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March 11, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 11, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Hey, is everybody having fun now?
Everybody.
House Democrats meeting behind closed doors.
Even as we speak, they've been meeting behind closed doors since I got here this morning.
And they are trying to come up with a new rule, the slaughter rule, appropriately named.
After what they're trying to do to the country, this is Louise Slaughter.
She's head of the House Rules Committee.
And basically, what they want to do is just deem the Senate bill to have been passed.
Without voting on it, just deem it to have passed in the House, and then write their own corrections bill, reconciliation bill, send that back to the Senate, and put the onus on them to pass what the House wants.
That's what the big meeting behind closed doors is about.
That and I'm sure some other things.
Great to have you here, folks.
Rush Limbaugh, the EIV network.
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How was the pizza in there?
These guys ordered pizza for lunch in the absolute worst place that you could ever order pizza.
I'm not going to mention it, but it's the absolute worst place.
Of all the places you can order it, you liked it?
Okay, then pizza standards and qualities of standards have sunk.
Here in the Oh, it's Brian's favorite?
It's got to be price related, then it can't be, it it can't be uh can't be the taste, can't be the quality.
All right, uh get this.
Try this headline.
This is from the UK Guardian.
The ChICOMs, the ChICOM government wants to crack down on press freedom and introduce a new training system that requires journalists in China to train in Marxist and Communist theories of news.
That's easy.
Send them to the University of Missouri Journalism School.
Send them to Columbia School of Journalism in New York.
Send them to any university in America that has a J School.
You want to teach Marxist and Communist news theory?
We got it down pat here.
Now the the deputy general director of the general administration of press and publication is a guy named Lee Dongdong.
And I'll if Eric Mass ever meets this guy, it's going to be fun to watch.
There's a tickle fight for you.
Eric Massa with Lee Dong Dong, who heads a news uh division over to ChICOMs, turning communists and Marxism.
He told the South China Morning Post that some mainland reporters, Chicom Mainland reporters, were giving Chicom journalism a bad name because they were not properly trained.
Which, you know what that means.
They forgot the template.
They're busting out of the mold.
Under communist theories of journalism, media should support the leadership rather than operate as a watchdog.
Well, as I say, uh we have it down pat here.
The U.S. media, the well, what would the state-controlled media, the drive-by media, the mainstream media, the legacy media, the old guys?
I mean, sure that there's nothing that the ChICOMs could teach them.
There's nothing that Pravda could teach them.
So I the the uh journalists here in the United States have already taken this training.
Um this would um oh, really?
I'm told that the guys at Camox and St. Louis are uh are affiliate uh say this is the kind of story that I would love.
Well, yeah, well, Camo X announcer Mark Reardon.
So if you really want to spread the paranoia, you can intro this story, the all-knowing all the time.
Mark at Camo X wins your bet.
It is the first thing I talked about, and I did not know.
I just got this note that Mark Reardon predicted.
I wonder what Tom Friedman, by the way, the New York Times thinks of the enlightened SHICOM leadership now.
I I uh how do you um how do you how do you go against this if you're an American journalist?
How do you go against it?
Uh great news, folks, and I you know I gotta I gotta pat myself on the back here for this one.
Gallup annual update on Americans' attitudes toward the environment shows a public, and over the last two years have become less worried about the threat of global warming, less convinced that its effects are already happening and more likely to believe it.
Scientists themselves are uncertain about the occurrence.
I mean, folks, I have led the charge on this for well over 20 years.
Uh the nation is thanking me.
The numbers are pretty big here.
More and more people now figuring out this whole thing is uh been if it's not a hoax yet, over-exaggerated uh to the point that they don't believe it anymore.
Climate gate, all the stuff at East Anglia, all the fraud uncovered at the UN has gone virtually unreported in this country because of Marxist journalism theory.
So I say, who is responsible for this dramatic turnaround in what Americans think about global warming?
I love the headline that goes with the story.
Americans' global warming concerns continue to drop.
So the American people, um getting the facts on Al Gore's fraud, his scam and the uh in the big lie.
Well, we'll have to see.
Snurley wants to know how this news, the Gallup poll will affect the Sullivan group's suspended February audit uh or uh audit of my opinions.
It's on hold because they have yet to assess whether or not I was right or wrong in suggesting the House Republicans refuse to attend Obama's summit.
Now, it it's amazing.
Yesterday, I played a song.
I played Waldo de los Rios, Mozart Symphony 40 in G minor.
And it's amazing the reaction I've gotten to this.
I mentioned that I put it through the flamethrower, our broadcast equipment uh to compress it.
I played the compressed version.
And I said, it sounds great, but you can't get one of these.
And well, you could, but you wouldn't know how to hook it up.
It's it's uh it's not something you go into Best Buy or Stereo One and pick up.
It's broadcast equipment.
So I got a note here.
I I got the following email.
Dear Rush, I'm another old broadcast engineer who loves radio.
I believe I was in the class following yours at Elkins, this Elkins Institute of Radio and Electronics in Dallas.
I was there in 67.
I wish I'd been able to meet you then.
I think it would have been Buds.
Anyway, as someone who's been in radio as long as you, I know Apex never made a flamethrower.
So which unit do you have?
He's right.
We have the what is it, Brian?
The Apex uh I Yeah, the F Apex 2020 FK2.
MK2.
MK2.
The flamethrower is the setting.
There are a number of presets that you can determine how much compression you want.
Flamethrower is the setting.
This guy, Mike Van Hooser, is uh is exactly right.
Uh he wants to know if we have the oral exciter or the dominator, neither one.
Uh but he said, for somebody who can't really hear, you had it tuned perfectly for A.M. and it sounded great.
Then, I mean, what are the odds I'm gonna get an email from somebody who understands the uh flamethrower setting on the Apex and went to Elkins Institute of Radio and Electronics, but this guy probably had a Remco Caravel when he was growing up, too.
Then Coco Jr. at the web no, it was Coco Sr. at the website last like 1215 this morning, sends me a note.
Movers and shakers at Amazon.
And there are three Waldo de los Rios CDs.
One of them was ranked number 130,905 yesterday.
At the end of the day yesterday, it was number 51.
That was an increase of 256,000 percent.
A number two, uh, Waldo de los Rios CD was ranked uh at uh just see number 59, 150 well, no, 134,355 place.
Moved up to number uh number 59.
Uh for a one-man stimulus package here for Waldo de los Rios CDs, all three of them showing, I mean, increases in standings at the hit list at Amazon, movers and shakers list, 256,000 percent increase, 227,000 percent increase, and on the third one, 18,000 percent increase.
A one-man stimulus for for a guy that probably most people have never heard of.
Big big did you see Patrick Kennedy's meltdown on the floor of the House of Representatives yesterday.
It was fabulous.
This just proves, and somebody, I forget who wrote this today.
Somebody didn't print it, but it just proves that great, great families, by the time you get to the third generation, uh, all of the grandeur and all the greatness is gone, and all you end up was just shirt sleeve type embarrassment.
That's pretty I mean, it's not just the Kennedys.
I mean, look at Vanderbilt's, um, you look at I mean, look, Cornelius Vanderbilt built the railroads, and uh one of his uh offspringer uh uh uh great grandson's uh Anderson Cooper uh has 25,000 viewers tonight on CNN.
I mean, is it these these progressions inexorably uh take place?
So we have that for you and some follow-ups, some similar uh meltdowns by other candidates that have we have chronicled over the years.
We also have, let's see, uh the uh updates of what's happening here with a health care bill and how the House Democrats I mean, really, they're just and they can probably do it.
I mean, they can make their own rules so they can just say, yeah, we're gonna deem the Senate bill passed in the House.
Nobody's gonna vote for it.
We're just gonna deem it passed and we're gonna add our change, they're gonna send it back to over there at the Senate, make them deal with it.
They want to take out the Corn Husker kickback.
They want to take out uh the uh the Louisiana Purchase and uh and all that.
So let's see.
Uh oh, did I not predict this?
This is from the San Francisco Chronicle.
With unemployment still stubbornly high, despite last year's fiscal stimulus, a top House Democrat and Bay Area lawmaker yesterday proposed sending cities 100 billion dollars over the next two years to forestall predicted layoffs and hundreds of thousands of hundreds of thousands of city workers, teachers, and other public employees.
By city workers, we mean union foot soldiers.
The bill by Representative George Miller of Martinez is part of a welter of legislation, including a major extension of unemployment benefits through election day.
About eight million jobs have been lost since the recession.
Now keep in mind here, this we predicted this was going to happen.
The stimulus money went to the states to help them shore up their deficits and keep uh union workers, state employees on the payroll.
And now it's run out.
And they're gonna have to start laying people off, and we've even had those uh stores.
So now a hundred billion dollars that we don't have sent out to all these cities and states, which are going to be run by Democrats, I doubt the others will get the money, to keep these union foot soldiers uh employed.
Now, one thing, you know, I get into a little hot water when I start talking about this subject because you know I'm big on people working, but I have to tell you, uh, the more public employment we get, and the more money that goes to those jobs, the less of it in the private sector.
Jobs in the private sector produce things.
Jobs in the government sector are a drain on the private sector by definition.
You have to take money out of the private sector in the form of taxes, printing it or borrowing it, in order to pay this ever-expanding group of government employees, which does not produce anything.
They are a pure drain.
And they now, in terms of union workers, outnumber private sector union workers, and the average income of a private sector employee is now about $7,000 a year less than a government employee.
For the first time, government employees on average make $7,000, it's $67,000 versus $60,000 a year.
Average.
Quick timeout.
Much more.
We barely scratched the surface here.
Sit tight.
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I just received an urgent message.
The Obama people are out in force today, seminar calling talk shows.
I just got a heads up.
I just warned Mr. Snerdley.
Well, I didn't warn him.
I alerted him.
Apparently, the Obama droids from organizing for America and other White House websites, there's basically union thugs, are under orders today to call every talk show that begins discussing health care.
And to try to flood the lines.
Now, we we heard of this the last time they tried it, and we we eagerly sought out some of these seminar callers, and we didn't get any.
None of them made, in fact, Sterley didn't even get any to uh assess whether they're airworthy or not.
So I just warned Snerdley or alerted him to be on a lookout, and if he finds one, because they're kind of like aliens on this show.
If you if you find one, put him at the front of the of the line.
Now, and since we we got to talk about health care right to qualify for the smear calls, spam calls.
So here, here's a story.
This is from the Communist Party USA's newspaper called a People's World, formerly the Daily Worker.
And it was published yesterday.
Some 5,000 activists demanding health care now descended on the nation's Capitol March the 9th to call for the arrest of the nation's leading health insurance executives who had gathered at the Ritz Carlton Hotel.
Now understand, this is being done within the Obama imprimatter.
This is being done with the with the approval and probably the orders under the orders of Obama.
These are the same people that showed up on the front yards of AIG execs to hassle them over bonuses.
Now you got the Service Employee International Union, primarily who did this, but there were a lot of others.
Showing up at the Ritz Carlin, Washington, demanding that insurance company executives be arrested.
Richard Trumpke, president AFL CIO said inside that building are the titans of the health care industry, the titans of greed.
They won't stop unless we stop them.
The only thing that'll stop them is legislation that forces him to become more humane.
We are here to turn them over to the police and say, do your duty.
We're here to help you.
Communist Party USA publication People's World goes to all government union workers.
Arrest insurance executives.
I've mentioned the guts of this story three times here in the last 10 minutes.
Five minutes.
And I haven't gotten one outraged facial expression from anybody of my staff.
Oh, really?
Okay, ho home.
Union people running around Washington demanding an insurance company execs be arrested, and it's eh, just another newsday.
I mean, unions?
Communist party publication People's World, AFL CIO leader demanding insurance company be ex executive be arrested, turned over to the cops.
Oh.
Oh, ho Hummer?
Well, I know, but um.
I don't know.
I just I think it's a pretty big deal here that Obama's ordering this to happen.
Arrest, turn them over to the cops.
You know, storm their convention, their meeting, and turn them over to the cops.
All right, now we've discussed health care.
So now we qualify for the spam calls from Obama's seminar callers, not a Patrick Kennedy screaming like a madman, angry at the media.
This is on the floor of the House yesterday.
There's one, two press people in this gallery.
We're talking about Eric Massa, 24-7 on the TV.
We're talking about war and peace, three billion dollars, a thousand lives, and no press.
No press.
You want to know why the American public is fit?
They're fit because they're not seeing their Congress do the work that they're sent to do.
It's because the press, the press of the United States is not covering the most significant issue of national importance, and that's the laying of lives down in the nation for the service of our country is despicable.
Uh, you want to know why the American public is fit.
We're not fit, we're morbidly obese.
I don't know what he's talking about.
Patrick, you know, you really are a dunce.
The press was helping you yesterday.
If the press had shown up and televised this, they would have hurt your cause.
Americans do not want to defeat, be defeated.
They don't want to surrender, Patrick.
The press did you the biggest favor in the world.
Well, not you personally.
See what press coverage has gotten you, Patrick?
Let's go back.
This kind of runs in the family.
October 20th, 1994, in Massachusetts, Senator Ted Kennedy on the campaign trail with former President Bill Clinton.
It says Clinton country Indiana.
And after we all do what needs to be done for the next two and a half weeks, and we elect Mark Roosevelt as our governor, and you reelect and you reelect old Kennedy in the United States Senate.
We're gonna start on the 96 campaign to elect Bill Clinton as our reelect him on the next.
So you see, um we've we've we've played this over the course of many months uh years, and people take stabs and wild guesses at what the senator was uh may he rest in peace uh saying and there's is the the he wasn't saying there were no words here to translate it play it again, Mike.
We can squeeze it in here before we have to go to the break again.
Is this Clinton country?
It is!
It is!
Thank you.
Hello!
We all do what needs to be done for the next two and a half weeks, and we elect Mark Roosevelt as our governor, and you re-elect, and you re-elect old Kennedy in the United States Senate.
We're gonna start on the 96 campaign to elect Bill Clinton as a re-elect him on the national.
Senator Kennedy, uh, October 20th, 1994 with his own rant.
We'll be back right away.
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All right, uh, cookie was rolling on it.
I caught the bare end of this.
Pelosi just came out of the uh of the bat cave with an announcement of whatever it is she and the Democrats have decided to do, R. E. health care and reconciliation.
And I caught the tail end of it.
And I I can only surmise, we were rolling on it, we'll have the sound bites coming up in uh in in mere moments, but from what I heard, it sounds like that the news reports today about the slaughter rule are what she was talking about.
I heard her say we're gonna take out the Corn Husker kickback, and we're gonna take out the um uh Louisiana purchase, and we're gonna add in, oh, what something Obama wants to do is add, increase the Medicare tax by applying it to any uh gains that you make on your uh your investment portfolio, what was called unearned income.
So, in addition to the payroll tax of Medicare, they want to get more Medicare tax by taxing investment profits.
Uh, and she mentioned that.
She said it was great to have heard from the president to find out what he wants.
So it sounds to me like what they're gonna do, uh, and John Boehner put this on his uh website earlier today.
They basically want to pass the Senate bill without voting on it.
And here again, the process is just going to enrage everybody.
It's already being forced down people's throat who want no part of this.
They don't have the votes for it in any way, shape, manner, or form following existing rules.
So they're trying reconciliation.
That apparently isn't gonna work because the House and the Senate don't trust each other, the Democrats.
The House does not have the votes to pass the Senate bill as is.
It doesn't have the right abortion language for stupac.
It's got all the uh the the giveaways to two states or three or four states, but not enough other states, like the Cornhusker kickback and a bunch of does not have a specifically spelled out public options.
It's a it's a it's it's the Senate bill to the House Democrats is like the cross to Dracula.
They just don't like it.
So the scheme, the twisted scheme by which a Democrat leaders plan to bend the rules to ram Obama's legislation through Congress now has a name, the slaughter solution.
Louise Slaughter, Democrat New York, chairman, chairwoman of the rules committee, and a very important key ally of Pelosi.
Uh just gonna deem the House to have passed the Senate bill without voting on it.
Now to you and I say, wait, wait a minute.
Um then why don't we just deem Obama the president in 2012 and suspend the vote?
Why even bother with Congress?
Why even have legislation if we're just gonna deem things to have passed, things that we want.
Okay, we're gonna we're just gonna pretend we pass the Senate bill.
And we're gonna mend, we're gonna mark it up.
We're gonna add our changes to it, and we're gonna send it back.
This is look at they can make their own rules there.
I I don't I don't I'm not enough of a parliamentary uh expert, uh congressional expert.
You know, these guys, if they want to hide $90,000 in coal cash in a refrigerator in their office, they can keep the FBI out of there from searching for it.
Separation of powers.
The FBI's part executive branch.
They're the congressional branch, legislative, just as an example.
So why do you even need Congress?
If Obama just I look at I deem health care to have passed, and I'm gonna sign what I deem to have passed.
Where does this end?
This is what you have, folks.
These are pure unadulterated statists.
Getting close to totalitarians, this is what you have to do if you want to overthrow from within the U.S. government when you don't have the votes of the American people to do it.
So they're gonna deem the Senate bill to have been passed without an actual vote by members.
They're gonna pass the Senate bill with no vote on it.
And then they're gonna do their own reconciliation of it.
They're gonna take things out of it, they're gonna add things to it, and then I don't know, send it up to Obama or send it back to the Senate.
I I don't know what the process is after that.
So they want to pass a bill that they haven't voted on, and a bill that's essentially unwritten right now.
And again, I don't know if uh if if this is legal.
Probably is if the you know, I do know this, if the House passes the uh the reconciliation bill without a vote in the Senate, it'll be I mean, that's folks, this is this slap in our face like you can't believe.
This spitting in our face doing this.
The only way to describe it.
And the CBO, let me find this.
This this is just outrageous, too.
The the CBO now has a score of the Senate past health bill, an estimate of the budgetary effects of the Senate passed health bill.
And they say that it's gonna reduce the deficit by 118 billion dollars.
Then the bill's passed in the Senate on Christmas Eve, and CBO has just released an estimate of the budgetary effects of the of the bill that passed the Senate.
Today's estimate differs from the estimate for a slightly earlier version that we released on December 19th, in that it encompasses all the amendments that were adopted by the Senate, reflects a revised assumption about the enactment date, and incorporates some technical revisions.
The CBO, the Joint Committee on Taxation, now estimate that on balance, the mandatory spending and revenue effects of enacting the Senate bill would yield a net reduction in federal deficits of a hundred and eighteen billion dollars over the 2010-2019 period.
That's frankly a lie.
There's no way any of this is going to reduce the deficit.
This is just another estimate of the already passed Senate bill.
This is not an estimate of the reconciliation bill that the House and Pelosi are somehow working on now.
This CBO estimates based on numerous cheats, numerous shams, such as front loading the taxes for four years before any so-called health care reform benefits begin being paid.
Uh, and again, don't forget this, Congress has offloaded many costs to Medicare and Medicaid, like the 250 billion dollar so-called doctor fix.
This is nothing but a bunch of gimmicks.
And so everybody in Washington, what'll the CBO say?
What do the CBO say?
It doesn't make any difference what the CBO says.
The CBO will score Obamacare.
The gimmick, not the reality.
This whole thing is a gimmick.
What the CBA is scoring, CBO's scoring will tell us what it will cost for Congress to keep its word, which does not happen.
Basically they're saying, well, if Congress knows what it says here, this is what the financial result is going to be.
See, the House Democrats don't trust uh Senate Democrats to keep their word and vice versa, and the CBO is gonna tell you what it'll cost if both of them keep their word.
More of a sham.
A quick phone call, Mike in St. Louis.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Rush, I love you.
I would have your child.
And I hate to do this to you.
But you were wrong yesterday.
And you weren't just like a little bit, oops, did I say that?
It's a big did I really say that.
When you said America has realized, I'm glad the auditing firm's on suspension this month.
When you said that America has realized we made a big mistake by electing Obama, the consequences would have been we'd have elected John McCain.
And if McCain was president, we'd have cap and trade and we'd have to do that.
No, no, no, no, no.
No, no, no, the two don't go together.
You're now the you're you're you're you're you're putting A and B together and not getting C. The American go together.
Look at in this equ McCain doesn't figure into the thinking here.
Nobody's saying, oh, I wish we'd have voted for McCain.
They're saying this is not what we voted for.
They're saying we got we got screwed, we got tricked, we got defrauded.
But they're not saying, oh my gosh, I wish we had McCain in there.
Well, Rush, the only alternative would have been McCain if we didn't, and if McCain would have been there, you know.
I know that you know because I'm a student of EIB.
I'm a critical thinker because of you.
If McCain was there, McCain believes in global warming.
He believes in national health care, and he'd have brought along all the most moderate Olympia snows with us.
Mike.
Even if they invent an artificial womb, and even if you could get Eric Massa in the equation, I would not have your child.
And I wouldn't let you have mine.
But I'm just telling my friend, old buddy.
This is not about McCain.
This this is not about McCain.
When I spoke yesterday, the American people now realize what a mistake it was electing this guy.
They're not saying, oh my gosh, I wish we'd elected McCain.
They're saying, God, we got defrauded.
We got shafted.
And by the, by the way, nobody is thinking that we'd have had the same stuff, only worse, if we hadn't elected Obama, because nobody can imagine it being any worse, except you.
And and a lot, I think a lot of people agree with you about McCain, but uh McCain doesn't fit in this in this analysis.
Uh I appreciate your your passion on this, and I don't I don't disagree.
We'd have had a lot of crossing the aisle, walking across the aisle to get along and get along and so on.
But that that's that's both of these are ifs.
You know, if we'd done this, then if we'd done that, and I don't believe in if, if is for children.
Roger Whitaker, early 60s, uh, late 60s.
Uh but the the the whole concept of uh it's not an if with the election of Obama.
It is we screwed up.
We screwed up and we got screwed.
And it's contained within that uh, shall we say, framework.
Great that you call, we'll be back in just a second.
Don't go away.
Ah T-Rex and bang your gong.
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Now trying to find himself.
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Great to have you uh here.
By the way, this massa guy, he had a track record that nobody reported that a lot of people knew.
For example, according to Peter Clark, a Navy shipmate, Massa was notorious for making unwanted advances towards subordinates.
He tells the story of his friend Stuart Borsch, with whom Massa shared a hotel room while on leave during the first Gulf War.
Stewart's at the edge of the bed, Clark says Borsch told him at the time, and Massa starts massaging him.
Massa said you'll have to.
You have to get one of my special massages.
He called them Massa massages.
Ron Moss, a Navy shipmate and Borsche's roommate, confirmed that Borsch told him the story at the time.
Clark says that Massa's roommate Tom Maxfield, who was also assaulted.
Tom lived in an upper bunk.
When you're on ship, you're almost exhausted 24-7, so a lot of times you sleep with a uniform on.
Tom and Massa shared a stateroom together.
Massa climbed up on top of his bunk, which is hard to do.
You never crawl up on somebody else's bunk.
He wakes up to Massa undoing his pants trying to snorkle him.
I kid you not, and this, ladies and gentlemen, is in the Atlantic.
This is in the Atlantic.com.
Uh wakes up to Massa undoing his pants, trying to snorkel him.
What the hell is that?
I think this we'll just we'll just have to uh have to imagine.
Uh, Washington Post, Nancy Pelosi's office was told of concerns about Eric Massa.
You know, this is how they got Foley out of there.
Uh the Democrats knew about Foley in the pages, and they held it and they held it and they held it.
They gave it to Brian Ross right before the 2006 elections, and now the same accusations are being made here that Pelosi and Hoyer and Peloas, well, I I had heard rumors, but I I didn't know these details.
What a what a what a sad guy.
Well, what a very, very sad guy.
Um here's a it the Washington Post story describes a lunch date that Massa made with a congressional aide in his twenties who worked in Barney Frank's office.
According to a person briefed on the call, Ricalto was concerned that the lunch followed a pattern by Massa of trying to spend time alone with young gay men with no ostensible work purpose.
Um what's Gary Stud's got a standing O for announcing he did this kind of stuff when he was in the House?
Um, snurdly, that's that's an excellent point, isn't it?
We we were told this kind of stuff doesn't happen in the military.
Anyway, the point is the Democrats knew all of this.
They knew a lot of this, and they just um sat on it.
Republican leaders cited as precedent the committee's 2006 decision to investigate claims that Mark Foley, Florida Republican, sent sexually explicit messages to some former male pages.
The uh committee's decision came after Foley stepped down from Congress.
The Washington Post reported Tuesday that the claims related to the Ethics Committee were far more serious than that, involving multiple incidents and potential victims almost as far back as January of 2009, when uh when Massa took office.
A politico has the story.
Pelosi aide knew of Massa concerns far earlier than previously known.
She took no action and is laying it off on her staff.
Well, staff didn't tell me.
We um we knew that there were rumors and so forth.
Did you hear about John Conyers' wife?
Get this.
A former Detroit City Councilwoman married to John Conyers, was sentenced to 37 months in prison yesterday for bribery after a federal judge refused to set aside her guilty plea during a stormy court hearing dominated by a dispute over evidence of other payoffs.
So she admitted it.
She pleaded guilty.
She got three years and a day, and she's she's yellow.
She wants to recount or recant the plea.
She wants to take it back.
She was screaming and shouting, and they dragged her out of the courtroom.
As guards cleared the pack courtroom, Monica Conyers 45 yelled that she plans to appeal.
The wife of John Conyers, uh, who, by the way, was seen applauding uh no, I made that up, wanted to withdraw her guilty plea, suggesting she was the victim of badgering last year when she admitted taking money to support a Houston company's sludge contract with the city.
Sludge contract.
Don't they use sludge in Michelle Obama's garden?
No!
No, no!
It was Clinton era sludge that hurt Obama's Michelle's guard.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's what it was.
Uh not enough time to be fair with another caller.
So Hill.com.
And folks, I I meant to get to the story earlier, but this program, I never know how it's going to shake out.
It's improv.
I I I kid you not, Brooklyn Assemblyman Felix Ortiz has introduced legislation to eliminate the use of salt in any form in preparing food in every restaurant in New York State.
A move similar to Mayor Bloomberg's effort to change people's eating habits.
Folk, this is this is we gotta stop this.
This is saying it's New York.
Let it happen.
Uh by the way, this this congressman or this uh uh who is this assemblyman.
It's all because of health care costs.
Uh the high blood pressure, uh heart attack, disease, Diabetes, hemorrhoids, whatever salt causes.
Uh lack of prep H in the stores.
You know what I would if if if if I owned a New York restaurant, which I forgot that if I did, I'd refuse to serve any politician that walked in the door.
I'd just refuse to serve them.
You're trying to put me out of business?
Go starve.
Go down to Bodega and pick up something on the street side and eat that, because I am not serving you in here.
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I don't know where the scandal is with Eric Massa.
I mean what I mean, so he's he's performing these kind of uh sexual acts in the Navy.
Uh and I thought the Democrats uh you know, don't ask to tell us where's the scandal?
I mean, it's no big deal.
This is what they've But I mean, this guy is a teabagger, if you want to know.
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