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March 5, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 5, 2010, Friday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this show, now documented to be almost always right, 99.5% of the time.
I am Rush Limboy, your highly trained broadcast specialist host here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network on Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open live Friday.
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Hey, Mike, would you do me a favor on that audio soundbite number two?
Just grab Harry Reed and roll it off separately.
Today is a big day in America.
I just, I want to be throwing that in there, throwing it in there.
Remember like we did to Buzzer a couple weeks ago?
There's still a Harry Reid in there anytime when you get it done, no matter what's happening.
Let's go back to me yesterday on this program, audio soundbite number three.
This is one of the many fluent things that I said yesterday.
Calling the herd.
Or what had there's the whole point of getting control of health is to regulate everybody's life and look at how they decide now whether somebody should get treated or not.
Age, how sick are you, how much is it going to cost to invest in your recovery?
Are you going to recover?
And when the government is in charge of making those decisions and not you and your doctor.
You are in heap big doo-doo.
So now we go to February 26, 2010 on the New York Times Freakonomics Radio Podcast.
Ezekiel Emmanuel, the brother of Rah Emmanuel, he's head of the Department of Bioethics at the Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health.
And he's a big medical advisor there, health advisor to Obama.
And he said this about obesity in America.
I mean, we're all focused on health care and diabetes and heart disease, but there's all sorts of things like the simple fact that, you know, heavier people, transportation is more.
So there's more spent on gasoline, more on jet fuel.
People have had to change, you know, the size of doorways, the size of chairs on airplanes and at sports stadiums.
So there's a lot of hidden costs as well to the increasing girth of America.
Now, what's the point of saying that?
Well, when we get this health care done, America, we're going to be able to have regulations on how heavy you can be.
And we're going to be able to set up various tax penalties, for example, if you weigh more than we think you should.
Or we just may not let you get on that airplane because you're carbon foot.
You're going to weigh so much jet fuel.
We may not let you get on that bus.
We may not let you drive your car.
We may not build a bigger doorway for you to get through.
We may not give you a bigger toilet.
I mean, all of this is, this is the thing.
These are the arrogant, ephete snobs that are running this.
And this is what everything is their business.
Everything about your life is their business.
Bart Stupak, yesterday on my show, we got to see I told you so's every day.
We don't do them every day because it'd be bragging.
But we got a couple of them.
Here's the next one.
We don't have an Obama bill.
He made it sound like he's got a proposal yesterday that he's incorporated all these Republican ideas.
It doesn't exist.
None of what he said yesterday exists unless it's already in the Senate bill.
For all the talk in Washington about Democrats in the Senate using reconciliation to pass a final version of Obamacare, one key fact has been overlooked.
No reconciliation bill exists.
Not in the House, not in the Senate, nowhere.
It simply has not yet been written, and there are plenty of reasons to believe it never will be written.
And you know why?
Because they'll not use it.
If the House passes the Senate bill, ballgame.
Then both houses have passed it, send it up to Obama.
He pushes John Henry on it, and the real fun begins.
Here's Bart Stupak.
Last night on Greta Van Susterin's show on the Fox News channel, she said, as Chairman Waxman said, don't worry, you're going to get the language that'll satisfy you.
Chairman Waxman's very concerned about my language, but he's also very concerned we don't have the votes.
So we're trying to work out, we're having good discussions, no negotiations because there's no bill.
The president has to put his proposal in writing.
There is no proposal.
The president could take this issue right away from you and just put in there, here's my proposal, Congress, no federal funding for abortion.
That resolves the issue.
He doesn't have a bill.
Everything he said in his 440,000th speech on health care this week was meaningless.
There are no Republican compromise ideas.
I still think it's ridiculous to say, oh yeah, we're going to get rid of Medicare waiting frost.
That's a good fraud.
That's a good Republican idea.
Although if the Republicans had suggested it, we'd keep waiting, waste, and fraud in it.
And then some grants to study tort reform.
Those are the two.
But they're not in there.
Because there is no bill.
Here's Dick Turbin yesterday morning on the Senate floor talking about Medicare.
Some of our critics on the other side of the aisle have said, you know, they're going to cut hundreds of billions of dollars out of Medicare.
And the simple answer is yes.
Now, remember what they did to Newt Gingrich when they lied about, oh yeah, Newt just wants Medicare to wither on the line, on the vine.
But here's the truth.
They're not cutting Medicare.
They're going to take $500 billion out of Medicare and transfer it over to Obamacare.
And they're doing this so that they can create the illusion of reducing an entitlement, cutting Medicare, bringing it into a more responsible financial position.
Today is a big day in America.
Only 36,000 people lost their jobs today, which is really good.
Dingy Harry.
I hope all of you people hear this.
Obama's basically saying the same thing.
Let's see.
Oh, this next is Marco Rubio.
Marco Rubio last night was on Fox News, well, yesterday afternoon, Your World with Neil Cavuto.
And actually, let's go to number eight first.
Pelosi first, and then we'll get to Marco Rubio.
I just want to try to follow this answer.
This is yesterday morning in Washington on Capitol Hill, and it's Pelosi at her press briefing.
And the question from reporter, one issue you didn't mention is abortion.
And that apparently is not going to be a part of this corrections package.
You've heard Bart Stupak.
And I'm sure you talk to about a dozen or so anti-abortion Democrats who say, forget it.
You're not going to have my vote anymore.
If this doesn't change, how are you going to deal with it?
This is not about abortion.
It's about bringing many more women into the health care loop in terms of their access to health care.
So if you believe that there should be no federal funding of abortion, and if you believe there should be no change in the policy, and if you believe that we need health care for all Americans, we will pass the bill and we will pass the bill.
She needs a teleprompter.
So if you believe that there should be no federal funding of abortion, we will pass the bill.
Just leave out all the other extemporaneous stuff.
If you believe that there should be no federal funding of abortion, we will pass the bill.
If you believe there should be no federal funding of abortion, and if you believe there should be no change in the policy, and if you believe we need health care for all Americans, we'll pass a bill.
And we will pass the bill.
Marco Rubio, your world with Neil Cavuto.
Essential issues of this campaign is that this country today is being run by people who don't believe in the free enterprise system and are forcing America to abandon it through the public policy they're trying to impose on the American people.
You're seeing today the president's statements.
In three weeks, he wants this passed, and he's even strong-arming members of his own party to do it.
If he has it all signed, sealed, and done, I think that, number one, they're going to pay a heavy price in November for doing it.
And then, number two, hopefully we're going to elect enough people in November to the Congress and to the Senate so we can undo the horrible things that are going to get done if this legislation passes.
Marco Rubio, Florida, running against Charlie Christie, Republican primary here.
Brief timeout, coming back with much more after this.
Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh here on Open Line Friday.
Ladies and gentlemen, Open Line Friday is a day of departures from the norm.
And I would like to indulge you for just, well, I'd like you to ask you to indulge me for just a moment on a local issue of great importance and mild to severe frustration to me.
See, I live, as many of you know, on a beach in Palm Beach, Florida.
And because of a series of ordinances, local, county, and state, for eight months of the 12-month year, people who live on a beach have to turn off any light that can be seen from the beach.
This is because sea turtles, which, or who, don't start arriving until May, are said to be distracted by light.
So what happens, and I have witnessed this on the beach one Memorial Day, giant sea turtles, amazing thing to watch, they lumber out of the ocean.
They trundle up to the beach.
They dig the nest, they lay the eggs, and they trundle back to the ocean.
And there are some people supposedly out there marking where the nest is so that people don't disturb it.
And then some weeks later, the hatchlings hatch and they burrow up out of the sand and they are supposed to go to the ocean where 90% of them end up as food.
But 10% of them survive.
Now, the theory from environmentalist nutcase wackos is that lights on the beach distract the hatchlings and cause them not to go to the ocean, but inland.
And so those of us who live on the beach have to turn the lights off.
It's a $250 penalty.
And we got the environmental turtle police wandering the beaches and they report us.
And they take survey and they go out there with cameras, little cheap instomatic cameras, and they'll take a picture of your house.
Of course, these cheap little instinct cameras with no flash at night, the shutter opens wide for 10 seconds, and it does make your house look like a Christmas tree when all you got is one lamp lit inside.
And then they come show it to you, you're violating the ordinance.
From March 1st until October 31st, eight months darkness, which poses a lot of problems.
It adds to security costs.
It makes it difficult to use outdoor facilities at night.
And all it's, by the way, I am totally devoted to preserving turtles, but I don't think they arrive here until May.
And the latest thing that's happened is now they are telling us that the arriving sea turtle mothers will not come ashore if they see light.
Yet, I have found pictures of actual turtles in broad daylight on beaches.
We can't put out the moon, and it's up there every night.
Even if there's cloud cover, you can sea turtle sees a light in the moon, oh, tries to climb to the moon.
What does it do?
So it used to be that we had to turn the lights off in May and turn them back on in October, which is fine.
But eight months a year.
So I, ladies and gentlemen, am seriously considering founding the forthcoming Turtle Preservation Society of Palm Beach.
There has to be a balance here between the rights of human beings, their security and their property, versus the turtles.
We all must adapt.
The environmentalist wackos would prefer it if nobody lived on the beach so that the turtles wouldn't be interrupted by anything.
You can get exemptions.
If you want to call them up, call the town, get an exemption from the ordinance, throw a party one night.
You can do it.
And I said, well, what happens if the hatchlings happen to burrow up that night?
So there's everybody tries to work with each other on this, but it's got to go eight months a year.
Got to be dark.
I've even been told you have to lower blackout shades if you're going to have lights on in the second floor inside the house.
So this is, it has been a sticking point with me for many moons since I've lived here.
And of course, me being who I am, these environmentalist trolls are out there on the beach spying as often as they can.
The trolls out on the beach, why can't they redirect the turtles when they're out there?
That's an excellent question.
The broadcast engineer says, okay, if these environmental trolls are on the beach, why can't they just redirect the turtles when the hatchlings bop up?
They're not out there every night.
They make weekly surveys to see who's in compliance and who.
I remember one night, it was pouring rain and my front gate buzzer, I wasn't there, but the gate buzzer rang.
Property manager goes, look, it's a cop out there with an environmentalist wacko claiming my house is lit up like a Christmas tree.
The policeman didn't even know what the ordinance was.
We were in compliance.
We took him back to the backyard and showed him.
It was pure harassment.
So it's just, I've looked into doing things, but there's three different groups, the county, the town, and the state.
And I've looked at some of the reports from whatever bureaucracy at the state, county, or town deals with.
And reading these things is scary.
Well, people do eat turtle soup, yes, but I don't think there are turtles captured in Palm Beach.
I certainly don't know if that's going on, don't go there.
Last time I had turtle soup was in New Orleans, where there really aren't deep beaches, the deltas out there.
But, yeah, people still eat turtle soup.
Have to get them from somewhere.
It's new now.
Let me tell you something.
Sea turtle got to lay eggs.
I mean, that's, you know, you don't make a reservation for that.
You know, you don't call ahead, give an American Express number, and say, I think I'm going to be in.
Maybe I'm late.
I'll show over the beach the next day.
You got to lay the egg, you got to lay the eggs.
Now we're being told that lights on the beach will send the mother sea turtles dashing back into the ocean.
Well, that's the thing.
I'm being asked if they closed down South Beach.
I don't know.
I have no idea if they closed down South Beach.
I do know that I have, I've driven, I've seen people, I've been at parties where houses three feet from the waterline on the beach are blazing.
It's not uniformly applied.
And we get this note from the town every February 25th reminding us, it's time, and the little turtle graphics all over it, it's time once again for beach residents to turn off the lights.
I don't think there's been a sea turtle show up that was sane anyway, that showed up here in March.
I've never heard of it.
And the old, before the environmentalist wackos got hold of everybody, it was May 1st.
You know, May 1st to October, fine and dandy.
But turtle preservations, I'm thinking of going out and parking when the weather warms out.
Just, you know, take some Chateau Aubrey on, Chateau Pratreuse, head out there to the beach, some bread and some cheese.
Just wait for them.
Say hi.
Hey, we're glad you're back.
Our lights are dimmed.
We're out here.
We know you're not going to be here for a couple months, but we wanted to get here early just to get a reserved seat for your return.
Okay, back to the phones where we go.
Eric in Jacksonville.
Thank you for indulging me on this, folks.
Eric in Jacksonville, Florida.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
He's gone.
He probably got tired of the turtle story.
It's a risk that you run.
This is Doug in Woodvine, Georgia.
Nice to have you on the program, Doug.
Thanks, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Hey, Rush, I need some help with some logic in terms of the health care.
And I'm going to try and keep it as simple as I possibly can for the benefit of some of the friends of Rahm Emanuel.
We're demonizing health insurance companies and allegedly going to lower premiums with this health care bill when, in fact, if you look at the concept behind health care, it's one of a pooling of risks so that we all don't have to pay our own medical bills individually.
And our premium dollars are then used to pay the actual claims.
How is changing the price of the premiums going to change the price of health care?
That is an excellent question.
I mean, it seems to me that we've got, and yeah, we've got doctors, we've got lawyers, we have hospitals.
And last time I looked, the health insurance companies don't own the hospitals and don't employ doctors.
No.
So without including those guys in the equation, we're not going to bend any cost curve.
No, we're not going to go.
Of course we're going to bend the cost curve down.
Obama's going to own the doctors effectively.
The government's going to own the doctors.
The government's going to own the hospitals.
The government is going to be in charge of telling everybody involved here what they can get, what they can be treated, who they're going to treat, how much they're going to treat them.
That's where all this is headed.
It's all going to be based on cost containment.
And with the Obama people, probably a political calculation will also exist.
And do we really want to save that Republican versus do we really want to save that Democrat?
We might.
I'm not joking.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
We are back.
Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, doing what I was born to do.
Jennifer in Monroesville, North Carolina, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
I just wanted to tell you something about the sea turtles.
I homeschool my son, and we just finished a homeschooling unit on ocean life, and we did a unit on sea turtles and everything.
And they actually don't have very good vision.
They're actually nearsighted, so they can't see far.
And so I am doubting that they could see the lights from your house anyway.
So you don't think they wouldn't be distracted by the flash from a muzzle?
No, I don't think so.
Well, that's worth it.
You have to at least think about this.
At least you're making the environmentalist wackos happy by reducing your carbon footprint by not having any lights on.
I know.
It's eight months out of the year.
It's absolutely ridiculous.
I don't want to belabor this.
I get this off my chest every March when this happens.
But I'll tell you one other story.
One other story.
When the house was being built, we don't light the construction project at night.
There was no lights there.
And we showed up next day of the construction project and the contractor foreman came up and said, that's some dead sea turtles here.
Babies.
I said, what?
Yeah.
I went and looked at them.
And I said, well, how do they end up here?
Weren't any lights on here last night?
We don't like the construction project.
So started to spend, well, maybe we have foxes around here.
Maybe the fox brought them up.
But no, the fox would have eaten them if that was the case.
Something killed them.
So the next night, we did a little survey, and we found out that the moon came up at a certain time.
The moon was in the western sky.
And that, maybe that's what attracted him, but I don't even, well, no, no, no, talk about, It was overcast.
It was overcast.
And the lights from the power plant across the anthropo, you could see in the clouds.
And I said, that this cannot be.
This is.
And I've seen the, you know, these animal shows, they show you animals eating each other on these National Geographic shows.
And I've seen the little turtles, they bop out.
And there's the camera people.
They can't have lights.
It's nighttime.
And they have lights on the beach.
And here come the turtles.
They come out.
And the cameraman's standing behind the tea turtles, not down toward the water.
And the little baby hatchlings, they burrow up through the sand.
And man, they make a dash for the ocean.
They're small and tiny.
And there's a giant light illuminating the camera is showing us all this.
I said, wait a minute.
How come the light from the camera didn't attract the turtles to the cameraman?
Next thing they're going to tell us is that we got to turn the lights off year-round simply because Limbaugh was complaining.
You have fences up.
It's not just a fence.
There's sea grape.
There's a dune.
There's all kinds of, it's, it's an obstacle course out there.
Landmines, I got it all.
Well, I'm just teasing about the landmines.
Anyway, Jennifer, thanks for the call.
Susan in Atlanta.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Ditto Thrush.
This is a dream come true for me.
Well, thank you very much.
And I love turtle soup.
But the reason I'm calling, I went on the bus to D.C. last September.
I'm very concerned about the health care bill.
But I want you to tell me I'm wrong about something.
I think that small businesses and big businesses really secretly want this public option because it'll let them off the hook for health care benefits.
And I know the SEIU or whatever that union is called wants it to take care of their health.
That's the SEIU, also known as the USSR.
Okay.
Wants them taken off the hook for all the benefits they've promised.
My husband's company told him at one of the last meetings they had that as of March of this year, they will no longer be offering their very generous health care benefits for people who retire.
Yeah.
As of this year.
And I think the reason they're doing that is because they are hoping and praying that the government's going to take care of everybody.
Well, I think I don't know if what you're saying applies to all small and medium large businesses, but I do know a lot of them would be happy to offload the burden of health care benefits to their employees.
They would love to.
In fact, one of the things I was saying earlier in the program, Susan, is this.
In the Senate bill, which they are going to try to get passed in the House and therefore close the deal and Obama signs it, we have Obamacare.
There is a provision for employers to do one of two things.
They can continue for a time to provide their employees with health care benefits.
That average cost is 14%.
The second option that's in the Senate bill is that you can, as an employer, decide to dump all employee coverage in exchange for paying the government 8% off the top of your business.
This is done purposefully.
Everybody in business knows that 8% is a lot less than 14% and bye-bye hassles.
And so this is one of the things that there are many triggers like this that will be incentives for private sector businesses to offload their health care coverage plans to the government.
Now, they're not being called these exchanges, but regardless, it's all going to end up as public option.
This is where this is.
The single payer is where this is all headed, even if they can't get it in their first big bite.
So yeah, I don't know if it applies to all.
That'd be a stretch, but a significant number.
And I've talked to people own businesses who have the same worldview and ideology that I do.
And they're fed up with the rising costs of health care.
They don't want to be part of it.
It's such a distraction from running their business.
Like, I remember the guy that Obama fired as the chairman of General Motors, Rick Wagner.
Shortly after he took the job, he said, I had no idea.
I thought I was becoming a CEO of a car company.
All I am is the CEO of a health care plan for the UAW and my non-union employees.
That was his number one job.
And it's very easy for a lot of people to take the incentive to dump that, offload it to the government.
And of course, with Obama standing at the door saying, come on in, come on in, come on, we're glad to have you, it's made even easier.
A quick audio soundbite here.
Jan Crawford Greenberg.
Is she Greenberg anymore?
Oh, it just says Jan Crawford.
CBS, the legal correspondent.
This morning on the early show, this audio Sunday 17 with Harry Smith.
This is about the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial and the Obama administration cutting Holder off of the knees.
Hey, you know what?
We think we're going to do this in a military tribunal.
And Harry Smith says, was this inevitable?
Keep in mind, this was the single biggest break from the Bush administration on these war and terror policies.
The Attorney General Eric Holder in an appearance on Capitol Hill told senators failure was not an option.
These cases must be won.
This was the course they were going to pursue.
So now to see them retreat on this is a failure.
It is a failure to get through a major policy shift.
The left, the civil rights organizations, civil liberties organizations are going to be absolutely incandescent.
So my friend Andy McCarthy of National Review Online says, whoa, wrong take here.
Hold the champagne on military commissions.
It's a headfake.
And he cites a Washington Post article about all this.
President Obama is not caving on military commissions.
He has already caved on them.
He failed, thankfully, to abolish them.
Congress enacted legislation endorsing them again in 2009.
The administration's already directed a commission trial for the USS coal bombers.
The real agenda here is to close Guantanamo.
That's the ball to keep your eye on.
The Washington Post is trying to soften the opposition to shuttering Guantanamo by portraying beleaguered, reasonable Obama as making a great compromise that will exasperate the left.
The idea is to strengthen Senator Lindsey Graham's hand in seeking reciprocal compromise from our side.
This, however, is a matter of national security, not horse trading over a highway bill.
You don't agree to do a stupid thing that endangers the country just because your opposition has magnanimously come off its insistence that you do two stupid things that endanger the country.
If a deal to grant military commissions in exchange for closing Guantanamo happens, it is a major win for the Obama left and an enormous loss for public safety.
We were headed inexorably toward military commissions for the 9-11 plotters.
We don't need to cut a bad deal to get it.
Congress was not going to approve funding to transport trained terrorists to the U.S., nor to hold civilian trials.
It wasn't going to happen.
We've already got military commissions for some enemy combatants, and if we play this out, we're likely to get them for most, if not all, of the combatant war crimes trials.
And we're likely to get them at Gitmo, the best place to have them, and the place in which the public has expended hundreds of millions of dollars to construct a safe, humane, fastidiously Islamo-friendly prison with state-of-the-art trial facilities.
Hell, I just saw a video of two Islamo fascist terrorists playing soccer at Club Gitmo with a soccer ball.
So Andy's point is here: this is just to get Lindsey Gramnesty on board with the idea of closing Guantanamo and to give Gramnesty something that was going to happen anyway.
There was not going to be civil trials.
There's no money for it.
Congress was not going to authorize the money.
New York didn't want it.
Those trials were not going to happen.
Now, Obama gets, oh, guess what?
Okay, well, I'll give you the military commission, and I'll go along with your idea of closing Guantanamo.
And that's Andy McCarthy's point of view.
And I have yet to experience Andy being wrong on a national security issue involving Obama's motives.
Here's a good question.
What good does it do a business to offload health care costs if the entire damned economy goes to hell?
Any smart business owner does not want Obamacare.
All contrary, have you heard of Big Pharmaceutical?
You heard big pharmaceuticals signing on giving Obama $150 billion to support advertising that would support his health care plan.
Why did they do it?
It's a protection racket.
When a business sees where a government is taking the country, and if they don't think they can stop it, they want to be on the right side of it because they're dealing with the mafia.
A mafia with limited, unlimited resources.
Marie in North New Jersey, welcome to the EIB Network High.
Hi.
Chris, it's just a question, a quickie, and it's a change of pace.
I thought yesterday when you closed your program, you said you had something interesting about Governor Christie.
Yeah, he doesn't like sea turtle ordinances either.
Oh, you're kidding.
Is that what it was?
No, I'm just, I'm just no, he made a great speech.
I'm glad you actually reminded me of this by calling.
He made a great speech on February 24th at the State House in Trenton to the New Jersey League of Municipalities.
And I've got some sound, I've got some excerpts of it.
Marie, thanks for calling and reminding me.
Chris Christie, the new governor of New Jersey, let's just get started listening to what he told the New Jersey League of Municipalities.
You were talking about mayors here and town managers and so forth.
Our citizens are already the most overtaxed citizens in America.
The public appetite for ever-increasing taxes has reached an end.
So now when we freeze $475 million in school aid, I'm hearing the reverberations from school boards saying, well, now you're just going to force us to raise taxes.
I'm tired of hearing school superintendents and school board members complain that there are no other options other than raising property taxes.
There are other options.
There has to be parity between what's happening in the real world and what's happening in the public sector world.
The money doesn't grow on trees outside this building or outside your municipal building.
It comes from the hardworking people of our communities who are suffering and hurting right now.
In the next bite, February 24th, this year, Trenton, New Jersey, Governor Christie targets the political class.
The political class, which unfortunately for us, all of us are a member of.
The political class is lagging behind the public on this.
The public is ready to hear that tough choices have to be made.
They're not going to like it.
Let me not confuse the two.
But they are ready to hear the truth.
In fact, they find it refreshing to hear the truth.
And the problem that gets spewed sometimes about don't worry, I can save you from the pain, they've been hearing that for a decade.
As we've borrowed and spent and taxed our way into oblivion, we have done every quick fix in the book that you can do.
And now we are left literally holding the bag.
This is amazingly great.
Did Obama turn himself in?
He's sitting there being interviewed by John Walsh on America's Most Wanted?
Oh, please let it be.
So did he turn himself in?
One more bite.
No difference between Republicans and Democrats, eh?
Huh?
Do any Democrats say this?
You all know that these raises that are being given to public employees of all stripes, we can't afford.
You all know that state can't continue to spend money that it doesn't have.
And you all know that the appetite for tax increases among our constituents has come to an end.
And so the path to reform and success is clear.
We know what it is.
We just have to have the courage to go there.
What we're doing is showing people that government can work again for them, not for us.
Government has worked for the political class for much too long.
There's no time left.
We have no room left to borrow.
We have no room left to tax.
Radon, radon, radon.
That's Governor Christie, and that's why he won, a Republican in New Jersey.
By the way, you know what?
I got an idea, Snerdley.
Got an idea.
The Harry Reid approach to unemployment.
I'll simply light up my house one night.
I'll go down the beach.
I'll find 100 dead turtles, and I'll say, hey, it's great news.
Only 100 were killed last night because of my lights.
Okay, folks, who said this?
The lingering global financial crisis has exposed the dark side of the capitalist economy system in the West, adding that the U.S. will go down in history as the biggest thief ever.
Who said that?
Was it Barack Obama or was it Mahmoud Ahmadinezad?
Because normally they are on the same page.
It's you're right, Snurdy.
It's Mahmoud Ahmadinezad in a close one.
Very close one.
Have a wonderful weekend, ladies and gentlemen.
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