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April 14, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 14, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Snerdley, why are you surprised?
He just told me he's read the story about taxpayers re-defaulting on their mortgages.
Our homeowners and taxpayers can be paying for it.
Who knew, by the way, that a 1.6% increase in retail sales was a surge?
Retail sales are surging, a 1.6% increase.
Anyway, greetings, folks.
And here it is.
This is Wednesday, right?
Hump Day.
Here we are, the fastest week in media.
Rush Limbaugh raring and ready to go.
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So Reuters has a story.
Patrick Depends, Leakey Leahy, he's all upset here that the Republicans are blocking a whole bunch of Obama's judicial nominees as though the Democrats have no memory of the savage destruction of many Bush judicial nominees.
And so Leahy and other Democrat senators are urging action now on Obama's judicial nominees.
Let me tell you something, folks.
For the Republicans, it's block and tackle time.
Stop whomever Obama nominates because Obama said he wants somebody who will not follow the Constitution.
Now, he didn't use those words, but when he says we need somebody with empathy, somebody can understand the plight of the poor, the downtrodden, the African Americans, Latinos, other minorities.
That's not what the court's supposed to do, feel for people.
The court is supposed to adjudicate cases according to their constitutionality and other legality.
Now, Obama didn't put it that way, but that's what he means.
He wants a liberal political activist, as many of them he can get on all the courts who will uphold health care.
I think they're concerned that this case will get to the Supreme Court, and they're going to have to have as many left-wing activists as they can get who are going to uphold health care at every level here.
So block and tackle time.
I mean, this is serious.
The nation is hanging by a thread.
So I'm watching TV this morning.
Obama moves all.
What a wonderfully great nuke seminar we had.
Would somebody explain, we've disarmed Canada.
We got another pronouncement waving a piece of paper like Neville Chamberlain.
Yeah, Canada has agreed to disarm as though they were ever going to attack us.
Meanwhile, you want to be haunted?
We had a call the other day from somebody who wanted to know why is Syria never held to account for anything going on in the middle.
Guess what Syria just did?
Syria just transferred a large number of Scud missiles to wait for it.
Hezbollah.
These Scuds have a 400-plus mile range.
They can hit Tel Aviv.
They can hit Jerusalem.
The rockets, the Scuds that the Hezbos were launching last time they attacked from Lebanon and so forth, had a range of 40 to 60 miles.
And of course, they had lousy guidance systems.
The Hezbos had no idea where they were going to go.
They just aimed them in a certain area and let fly.
But now Basher Assad has transferred a bunch of Scuds, 400-mile range, 450-mile range.
Who cares?
Obama not worried about it.
I'm sure Obama probably might even find a problem with it.
Well, what is this nuke business?
Why all of a sudden are we ramping up and talking about nukes?
Why?
Out of nowhere, we have this giant nuke summit.
And then after the nuke summit was over yesterday, Obama proudly proclaiming, and China has agreed to join us with sanctions on Iran.
And so the Chikom said, oh, yeah, well, watch this.
They didn't join us with sanctions on Iran, nor have the Russians.
And just today, a Chinese, a Chikom state oil company, has sold two full cargoes of gasoline to Iran.
One day after Obama's summit, in which he came out and said, yeah, they're going to join us out there.
They're going to join us in the sanctions movement against Iran.
So after it's been announced that the Chikoms sold two full cargoes, cargo ships, big tankers, full of gas, because the Iranians cannot refine it.
They have a refinery.
They have all that oil, but they have to ship it out and have it refined and re-imported.
So Chikoms, I mean, is this not a slap in the face?
Oh, yeah, you're telling the world that we're joining you in sanctions in Iran?
Ha!
Watch this.
Two full cargoes of gasoline.
So the Obama administration is now saying, well, it's going to be very difficult to get China and Russia to agree to sanctions.
Of course they're laughing at us.
You shouldn't see it.
There's somewhere it is.
There's a story today.
I think it's the Washington Post.
How marvelous Obama was.
He's at his best when he's teaching.
He's at his best when he's lecturing.
And it's not very many presidents who could assemble all these rogue nations in one place for two days.
Meanwhile, Dana Milbank, have you seen this in the Washington Post?
Dana Milbank says, I feel, I'm paraphrasing here, I'll get to the piece in a minute.
He says, I feel like I'm living in Moscow.
The press is being shut out.
The press is being shunned.
Obama didn't want us anywhere near.
If I didn't know any better, I'd say it's the old Soviet regime.
Yeah.
Yeah, but it doesn't matter.
What are they going to do?
They're just trying to get BAM to be nice to them.
That's all it is.
But it's interesting.
I'm watching TV today after the Nuke summit yesterday.
There's this giant meeting at the White House over this financial regulation reform bill, Chris Dodds, which if this thing passes, it dumps into Obama's lap veritable power to take over or shut down any American business based on his impression alone of whether or not it's risky or it's making too much profit or it might be in danger of going under.
Obama alone, Congress has ruled themselves out.
They've written themselves out of this.
So he said something that this is typical at the White House, meeting with a bipartisan congressional leadership to discuss financial reform.
I'm also going to be interested in talking to them about our ability to move quickly on a financial regulatory reform package.
I think all of us recognize that we cannot have a circumstance in which a meltdown in the financial sector once again puts the entire economy in peril.
And that if there's one lesson that we've learned, it's that a unfettered market where people are taking huge risks and expecting taxpayers to bail them out when things go sour is simply not acceptable.
Now, one of the things that, and Pete Wayner writes about this, I think, yeah, Obama is going to run for re-election.
The Democrats are going to run for re-election on trashing Wall Street all over again, demonizing Wall Street because they're convinced that a majority of the American people hate Wall Street, especially when Wall Street's announcing big bonuses and big profits like J.P. Morgan Chase announcing $3 billion first-quarter profit today.
That's not going to sit well.
They think so they're going to milk that for all it's worth.
But this is very typical of Obama.
He just said here, we cannot have a circumstance in which a meltdown in the financial sector once again puts the entire economy in peril.
So he wants to be in charge of that, making sure that the peril doesn't happen by closing down a business or firing the board of directors.
He's going to have unrivaled power over regulated financial institutions in the country.
And then he said, if there's one lesson that we've learned, it's that an unfettered market where people are taking, we don't have an unfettered market.
We haven't had an unfettered market in I don't know how long.
See, this is the Obama tactic.
You create straw men and run against them.
You act against them.
So what's he running against now?
An unfettered free market.
We don't have an unfettered free market.
We have a massive regulatory and entitlement state right now.
We have over 50 years of laws built upon laws, departments built upon departments, taxes built upon taxes, and he acts as if we're living in a theoretical free market where all these robber-barren types are allowed to steal and all anything else they want to do from middle-class unsuspecting people.
And when he says things like this, it demonstrates his willingness to say anything to advance his agenda.
Can anybody in this audience name for me a single industry that is unfettered?
Name for me a single industry that's not regulated or that is not taxed or that is not worried about being regulated or taxed.
Government, that's it.
Government gets away with all kinds of things that if they occurred in the private sector, the CEO will go to jail.
Name for me an unfettered business.
Name for me an unfettered industry.
Big oil unfettered.
Big pharma unfettered.
Big tobacco unfettered.
Big finance unfettered.
Big retail unfettered.
Somebody tell me where we have this unfettered free market.
Now here's the dirty little secret, though.
Obama is not so much attacking the free market or capitalism as much as he is attacking the individual and liberty here, because that's the ultimate loss.
When you start piling on more regulations and higher taxes, and then you build taxes on taxes and regulations on regulation, when you get to the end of the equation, it is individuals who lose liberty and freedom.
What he's saying is, with this little soundbite, what Obama is saying is, we cannot have a free people going about their own business anymore.
That doesn't work.
Reaganism doesn't work.
We cannot have a free people going about their own business anymore.
We need an all-powerful, centralized command government, command-control economy, where I and my ideological soulmates determine what's right and what's best for the masses.
What Obama is saying in this little quote here, this little soundbite, individuals cannot be free to live and interact as they see fit because in Obama's view, that's what's caused the economic problem that we're in.
You and freedom, individuals, taking too many risks with not enough regulation.
You can't be trusted to spend your money the wise way.
Only Obama, with now a seven-minute career and no experience whatsoever anywhere in the private sector, has deemed himself to be the only one and his ideological soulmates qualified to make the most important decisions and priorities for the nation.
It's that simple.
That's, well, here, listen, play number 12 again.
I'm just translating this for you.
This is what statists believe when they say this.
I'm also going to be interested in talking to them about our ability to move quickly on a financial regulatory reform package.
I think all of us recognize that we cannot have a circumstance in which a meltdown in the financial sector once again puts the entire economy in peril.
And that if there's one lesson that we've learned, it's that a unfettered market where people are taking huge risks and expecting taxpayers to bail them out when things go sour is simply not acceptable.
That's Fannie Ming and Freddie Mac.
Fannie Ming and Freddie Mac, two government-run private sector entities.
They're now just public utilities, as Barney Frank has said.
So individuals, you and me, you and I, cannot be free to live and interact as we see fit.
Individuals cannot be free to do what we want unless it contributes to what Obama believes to be the most important priorities for the nation.
So in the end of the day here, folks, Obama does not view himself as merely the president.
He's delusional.
He is power hungry.
He is attacking each and every individual in this nation and is accusing all of us of being suspects.
We are the reasons and our freedom are the reasons the U.S. economy is where it is.
And it all started with Reagan.
There was too much freedom going on out there and too many of the wrong people got wealthy.
So it's not only time to cut this nation down to size as a superpower around the world, it is also time to cut this nation down to size domestically and economically.
He is attacking each and every individual in this nation.
The free market, capitalism, if you will, is nothing more than a system by which people are free to pursue their economic interests, their dreams, and what have you, and provide for their families.
That's what it is.
I got a brief time out here, folks.
We just got the ball rolling.
Sit tight.
Back before you know it.
And we're back, Rush Limbaugh, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Okay, since the signing of the treaty over there in Russia, and this provided the Senate ratifies it, the Democrats and the rest of the left have seen to it that the United States cannot retaliate in a chemical or biological attack in kind.
We cannot do it.
They've even shut down the manufacturing, the testing even of biological chemical weapons, just like they're about to do with our nuclear capability.
So Obama's out there saying he's going to end business cycles.
That's what this financial regulatory reform bill is all about.
We're going to end the business cycle.
We're going to end the business cycle because we're going to end risk-taking.
We're going to have a state.
He's going to have a straight line.
So that means, if we translate this literally, that Obama's going to fix it so that a political party can't destroy the economy to get themselves elected.
Because that's exactly what's happened here.
A political party set out to destroy the economy and damage it starting in, well, 2005, 2006, in order to win an election.
You want to know why he bows to the ChiComs?
He can't help admiring them.
He admires the total control and power the ChiComs have over their people.
Let's get something straight here.
The housing market collapsed because of government regulation.
The banks in this country are the most heavily regulated industry of all, and they were before Obama became leader of the regime.
Same with insurance.
The workplace is regulated in all businesses.
Toilets, light bulbs, water usage, energy production and use.
The automobile, appliances, schools, all are heavily regulated.
The feds regulate clothing, baby seats, all kinds of products and devices.
They regulate hospitals, highway speed.
They regulate blankets.
They regulate food and drugs.
They regulate hairspray cans.
They regulate the oceans.
They regulate lakes.
They regulate rivers.
They even regulate temporary ponds on your land from a heavy rainstorm, calling it a wetland.
They regulate the air.
I mean, the question here isn't whether the government regulates, but what the hell it does not regulate.
And for Obama to suggest that we live in an unfettered market and that people like you and me are the cause of the economic problems we face today shows just how radical this man is and ignorant as well as ideological.
This is an interesting soundbite.
Last night on PBS Charlie Rose show, he spoke with the White House correspondent of the New York Times, David Sanger, about China.
And Charlie Rose said, what's going to happen?
What's going to happen to the non-proliferation treaty review here?
The Chinese arrived here in Washington, and the first thing they asked for was a detailed briefing about the health care proposals that were underway in Congress.
And everybody was a little bit shocked by this, and it became clear to them pretty soon that the Chinese didn't really care about the public option or anything else.
They simply wanted to know how much they were going to be asked to pay for this.
And they still want to know the answer to that question.
That's why he's bowing down to Hu Zhintao, the head CHICOM.
You know, in fact, if you take a look, if you go back and look at all these people Obama bows to, they all are filthy, stinking rich.
The king of Saudi Arabia, Hu Zhintao, Chikom guy, they are all filthy, stinking rich.
So the Chikoms get off of their plane at the nuke summit, and the first thing they want to know is health care and who's going to pay for it and how much they're going to have to pay for it.
And they still don't know.
It is that they don't care about a public option.
Well, they sure as hell better care about a public option.
The sooner we get the public option, the sooner we get to single payer, the more expensive it's going to be for the ChiComs, the more expensive it's going to be for everybody else.
Because folks, the reason why it's going to cost the Chikoms, we don't have the money for this.
We're already running a $1.5 trillion deficit this year.
We don't have the money for another $2.5 trillion program over 10 years.
So the ChiComs want to know how much it's going to cost them.
Quick timeout coming up.
600, over 650 Tea Party events are scheduled at this moment for Tea Party Thursday tomorrow.
We'll discuss in detail when we get back.
Hammerback Rush Limbaugh, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
650 tea party events are slated for tomorrow.
And of course, we have this from nowhampshire.com, and this is all over the country.
New Hampshire Democrats are engaged in a statewide search for liberal activists willing to attend so-called tea parties on Thursday and carry signs expressing racist or fringe sentiments.
A Democrat source with knowledge of the effort tells nowhampshire.com.
Now, you think the White House not know about this?
The White House is in charge of this.
This is Obama, the permanent campaign.
According to this source, who sought anonymity for fear of reprisals, the Democrats' last-minute scramble reflects a growing obsession among party leaders.
They need to discredit the Tea Party movement soon or it'll overwhelm them come the November election.
You're not going to be able to discredit the Tea Party movement.
It's too broad-based.
It's too indefinable.
You can't really define the Tea Party.
It's made up of so many different people from all walks of life.
And I find this fascinating.
All of these news stories about how the Democrats are going to try to infiltrate and make the thing look like it's populated with a bunch of racist, sexist bigots and homophobes.
Well, if everybody knows this, how can there be one story tomorrow or Friday about the Tea Party being racist, sexist, bigot, or homophobic?
But don't you just know that's going to happen?
You know it will even.
It's going to defy logic.
It's going to amaze you.
You're not going to believe it.
You're going to think, well, how can they possibly report it when they know it's phony?
They want to report it because the objective from the White House on down through the government-run media is precisely to discredit the Tea Party.
And more and more people, by the way, in polling data suggests that they identify with the Tea Party, and more and more people are admitting that they're part of the Tea Party, which has no formal membership apparatus.
You just show up at an event.
It's a genuine grassroots movement that is not built around a single leader or personality.
Samuel Adams, now for those of you in Rio Linda, that's the brewer, the guy that makes the great beer that you like to drink, had a quote.
It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Does that not perfectly illustrate and explain the Tea Party movement?
Doesn't take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen on, I call them rush fires, keen on setting rush fires of freedom in the minds of men.
That's exactly what's happening.
And the Democrats are openly admitting their fear.
They are openly admitting they cannot engage them in the arena of ideas.
They have to discredit them just as the left has to discredit anybody with any credibility who has ideas which disagree with theirs because they know that their ideas are flawed and built on lies.
Get this.
This is from the Raleigh News and Observer.
Raleigh organizers of a Tea Party event planned for tomorrow at the state capitol are unhappy they cannot carry flags on polls.
State officials fears the polls could be used as weapons.
The prohibition applies to the American flag, the North Carolina flag, or anything else carried on a poll more than a foot in length.
Scott Hunter, the chief of the state Capitol Police, said that the group will be allowed to carry tiny flags of the kind hundreds of people are handed out at parades at 4th of July events.
Laura Long, an apex woman who applied for the permit on behalf of the Triangle Conservatives Unite, said it's sad our country's come to this.
The ban on flagpoles and signs with posts that can be turned into weapons was added in September to the permit from the North Carolina Department of Administration that groups need to hold demonstrations or events on state-operated grounds.
So, where do you think this is coming from when they say state officials?
You know damn well this is coming from the Democrats in the state of North Carolina, and it is a way to blunt, if not stop, the Tea Party.
So in North Carolina now, you get two things that can happen.
No flags or signs on a poll.
Poll could be used as a weapon, don't you know?
No flag, no sign on anything longer than a foot.
So guess what?
All now the Democrat infiltrators have to do is come out with giant polls and put flags that have messages of racism and sexism and homophobia on them because the law-abiding Tea Party people are not allowed to carry anything.
So the agitator, what do they care about breaking the law?
They're going to get away with it anyway.
So keep a sharp eye for that.
In North Carolina, if you see anybody with a long pole with some sort of insulting flag on it or remote message, what have you, it's going to be based and probably the responsibility of these people infiltrating the Tea Party movement.
Let me grab Vinny, hear from Howard Beach real quickly.
Vinny wants to talk about Dana Milbank's piece, which is next up in the stack of stuff.
Vinny from Howard Beach, welcome to EIB Network.
Great to have you here, sir.
Ditto's great one.
So let me get this straight.
I suppose to feel sorry for Dana Milbank, or is he asking for our help or something after he's one of the slime that helped bring Barack Obama to power?
I could give a damn about Dana Milbank and every editor in the Times and in the Post and in the LA Times and NPR that helped perpetrate this fraud on the American people as I watch my country being taken from me every day, bit by bit by bit.
Dana Milbank, stick it up you know what.
I could give a damn.
You put us here.
Now I hope you rot.
That's Vinny in Howard Beach in New York with his message of affection for Dana Milbank at the Washington Post.
Vinny's not alone in his sentiments there.
And you can see by the plummeting ad sales, readership levels, subscription levels of publications, mainstream media publications, TV networks all over the country, magazines.
If you don't know what this is about, Dana Milbank is upset that the press was shut out of Obama's big nuke summit.
And the reason, Dana, the reason you were shut out is that nothing happened there.
The reason you were shut out is that Obama did not want you seeing how inconsequential this thing was.
They wanted you to only have press releases from Robert Gibbs and others who attended talking about how wonderful Obama is, how competent he is, what a great teacher he is.
Nothing got done of any consequence, of any substance.
So Mr. Milbank, they simply didn't want you witnessing incompetence.
They didn't want you witnessing a waste of time.
Here, grab audio soundbite number three.
Dana, this is why you and your press brethren were shut out.
President Obama has wrapped up his successful nuclear security summit.
Today we begin with a complete success.
Summit success.
The president in the White House declared this summit on nuclear security a success.
President Obama is touting his big nuclear summit as a major success.
A complete success.
The nuclear summit with a good deal accomplished there.
Is it safe to say mission accomplished?
That's Katie Couric.
They weren't there.
None of these reporters were there.
Just like Dana Milbank, they were shut out.
They didn't see what went on.
They just have the administration's word for it.
It was a success.
And these are the lapdog media.
They are interested in Obama's agenda being furthered.
Dana Milbank is a little miffed about it.
Dana Milbank doesn't want to write a column based on a press release.
So, by the way, would we ever expect any administration to say, we really botched this on the nuclear summit was a failure.
Any administration going to say that?
The only thing I can, the only time I can remember saying that was Reagan and George Schultz after Reykjavik when Reagan threw down this command order to Gorbachev.
You want to get rid of nukes?
Fine.
Let's get rid of all of them right now.
Maybe it was Gorbachev who said that.
Reagan's, no, no, no, we're not going to.
So that meeting was judged to be a failure, and they came out and said so, but in the end, it was a success because we didn't buckle.
Here's part of what Dana Milbank wrote.
World leaders arriving in Washington for Obama's nukes security summit must have felt for a moment that they had instead been transported to Soviet-era Moscow.
Now, that's an amazing opening sentence for old Dana Milbank, and sadly, it is prophetic.
These world leaders entered a capital that had become a military encampment, camo-wearing military police in Humvees, enough army vehicles to make it look like a May Day parade on New York Avenue, where a bicyclist was killed Monday by a National Guard truck.
In the middle of it all was Obama, occupant of an office once informally known as leader of the free world, putting on a clinic for some of the world's greatest dictators in how to circumvent a free press.
Dana Milbank, state-controlled Washington Post.
Obama putting on a clinic for some of the world's greatest dictators in how to circumvent a free press.
The only part of the summit, other than a post-meeting news conference, that was visible to the public was Obama's eight-minute opening statement, which ended with the words, I'm going to ask that we take a few moments to allow the press to exit before our first session.
Reporters for foreign countries, many operating in repressive countries, got the impression that the vaunted American freedoms are not all they're cracked up to be.
Dana, are you starting to see things the way many of us do in this country?
He goes on to quote here some members of the foreign press.
Laura Heim, France's Canal Plus, which persuaded the White House to include foreign outlets in the press pool.
When you only see the president for 15 or 20 seconds without him asking if you have any questions, it's very frustrating.
Very important for this president who wants to restore the image of the U.S. to have more access.
Obama's official schedule for Tuesday would have pleased the Chikom Central Committee.
Here are some excerpts.
The president will attend the heads of delegation working lunch.
This lunch closed press.
The president will meet with Prime Minister Erdogan of Turkey.
This meeting is closed press.
The president will attend plenary session two of the Nuke Security Summit.
This session is closed press.
Reporters, even those in the White House beat for 20 years, said it was the most restrictive set of meetings they had ever seen in Washington.
They complained to both the administration and White House Correspondents Association, which will discuss the matter tomorrow with the White House press secretary, Robert Gibbs.
The restrictions have become a common practice for the Obama regime.
Over the weekend, Obama broke with years of protocol, slipped off to a soccer game without the protective pool that's always in the vicinity of the president in case the unthinkable occurs.
Finally, Obama walked over to a group of reporters Monday afternoon.
Would he give them an account of his meetings?
He said with a smile, I'll let somebody else do it.
Dana Milbank wants us to feel sorry for the press because they were denied access.
Go back to Audio Soundbite 3.
You've just heard Dana Milbank, and what he wrote is true.
Nobody saw anything happen here.
Not one member of the media was allowed access to anything that took place.
The reason is that nothing took place.
This is all a giant PR show.
And despite the fact that Dan and Billback writes that nothing took place, that nobody saw anything, we have this from the state-controlled media last night and this morning.
President Obama has wrapped up his successful nuclear security summit.
Today we begin with a complete success.
Summit success.
The president in the White House declared this summit on nuclear security a success.
President Obama is touting his big nuclear summit as a major success.
A complete success.
The nuclear summit with a good deal accomplished there.
Is it safe to say mission accomplished?
And welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by showing up.
Get this.
New York Governor David Patterson plans to offer legislation Wednesday to bail out the troubled New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation.
Now owned by the state after years of fiscal troubles, as a public benefit corporation in city government, New York City off-track betting is in bankruptcy court to reorganize and deal with its debt.
When is the last time that you ever heard of a bookie with a monopoly losing money?
This would be like the governor of New Jersey having to bail out the Bellagio.
It just doesn't happen.
How in the world this is the House usually wins?
What a sad, sad, sad testimony to the efficiency of government, even at the state level.
If you can't run a monopoly bookie operation without losing money, you shouldn't be trusted to run anything.
Off-track betting ought to be one of the greatest income producers in the whole state.
They're crying out loud, but bail out off-track betting.
And get this from state-controlled Associated Press.
A flurry of reports out today suggested that many Americans are feeling better about the economic rebound.
Retail spending rose sharply.
It surged 1.6%.
More than expected.
Consumer inflation remains all but invisible.
Businesses are boosting their stockpiles in anticipation of higher shopper demand.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke expressed confidence the recovery will endure, though without enough strength to quickly reduce unemployment much.
So we're going to have a jobless recovery.
Everything they said about a jobless recovery now magically coming true.
Who knew that 1.6% increase in anything could be a surge?
But it is Donna in Hanford, California.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Mr. Limbaugh.
You bet.
I was checking out Obama's numbers yesterday, and I got down to Iowa, and I just kind of quit looking because I'm not surprised his poll numbers are dropping like this because I figured maybe three years in, that was what was going to happen.
What amazes me is how fast it has happened.
I mean, he is basically in the toilet right now if you look at his poll numbers.
It's incredibly fast.
I know there's only one poll at CNN that has him at 50% approval.
I think it was Rasmussen.
That's what I was looking at.
Oh, yeah.
Rasmussen's.
Well, Rasmussen doesn't have any laws.
Somebody's got him at 43 out there.
I forget who it is.
Maybe it is Rasmussen 43.
Gallups at 45 or 46.
The numbers are cratering.
But now, the point of the financial regulatory reform bill, which he started touting today, it's time now to start running against Wall Street.
He's banking on the fact that you despise Wall Street and that if you don't, he can make you hate them.
Because if you look right now, Wall Street doing pretty well, the Don Jones Industrial Average.
The thing that the Republicans need to do to counter this is that everybody is in Wall Street.
We have an investment economy.
You have a 401k.
I don't care what's happened to it.
You are in Wall Street.
It makes no sense for you to hate the place that you park your money as an investment.
We'll be back.
Sit tight.
Seth Liebson, National Review Online, sums up Obama's nuclear summit this way.
We had a summit that accomplished nothing except A, angering the American and international press corps, B, closing down Washington for two days, C, misleading everybody for 24 hours that the CHICOMs were on board with something to help stop Iran when that just wasn't true.
I mean, this just isn't serious foreign or defense policy.
In fact, it's a dangerous, even Neronian policy, except it won't be Rome that will burn.
It will be America.
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