?
How much unspent TARP money?
Why do we need to spend more than we don't have?
Why don't you go get whatever this bill requires for what you've already allocated and be done with it?
Grab audio somebody number one again, Mike.
I want to go through this.
I think these characterizations of Jim Bunning, oh, I'm going to put off the Howard Feynman answer for a little while since he can't listen right now and he wants to finish the Jim Bunning segment here.
The answer to the Feynman's coming up.
Because I want you to listen to this stuff again.
All these media people talking about Bunning.
It's more appropriate if they were talking about Harry Reid.
These comments about Bunning apply much more to Harry Reid than they do to Jim Bunning, who's a great guy.
Now, the you know, Harry Reid could have easily dealt with this today, but he did.
A politico even says that rather than change things up a bit and address Bunning's issue, Harry Reid let the unemployment fund stall because he's got a tourism bill he needed to work on to save his butt back in Nevada.
But these and it's it doesn't it when you listen to this sound like they're saying the R word without using the R word when they describe Bunning?
Listen to it again and keep in mind they are more apt descriptions of Harry Reid than they are Jim Bunning.
Jim Bunning has been acting like not a real good guy.
Bunning is regarded as a very, very strange man with a nasty temper.
A bizarre character.
Bunning does not have a good relationship with his Republican leadership.
He slid into too many bases headfirst.
Known for throwing brushback pitches and isn't afraid to ruffle feathers.
Jim Bunning, he has a track record of saying terrible, terrible things.
He's been behaving in a way that's certainly outside the box.
Look, he's 78 years old.
He's really bitter.
He's been erratic for years.
Angry words and an obscene gesture.
A reputation for being prickly.
Bunning shot him the middle finger.
Sounds to me more like Harry Reid characterizations than it does.
Jim Bunning.
Now, yesterday in Claremont, Florida, Nobody Messes With Joe held a press conference to talk about Recovery Act funding for highway projects.
And here's a portion of his remarks.
One of Bill's colleagues is standing on the floor of the United States Senate as we speak.
He's standing there and preventing the Senate from being able to move forward on doing the kind of thing we're doing here today.
What's that mean?
400,000 people will be kicked off the rolls this month if he has his way.
Come on, everybody knows these unemployment benefits are going to be extended.
It's going to get done.
This is how the Democrats play the game, trying to make it look like Bunning doesn't care.
What Bunning knows is that this country is fit to be tied over this out-of-control spending.
Jim Bunning knows that there is more anger in this country over spending than there is over any other issue.
There is more anger over spending and the economy and lack of jobs.
And Jim Bunning is a hero to people here for trying to finally get the Senate to abide by its pay go rules.
But again, folks, the smidgen amount of money in this bill that Bunning is holding up, the money's already been allocated and unspent in any number of other areas.
The Porculus bill, the TARP bill.
We know that not all that money has been spent.
So why add to it?
Why add on to it?
It's silly.
It's destructive and it's purposeful.
Now, here's Robert Gibbs.
Yesterday at the Daily Press briefing during the Q ⁇ A, a reporter said, does the White House see this episode with Senator Bunning as something isolated or is there something larger you're trying to draw attention to here?
I think what we're trying to draw attention to is the fact that hundreds of thousands of people who've lost their job and lost their health care because of that and their unemployment benefits, all of that is threatened because one person has decided to stop the entire process.
It's hard to bargain with somebody when if you say, I won't do that because of this, and you say, well, how about we vote on that?
And you say, I object.
As usual, the White House press secretary making absolutely zero sense.
And I'm not going to waste your time or mine translating it.
Let's go to the Senate floor late yesterday, Jim Bunning.
If we can't find $10 billion to pay for something that we all support, we will never pay for anything on the floor of this U.S. Senate.
I have offered several ways to do this, including trying to negotiate with the majority leader staff.
None have been successful.
We cannot keep adding to the debt.
It's over $14 trillion and going up fast.
If the budget that is before us passes, it will add another $1.5 trillion to the debt.
Dingy Harry is not interested in solving this.
He likes the press helping his party portray Republicans as heartless, cold, mean-spirited, unfeeling extremists, when in fact they're trying to enforce a little spending discipline on an out-of-control Congress, which and I guarantee you the anger at all this spending, people know they can't live their own lives like this.
And they know the government can't either.
It's out of control, simply out of control.
And Dingy Harry don't want to negotiate.
He wants the issue out there.
Gibbs wants the issue out there.
Obama wants it out there.
All the press wants it out there.
And this is how much, to what a great degree, they're just out of touch with people in the country.
Here's Dingy Harry playing the violin for these poor wretches standing in line for unemployment benefits that will not be available because of the evil troll, Jim Bunning.
My friends on the other side of the aisle are opposing extending unemployment benefits for people who are out of work.
Where was my friend from Kentucky when we had two wars that were unpaid for during the Bush administration?
Tax cuts that cost more than a trillion dollars unpaid for.
Where was my friend and the Republicans objecting to that?
I hope Republicans will reconsider and think about their constituents standing in the unemployment line as we speak.
They're not standing in the unemployment line.
They're standing in the unemployment benefits line.
I saw on CNBC today, I'm going to have to go back and see if I can source this.
I think I saw on CNBC where a guy, a recipient, is getting 30 grand in unemployment compensation.
What did I do with that?
$30,000 in unemployment compensation.
If he's got a wife and she's unemployed, that's $60,000.
Plus they've got food stamps.
I mean, if that number is pretty representative, that we can't, none of this can be sustained.
Nobody's going to start looking for work.
We're now extending unemployment benefits in 99 weeks.
And it's just with none of this, none of this is sustainable.
And there's one voice of some sort of sanity addressing this issue in the United States Senate.
So Dick Durbin was next up.
He had to whine about Jim Bunning yesterday afternoon on the Senate floor.
When the victims in the middle of the debate are unemployed people, I don't think that's fair.
This one young man, David Senior, showed me a list of 300 applications that he had made to try to find a job during the last year.
He said, I go online every day, and this is a man who had worked for years, had a strong work record until he was laid off.
And he said, I just can't find anything.
I'm desperate.
I'm trying everything I can think of, and now you're going to cut off my unemployment benefits.
No, your unemployment benefits are not going to be cut off.
They're going to get that.
All these federal workers being furloughed, you know, they're going to get their back pay.
Nobody's going to lose a dime here.
Everybody knows this.
This little episode here is a great illustration, a microcosm of a difference in the two parties and exactly who's out of touch and who's in touch and exactly how destructive to the country as we know it the Democrat Party has become.
So it continued this morning.
On the floor, Jim Bunning keeps stating his case.
It's really hypocritical of the Democratic side of this aisle passing a PAYGO bill.
What does the PAYGO mean?
It means that you pay for the bills as they appear on the floor of the U.S. Senate.
And then to present a bill that not only is not paid for, but just paid for a little bit.
Paid for a third of.
That was the Reed bill on the jobs bill that he presented to us.
$5 billion was paid for.
$10 billion was not.
Harry Reed calls Bunning a hypocrite.
My friend just is, he's throwing around words like hypocrite.
People can make their own decision as to who is a hypocrite.
We have.
I'm not calling anyone a hypocrite, although I'm just stating the facts.
Someone boasts about the good offices of PAYGO, but votes against it.
Talks about the doc fix, but votes against it.
So I would think that my friend from Kentucky should get a different historian to help him with his facts because they're simply wrong.
This is the guy.
I object.
Yeah, go ahead.
This is the guy who said at the health summit last week, reconciliation.
You may entitle your own opinion, but you're not entitled to your own facts, Lamar.
You can't sit there.
Nobody's talking about reconciliation.
That's all anybody was talking about.
That's all they're talking about now.
So when Dingy Harry says somebody's not entitled to their own facts, the way I interpret it is he doesn't have any to support his own argument.
All right, brief timeout, my friends.
Before we go, before we go, here is two things.
Yes, I know the gun control bill is about Chicago.
Snerdley tells me he's getting spammed.
See, this is what happens.
A minor, this is verbal dyslexia.
It's insignificant.
Where is Chicago?
It's in Illinois.
It's a Chicago gun band.
I know this.
I am so rarely wrong.
I'm not allowed to be wrong.
When I make the tiniest of faux pause, not even a factual, tiniest of faux pause.
It is like a tsunami sucking the water off the beach.
People calling, you tell him.
Snerdley puts a little note in the box.
I'm getting spammed in here.
Would you please correct it so I can get back to my job?
So that's what I'm doing.
Now, here's Larry Summers.
This was on CNBC's Fast Money yesterday.
And just imagine, just imagine, imagine Bush going out and saying this.
Who knows what the next number is going to be?
The blizzards that affected much of the country during the last month are likely to distort the statistics.
And in past blizzards, those statistics have been distorted by 100,000 to 200,000 jobs.
It's very important to know, very important to look past whatever the next figures are.
Well, where does this stop?
Well, don't ignore the March numbers.
A lot of wind.
There was a lot of wind in March, and there was a lot of cloudy days.
And, you know, cloudy days depress people.
They don't go look for work as much.
And April, don't, you got, you got to ignore the April numbers because tornado season really gets going there.
And when you get to the summertime, it's so hot people can't afford to go outside and sweat while finding a job.
Nobody can hire somebody who smells like a pig.
So where does this kind of rationale stop?
Well, you got to look past February numbers, blizzards.
It sounds to me like they're expecting a disastrous number.
What is that?
Who is this?
The bare naked, somebody's bringing bumper music home from home because I never heard of them.
I never heard of them because I don't listen to music that I never heard before I lost my hearing.
My gosh, I thought it was an Ozzy Osborne concert when that month's.
I've never seen the bare naked ladies.
I've only seen pictures of Lady Gaga.
By the way, I'm getting all kinds of emails.
Rush, Rush, did you watch The Bachelor last night?
Ladies and gentlemen, there is no way.
I have literally nothing to gain by telling you my thoughts on this show.
There's literally nothing in it for me.
I'm just going to say I am very, very afraid.
I want to know where all the Republicans are backing up and defending Jim Bunning.
He's one voice.
He is articulating the number one or at least it's in the top five Republican campaign issues this November.
Where are they?
Where are the other Republicans in the Senate?
Where are any of them?
They're sitting around there waiting for who?
A bunch of us to come to his defense so that they then think, oh, I guess the coast is clear.
We can go out and support Bunning.
Okay, to the phones we go.
And we're going to start in somewhere, Virginia.
This is Nancy.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello, Rush.
Hi.
I'm calling you after being furloughed yesterday.
I'm one of the 2,000 employees of the Department of Transportation who was told to go home yesterday.
And I just wanted to give you some thoughts because I support Jim Bunning, and I support everything he's saying, because I care more about the future of the country and my children's future and my long-term financial viability than I do about this job.
And I didn't just start working there yesterday.
I have a long federal career.
And the way that the leadership talked to us yesterday, they were very apologetic.
It was such a surprise because we've had continuing resolutions so many times before.
It's always passed without a problem.
So they were really shocked that somebody actually stood up and voted against it this time.
They were livid.
Now, I want to say that.
I appreciate you calling here.
Now I know why you identified your location as somewhere.
Yes, because I will tell you, I live a life of politically correct health.
I have to watch everything I say.
I have to not disclose my true feelings about some of the things that we work on that is nothing but a boondoggle and squandering of the taxpayers' money.
I have to watch things go on every day that I think most taxpayers would not be proud of.
And I also work with a lot of dedicated, caring people who try to do a good job.
And we do a lot of good work in the Department of Transportation.
Anybody that's driven on the roads and bridges lately knows we do a lot of good work.
But mixed in with that.
Well, except in Minneapolis.
Nixed in with that is a lot of stuff honest, hardworking people should not be having to deal with.
And I have relatives all over the country.
I sent them all emails this morning begging them to please, I told them I had been furloughed, and I said, please contact the Republican leadership and your representatives and urge them to support Jim Bunning and don't leave him standing out there by himself.
Well, he is for now.
Very gutsy, very gutsy on your part.
I just want to correct one thing.
But if it's really been gutsy, I would give him my real name, Rush.
I appreciate that.
This is instructive in itself.
Here's a woman that works for the federal government afraid for anybody to know who she is in the federal government.
At any rate, Bunning is not, now this makes like a technical point.
He's not voting to furlough you.
He's not voting against unemployment benefits.
He says, we've got a $14 trillion.
We've got to start paying for some of this stuff somehow.
We can't sustain it.
And you're going to get your back pay.
It always happens.
We were assured of that yesterday.
You're going to get your back pay.
The only guy that hadn't been paid back in anything like this is the sleigh ride operator at Jellystone.
Other than everybody, everybody got their Thanksgiving Christmas turkeys during a government shutdown, and you're going to get your back pay, and the unemployment benefits will eventually be funded.
And everybody knows this.
Bunning is simply making a point.
I'll tell you something else.
He's retiring.
He's not running for re-election.
That frees one up quite a bit.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh, doing what I was born to do, and that is host the program.
I am a highly trained broadcast specialist.
By the way, it was President Obama in his weekly radio, YouTube speech, whatever it was.
We're getting the audio even now, who lauded the whole concept of PAYGO.
Just lauded it.
And Harry Reid has lauded the whole concept of PAYGO.
I mean, every bit of ammo for Bunning to have some defense in there from his colleagues is just waiting to be used.
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