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March 26, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 26, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Greetings to all.
It is great to be here on this Friday, March 26, 2010, in for the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Rush is off today, and Monday and Tuesday of next week, Brother Stein is in.
Mark Stein with you Monday and Tuesday, Mark Davis, the Texas talk show guy down here with you today and glad to be.
So let's dive on in, shall we?
All kinds of things going on and plenty of them since Rush spoke to you yesterday.
Some of them are very, very specific um news developments since the last Rush Limbaugh show, and others are sort of broad themes.
So let's take a look at um at both of those in this first segment, and then we're gonna go to you and start taking your calls and just sort of see where this thing goes.
Just as a summation, of course, being Friday, and by all means, please consider it an open line Friday, even in the guest host environment, an opportunity to take a look at any one of a number of things that have happened since uh since Monday, and even things that I don't uh bring up.
Um bring anything you like, we're always glad to have you.
But um in terms of health care, there's some microcosmic and some macrocosmic things we need to deal with.
The the micro things involve the minutiae of what this bill does and why those things are bad.
You're certainly welcome to bring me your testimony on why you love them, though.
I'm certainly glad to take those.
The macro things are uh the broad conceptual reasons why this is an attack on consumer choice, why it is an attack on liberty itself, and why that's not uh hyperbolic to say so.
Uh I'm uh I've I'm I'm not by nature one prone to overstatement.
So through the years when some issue or another has arisen and someone has called and said, Mark, I gotta tell you, I think this is, you know, our liberty slipping away, or you know, the end of the country as we know it, I've been the guy to tell them to tap the brakes.
I'm not doing that right now.
Because the the bug-eyed conspiracy talk of twenty or twenty-five years ago is the thoughtful analysis of today.
That is what these people have done to us.
Uh the a president running GM?
Uh government controlling our health care choices?
Are are you insane?
Can you imagine holding this conversation with somebody?
Um even fifteen years ago, to say nothing of twenty or twenty-five or thirty.
Things unheard of not so long ago uh are now in the headlines every day.
So the stakes are that high.
The the importance is ratcheted up, not by the panic of people who are overreacting, but by the righteous indignation of those who are reacting to exactly what this bill does, and exactly what these people seek to do.
So, yes, we're we're absolutely going to do some some health care talk today.
And I have some specific questions for you.
Uh repeal and replace, or repeal, reform and replace, however many Rs you want to stick into uh some sloganeering on this.
Uh I'm obviously I'm all about the repeal.
Got a wonderful uh a couple of pieces.
Carl Rove has some writing today on what the Republicans ought to do next.
Uh Mike Pence, who I just absolutely love on this issue and a whole lot more too, uh, has uh uh uh a piece of writing with a theme kind of like what Newt came out with on uh the day after the passage, sort of this will not stand.
Uh and so I want to ask you here as March comes to an end, do you think running on repeal uh will have legs in November?
Uh my short answer is this.
Yes, it will if we play smart ball here.
Uh you're gonna hear a lot of discussion once again, the party of no.
The party of no, the party of no.
And I think the last time that we were together here on the Rush Limbaugh Show, uh I told you that I was proud to be in the party of no.
Uh if if that's not all we do.
I mean, the first thing you've got to do when bad ideas are winning the day is defeat them.
You have to clear the playing field of bad ideas so that folks can get together and discuss the good ideas.
You have to slay this dragon, uh the the metaphor that I've long used for Obamacare, uh so that you can then go to give birth to uh better ideas which maybe the American people can even actually support.
So there's another sentence, I don't know if I'm I made it up or or whatever, but I I've said it a lot, that there's no more positive thing you can do.
There is no more constructive thing you can do than defeat bad ideas.
It is often step one.
If you go to the good ideas before the bad ideas have been shelved, what an unholy mess that is you know and and that's why repeal I think is a more sensible way to go.
There are a lot of people stepping forward and saying now wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
First of all, repeal is a pretty high bar to set.
Yes it is so is toppling the Berlin Wall and human footprints on the moon, but we did those having something so's the war.
You know, so is bringing democracy to Iraq we did that is everything perfect?
No.
Is it a work in progress?
Yes, but we're doing it.
So I don't mind the high bar.
I'm energized by the high bar.
That's all right.
We can do this.
But there are people who have stepped in and they have said isn't it better since there's oh a couple of things that maybe people can agree with in Obamacare that aren't so terrible involving pre-existing conditions or portability or something like that.
Why don't we just keep those and work around the periphery and get rid of the bad parts of Obamacare.
Well how about this?
No I don't know if it's the party of no, I'm the guest host of no because the playing field must be cleansed of the bad and then the good brought in to be formulated and arrived at on its own merits.
This is the vehicle of this bill the intent, the engine, the ethos of it is all bad.
The inclusion of a couple of meritorious things does not make it something that is worth keeping as the status quo.
This is something that must be shelved and repealed so that we can it's and it's funny and it's not really starting from scratch whatever the definition of scratch is it's starting from a point well down the road where we understand that a ton of Americans want reform and oh my heavens President Obama,
Robert Gibbs, David Axelrod, whoever they're you know offering up is always they've been telling us for months, well the majority of American people want reform.
Well yeah, but not what you're doing so let's clear the decks and start to cobble together something which the American people can actually support and support dare I dream 70, 75, 80% because I think there are some issues on what needs to be done with our incredibly praiseworthy, incredibly enviable healthcare system.
Does it have some problems?
Does it need some fine-tuning?
Of course it does did the proverbial baby need to be thrown out with the bathwater?
No.
Do your liberties need to be thrown out with that baby in the bathwater too?
No.
Did consumer choice need to be impaled on the sword of these people's socialist agenda?
No, it did not have to happen.
Now so as we get ready to take some of your calls here, 1-800-282-2882.
We can all get uh you know properly uh exercised about this.
But objectively I'm asking can we ride this train to November and make a ton of people resonate with it?
Because all of us, you know uh who are oriented in this way, we can get all worked up and say absolutely I mean I always love those online polls back in the day that said, oh 94% of the people in an online poll wanted Clinton impeached.
Well, you know, the country at large was a little Less than that.
That's why I'm asking, because we can sit here in the talk show universe, whether it's a national show like Russia's or a local show like mine, and uh and it just seems almost monolithic.
Well, guess what?
It's not.
And there's there's the winning over of some skeptics that we've got to do.
And the way to do that is with an upbeat and constructive and clear-headed eye toward what we want to replace.
What we want to put into the vacuum.
What we what we want to do after we say no.
It's like we're not the party of no, we're the party of no, comma, but then dot dot dot, which is very unwieldy.
But uh, you know what I mean.
First we're the party of no, and then we're the party of saying yes to a ton of ideas actually arrived at in a bipartisan fashion, and that's a word I don't use much because it's useless.
And there's almost no such thing.
Bipartisanship.
What's that?
You know, it's funny, people criticize the uh the Obama administration for just, well, they're just forcing uh their ideas on us.
Okay, bring your best.
Let's see if they win or if they lose.
At the moment they've won, in November, they will lose.
There's very little common ground in most things.
You know, the unborn either deserve protection or they don't.
The war is either right or it's wrong.
Uh taxes are either too high or too low.
There's a right view, a left view.
There's some people in the squishy middle, I know that, but most people don't have moderate views on all those things.
They are a mixture of ideas from the left over here and the right over there.
Look at John McCain, for example.
Look at anybody who you you view as a moderate.
They're not on, you know, running down the center stripe on everything.
They've got some left views, some right views, which is what drives a lot of people crazy.
In fact, we're gonna talk a little bit about Brother McCain today, because Sarah Palin is on the campaign trail with him.
Hello, there's a talk show topic.
Um, and a lot of people got on her and said, wait a minute, why aren't you supporting Mr. Hayworth, the obviously more conservative uh challenger?
We'll talk about that a little honestly as soon as later this hour.
But uh the point being I am fine with liberals in America bringing their best argument, their best game and fighting for all they're worth.
And conservatives in America bringing their best game, their best views, fight for all it's worth.
The search for common ground often results in mediocrity and nothing really being done.
Real political battles that get something done involve winners and losers, and then people get to see if the winners were right or if the losers had a better point.
This is one of those moments in history.
The winners have won for now.
Our job is to show an American people that have maybe not been paying quite enough attention why the victors are mistaken.
So therein lies the task.
So let's let's trade some notes.
On that, shall we?
I'm Mark Davis filling in for Rush down here in Dallas Fort Worth on WBAP, a proud Limbaugh affiliate since oh my 93, whatever.
We got street cred, and so so glad that you are here for this Friday show.
I'm Mark Davis back in a moment on the Rush Limbaugh Show on the EIB Network.
The EIB network, the Rush Limbaugh Show, 1-800-282-2882.
We're gonna hop into the break here in just a second.
Let me tell you that also in talking about McCain and Palin on the campaign trail, we'll talk a little bit about that.
We also have something I know you're gonna want to observe.
I know you're gonna want to observe this tomorrow.
Are you aware that there's something we are all supposed to communally do tomorrow?
Ladies and gentlemen, Earth Hour is coming.
It's Earth Hour.
Were you aware of that?
Want to do a little listener homework?
Google Earth Hour.
See what they want you to do, and then call me and tell me if you're on board.
And then I'll tell you what my Earth hour plans are for tomorrow.
Okay?
Very good.
Also, uh I said that a lot of the things were broad and conceptual, but a bunch of them also involve uh some breaking news.
And today, a lot of the headlines, well, I guess there'd be headlines tomorrow and evening news and cable news type things today uh involve nuclear agreements.
President Obama, Soviet President Medvedev, uh are involved in the signing of a pact in which they and we will reduce our nuclear arsenals.
All right.
We're gonna need to spend some time today on on uh the wisdom of that.
Here's how it breaks down to me.
The Soviets, pardon me for kicking it old school.
The Russians reducing their nuclear arsenal?
Good thing.
America reducing our nuclear arsenal?
Maybe not so much.
Why?
Well, let me share.
We got a second, apparently.
Soviet, and I mean Soviet this time.
Soviet nuclear warheads were crafted and exist today.
Now they are Russian nuclear warheads.
They exist to tyrannize the world.
Our nuclear warheads, American nuclear warheads, exist and existed and successfully existed to thwart that tyranny.
That's the difference.
And blindness to that, that false moral equivalency is like suggesting that a gun in the hand of a cop is the same as a gun in the hand of a criminal.
I mean, come on.
All right.
1-800-282-282.
Are we clear to pause, shall we?
So we give folks a couple of minutes to uh to examine some of what I've given them and come back and let's hop on to some of those calls.
Mark Davis in for Rush on the EIB network.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Friday.
I'm Mark Davis filling out down here in Dallas Fort Worth.
Let's start to put some people on the radio, shall we?
1-800-282-2882.
A man in a town where I once worked with the name of the capital in the state in which I currently live.
Very confusing, so let's just say Austin in Memphis.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hello.
Well, hello.
Now I need to know why, as an American people, as a single parent, I'm being gonna be forced to pay taxes when I already buy health insurance and pay health insurance for my child.
Why I should pay taxes so other people can have health insurance.
You know, we're not supposed to be raised by the government.
Ideally.
And it's I love when people ask questions, they know the answers to in order to take us down that conversational trail.
So let's go there.
But for those listening to us who really are wondering why that's so necessary, it's because they've got to reach into the pockets of absolutely everybody, otherwise they won't have nearly enough money for the sheer vastness of what they seek to do.
Well, they're not even trying to fix the economy.
The true problem is the economy, and nobody's trying to fix it.
We import 397 million dollars for every one dollar we export.
Now, would that cause a problem with the economy, do you think?
Well, well, indeed, there we could probably get together and formulate a list of of ten things uh th that that government could do to help the economy, but I'll tell you what's at the top of my list i i it is involves leave things alone.
Uh the smartest government stewardship of an economy is to get out of its way and to allow people in a in a capitalist free market way uh to do what the market energies will do.
People buying and selling products and services that people actually want with the least regulation necessary for uh for for for order and safety.
You do those things, which is hard to tell a politician to do because it means you don't get it.
Well, precisely right.
And but again, uh even conservatives this is why conservatives are led astray when they gain when when they with so many of them, when they run as Republicans saying all these wonderful things, then they're in office for two or four or six years and they go, wait a minute, we're the party that wants to do less for you?
I I have to hold rallies and tell people that I've brought home less pork that I've had I mean, getting out of the way isn't sexy.
You know, but coming home and saying, I I brought this money home for you by by dint of my own will, I did something that made your life better.
That's what politicians all want to do.
The conservative politician is called on to have the discipline to say, if your life is better, you did it, and I helped because I stayed out of your way.
So, you know, that's a easy to say, easy for a talk show guy to say, not so easy for politicians to say.
Austin, thank you enormously.
Appreciate it.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Friday.
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How about those Butler Bulldogs?
Wow.
Hometown Final Four for you guys.
What do you think?
And boy, Xavier almost against K State.
Almost against K State last night.
Incredible game.
My bracket is in tatters, but hey, what the heck?
So is everyone's.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Friday.
I'm Mark Davis filling in.
We'll be back on the other side of this pause.
Thanks very much.
Thanks to all for hanging out with me.
Thanks to Rush for the privilege of the chair for this day.
Hope everybody has a fantastic weekend coming up.
Boy, March gone.
How about that?
One third done with 2010 every day that passes, one day closer to November 2nd.
And we're spending a lot of time these days in Talk Radio Land discussing uh, you know, how to keep the fire alive.
As we get ready to go to your calls, uh, I do have what I'd like to offer is some level of evidence for those of you who wonder if the passions can be continuously stoked uh between now and uh and election day twenty ten.
Um because the idea here, of course, is to return Republican majorities to the House and the Senate.
Can I sit here right now today and tell you that will happen?
No.
I'll tell you I'd like it to happen.
I'll certainly tell you it's a possibility.
That's kind of funny.
Didn't Michael Steele get in trouble for saying essentially the same thing.
They asked her, you're gonna win him back?
And he said, I don't know.
And got pilloried for it.
That's because he's the party chairman.
He's got to cheerlead, he's got to show it's almost like a a sports coaching job.
You know, hey, do you think you guys uh you know think you can uh beat your opponent?
I don't know.
You always say you can, and then that's coach speak and sometimes it's uh party chairman speak.
But um here in the talk show world, at least as as I conduct it, uh I I tell you objectively what I think.
And I'll tell you that a while back, you know, when things were starting, I mean, we were in the s uh the summer of uh uh of town halls and tea parties and all of that, and I wondered, you know, I wondered if if we could really turn this into a return to a Republican majority in either the House or the Senate or both as soon as 2010.
And if you'd asked me back then, I'd have said, you know, I it's kind of seems like a pipe dream.
I I really don't know.
Today I'm here to tell you I consider it absolutely plausible.
Now what's different?
The difference is months of continuing passion along these lines.
On April 15th, if I can throw in a local plug, and you're welcome to drive here if you want to be a part of it.
Listen, there are counterparts to this, I'm sure, all over America.
Uh is your town doing a little tea party something, something on April 15th, always a good day to do it.
Ours is going to be at a minor league baseball stadium uh in Grand Prairie, right between Dallas and Fort Worth.
A ton of Tea Party folks, uh, the 912 group involved in this, and I get to MC it as I did last year on the steps of Dallas City Hall.
There's the key.
Last year.
We're coming up on one year since this whole Tea Party thing became front of mind.
And that's without a uh of an election ticking closer to us, uh so close on the horizon.
So if we can keep these engines burning for an entire year, what's another seven or eight months?
And that's what gives me some confidence that even in the midst of uh of a status quo where this bill has passed, in a weird way that may help.
It's like this thing is passed.
Now we really got to do something.
And that's why I'm I'm you know oddly confident about this.
But it's all gonna be uh and listen, the and Rush will tell you this.
All the national guys will tell you this.
Every local talk show host will tell you this.
It ain't about us.
If talk show hosts could wave a magic wand and bring stuff around, Obama wouldn't be president, and God knows Clinton would have been elected twice.
We can talk about stuff all day.
You've got to do it.
And I know when I walk into this uh stadium on April 15th, there's gonna be a ton of people who are very interested in in smaller government, lower taxes, fiscal responsibility, and obeying the Constitution.
And you know something?
A ton of those people may not agree with me or may not agree with Rush about everything.
We can talk about this today a little bit.
You know what I think some of the genius of the Tea Party movement is?
They probably don't care too much how you feel about gay rights or abortion or anything else.
Not that those things aren't important.
They're vitally important.
Please, they're enormously important to me as a social conservative.
But if there's a coalition of Americans that can get together and stop these people from eroding the very fabric and future of this nation in terms of its fiscal health, in terms of our liberties, if we can get together on that, we can debate a little later on about everything else.
Now I'm talking about the Tea Party incarnation as it currently exists.
The Republican Party's a different deal.
Fiscal and social conservatism is important if you are a Republican.
If you are a Tea Party person, I again, the engine that's running the Tea Party, one of the great one of the things about its greatness is its specificity.
A year ago in Dallas City Hall, I ran across a bunch of people.
I mean, some were down the line conservatives like me, some were sort of libertarians.
You know, you got your Ron Paul people out there, you got this, you got that.
And we were a varied tapestry of views on a number of issues, but you know what held us all together?
You know what we were all jazzed about?
Bringing the size and scope of government and its spending under control.
And on that common thread, and with that common motivation, that's what the Tea Party Town Hall thing is is all about.
And the left is scared to death of it, which is why the lie campaign is underway.
And I don't just mean the trumped up hand wringing of the last 48 hours, uh these front page stories, you know, health care advocates fear for their lives.
You know something, kids?
You should fear for your lives.
Your political lives on November 2nd.
Life in America, political life in America.
We got 300 million people, certain percentage of us are lunatics.
And the lunatics belong to just about every fringe of every movement, and it's always going to be there.
In fact, let me phrase it this way, and let's uh start to hop on to some of your calls.
Let me tell you a story of two despicable things to do.
You ready?
I'm gonna give you two things to do that are just I'm not recommending them, I'm identifying them.
Two despic here's identification of let's spotlight two despicable things that people can do.
Number one, that some sometimes do.
Number one is threatening a politician or engaging in vandalism against a politician for political reasons.
You don't like something somebody does politically, so you you you death threat them, you vandalize something.
That is a despicable thing to do.
Number of people doing it, infinitesimally small.
Absolutely so thin a sliver that they scarcely exist.
There's thing number one.
Here's thing number two.
Despicable thing to do.
Number two, take phenomenon number one and trump it up in a fraudulent and slanderous attempt to smear an entire movement.
It's kind of funny, it's more than a movement, it's not a movement.
It's a majority of the American people.
It is an attempt to conflate the extremes and admittedly vile behavior of the handful of folks leaving these stupid voicemails for people or leaving this or that in somebody's office or somebody's brother's house or all of this nonsense.
Oh, this is what these people do.
Rank dishonesty.
Why do they do it?
Number one, because they don't mind playing dirty, and number two, it's all they got.
It's all they've got.
So I've been telling people locally, and why don't you do this wherever You live.
Oh, I guarantee you there's a tea party, something rather going on on April 15th.
Would you do me a favor and go?
I mean, if you're pre-wired to go, you're gonna go in anyway.
But if you're sitting here thinking, I I've heard reports of these folks, I've heard people talking about this, and these people say they're the Antichrist, and these people say they're salt of the earth.
Who's right?
Go.
Go.
You will not find racism.
You will not find int intolerance.
You'll find the most welcoming atmosphere you may have found at any political event you've ever been to.
No matter what color you are, no matter what ethnicity, what sex, what proclivity, whatever.
If you walk through that door and say, you know something?
Government's out of control.
It's size, it's spending.
The Constitution is being trampled.
Come on in, brother and sister.
Come on in.
And you know something else?
After the event's over, they will have picked up on themselves.
The place will be clean.
We are judged by such things.
All righty.
Uh, we're also judged by things we say, so let's say some things to each other on the Rush Limbaugh show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in, and to the phones to the phones next on the EIB Network.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Friday.
And you're ready for the weekend.
1-800-282-2882.
I'm Mark Davis down here in the heart of Texas, filling in for Rush, Mark Stein in Monday and Tuesday, and Rush back on Wednesday.
Well, let's get back to your calls at 1-800-282-2882.
Let us head to the great Commonwealth of Virginia in Middleothian.
Patrick, hi, Mark Davis in for Rush.
Hello.
Hello, Mr. Davis.
Thank you for taking my call.
My pleasure.
I will tell you uh just to re comment on your uh your last uh message there that I I uh I will not be detoured.
I will tell you that um that this this November this fire is not gonna get put out uh by then and we will be at the polls.
Uh just for uh disclosure, um I am a Tea Party guy.
I have never been political until last year.
Um I come from a family of mixed Democrats and Republicans.
I am an independent uh as far as my registration goes.
Um I uh I went to the uh April 15th one in the Jefferson Tea Party in Charlottesville, Virginia, and I did show up on 912 uh to uh to protest against this health care bill.
That being said, um I voted for uh for Mr. Webb, our senator here in the great state of uh Virginia, and I voted for Mr. Warner as well.
And I can tell you that around the dinner table leading up to the election of Webb, I convinced a lot of conservatives, fiscally conservative members of my family and friends, to vote for him.
I was one of the probably six thousand and eight hundred uh that margin that he won by that uh that would have voted for George uh Allen if I hadn't voted for Webb, but I I like George Allen.
I just thought that, you know, Mr. Webb, I respected his uh his military service.
Uh he promised he would be fiscally conservative, and he is not.
He is not, and neither is Mark Warner, who shocks me because he's a businessman and and he knows.
I mean, Doc Thompson out here locally has had him on his talk show, and and he uh he knows what they're doing with this health care thing, and of course they do the old, well, we voted to end the debate, let it, you know, it goes and we know how the process got you know bastardized after that.
But but I can tell you that this fire is not gonna stop.
I will be there um and I will convince the people I will go out there, I'm gonna make phone calls, I will actually, for the first time in my life, post-signs.
I spent a hundred dollars to Scott Brown, um, and I've never ever donated to a campaign in my life.
That was the first time for him to be that 41st vote against us, and the Democrats have just spit in our faces.
Um and I'm not gonna allow them.
I am insulted by the fact that they want to make us out to be racist.
Nothing is farther from the truth.
The most civil group I've ever been around was nine twelve.
Uh the the place was cleaned, the language is clean, uh, people were respectful.
I saw all different cultures there.
There was not.
There were races of every culture.
Um, and I even heard one gentleman there, uh, African American, telling these p these uh protesters that were on the other side, saying you guys race bait, and he's right.
This is race bait.
This is what they do when their argument isn't satisfactory and they can't win by the merits of it.
Patrick, some calls require no host embellishment.
Yours is one of them, and I can't think of anything kinder to say to you.
Thank you, and I appreciate it.
And uh and and boy, that's excellent.
See, here's the thing.
Patrick has a lot of company.
And it's kind of a law of physics.
Between now and November, here's what we need to do.
Take Patrick's uh fire and energy and keep it going.
Somehow I'm not worried about that.
Uh keep it going uh in the other people who are you know properly incensed right now in the closing days of March.
But you know what?
It's going to take more.
Because if that keeps, you know, the level of the Bunsen burner going at a certain rate, we're going to lose some folks.
Some folks are going to go, oh man, I'm just tired.
I just you know I can't keep the pedal of the metal, you know, every single day.
Uh but you know what?
Between now and then there may be others whom we are able to add.
You know, uh uh preservation of matter here.
Lose some here, pick some up there.
Uh there are folks who are going to, now that this thing has passed, they're going to start to actually pay attention to what's in it.
And if we have their attention, those are some other folks that we can win over for the cause.
What is the cause?
The cause is preserving our liberties, preserving consumer choice in health care, preserving the the methodology that has been central to the American story, which is having the least amount of government possible to have order, and beyond that, letting people pretty well do what they want, and that's in their individual lives and and in our business lives.
Uh to have the marketplace determine the best solutions for everything from what kind of cars to drive to what kind of insurance to have.
That has never failed us.
It has never failed us.
I mean, can people find certain flaws and say, well, here's this part of this industry that's just screwy.
Well, yeah.
And a lot of times that's because of one of two things.
Sometimes it's too much government intervention.
Other times it's the occasional bad actor.
Well, the marketplace never promises that everyone participating in it is going to be virtuous.
But when we have liberty, we can guide ourselves, our interests, our business, voting with our money, our etc.
Uh toward the things that we like and away from the things that we don't.
That will never ever fail us.
All righty, 1-800-282-2882, Mark Davis in for rush, and more of you are next on the EIB Network.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Friday.
Glad you're here.
March 26th underway.
Rush back on Wednesday of next week, Mark Stein and Monday and Tuesday.
All righty, let's uh take us up to the top of the hour with a call or two as we head next to uh I guess technically what, the oldest city in America, right?
Some mid-16th century action on there in St. Augustine, Florida.
Joyce, hi, Mark Davis in for rush.
How are you?
I'm fine.
Thanks for taking my call, Mark.
Uh I I'm calling because I truly understand all of the anger the American people have today.
I mean, after all, you know, our liberties are being destroyed.
Our liberties are being taken away from us.
Women have a choice whether they want an abortion, but they're taking away our choice as to whether or not we want to purchase health insurance.
Wow.
Well, that's going to the mat, isn't it?
It is it is it is very interesting to juxta and some may say, well, those don't have anything to do with each other.
It is interesting to note what choices a society chooses to allow people to make and which choices the government chooses not to let us make.
It's interesting on what choices they decide are important and what or not.
Yeah.
Boy, uh go Joyce, that is golden.
Thank you.
Let's uh let's see if we can get one other person in before the hour is done.
Let us head to Chris Christie Country, Springfield, New Jersey, and Manny, that's you.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
I'm great, Mark.
Uh, thanks for taking my call.
Mm-hmm.
I uh I wanted to to call to say that I I am now absolutely convinced that Obama's goal is the destruction of this country of America as it was founded as it was intended to be.
And that, sure, we want to go uh in November and get them all out.
But I think that uh even if health care had not passed, the damage that was done to the Constitution is irreversible.
I think we really need to pr push the reset button and get things fixed in a majority.
Well, but what's what what do you mean by e well irreversible?
Why?
Well, because they they have now pushed the push the bar on what's allowed.
What kind of behavior is allowed that is blatantly unconstitutional to the point where it happens and nobody stands up to stop it because we can't stop it.
I have reason for optimism.
You may not buy it, but I'll share it on the other side, because there are I listen, I I hear from so many people like you, oh my heavens, the toothpaste can't be put in the tube, the horse is permanently out of the barn.
With this kind of damage done to the Constitution, there's no way that it can stand unfettered again.
I feel that it can, and I'm I hope I'm not just uh pipe dreaming there.
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