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June 3, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 3, 2010, Thursday, Hour #3
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One of the things that I talk about on my local program in Milwaukee a lot is that voters are sometimes too focused on whether or not they feel good about the politician.
And not enough on what the politician's agenda is, what his beliefs or her beliefs are, what they stand for, what they're going to do.
But I understand where I want to feel good about that person comes from.
We are, after all, when you particularly when you're talking about the presidency, we are electing a leader.
And leaders matter.
It's the reason, as much as it kills the unions, why the CEOs of corporations make millions and millions of dollars while the workers make a fraction of that.
It's the reason the Lakers and the Celtics are playing for the NBA championship and not the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Coaching matters.
Mike Brown isn't as good a coach as Doc Rivers and Phil Jackson.
Those coaches, yes, have great talent.
But both are brilliant coaches.
Leadership does matter.
And the thing that people embraced about Obama is that his pose struck them as leader-like.
Obama, of course, had the left.
Of course he had the Democrats.
They're going to vote for any candidate who runs as a Democrat.
But Obama got the American middle because they looked at eight years of what they thought was Republican drift.
Well, they're spending a lot of money, but we're in this war and it looks like it's going to go on for so long.
And then there was Katrina, and now the Republican candidate is this old goat McCain.
And here's this young, energetic guy who's so smart and so eloquent.
There's nothing worse for a consumer that when they buy something that they think is really good, it turns out to be really bad.
They really start to resent it.
And as President Bush, who, as I said, I am a tremendous admirer of what President Bush did, I am a tremendous admirer of the fact that he was willing to fight the war in Iraq even after it became unpopular, that he thought it was the right thing to do when he thought that in the end his policies would work.
I am a tremendous admirer of the fact that President Bush established values for the conduct and character of the presidency.
But the fact of the matter is he became unpopular and he lost the confidence of the American people.
Once you do that, it's very hard to get it back.
And that's why this bag of tricks they're trying to pull out right now, I think probably isn't going to work.
This is a bunch of Chicago operatives led by a radical who was interested in becoming president just to become president.
And he's losing the confidence of the American people.
I've had some people argue saying, you know, Clinton was unpopular in his second year in office.
There was, after all, the Republican landslide in the 94 congressional elections, yet Clinton recovered.
It was never like this with Clinton.
Clinton never had the rap put on him that he wasn't competent.
Too slick, not to be trusted, but he always seemed as though he was up for the job, didn't look like he cared much about doing it, had different standards.
But I don't think that there was ever any real question that Clinton didn't have the ability to be a good president had he wanted to be.
What's happening with Obama is serious doubt about his abilities, and that's why the oil spill issue sticks with him.
In the meantime, they go back to their same old bag of tricks.
Obama says he'll push for clean energy bill.
President Obama said Wednesday that it was time for the United States to aggressively accelerate its transition from oil to alternative sources of energy and vowed to push for quick action on climate change legislation.
Here it is again.
Despite almost unanimous opposition from Republicans and continued skepticism from some Democrats, this is just cap and trade with a new name on it.
They think that because we spilled oil in the Gulf, that this is an opportunity to pass radical environmental legislation that will drive up American costs and cripple our energy needs.
Never let a crisis go to waste, the same thing they did last year when they jammed stimulus down our throats.
The idea that they are going to use an oil slick that they can't manage to pass another radical piece of legislation, and what cap and trade is is nothing more than socializing health care and applying it to energy.
They're going back to the same old thing, and they have got to be obstructed on this, and it is possible this time to defeat them because the American public no longer trusts this president.
Let's go to the phones on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Cooper Hill, Virginia.
Stephen, it's your turn on EIB.
Hey, Mark, great job as always.
It's Copper Hill, actually.
Oh, Copper Hill.
It sounds better.
Uh, listen, uh, I'd like to point out you're right, it actually does sound better.
It does sound better.
No offense to anyone named Cooper.
That's right.
Uh, I'd like to point out and get your view about what I see as the incremental and dishonest approach of the left wing on nearly every issue.
They they always like to exacerbate, fetter, and blame.
I mean, you take the situation in the Gulf, and Rush was the first to point out that this disaster is partly a result of the extreme environmental regulations that you know that actually made the entire process much more dangerous and risky.
Yet they blame, you know, the left blames big oil.
And when you take the housing loan debacle, for years the left browbeat financial institutions to do illogical and financially imprudent things.
And then when they do that, then it blows up as a direct result of that, capitalism gets blown up.
And blame well, if there was more oversight and there was more regulation, the entire housing bubble was a result of people buying into the notion that you could make bad mortgage loans and nothing bad would happen as a result.
And it was the federal government that was encouraging the worst of those mortgage loans.
They were asking capitalism to be uncapitalistic, and then when that uncapitalistic practice uh resulted in a failure, capitalism's brain uh blamed, and it's completely circular.
And the same thing's happening on the border.
I mean, failure to do the obvious for over a decade results in disaster, and yet racism becomes the straw man that is blamed.
So now now we're what now what we're going to do here, because they can't figure out how to blame BP because BP has been doing exactly what they've been telling them to do.
They're going to blame oil itself.
Oil is the problem.
It's it's always the scapegoat of the left.
The problem is we don't have a decent alternative for oil.
That's simple reality.
There is no way for us to run our society right now without oil.
And if we don't drill for oil in the United States or off our shores, we're going to have to bring the oil from overseas.
We can talk all we want about ethanol, we can talk all we want about the hydrogen car, we can talk all we want about the electric car.
The fact of the matter is right now we don't have a decent alternative to oil.
And that's why we have to keep drilling, and that's why we have to accept the fact that some bad things are going to occur.
By the way, there have been far more oil spills from the shipping of oil than from the drilling of oil.
So if we have this big moratorium and we end up running more oil in from the Middle East, it doesn't mean that we're going to mitigate the chances of another oil spill.
In fact, we may be uh creating a scenario where there's going to be more of them.
Well, and the tacit admission that that uh by the fact that they are now allowing drilling to continue in in shallow waters, it's a tacit admission that that is recognized as comparatively safe.
Yet uh and and an admission that the the the oil the the drilling in deep waters is you know comparatively unsafe.
And yet, despite all of that, the the even safer methods and the even safer resources that are available to us in Alaska uh are still it's it's it's the left knows what they're doing.
That's the whole point.
We can't drill an anwar.
We can't drill an anwar, but it's real hard to spill oil when you're on land, isn't it?
That's right.
I mean, the whole problem here is that the left is being caught up running a country based on the on its own ideology.
Thank you for the call.
I don't want to make it sound like I'm giving BP a pass here.
After all, this was their operation, and they're the company that has said that they want to take responsibility for it.
I think they may be setting themselves up for failure too.
Full page ad is in a number of American newspapers today.
I want to read this.
This is from BP.
The Gulf oil spill is a tragedy that never should have happened.
And while we were deeply disappointed that the recent topkill operation was unsuccessful, we were also prepared.
The best engineers in the world are now working around the clock to contain and collect most of the Leak.
As they do that, BP will continue to take full responsibility for cleaning up the spill.
Interesting.
They use those words.
Full responsibility.
We have organized the largest environmental response in this country's history.
More than three million feet of boom, thirty planes, and over thirteen hundred boats are working to protect the shoreline.
When oil reaches the shore, thousands of people are ready to clean it up.
Thirty teams of specialists are combing the shore along with U.S. Fish and Wildlife, NOAA and Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries.
If wildlife is affected, rescue stations have been set up to take care of them.
Experts have been flown in from around the country.
And BP has dedicated $500 million to watch over the long-term impact of marine life and shoreline.
We will honor all legitimate claims.
We will continue working for as long as it takes, and our efforts will not come at any cost to taxpayers.
We understand that it is our responsibility to keep you informed and to do everything we can so this never happens again.
We will get this done.
We will make this right.
Well, that's a PR statement.
That sounds good.
But what if it takes a while to make this good?
What if it's hard to get it right?
You know, these oil companies, particularly BP, have been playing footy with liberal politics for a long time.
BP itself is one of the leaders in trying to force ethanol down American throats.
For them to simply stand up and say, We'll fix this, we'll fix this, we'll fix this.
This all leads to the public expectation that it's really easy to fix these things.
Some things are very hard to fix.
As President Obama is learning.
That isn't going to stop him from, however, from trying to take advantage of the problems that he can't fix by running forward now and throwing out the nut another notion of cap and trade and using oil as the reason not to do it.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I know how to keep the audience riveted.
I know how to keep you here until the end of the program.
I'll give you my prediction on the Celtics Lakers series.
For those of you not familiar with me or my program that was sarcasm.
Nobody's going to stick around to listen to that.
To Chicago and Art Artists, your turn on EIB with Mark Belling.
Mark, great show.
Thank you.
I just had to take issue with you comparing Obama with uh Chicago thug politicians.
Uh, you know, um our guys are thug politicians that are used to stealing uh, you know, through and getting power through bribes and kick specs, so to you know they could get handout patronage jobs, uh so they could uh sell lucrative contracts, uh that's the way they've been doing it forever.
Forever, you know.
So Obama's a little different.
Obama's sort of a gold coach liberal like uh Jan Chikowski and uh Melissa Bean who got their radical socialists.
Right, but they all but even they, and I know the names you're referring to, even they had to bust through in that system.
And when he got into the Illinois legislature, when he became a senator, he had the same cronies.
Tony Rezco is the guy that bought the empty lot next to Obama's house the same day Obama bought the house in one of the sleaziest real estate deals you're ever going to see.
It's Rezco that's all over the Blagoevich case.
My point is is that Obama is the same character as all of those other Chicago ward healers.
The difference is is that he's never done anything.
He's never run anything, he's never had to take charge of anything.
He's trying to apply the lessons that he learned in Chicago, and those lessons just don't work nationally.
There may be an investigation into all these jobs they're offering to anybody who wants to run against the de The filing deadline in a couple of these states isn't even up yet.
You want a federal job?
Russ Feingold's running for re-election in my home state of Wisconsin.
Some Democrat all he needs to do is you know, suggest he might file nomination papers.
You might become the new energy secretary.
You might become the new interior secretary.
Somebody's head's going to roll over this.
You can't play the Chicago game in Washington, and I don't think he fully understands that.
And the fact that he brought in as his right hand man, his chief of staff, Ram Emanuel tells you that this is a total Chicago approach to everything and some of the things that work historically in local government in Chicago and in state government in Illinois are not translating here to his approach to the federal government.
Thanks for the call.
go ahead the power behind the scene is actually Valerie Jarrett who runs the agenda uh Ram Emanuel is is is just the uh He's the enforcer.
Right.
Valerie Jarrett's the thinker, Rahm Emanuel's the enforcer, and who is it that that Obama apparently wanted to get the Senate seat?
Valerie Jarrett, that was one of the names that was talked about.
Where's Valerie Jarrett from?
She's another Chicago operative.
I mean, who thank you for the call.
Now, what other president, when he came to power, brought with him a bunch of operatives from his own home state.
Where did Bert Lance and Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell come from?
Georgia.
I am telling you, this is Carter all over again.
And I hope I'm wrong.
The Carter presidency was disastrous for this country.
And that was thirty years ago, when we weren't in as nuclear a world as we are now.
We only needed then to worry about the Russians, who were at least somewhat manageable.
We didn't have the same terror threat that we do now.
The economy is already in precarious shape.
People don't trust the currencies of Europe.
They don't trust the credit markets in Europe.
We're facing governments all over America and unable to pay their bills and looking to a bankrupt federal government for bailouts.
The consequences of failure here are far greater under President Obama than they were under President Carter to Toledo, Ohio, and Pamela.
Pamela, it's your turn on the Russian Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Hello, Mark.
I hope my phone doesn't die on me while I'm talking to you here.
Well, we all hope that.
Yeah.
Um, you know, I think what's bothering me, I won't say the most because there are lots of things that bother me the most about Obama.
But I thought he was so smart politically.
And I'm I'm really getting kind of disturbed at how politically tone-deaf he seems to be.
What really bothered me last night was that um uh, you know, to do he had with uh Paul McCartney and gosh, you know, the Joan everybody.
Yeah, they honored McCartney at the uh at the time.
You know, it's actually appropriate that that Obama should have McCartney there.
I don't know if you ever heard Linda McCartney sing, but she was as tone-deaf as they come.
So we all know that, and we all blame her for breaking up the Beatles, but you know, Linda's dead, so I don't know.
Don't pick on her.
Bring this back to Obama.
You were going to make an Obama point about his tone deafness.
I have started to call the Obamas Barack and Michelle Antoinette, because I am beginning to see just a complete, utter lack of regard for even just the appearance of concern.
He was very good at appearing to care during the campaign.
But we have our Gulf Coast and the panhandle of Florida um about ready to be inundated with sludge, thousands of jobs being lost, the economy severely hit, and all he can do is throw parties on where I mean that's not all he can do, but you would just think he could suspend it for a month, maybe or two until we get a you know a better handle on this thing.
It looks like you know what it looks like my own.
And all the all the vacations.
And all the vacations and everything else is a very good thing.
You know, some people are saying that the criticism of him for not going to Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day is invalid.
But the reason he didn't go is he wanted to get back home to Chicago for the weekend.
By the way, he did speak at a uh at a National Cemetery, Abraham Lincoln Cemetery, uh in the Chicago suburbs, and it was called off because it started to rain, so maybe there was some justice there.
Uh the point that you're making about his tone deafness when they seem to be so sharp.
Remember, there is a difference between campaigning, particularly when people don't know anything about you, and the messages that you send while governing.
As for whether or not he's tone deaf or not, I think the problem is, as I've been put trying to point out here, and if people are trying missing my point, he is so surrounded by these Chicago hacks that he doesn't have any outside vision of anything.
And he more than any other president needs that because he lacks competence when it comes to running a government in the first place.
He's never run one.
He's never had an executive position doing anything really.
Thank you for the call, Pamela.
I want you to think about something because I'm going to move on.
Uh I've got I've got your topic here, the one that's going to get me fired.
That's going to be in the next segment.
I want you to think about something during the break.
Same situation.
Spill in the Gulf, BP.
Who would have done a better job managing and dealing with this?
Barack Obama, the brilliant Ivy League educated thinker, or Sarah Palin.
I think Sarah Palin would have handled this better because her whole life has been spent running things.
This guy has never run anything, and it's showing.
I'm Mark Elling, Inforush.
1-800-282-2882 is the telephone number on Rush's program.
As I mentioned, the Lakers Celtics NBA Finals series starts tonight.
The over under is nine.
That seems low, right?
There's nine point no.
Number of ads, ABC will be running during the average commercial break during the NBA.
I am telling you.
I watched the playoffs.
They were up to seven and eight per break.
These were four and five minutes, not even between quarters.
Like just a timeout with three minutes left in the game.
Kind of brutal.
On the encouragement of the staff, I am going to address the issue of the Al and Tipper Gore split up.
As Rush talked about this, I was travel I was traveling yesterday, so I did not have an opportunity to hear the Rush Limbaugh program traveling to get here.
The audience speculated wildly.
See, I missed all of that.
I did not hear Rush's show yesterday.
So if this has been covered, why am I being encouraged to talk about this?
Just because it's fun talking about misfortune in the life of Al Gore.
Societal implications.
Oh, okay.
Well, I have some thoughts, since I've been asked, on the Al and Tipper Gore split up.
First of all, of the four of them, and they were a set, the four of them came in together.
Bill and Hillary, Al and Tipper.
The moment I knew the Republicans and President Bush I were in trouble in 1992 was after Clinton gave his acceptance at the Democratic National Convention, and the four of them were on stage dancing to Fleetwood Mac.
The baby boomers are the most arrogant, self-centered, self-important generation in the history of America.
I know this because I'm part of that generation.
And these two screamed, these four really scream, we're the baby boomers.
Finally it's our chance to run the country, not all these old goats.
That's why they won.
It's similar to the reason Obama.
It looked right at the time.
It seemed like a good idea.
Well, of the four of them, she always seemed to be the most normal.
She was the only one that actually had seemed to have aspects of her personality that seemed I don't know if likable is the right word, but seemed like the rest of us.
I mean, when people forget about Tipper Gore, she first came to fame when she took on the music industry over vulgar rock lyrics.
I mean, there were congressional hearings on all of this.
I I know Frank Zappa testified.
I talked about this on my own show earlier in the week, and people were arguing forever about who she took on.
Dee Snyder of Twisted Sister, Frank Zappa and all of them.
But it went up, this went those before those hearings.
She and the wife of another senator who I don't recall at the time, they made this a major crusade.
Once Al was nominated for vice president, she just dropped all of that.
But this is a woman who actually had become a national spokesperson on an issue in her own right.
Well, then okay, Al Gore becomes vice president, and I know how Al Gore became Al Gore.
Al Gore was never an environmental nut until he became vice president.
When he was a senator from Tennessee, he didn't deal with environmental issues much at all.
When he ran for president eight years earlier, the environment wasn't on his radar.
He grabbed an issue because he needed to have something to focus on.
Particularly since Clinton was involved in all of these scandals.
Al Gore needed to grab something to identify as his own, And he grabbed the environment.
And in particular, he glommed onto global warming.
And he was ahead of the curve on that in terms of other liberal politicians.
He was one of the first to grab that as an issue.
I don't think he gave it three minutes worth of thought.
He just grabbed onto it, and much to his surprise and shock, the thing took off on him.
Suddenly every lefty looked upon him as a hero.
The fact that he ran for president and lost in that close election allowed him to be a little bit of a victim, and he used this whole thing to turn himself into the guy who's single-handedly trying to save the planet, which of course he never was.
No anything about the environment.
He made that ridiculous movie.
They gave him the Nobel Peace Prize.
This is a hick politician from Tennessee who became vice president just because Bill Clinton picked him for no other reason.
And now he's suddenly regarded as one of the great humanitarians of all time.
Well, he wasn't.
But instead of Clinton, see, the one thing about Bill Clinton is you know that deep down, he always knew exactly what he was.
Bill Glenn, I'm kind of a sleazy guy.
And he's always been true to himself.
Clinton has never tried to put on airs that he's anything other than what he is.
Al Gore, I think, started believing this myth that became his life.
He started to buy his own stuff, in other words.
As his body expanded, so did his ego, and he became this larger than life persona.
That's why he's become so tiresome, so ponderous.
Now the issue is passing him by.
People are coming to the realization that global warming never really was occurring.
It's one of the great con jobs of all time.
Climate considerations are changing so that we have to change the terminology to climate change.
Now we're gonna focus on oil spills, it's going to be a new environmental focus.
The whole Al Gore thing was nothing more than a media bubble and an opportunity for celebrities to pretend that they were good people by saying I care about the planet.
Now we're supposed to be shocked that his marriage to Tipper is breaking up.
Well, if I know anything about marriages, as somebody who has never been married, is that you never know what's going on in a marriage.
Given, however, how self-inflated Gore's ego became.
Is it possible?
Is it possible that the reason they broke up is the Tipper, who, as we know, is an independent thinker.
I'm telling you, back in the 80s, she took on rock music lyrics.
That's not a liberal cause.
She was mocked by Hollywood.
She was mocked by the lefties.
They made total fun of her.
She was considered a joke.
This is all pre-the-L Gore as a saint days.
Is it possible?
The Tipper sat down and said, you know, Al.
Maybe the planet's not really warming up at all.
What do you want?
Tipper, do you not understand?
We're destroying the planet.
We're burning the I have my Nobel Peace Prize.
Could that have been it?
You always wonder what starts that ultimate argument that drives a couple apart.
Could Tipper Gore be questioning global warming?
Could that be it?
Was what if was that one of the things Russia's audience speculated on?
No.
That's the one I'm throwing out.
By the way, of the four of them, Bill, Hillary, Al, and Tipper.
Who's the one whose memoirs are going to be the juiciest?
I think Tipper.
I if well let what if she now comes clean.
She's liberated from the whole thing.
She's no longer attached to Al Gore.
She goes back to being the courageous, feisty mom that she was when she was opposing rock music lyrics that were vulgar, ahead of her time, by the way.
What if she decides now that she's liberated from the whole thing, she's gonna start telling you what she really thinks, what she really thought about Bill and what she thought about Hillary.
Those behind the scenes conversations that they had.
What if she comes clean about Al's environmental activism and the whole thing?
This could be a great read.
Tipper Gore tells all.
As for my comments on what happened to their marriage and the societal implications, I think there are no societal implications.
This is big think piece in USA Today.
Al Tipper Gore split puts focus on late stage divorces.
Why?
People get divorced, it happens.
I don't know why it happened.
My hope, however, is that it does lead to tipper talking because at some point, one of those four, from that remarkable and unsavory period in American history, which by the way still continues.
The Clinton Gore era, the global warming sex scandal, the whole thing.
One of them's going to talk, and everybody's thought it would always be Hillary.
She'll never talk.
Some people think it'll be Bill.
Nah, he'll just keep spewing the stuff.
Al, he's now created the whole image that he's this great humanitarian.
He won't talk.
It might be Tipper that becomes the one that spills the beans.
Photo raises issue of sexual orientation in softball.
This is the Los Angeles Times.
Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is pictured playing the sport, and whispers grow that she is gay.
Those who play say they are aware of the reputation, but history of acceptance should be what is celebrated.
All right.
I try to keep up on things.
I will admit, I had never heard that there was a stereotype about women softball players being gay.
Never.
Never heard anyone mention it.
Never heard the suggestion.
Never thought it was the case.
I follow women's softball.
I followed that Olympic team.
I know the names of those players.
Now apparently there's some sort of stereotype going on with them.
This is another example of liberals being so obsessed with symbolism.
That whole thing when the photo was run of Elena Kagan playing softball that there was some sort of hidden message in there, so that it was implying that she was gay.
It was implying that I no one thought this other than these lefties for whom appearance and symbolism is everything.
As I know all up, I umpired this stuff when I was a kid.
These weren't lesbian women.
These were like housewives.
These were girls that were coming out of high school.
They were they were athletes.
I didn't think this stereotype existed.
So the left is now all concerned that by picturing Kagan playing softball that you're implying something about her sexuality, and because we all know that women's softball players are all lesbians.
Well, I didn't know that.
The only people who keep track of these things are liberals themselves.
They're obsessed with this.
It's because of their focus on identity politics.
Everybody's in a group.
Well, if you do this, you must be that.
I'm sure there are some people who listen to the comments that I made in the first hour about Israel and are wondering I wonder if Mark Belling is Jewish.
Because they presume that I must be if I make those comments.
By the way, I'm not.
I'm a Christian.
Nonetheless, you get liberals who make assumptions all the time about people on the basis of what they do.
They claim it's conservatives that are bigoted.
They are obsessed with putting people into groups.
I'm telling you this Los Angeles Times story goes on and on and on about gayness and women's softball.
I learned something new every day.
I think it's unfortunate Lisa Fernandez, a three-time Olympic gold medalist and assistant coach at UCLA said of the stereotype.
It's part of our game.
What's part of our game?
Lisa Fernandez is a great pitcher.
The situation gets even trickier somewhere amid the chatter lies a kernel of truth.
Softball has long held a special status among lesbians in America.
How come I didn't know this?
Does anyone know this?
I'm not even sure it's true.
I sound like the mother who gets the news about her son that he's gay.
I in fact, I still think it's not true.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm just telling you, there is no way Jenny Finch is gay.
I don't buy the whole lesbians and softball thing.
There's no way.
Carolton, Virginia and Hal Hallier on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Hey Mark, how are you?
I'm great.
Um you do a great job.
Thank you.
Look, my concern Is is is is a question to you.
Um when you look at the American landscape, the Solidinski Times environmental list, do you think that the president has the base to get re-elected?
I don't know.
Um I don't know.
In a weird way, I think his chances of being re-elected in twelve are enhanced if the Republicans make major gains in the congressional elections this year.
That's what saved Clinton.
When the Republicans came in and took control of the House for the first time in like a zillion years and got a major majority in the Senate, it made it impossible for Bill Clinton to do anything legislatively.
He didn't have the ability to nationalize health care.
He didn't have the ability to pass tax increases without approval from the Republicans.
That essentially forced Clinton to the center.
He didn't try to govern from the center, but he was he was forced there because his liberal excesses were ground to a halt.
Other than Supreme Court nominations, he couldn't do anything without the approval of the Republicans in Congress.
If there is a major Republican backlash, major gains in the Senate to make it almost impossible not to be able to filibuster things, and major gains in the House, it's going to make it harder for Obama to do the things that he's been trying to do the last couple of years.
So in a weird way, if the country puts the brakes on Obama, his next two years may not seem as radical as the last two.
So I think the better off we are, and the more that is done to stop him, the better off politically he probably is, because right now, if you held the election today, he couldn't get re-elected against any competent Republican candidate.
Thanks for the call, Hill.
My name is Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
The last caller Hal raised question about the re-electability of President Obama, and I talked about the 2010 elections.
One of the questions facing Republicans right now is can they make major gains this fall simply by saying we're not President Obama?
In other words, count on the voters to elect them simply to block what they see as a president who wants to go too far.
Or do the Republicans have to present an alternative?
The problem with an alternative is me is you're laying out your own plans, and once you get specific, there are people who won't like certain things about that.
On tomorrow's program, I'm going to have on Congressman Paul Ryan.
Some of you are familiar with him.
He's from my home state of Wisconsin from my own area.
He's become one of the leaders of the Republican Party on issues.
I think he's becoming the ideological leader of the Republicans in Congress.
He's the guy who's written the roadmap on health care and entitlements.
He is of the opinion that the Republicans need to stand for an alternative, that we can't simply say no, no, no, no, no, to President Obama without giving the public something to choose.
I don't know if Ryan's right.
I partly think that the public wants to have a check on President Obama and may just vote en masse for Republicans simply to not have the President have a blank check.
But we'll be talking about that with Congressman Ryan on tomorrow's program.
And before I leave the show, since I know no one agrees with me on instant replay, I claim instant replay is a liberal thought.
Instant replay in sports is merely the attempt to make everything fair to reach the right outcome, to be fair to everyone.
Well, as we conservatives know, life isn't always fair.
Besides, there's nothing worse than a baseball game that lasts more than three hours, even though that guy did get jobbed out of his perfect game.
Mark Belling, hope you enjoyed the show.
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