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March 9, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 9, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #3
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What did you have?
A hernia saying 30.
Sounded like he had a hernia up there when he said 30.
The engineer gives me a cue, Windows says it 30.
Because they think I can't read the clock.
And it sounded like you had a hernia when you said 30.
Okay, greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh here, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
A telephone number if you want to be on the program is 800-282-2882, the email address, L Rushball at EIBNet.com.
Great to have you uh here.
And we're I promise we're gonna get to your phone calls earlier than usual in this hour because what?
What's Nerdly?
What?
What does that mean?
What is it?
What?
I know I've gone f well, I've gone three hours to do a phone call.
We have people on hole for two.
That's why.
But it's just we gotta we gotta get them on.
They've been on a hole for two hours uh at least here.
So that we're gonna we're going to uh we're gonna get that done.
Dennis Kucinich last night on PMS NBC confirms his no vote on Obamacare.
I voted against the first version of the bill in the House.
I told the president twice in two different meetings that I couldn't support the bill if it didn't have a robust public option, and if they didn't have something that was going to protect consumers from these rapid premium increases, and you know what?
Uh the White House counts me as wavering.
To hear the president, you think that he was for single pay or at least a public option, but he's not.
This bill represents a giveaway to the insurance industry, 70 billion dollars a year, and no guarantees of any control over premiums, forcing people to buy private insurance, five consecutive years of double-digit premium increases.
I'm sorry, I just don't see that this bill is a solution.
And Lawrence O'Donnell is the host here, doesn't like what he's hearing here.
Uh he said, so do we just get a no there, uh Kucinich?
Uh, you're gonna vote against the Senate bill the first stage of this process in the House.
If that sounded like a no, you're correct.
Okay.
Will you be comfortable if it turns out you are in effect the single vote that defeats health care reform?
Every vote counts.
Yeah, I'm one of foreign and we don't need to hear anymore.
That's how they're approaching.
You really want to be a guy that kills Obama care.
I asked that of Scott Brown.
It's a badge of honor with these guys.
Now, we uh we we talked we talked yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, about the largest health insurance company, if you will, in the country is the United States government.
And the single most powerful insurance company executive is Barack Obama.
He runs the S Chip program, he runs Medicare, he runs Medicaid and the VA.
And we went through the progression yesterday.
Nobody gets everything they want in those programs.
Just because the governments get behind it, you don't get everything they want, and they come constantly complain.
And they deny coverage.
The number one insurance company that denies claims in this country is Medicare.
Medicare denies far more claims than any private insurance company does.
And yet here's Obama with all these great reforms that are just gonna compound the problems that we already have in government-run insurance.
And we've got now this I want I I want to ask you if you would put up with this in the private sector.
Essentially, if Obama's bill passes, we get the pay-go.
We pay now.
The taxes and all the other fees and everything will happen immediately upon signage of the bill.
But the so-called benefits don't kick in for four years.
And this is so that they could get a ten-year score from the CBO of something under a trillion dollars.
Now, let me ask you a question.
Can you imagine what Obama would say?
If, say Blue Cross Blue Shield was out there selling policies that you had to pay for every month for four years, but you didn't get any insurance for four years.
You had to pay into it, but you couldn't file a claim for anything, no matter what happened for four years.
Because that's what they're proposing.
This is Obama's pay-go.
It's a stunt.
And it's a nightmare.
And you have to, if if you hate your insurance company, you've got to understand that the biggest and the worst is the United States government, Medicare Medicaid S chip VA.
And Barack Obama runs it.
I mentioned before the uh before the row of interview, what's this from?
The New York Daily News, uh already challenged on the right by J.D. Hayworth.
John McCain's about the Oh, have you heard speaking well hang on a minute.
I gotta find a soundbite here.
It's getting not pathetic.
It's get grab number 27.
You know, JD J.D. Hayworth running against uh McCain out there in Arizona and Charlie Christ, the current Florida governor, is uh uh tight, tight fight here that he's losing in the primary to Marie Marco Rubio.
So last night, Governor Christ was on with Greta Van Sustran.
She said, sort of a punchback which occurred previously is that you've said about your opponent, Mr. Rubio, that he's the greatest fraud perpetrated.
So it sounds like you've had a couple of punches back as well.
What do you say to that?
He had a Republican Party of Florida credit card that he charged a hundred and thirty dollar haircut, or maybe it was a backwax.
We're not really sure what all he got at that place.
Well, he said, stop wait, a backwax?
Wait a second.
I don't know what it was.
You know.
I know, but I mean, was there a suggestion that it was for a backwax?
Are you being flipped?
I don't know what it was.
Uh initially we were told it was a haircut.
I don't know if you spend 130 dollars for maybe a haircut and maybe other things.
Uh I don't know, what you do at a salon when you're a guy.
I get my hair cut for 11 bucks from a guy named Carl the Barber in St. Petersburg, Florida, where I grew up.
And, you know, to me, that's real fiscal conservatism.
We got the John Edwards uh technique being applied here.
Uh real fiscal conservatism is 11 bucks for a haircut.
So Marco Rubio, he's not qualified, folks, because he might get back waxes.
He's not qualified.
You need to know this.
So anyway, back now to McCain.
Already challenged on the right by J.D. Hayworth, John McCain's about to get hit from the left today on health care with a barrage of robo calls.
The uh Democrat-linked Americans United for Change firing off about 250,000 calls starting today in Arizona, basically calling McCain a rich guy hypocrite.
Uh Arizona Senator John McCain happy to let the government pay for his health care, but last December, John McCain voted against requiring ordinary Americans be eligible to buy the same health insurance as members of Congress.
Senator McCain may have seven houses and fly around a private jet, but when it comes to his health care, he should be no better than the rest of us.
Um I f I see my friends, we were talking about this with Carl Rove just a moment ago.
Bipartisanship.
I I thought the Democrats love McCain.
I I thought these people making these robocalls love McCain.
He would cross the aisle and work with them and so forth.
I I what what how can this happen?
How can this happen?
These guys are all politicians.
That's the you and I are not politicians, and they are.
And it's just we try to understand them, you know, through our lens.
But we're not politicians.
I'm sure you heard Carl say how impressed he was with Ted Kennedy.
Now, how can that be?
You and I look at Ted Kennedy as a buffoon.
A dangerous buffoon who's out destroying very important, valuable people on our side, personally, character-wise, career-wise, out destroying them.
But people get to Washington to see Ted Kennedy's an icon.
How can that be?
Well, because he's in the game.
He's in the game and he's um it's it's kind of like not the best analogy here, but kind of like if you play professional baseball.
Uh back during the Nolan Ryan era.
Nolan Ryan never spoke to an opposing player in his career.
Very seldom he spoke.
He those guys were the absolute interbit.
They all respected him.
Does he was a good now?
And he was trying to beat him.
He wasn't trying to destroy the character or any of that kind of stuff, but he was trying to beat him, but they still had this.
So it's that these guys are all in the game together.
You and I look at Ted Kennedy as an absolute buffoon.
We look at we look at Obama as an absolute disaster.
And other people well, no, he's elected president.
He's in the game.
He's politician.
Well, we we deal with him the way we deal with politicians.
We deal with ourselves and everybody else's as uh as politicians.
So it's it's it's not it's not that the two parties are the same and so forth, is that it is a business.
Politics, like everything else, is a business.
And it's a game.
And the people that are on stage in the game, and if they're prominent in the game, regardless what party they do.
There's I guess a lot of respect bestowed upon them.
Whereas you and I are not in the game, you know, we're the peasants with the pitchforks.
And we we s we see these people play in the game.
You know, we're we're we're the country's the monopoly board, and we're to pieces.
And they're rolling the dice and move using all around here.
So some of us end up in jail, some of us uh you know by worthless railroads.
Uh some of us end up Park Place, some of us end up St. James Place, and others of us end up uh Ventler Avenue.
Uh and then we move around and so forth, but they're still the guys with the dice.
And we very seldom pass go, and if we do, we go to jail, tax jail or whatever jail it is.
I mean it's so it's um it's it's a eye-opening thing in a way to um to try to understand this because when you hear people say, oh, you know, Ted Kennedy, amazing amount of respect.
Uh I don't respect Ted Kennedy for anything.
Uh anyway, I get folks, we have to take a break here, and as I promise we're gonna come back, we'll get into your phone calls and stuff, so sit tight.
And we do have a pretty interesting audio sound bite roster left as well.
Hey, we have actual on the ground proof, ladies and gentlemen, that uh that the climate policy is a job loser.
California is likely to see modest job losses in the near term from its aggressive climate change policy due to higher energy costs and other factors, according to California's independent legislative analysts' office.
The uh budget watchdog was responding to a request by Republican State Senator Dave Cogdall to study the effects of California's 2006 climate change law, which mandates changes to cut greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.
California's environmental vanguard approach being hotly debated in the state ahead of a November race, gubernatorial, and in the midst of an economic downturn that has pushed unemployment to recent records.
Many other states, the federal government are watching closely, the aggregate net jobs impact will be negative.
Going green, Obama's signature energy policy, loses jobs, raises prices, and will cause even more unemployment, ladies and gentlemen.
Well, you ought to do it, though, to uh to save the plan.
Nancy Pelosi delivered a speech this morning at the 2010 legislative conference for the National Association of Counties.
Among other things, Nancy Pelosi said, we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of controversy.
May I repeat that?
Nancy Pelosi in his speech this morning at the 2010 legislative conference for the National Association of Counties said, quote, we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it away from the fog of controversy.
Yep, we gotta pass it so that they will then know what's in it.
You've heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other, but I don't know if you've heard that it's legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something you have to pay a deductible for, or out of pocket.
Prevention, prevention, prevention.
It's about diet, not diabetes.
Nancy Pelosi.
I'm just telling you what she said.
We ought to pass the bill, so that's how we find out what's in it.
Away from the fog of controversy.
All right, to the phones.
We're gonna go to Florence, Kentucky.
Debbie, thank you.
We're waiting.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
You're worth the wait.
Thank you very much.
Yes.
I just wanted to make a comment and ask your opinion on Steve Acts flip-flop on the health care bill.
And happened yet, but don't be surprised.
Well, do you think that Ron Emmanuel might have paid him a naked visit this week?
No, I think what's actually going on is uh stimulus money's being passed out.
Yeah.
And uh and threats are being made.
Exactly.
Exactly.
This administration is an embarrassment.
It is.
Nobody, you know, it's it's it's they what is patently obvious now, ladies and gentlemen, is they don't have the votes.
They do not have the votes, and a lot of people, the Heritage Foundation today, uh in their morning call is saying there there still isn't a piece of legislation.
Stupak is saying that there is not a bill.
Uh Now there is a bill.
There is a bill.
It's the Senate bill.
Now nothing can be added to it right now, but they are adding things nevertheless.
It's a fascinating thing.
All kinds of people are analyzing what they think of the vote counts.
But nobody knows for sure, and the StuPac 12 is a big number.
Right now, the best count is by some guy named Jay Cost or Coast.
I'm not sure how he pronounces his name.
Is it real clear politics?
And he's got him right at one vote shy.
I think it's no, no, let me retract that.
Let me retract that.
I'm not sure if he's going to one vote shy or one vote shy with Stupec.
But but the point is uh they don't have the votes yet.
It's patently obvious, and a lot of people think that they're not going to get the votes because they don't even have a bill.
And the members of the House are still being told that the things they want are going to be in there.
They're being double crossed.
And they're, I mean, they're really being double crossed.
And it's it should be obvious to them that the president doesn't care what happens to them.
He really doesn't.
I don't think Obama cares if he loses the presidency in 2012.
I think he's already alluded to the fact he'd rather be a great one-termer than a mediocre two-termer.
Well, a great one-termer in his lingo means he's so despised that he gets beaten.
And he's so despised he gets beaten because everybody hates what he did.
But that in his view is a great first term.
And that's what we face.
Tim, Buffalo, New York, you're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hello, Thrash.
Hi.
Your instincts on Eric Massa are absolutely correct.
He's a real kook.
He's pretty clueless, too.
He's been pushing for a pork barrel highway project through his district.
And uh he said that he would he would get funding for it if it killed him.
Then at a recent uh public meeting, he said that he would die before he signed any legislation that promoted free trade, which is really funny because the pork barrel project that he's been supporting is a NAFTA super highway.
Well, um it's patently obvious.
Whether he's telling the truth about what happened on the uh shower stall with no curtain in the house gym with Ram Emanuel, the fact that he would tell the story, use the terminology is this is a spawn of Satan, so this guy clearly, you know, a knife and uh fork short of a full play setting, an order of fries short of a happy meal, the elevator doesn't go to the talk uh to the top, uh not a whole lot of dogs under the front porch.
Whatever you want to say, this guy's not all together, he's not all there.
It's patently obvious.
No, he's not.
He's uh about in the same boat with Senator Schumer.
Well, Schumer's at least sophisticated uh about the way he goes about things.
He may be just as outrageous.
That that he is uh on the same project uh Schumer jumped all over federal regulatory agencies for doing their jobs, and then uh when that that allowed the state to blunder ahead with the project and cause a massive landslide, he demanded an investigation to find out why the state screwed up.
Well, look at I the the stories that we're gonna hear about Democrats uh and and and their hypocrisy and all that are our legion.
All we have to know is that they're bad.
They don't deserve victory.
We need to defeat them.
I don't mean in their districts, though that would be nice.
I'm talking about defeating them in Washington, in the Senate and in the House.
I was mentioning the Heritage Foundation uh a moment ago, and you know, we're we're talking about the word failure all over the Obama administration, but there is an area, U.S. foreign policy that Obama is really, really botching, and he doesn't care or doesn't appear to be, and that is Iran.
Now, failure is a one-word description that comes to mind when you look at uh Obama's effort to curb Iran's hostile actions, nuclear uh uh buildup and what have you.
Anybody kept track of the number of countries joining our efforts in generating a fourth round of UN sanctions?
Have you been keeping track?
Have you been creeping keeping track just how successful the first three rounds of sanctions have worked?
I mean they haven't.
Every time there's news of Iran's nuclear weapon developments or more evidence of state sponsored terrorism from Iran, we get an idle threat that we are thinking about taking tough measures.
What really happens?
It may be time for some new thinking on this.
And the Heritage Foundation is uh they're new thinkers.
Unique, original.
Six hundred thousand members now at Heritage, thanks largely to this program.
Concerns for our national security don't just pass by our friends at Heritage Foundation.
They give it thought, they put forth good ideas.
They've got all kinds of departments, divisions, chairs, endowments.
They got people chronicling health care, informing people about the latest uh approach Obama's taking, but they also watch foreign policy as well.
And it's a whole different bunch of people that do that.
If you look online today at AskHeritage.org at the ten action steps that Heritage readily encourage or encourages, and ask yourself if this doesn't make more sense than what Hillary Clinton's asking our neighbors in Latin America to consider this week.
Uh this this administration is a disaster from front to back, top to bottom, side to side.
We are a great nation at risk in a dangerous world, and we are being led by a young man child who is the most unqualified, inexperienced guy in whatever room he walks into, be it the situation room or the oval office or the cabinet room.
Did you see, by the way, that they put out a picture of Jay-Z, the well-known rapper sitting in the president's chair in a situation room.
Now that nobody gets in the situation room, less, least of all rappers.
Sitting there pretending to be running some foreign policy operation.
But they put the picture out there.
Back we are, Rush Limbaugh here on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Ladies and gentlemen, I have uh I've always said to all of you that the sports media in America is as liberal leftist clothes-minded as is the news media.
So I am going to be interesting to see their reaction to this story.
It's from ESPN Outdoors.com.
The Obama administration will accept no more public input for a federal strategy that could prohibit U.S. citizens from fishing in the nation's oceans, coastal areas, great lakes, and even inland waters.
This announcement comes at the time when the situation supposedly still is fluid, and the interagency ocean policy task force still hasn't issued its final report on zoning issues of these waters.
Robert Montgomery is the author here, and he says that's a disappointment, but not really a surprise for fishing industry insiders who have negotiated for months with officials at the Council on Environmental Quality and Bureaucrats on the Task Force.
These angling advocates have come to suspect that public input into the process was a charade from the beginning.
So fishing is on the verge of becoming a privilege controlled by Barack Obama.
Fishing.
Now I, you know, I have one experience as a fisherman.
I was I went up there.
Where was it?
It's Vancouver, British Columbia.
Went up there with Paul Westfall, who's in the coach of the Sacramento Kings, Howard Slusher, who was then may still be at Nike, and the Hutch.
Ken Hutchison, the Reverend Dr. Ken Hutcherson, where I for I met the Hutch.
And Slusher had had won this trip bidding at an auction for some fundraiser somewhere.
And I, well, it's not the first time.
I had been, I'd been fishing when I was a kid over in Illinois, and we caught something like twenty thousand bluegill or carp or something, whatever.
Blue, I mean, it stunk up my hands for I can't tell how many weeks I wanted no part of it.
Just not a big I I love the water, but not being out on it.
So, anyway, go up there.
We have these tour guides, uh, they take us out on these little boats.
And a couple of us, well, I I Caught a salmon, but a damn sea lion waited until I'd almost roped it all in and then came and just gobbled it up off the hook.
In fact, there's a story.
I had the story yesterday.
It's amazing they're treating somewhere up in Oregon sea lions as criminals.
Because they do this.
They're predat their predators of salmon, and the salmon are protected.
This is one for PETA.
Because who do you side with here?
The salmon are wiping out or getting wiped out by the by the by the sea lions.
And the story is hilarious.
It treats the sea lions as a bunch of Al Capones.
But they don't go far as Mirandize it, but they're talking about punishing them and and uh and and cordoning them off and doing it's hilarious.
Anyways, I've I'm not a big angler as it is, but there are I know a lot of people who who are.
I know a lot of people, former professional athletes who who go into shock after hearing they can't go fishing anymore because of Obama.
I wonder what the sports media is going to say about this.
Uh Jim Hoff to the gateway pundit.
Obama's latest assault on freedom, new regulations will ban sport fishing.
He wants to ban sport fishing.
And there's six hundred, I think it's Barack Obama has a message for America's 60 million anglers.
We don't need you.
So I wonder, I wonder what all these Nambi pamby little sports writers are going to think about this.
Because they're going to be conflicted.
They're going to be conflicted because animals are animals and they shouldn't be savaged by us.
Uh and Obama is a great young man child president and so forth.
And if I had to make a prediction, I'd say the sports writer community will come out against fishing.
And this is long overdue.
It's inhumane.
Uh it's uh Obama's right.
I hope I'm wrong, but I seldom am.
Mary in Tampa.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Thank you, Obama uh uh Rush.
It's a pleasure speaking with you.
Thanks very much.
Obama Obama's health care is I mean, they make claim they make issues about comparing it to auto claims.
Well, I'm an adductor and I deal with non-standard meaning people that can't get insurance.
What they do is they come down, let's take an example, New Yorkers.
They come down here, they buy the the basic minimum required for the state.
Well, they live in New York.
So what happens if they get an accident there?
We as the insurance company have to lim up our limits because we're required by the state.
So if they get rid of this state to state and let us just buy insurance would be the same as uh health insurance.
Get rid of the port garbage.
Oh, yeah, I know exactly what you're talking about.
I mean, it's like we pay the minimum down here in New York, the pro the freedom for hire, of course they're gonna come down here and pay for that, and then they live there and have accidents, and then they, you know, of course they are.
Wait, wait just a second here.
I'm I'm I'm confused by one thing you said.
You're talking about people who buy insurance, but you deal with people who can't.
Oh, no, no, we bought we we deal with people who have like tons and tons of uh traffic incidents and things for that nature.
So we caught charge them more money.
Which means non-standard.
Ah, yes, okay.
Well, that's generally how it works.
And um, you know, if you if you uh if if you want more health coverage, it generally is gonna cost you a little bit more money.
Uh what I'm what I'm saying is though most insurance companies have these issues where people, let's say from New York come down here, buy their sh insurance, live in New York, but they have, and then they have accidents in New York.
We being down here, we're not required to carry BI, but New York is bottling injury coverage.
So we as the insurance, they're not paying the premium for that coverage, but because New York mandates it, we have to give it to them, which is 25,000.
So, I mean, there's there's premium.
Wait a second.
I'm still kind of confused here, and it's not because it's it's because of my my hearing limitation, like cochlear implant.
Are you basically, Mary, are you basically saying that New Yorkers are a bunch of cheapskate typewads that are trying to game the system?
They come down here by cheap auto insurance from you, go to New York where they have none, and then your company has to pay when they screw up and have a wreck.
You betcha.
Okay, I heard her Correctly then I I thought so, but I just wanted to double check.
Yeah, you're so what you're telling me is that the consumer is not some little angel running around getting screwed and shafted by the insurance company.
There are a lot of consumers out there trying to screw and shaft the insurance company.
Is that what you're saying?
And exactly, and then pay the higher premiums because we're dealing with now wait a minute.
That can't be true because President Obama says that every one of us is clean and pure as the wind-driven snow.
We are innocent, and it's only people like you who are predatorying against us.
That you are screwing us and shafting us and raising our premiums, and by God, he's gonna stop it, he's gonna raise them higher.
Well, let him pay for it then.
You know, I'm a woman, I'm a minority, and you know, so be it.
If I'm a racist, I'm against the guy.
I'm a racist.
But you know what?
I'm do I have to pay for my premium.
Let him go out and pay for it.
Well, that that explains it all to me.
The fact that you can pay for your premium means that you're not in touch.
You don't know what life is really like as an American.
Well, you know what?
I'm sick and tired of hearing these people whining and complaining about you know not having it.
Well, you're not entitled to it.
Nowhere in the Constitution are the bill rights that you're entitled to have any freaking coverage.
Go out and get it.
Work for it.
Yeah, you know, you you uh I'm sorry.
I don't live I'm not gonna be able to do it.
No, no, no, you're no no no, she snurdly she's not mean spirited, she's dealing with New Yorkers.
How the hell can she be mean spirited?
She's I mean Yeah.
See?
New York, California, Ohio.
We're gonna have all these spring breakers down here, and you know they can't seem to freaking drive.
Uh I gotta pay for their premium.
What do you mean spring breakers can't drive?
What why why why can't they freaking drive?
Because they're drunk?
Oh.
You know, it's teenagers, gone.
Well, that just means but you have to if if you were selling health insurance, you'd still have to insure them for being drunk and and and uh and and somehow make it your fault.
I know, but you know what, though, I say, you know, get rid of the lawyers, get rid of the court reform, and watch how people can actually go out and afford to pay for their own coverage.
And it's really, and I get sick of hearing them saying insurance, it's coverage, it's not insurance, it's coverage.
Coverage for something that you could happen.
It's nothing against something happening.
You know, I mean, it's kind of like I get really, I'm just aggravated with the whole thing.
Yeah, I can tell you're aggravated.
Yeah, because I've got to work, you know, eight hours a day, and I gotta go out and pay for my things.
I've got two kids, I got I go to school at night.
I mean, I'm working my butt off, but I gotta turn around and give it to somebody else who I know are out there uh staging fraudulent claims and and accidents and things like that.
I mean, you look, I hate to tell you.
If you think the New Yorkers are bad, just wait till the New Jersey people get here.
We'll be back after this.
You know, I am in such hot water now.
People in New Zealand are sending me emails saying, how come you're not coming here?
You've been telling everybody you're moving to New Zealand and now you say you're going to Costa Rica.
I did not say I'm going to Costa Rica.
Stupid people in the media who cannot trouble themselves to read my transcripts or listen to this program, listen to out-of-context stuff.
I was asked yesterday, where will I go for health care if Obama's health care passes?
And I said, if I'm if doctors here are not permitted to form private practice uh uh little clinics with individuals paying a fee, a retainer, and for services, then I'll go to Costa Rica to get major medical health care.
Didn't say I would move there.
They're all over these websites.
Limbo says you move to Costa Rica.
Why, what more incentive do we have to pass health care to get limbaugh to move to Costa Rica?
Now, New Zealand's reading about this, and they're all been out of shape that I've I'm somehow not coming there.
All because of stupid media.
Well, uh Costa Rica doesn't no, there's not they're not competing for me because Costa Rica doesn't think I'm gonna move there, which I wouldn't.
Gosh.
Anyway, get this more candy from Washington, ladies and gentlemen.
The federal government, U.S. regulators may dedicate spectrum, this is broadcast spectrum to free wireless internet service for some Americans to increase affordable broadband service nationwide, according to FCC.
FCC provided few details about how it would carry out such a plan and who would qualify.
They're gonna give away internet service next.
But not to everybody.
Just certain people.
Nobody's gonna pay for it sternly.
We're well, your children are grandchildren.
We don't have the money for this.
We uh we don't.
Let's let's go to MSNBC last night, hardball with Chris Matthews spoke with Salon.com's news editor Steve Kronacke about the Republican Party.
And Matthew said, look, Republicans are doing very well in polls.
As the no party.
People unhappy with the economy unhappy with the direction of country right now.
Republicans are benefiting in terms of poll numbers, but when you when you get the reality of the Republican Party, you get sticky business.
Sarah Palin, extreme polarizer, people think she's nowhere near the weight you have to be to even be thought of as presidential material.
And then you have other people in the party who who think she's just dandy.
It seems like there's a difference between how popular they've become because of the unpopularity of the Democrats, and yet they're not ready for prime time.
Steve, what do you think about uh if I were Steve Karnacke, I'd say, what did you just say?
What do you want me to answer?
But Cornacki thought he got it, and here's his answer.
I think of falling into a trap.
That's the thing you have to look at with the Republican Party.
The party of Sarah Pale and the party of Rush Limbaugh can win in 2010.
But that same party can't turn around, I believe, and win in 2012.
And the trap for the Republicans is if they have a very good November, if they pick up 25, 30 house seats or more, if they pick up five or more Senate seats, they're going to take it as vindication for their strategy for 2009-2010, and that's going to set him up for real trouble in 2012.
Now, this guy's a supposedly some brainiac at Salon.com.
Um, I don't know how the Republicans could take victory in 2012 as a vindication of their strategy when there isn't one.
What's happening here is, Mr. Cornacki, is that independents and Democrats are running as far away and as fast as they can from Obama.
And Obama's still going to be there in 2012.
Ha ha.
He's still going to be there.
What this guy's trying to say, don't do you Republicans don't think conservatism is going to win for you, because that's not what's going to win for you.
Yeah.
Falling into the tap of winning big by going right and then Jesse Ventura.
Now, do you remember when he was governor?
Jesse Ventura had come on this show, we were buds.
Well, I mean, we're not close friends, but we were buds.
And I ran into Jesse Ventura at a golf tournament.
He was he was nice as he could be.
Now Jesse Ventura's on Larry King Live last night got some sort of television show, and Larry King said while popping the suspenders, what what do you think?
Winning an American Tea Party.
Huh?
This is just more of a right wing movement to try to uh make it look like we're turning socialist or something.
The state of Hawaii has had state-run health care for over 40 years, and it works fantastic there.
In fact, Rush Limbaugh even got treated there and said how great it was before he found out that it was state-run health care.
It was a private hospital.
I have explained how many times have I had to explain this.
The Libs are all out there trying to say that I went to socialist health care system and came back praising it.
I paid for every penny of it.
Nobody else in Hawaii paid for it.
It was a private hospital with private doctors and everything else.
Oh well.
Just more of the same.
Who's next, Nerdly?
Jim in Williamsville, New York.
Great to have you on the program.
Josh, Partagas, Lusitania, cigar smoke and dittos to you from a 15 year veteran listener, a first time caller.
Where these uh goes to the duddos for everything you do.
Thank you.
Where are these Partagus uh cigars from?
I get them from Toronto.
Ah, good, good.
What a candidate.
Yeah, congratulations.
Yeah.
Listen, an interesting sidebar to that Eric uh Mass and Mess for Democrats.
Uh, you know, our besieged governor, David Patterson, will be charged with naming a replacement for Massa.
And I'm wondering uh if there's any chance, do you think that Patterson revenge on Obama, Emmanuel, uh Como the whole Democrat gulag by appointing a Republican, or at the very least a dino of Democrat in name only?
Are you are you sure that uh that Patterson appoints or is there a special election?
Uh I am reasonably sure that Patterson will be uh appointing the uh replacement, assuming that he uh, you know, doesn't resign in the next uh sixty or ninety days.
Well, let's assume you're right.
So David Patterson will become the MASA who gets to appoint whoever gets to take Massa's place.
So for the first time in his life, Patterson's gonna be a massa.
Interesting.
Interesting.
Would he would he choose a Republican?
Or a Dino, a Democrat in name only.
You know, it would be great if he chose Harold Ford.
Or put himself in the seat.
Interesting.
Thanks for the call out there, Jim.
We'll be back.
Washington Post, breaking news.
Eric Massa investigated for groping male staffers, multiple male staffers.
So he won't be interested in this story.
This is some Reuters.
Wine may be good for women's waistlines.
Light to moderate alcohol consumption.
Especially red wine is not only good for a woman's heart, it's also good for her waistline, according to a study reported uh Monday.
I think Maureen Dodd might be happy, but she drinks white wine.
Um, and this says red.
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