This is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein, sitting in.
Rush will be back tomorrow to take you through the end of the week for a full four days of absolutely top-level excellence in broadcasting.
But for today, only substitute host-level excellence in broadcasting, I'm afraid.
We are coming to you live, as we do when we can't take off because of the excessive levels of bovine flatulence in Vermont airspace.
We are coming to you live from the studios of our friends at WNTK in New London, New Hampshire.
You may remember when I was here a few weeks ago, we had an emergency, one of those emergency broadcast things go off around about this time as I was sitting here.
And everybody thought, oh my, oh my God, it was like national panic because they thought something catastrophic had happened.
Either Martians had invaded or the healthcare bill had passed.
But in fact, it was just a flood watch in Sullivan County, New Hampshire.
So if we get another, it's a very rainy day today.
So if we get another emergency broadcast warning that goes off as I'm talking, chances are it could be the catastrophe of Obamacare passing, but it might just be a flood watch in Sullivan County.
So keep attending, pay attention to that, and we'll try not to discombobulate you unduly.
Great to be here in New London, the home of the roundabout.
I believe it's twinned with another roundabout in Saint-Étienne du Oufray.
I would like to think that they'd voted at town meeting to remove the roundabout, but apparently they didn't.
But if I am ever caught by a New Hampshire cop for just driving straight over that roundabout, ignoring it, just going straight over, I don't acknowledge roundabouts.
I'm going to try the excuse of this guy, Sykes, Mr. Sykes, who claimed to have lost control of his 2008 Prius as the hybrid reached speeds of 94 miles per hour.
Who has ever heard of a Prius?
Has anyone ever seen a Prius doing 94 miles per hour?
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
When you just push it off a cliff, it's generally doing 95 by the time it hits.
But, but, as I mentioned last time I was here, that my assistant's husband goes hunting in a Prius, much to initially to the mockery of all his friends who were in the matcho pigger.
No, no, no, he doesn't strap the deer to the hood.
He actually gets the deer in the trunk with the head hanging over one side and the little hooves hanging over the other side.
And then you just yeah, you could.
But the problem is, I mean, I was very skeptical when I first heard that he was going hunting in a Prius because, of course, your average deer can outrun a Prius.
So it doesn't seem to me something that would come in terribly useful for that.
So I'm skeptical initially of this guy, Sykes, his so-called Prius reaching speeds of 94 miles per hour.
And a California highway patrol officer helped Mr. Sykes bring the vehicle to a safe stop on Interstate 8 near San Diego.
Now, there's been all this talk since about just what it is that's wrong with the Prius.
You recall that the head guy at Toyota was hauled in front of the United States Congress to account for problems with Toyota's Toyota's generally going haywire and getting up to unacceptable speeds.
Now, if you're in a Chevy, obviously you don't have this problem because the dead weight of the union agreements generally drags down your speed whenever you try to get out of third gear.
But if you're in these Toyotas, they're just going at 94 miles per hour, and Congress called them in to haul the head guy from Toyota over the Coat Coles.
One of the most pitiful spectacles, by the way, I've ever seen.
This guy, this Japanese guy, runs a successful global company, unlike these ones in Detroit.
And he's hauled up before these congressional deadbeats and told that they're very concerned about his product and they're going to start regulating his product into the same kind of oblivion that they've done for General Motors.
But it now turns out that Toyota investigators cannot replicate the conditions of this runaway Prius.
They've tried everything and they can't get the Prius to go 94 miles an hour and keep up with the escaping white-tailed deer in New Hampshire as they're roaming wild and free across.
Nobody has done this.
Nobody can replicate the conditions with which this guy, Mr. Sykes, apparently attempted, apparently was stuck in the runaway, in the runaway Prius.
Mr. Sykes is now saying, there seems to be a lot of story revision going on here.
Mr. Sykes is now saying he is not going to be suing Toyota.
I think it would be better actually if Toyota sued him.
This is really, as far as I can tell, just a guy who either lost control of his car or decided that he'd like to get himself on the evening news and as a result has done all kinds of damage to the reputation of a functioning company.
But it now turns out that whatever he was doing in his car cannot be replicated by any of the test engineers.
He said he had uncontrollable acceleration and that he couldn't put the car into neutral to bring it to a halt.
But this is what we're getting into now.
The Congress will take him seriously, pass some regulation requiring some huge contraption that will absolutely bring your car to a halt.
At the slightest thing, there'll be some huge, great, lumpy thing sitting next to your foot that if you're getting up to certain speeds will just bring it coming crashing to a halt.
It'll set off the airbag and you'll go off onto the median and roll to a halt.
And this is the great problem with American life now.
The hyper-regulation, the idea that city employees in Detroit, which we were talking about in the previous hour, city employees in Detroit are not allowed to use underarm deodorant now in case whatever particular flavor of deodorant you have.
Because you can get these, you can get, I think, odor-free deodorant, but most of them are all, you know, caramel macchiato or whatever.
They're flavoured deodorants that people have.
And if it happens to upset your co-worker, then that's part of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
So Americans with Disabilities Act now extends to your caramel macchiato underarm deodorant.
And this is exactly the healthcare model, that when you pass something, when you have passed something at the federal level, it just grows and grows and grows until it swallows everything in sight.
And what it mainly swallows is individual liberty.
And what it mainly swallows is individual human judgment.
Your ability to assess for yourself the conditions when you're driving your Toyota Prius or when you're thinking what deodorant you'd like to wear if you go and work for the city of Detroit.
What we are now seeing is just the micro-regulatory state on steroids, which is what this healthcare bill is going to be.
What will we all be doing, though, under the new healthcare utopia?
Nancy Pelosi says she wants to give birth to a new kind of freedom in America.
The freedom from being joblocked.
Speaking to Rachel Maddow on MSNBC, Speaker Pelosi asked Americans to think about a bright new liberated land.
Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer, a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
Or that people could start a business and be entrepreneurial and take risks, but not be joblocked because a child has asthma or diabetes or someone in the family is bipolar.
You name it, any condition is joblocking.
This is her new phrase, joblocking.
So she now says that essentially that government healthcare is liberating.
It will give you the freedom to pursue your dreams.
Now forget about the business and entrepreneurial side, because take it from me, there's no point being entrepreneurial or having your own business in America.
I've just one of those little nothing things.
I mentioned it before.
I made the mistake of hiring someone from New York a couple of months ago.
Would never do that.
I've never seen such paperwork.
She's been on the payroll now for, what is it, three months?
And only today we had some new complicated bit of paperwork relating to workmen's comp from the state of New York.
We're like a corporation in New Hampshire.
We made the mistake of hiring someone in New York.
Never do it again.
Tajikistan.
That's where we're going to find our new employees.
We're going to Papua New Guinea.
We're going to find unemployed headhunters in the depths of the New Guinea jungle and we're going to put them on the payroll because it's easier to do that than for someone in New Hampshire to hire someone in New York.
So forget about Nancy Pelosi's thing that we're all going to be more entrepreneurial and we're going to be starting businesses.
And consider this thing.
She's saying that, oh, it's great now.
Now you've got government health care.
You can be an artist.
You can be a photographer.
You can be a writer without worrying about...
Well, take it, look, take it from me.
There are way too many writers, way too many artists, way too many photographers.
There are small Vermont towns where the population demographic is like 3% dairy farmers and 97% artists.
I've got a friend in one of those towns who made a ton of money on Wall Street and then moved to Vermont to make Japanese woodblock prints.
And his business has been hit.
He's a big Obama voter, of course, but his business has been hit because it never occurred to him that in an Obama economy, once it turns down, one of the first things that people decide they can maybe live without is a Japanese woodblock print.
So it hasn't worked out too well for him.
But in fairness to him, he made a ton of money on Wall Street and then decided he wanted to be Mr. Japanese woodblock prints.
Now, now, Nancy Pelosi says, you don't have to worry about that, that first stage of it.
Anyone can be an artist.
Anyone can just have the freedom to live their dreams.
This is the opposite of what happens because when the government sets in this kind of distortion, it so depresses.
Who's going to buy your art?
Who's going to buy your photographs?
If you're a writer, who's going to read your books?
This so depresses the broader economy.
This so distorts the broader economy.
When you remove basic economic self-interest from the equation, the idea that you're going to be having a great renaissance of the arts is pathetic.
I mean, take Europe, for example.
In France, everybody in Greece, hairdressers retire at 50 because that's just the way it is.
They're one of certain designated dangerous professions where you get early retirement.
And so in Greece, a hairdresser is a designated dangerous profession and they retire at 50.
That gives you all the time in the world, from your 50 to when you drop dead at 80, to do your art and to do your photography and to do your writing.
In France, they work a maximum 35-hour weeks.
They have six weeks of paid vacation.
They have government health care.
They have all the things that Nancy Pelosi wants to do.
Where is the great French art?
There has been no great French art, no great French films.
Remember in the 60s and 70s, your little art house theater in Nancy Pelosi, San Francisco, would be paying one of those French movies where Isabelle Ajani or Isabelle Hubert or some Isabelle or other sits on the end of the bed and smokes a cigarette as she talks to her husband about which of their respective adulterers is the better in bed.
There used to be all kinds of little French art house movies playing at San Francisco, art house theatres.
They're gone now, gone.
France has done everything Nancy Pelosi wanted to do, and there are no French artists.
There are no great French filmmakers.
There are no great French photographers.
Because in the end, in the end, even something like the number of artists you read is determined by the market.
This economic illiteracy from Nancy Pelosi, that we're going to be living in some utopia, where simply by having a massive new entitlement, new multi-trillion dollar entitlement, you'll be free to explore your calling and to give up your job and go and be the artist and live in freedom you've always wanted to be.
That is one of the, even by her impressive standards, knocking on the doorstep of history, that is one of the more absurd statements she has made.
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You know, the American thinker at their website, Ed Cates, has a great piece on this business of Nancy Pelosi saying now we're all free to be artists once we get away from this back-breaking drudgery of work.
She makes it sound like this 19th-century view of the worker strapped to the mill, going down the mine for back-breaking 14-hour shifts.
And the American thinker, Ed Cates, points out that actually that was Karl Marx's view: that, as Marx said, quote, the more you have to work, the less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theater or to balls or to the public house, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint.
And as I said, everything that Marx wanted on that front has been put into practice now in terms of the paid leisure time that they have in continental Europe.
The Germans have very generous leisure time, work very short working weeks compared to the United States.
You know, their productivity levels per hour are comparable, but their economies are weaker because they simply don't work enough hours.
That's the problem in France and Germany.
And as I said, where are the great French movies?
Where are the great French symphonies?
Where are the great French paintings?
That was all back when they still had the capitalist system.
Same in Germany.
Where's the great German music?
Where's your Bach of today?
Where's your Beethoven of today?
Where's your, I'm trying to think of any other German Bert Campfort, who wrote Strangers in the Night.
I think that was about the last great German contribution to music.
And that's like 45 years ago now.
That since they introduced this whole pampered leisure time in which the government will pay you to explore your great artistic creativity, they haven't had any over there.
Whereas America's capitalist system has given the world motion pictures, jazz, great brand new art forms started from scratch simply by leaving it to the market.
Let's go to Fred in Homer, Alaska.
Fred, you're live on the Ruschlimbaugh Show.
To have you with us.
Good morning.
It's a pleasure to be here.
You're far too modest of a host.
And I have Barack Obama's modesty, his natural self-deprecating qualities.
Not even close.
Anyway, I was saying that, you know, my wife and I listened to all these things that the president is proposing, and we disagree with his policies.
And we're always saying he's an idiot or he's wrong or this, that, and the other.
But it's quite the opposite.
This man is not an idiot.
He is very, very intelligent.
He knows exactly what he's doing.
You do not rise to the highest office in the land by being dumb.
His agenda is very purposeful, and it is to control, as has been said, every aspect of our life.
And it is so unfortunate that people of my generation, I'm a little past the halfway mark.
I'm in my 50s.
I grew up with freedom.
I grew up knowing what America is.
The older people are dying off, and his intent is to get rid of them quicker so they cannot tell their grandchildren what freedom is about, what America stands for, and how to be an American.
And then the younger people are growing up being indoctrinated with, hey, this is the new America.
It's all touchy-feely, and everything's going to be wonderful.
We're all going to have the same.
And it doesn't work.
If you don't work, you don't work.
That's a very good point, Fred, that you lose societal memory very quickly.
And you can see that in what's happened in other countries.
That people who a couple of generations ago took individual liberty for granted soon become very compliant and complacent subjects of the nanny state, existing on the nanny state drip feed and content to do it.
And I think you're right that obviously a guy who gets to be president of the United States isn't stupid.
If nothing else, he has a talent for ruthless self-advancement, at least as far as he himself is concerned.
But in the broader sense, too, Obama gets something actually very important, and that is to say that for all the failures of this first year, there's a reason why at a time of a dreadful economy and with two wars, he chose to focus on health care.
Because he knows that if he rams this thing through, all the other stuff will be irrelevant.
That this is the great transformative moment, that this shifts the balance, shifts the balance between the citizen and the state.
It is a transformative act.
And if he does that, he will be a significant president, regardless of what happens in Afghanistan or in Iraq, regardless of the 10% unemployment rate and the problems in the economy.
If he gets this thing through, he changes the game.
And that's why he's sticking with it.
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I mentioned a few moments ago that in Greece, certain dangerous professions are allowed to retire at 50 because the professions are so dangerous that they've been designated as high-risk professions.
And so you should be allowed.
You can only do them for a few years and they'll kill you.
So you have to be allowed to take early retirement at 50.
And I mentioned the way that any government program always expands, whatever rationale it might have in the beginning, it always expands.
Like this thing where 22% of driver's licenses on the roads of California are shielded.
This originally was done so that, for example, if a cop or someone involved in the district attorney's office was involved in a case, you couldn't read his license plate and find out who he is and get his home address and apply any kind of pressure to him.
But naturally, it expanded from the police department to the guy at the Department of Sewage or the Bureau of Home Furnishings that they have in California.
Did you know that?
There's actually a Bureau of Home Furnishings in California.
You sleep soundly at night in California because your pillow is regulated by the California Bureau of Home Furnishings.
So all these people, if you work for the California Bureau of Home Furnishings, you now have your license plate shielded and you can go around speeding all over the country because you're a protected profession.
And it's the same way in the so-called dangerous professions they have in Greece, who the government now says can retire at 50.
That's why a hairdresser can retire at 50 because they have to work with different chemicals every day, dyes, ammonia, you name it.
And they and well, yes, scissors can be scissors can be dangerous too.
So it's a dangerous profession, so hairdressers have to be allowed to retire at 50 in Greece.
Coal mine, it started originally with coal miners and people in bomb disposal, but it soon expanded from bomb disposal to hairdressing.
It also covers radio and television hosts.
You can retire at 50 as a radio and TV host in Greece because you're thought to be at risk from the bacteria on your microphone.
Oh my God!
Why didn't you tell me about this?
Has this microphone been checked out for bacteria?
My life expectancy is falling every nobody mentioned anything to me.
This is why we should now introduce, as Nancy Pelosi wants to do, this kind of liberating quality to the employment market so that I will not be at risk here from all the bacteria on the microphone.
I'm at the studios of WNTK.
So fortunately, it's not like a radio station in Detroit where some guy with no underarm deodorant has been near the microphone.
So the bacteria from his armpit or the farm of grazing Holsteins next door has got itself onto the microphone.
Temperatures kill a lot of things.
Yeah, that's true, actually.
HR points out that here in New Hampshire, where we're only above freezing for two months of the year, that a lot of the bacteria will be killed by the sub-zero temperatures in the studio.
So perhaps I might stand a good chance of making it to 53 or 54.
But in Greece, in Greece, you can retire at 50 because of a TV or radio host.
That's a protected profession.
It's a dangerous job like bomb disposal.
You can retire at 50 because of the bacteria on the microphone.
Also, musicians playing wind instruments.
Speaking of Nancy Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi was saying that you should be free to explore your creative whims and be an artist or be a writer or be a musician or be a poet.
Well, a musician playing a wind instrument can retire at 50 in Greece because they have to contend with gastric reflux as they puff and blow.
So, for example, under Nancy Pelosi's Utopia, it's not just that you can give up your boring day job and grab that wind instrument and start playing it, but you'll be able to retire at 50 because of the risk of gastric reflux from puffing and blowing for your productive years.
The other interesting thing is that in Greece, certain government workers get 14 monthly paychecks a year.
Can you do the math?
I think even in American grade schools, that arithmetic doesn't work.
14 monthly payments.
You get 14 monthly payments every year if you're a Greek government worker, and then you retire in your 50s and you get 14 monthly pension payments a year.
That is what big government can do.
It redefines the very concept of time, because it's tough, isn't it?
Having to wait a whole month for a monthly paycheck.
Wouldn't it be a lot easier if there were 14 months in the year?
If you work for the Greek government, you get 14 monthly paychecks a year.
Now, what everybody knows about this is that if Greece goes belly up, it's no big deal.
It's a problem for Greece and it's a problem for some of its European neighbors, but it's not critical for the world.
When the United States attempts Greek government from Maine to Hawaii, we're looking at a catastrophe on a scale never seen before in human history.
In other words, this isn't going to be Greece.
This isn't going to be just your run-of-the-mill first world basket case.
This is on a scale never before seen in human history.
On that cheery note, let us go to Ron in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Ron, do you work in a dangerous profession like bomb disposal or hairdressing?
No, no, Mr. Sein.
I'm so glad to have a chance to talk to you, but I'm just an insurance salesman.
Oh, you're the problem.
You're the enemy then.
I should have demonized you before we took the call.
Actually, from my point of view, I've been doing this for about 37 years in the health insurance field.
And certainly over that time when I first started, gosh, we used to sell $40 a day contracts for hospital, room, and board.
But I wanted to mention that if Madame Pelosi would maybe go back and look at what Ronald Reagan did in his second term.
During that time, I remember when they came out with HIPAA, I guess an acronym for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
That's right.
And at that point in time, the Congress and President Reagan really did address job lock.
They came out with a program called COBRA, which was actually a budget reconciliation act, and that allowed people to go from one job to another and keep their health insurance.
I think reforms like that, although they're talking about health reform, I think it really should be called health overhaul.
But health reform is something that over the last 37 years I've seen sort of take little steps, incremental steps, towards a sort of a common goal.
And it's usually been run by the states.
Although the states have to sort of keep up with what the federal government requires, they have to equal what the mandates are, but they can exceed them as well.
States like Kentucky and Massachusetts mandate health insurance for their residents.
But the state that I live in, in Ohio, takes care of uninsured people by having what's called open enrollment.
And each year, Mr. Stein, what they do is they pick a company or two and they say, okay, you have two or three months, and anybody who applies, you have to take.
And preexisting conditions are covered.
Now, granted, it is very expensive.
Right.
And I think what I would like to see is maybe rather than overhaul a system that's been around for 140, 150 years, is do what we have done over the last 37 years, is approach the problem, the problem of maybe giving tax credits or subsidies to those that are finding it difficult to pay the premiums.
But when you say just giving tax credits for those who find it difficult or who don't perhaps know, haven't looked ahead, find themselves with a problem.
Tax credits would be the easiest thing to do in a moment.
If you had something, what do they call it, the SEP, which is basically a kind of payment you get at the end of the year that is like a sort of ad hoc pension.
You put it in a separate account.
If you draw that account and use it as income, you're taxed on it.
But if you just leave it toward your pension, you don't pay tax on it.
Why can't you just do that with a health account?
That would be the work of minutes to do that.
They have the medical savings account from 86, and they've turned it into, they've advanced it over the years and made it something that people can put larger and larger sums away in is a very good approach to sort of taking care of a lot of other ancillary expenses, being dental, vision, et cetera.
But what I've seen is the states, in conjunction with the Fed, sort of approaching things incrementally.
Maternity at one point was considered to be something other than an illness.
It was treated separately.
And then they made a change and they said it's going to be treated the same.
Mental nervous disorders used to have internal limits and limitations on the amount of money that would be paid.
And then they came out with a parity act.
Yeah, but that is something, for example, that will go in all kinds of odd directions under a centralized government way of doing things.
So for example, if you look at the way it works in Canada, you'll wait 18 months for a basic MRI.
But if you're a transsexual who wants to have a labioplasty, you will be able to get that on the ⁇ you'll be able to get that for the government to pick up the tab for that.
So it goes in eccentric and politically driven decisions once it becomes done, I think, at the federal level.
Ron, quickly, just before we go, though, one other quick point.
This is true.
You've been demonized by Barack Obama, you horrible insurers.
But as it happens, you've been the ones blamed for the spiraling cost of health care.
But in fact, you only account.
Insurance companies only account for 5% of the costs of American health care.
Isn't that correct?
That, you know, honestly, Mr. Stein, I don't know.
You know, having worked with clients directly over 37 years, I can empathize with these increases that they experience.
15% sometimes is much higher than that.
But it's a very important thing.
What I mean is you're not the ones getting that.
Essentially, if you like, the administration fee that the insurance companies are responsible for is the equivalent to about 5%.
In other words, 5% of Americans' health care costs is the cost of the insurance company and its employees and their salaries and all the rest of it.
It's not a significant item.
No.
No.
And if you introduce a program that will take into account pre-existing conditions and no exclusions, you will, in essence, dismantle something that's been around for over 100 years and it's simply not going to work anymore.
I mean, the program...
No, and Ron, we've got to run because I'm late with the break, but it's been great talking to you.
But, you know, that is the point, isn't it?
Because a couple of years' time, they'll be able to say, well, look, we've so distorted the insurance market that private insurance doesn't work any longer.
That is why we need one centralized, single-payer, Washington-directed agency to supervise all this.
Because that is not a bug.
That is a feature, as the computer guys say.
When you tell insurance agencies they've got to cover pre-existing conditions, private insurance doesn't work, and that gives the government a pretext to step in a couple of years down the line.
Thank you, DeRon.
In Cincinnati, Mark Stein, InforRush, lots more straight ahead.
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Cindy Sheehan is restarting her campaign against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, setting up tents near the Washington Monument.
The camp is going to be called Camp Out Now, and it's supposed to pressure President Obama and the Democrats.
And she notes that, I love the way she puts this.
Cindy Sheehan notes the movement has lost much of its steam since Bush left office.
You don't say, try looking for this Cindy Sheehan story in your local newspaper and see whether they're covering it.
Nobody cares.
They're not going to do this.
They don't care about Iraq and Afghanistan anymore.
Obama can send all the unmanned drones he wants across the border, dropping bombs on Waziristani villages every night of the week, and nobody cares because this is more important to him.
Getting this health care thing, getting the dead goat carcass of Obamacare across the bridge, burning the bridge, that will count for more.
What he will do to America will be far more than anything he could do to Afghanistan or Iraq.
And that's why Cindy Sheehan isn't going to be getting any coverage for that.
Let's go to Tom in South Holland, Illinois.
Tom, you're live on the Rushlinbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Pleasure to talk to you, Mark.
In all this discussion we have about the health care bill and about what we want the senators to do and not senators to do, but I want to tell you there's a formidable block of people out there, and I'll call the Tea Partiers.
I was at the Tea Party in New Lennox here in Illinois.
And I think the formidable block of these people are going to say, finally, we're going to take the country back because we've been asking for a few things.
We've been asking for interstate to drop their fences so that the interesting insurance companies go interstate.
Right.
Maybe there's nothing we can do about that, but there is something we can do.
We can take the name of every senator that votes for this bill, and I mean every senator, and next time they come up for re-election, you boot them out of office.
It's called term limits.
We'll form our own term limits.
They don't have to worry about them enacting anything.
You vote them out of office, you keep their names down.
And the problem with the American people sometimes is they just don't want to take that half hour, 45 minutes, an hour to go vote.
Well, if your microwave breaks down to not doing what you want to do, don't you sit there and wait half an hour, an hour for the guy to come and fix it?
Same thing with your furnace.
And this time, I think a significant chunk are motivated because they understand something very basic here.
That what is going on at the moment is unaffordable.
It's basically, it is the express lane to Greece on a cosmic scale.
And that is why they get that in a very basic sense.
That when you start throwing words like trillion around every couple of minutes, that every major new entitlement becomes perfectly normal to discuss funding government programs in trillion-dollar terms.
They get that what they're doing is actually voting to destroy their own future.
They're voting to deny themselves a future and their children and grandchildren.
And that's why I think, Tom, that this is something different in scale from anything that went on before, different even from 1994, I think.
I want to make too.
You keep bringing up Nancy Pelosi's name and the Detroit situation there.
Well, it's nice that you pick that up because it's a perfect example that Darwin's theory can go either way.
Right.
That's what I'm saying about Nancy Pelosi.
It's the best thing I can say about her.
Well, you're gentlemanly to leave it like that.
Look, the problem is that even Barbara Boxer in California, Nancy Pelosi is safe, but Barbara Boxer, California senator, her job is in peril because even in California, they get that this is the end.
This is the end, end of movie, end of the American dream.
There isn't going to be an American dream.
The people won't know the expression in 30 years' time if all this goes through.
Like there's no Belgian dream.
Like there's no Greek dream.
There isn't going to be an American dream if this goes through.
And that's why this is different, and that's why people are going to keep the pressure up, and that's why people are remembering these names and enforcing their own term limits, which are the best kind of all, the ones set by the people calling their representatives to account.
Mark Stein in for Rush, more to come.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
I've had a ton of emails, by the way.
You know, I expressed skepticism about that Prius that was out-of-control Prius that was doing 94 miles per hour.
And I expressed skepticism about the 94 miles per hour.
And several readers pointed out that a few years ago, Al Gore Jr.'s Prius was stopped, and it was going 100 miles per hour.
Now, I don't know whether that was running on Al Gore's carbon offsets or whatever, or it may be that Al Gore Jr.'s car, his Prius, was an early sufferer from this condition that afflicts, what do they call that?
A Prius existing condition, I think.
Isn't that what the insurance call it?
And anyway, but never mind the Prius existing condition.