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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 sound bites up there.
And for those of you uh 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 the seat.
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 health care.
And 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 gonna explain it to him.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome.
It's Rush Limboss serving humanity, doing what I was born to do behind the golden EIB microphone at 800-282-2882, the email address, Lrushboat at EIBNet.com.
Ditto cams 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 gonna have their reporters do in their budget cuts.
Oh, wait, have you heard about the post office snerdly?
Have you heard about this?
This is this is fabulous.
Uh 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 in adding 30 new custom 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 uh uh model.
But uh why they call it 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 uh on the yet?
We're gonna get to Jim Bunning.
We got a lot to do today.
We're gonna get to Jim Bunning and we're gonna 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 gotta give five, maybe four seconds of what it looks like right now.
I'm coming back here in mere moments.
We're gonna get to Jim Bunning today.
Uh 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 gonna recall 1.3 million cars.
Cobalt's uh other small car 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.
Uh little T is here with a Ditto Cam picture.
Just to show you it's coming.
Um, are we gonna have Obama be you know brought up to Congress to explain this?
Are we gonna have anybody from Obama?
Oh, and GMAC.
Obama owns GMAC.
That's General Motors Acceptance Corporation, a financing arm.
Big, big big financial problems.
Their CEO is is getting a pay package identical to Lloyd Blankfine at um at Goldman Sachs, which proves, ladies and gentlemen, that this whole business of Obama hating the banks and hating executive pay is a is it's it's a it's a ruse.
It's a ruse.
One of Obama's executives at GMAC is gonna 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 uh global warming storm uh hitting Atlanta.
Your Delta Airlines already closed, canceled 250 to 500 flights today.
It's snowing in 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 they've canceled them here on uh what is it, March the second?
Uh Global Warming Flight Cancellations.
And I by the way, uh 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.
Uh You people at Gulf Stream 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.
These 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 uh before the program started.
Okay, I got to turn.
They're not the polar bears are not going to die.
Now I turn 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 gonna die.
I mean, all of this is the hoax continues.
They're doubling down on this.
Uh polar bear cub is comforted by its mother as they drift 12 miles out from shore, not 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.
That's I'm sure they did, and I'm sure that this they can swim 60 miles.
They're polar bears.
Anyway, just uh their future, the polar bear's future.
Well, because they could die out there.
I mean, they're this is this is designed to make instinct that global warming is melting the icebergs, and these poor bears are gonna die out there.
Uh 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 I have a story uh here, ladies and gentlemen.
The story is headline is this Obama looks to undecided Democrats for health backing.
It is written by 15 people.
Fifteen people to write essentially a two-page story.
Fifteen.
Fifteen 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 uh in American health care.
Okay, uh you know it's gonna be bad.
You know, ladies and gentlemen, it's gonna be bad when a White House economic advisor comes out and warns of the upcoming unemployment numbers on Friday and says the numbers are gonna be distorted because of the snow.
Uh 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 tried something.
Uh the blizzards that affected uh much of the country during the last month are likely to distort the statistics, so it's it's gonna be very, very, very important to uh look past whatever the next figures are to gauge the uh underlying uh trends.
He said this in an interview on CNBC.
So basically, folks, it's gonna be in a tank.
I mean, it would say it would appear that it's gonna be in the tank.
Uh and so there's that's it's really not real.
It was uh it was affected by the uh the snow and the blizzards.
Uh it's this.
Now, this next story.
Ladies and gentlemen, this next 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.
Gray's 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.
Uh story.
Pimento says there will be an autopsy, but burn marks indicated the way the electricity traveled through the butt.
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 Latrella 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, Lattel 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 uh bottles or maybe ban them and demand that Worcestershire sauce now uh be sold in plastic.
Maybe to squeeze top like uh like mustard and uh and catch.
No, I was not making it up.
It's it's a Bloomberg story.
GMAC, 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 Blankfine.
Um this guy's package is about 1.2 million dollars for the month and a half he was employed.
That's equivalent to full year pay of nine and a half million dollars.
Scientific proof here of fake outrage in the White House about salaries, high salaries that uh that heartless executives are uh are pulling down in uh in this country.
All right.
One something else we're doing, Jim Bunning when we get back here, and somebody call Howard Feynman and uh tell him on to answer his questions at 1233 Eastern time.
Uh but I also think this guy that was electrocuted, urinating, and it probably was listening to Bob Beckle uh on Fox, and that's probably why he had to urinate.
Um 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 out.
I wish show has standards.
Uh this show has the highest broadcast standards you'll find in the broadcast industry.
What he said it.
Uh so who knows.
Uh, but also, are you 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, whoa, that's crazy.
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 uh not a professor, as a teacher.
And ask yourself, how much does it cost you to come here and learn every day?
How many how much 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 advanced.
What my point is, look at all that you learn here.
It hasn'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 uh we don't 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 um headed up to uh Capitol Hill, but he'll catch the show later.
We asked him, well, do you want us to delay uh for when you have some free time?
No, no, no, no, no, you go ahead and do it at 1233, and uh well, I'll catch it later.
I I don't I don't miss your show at all.
Which, oh, that's stunning, busy as Howard Feynman is.
Uh, 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 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 boss has got to him.
Harold Ford says, okay, okay, okay, I won't run.
I won't run.
It would be horrible, but 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 Gillibrt?
Because she's a rubber stamp for Chuck Hugh Schumer.
Pure and simple.
She rubber stamps what Chuck Hugh did.
She's not, by the way, uh 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 called him, but maybe his Torricelli.
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 but but somebody had to make a phone call.
Hey, hey, hey, Harold, how are you doing, buddy?
You think, you actually think, Harold, we're gonna let you run.
And this new couldn't even hold a cheap L seat in Tennessee.
Uh you had Chris Matthews on your day.
Oh, 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 gonna let you run for seat in New York, Harold.
You know, stay on Wall Street, earn your millions, uh, go back to being pro-life and all that stuff that you are.
You know, we're gonna let you pollute our party anymore.
We love you.
And if and Harold, I heard Rush Limbaugh senior prices.
You don't have a prayer, Harold, our party.
I don't want you were thinking.
Um have you heard about Torcelli?
You do you know, um, yeah, have you do you know you know Andrew Como?
Uh ask them, ask them um about me.
Uh I'm saying don't think, don't think my heart sold me down, Harold.
Don't don't you think that.
So after, um sure a phone call somewhat like that.
Harold Ford writes a piece.
Okay, okay, I'm not.
I'm not gonna run because it would help the Republicans.
In the meanwhile, Republican Party said to have this uh 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 head first, known for throwing brushback pitches and isn't afraid to ruffle feathers.
Tim 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.
Um, yeah.
It was it was in a Senate senators only uh elevator.
All the guy's doing is standing up for a Senate rule called Pago.
You know, here's the real thing about this, folks, in all candor.
Now we've they got audio.
Oh, oh.
Um Howard Feynmar, uh this is what I wanted to say, and I really didn't have the gust to say it.
When he when he told Kit that he listens every day, I found it hard to believe because if 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 subbite number one again, Mike.
I want to go through this.
I think I think these characterizations of Jim Bunning.
Oh, I'm gonna put off the Howard Feynman answer for a little while since he can't listen right now anyone to finish the Jim Bunning segment here.
The answer to uh 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 Reed.
These comments about Bunning uh apply much more to Harry Reed than they do to Jim Bunning, who's a great guy.
Now, the um 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 Reed let the unemployment fund stall because he's got a tourism bill he needed to work on to save his butt back in Nevada.
Uh but these 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 Reed 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 head first.
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 Reed uh characterizations than it does.
Jim Bunning.
Now, yesterday in Claremont, uh, Florida, uh 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 gonna be extended.
It's gonna 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 paygo rules.
But again, folks, the smidgen amount of money in this bill that 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 no not all that money has been spent.
So why add to it?
Why add on to it?
Silly.
It's and it it it's it's destructive and it's uh it's purposeful.
Now, here's here's Robert Gibbs yesterday at the daily press briefing During the QA, uh reporters 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 gonna 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 dollars and going up fast.
If the budget that is before us passes, it will add another one point five trillion dollars to the debt.
Dingy Harry is not interested in solving this.
Uh 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 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.
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.
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 in CNBC where a guy 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 if that if that number is pretty representative, that we can't this 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 pay-go bill.
What is the pago 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.
Five billion was paid for, ten billion was not.
Harry Reid calls Bunning a hypocrite.
My friend just is uh 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 Pago but votes against it.
Talks about the dock fix, but votes against it.
So I would think that uh my friend from Kentucky should get a different historian to help him with his facts because they're simply wrong.
This is the guy.
Yeah, go ahead and do it.
This is a 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 time out, my friends.
Uh 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.
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 error, but tiniest of faux pause.
It is like a tsunami sucking the water off the beach.
People calling, you kill him!
Snerdily 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 here's Larry Summers.
This is on CNBC's fast money yesterday, and I if if 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 a hundred to two hundred thousand 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 uh 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 uh April, don't you got you can't you gotta ignore the April numbers because tornado season really gets going there.
And when you get to the summers, 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, yeah, you gotta look past February numbers, uh, blizzards.
Uh it sounds to me like they're expecting a disastrous number.
What is that?
Who who is this?
The bare naked.
Somebody's bringing bumper music home or 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 moment said.
No, 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 just gonna say I am very, very afraid.
I want to know where all the Republicans are backing up and defending Jim Bunning.
The one, he's one voice, he is articulating the number one or number 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 um who?
So uh 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, uh to the phones we go, and we're gonna start in um in um somewhere, Virginia.
This is uh 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 two thousand 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 um the way that the leadership talked to us yesterday, they were very apologetic.
It was such a surprise because we've had continuing resolution 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 kidding well.
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 how I have to watch everything I say.
I have to not um 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 uh Minneapolis.
Mixed in with that is a lot of stuff.
Honest, hardworking people should not be having to deal with.
And I 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.
Uh very gutsy, very gutsy on your part.
I well just want to correct one thing.
But if you've really been gutsy, I would give him my real name rush.
I I appreciate that.
Um this this is instructive in itself.
He's a woman that works for federal government afraid for anybody to know who she is in the federal government.
Any rate.
Bunning is not, now this makes like a technical point.
He's not voting to furlough you, and he's not voting against unemployment benefits.
He says, What we don't we got a 14 trillion dollar, we're gonna start paying for some of this stuff somehow.
We can't sustain it.
Uh it's it is the you're and you're gonna get your back pay.
It always happens.
Well, I know, and we were assured of that yesterday.
You're gonna get your pay.
The only guy that had been paid back in anything like this is the uh sleigh ride operator at uh at Jellystone.
Other than everybody, everybody got their Thanksgiving Christmas turkeys during a government shutdown.
Um, and you're gonna get your back pay, and the unemployment benefits will eventually uh be funded uh 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, um, 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 Pago.
Just lauded it.
And Harry Reid has lauded the whole concept of Pago.
I mean, every bit of ammo for Bunning to have some defense in there from his colleagues is just is just waiting to um to be used.
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