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March 31, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 31, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Thanks very much.
Our number two in for Rush today, a Wednesday, 31st of March, 2010.
Rush is back tomorrow.
And so in the couple of hours that we have left, let's combine some of your thoughts with mine.
Agree, disagree, having a good time.
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If you missed the first hour, spend a little time talking about the slander campaign underway against you if you happen to, oh, I don't know, hold the Constitution in high regard, have skepticism about government overreach, oppose the president and his agenda.
It simply must be because he's a black guy.
And this would be, well, it is pathetic, but the first thing it is, is just so profoundly stupid.
Walk into any gathering of Tea Party folks and start to play some word association with who's admired in that room and who's not.
Let me give you some people who are going to get a big tea party thumbs up.
Clarence Thomas, Justice of the Supreme Court.
Occasional limbaugh guest host, Walter Williams, one of the grand protectors of the Constitution in modern media today.
J.C. Watts for his honorable service in the United States Congress.
And I will flat tell you, I'm not even asking for who are the black conservatives that you like, but in every local talk show host, me here at WBAP and Dallas-Fort Worth and anybody else anywhere, if you want to go just trolling for cheap and easy calls, who do you want to be president?
I could do it now.
And of course, you would get your Sarah Palins and your Mitt Romneys and your this and your that or whatever, but there would be an unsolicited underpinning of people who would just love, in my neck of the woods, you got some familiarity with him because he's right next door in Oklahoma.
It just kept coming and coming and coming.
J.C. Watts, J.C. Watts, J.C. Watts.
It hasn't been about skin color for the longest time.
You know, black folks love Bill Clinton and Ted Kennedy by and large.
And the flip side of the coin is they tend not to be fond of Justice Thomas.
And you take a look at, you know, Condoleezza Rice.
Well, you know, she's a traitor.
Her very blackness is called into question because of politics.
Now, where's the racism here?
Where is the real racism?
Is it from conservatives who don't care what color you are as long as your views are conservative?
Or is it the left that is willing to strip away your very ethnicity?
Strip away your very gender if you're a conservative woman.
Strip away any of the things that identify you unless you toe the proper political line.
Mark Stein was talking about this during his last couple of days.
What a plantation mentality that is.
And we're the racists?
Excuse me?
All righty, let's do some calls.
1-800-282-2882.
I've got some audio from Marco Rubio and Charlie Crist on Fox News Sunday.
Let us talk a little bit about that with some callers first.
I've got some drilling talk as President Obama says he's going to allow some drilling off the Virginia coast.
And a lot of other things are going on as well.
Like multi-topic day, Rush's favorite thing, my favorite thing.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Wednesday.
I'm Mark Davis filling in, and let's head to the Sunshine State into Tampa.
Karen, Mark Davis, Infor Rush, how are you?
Hi, I'm fine.
Thank you.
Nice to have you.
This is the part where you start talking.
Oh, okay.
Who I thought won the debate?
Well, as I told you, I thought as a moderator, Chris Wallace was a little biased, seemed biased against Charlie Christ.
So I thought Charlie Christ started off offset by him kind of going after him being down in the polls.
Can we pause?
We've got some time.
I'm fascinated.
Let me pause.
There's a stripe of human nature that I'm intrigued by.
People always think that moderators or whatever are biased against candidates that they like when those candidates get tough questions.
Tell me where the bias is in asking Charlie Christ about his poll numbers when in fact his poll numbers have fallen.
Where's the bias there?
It isn't, but it was just, well, he just started off.
You can either be neutral or you can start off by saying, and you're down in the polls.
It was just the way he does it.
I don't think I was biased.
I think I was starting to watch.
I began watching the debate with an open mind.
I really wanted to see what Governor Chris had to say and what Marco Rubio had to say.
So I believe I was being open-minded.
Okay, and I wouldn't, and I don't begrudge you that at all.
I just was noticing the sound of a phenomenon.
We always think that it's always stacked against people we like when people we like get tough questions.
Chris asked Marco Rubio about the tax returns and the credit card stuff, which is, you know, kind of dogging him a little bit.
Right, it was.
But Charlie Christ, I believe, if I remember correctly, started that questioning, wanted to bring that up.
Now, that could be considered negative.
I felt that Charlie was going negative, but he wanted to bring those attributes out about Marco Rubio, which I have concerned about.
Okay, and you know what?
And concern is not improper.
If somebody's thinking, wow, what's up with the credit card thing?
What's up with some of the record keeping and booking?
That is not a non-issue.
Charlie Crist's enthusiasm about bringing that up is because it's all he has.
His conservatism is as phony as an Obama campaign promise.
His credentials for favoring lower taxes and less government lie crumpled on the floor with his willingness to partner up with this president on the stimulus.
Well, as I see accepting the stimulus was Barack Obama had already, that had passed.
So if the Florida taxpayers have already sent their money to Washington and Washington was going to be disseminating the money out, I feel it was perfectly all right to get those money.
I set my tax dollars up there.
So if Obama's going to be sending out my money, I'd like it back.
Now, I don't agree with the stimulus package, and I don't want to be hypocritical, but if he's going to be doling out money, you know, I want my money back.
All right.
Fair point.
Some folks say that.
Others say on principle, it's dirty money that you shouldn't accept.
But Chris Wallace asked, and I hope you didn't think this was biased.
Chris Wallace asked Charlie Christ, if you had been in the Senate, would you have voted for it?
And he said yes.
So this wasn't just.
I was trying to hear that.
Well, indeed so.
So, all right, let's, so you watched it, and where do you think you are now?
And what's your thought on the race right now?
Well, I think I'm more in Chris's camp.
I have to say, I'm really, really concerned about Marco Rubio and his ethics.
And I believe up in Washington, we have a real problem with ethics.
And if he's done these things with his spending already, I question his ability to be ethical up in Washington.
That's who I am right now.
Do you?
Okay.
And that's not unfair.
And I believe that.
No, hang on.
There's a dot, dot, dot to that.
It's not.
I mean, if there, you look at everything.
You look at what's in a candidate's heart, what's in a candidate's head, and how a candidate conducts himself as a business entity.
I mean, that's absolutely fine.
This is apparently more important to you, and you have the right to have it be more important to you.
And listen, I'm not saying it's totally unimportant.
There is simply no comparison between these men in terms of who's going to stand up to President Obama's agenda more forcefully.
That apparently is something you're willing to subjugate while you find out whether Marco Rubio has crossed every T and dotted every I on his American Express bill.
I think it's more than dotting every I and crossing every T.
Yeah, I think he knew what he was doing.
I think just like Charlie Wrangell knows that he has houses in the Bahamas that he's not paying taxes on.
I think everybody always wants to blame their tax man or whatever.
Oh, my accountant didn't get it right.
Assume responsibility.
Be a conservative.
Indeed.
But wow, if you're going to say be a conservative, and I'm all about sound ethics being a part of conservatism, I guess what I want to hear from you is it puts you in a tough spot because in Marco Rubio,
you have the clearly more conservative candidate, but who may be saddled with ethics issues that make it a deal-breaker for you, forcing you to go with Governor Christ, whose conservatism is a complete fantasy.
Well, I don't know that it's such a fantasy, but I do know that Marco Rubio, and I'm getting to know Marco Rubio better, but didn't he have some issues about raising taxes also, and also his stance, and I learned this watching the debate, his stance on immigration.
I believe that Charlie Christ is more in line with how I believe in not giving amnesty to illegal immigrants.
I have not been aware of Speaker Rubio as an amnesty fan.
But the greatest measure of actual behavior has been this president's economic agenda.
Charlie Crist is a willing accomplice to that economic agenda, and you're okay with that.
I don't consider him a willing accomplice.
I think the money was coming.
I think the money was coming, and we took it.
And I believe that that was the proper thing to do.
So then, then I pretty well have my answer.
Listen, I appreciate you, and thanks for calling the program.
1-800-282-2882.
It's almost a sport.
You listen to what the caller says, and you read between the lines, and you wonder.
I mean, Karen, thank you.
I love it.
I tell you what, I'll spare you my theories.
I give the lady benefit of the doubt for sincerity.
Heard a couple of Charlie Crist campaign index cards in there, but hey, that's okay.
And maybe some more of you will take a different tack or the same.
I don't know.
And maybe on a completely different issue.
We've got a lot going on here.
1-800-282-2882, the Wednesday Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in from Dallas-Fort Worth, proud WBAP, whatever station you're listening on.
Thank you.
And Rush is back tomorrow on the EIB network.
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Enjoyed Mark's time the last couple of days.
And if I sound familiar, it's because you and I were talking on Friday.
So nice to be with you again.
Always nice to be filling in for Rush, who returns again tomorrow.
All right, the last lady having offered up Marco Rubio as some kind of amnesty-embracing creature, let's go to marco rubio.com issues page, immigration.
Legal immigration has been a great source of strength and prosperity for America.
But I believe illegal immigration threatens the foundation of this system.
If I had been in the Senate at the time, I would have opposed the McCain-Kennedy bill.
Boy, just the fact that anything is called the McCain-Kennedy bill.
McCain Kennedy, McCain-Feingold, for the millionth time, God bless Senator McCain, service to the country, and he's great when he's right on the issues.
But boy, if you are a Republican and you find yourself handcuffed, if you're the first name and the second name is Feingold or the second name is Kennedy, what are you doing?
And on campaign finance, that was Senator McCain refusing to recognize that campaign spending is free speech.
In McCain-Kennedy, this was Senator McCain failing to recognize the necessity of strong borders.
Anyway, Speaker Rubio says, I would have opposed McCain-Kennedy.
I believe we must fix our immigration system by first securing the border, fixing the visa and entry process, and opposing amnesty in any reform.
So, nice try, ma'am.
All righty, back to your calls.
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Of course, always the place to go, even on days when Rush is not here.
We are in the Grand Gateway City of St. Louis.
Hi, Rick, Mark Davis in for Rush.
Welcome.
How are you?
Hi, Mark.
Thank you for taking my call, and I can't believe I got through.
I've been listening to this program for close to 20 years.
And look at your luck.
And the day you make it, it's me.
Oh, God.
I'm sorry.
Anyway, I want to take some exception to the idea that conservatives aren't racist.
And what I want to say about that is I would agree that the vast majority of individual conservatives, they're not racist.
But I think the problem is many policies advanced by conservatives have negative impacts on low-income and predominantly minority communities.
Like impression comes.
Like what?
Well, I was sitting here on hold trying to think of an example, and I think I've got maybe the best one that's from right here in St. Louis.
And that is, as you, I'm sure know, in a lot of low-income communities, lead poisoning of children is a real big epidemic problem.
And those low-income children grow up with severe learning disabilities and all the rest of that.
Well, the federal government has provided funding to the city of St. Louis to deal with this problem, and lead poisoning rates among children have dropped substantially.
And meanwhile, you'll hear conservatives wanting to cut funding to these types of programs.
And so there you have the example.
Well, first, let's both examine the incredible narrowness of where you had to go in order to find something that conservatism is about that is somehow racist.
The second thing, and I want to deal with exactly what you said, but the second thing, even by your own phraseology, a policy that quote unquote ill serves low-income and or minority people, that doesn't mean that it was a policy designed because they don't like black people.
I mean, I suppose welfare reform could arguably at the time have been said to be a slap at black people because of the disproportionate amount of black people who are on welfare, when in fact welfare reform is the greatest thing in the world to happen to black people, white people, brown people, or anybody.
Now, I think you'd have a hard time finding conservatives or Republicans who oppose spending a proper amount of money on fighting lead poisoning.
What's the proper amount of money?
I don't know.
If I were to name an amount, I could probably find people who say that's too much and that's too little.
But if you're trying to paint, no pun intended, a picture of conservatism as opposing proper federal oversight over the safety of products, some of which are eaten by kids off the windowsill of a tenement, I mean, that's just inaccurate.
But what I'm talking about is the federal money that comes to cities.
And if you look at the statistics, the vast majority of children here that are poisoned by lead are African Americans.
Fine.
Now, the money that comes into St. Louis does exactly what?
It provides a source of funding to provide lead-safe housing for these families.
And these kids come into the awareness happens when these kids are tested through the city health department.
Wow.
So this is money from the federal government that if a poor family, irrespective of race, is living in some old place where there's lead paint, this money buys them a house?
What does it do?
No, no, no, no, no.
It's used to hire contractors to deal with the lead contamination in the property.
At the very least, come in and repaint the place.
Okay?
Right.
I think that is a magnificently noble thing to do that should be done by the city of St. Louis and the state of Missouri to have your tax money go to doing that in some other state or my tax money go to doing that.
There's a million noble things that we send money to Washington for that then gets belched out of Washington to the hungry birdmouths all over the country screeching for whatever cause they have, noble or ignoble.
That's a wonderful thing to do.
I love that program.
What in the world does Washington have anything to do with it?
Well, what if here in Missouri conservative people say we don't want to fund that here either?
Then, you know what?
I bet they won't.
I just not for a minute do I believe that.
Because if we really do get Washington out of the business of funding stuff Washington shouldn't fund, those of you in Missouri and those of you in St. Louis will have more of your own tax money with which you can address your own problems and let lead paint in St. Louis be dealt with by Missouri, lead paint in Dallas be dealt with by Texas.
And I would certainly think that every good-hearted, sound-minded person would support such a thing.
So the conservative opposition ain't about the cause.
It's about the method of sending it through Washington.
And I'm grateful for that.
Appreciate it.
Grateful for Rush for letting me sit in.
And you'll be grateful to know he's coming back tomorrow.
Okay, back to your calls here in just a moment at 1-800-282-2882.
I've invoked several times the appearance by Governor Christ and Speaker Rubio, Charlie Christ, Marco Rubio duking it out in the late August primary for who's going to be the Republican nominee for the United States Senate.
And let me just give you a couple of snippets of this on how it went, because my assertion earlier was that the reason Charlie Crist is going after Marco Rubio on some credit card issues, and I'm not sneezing at those.
I'm really not.
I mean, if there's stuff he's got to clean up, then he needs to clean that up.
But listen as Governor Christ goes after Speaker Rubio about the credit card stuff and trust issues.
And Speaker Rubio then says essentially, you know something, Governor?
It is about trust.
Whom can we trust to fight the Obama agenda?
This relevant in a race for the U.S. Senate.
Well, if trust and confidence in an individual, what they say and what they do, is irrelevant, then I don't know what is.
This is Governor Crist.
It's very important that people who put themselves up for public office understand that they're asking for the trust of those individuals they're asking to vote for them.
The Speaker just misspoke yet again.
He said all these things have been accounted for.
There are $34,000 in expenses from that $600,000 slush fund that have not been accounted for.
We don't know where the money went.
We don't know what happened to it.
And the Speaker won't tell us.
You know, he claims that it's all accounted for, that these allegations are not true.
They're absolutely true.
You know, the other thing that I think we need to talk about here today is the fact that the Speaker continues to tell us that he wants to work for the people.
He wants to be a good conservative.
I think we can both agree we're both good conservatives.
I think we can both agree that we're both good conservatives.
Governor, not so much lately.
But what he has also done is he's utilized funds, double dipping, as you mentioned earlier, for plane flights.
You know, thousands of dollars where he billed the taxpayers of Florida.
He also billed the Republican Party of Florida.
Only after he was caught did he take the steps, at least he's told us he has, to go ahead and repay the party.
I thought he should have repaid the taxpayers.
That's who he worked for.
It's a real simple difference.
Let me ask you to respond to that and also to the question as to whether or not you are amending your tax returns, Mr. Rubio, to reflect some of these questionable finances.
Well, let's talk about those for a second.
All of that money has been accounted for.
I wish we would have done a better job of reporting.
There's no doubt about it.
And I'll be the first.
It's never good when you're a politician and you say, I wish we'd have done a better job of reporting.
I mean, it's better than I've made off with half a million of your money.
But it's just, you know, that something needs a little fixing when you are saying on a national show, I wish we'd done a better job of the bookkeeping.
But that said, my assertion here is this is all Charlie Crist has.
It's all he has.
And I'm not saying that it's nothing.
If Marco Rubio has a little moment there as a result of not keeping an eye on some expenditures, okay, I'm greedy.
I'm greedy.
Of course I'm greedy.
I'm conservative.
I'm greedy in the following way.
That in my elected officials whom I choose to support, in my candidates, I want them to be true of heart, sound of mind, and flawlessly honest.
That's what I want.
And so in the quest for this, sometimes you'll get folks who are flawlessly honest, you know, but not as conservative as you'd like on everything.
Other times you get people whose ideas and whose motivations seem absolutely great, big thumbs up, but there's, you know, they had a bad moment about some credit card this or some tax year on that.
Okay, and you've set up the ledger sheet, the pluses and the minuses, and see how things are going to go.
It appeared from this Fox News Sunday appearance on this past weekend that all Governor Crist has is the credit card stuff, some of the financial stuff on Marco Rubio, because Governor Crist dare not go to what Republican voters care about most often, first and foremost, and that is which guy's more conservative, Speaker Rubio continues.
Admitted, but it has all been accounted for.
As far as the flights are concerned, even the chairman of our party has said that they were inadvertent.
Now, let me talk about something else, Chris.
This election is about trust.
Who do you trust to go to Washington and stand up to Barack Obama and offer a clear alternative?
In 2006, Governor, I voted for you because I trusted you when you said you would be a Jeb Bush Republican.
Your record was something very different.
You signed a budget that raised taxes.
You tried to oppose a cap and trade system in Florida.
You appointed liberal Supreme Court justices to our Supreme Court.
Who are this?
Who's the Liberal Supreme Court Justice?
Who is the Perry to the Supreme Court?
Justice Terry, who Jeb Bush appointed to the court originally.
Not only did that liberal.
In addition to that, you worked with other corporate groups like that to give felons voting rights in Florida.
And finally, you campaigned with Barack Obama on behalf of a failed stimulus program.
So it is about trust.
Who do you trust to go to Washington and stand up to Barack Obama?
That is, I mean, a grand slam home run.
Every time Charlie Christ talks about, and he has every right to, and there may be a place to go here.
I mean, you know, this will get sorted out down there in Florida.
Talks about, you know, the trust questions regarding how a guy handles finances.
Absolutely.
Understand that.
Marco Rubio is going to turn right back around and just hit Governor Christ right between the eyes and say, okay, you want to talk about trust?
Okay.
Here's what I've done to sort of reconcile my issues with spending on this and credit card charges on that.
And I offer that to the voters to evaluate for themselves.
Here's the question on trust for you, governors.
Can we trust you to oppose the Obama agenda?
And boy.
And at that point, two points for the takedown.
All righty, let's see here.
Let us head to Houston, the town where Barbara Bush came out of the hospital this morning.
Best of the former First Lady.
Edward is in Houston.
Hi, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you, sir?
Yes.
Hello, Mark.
Kate from the great conservative state of Texas.
We're trying.
I wanted to see if you have a comment or tell me if I'm on the right track.
I've been watching the news in the evenings.
Of course, I watch Fox News primarily.
But all the drive-by media is trying to vilify the Tea Party movement and all the conservatives by saying that we're violent and that we're starting commotions.
But when you really look at the big picture, the conservative Tea Party movement is made up by Americans, which are the older generation.
The progressive movement is led by liberal professors that's indoctrinating our children.
And since they didn't have a chance to indoctrinate us, what they're trying to do, and tell me if I'm wrong, is that they're utilizing the liberal media to kind of nudge the conservative party to try to make us mad so that we will start to react by being upset with the people who are going to be able to do it.
Well, if we slander the Tea Party people, maybe one of them will get sufficiently angry that they then do something that we can offer up as exhibit A of Tea Party behavior.
And let's file that under a bit of a stretch for the following reasons.
Number one, the behavior that you're describing, the left-wing demonizing conservatism in every form it can find it, is an everyday thing for more than a generation.
There's really nothing new.
The timing is interesting because the Tea Party passions are fairly front of mind and recent and noteworthy.
The demonization of the right has been going on just for decades.
And so that's it's not like it appears that they've just stepped, they're stepping it up now to see whom they can send over the edge.
Might that be the pipe dream of some?
Maybe.
But I think the first thing that I think they know deep down is the great unlikelihood of its success.
That if you make a Tea Party member angry, the most likely thing that Tea Party member will do is bend your ear for an hour about what the founding fathers want for our country rather than throw a firebomb into a building.
So healthy skepticism, but is what you described on some folks' mind?
Sure.
Well, do you think that with the Tea Party movements, when we're having rallies, that it would not surprise me if the mainstream media is there to video and capture, let's say, they have a plant where they put someone in there to kind of make the Tea Party movement appear to be more violent.
Now we're talking.
Now we're talking.
And I'll tell you two things.
Does this happen?
Yes.
Have people been found doing this?
Yes.
Is it very many?
No.
Here's a reason why.
Somebody trying to pull that, somebody walking.
I mean, I can't imagine what kind, you know, we could all imagine what kind of vivid imagery on a t-shirt or what kind of incendiary slogan on a placard might be the kind of thing that you're talking about.
And the first thing that's going to happen is the people running that Tea Party outfit are going to go to those people and suggest they either lose the shirt, lose the placard, or get in the car and go home.
I've been involved with a lot of the Dallas Tea Party stuff, and here comes another one.
I'll tell you right now, at the thing we're doing in Grand Prairie, Texas on the night of April 15th, at the thing we did at Dallas City Hall last April 15th, part of the plan was keep an eye on this crowd.
And if somebody seems to be kind of wheels off, if somebody's, listen, whether they're a plant or somebody that's just wheels off, we get those.
The left gets those.
Everybody gets those.
That ain't helping us.
That's not what we're about.
And we've got to keep an eye on those folks and either enforce civilized behavior, enforce constructive and non-incendiary messages, or direct them to the parking lot.
And I believe every big Tea Party event that's upcoming needs to keep its eyes peeled for this because will these people do this?
Will the folks who are, and I'm not suggesting Frank Rich will saddle up and ride into some New York area Tea Party event and try to pose as a Hatari member.
But there are folks who, sure, they'll try to do this.
How many?
I don't know.
Probably not many.
But events should keep their eyes peeled for this because there is no hero to the left that will be grander on April 15th than those who are able to infiltrate and get on TV with a picture of with a really, really bad picture or whatever.
And so I'll just tell you, just to wrap it, because great point, let me wrap up the segment as follows.
Whether it's a Democrat plant looking to make the Tea Party movement look bad or someone who is a Tea Party empathizer who's beyond the pale and who's gone across the line of taste, those folks will be dealt with.
You'll be neutralized.
No, that doesn't help the event because that's not what the event is about.
Frank Rich's views to the contrary.
Edward, thank you very, very much.
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Okay, let's return to some of your calls at 1-800-2822882.
We're in Fresno, California.
David, hi, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
How are you doing today, Mark?
Great.
Thank you.
I wanted to make a point that I'm a conservative, and the reason why I support the Tea Party movement is because of George Bush and the rhinos.
I think that the Tea Party movement, they need to start carrying placers against these rhinos because they brought us to this.
They stabbed conservatives in the back, starting with George Bush Sr., read my lips, no new taxes.
And his son did the same thing.
And this is why we're here today, because rhino Republicans, the gang of 14, would let us drill in Alaska.
Gases was $4.50 a gallon.
And then after that, the housing market collapsed.
They brought us to this.
Well, I think you'll find that sentiment in any Tea Party room.
You might find people making somewhat different lists of who the most guilty parties are.
But if there are two things that any Tea Party outfit is interested in doing, it is un-electing as many Democrats as possible and replacing them with the right kind of Republican, namely the people who are absolutely sworn to lower taxes, smaller government, obeying the Constitution, and Republicans who stray from that.
Some of them have tried to show up at Tea Party things around the country to try to glom onto some of that appeal.
And they have been booed.
So I think they're on to that.
Appreciate it.
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Let us head to York, Pennsylvania.
Greg, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How are you?
Hi, Mark.
Glad to talk to you.
Been listening to you every time I have a chance.
I'm on the road, so just to let you know, I really live in a formerly liberal state of liberal compound of Joe Biden until November, anyways, Delaware.
And I take offense to several issues that one of your previous callers made.
And one of those being that I as a conservative have marked as a racist automatically.
Sure, you are.
And I stand on two principles here.
One of them being the fact that in Detroit, because people live in a tenement, doesn't mean that conservatives want them to die because they don't want to have lead paint.
Correct.
I mean, to get rid of lead paint.
I don't think it's a state's responsibility to get rid of it.
I don't think it's a federal government's responsibility to get rid of it.
I, as a landlord, have property in Rhode Island, which is another liberal state.
I had to change the paint and take out all the lead myself.
Well, sure.
And if any principled landlord will do that, you don't always find the highest quality of conscientious landlord in the projects.
The best solutions, the best government solutions, which is often an oxymoron, come from the government that's closest to you.
If a city of St. Louis, where the caller was, or Detroit, or wherever, has a lead paint in the projects problem, the best solution comes from City Hall.
If that's not getting done, I have no quarrel with the state capitol, state officials saying, look, in this city, that city, this city, we've got some lead paint problems.
Let's toss some money into those particular city coffers.
If they want to do that, the best solution is at the city level.
An acceptable level is at the state level.
The worst solution is at the federal level.
Sending it from my pocket in Texas to Washington, D.C. to fix lead paint in St. Louis is crazy.
Well, the state came out with an ordinance that if you didn't fix a problem, then you couldn't rent a building.
You have to have a certificate of authenticity.
Sure, understandable.
And I got to scoot, but I bet even you would tell me there's some state laws that are really hard to break, some that are rampantly broken because they are so easy to break because so few inspectors.
Good point, sir.
Thank you.
Mark Davis and for Rush.
Back in a moment.
With about a minute remaining in this second hour of the Wednesday Rush Limbaugh Show, Mark Davis filling in from Texas.
Let me, rather than give a caller a short shrift, let's get out in style and tell you some of the stuff I envision for the next hour.
Story from a few days ago involved Transportation Secretary Rayla Hood and some comments that had some people wondering if the Obama administration is trying to yank you out of your car.
Not physically.
I think that's on tap for his second term.
No, just with some of the it basically involves, speaking of phony equivalencies, bike paths and walking trails as important a transportation priority as roads.
Also, see a Saturday Mail, Postal Service moving toward five days.
Is that okay with you?
And a hospital in Bethlehem, PA, smokers need not apply.
Did they get to do that?
Good idea, bad idea.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
Stick around.
Lots more to come on this Wednesday program.
Rush is back tomorrow.
You and I are together for one more hour, and that starts next, right here on the EIB Network.
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