Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Oh, no.
Oh, no, it just can't be.
The saw got stuck.
The saw that they're cutting through the riser down there on the rig and Obama's bay of rigs.
The saw is stuck.
What do you do about this?
Well, if you're Eric Holder and Obama, you probably announce an investigation into the saw manufacturer with the intent of finding them and maybe putting them in jail.
That's the Obama school of problem solving.
When there's a result that you don't like, you put your boot on their neck and then you launch a criminal investigation into them.
And at the same time, you try to destroy the company.
You sue British Petroleum.
You sue the saw manufacturer.
You sue the company that distributed the saw.
You sue the company that delivered the saw and the people who lowered the saw to the bottom of the Gulf.
And then you sue the robot that's maneuvering the saw and anybody else had any connection to the damn saw.
And then Maudia Malia can ask a second question.
Daddy, Daddy, did you fix the saw yet?
Greetings, my friends, and welcome, Rush Limboli, EIB Network.
And hump day, the middle of the week, you get this day behind you.
You are over the hump.
You know, folks, it was supposed to be so different.
Is there anything going right?
Is there one thing?
Is there one what?
With Obama, there's not one thing going right.
Not one.
It was supposed to be so different.
It was supposed to be a magical time.
Camelot 2.
Last Kennedy brother.
Remember all that.
This, this is just, this is just, I don't know, folks.
The ChiComs have told us, don't bother showing up here.
We got other more important things to do.
The ChiComs have just flipped us off from across the Pacific Ocean.
The ChiComs have turned down a proposed fence mending visit by the U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates during his trip in the region.
He's going to be in the neighborhood.
And the ChiComs are not acting like Mr. Rogers.
The ChiComs act like they got a moat around the castle.
Don't bother us.
Some American officials describe this as a snub to protest U.S. arms sales to Taiwan.
Beijing has delayed several high-level military exchanges since January when the Obama administration notified Congress of a plan to sell Taiwan up to $6.4 billion in arms.
And now, folks, remember, this is classic.
It was what, just two weeks ago, that the ChiComs were here having conferences with us on various things, human rights, the Arizona law, a number of things.
Remember, we had this clown, wasn't it, Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State.
It's no big deal for communist countries to come here and rip us to shreds.
That's always happened.
Soviets did it.
The ChiComs do it.
Hugo Chavez does it.
Vidal Castro does it.
But in my lifetime, this was the first time an administration had ever agreed with them.
This guy, Posner, said, yeah, you know what?
You guys have a point.
We really can't complain too much about your human rights violations.
We got our own embarrassment here, the Arizona immigration law.
And everybody was just, what's going on?
And so even though we extend an olive branch, even though we agree with the ChiComs that we as a nation suck on the whole concept of human rights, they still snub us When we want to have a meeting with them about whatever it is involving the military, military ties.
I mean, the very thing that Obama thinks is going to endear us to these enemies of ours, these competitors and foreign nations.
Yeah, just tell them what they want to hear.
Agree with them that the United States sucks and that it always has.
But with Obama here, we're going to make it back.
That doesn't even work.
There is nothing going right.
Not a thing.
There's an interesting long piece today, The American Spectator by Peter Ferrara, who is, I can't read the whole thing to you, but you should read it.
I'll give you excerpts.
It's all about how his theory that Obama is going to have to resign before 2020.
He won't even make it to the reelection because everything is, it's such a disaster.
The economy is a disaster.
You know, Obama put out, every time Bush had the national security paper that they put out every once in a while, every time Bush did that, it made it into the public big time.
Well, it turns out that Obama just released one, but it hasn't been made public.
But Mike Gerson, who now is a columnist of the Washington Post, has read it.
He had such an exciting Memorial Day that he read Obama's National Security Strategy memo over the Memorial Day weekend.
And in this memo, Obama sets a new precedent in a national security, which is always about military and foreign threats, intelligence.
Obama talks about how domestic policy that needs to be fixed threatens national security.
We got to do cap and trade.
We have to expand health care.
And if we don't do these things, our national security is threatened.
And Gerson said, this is unseemly.
This is unheard of.
This has never been done before.
You rip your own country in a national security statement.
And in the process, he acknowledges that Obama is in the midst of destroying the private sector.
And Michael Barone today, Michael Barone, who is the dean of civility, the dean of moderation in the media, even though he's an opinion guy, just comes right out in the Washington Examiner and says, my God, folks, it's the Chicago Way in Washington.
And he describes what the Chicago Way is with Alinsky.
He says, in Chicago, the whole point of Chicago is you plunder the private sector because it's always going to be there.
You threaten them and you give the voters political theater acting like you hate this industry or that industry while you're in bed with the big guys running that industry.
He says, look, the voters need to lose political theater.
So we're going to rip you to shreds here, but under the table, we're still buddies.
He said, that's what's going on.
The problem is there was always America to bail out Chicago.
But now where do we go when Obama has turned the country into Chicago?
Where do we go to bail out what Obama's not having?
It's a striking piece coming from Baron.
This would be the equivalent of Charles Krauthammer becoming a berther.
Don't misunderstand.
Do not report that I have said Charles Krauthammer is a birther.
He's not.
I'm making a point.
Dick Morris is out today with a column in the Hill talking about Obama's sheer worthlessness, his sheer incompetence.
Chris Matthews is out describing this oil spill not as whatever his name is Bush's Katrina.
The oil spill is Carter's Iran hostage crisis.
Carter looked inept, incompetent, and Obama looks the same way.
Now, neither of these two mention the fact that it was I, El Rushbow, behind this, the golden EIB microphone, that said long before the Immaculation that this was simply going to be the second term of Jimmy Carter.
So the ChiComs, the ChiComs have snubbed us.
We're in the neighborhood and they're saying, nope, we don't have time to see you.
I mean, this is like, I mean, it's pathetically funny.
It's, you know, it's like the Girl Scouts coming to your front door to sell cookies.
You're saying, get out of here, kid.
And then, ladies and gentlemen, Al Gore and Tipper, amidst all of this, separated 40 years of marriage.
The interesting thing about this, you can't say, you know, they just didn't really know each other.
They got married too soon.
The lives changed just way too much.
40 years.
40 years and you split up.
That is not comforting.
I mean, listen to Sally Quinn.
She's the social doyen of the nation's capital.
Sally Quinn yesterday on the CBS Early Show.
Oh, by the way, the CBS early show, CBS.com, the website, blaming Bush for the split up.
I'm not kidding you.
Not some kook, not some kook fringe blog.
CBS is blaming Bush for the Al Gore-Tipper separation.
Why Florida 2000?
Because the presidency was denied Al, and he's never, ever gotten over it.
He never, ever will get over it.
And the marriage just suffered.
It was like losing two children to death.
You can't put a marriage back together after this kind of thing.
It's a horrible thing.
Sally Quinn on the CBS Early Show was asked a question by the fill-in host.
What happened here?
This caught everybody off guard.
I'm sure it caught you off guard as well, Sally.
Totally.
And the interesting thing is that usually when something like this happens, you get a sense of glee, people sort of saying, I told you so, or I knew it, or whatever.
I have only encountered sadness.
And as you can imagine, I've been on the phone with friends ever since I heard it yesterday.
And everyone feels as though somehow their own marriages have split up.
It's, you know, watching the gores is sort of looking at the possibilities of what a good marriage could be.
And when it doesn't work for them, you sort of think, oh my God, maybe it's not possible.
So Sally Quinn thinks, if they split up, you know, are Ben and I going to split up?
I mean, if Al Gore and Tipper can't make it, what about Ben and me?
Everybody is also saying, how the hell does this happen?
How do the Clintons outlast the Gores in the marriage sweepstakes?
I mean, of all the couples you would think might have some problems there.
You would think Bill and Hillary.
But I mean, this is just, folks, Washington is so incestuous.
I don't understand thinking like this.
The interesting thing is that usually when something like this happens, you get a sense of glee.
I told you so.
I knew it.
But I've only encountered sadness.
And as you can imagine, I've been on the phone with friends ever since I heard it.
It's all as though their own marriages have split up.
How many of you, I must ask, how many of you who have known friends who got divorced felt like your marriage was dissolving at the same time?
Any of you?
Any none of you, nobody, you know what you're thinking about when a friend, a couple of yours that gets divorced?
You think, okay, which one of them do we like best?
Which one are we going to continue to socialize, or which one are we going to ostracize?
That's what you're thinking.
You're not thinking, oh my God, oh my God, my marriage is in trouble too.
Why, Biff and Sally here just split up.
By the way, Ed, our microphones were inside the Gore house recently.
Give you an idea of what might have actually gone on.
You have that ready up there, Ed?
You hear, listen to this.
Behind the scenes, the Al Gore Palatial Mansion.
And here we are in the Politico.
A model political marriages end.
The public Gores were a model American family, handsome and successful.
Their Christmas cards featured four attractive children, three daughters, and a son.
But they were also easy to identify with.
An ordinary American family, accessible because of their occasional problems.
Do you believe this?
They struggled with their weight.
Their son Albert was busted with marijuana at St. Albans.
The Washington screwal, his father had attended.
Tipper, toward the end of the Clinton years, opened up about her struggle with depression.
Their life together helped make Gore the Paul McCartney of the Clinton administration, the normal, likable one.
I fancy, what?
The Gores get divorced because of a hanging chad, folks.
That's the story.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
I can't, I can't, I really can't believe it's going to be up to me to explain all this.
All right?
You want me to explain it to you?
The Gore divorce.
I'm stunned.
None of my bright, overrated staff understand what really happened here.
You separate after a 40-year marriage.
I mean, I mean, that's just, that's not done.
How often do you hear about that?
Now, what it means to me, this is pure wild guess speculation, but it's also intelligence guided by experience.
If you are separating after 40 years, it means that there's been trouble in paradise for many years.
However, look at what's happened now: the kids are all gone.
They're out of the nest.
She stood out of the way and let Al Gore make his gazillions.
She gets out just before Al Gore starts a drooling old man part of his life.
She's rich and she's got her whole life ahead of her.
Now, does that matter?
Does it matter, Snerdley, that she doesn't matter?
It doesn't matter.
What matters here is, you think I'm being too cynical about this, Dawn?
Ah, see?
Well, okay.
If you don't want to buy that, then you come up with your own theory.
And admit that you don't have one.
You are as puzzled as everybody else.
That's my wild guess.
I mean, no, she wasn't afraid he's going to run for president again.
She'd probably be happy about that in one way or another.
By the way, folks, I must tell you, the Daily Caller story today, White House misses early deadlines in Obamacare implementation.
This is just a sign of what is to come.
The government cannot do this.
They cannot do it well.
They can't do it, period.
It's simply too big.
It's too full of incompetence from the White House on down.
Critics say missed deadlines and other signs show the Obama administration stumbling out of the gate on its early steps to implement the president's health care law.
The Department of Health.
By the way, do you really understand?
I had this in the stack the other day.
Didn't get to it.
The Democrats are doing everything they can to avoid the term Obamacare.
They don't want that term.
The White House doesn't want it used.
The Democrats over in Congress don't want it.
You don't like Obamacare, even though he's spearheaded.
In Pittsburgh today, get this.
Obama's going in to make a speech at Carnegie Mellon University.
From the Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Congressman Jason Altmeyer and Tim Murphy have previous engagements.
Senator Bob Casey Jr., Representative Mike Doyle are out of town on anniversary trips with their wives.
Allegheny County Executive Don Onorato will be campaigning in Philadelphia.
Even Ben Rothlessberger will be at practice.
Dan Rooney is in Ireland.
When President Obama and Senator Specter land at Pittsburgh International Airport today, only the mayor, Luke Ravenstahl, will receive them by himself.
The rest of the region's top elected officials declined White House invitations to attend Obama's speech at Carnegie Mellon University this afternoon.
The White House, Billed Obama's speech is a follow-up to his economic address at Georgetown University on April 14th, 2009, less than two months after he signed a porculus bill.
So this is a follow-up speech to a speech in April of 2009, Obama's last trip to Pittsburgh, September 24th and 25th, when the city hosted the Group of 20 Economic Summit.
No elected officials accepted the invitation to be with Obama when he lands at the airport, gets off Air Force One.
He's not flying commercial, nor are they going to be in the audience where he can introduce them at Carnegie Mellon University.
None of them, just the mayor, not even Senator Bob Casey.
Zip Zero Nada.
White House misses early deadlines in Obamacare implementation.
Wait till you hear some of the details of this.
Thank you.
Thank you and welcome.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Barack Obama, Carnegie Mellon University today, lecturing on the economy.
My gosh, folks, I mean, that's a fate worse than waterboarding.
That would be like having to listen to Al Capone lecture on the repeal of prohibition.
I mean, this is just absurd.
What can he possibly tell people about the economy except how to destroy it?
Anyway, we had a drive-by caller could not go on the air who thinks, ladies and gentlemen, that I, El Rushbo, am the reason for the Al Gore-Tipper divorce.
Here is his reasoning.
One, I have exposed the global warming hoax, which means that Al Gore will be broke in a matter of years.
So Tipper is simply getting out while she can still get the loot.
Because if she gets out after Al Gore goes broke, after he gets hit up by the hoax, then she got nothing.
So rather than Bush being to blame for this, as CBS says, because of Florida 2000, more likely that I have been a greater factor in this than even Bush.
All right, critics say missed deadlines and other signs show the Obama administration stumbling out of the gate on its early steps to implement the president's health care law.
The Department of Health and Human Services has already missed as many as four deadlines under the law, not on any major regulations, but still a worrying trend, critics say.
Congressional staff and industry representatives also been asking Health and Human Services for a timeline specifying when it will issue the numerous regulations required by the law.
They were shocked to find the agency has not produced such a document.
They probably haven't read it.
The only people who have read it and have acted on it according to the law are these companies that have taken major charges against their bottom line because of the tax changes in this law and some of the copay differences regarding prescription drugs for seasoned citizens.
Look at they haven't read the Arizona immigration law and they're out there trashing that.
What do you bet that Health and Human Services hadn't even read this?
Can Kathleen Sebelius sit down long enough to read over 2,000 pages of this law and understand it on her own?
Everybody knew from the outset this was a boondoggle, a debacle waiting to happen, a nightmare.
The details don't matter.
That's another thing of the Chicago Way.
Details don't matter, just get it done and whatever goes wrong, fix it later, while you promise even more services, an even bigger government, while you plunder the private sector even more.
The issue is important here because vast industry sectors are trying to plan their own implementations of the health care law.
Most of the details remain in bureaucrats' hands, leaving a vacuum of uncertainty about the final burdens the law will impose.
Well, here's one little factoid for you.
I've read portions of this law and it's vague on purpose.
There are, I have to look it up again.
I don't know how many, there are hundreds of references to the fact, as the secretary shall determine, meaning the health and human services secretary, meaning at present, Kathleen Sebelius, as the secretary may decide, as the secretary may determine.
Now, one of the things that was fascinating about this law, just as is fascinating about recent legislation, is how Congress, Democrats, and Congress are totally surrendering power to the executive branch here.
And, you know, separation of powers, that's always been a major fight the branches have had.
And the Democrats are just turning it all over to Obama and his czars and his bureaucracies.
This doesn't surprise me a bit.
Nobody's read it.
They don't know what's in it.
They didn't care.
They had to get it.
It was a political achievement.
They'll deal with the problems and details later on.
Meanwhile, industry people are pouring through this to find out just how hell it's going to hurt them.
You know what one of the upshots of this is going to be?
And it's a story in the stack from yesterday.
I'll see if I can find it.
One of the upshots of this bill and the economic destruction that's taken place, we are going with 10% unemployment for as far as the eye can see.
One of the things we're going to see is a systemic change, structural change in employment.
Many demographers, business analysts expect that the old formula of a full-time job with two or three weeks vacation a year, whatever number of sick days, the health benefits package, forever gone.
That model is going to change.
More temporary, part-time workers, and one of the reasons is this health care bill.
It simply is too expensive to have the standard employment model that we've used since World War II.
Even prior, but World War II saw the introduction of health care benefits provided, withholding of taxes from your paycheck, so forth.
And it's a nightmare.
And now they've missed some deadlines, and nobody even knew what the deadlines were, and they don't even know what the details are that they have missed.
The missed deadlines include creating task forces on breast cancer and Alaskan health care, publishing a list of new authorities granted under the law, and setting a schedule for a government accountability office study and financial audit.
All this is supposed to have been done, and it hasn't been done.
HHS spokeswoman Jessica Santillo noted the administration had already implemented numerous parts of the healthcare law in advance of the deadlines.
While missing the deadlines, the administration has found time to send promotional material touting the law's benefit, including a brochure for seasoned citizens and postcards from the IRS advertising tax breaks under the law.
The brochure for seasoned citizens may improve the law's perception among lawmakers.
The 111th Congress is the oldest in history by average age, but it is not assuaging some Republicans who call it propaganda, which is what it is.
They're pure prop.
Nobody knows what's in the bill, but they're sending out all these, hey, seasoned citizens, look what we've done for you.
And hey, some of you, the IRS, can you believe people are getting notes to the IRS about tax breaks?
When's that ever happened?
I mean, you get an envelope at home that says IRS on it.
You don't want to open it.
Now they're sending out, hey, it's your friendly revenueer.
We're not looking for your still anymore.
We're looking for your house to deliver you some cash.
Courtesy, Barack Hussein Obama.
Meanwhile, the actual guts of the bill are being missed.
The deadlines, nobody knows what's, it's a nightmare.
It's an absolute debacle.
Ed, hang on.
I'm looking for a soundbite.
I want you to find here real quick.
And it's going to be in the first 15.
Yep, number six.
Grab audio soundbite numbers.
I just saw Bobby Jindal on TV.
You've got to hear this.
Late yesterday afternoon in New Orleans, the Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal held a press conference and he is ticked off.
We didn't need another meeting.
We didn't ask for another meeting.
On Friday with the president, we were very clear.
It's not the process that interests us, it's the outcomes.
So many may ask, are you happy with the meeting?
Are you happy with the process?
I can care less about the meeting.
I can care less about the process.
There are a lot of professors there.
And I told them when I had a chance to speak at the end, I said, to me, this is not a multiple choice test.
This is not an essay test.
This is a pass-fail.
This is a yes-no test.
This is pretty simple.
If we get approval to move forward on at least our first six segments, then this will have been a successful day.
If we do not get approval to move forward, this will have been the waste of another day we could have spent this day fighting the oil and doing other things to help safeguard our coach.
So for us, this wasn't about process.
So Obama comes in and hosts meetings with professors.
With professors.
And Jindal has to go to the meeting.
We didn't need another meeting.
We don't need no damn stinking meetings.
We don't care about process.
But that's all Obama is, a process guy.
The process is supposed to show action.
The best and the brightest.
Professor sitting around thinking about things to do.
Meanwhile, Jendal wants to go out and build his sand traps.
Burhams.
Call them sand traps.
Obama will think there's a golf course going up, and he may approve them.
You know, folks, don't you think it's about time Obama announced a commission to study alternative cleanups?
I mean, it's one thing to go out and sue British Petroleum criminally and civilly for this.
And it's another thing to plan to sue the saw company and the panic company that delivered the saw and a company that built the robot that's using the saw.
I mean, that's the Obama method.
Something goes wrong, you sue the company that made it, and everybody having to do with it during the manufacturing delivery process.
But now we got the cleanup, even after we stopped the leak.
We got a cleanup.
And I think it's time for Obama to announce another presidential commission to study this.
I mean, this is urgent.
We need somebody to get back to us by the end of the year.
Well, that's how Obama does stuff.
Have a commission.
Here's the story I just referenced, ladies and gentlemen, moments ago.
Say goodbye to full-time jobs with benefits, CNNmoney.com.
Jobs may be coming back.
No, they're not.
But they aren't the same ones workers were used to.
Many of the jobs employers are adding are temporary or contract positions rather than traditional full-time with benefits type jobs.
With unemployment remaining there 10%, employers have their pick of workers willing to accept less secure positions.
In 2005, the government estimated 31% of U.S. workers were already so-called contingent workers.
Experts say that number could increase to 40% or more in the next 10 years.
But no, worry not, folks, the traditional job is not doomed, but it will increasingly have competition from other models.
The most prominent, the independent contractor model.
That's where you buy your own health care.
That's why you buy, you know, you get, you pay your own taxes.
I hope that happens.
The more people have to write their own tax checks, the faster we'll get some tax reform.
No question whatsoever.
Auto sales to underscore tepid recovery.
This is Reuters.
U.S. auto sales in the month of May likely to show a lackluster recovery as consumers remain cautious about the economy and the impact of hefty discounts starts to fade.
A tepid recovery, Reuters says.
Who are they kidding?
Sales are up from last year.
Of course they are.
The last two years saw record lows.
It's hard not to be up for where these sales have been.
There's nothing going right, not one thing.
Folks, it's a disaster out there.
I mean, this oil spill is a microcosm of exactly what's going on throughout the entire country.
Hiring by the U.S. Census Bureau expected to spike May's job figures dramatically.
Economist Mark Zandi of Moody's.com projects the economy will add 575,000 jobs in May.
Another policy institute says it'd be 560,000 jobs.
Either figure would represent the largest number of jobs created in any month since the dot-com crash of 2000.
But it's all going to be census.
Even thehill.com is saying so.
We knew this going in.
This is just confirmation.
Let me grab a quick phone call here.
By the way, at the top of the hour, Andy McCarthy will be here.
The Great Jihad is his new book.
It's fascinating.
And we'll talk to him for a few minutes about it.
Margaret in Indianapolis, I'm glad you called.
Great to have you here.
Thank you.
Thank you for having me.
I just wanted to make a prediction that I really believe it will come out that Al Gore cheated on his wife.
That's hard to envision because you need a willing participant there.
It's just hard to, that's hard to, I don't know, it's hard to envision.
Hey, if Bill Clinton can find someone, I just really.
He's got power crackling in those jeans.
Remember that story in the Washington Post?
Catalina Island out in San Diego back in his first term?
Power crackling in those jeans.
You don't associate anything but geekdom with Al Gore.
I know, I know, and who knows who it was.
But there are people who love Charles Manson's.
You know, there's no accounting for who loves who.
You probably, you might have a point.
I mean, who would ever think any woman could possibly love a criminal?
But they do.
They have jailhouse relationships with these clones.
The love is the one thing nobody can explain.
They've tried for decades, eons.
Nobody could.
You know something else, Margaret?
All of this talk, the gore is the model marriage.
All these people, Sally Quinn and all these people wondering, oh my God, if it happened to them, my God, it could happen to me.
Oh, no.
Where was this reaction when John Edwards got divorced?
I mean, were they not the model couple as well?
And to the wife having cancer?
Well, I mean, the picture they painted of that, of that picture.
Do you realize how close they got to the White House?
This is scary.
See, it's funny.
I don't have that reaction.
If anything, it just makes me feel more solid about the man I have, and I have no fear of that.
I am happy to hear that.
Good for you.
Good for you.
But these women like Sally Quinn, look at, I'm sure she's looking, I'm sure she sees it my way.
I guarantee you, she sees what I see.
Chance to get out.
Well, getting is good before the guy goes broke.
The kids are gone.
Everybody's married.
All the reasons you hang in when things aren't going well are fini.
Why do we assume this the woman who pulled the plug?
Because it's Gore, James.
That's why.
It's Gore.
That's why everybody's assuming that Tipper pulled the plug.
That's not hard to figure out.
Look, is it?
You know, your natural sexism, you're saying you're thinking, okay, it must be, it must be something she did wrong that Gore is getting out, right?
Could be, could be.
I don't know.
It just, it's like Margaret here speculating there was an affair.
It's the first I've heard of anybody thinking that.
Because there has to be somebody willing to go along here.
And I don't know, folks.
I just don't know.
There were a lot of professors there.
Bobby Jindal.
Yeah, there were a lot of professors there.
Let me ask you a question here, folks.
Say you are facing a bunch of thugs in a dark alley.
Who do you want next to you?
A bunch of professors?
Bobby Jindal is in a dark alley.
He's got a genuine emergency, and I'm sorry, professors are not what's called for in this emergency.
You know, folks, this is just a sad day.
It's just a sad thing.
You know, given the non-stop, the non-stop stream of bad news, something good has to happen to this country.
Things have gotten so testy, they've gotten so bad, so depressing with the press.
You know, I fully expect that idiot Gibbs, the White House press spokesman, start announcing some random good news at the beginning of his briefings just to lighten things up, maybe start things off.
The president's happy to report.
No train derailments today.
Every airliner landed on time as scheduled and no accidents.
No books returned late at the El Segundo, California Public Library.