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June 3, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 3, 2010, Thursday, Hour #2
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For those of you who missed the first hour of the program, I talked about how Israel is held to a standard that nobody else other than maybe the United States is held to by the rest of the world.
As a parallel to that, it's very similar to the standard that American conservatives are held to, as opposed to liberals.
The guy in Connecticut, Blumenthal, right?
Who lied about his Vietnam service?
Can you imagine if that was a Republican candidate for statewide office anywhere in the country?
First of all, all Republicans would disavow that candidate.
He'd be finished.
Democrats are never bothered by that kind of stuff.
They're not bothered by anything.
All they care about is winning.
We all know the conservatives are held to a different standard than liberals.
It's part of the deal.
It's one of the things that keeps us on the up and up.
We know that any mistake is going to be magnified.
Whereas Democratic mistakes.
I swept under the rug and ignored.
By the way, I know what it's like to be a buggy whip manufacturer.
You know, where you just you do something and you realize the inevitable is coming and the party is going to be over.
And there's nothing you can do about it.
There's a lot of buggy whip manufacturers right now.
The newspaper business.
Are they not buggy whip manufacturers?
I mean, newspapers are just dying.
They have no idea what to do.
Should we put our stuff on the web for free?
Should we charge for our web service?
The readership goes down and down and down.
Their influence is waning.
It's a dying industry.
You can kind of see it happening.
Happened to the buggy whip manufacturers when the automobile was invented.
People don't need to ride around in horse-drawn carriages anymore.
You don't need the buggy whips because there aren't going to be any buggies.
I don't like instant replay in sports.
I just don't.
Mostly because I'm an incredibly impatient guy.
And I don't like the fact that games take longer and longer.
There's nothing worse than a football game where that referee puts his head under the hood and sits there and looks for seven minutes while they replay the thing 19,000 times for those of us on TV.
We all can tell what the call is.
The referee comes in, and then he never ever runs back out onto the field.
Instead you get that slow, the hockey walk, I call it.
Ed Hockey has never run back from under that hood.
He walks back and he strolls, and then he announces what he concludes, and after 12 minutes have passed, we can resume the game.
I don't like instant replay.
But it gets the call right.
I'm willing to accept an imperfect world.
I don't get to have instant replay in my own life when some injustice is done to me.
I never seem to get it corrected.
I'm willing to accept mistakes, I'm willing to accept an imperfect world.
Sports existed just fine with blown calls.
We've been but I'm on the losing side of this.
It's intruded itself now into the NBA.
They're checking for late game possession calls and the clock.
The one last vestige of allowing Hellman error to be involved in sports was baseball.
Then last year, these re these umpires for whatever reason couldn't tell if a home run was fair or fall, so we allowed replay for that.
The door was cracked open.
I'm telling you what happened last night.
It's over.
It's done.
Baseball, which is way too slow as it is, is going to have replay.
An umpire blew it called the cost, the guy a perfect game.
I don't know if you've seen this replay.
There's a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers.
He had a perfect game, and not a perfect game in the fifth inning.
He had a perfect game with two outs in the ninth.
There's a ground ball to first, pitcher goes over to cover first base, first baseman goes to field the ball, he flips to the pitcher.
The ball gets there on time, the pitcher steps foot on steps on first base, and the umpire, a guy named Jim Joyce, and I kind of feel badly for him.
Not a hundred percent, but I kind of feel you feel badly for Jim Joyce or not.
I'm polling the delegation.
You do feel badly for him.
We have the uh we have our new substitute backup engineer in place that I'm he you're doing a very, very good job.
Uh what do you think?
You feel badly for Jim Joyce?
Sort of.
Yeah.
Sort of, sort of.
Sort of.
The guy's life is ruined.
He's going to be remembered forever as the guy who blew the call that cost someone his perfect game.
This perfect game, this perfect game that wasn't, will be more famous than any perfect game that actually was.
Maybe Don Larson, who pitched one on the 56th World Series, maybe that will be more famous.
This is going to be the second most famous perfect game because it wasn't a perfect game.
This umpire's life is ruined.
He's like Don Denkinger in the 1985 World Series.
Cost the Cardinals the World Series blown call.
This guy's life is going to be dog forever.
He was the umpire who blew the call to cost the pitcher the perfect game.
And the simple reaction from everybody is why don't we just have replay to correct for errors like this to show that there isn't such an injustice?
And I admit I've got no good reason other than that I don't want to slow down the game.
This is going to bring instant replay into baseball.
I don't have any real alternative.
I kind of wish they would be they would do on calls at first base, the same thing they do on other types of calls.
You get the four umpires to come together.
If the other three um saw the play, they talk to the guy, they overrule him, and they make the correct call, that could have happened here, because the play wasn't all that close, but he made the call.
On the one hand, you have to sort of admire him.
Let's suppose the play was actually really close, which it wasn't.
You know the overwhelming incentive is to give the benefit of the doubt to make it an outcall to give the guy a perfect game.
He wasn't going to compromise himself at all.
It's the exact opposite of the NBA.
The NBA has a reputation.
There are people who think that David Stern's on his cell phone and he's talking into the ears of the three referees, micromanaging every play because they want this to happen and they want that to happen.
Everything to create the storyline.
I don't think that's true, but there are reasons it exists because everybody knows there are rules and then there are unwritten rules in the NBA.
This umpire did everything that you wouldn't expect someone to do if he cared about creating the good story.
Instead of getting giving the benefit of the doubt and saying the close call goes to help the pitcher give the perfect game, it's just the opposite.
It's just the opposite.
There's one other case that this reminds me of.
Remember Milk Pappas?
Milt Pappas, ring a bell.
Pitcher for the Cubs, 70s, I think.
He had a perfect game.
Imagine a cub pitcher having a perfect game.
There hasn't been anything perfect about that franchise forever.
He had a 3-2 count in the bottom of the ninth inning, two outs, threw a pitch that apparently was close to the corner.
Umpire called it ball four, cost Pappas.
He's pretty the Papas went on to have an incredibly tragic life.
His wife disappeared.
He said later in life that that he thought about that call every single day of his life.
That was a close call.
The umpire did not give him the benefit of the doubt.
The call last night in Detroit, I'm telling you, the pitcher split his foot on the guy was out by a full step.
The umpire just missed it.
Cost the pitcher Galaraga a perfect game.
What does this have to do with Barack Obama?
I think it has something to do with what I want to talk about here, but I'm not sure exactly what it is.
You can see what's happening to President Obama right now.
If you're over 40.
How old do you have to be to remember the 70s?
I mean, really remember him.
When you the it's just shocking to me that 1980 was 30 years ago.
That means if you're 30 years old, you weren't even born in the 70s.
This is becoming Carter.
And even the media is now saying it.
I've got these clippings in front.
The Washington Post is President Obama's Carter moment nearing.
David Broder.
David Broad, is he still writing?
I guess he's still writing.
He's writing this here.
David Broder has looked old since I was 10 years old.
He always used to be on Meet the Press.
How old was Sproder be?
135?
I mean, I swear I've watched Meet the Press with my dad sitting there.
Broder was one of the questioners, and he was 75 years old then.
Well, he's still right.
David Brody, the sage, the dean.
Broder is the ultimate in liberal moderation.
He's the ultimate consensus.
He's the consensus of the Washington press corps.
When Broder says something, that means it's acceptable for all of them to say it.
Broder's column today is President Obama's Carter moment nearing.
He writes, I was thinking back to when another Democratic president, Jimmy Carter, found himself stymied in another seemingly endless ordeal, Iranian militants stormed the U.S. Embassy.
The comparison is being made to Obama's inability to deal with the ever growing oil slick in the Gulf to President Carter's inability to deal with the Iranian hostage crisis.
Then I pick up another clipping.
There's the reference.
Another reference to Carter.
I know liberals have wanted to reinvent the whole Jimmy Carter thing and pretend that it wasn't what it was.
Well now he builds houses and he's a humanitarian and he's this is a comparison that no Democratic president ever wants.
They never want to be compared to Carter.
For one big obvious reason.
Carter got thrown out of office by the voters.
Democratic presidents don't lose re-election.
You really have to screw up to get thrown out by the voters after one term.
And Carter was.
Carter came to typify a sense in America that nothing was working.
Under Carter, the economy was a disaster.
We had the triple whammy.
We had high inflation, high unemployment, and high interest rates.
Foreign policy, we were laughed at.
The Russians walked into Afghanistan.
All we did was object.
A bunch of Iranians grab Americans, hold them hostage.
We don't know what to do about it.
Carter comes on television and essentially shrugs his shoulders and implies, well, you know, there's not much I can do.
There are Democrats who are now worrying that this is what Obama is becoming.
That he's going to be perceived by the American public as a guy who can't get anything right.
Americans just want health insurance to be more affordable.
And instead, he's turning into this massive socialism.
They're looking at the federal budget deficit.
And they're scared to death.
They're looking at our national debt.
And for the first time, considering it to be a real worry.
They're seeing American mayors freezing pay of school teachers.
They're seeing us at the moment that we've actually finally run out of money.
And now here's there's this.
Here this thing in the Gulf is, and every day the president, we're gonna get this right, and it doesn't get right.
And it's leading these comparisons to whether or not he's Jimmy Carter.
Well, I think it's a real concern for them.
But the fact of the matter is that he's not Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter was at least qualified to be president.
Jimmy Carter ran something.
He ran the state of Georgia.
He wasn't the governor down there for long, but he actually did that.
Obama has fewer qualifications than Carter did.
What's happening here is you're seeing the case of a president who is in totally over his head.
He is completely ill-suited for the job of governing.
All he is is a Chicago pal who somehow got power.
But never even ran anything down there.
That's what this is.
He doesn't know what to do because he's never had to do anything.
I want to expand on that point and talk about how the oil slick is going to have tremendous political implications because of what it tells us about President Obama, and I'll do that in a moment.
My name is Mark Belling, and I'm sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
It is amazing to me how little attention the national media is playing, paying to what's starting today in Illinois.
They've got jury selection in the Rod Lagoych trial.
Do you understand what a time bomb this is for Barack Obama and all of his allies?
Plaguay is the former governor of Illinois, indicted.
He was under federal investigation and while in under investigation, and while being wiretapped, knowing he was under investigation for all of his other dirty deals, he tries to sell a United States Senate seat.
Obama's seat, when Obama was elected president, created a vacancy for the in the Illinois uh United States Senate from Illinois, Blagoevich, the governor got to fill the seat via appointment, and he tried to arm twist the Obama people into giving him something in exchange for naming to that Senate seat the person they wanted.
Obviously, selling a seat in the United States Senate is a crime.
He's facing other charges as part of the law and corruption investigation into Blagoevich.
This is a huge time bomb for the Obama administration for President Obama himself and the Democrats.
Blagoevich is not going down without a fight.
He's subpoenaeing everybody.
Furthermore, as the New York Times points out in today's paper.
Five hundred hours.
Five hundred hours.
That's thirty thousand minutes of conversations of Blagojevich's were recorded by the feds, and almost none of that has been made public, at least not yet.
Rod Blagoevich was a creature of the Illinois Democratic machine.
Same as Barack Obama.
Obama is a guy who was a hardcore radical who associated with other hardcore radicals.
You don't end up in Jeremiah Wright's church for 20 years by accident.
You're there because you like what you hear.
He paled around with an unrepentant terrorist like Bill Ayers.
He's a guy who wanted to have power, but has radical beliefs.
And he's and he worked his way through by working that Chicago machine.
He got himself elected to a lowly seat in the Illinois State Senate.
And he immediately became a team player.
That's why he voted present all those times in the state Senate down there so as to never have to take a difficult vote.
He ran for the United States Senate and got a freebie.
when the Republican candidate was nuked out by the Chicago media.
He's a radical who worked his way through a political machine and put a pleasant face on himself that became acceptable to the American public.
But understand the middle part of what I just said.
He worked his way up through the Chicago political machine.
You don't just work through the Chicago political machine without getting your hands dirty.
It does not happen.
I covered politics in Illinois for five years.
I know how the process works.
This is third generation machine thugs, and they aren't anywhere near as good as the first and second generation.
Illinois state government is now largely dysfunctional as opposed to what it was in the past.
The current mayor Daly is a shadow of his father.
But the one thing they still do is they still do all their dirty deals.
I mean, not six months goes by without somebody being indicted down in Illinois.
It doesn't matter how many of them you throw in jail, there's always some other alderman or some other supervisor or some other county official that's doing something corrupt.
The faces and the names change, but the storyline never changes.
Favorable deals, favorable contracts, favorable bond deals, give this job to this guy, that job to the next guy, which is why a guy like Blagojevich, even knowing he was being investigated by the feds, didn't back down.
I'm gonna sell a United States Senate seat.
Blagoyevitch was very, very close to some currently convicted Illinois political fixers.
Barack Obama was close to the same people.
There is no way he advanced in that Illinois power structure without doing the same sorts of things that every other Chicago Democrat does.
So here's a radical who wanted power, played the Illinois political game.
The thing about this Blagoeyvich trial is a lot of that stuff might now come out.
Blogoevich isn't going to allow himself to be the only guy that takes a fall here.
Who knows what else was said on these wiretaps?
Who knows what it's going to mean for Rahmanuel, another Chicago political guy.
See, Chicago's a lot like China.
There's one party rule, and in order to get anywhere, you merely have to advance within the party organization.
There is no real Republican voter base in Chicago, so the Democratic candidate wins everything.
The candidates there for the get anywhere are those who move up within the organization.
It's an ugly process, and you can't go through it without getting soiled.
Well, now one of those guys who got through it is president of the United States.
A radical who worked himself through a corrupt political process and has been handed over the keys to the country and doesn't seem to know what to do with them.
Of course he can't clean up the oil slick.
Of course he's made a mess of health care.
Of course he doesn't know how to deal with Iran.
Look what his background is.
He doesn't have a background.
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You understand who's being subpoenaed to testify in this Blogoevich trial?
Dick Durbin?
Valerie Jarrett may be called, Obama's senior advisor.
We know Harry Reed called Blagojevich and talked about this Senate seat.
Those tapes have never been played.
Do you know what the implications are for the Democrats based on what Harry Reid said on those tapes if they're played during this trial?
Jesse Jackson Jr. wanted the seat.
I think this trial is going to give us a real eye-opening experience in not only what Chicago politics is like, but what President Obama is like.
Remember, it was the Obama people that were lobbying and had an had an incentive to know who Blagoeyvich was going to choose.
Now, in my own mind, this topic is about the oil slick.
I know it doesn't seem like it's the oil slick.
When I do my own show at Milwaukee, it's all one giant tangent.
I try to keep myself better focused here.
But the point that I'm making is that of course the president of the United States is clueless as to what to do about this.
Dealing with this oil slick is a terribly difficult thing to do.
I don't know that any president would have the ability to fix it.
But he's the guy that came in and said he was Mr. Competence.
When he is anything but, how would he know if he was Mr. Competence?
He sold himself that we were going to end the amateur hour that was the Bush administration.
Well, the guy that's in place has never run anything other than advancing his own career.
Let's go to the phones.
Hank in Naperville, Illinois, the president's home state.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Hi, Mark.
Hi.
Yeah, I just wanted to uh mention uh comment on Obama.
I think he's gonna wind up being the worst president of all time because of all the points you've made earlier.
But not only that, as uh he's gonna be worse than Carter because he's also probably gonna be found out to be involved in all these uh uh candidates, uh, Senate candidates that are running for like the Colorado seat.
Uh in the United States.
Well, I want to want you to think about what you just said here.
The very time that you've got a governor of Illinois going on trial for trying to sell a United States Senate seat, and the sale was being made to incoming President Obama.
He was trying to approach the Obama people in exchange for something for himself.
He wasn't out there just selling it to candidates.
He wanted to sell this seat to the Obama administration.
Under that backdrop, what's in the news?
The same president, Obama, apparently offering to give away jobs to other people so they won't run for a Senate seat.
I mean, we've got a new stimulus program going on here.
You want to get a job, threaten to run against the Democratic candidate for the United States Senate.
All of this looks very, very bad for him.
You're right.
And also uh Ram Emanuel was subpoenaed.
Raman.
Imagine how much he knows.
He knows everything.
And Blagoevich, as I said, he's gone rogue on the Democrats here.
I think the reason he did all the goofy stuff with the reality show and all of that, he wanted to send them a message.
Hey, I'm a little out of control here.
I'm kind of crazy.
Who knows what I'm going to say because he thought the president would intervene and kill this prosecution or get him a deal for time served.
Well, they haven't done that because it would have been so obvious.
So now Blagoevich is going to call everyone.
Ram Emanuel is going to have to testify under oath as to whether or not commitments were made or talked about with Governor Blagojevich about who would get that Illinois United States Senate seat.
This comes at the same time that this president is trying to manage his way through an oil slick, trying to manage his way through the fact that he just nationalized health care and trying to manage his way through the Iranians being close to the bomb.
He's completely in over his head.
But the fact that his name is going to be, I think, front and center during the Blagoevich trial makes my point here about who he is and where he came from and how we got to the point that we're at right now.
Thank you for the call, Hank.
As for the oil slick itself, I personally haven't been all that bothered by it.
Oil is a natural product.
Oil's under the ocean and has been allowed to get out from the ocean floor, and it's created this terrible, unsightly mess.
We've had oil spills before, we've cleaned them up, or they've been dissipated by the environment.
Because this one is close to the United States, it's close to the Louisiana, Georgia, and Florida coasts, it's a problem, obviously.
It's unsightly.
But to me, it's not as high priority as what you do about Iran.
It's not as high priority as the fact that our federal budget deficit and national debt are out of control.
It's not as high priority as the fact that European currency markets and European credit markets are totally on tilt.
But it is a problem.
In my own personal prioritization of things, it's not problem number one.
But it's been put there by the country.
Just as Hurricane Katrina and the recovery from it was put there by the country.
Furthermore, it's President Obama himself who started issuing all of these statements about we're going to fix it, we're going to fix it, we're going to fix it.
I think it's a hard thing to fix.
But they're the ones that created this notion that the federal government can go and fix everything.
If they can't fix this oil leak, can they really fix health care?
If they can't fix this oil leak, what can they fix?
They're the ones that have created this impression that the federal government is omnipotent.
And my fear is that what they're going to do after it becomes fairly apparent that they can't fix this is they're going to throw the baby out with the bathwater and say we're not going to do any more offshore drilling because when we have these terrible spills, we don't know how to fix them, which would be a tragic mistake.
Getting oil means occasionally there are going to be problems with that oil.
As much as we've wanted to pretend it exists, there isn't a silver bullet out there with regard to energy.
There isn't a problem-free energy source.
Stuff like this is going to happen.
The president has created the impression that he can fix it.
And it's becoming very, very apparent that he can't fix anything.
One day he's saying the federal government is doing it, the next day he's saying BP is doing it.
BP is saying we're doing all we can, the federal government is saying we're doing all that all that we can.
Whereas in the reality is apparently they can't do anything.
Understand, though, who created the standard of expecting that we could fix everything by clapping our hands.
They did.
They're the ones who mocked and ridiculed President Bush because he couldn't restore New Orleans to instant normalcy after the entire city went underwater.
So, yeah, this is about the oil slick.
It's about a president who set the notion that the federal government can do everything, but in fact is incapable himself of managing anything.
Let's go down to Oilville itself, Lafayette, Louisiana, and Rob.
Rob, you're on EIB with Mark Belling.
Mark, last Sunday during the holiday weekend, the Obama administration through the MMS sent at 7 PM the official notice to lessees that all drilling in over 500 feet of water was over.
All existing wells were to be stopped and pulled.
There will be no new wells drilled for a six-month period of moratorium.
Forty-seven rigs are working in the Gulf of Mexico.
Twenty-three of those rigs are drilling in over 500 feet of water.
He effectively has shut down forty-eight percent of all the operations in the Gulf of Mexico, and therefore half of the expiration for oil and gas, in essence, has been clipped for six months.
He won't get by with this.
Well, what you're describing is what I was driving at here in trying to link the oil spill with the fact the president is in over his head.
What's the first thing that you do if you don't know what to do?
Well, let's just stop the drilling.
Let's just stop the drilling because we can't have another spill.
We've been drilling for oil for years.
Every 20 years or so, 30 years or so, we get an oil spill.
We haven't figured out how to prevent them, although they rarely happen.
When they do happen, like the case of the Exxon Valdez, which wasn't a drill but a spill, nonetheless, they happen and they create problems.
For him to come out and do what he's doing, not only threatens our energy independence, but it destroys the economy of all of the states that depend upon offshore drilling.
So he does that, but why did he do it?
He did it for no reason other than to make it appear as though he's doing something.
He called for the moratorium on deep water drilling because he can't deal with the oil spill, and he had to make it make it apparent that he was doing something here, and he did the worst possible thing that he could do.
The economics down here, unemployment will skyrocket specifically for all the rig personnel, the major companies have oil companies, have contracts on those floaters.
They will have to move them overseas and they won't come back.
All the helicopters, half the routes, no boats out there, caterers, well loggers, people that work in all the kitchens, the maintenance people.
This and then ironically, the remediation of the environment in Louisiana, and God forbid now, Alabama and Florida, is going to be enormous.
So instead of less money, we'll need more money, and here the government and the states and the parishes and the cities will get less money because they won't have any taxes to because they won't have any salaries, and this whole trickle-down disaster is a reality.
That's very good stuff.
Thanks for the call, Rob.
He summarized what we have done with this moratorium, as well as it can be summarized.
By the way, they're still allowing shallow water drilling.
It's deep water drilling that they put the moratorium on.
That moratorium is there.
What sud something suddenly happened with this one rig owned by Trans Ocean for BP?
The fact is there was an accident.
Having a moratorium isn't going to allow us to learn anything else.
It was done.
The moratorium was done so the president who can't fix the problem at least can say I did this.
So the one thing that he does doesn't have anything to do with the oil spill itself, but it allows him to pretend that he has done something.
Who does that remind you of?
And this brings me back to the fr to the beginning of the hour.
This is exactly what Jimmy Carter would have done.
Exactly.
Carter can't fix the problem.
Come up and do something else in an attempt to make it appear as though I'm doing something about the problem.
The reason he's putting on the moratorium is he felt the need to act presidential and look like he's in charge of this thing, whereas he's been totally passive and is not in charge of it.
And I admit it is a very difficult thing to deal with.
And I don't know if any administration could have done any better.
What I do know is obviously you can't do any worse since the oil is still leaking and the spill is expanding.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
You know what's really funny?
Right now, Mark Davis and Mark Stein are getting zillions of emails from people commenting on my comments in the first hour about Israel.
There is tremendous confusion about which mark is which.
There are many of us.
Rush only now uses marks to beget.
Walter Williams and a bunch of Marks.
I'm one of them.
I'm the one from Milwaukee.
I'm making this point that Obama is becoming Carter, and his entire agenda is in danger right now because the public no longer thinks that he is competent.
Once they stop thinking, and this is what did in President Bush.
It was why Katrina, which I think he got a bum wrap on, became so important.
People stopped thinking that he was competent in leading because we couldn't do anything about Katrina.
Now you've got right now some liberals saying we conservatives are being hypocritical.
You're the party of less government.
You're the ones that say the federal government has gotten too big, but now you object when the federal government can't clean up the oil spill.
That is an unfair criticism.
Not many conservatives say there should be no government.
The libertarians are close to that, but most of us acknowledge we need to have a government to do certain things.
We need a government to do the things that the rest of us can't do ourselves.
We need a government to have a military to defend ourselves and advance our national interest.
We have to have police and fire departments.
And when there's a massive catastrophe, we need a government to respond to that.
Like this oil spill.
There's clearly a governmental role here.
What most of us conservatives object to is nine zillion welfare programs.
What most conservatives object to are public works projects done only to advance the causes of the public sector trade unions.
What most conservatives object to is spending money on mass transit systems that don't carry anyone.
What we conservatives object to are government social programs that don't do anything.
We object to nationalizing health care, which is merely going to expand costs and erode quality.
Maybe if we weren't doing all of those things, we'd have the resources available to better deal with something like an oil slick.
Simply because we ex we oppose excessive government and overreaching government doesn't mean we want a government that never tries to reach to do anything.
There are some things that government does need to do.
And I say that acknowledging that dealing with this oil slick is very difficult.
As for my point about Obama becoming Carter.
This stories in today's New York Times.
Nuclear option on Gulf Oil spill.
Decades ago, the Soviet Union reportedly used nuclear blast to successfully seal off runaway gas wells, inserting a bomb deep underground and letting its fiery heat melt the surrounding rock to shut off the flow.
Why not try it here?
The idea has gained fans with each failed attempt assembly.
You understand what's going.
They're talking about nuking this thing.
Now, in fairness, the administration knocked down this story saying we're not considering doing it.
When you see Kakamami ideas like this come forward, this is a result of the fact that there is no longer a trust in the ability of the president to manage this on his own.
It's just like the complete lack of trust in Carter after our attempt to rescue the hostages ended with the helicopters crashing in the desert eight hundred miles away.
Obama runs the risk of losing total credibility as president right now.
I'm Mark Elling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
Think about this for a minute.
This is precious stuff.
Think about this.
They're going up to Obama and telling him we might be investigated for giving jobs for political reasons.
They're saying this to a guy from Chicago.
What?
We can't do that.
It's the very nature to give jobs for political reasons.
That's his entire being.
It's his entire essence.
Now they're starting to investigate this.
He's for the first time having some standards applied to him.
Let's go to Bryce on a cell phone somewhere in Illinois.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Thanks for taking McCall, Mark.
Two scary thoughts.
Number one, any president bad enough to make Jimmy Carter look good.
And secondly, I'm a truck driver.
If Obama had the same experience driving a truck as he did on the federal governmental level when he became president, he couldn't get a job with a reputable company because you have to have at least two years of experience to be a good driver.
Well, what job could any of them get?
Do you re I I'm serious in asking this question?
Could Nancy Pelosi manage a McDonald's?
I don't think so.
We know how Ram Emanuel managed them manage the McDonald's.
He'd fire everybody and hire all of his friends and not worry about What the quality of the food was like.
As for Obama, all he has ever done in his life is talk and try to advance himself.
Now he's got the most difficult job in the world.
Dealing with Iran is hard.
Dealing with the Israeli situation is hard.
And now you've got an oil spill that doesn't seem to want to clean itself up.
These things are very, very difficult.
But you've got a guy who just assumed that he could handle everything, and he can't handle Diddley Squad.
It's not part of his background and he doesn't know what he's doing.
That's why he's in trouble.
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