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April 30, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 30, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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You know who I am and you know what this is.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday.
Hosted by me, Rushman Boyd.
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As always, I utilize talent on loan from God while meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
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Go to the phones on Friday.
You can talk about whatever you want.
Not the case Monday through Thursday.
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Email address, lrushball at eibnet.com.
Some interesting things are being gleaned from the financial regulatory reform bill.
Washington Times has an editorial today.
And I'm waiting for the liberals in this country when they find out about this to start screaming fascist like they did at Bush over the Patriot Act.
Remember, they hated Bush because they're going to spy on them.
They're going to monitor their phone calls out there.
That's a civil rights violation, human rights violations, fascism.
They were just in sheer panic.
The next time you make a withdrawal from an ATM, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner might be watching over your shoulder.
Boosted by the sweeping 1,400-page financial regulatory proposal currently making its way through the Senate, Geithner would have unprecedented real-time access to a wealth of personal and corporate financial data, all in the name of protecting the public.
This is the Chris Dodd legislation.
It would create the innocuously named Office of Financial Research as a central repository for transaction-related records held by financial companies.
According to proponents, decision makers like Geithner need up-to-the-minute information to act in order to prevent what they refer to as another Wall Street meltdown.
The proposed agency would also provide statistical analysis and research purportedly to monitor systemic risk to the financial system.
Now, the idea raises a number of red flags, not least of which is the plan's fundamentally flawed premise that a central committee of unelected bureaucrats would be qualified to judge what's right and what's wrong for the economy.
The details of the proposal show that this new agency's mission is not meant to be limited to improving the quality of financial data.
Dodd's legislation would grant the agency director, i.e. Treasury, the coercive power of subpoena to obtain records and rulemaking authority to force private sector firms to maintain their financial records in a format acceptable to the government.
The legislation also grants sweeping authority to maintain a data center that would collect and maintain all data necessary to carry out the director's wishes.
Subtitle G of the Dodd Discussion Draft Bill requires that records be maintained and reported for each branch, automated teller machine at which deposits are accepted, and other deposit-taking service facilities with respect to any financial institution.
The financial institution shall maintain a record of the number and dollar amounts of deposit accounts of customers, and the director can ask to see anybody's account data at any time.
Yours, mine, Warren Buffett's, Barack Obama's.
Banks will be required to submit these records to the new regulatory agency called the Consumer Financial Protection Agency.
It's on page 1041.
The CFPA will be allowed to use this information for any purpose, quote, as permitted by law under CFPA rules.
Again, the CFPA is the Consumer Financial Protection Agency, and they get to set their own rules by virtue of the legislation.
So, the law requires banks to snoop on its customers' most personal information and submit it to another government agency so it can be used any way the Consumer Financial Protection Agency sees fit.
So, if the CFPA's czar sees fit, information about your deposit account activity could be shared with the IRS, immigration officials, state officials, or any other entity that the administration and their various czars think beneficial.
But the CFPA will impact your life even before they give away your personal data.
Remember, part of the excuse for including this authority is to make policy recommendations.
So, be careful not to run your credit limit too high above the amount of money you're depositing in the bank, or the CFPA will know you can't pay your bills and make the appropriate policy recommendations.
Now, this, this is from the big government website.
This is exactly why conservatives have fought so hard against things like a national ID card.
If the government is authorized to collect and utilize data, there's no way to prevent the government as a whole or certain individuals within the government from using the information against the citizens.
And nobody's screaming about this like they screamed about the Patriot Act.
A question is, will they, when all of this is discovered by all of these huge civil libertarians and the ACLU to whoever the hell else is out there on the left?
Because the Patriot Act, that was poof, folks.
Bush and Cheney were fascist dictators.
There were books written.
There were diatribes on cable television.
I mean, the left wanted Bush impeached over the Patriot Act.
So I'm sitting here still waiting for the right to privacy left to speak out about this.
Back now, the audio soundbites take us back here to the Gulf.
David Axelrod was on Good Morning America today.
George Stephanopoulos.
Will this be Obama's Katrina?
Should the federal and state governments have done more and earlier?
This is always the case in Washington that whenever something like this happens, the political speculation sets in.
I'm not concerned about that.
What I'm concerned about is that we do every single thing we can to remediate this problem, to stop the flow, and that's what's going on.
Well, isn't it comforting to know that this guy, Axelrod, is the leading expert here on oil wells and rigs.
So he's not afraid this will be Obama's Katrina.
And the reason is because Axelrod controls the media.
The media.
Remember, the media was out there saying, Bush hates black people.
You had all kinds of elected Democrats during Katrina.
Bush hates black people.
Bush wants black people to die.
Bush wants New Orleans have to be half empty with blacks moving out of the city and out of the state.
Bush wants this.
And Axelrod's not, this is what always happened.
It doesn't always happen, Mr. Axelrod.
Your guys always get a pass.
Now, there are some state-controlled media today that are trying to root stories on this.
There are a couple of them.
One is ABC's The Note.
I'll find it for you after the break.
Yeah, here's a heck of a dilemma for Obama as oil sticks to politics.
With our eyes gaze downward at Florida, this is the Chris Rubio thing.
What if the biggest political story of the week was creeping up toward the Gulf Coast?
Like the scale of the environmental impact, the political impact has the potential to get worse with the sticky, deadly mess that's already lapping on the shore.
The Obama regime, like the rest of the country, was a beat behind.
It took eight days before we began to see the full efforts of the federal government brought to bear.
You believe ABC reporting that?
Eight days.
I mean, Bush flew over Katrina on day two.
FEMA was on their way down there.
Calvin Woodward in the Associated Press here.
Eight people are right in this one.
A containable accident, then suddenly a crisis.
For days, suddenly everything changed.
For days, as an oil spell spread in the Gulf, British Petroleum assured the government the plume was manageable, not catastrophic.
Oh, this is new.
We're going to blame big oil not telling Obama the truth.
They're not going to get away with it.
By the way, where?
Yeah, they hid it from.
They hid it from him.
We were all watching the slick on TV, but Obama never saw it because the BP was not telling him the truth.
Yeah, right.
By the way, whatever happened to putting all this stuff on fire two days ago, all I saw all day was Coast Guard getting ready for controlled burns of oil on the surface of sea.
They waited too long, it got too windy.
And you know what?
I'm, you know, I'm just an average ordinary run-of-the-mill layman on stuff like this.
But it seems to me, if you start this fire, these controlled burns of oil, while they're moving ashore, if they don't fully burn out before they get to shore, you got double problem.
Now you got fires offshore.
You got more than oil-coated birds.
You got oil-coated birds on fire.
Yeah, that Prince William Sound times 10, Exxon Valdez.
And Obama didn't know.
I should have known.
They kept it from British Petroleum lied to Obama.
Oh, government scientists realized the leak was five times larger than they had been led to believe.
Of course, BP lied again.
And days of lulling statistics and reassuring words gave way yesterday to an all-hands-on-deck emergency response.
On Thursday, Obama set in motion a larger federal mobilization, pledging to deploy every single available resource, and of course we see it, do we not?
To the area and ordering his disaster and environmental leaders to get down there in person.
Only a few days after the Coast Guard assured the country there was ample time to protect the coast.
If oil came ashore, warnings from the government were newly alarming.
So here's two reports.
You got ABC, which is pretty head-on, pretty straight.
Here's six people at the APA.
A containable accident and suddenly a crisis.
Hint, hint, it's all because British Petroleum didn't tell Obama.
Obama's the only one who did not know the severity of this.
Here's more axle rods.
Stephanopoulos said, well, look, how about the broader policy implications?
Several of the president's allies, Senator Nelson of Florida, have said that right now the president's call to expand oil drilling should be suspended until the investigation is complete.
You agree with that?
Let's understand what the president has said.
All he has said is that he is not going to continue the moratorium on drone, but he hasn't.
No additional drilling has been authorized and none will until we find out what happened here.
No domestic drilling in new areas is going to go forward until there is an adequate review of what's happened here.
Meanwhile, the Chinese are drilling in the Gulf.
The Russians are drilling in the Gulf in association with the Cubans.
The Vietnamese are drilling in the Gulf.
The Angolans are drilling for oil, and they're not shutting down.
By the way, speaking of Vietnam, folks, I don't know if you know this, but Vietnam marked the 35th anniversary of the communist victory in the Vietnam War with a grand military parade today through the former Saigon, with the government basking more in its economic achievements than its historic military defeat of the United States.
Some 50,000 invitees, many waving red and gold ruling party flags, crowded the parade route.
They marked the day with North Vietnamese tanks smashed through the gates of former presidential palace in Saigon and ousted the U.S.-backed South Vietnam government, the culmination of one of the most seismic military achievements since World War II.
This is the AP praising the military acumen of the North Vietnamese.
Now, there's no evidence here that John Kerry was there, and I wonder why.
No, he served in Vietnam, and the outcome here is, well, he's, where was Bill Clinton?
I mean, these guys, where was Obama?
I mean, this made the order.
I mean, this is the kind of ceremony that you have to have a current crop of Democrats present for could make the U.S. look horrible, which is what they're after, what they're about.
I got a new name for the Democrat Party, by the way.
I'll share it with you when we come back.
Get this, folks.
And this is a PR news with a press release.
Attorney General Eric Holder announced today that he's dispatching a team of attorneys from multiple divisions within the Justice Department to New Orleans to meet with that U.S. attorney and other response teams to monitor the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
The British petroleum oil spill has already cost lives, created a major environmental incident, said Holder.
The Justice Department stands ready to make available every resource at our disposal to sue the oil slick and to sue British petroleum out of existence.
That doesn't say that, but why would you go down there?
They sent a SWAT team and a bunch of lawyers to an oil rig leaking oil.
Now, I know some fishermen down there filing suit.
And that's not going to please the regime because they got to sue the regime here, or maybe the state regime, for failing to protect their habitat, where their business takes place.
Oil-covered birds on fire, just another way to describe dinner.
Now, here's the new name, ladies and gentlemen, for the Democrat Party.
Kind of snuck that in there.
Right, Snerdley?
Oil-drenched birds on fire, a new way to, well, describe dinner.
It's called barbecue pits, grills.
I'm thinking about a name here for the regime's party that's more appropriate and more indicative of the Democrat Party, the way it's operating today.
I thought about the National Socialist Democrat Worker Party, but that's too many words.
But it works, does it not?
National Socialist Democrat Workers' Party.
I think just Socialist Democrat Workers' Party.
Leave the nationalism out of it.
Just the Socialist Democrat Workers' Party.
By the way, what color is oil?
Black?
Oil.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
Black gold, Texas tea.
Well, this opens up all kinds of inquiry.
We get really too mad at the oil.
Okay, to the phones, it's Open Line Friday.
We'll start in San Diego this hour with Tim.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello there, Rush.
You know, I think a great way to answer the argument that only Nazis ask, show me your papers, is just to agree with them because liberals love asking people to show their papers.
You remember, it was just last summer that the Democrats in Congress made U.S. citizens show their residency papers before they were allowed into the town hall meetings.
You remember that?
I had forgotten that.
That is exactly right.
You had to prove that you were a U.S. resident to get into a town hall.
Exactly.
Not just a resident of the U.S., you had to be a resident of that congressional district.
Yes, gosh, I'd forgotten that.
Right.
And they were claiming it was a matter of national security to even allow him into the buildings.
Right, right.
You remember when Joe the Plumber questioned Obama?
What's the first thing that happened to him?
They went through his papers to find any dirt on him that they could.
That's exactly right.
Some state official in Ohio went digging deep to find out what they put out the information.
You remember when filmmaker James O'Keefe, he's the guy who dressed up like a pimp and got acorn busted.
When he went into Mary Landrew's office, they said he was allegedly tampering with her phone.
The first thing they did when they arrested him was demand to see his papers.
And isn't Aunt Zattuni being deported underneath the watchful eye of the Obama administration because her papers aren't in order?
So I think that the libs just love asking people for their papers.
So we should say, yeah, we're going to ask you your papers.
Yeah, well, compare it to Nazis.
Fine.
We treat you that way, too.
You're right.
Only Nazis ask, show me your papers.
In fact, ironically, remember when the White House gate crashers got into the White House without showing their papers, Obama fired the woman who let them in.
So you see, asking for papers under Obama is something that is, you know, a crucial thing.
That's a brilliant, brilliant, brilliant point.
And you have reminded me of something here.
What's that?
Well, when you bring up Anne Zatoudi, Anne Zattouni and her papers, and she's living in veritable squalor wherever while her deportation case is being decided.
And then you have Obama's brother living in a hut, a six by nine-foot hut, even after one and a half years of Obama heading up the regime.
And then we learned the other day that Bill Clinton's niece, Roger Clinton's daughter, is on food stamps.
And these are the people who supposedly have all of this compassion and understanding for the downtrodden.
Yeah, Roger Clinton's daughter's on food stamps.
They have that.
What is it about Social Democrat Worker Party people that their family members live in destitution?
They don't do anything about it.
While preaching to the rest of us about how we are heartless, have no compassion.
But anyway, I like this notion.
Well, yeah, okay.
If you think demanding to show papers is Nazi, fine.
That's how we look at you anyway.
You have to show your papers.
Get a book out of the library.
The library, the only place you don't have to show your papers is when you go into vote or when they put you on the union bus to take you to vote.
Welcome back, El Rush Ball, and the cutting edge of no, no.
No, the see you in November thing that's got no post time on it.
I don't know who sings it.
I know who I ordered to sing it, but I haven't heard it, so I don't know who sings the thing.
Anyway, the National Guard, the Louisiana National Guard, has mobilized to fight the oil spill threatening the fragile coastal ecosystem.
Folks, we've been joking about this or treating it a little lightheartedly, but this is really eight days went by and Obama didn't do anything in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
We've got the Haiti situation.
All we're told that, oh, it's a different administration.
Now we're going to go in there.
We're going to fix that problem.
We're going to fix it up.
Everybody's going to get relief quick.
Nothing's happening in Haiti.
Eight days.
Nothing was done to stop this oil slick or to prepare the people for.
Can you blame the people of Louisiana?
And now it's headed for Florida.
And people there are a little panicked in its path.
And here, I've mentioned this earlier on in the program, but seriously, here we have a president who obviously does not like the job.
He doesn't like running the bureaucracy, managing it, being the chief executive to see that these things that the government is literally there to do get done.
Instead, he's totally focused on advancing his agenda, transforming our culture and our society, raising taxes, redistributing wealth, all of these other things.
And nobody is at all upset about it.
I mean, Bush had flown over Katrina days before Obama did anything about this.
The FEMA was down there as soon as they could get in, and still Bush was beat up.
Bush hates black people.
Look, there's still black people down there.
Can we say that Obama doesn't like them?
Paul Krugman, Paul Krugman, the New York Times on his blog today tried to make a satirical say, just wait, just wait till the Republicans start blaming the oil slick on Obama.
Paul, we haven't blamed the oil slick on Obama, but you did blame the hurricane on Bush.
You blamed the hurricane on Bush, and you blamed the global warming for the hurricane.
You blame Bush for not caring.
You people on the left obviously do not hear yourselves.
Here is last night, the news hour with Jim Millara, but Jim Mullara wasn't there.
The fill-in anchor was Jeffrey Brown.
He spoke with correspondent Tom Bearden about the oil spill in the Gulf.
The question, you're hearing some anger from people about the level of speed of response.
There's great concern among some people that this is, at least in the early stages, a repeat of the lack of response that occurred in Hurricane Katrina.
The president of Blackamitz-Perry says he's very afraid that there's a lack of coordination and leadership being exhibited here, much the same way he saw occurred in Hurricane Katrina, and things are just not happening fast enough.
Oh, not happening.
Obama's not doing anything.
He went through the timeline.
He's not doing anything.
He addressed it today for 30 seconds and then spent the next three minutes touting this so-called great report on economic growth the past quarter.
Here is on Mess NBC today.
Bill Nelson, Democrat Florida, was asked, okay, we got news.
The White House is saying no oil drilling in new areas will go forward till a review of this spill is finished.
Are you satisfied with that?
No, they've got to go further.
They've got to suspend their five-year plan for exploration and seismic testing until we get to the bottom of this and find out what happened.
Now, as the White House looks down the line, it wants a climate change bill later on this year.
Lindsey Graham was insisting that there's going to be offshore drilling.
I think that's dead on arrival.
And just as our first caller of the day from Houston said, yeah, and they're just happy as they can be in the White House about this.
Just rubbing their hands together in glee.
What better way is there to now get gasoline as we head into the summer driving season?
Is it reasonable to expect, ladies and gentlemen, that we might get close to $4 a gallon gasoline?
They start talking about the size of this spill equaling that of the Exxon Valdez if they're unable to stem the tide of this leak for the next 10 days or so.
And here's a Democrat senator from Florida who wants no progress whatsoever on energy.
So the next question: well, look, Mary Landrew points out these spills are very rare, a spill rate of 0.001%.
Most of the time, oil is produced and transported safely.
What do you say to that?
Well, look at the potential magnitude.
And why did not the backdrop safety mechanisms work?
This thing is moving east now toward Florida.
I can tell you, people down here are panicked.
Our tourism, our pristine beaches, our bays and estuaries where so much of marine life is spawned, our military testing and training area, the largest for the military in the world.
All of these things are threatened.
Well, okay, what are we going to do about it, Senator Nelson?
I mean, the leader of the regime's out there touting his great economy.
And he's sending Janet Napolitano to do what?
He's sending SWAT teams down there.
The Justice Department's sending lawyers down there.
Louisiana's dispatching a National Guard.
What's being done about it?
Doesn't seem very much.
Jeff in Thailand on the EIB network.
Welcome, sir.
Nice to have you with us.
Hello, Rush.
Yeah, right here.
I'm calling on my Magic Jack computer.
And I'm calling because I am a teacher here in Thailand.
I've been working here for three years.
And every year I have to renew my visa.
I have to renew my work permit.
And I have to provide all sorts of documentation just to meet the criteria to be a teacher here in Thailand.
Every time when I have to leave the city, I'm in Hadi.
Hadi is 12 hours south of Bangkok near the Malaysian border.
Every time when I have to leave the city, I have to bring my passport.
Meaning you have to have your papers with you at all times.
Yes.
I have to have my papers with me at all times.
If I overstay my visa, I get fined.
I can go to prison or I could get deported.
If I break my work permit, I have to leave the country.
So, I mean, here we have Thailand, a second-world country at best, more likely a third-world country with what you see in Bangkok with the red shirts and the yellow shirts, has more control on immigration, more policies in regards to immigrant workers than America.
Yeah, but this is the reason for this, Jeff, is that whoever's running Thailand is not interested in your vote.
The people here in the United States in our government are interested solely in these people's votes down the road.
That's why they're not enforcing the law, and that's why they're not securing the border.
Exactly right.
I mean, it's so frustrating because, I mean, I see America just going down the race drain here in Thailand.
And I mean, I'm glad to be here because at least I have a job.
I mean, I'm faced.
I mean, my wife and I, who's a Filipino, who is also a teacher here in Thailand, I don't want to go back to America with 15% unemployment.
I'm glad to be here.
Yeah.
Interesting.
So he's an ex-pat over there, 12 hours south of Bangkok, which is where the action is in Thailand.
That's quite interesting.
All the hoops he has to go through just to stay there and just to stay legal.
You know, we are always told, by the way, Jeff, thanks very much for calling.
It's amazing that he got through his Cracker Jack computer there all the way from Thailand.
I should have asked him what time it is, but I can go look on my own computer and find out.
Anyway, we are always told that prejudices like racism, sexism, homophobia are so terrible.
And that's just terrible.
And those things are associated with the way we deal with illegal aliens.
That we're being racist or sexist or what have you.
Well, illegal aliens, there's nothing racist or sexist about this at all.
It's a behavior.
They're not born that way.
They're not born illegal aliens.
It's a behavior.
How can there be racism or sexism or any kind of bigotry tied to it?
It's just another way that the left is using their Cracker Jack shifting of language here to try to plaster people who support U.S. law as somehow racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes.
Okay, welcome back.
It's Rushlin Baw.
This is Open Line Friday.
Everybody is excited about this November election.
We are all waiting for the next electoral opportunity that we have, right?
That is white comedian Paul Shanklin with a parody of The Happening See You in September, a song that I played on the radio as a struggling young disc jockey back in Missouri.
Yeah, it was 60s.
It was in the 60s.
Exactly right out there, Snirdly.
I mean, I might have played it as an oldie, but I played it.
Now, Time magazine has their 100 most influential people, the people of the year.
I was on the list last year.
I didn't go.
Just like I'm not going to go to the White House Correspondence Dinner tomorrow night.
I don't go to these things.
Because why am I going to go pal around with a bunch of people I know don't like me?
Why am I going to hang around with a bunch of people, in fact, I know who hate me?
Why do this?
And why go to an event and pretend that we're all good buddies for a couple hours and then get up the next morning and start savaging each other again as though previous savaging hasn't happened.
Why do I go hang around with a bunch of people who've called me racist, who've lied about me during that St. Louis Rams perk?
Why do I want to hang around with people like that?
So the same thing with the Time magazine thing.
I mean, they always have a couple token conservatives in there, and this year it's Beck.
Beck, I think, is number 76 in the top 100.
Bill Clinton is at number one in American heroes on this list, and they always have other people write little blurbs.
Like Beck wrote about me last year.
Bono writes about Bill Clinton.
Listen to this.
There are professors who pretend to be populists and populists who pretend to be professors, but there have never been a head and heart so perfectly matched as the pair within William Jefferson Clinton.
It's an impossible equilibrium.
Wonky intellectual meets oh hell card player, oxygen and hydrogen.
Now, get this, this next sentence, and I defy anybody to tell me what this means.
He defies the laws of physics as his daily exercise, but without him, the universe just wouldn't be as friendly to humans.
I'll read that to you again.
Bono, the new Monica Lewinsky.
Because, I mean, this, folks, this is a Lewinsky of the First Order here.
I mean, this Bono wants something here.
Bill Clinton defies the laws of physics as his daily exercise, but without him, the universe just wouldn't be as friendly to humans.
Bono just don't wear a purple dress to the party.
All right, no surprise here, folks.
A federal judge in Chicago has refused to issue a subpoena for President Barack Obama to testify at former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's political corruption trial.
The judge, James Zagle, ruled today that lawyers for Blagojevich, sorry, had not produced sufficient evidence that Obama would have anything material to say on the witness stand.
Well, that's probably true, no matter what the subject.
But still, it's a sad day for Blago.
This isn't going to end well for him.
Look at him.
He says, he's up against the regime.
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