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March 26, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 26, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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Thanks so much.
Hour number two of the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis, filling in from WBAP in Dallas, Fort Worth.
Great to have you all here.
A lot of health care in the house, which I'm sure you would properly expect.
And we're hopping back to your calls on that and various other things you might want to do, some places I want to go.
And I want to hear from some folks in Arizona and talk about the good people of Arizona as we work our way through the Friday Rush Limbaugh show.
With an eye toward August and the primary, asking the musical question, what are you folks going to do?
It's interesting because at one level, the plot line is John McCain, whose history, listen, it's no simple sentence about Senator McCain.
God bless him for his service to this nation, and God bless him for his service to conservatism on those issues when he chooses to be conservative, occasions which are for most not numerous enough.
So along comes J.D. Hayworth, obviously more conservative than John McCain.
So let's get those tea party passions, that whole town hall thing going and say thank you to Senator McCain.
Time to go whittle on the porch or whatever you want to do.
And let's get the more conservative guy in there.
But wait a minute.
The thing I'm noticing is that have you loved John McCain more than in the last few weeks and months?
Every email I'm getting, well, everyone, but is saying things like, where was this guy in the 08 campaign?
Where has this guy been?
On a number of issues.
And the answer to that is really simple.
What history has provided for Senator McCain and for the rest of us, I guess, is an occasion for the senator to weigh in on the issues where his conservative compass is true.
His courage and the strength of his voice and the value that he presents as a legislator on the health care issue and the war and all of this.
I mean, when's the last time anybody said the word immigration with great frequency, you know, during a talk show or even a water cooler conversation?
I know.
Depends on where you are, depends on who you are.
But the stuff that is front of mind, that's in our face, that's right here right now, happens to be the stuff on which Senator McCain is dead right.
And I've got some folks, friends of mine in Arizona, and their sentiment is: we're more conservative than John McCain.
J.D. Hayworth is more conservative than John McCain.
But do we shelve Senator McCain at our momentary peril because the clout that he brings, the longevity that he brings is of value?
I mean, this is a guy can be on television anytime he wants.
Would that be true of J.D.?
I don't know.
You know, so there are two ways to be in Arizona.
To sort of extend Senator McCain's contract.
Of course, it's six years.
Ask the people of South Carolina how they're feeling about that with Lindsey Graham, who is also so dead right on some issues and so whacked out on some others.
That's a long six years, man.
But if somebody's sitting there thinking, gosh, do we maybe need to keep this guy for this moment in history because we're going to need every big bat we have to fight this fight?
I understand that.
But then just as soon as you say that, there'll be someone who says, not just from the Hayworth campaign, they'll say, yeah, but look, it's not like J.D. Hayworth crawled out from under a rock yesterday.
He had service in Congress.
People know who he is.
The moment he's installed, his voice will be added to those who are right about health care.
But you know what else they'll be right about?
They'll be right about cap and trade.
They'll be right about interrogations.
They'll be right about immigration.
They'll be right about lowering taxes, some things on which Senator McCain has had, shall we say, a spotty time of things.
So, you know, I can see some merits there on either side.
You tell me, tell me what, tell me what you want in Arizona.
And then in the other, you know, 49 states in the District of Columbia, tell me what you want those folks in Arizona to do.
Meanwhile, Sarah Palin campaigning with Senator McCain today.
And that drove some Tea Party people insane.
Because Sarah Palin, quite the Tea Party darling.
And it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what?
Because the Hayworth campaign cranks up and a lot of the TEA Party new, fresh faces.
Vote the, you know, vote the incumbents out, that kind of thing.
So wait a minute, you're boarding the wrong train.
But from governor Palin to some other folks I think Mitt Romney is on board there I, I it's.
You know their decision to hitch themselves to senator Mccain.
Is it a giving him proper reward for the value that he has been to the cause as the cause is played out right now, or is it just the same old, same old.
Go along to get along?
We'll never get rid of the entrenched faces.
Let me know.
All right, the other thing I want to do to mention here as we open up the second hour of the friday rush limbo show, mention this to you, maybe you didn't know that it was happening, tomorrow is earth Hour.
I know, I know, I know, just ride with me for a minute.
I'll tell you what my plans are.
I'm observing it in a special way.
We're all aware of earth day right, and proving that uh, that God has a sense of humor.
Every april 22nd, ordinarily and it's funny I doggone it.
I love the planet, please.
I love the planet.
I want cleaner air, I want cleaner water, but i'd love to not wreck the American economy on that altar.
Can I get an amen?
You know we all want clean air.
Our air and water are so much cleaner now than they used to be.
The marketplace everybody's scarfing up uh, you know, hybrid cars and the people to the degree that solar works and to the degree that wind power works, good for it and good for all of you using it.
The marketplace oh, there's that pesky concept again will guide us toward the kind of green technologies that actually work and without a dime of government subsidy.
The only green job I want to see created is the job created because somebody wants to buy an environmentally friendly product.
It's not government's job to create green jobs, it's your job to create green jobs.
You know, go buy a Prius, it's a green.
The guy who made it, it's a green job.
Go buy a solar panel for your house.
Uh yeah that's, that's a green job for the guy who made it and sold it to you.
So that's my way of insulating myself about the mockery that i've usually thrown down about Earth Day.
I Love The Earth, Love The Planet, or Earth Day activism tends to be this man-made global warming panic cult nonsense and the and God has a sense of humor, because I really don't spend a lot of time uh, doing that on every april 22nd because it's my son's birthday.
So you'll forgive me if uh, if this coming Earth day next month, I I shan't be ranting about uh, climate change.
I'll be uh hugging my newly seven-year-old son, Kylli Moses.
Okay, that's Earth Day, uh.
So here's Earth Hour.
It is a global event organized by the WWF.
What Vince Mcmahon?
Is it a hair match?
That's the WWE now.
Remember that lawsuit?
The wrestling folks.
It was the World Wrestling Foundation, right?
They got sued because the Worldwide Fund for Nature was their firstest with the mostest or something like that.
Anyway, how long has this been around?
The Wiki article says it's held on the last Saturday of March.
Here it comes.
And here's what it asks you to do.
Asks households and businesses to turn off non-essential lights for one hour to raise awareness toward the need to take action on climate change.
Well, right there at the end, there's the deal breaker.
Take action on climate change.
Stop it.
I mean, if you want to do something, make the planet cleaner, cleaner air, cleaner water, that's all fantastic.
It may or may not have any effect on climate change.
The notion that stuff that piddly man does can somehow determine better what the planet of the temperature of a planet is, which just strikes me as kind of a God decision at any given moment.
Or even if you're an atheist, it's kind of a naturally made decision.
The scientifically natural phenomena kind of determine what a planet's temperature is rather than the people who happen to inhabit it at the moment and their habits and proclivities.
So as soon as you throw the climate change in there, out.
But let's stipulate that, you know, saving some energy is at least economically a good idea.
Sure, it is.
Absolutely.
But, huh?
Turn off your non-essential lights for an hour.
I don't know about you, but I've been turning off non-essential lights since about 1976.
It drives me insane.
And my kids, I just, I just, it's like, hey, turn off the light when you walk out of there because it drives me crazy because it costs money to run a light upstairs in a room that nobody's occupying.
I'm doing this already.
All of you probably do too.
What in the world is this supposed to do?
So they want you to do something that you're probably doing already.
And not to save you a couple of bucks on your energy bill, but to somehow increase awareness of man's role in the temperature of a planet.
So I've got a thought.
I'm going to do this and you can do it if you want.
It's just an hour.
It's my house and my money.
I'm going to turn on every stinking thing in my house.
I mean, I may run the garbage disposal for an hour.
Okay, probably not.
Not a good idea.
But the lights, I mean, I mean, it is, it's, it's going to look like Pad 39A with a Saturn V on it during the Apollo launches.
And I have a feeling that if others are doing the whole Earth Hour thing, my house may stand out a little bit.
Now, am I doing this as some kind of grandstanding?
Am I doing this as some kind of, you know, juvenile prank?
Okay, maybe a little.
But what I'm really doing is I'm making a statement of my own.
I call it choice hour.
My own, yeah, choice in a good way.
Choice of when I turn my lights on and when I turn them off.
Choice on my money and how I choose to spend it.
You know, if I want to have a big honking hummer, that's my money and my car, and that's it, and you butt out.
And that premise to me is far more under attack than the planet is.
I guess it's everybody at 8.30.
Whatever time.
It's got to be, because it can't be 8.30 all over the place because 8.30 Eastern time in LA, the sun is still up.
Wouldn't that be great?
Yeah, the lights are off because it's dinner time.
Wherever you are, 8.30 to 9.30, that's Earth Hour.
Do with it.
What you will.
All right.
Well, I'm going to do some things with some calls like welcome them.
And that's going to be next on the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show, 1-800-282-2882.
I'm Mark Davis in for Rush today, and you folks are on the radio next on the EIB network.
It's the Rush Limbaugh show for a Friday, dancing the topical macarena through various things on your mind and mine.
Let us head into the Rockies into Grand Junction, Colorado.
Doug, Mark Davis, in for Rush, how are you?
Great, Mark.
Thank you for everything you do.
What an honor it is to be on with you.
And Rush, if you're out there listening, I love you, bud.
I've been listening to you since 1990.
Thank you guys for everything you're doing for this country.
Thank you and I. As far as last Sunday, I went through the gamut of emotions since Sunday.
Initially, I was pissed, then I was deeply saddened, and now I am resolved, and we're going to stop this.
I was wondering, Mark, we need to get as many arrows in our quiver as possible when this comes to battling this mandate in court.
The thing that Virginia and Idaho have done, putting these statutes in place through the legislative body of their state government, that, along with another thing that we're doing out here in Colorado, is we're putting this to the ballot.
We're going to put forth a ballot initiative, and we're getting the signatures around the state to put this on the ballot.
And there's a third level.
You've mentioned two things.
The third prong is various attorneys general are filing suit against it, asserting its unconstitutionality.
And they're very proud in Texas here to occupy one of those states.
Yes, sir.
My question to you is this, because I haven't had a chance to look at it in depth.
We've got a local talk show guy over here in Denver, John Calderas, putting this together, he and a couple of attorneys.
I haven't looked at it, I'm sure it's going to vary from state to state at the effects this will have in fighting this against the federal government.
But the ballot initiative itself, along with the statutes that Virginia and Idaho put into place, I was wondering what your thoughts were as to how this will help us to fight against this intrusion on our freedoms.
It is the best question ever.
And there's some things I can tell you and some things I can't because it involves a crystal ball.
It will ultimately depend, and it's funny, predicting how the public will feel about something.
That's dicey enough.
Predicting how the judiciary will handle something.
Good luck with that.
Because, Doug, ultimately, let me give 30 seconds.
I'll give you 30 seconds back.
Ultimately, judges are going to have to weigh in on whether Obamacare is itself unconstitutional, whether the assertion that I've made that Rush has made, that everybody is making on our side of this, that nowhere in the Constitution is Congress empowered to compel us into a business transaction we do not wish to make, that will either pass muster or not with judges.
And if it seems self-evident to you, let me take you to this stinking Roe v. Wade that's been on the books since 1973.
There's no federal right to an abortion in the Constitution, and that dog's been there for 37 years.
Go ahead.
I'm sorry.
Great points.
Then I go to this, and of course, it's going to vary from state to state and how the Constitution is written up in each state.
But putting this into these arrows into our quiver and fighting this from this level, I was wondering if we, I urge everyone out there listening to get the process going on the ballot initiative if you have that in your state.
I'm not sure if every state has that, but that can only help us tremendously if the people of each state vote proportionally, disproportionately against this mandate.
And in so doing, this will be huge in helping us to fight this.
Doug, thank you.
Appreciate it a lot.
This is an interesting thing.
I was trying to remember the last time that this was so true.
And here's what I mean.
It is a federal issue, obviously, because it involves Congress, but it is a state-level issue because it so much involves states' rights.
The 10th Amendment foundation at which every state and every individual occupying those states can say, wait, a cotton pick in minute.
Anything that is not in the Constitution that gives Congress a power to do is left to the states and to the people.
All right, so let me do this.
And it's a self-serving plug, and it's a service for you as well.
Every once in a blue moon, and smoke escapes from the laptop when I do this, I'm about to give you my Twitter info.
It's real hard to figure out.
It's Mark Davis, all one word, Mark Davis, M-A-R-K-D-A-V-I-S.
Now, why am I doing that?
Because I just moments ago posted something, reposted in, in fact, something I put a couple of days ago, which was my conversation with Greg Abbott, the Attorney General of Texas, one of the Attorneys General, courageously taking this battle of the courts and saying, wait a minute, Commerce Clause, get out of here.
The Commerce Clause is to regulate commerce that's already happening, not to instigate commerce among the unwilling.
The supremacy clause that federal law outstrips state law.
Well, yeah, that's essentially so that one state doesn't give us a voting age of 12 or one other state decide to do something else that's against the Bill of Rights.
The supremacy clause does indeed say that in actual apples and apples conflicts, that federal law will win.
But that presumes that the federal law is constitutional.
That doesn't mean that the Congress can pass any cockamamy thing they want that's not even constitutional and use it to trump a state's wishes.
Anyway, I visited those very topics with, I mean, a wonderful guy, the Attorney General of the state of Texas, Greg Abbott.
And that was a couple of days ago on my local show.
And literally moments ago, stuck it right on there.
It says, reposted for the rush audience, my chat with Texas AG, Greg Abbott on his challenge to Obamacare.
Yours for the perusal there in my world of Twitter.
Mark Davis, all one word, M-A-R-K-D-A-V-I-S.
All right.
And with that, let's see who else we can put on here.
And about what?
Here's a happy city.
Indianapolis.
Got the final four coming.
That's nice.
Nice economic impact.
Local team might be in it if Butler can beat Kansas State.
Maybe Kansas State's exhausted.
I know I am after watching that game last night.
Dustin is an Indy.
How you doing, man?
Not bad.
How are you doing, Mark?
Thank you.
Great to have you on.
My pleasure.
I've just gone.
I'm kind of torn between what to do as far as voting, going to the polls, voting Republican, because for me personally, my daughter has a disorder which caused her to be deathly ill all the time.
And she's only four years old.
And at this point, we've used most of our lifetime cap and our insurance.
And then so with the passing of this bill, the other day, I took a deep breath and texted my wife and said, hey, we don't have a lifetime cap anymore.
And, you know, and the thing a lot of people worry about is rationing and care and things like that.
And for me, personally, you know, it doesn't matter after we hit that lifetime cap, it doesn't matter if there's 40 million people align and one person in line.
My daughter will not receive the treatments, the routine treatments.
She may be able to go to the ER and whatnot, but she'll not be able to receive the routine treatment she normally gets because in this country, she is considered uninsurable because of her diagnosis.
Almost, well, first of all, and I've got to hit the break here in a second, but I'm going to give you essentially your answer at the beginning of the next segment.
No one is uninsurable.
The marketplace is what it is.
It might cost a little something or involve what's called high-risk pools because she's the picture of high risk.
Let me just tell you while I actually still have you.
Number one, I'm so sorry, every prayer for you, but you need more than prayers.
You need a system in the country that'll help you out.
So let me thank you.
Give her a big hug, please, for me.
And when I come back, we'll talk about what's best for you and also the other thing I mentioned last hour.
Mark strutting along, little Bob Seeger and Silver Bullet Band for your Friday.
Mark Davison for Rush.
Rush is back Wednesday of next week.
I look forward, as I know you do too, to listening to Mark Stein Monday and Tuesday here on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
All right, I got two things stacked up like planes over the airport.
Let me get to real quickly, and then more of your calls.
The gentleman we just spoke to.
Behind every nuts and bolts story about legislation and behind every dry analysis of what the Constitution says or does not say, there are real flesh and blood stories that involve people.
Here is a gentleman with a child who is sick.
And he and people like him can listen to everybody's logic all up and down the spectrum.
But I can sure understand how anybody faced with that only wants to know one thing first.
How does my kid get help?
You guys could hang around and do radio talk shows and go beyond CNN and Fox and MSNBC all day, just blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
How does my kid get help?
What is it?
The hierarchy of needs or the hierarchy of priorities that's often documented.
I mean, if your house is on fire, you don't worry so much that the dishwasher doesn't work.
If your child is ill, the minutiae of this argument fade into the background.
So for those of us who are talking about the nuts and bolts of this, we have an obligation to people like this gentleman to make it clear that while it may look with like a hand in front of your face like Obamacare is the greatest thing since sliced bread for him, for his child, and for his family, that long term it's not, and maybe even short term it's not.
Because if you get all misty about the notion of government mandating a certain amount of care right here, right now, that maybe he would have a tougher time getting in the free market.
Okay.
But if she's going to have a lifetime of medical issues, let's check back later and see how that's working out.
When care is rationed, when some government bureaucrat has to decide on whether her life is really that much worth living.
So job one is to point out the hazards that a government-run health care program provides for him, for his daughter, for his family, and then into that vacuum, place the reasons why our private sector ideas are better.
And that's the debate I long to have once we get Obamacare shelved or the people who brought it to us returned to private life.
Because then it's the responsibility of every Republican, every conservative to talk to this man about risk pools and finding a way to have insurance that's affordable for him, even with the very dicey situation that he's presented with with the health of his daughter.
And how in that free market economy, in those private sector solutions, you carve out a path for her, for this precious child, of care that is infinitely superior than what he will get when government is holding the marionette strings.
So that's our job.
And I'll tell you something, all of us who do this for a living, the talk show world, everybody that's in Congress for a living, everybody that's running a think tank, everybody that's talking about it around the dinner table, if you favor, if you oppose Obamacare, favor free markets and favor private sector solutions for these kinds of things, as you offer those solutions, oh, sure, fill your mind with the superiority of your argument.
Fill your mind with the greater constitutional sensibility of what you're saying.
But leave a space in your mind for this man and for his daughter.
Because we sit around and high-five each other in talk showland all day.
Hey, good point about the Constitution, Bill.
Hey, thank you, Fred.
That's great.
We got to make this guy believe we've got to get him on board.
And not just so that our side can win and we can go to the Democrats, pleasant though that will be.
You know something?
Asterisk moment.
You know what?
I don't do that.
We've seen that.
We've seen scoreboarding.
We've seen Vulgarians behaving classlessly.
On November 3rd, the morning after Election Day, 2010.
Oh, will I be happy?
Will I be smiling?
Little champagne court?
Yeah, you betcha.
But I'm not going to get back in these people's faces like they have in ours.
Lose with grace, win with class.
Anyway, I digress.
That winning this battle is not just about a win for Republicans or even a win for conservatives.
It's about a win for liberty, a win for consumer choice, and a win for the kind of quality that this man is going to get for his daughter.
Okay, there's thing number one.
Checked off.
The other thing that I mentioned I would do like at the top of the last hour, excuse me, last call of the last hour was a guy who had said that with the Constitution this crumpled up and left by the roadside, it is irretrievable.
It's done.
This horse is out of the barn and not coming back.
This toothpaste is out of the tube.
And I said, hang on there a minute, if you would, please.
Maybe not so fast.
Aren't there, think of the things that we never thought would happen.
And there are many, believe you me.
My daughter, I mentioned my son, who is going to be seven here in a little bit.
I have an 18-year-old daughter about to graduate from high school.
And she was born in September of 1991.
You know, soon before she was born, I mean, the fall of the Berlin Wall, I was certain as I was growing up and became an adult and worked my way through adulthood.
You know, first of all, I have never subscribed to this notion of, oh, don't have a child because you don't want them growing up in this world, please.
Well, the world always changes.
I mean, I was born in 1957, you know, right after the Red Scare, you know, and then you get into the 60s and all of that mess.
There's always something that you can find about an era that makes it scary enough to not want to procreate, please.
And it's certainly true now.
Especially true now.
Are you kidding me?
You know what?
You want a baby?
Have a baby.
Now, if you don't want one or can't afford it, please don't.
But don't ever, please come to me and say, well, we really want to have children.
We're concerned about the world that they'll grow up in.
Well, look, I right now am enormously concerned about whether my kids, when they grow up, one virtually has already, what kind of liberties they're going to have, what kind of freedoms they're going to have, what kind of economy they're going to have.
But that'll be a function of their generation.
My prayer and my wish is to instill into their generation the kind of energy to reach out and demand the kind of liberty, demand the kind of freedom that will make the country better for them.
All right.
So, anyway, the optimism that I have, I was throwing down some Berlin Wall imagery.
I thought for sure that my kids, my hope was that they would have a good and prosperous country in which to grow old, but that that Berlin Wall thing, that Soviet Union, would probably always be there.
Nope.
All right, let's go domestically.
I know we haven't gotten rid of Roe versus Wade yet, but take a look at attitudes on something like this.
When Roe viewed was passed in 1973, America was enormously cavalier about protecting the unborn.
Today, not so much.
And it's been that way for a good while.
The notion of the deep second trimester abortion, the notion of terminating a pregnancy at or even a little beyond the point of viability.
Most Americans, just a generation or a little over a generation ago, eh, whatever.
Now we are properly repelled by that.
Vast majority are.
There are a ton of pro-choicers who have said, listen, if you ask me, if you were talking to me 20 years ago, I'd have said, hey, whatever.
Now, even the pro-choicers are saying, okay, if you're going to have that window of choice, you better make it darned early because the infanticide and carnage of partial birth and even viability.
It's an enormous attitude change.
That's a couple of decades, but it happens because we had grown more and more and more permissive, more liberal in the sort of the spectrum sense, and political sense about abortion.
But you know what?
The pendulum swung back.
Government grew and grew and grew and went just nuts.
Went from Roosevelt, Kennedy, Johnson, great society.
The disaster of Jimmy Carter.
And then what happened?
Hello, Ronald Reagan, new sheriff in town.
Tax rates up in the 70s brought them back.
Things don't, the train does not always, always keep going in the same direction.
The pendulum sometimes swings.
So why not on this?
I mean, look around you.
All the years I've done talk shows in like 1982 in Jacksonville, Florida, W-O-K-V, from there to the 90s to the aughts, whatever you call the last decade.
Hey, here's a problem.
Yep, sure is.
Anybody can do anything about it?
No, probably not.
Why?
Not enough people worked up.
Okay, next issue.
That's just not the default setting right now, is it?
People are on fire with emotion about this and awakened and active and motivated in ways that I have never seen.
So that's the cause for my optimism.
You know, I could be soundly disappointed.
This could all just go fizzle out by November and, you know, shoot, this guy could win a second term if we go back to sleep at the Switch.
Maybe.
I'm guaranteeing you anything.
But I am filled with optimism.
Filled with it.
And I will keep it until events extinguish it.
All righty.
Let's take some more of your calls.
1-800-282-2882.
We'll do it in just a moment.
I'm Mark Davis filling in for Rush on the EIB Network.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Friday.
I'm Mark Davis filling in.
I'm having a bit of a Dan Benishek moment.
Dan is the guy running against Bart Stupak, whose Facebook went from 100 to perhaps a quarter million in like a day as they learned that he was running against that vile turncoat, Bart Stupak.
Funny thing, your guest host on the Limbaugh Show, and you throw something on your Twitter page, people lunge toward it.
It's my conversation with Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott on my local show here on WBAP Dallas, Fort Worth, a couple of days ago.
And for that and other smatterings that I may throw you, feel free to join me in the Twitter world at Mark Davis, all one word, M-A-R-K-D-A-V-I-S.
All right, that's the last time I'll plug that today.
To the phones, 1-800-282-2882.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Friday.
And let's see, let's see.
Let's go.
South Bend, Indiana.
And Susan, hi, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Hi, Mark.
I'm just fine.
I'm so glad to talk to you.
Well, it's my pleasure.
Hey, I was one of those sleeping giants that awoke, and the exact date was March 20th of last year.
And I've been learning a lot since then.
And this past weekend, I went to a Learn the Constitution seminar that was put on by Americansforprosperity.org.
And we went through each article of the Constitution, and there was a section, and I don't have my material, but it did say that if three-fourths of the states went against what the government was proposing, that they could actually overturn what has never been done in 233 years.
Well, and maybe, okay, could it be?
Because that's, okay, well, we'll need corroboration from a deeper scholar than me.
Let me tell you, let me tell you my understanding about where here's the three-fourths number that's in my head.
Article 5 is about amending the Constitution, all right?
The three-fourths thing that was in my civics class was the three-fourths of the states that could ratify an amendment to the Constitution, which you have to get with two-thirds of both houses of Congress or two-thirds of the state legislatures making a constitutional convention.
If they propose an amendment, that's a two-thirds thing, ratification of it is by three-quarters of the states.
This notion of three-quarters of the states sort of waking up one day and saying, hey, let's try to impede this or that.
It's a bit of a mystery to me there, darling.
Well, I wish I could, you know, quote it, but, you know, I don't know if it's a constitutional convention.
Well, I tell you what, let's do.
Let's believe, hey, I think we have some people listening, and someone will either rush in to help me with what you're talking about or whatever.
Because I would suggest one thing to you.
If a state, right, the state in which I am right now, Texas, the state in which you are right now, Indiana, let's say that in your state or mine, there is a not just that we disagree with something because that, you know, elections have consequences, but we feel something is patently unconstitutional.
Here's a cool word, nullification.
That is your state legislature or mine passing a measure that says we find this to be an improper abrogation of our states' rights under the 10th Amendment.
So guess what?
Talk to the hand or words to that effect.
You don't need three-quarters of the states.
Any one state, its own, can do that.
But in the meantime, I will await as all the constitutional scholars, of course, God help us in that environment.
Constitutional scholars are like, I don't know what the experts on anything else.
You can find three of them and have three different economists, exactly.
Statisticians, my head's in the fire, my feet's in the freezer.
On average, I'm comfortable.
Let's sort of see what happens with that.
But I'll tell you this.
One thing I do know, the sound of a young person jazzed about the Constitution, music to my ears.
Susan, thank you.
Love you.
Mark Davis in for rush.
Be right back on the EIB network.
Funny, funny.
Go-go's vacation.
I say, vacation for Rush.
I don't know.
All I know is he's gone.
That's why I'm here.
And why Mark Stein is here Monday and Tuesday.
So wherever Rush is, God bless you, sir.
Be well, be happy, and get back safe for Wednesday.
Brother Stein in on Monday and Tuesday.
Today is Friday, wrapping up the week, and glad to be here.
All right, a little bit ago, I mentioned the Arizona Quandary, which sounds like a minor league baseball team.
It is the decision that Arizonans have to make in this primary.
The conservatives, the Republicans, you got to figure this out here, don't you?
You have an incumbent in John McCain, who has been a thoroughly mixed bag, measured by a conservative barometer.
But at the moment, his bio-rhythms are exactly right.
He's a valuable and powerful voice against Obamacare and in favor of the war and on all the stuff that's really front of mind right now.
So do you keep him for that?
And guess what?
It ain't like a one-year deal.
You're not getting a one-year extension on the contract.
It's six years.
Or do you sort of give up a little bit in the clout department?
Nothing yet, J.D. Hayworth.
He's someone of some substance, obviously, and plug him in and get a guy who, while he may not be able to get on the news channels with a phone call like McCain can, he's conservative about a whole lot more.
So what do you do?
That's the Arizona Quandary.
So naturally, you would go first to Pittsburgh.
Now, we all care about this one.
Believe you me.
You think only only cared about Scott Brown in Massachusetts?
We are in Pittsburgh with you, Rich.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in.
Welcome.
Oh, hang on.
You know what?
Thank you, Rich.
Sit tight.
Don't move.
Hang on.
Because that would have been horribly wrong.
He would have greeted me, given Rush a nice happy wish, and I would have dumped him unceremoniously because the clock is a cruel mistress.
And it says right now, fill-in boy, get out.
So let me do that.
And let's close up this hour.
I got one more full hour to go on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
And I think by now you know, the first thing I'm going to do is talk to Rich in Pittsburgh.
He's got a thought about what the Arizonans ought to do.
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