It is our number two of the Tuesday Rush Limbaugh Show.
You and I are together today and tomorrow, and how deliciously opportune that is.
Well, at least it is for me.
I hope you think it is for you.
Because in the midst of the Limbaugh Honeymoon Week, and the great Mark Belling will be with you once again on Thursday and Friday.
But you and I are together today and tomorrow, which gives us a chance today to do previews of the various primaries underway.
And tomorrow we'll chew on what the numbers actually are and chew on what people actually did.
So given the choice of when do you want to talk to Michael Barone?
Listen, I'll talk to Michael every hour of every day, but I flipped the coin and went with today to get his view and to pick his huge political brain on things from Arkansas to California to Nevada to South Carolina.
What a pleasure from the examiner in a career that's taken us through so many things through political almanacs and U.S. News and World Report.
It's wonderful to talk once again to Michael Barone.
Michael, how are you?
Well, very well, and very good to be with you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Before we dive into the meat of what we're talking about, I understand you will be at the Kennedy Center here in a few days, and we're not keeping track of your social calendar.
But rather, this is when the Bradley Foundation hands out one of its prizes, which you are the fitting beneficiary of.
Tell us what that is.
Well, I'm a lucky beneficiary.
The Bradley Foundation, the Lyndon Harry Bradley Foundation, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which has done some terrific work over the years.
They've been leaders on things like the school choice movement and making things work, making life better for people who are deprived by giving them choice rather than submitting them to the ministrations of centralized government.
They have award prizes every year for contributions to thinking over the course of a career to people basically of a conservative leaning.
And I was lucky enough to be named one of the prize winners this year.
So we're having a ceremony at the Kennedy Center on Wednesday, June 16th.
Now, a week from tomorrow, we'll be thinking about you that night, and it's richly deserved.
And I just want to make sure that got mentioned because everybody ought to know the kind of regard in which you are held.
Now, let's go to the things for which you were held in high regard.
Some lightning analysis in a number of states.
Does Blanche Lincoln's career end tonight?
Well, Blanche Lincoln, who got started in her congressional career as a receptionist for a congressman, then she ran against him and defeated him, Bill Alexander, who was one of the leaders of the House Democrats for a while.
She's in severe danger of losing tonight.
This is a fascinating case here because Arkansas is a state that did not vote for Barack Obama.
They're pretty conservative on the issues as they are with us today.
And Blanche Lincoln is being opposed by the Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter, who entered the race only about the 1st of March, and he has been getting a ton of money from the labor unions and from the moveon.org folks.
This is a challenge from the left.
And Mr. Halter has been very careful not to say whether or not he's in favor of the unions card check bill.
Remember, this was the bill that they were going to try and ram through the Democratic Congress, which would effectively abolish the secret ballot in unionization elections.
And the unions wanted this because they wanted a lot more dues money coming into their coffers, and they thought they could get it through the card check bill.
All the Democratic senators supported it in the Congress when George W. Bush was president, including Blanche Lincoln.
But then when Barack Obama became president, and we had a president who would sign this bill rather than one like Bush who would obviously veto it, suddenly some of the Democratic senators, notably Blanche Lincoln, said they weren't for it anymore.
So this is the unions trying to take revenge on her and terrorize other Democratic senators and congressmen who might not go along with the unions.
And so they're threatening to end her career.
I think there's at least a 50% chance she's going to lose this runoff to Bill Halter.
She led him by 2 percent in the first primary.
And I think she's got probably an uphill race to go.
But it's a real close one, and it could go either way.
Can the actual Republican, Congressman John Bozeman, beat either one of these people?
Well, polling has shown John Bozeman way ahead of either Blanche Lincoln or Bill Halter.
And, you know, this is a state where Barack Obama lost to John McCain by a 59 percent margin for John McCain.
It's a state where Hillary Clinton carried the Democratic primary overwhelmingly.
And it's similar to a lot of the states, what I call the Scotts-Irish belt, the Jacksonian belt, going along the Appalachian chain from southwest Pennsylvania through West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Southwest Virginia, and going west to Arkansas, Oklahoma, and East Texas.
That's an area where Obama did very poorly in both the primary and the general election.
Hillary Clinton carried those areas over him by two to one or more.
In those areas, John McCain actually ran ahead of Bush 04 showing.
And that's an area where I think the Obama Democrats are very weak.
And I think John Bozeman is in excellent shape to get elected senator there.
Let's go to South Carolina.
If it's not the first time it's happened, somebody has a nice, strong lead.
Maybe the good old boy network doesn't like the fresh new face.
And maybe that's what's driving some of the scurrilous and tawdry rumors about state rep Nikki Haley as she looks to become South Carolina's first woman governor.
And this would be two Indian American governors in the South if she wins.
She and Bobby Jindal, so pick whatever angle you want there and take the ball and run with it.
Well, yeah, it is fascinating.
She's descended from parents who her parents immigrated from India in 1963, I believe, and they are Sikhs.
And she was elected to the State House of Representatives from Lexington County.
That's a conservative Republican area across the river from the state capital of Columbia.
And she's been running as kind of an opponent of the Republican insiders in that Republican-controlled legislature.
She was a supporter of Governor Mark Sanford, who many of us remember with fondness before he took that hike on the Appalachian Trail that ended him up in Argentina.
So interestingly, she's supported by Jenny Sanford, Mark Sanford's wife, now in the process, I guess, of a separation and divorce, and who was really Mark Sanford's political manager as well, and a person with a career of her own.
Nikki Haley jumped out to a big lead.
She's got some significant opponents, Henry McMaster, who's been the state attorney general, Congressman Gresham Barrett.
And there's an interesting issue to watch here, Mark, in South Carolina.
And I'm glad you asked Virginia and South Carolina first here because they are both states where the polls close at 7 p.m. Eastern.
They'll be the earliest ones reporting.
And so I hope people are watching Fox News and looking for election results there.
Gresham Barrett, as a member of Congress, voted for the TARP bill, the Troubled Assets Relief Program, when that came to a vote in the House in September and October 2008.
So did Congressman Bob Inglis, a Republican from the 4th District of South Carolina.
That includes Greenville and Spartanburg.
I think that the TARP in effect was passed by a bipartisan coalition of members who had safe seats or thought they had safe seats in most cases.
And it's become a political liability now.
One of the issues that was raised against Republican Senator Bob Bennett in the Utah State Republican convention, where he did not get enough votes to get on the primary ballot, was his support of the TARP legislation.
And Gresham Barrett, running for governor, has been attacked for supporting TARP.
And in the 4th District, Bob Inglis has a serious opponent, Trey Gowdy.
There's a public opinion poll showing Gowdy actually ahead of the incumbent, highly unusual in a primary case where there's no scandal involved.
And again, he's going against Inglis for voting for TARP.
And I think one of the things that tells us, if we see a lot of TARP victims in the political landscape, that's going to indicate to members of Congress that they aren't voting any bailouts anytime soon.
The examiner's Michael Barone is with us.
Let's jump to Nevada and the Who Takes On Harry Reid Derby.
Former Assembly Woman Sharon Engel, former Party Chair Sue Louden, businessman Danny Tarkanian.
What happens there?
Well, the polling trajectory of this has been that Sharon Engel, the little-known state representative who's taken some unusual positions in Nevada, including support of building the nuclear depository in Yucca Mountain, is a favorite of the Tea Party.
She started off with none of the support.
There's been a couple polls in the last week showing her at about the mid-30s.
And Sue Louden, the former state Republican chairwoman, and Danny Tarkanian, the son of the UNLV basketball coach, about the mid-20s.
So there's been a consensus building up that Engle is sure to win.
My own view is that she may be the favorite, but when you're looking at primaries, support can be very fluid.
There has been some early voting in Nevada.
They allow that.
I think it's an uncertain outcome.
There's a significant margin of error, and there's the question of who turns out.
I mean, I've been watching turnout in primaries this year, particularly in states where you don't have party registration, so that the turnout at each party's primary is a reasonable indicium of interest or degree of enthusiasm for the parties there.
And generally, Republican turnout has been more robust in that situation than Democratic turnout, which is a big contrast with the 2008 cycle.
The word I hear is this, that if you ask Harry Reid, and he's honest with you, he wants to run against Ms. Engel.
Yeah, he's basically, you know, we can see in Harry Reid, who started off with something like $9 million when you're handing out bailout favors and you're the Senate majority leader, it's not hard to collect money, let's put it that way.
He basically, the idea is attack the opponent.
Attack the opponent as a wacko, as crazy, as being in favor of disastrous public policies when you don't have anything good to say about your own public policies.
And the polling shows that the public policies of the Obama administration, the Democratic congressional leadership, are wildly unpopular in Nevada, and that's a state where Obama got 55 percent of the vote.
Then you go and try and attack the opponent.
So that's what Harry Reid is doing.
I think it's significant, however, that in the polling showing the general election pairings, Harry Reid hasn't been able to top 42 percent or 43 percent against any of these potential Republican nominees.
Basically, 100 percent of the voters know him, and 57 percent aren't voting for him.
That tells you that even an opponent who can be characterized as being highly unusual has a serious chance to win that race, and that Mr. Reed's career that goes back to when he was elected lieutenant governor, I think in 1970, is maybe nearing its end, if not placidly, at least with something of a roar.
A couple of final minutes with Michael Barone.
Read him in The Examiner.
Get any book he's ever written.
You'll be well served.
And here's the challenge.
It's 120 seconds roughly, give or take.
California, and I want to do Senate and Governor.
If Carly Fiorina takes this nomination and takes on Barbara Boxer, this is an opponent like Barbara's never had before, a woman with a ton of her own money.
And boy, the talk show hosted me really wants that.
Well, Carly Farina seems to have sprinted out to a lead in the polls in California.
You know, when you've got 37 million people, it's hard for just a few activists to make an impression.
Money talks in terms of television ads.
And so Carly Farina seems to be leading the Republican primary for Senate, just as Meg Whitman is leading the Republican primary for governor, the former eBay CEO.
And I think, you know, the polling shows this is a state where Barack Obama was running at 61, 62 percent.
And the polling now shows that basically it's roughly even.
Barbara Boxer is down in the low 40s against potential Republican opponents.
And so I think this is a race that could be very tough for a woman who got her start in public office as a member of the Marin County Board of Supervisors.
And back in the days when Marin County was thought to be a symbol of trendiness, trendy left sort of viewpoints.
Yeah, Barbara Boxer's got big problems there.
You've had huge foreclosures in that inland empire around Riverside and San Bernardino counties east of L.A.
The Central Valley has got one of the highest unemployment rates, and they have cut off almost all the water from the California water system because of a judicial decision regarding protection of the Delta Smelt.
That's a three-inch minnow that is supposedly endangered by sending water down through the Central Valley rather than putting it through the Sacramento Delta and out to the Pacific.
So we're losing some of the prime agricultural land in our country because of a three-inch fish.
And I think that Barbara Boxer, who's been supportive of that, is going to have a hard time getting much support at all in the Central Valley.
And finally, for Governor, Meg Whitman is going to beat Steve Poisner.
But so once again, another deep-pocketed former CEO Republican woman.
I'm fascinated by this political creature on the rise, Meg Whitman.
Everything old is new again against Jerry Brown.
What does he bring to the table in his early 70s?
Well, Jerry Brown was elected governor at 36, so I guess he wanted to be elected governor at 72.
You know, he's had double the life experience now that he had then.
It's a little bizarre.
You know, one is tempted to say that Jerry Brown was elected, first of all, when he was too young, and he's now running when he's too old.
He's an original thinker, an interesting character.
But I think one of the things that Meg Whitman may bring up against him is that Jerry Brown, as governor of California after Ronald Reagan, recognized the bargaining power and authorized the bargaining of the public employee unions.
And it's the public employee unions that have been almost single-handedly impoverishing what was once one of our richest states, which once had a really vibrant private sector and now comes close to leading the nation in unemployment.
Arnold Schwarzenegger took those public employee unions on in 2005.
They spent something like $100 million and beat him in the referenda that he sought to curb their powers.
And of course, where did that $100 million come from?
It came from the taxpayers.
All the dues money that the public employee unions get come from public employees who are paid by the taxpayers.
So basically, the citizens of California are being forced at the pain of going to jail to finance the people who are impoverishing their state's private sector economy and bankrupting many of it.
Some of us look out for it.
Michael Barone, what a joy.
Go to DCExaminer.com, The Washington Examiner, read anything.
If it has Michael Barone's name on it, you will be well served, as have we been by your appearance today.
So thank you so much.
It's an honor to have you.
Well, an honor to be with you, Mark.
Thanks a lot.
Michael Barone.
All right.
Well, you're fully briefed on everything.
Now let's take that ball and run with it.
Your calls next.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
It is the Tuesday Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis in for Rush today and tomorrow.
Rush back next Tuesday.
Mark Belling in for them Thursday and Friday.
Need a program to keep track of this Limbaugh honeymoon fill-in host schedule.
But let's focus on what I know in the short term.
I'm here today.
I'm here tomorrow.
And glad you're here, hopefully for both days.
Okay, there was Mr. Barone with all kinds of thoughts on all kinds of states.
We got calls from all of those states on people weighing in on things.
Let me add another couple of topical layers, may I?
This is the audio of the day.
How can I be an hour and a half into the Rush Limbaugh show and not have played this yet?
What do you do when your leadership skills are dashed against the rocks and everyone's on to you?
Well, I guess you drag out the potty mouth.
Here is President Obama with Matt Lauer on the Today Show using, you know, going a little gangsta for us to feign authoritative behavior.
I was down there a month ago before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the Gulf.
A month ago, I was meeting with fishermen down there standing in the rain talking about what a potential crisis this could be.
And I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar.
We talk to these folks because they potentially had the best answers, so I know who's asked to kick.
Ooh.
Does he think that this makes people lean back in their chairs and go, oh, I've been so wrong?
He is in charge.
His thumb is on the pulse of this.
He's looking at who.
Oh, I've been so wrong.
This is what leadership is about.
This is what it's like.
This is what it sounds like.
What a joke.
Why tell you next, Mark Davis in for Rush?
I'm very thankful for that.
Appreciate it.
It is the Tuesday, June 8th, Rush Limbaugh Show.
And there on the heels of that audio, I don't just want to play that audio, make fun of it, and then slide blithely into other issues.
What is it that is just so galvanizingly Off-putting about this president throwing down.
And listen, I do not get overly worked up about profanity, quite frankly.
I mean, if you're around my house and I stub my toe, I will commit plenty of sins.
And I would bet that most of our presidents have probably had potty mouths.
And privately, I'm prepared not to care.
This is just so contrived and so orchestrated.
It's like, well, I'm sitting here with Matt Lauer, and I'm going to make reference to, you know, pardon me, everybody, I know school's out.
I'm going to make some reference to whose ass to kick, and that's going to make me seem tough.
It'll really make me seem like I'm in charge.
I mean, what is this?
It's like Urkel channeling Jay-Z.
It doesn't work.
And just having welcomed Michael Barone, let's show some love to his publication, The Washington Examiner, that has a magnificent editorial.
It's brief, so let me share that with you because it's against this backdrop that all this nonsense rolls out.
And the title is Obama Brings Nixonian Twist to Oil Spill, and they write: Nothing more fully reveals the essential character of a person or group than a crisis.
Thus, the ecological and political catastrophe of the Gulf oil spill has exposed a breathtaking level of incompetence, political opportunism, and mendacity at the heart of the Obama administration.
Documents obtained by the Center for Public Integrity make clear that the White House was told by the Coast Guard within 24 hours of the April 20th explosion on BP's Deepwater Horizon platform.
They were told that the equivalent of 8,000 barrels a day could escape into the ocean.
Within three days, Obama and his senior aides were warned that the spill could exceed the environmental damage caused by the Exxon Valdez in 1989.
Despite these warnings, over the next two months, Obama attended Democratic fundraisers, played golf, hosted basketball and football teams at the White House, and delivered commencement speeches.
Two weeks passed before he could be bothered to go to Louisiana.
On April 29th, Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindahl declared a state of emergency as the oil spill covered 600 square miles and loomed only 16 miles from the coast.
Jindahl begged federal officials for permission to build a massive network of sand berms to contain damage to beaches.
Washington responded.
A month later, permission was only granted to build 2% of the berms requested.
Meanwhile, as Obama dawdled and oil appeared off Florida's beaches, the president delivered a strident speech in Pittsburgh with a decidedly Nixonian twist.
He should have been summoning political leaders across the spectrum to lay aside partisan concerns for the moment.
But instead, Obama asserted that Republicans believe, quote, if you're a Wall Street bank or an insurance company or an oil company, you pretty much get to play by your own rules, regardless of the consequences for everyone else.
This libelous mischaracterization marks a new low, even for a man so highly practiced in the ugly art of political demagoguery.
Finally, as the thick black crude and natural gas continued to erupt into the Gulf waters and public exasperation with BP's futile attempts to stop it piled up one after another, Obama dispatched Attorney General Eric Holder to Louisiana to proclaim, quote, we will prosecute to the fullest extent of the law anyone who has violated the law.
He will not rest until justice is done.
Shortly afterward, Obama blasted BP for lawyering up in response to the government's threats.
As ill-timed as it was, Holder's announcement nevertheless clearly confirmed what was plainly suggested by Obama's Pittsburgh speech.
His top priority is not to stop the spill, but to shift blame away from himself and to forever tar his opponents with responsibility for a catastrophe made far worse by his own spectacular mismanagement.
Washington Examiner editorial.
All right, Tate, to the phones, to the phones.
1-800-282-2882, 1-800-282-2882.
We're traveling on a lot of, we're on multiple tracks today.
Lots of primary elections going on.
A lot of things going on in Nevada, California, Arkansas.
You don't have to just be from those states to weigh in because today is a good day to take stock of Tea Party clout, the states where it's really going to work well, and the states where maybe it might not be the greatest thing to have going for you, whatever that means.
Just a big mishmash of talk show narratives that we can have with regard to today's elections.
And in fact, along those lines, let's go to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, David.
Mark Davis, you are on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Mark Davis, filling in.
How are you?
Very good.
Thank you very much, Mark.
Appreciate you filling in and wanted to offer my congratulations and best wishes to Rush.
And married myself for 21 years to my lovely bride, and I hope that he has as much happiness and satisfaction that we've had over the years.
That's very kind.
I know he appreciates that.
Thank you very much.
As far as what's going on here in Iowa, I just wanted to voice my public support for Rob Getemi in Iowa's 2nd Congressional District and want to encourage as many voters as I can to get out and vote for him before 9 tonight here in Iowa.
You talked earlier about the Tea Party movement and those candidates who will stick more to that core ideal.
And I definitely believe Rob is that sort of candidate.
He's the type of person that has said many times that we cannot be the country that Obama wants us to be and be the country of my founders at the same time.
Tell me a little bit about the return of a formerly familiar name, Terry Branstad, a former governor, with a veteran like four terms in the 80s, and he is leading businessman Bob Vanderplatz.
How's that all working out?
You know, it's interesting here.
You see a lot of attack ads in Iowa, and you'd think that those might be being run by the candidates amongst themselves, but they're actually being funded by our current Democratic governor, Chuck Culver, or some of those 513 type organizations.
Why is he in trouble?
All I hear is that Governor Culver, who's in his first term, is his approval ratings are teetering.
Why?
What's going on across the country is definitely going on here in Iowa.
You know, we have high unemployment.
We have a state government similar to California that is overpromised, overspending, and therefore needs to start turning to the people and saying, well, we're going to have to increase your taxes and cut funding for certain key initiatives and key items that people believe very strongly in.
And that's where he's really struggled, I think, through his first term is he's just tried to do too much to please too many people.
And now we're just overextended like a lot of states out there.
All right.
Since you're here, number one, thank you for your call.
But if I can have another minute of your time, there you are in Cedar Rapids.
It seems like only yesterday, and in a way it seems like 100 years ago, that I landed in the four-degree chill of Des Moines to cover the Iowa caucuses, eventually won by Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee.
And I'm nearly halfway to coming up your way again for the 2012 Iowa caucuses.
To say I can't wait would be an understatement.
So here's my question for you.
As a good Iowan, and with all the focus on this year's elections, November 2nd, 2010, you know that November 3rd, 2010, like locusts, Republicans will be descending on your state running for king or queen of Iowa.
Are you ready for that?
Is there advance buzz about that?
And whose pitch are you most interested in hearing?
As far as whose pitch I'm most interested in hearing in that regard, you know, I'm not sure yet.
I think that the eventual candidate on the Republican side may yet to emerge.
There's a lot of people that I think are making a good name for themselves, whether it's, you know, our vice presidential nominee from the last election or whether it's the new governor in New Jersey or the current governor in Louisiana.
I think there's a lot of very viable candidates.
But as far as whether or not I'm looking forward to it, you know, Iowa works very hard to continue to be first in the nation status.
And that's a good thing for our economy and our state, but it's a bad thing for our airways because it's two straight years of hearing that.
And you get very, very war out of that process by the time the actual caucus occurs.
It was crazy.
I mean, we all know no matter where we live, we all know what commercial breaks on TV and radio can be like, often with candidates sniping at each other from the same commercial break.
But I've never seen anything like, you know, being there at the embassy suites on Locust.
Speaking of locusts, Locust Street there in downtown Des Moines.
I rolled in a couple of days before the caucuses.
And of course, on the Democrat side, you've got Obama ads and Clinton ads.
And on the Republican side, you've got McCain ads and Huckabee ads and Romney ads.
I mean, it was, God help you if you're a furniture store.
I mean, there was just, or a car dealership.
You couldn't find time in those commercial breaks.
So, well, brace yourself, sir, and stay in touch with the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I know he'll be interested in your thoughts because Iowa becomes just becomes such a focal point, literally the morning after the November 2nd, after the November 2nd election night.
The 2012 presidential race begins the morning of November 3rd, 2010, because then everybody hits the ground knowing the way the field is going to be striped.
All righty, thank you very, very much.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Davis in for Rush and back on the EIB network in just a moment.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Sean.
Mark Davis filling in from WBAP Dallas, Fort Worth.
Let's get back to some more of your calls.
We are in McMinnville, Oregon.
Sean, hi, Mark Davis, in for rush.
Happy Tuesday.
Nice to have you.
Hey, it's a real pleasure.
So what's up?
Well, I don't know how many of your listeners today have had the chance to watch that interview that Matt Lauer did on the Today Show this morning with Obama.
Well, actually, they did it yesterday, but it's aired today.
But I'd encourage them all to watch it and actually pay really close attention to about eight minutes and 25 seconds in, starting about there.
Obama makes a pretty telling slip-up about this whole oil disaster because his administration is admittedly kind of in bed with big environment.
You know, oh, we've got to protect our shores, got to, you know, blah, blah, blah.
But Obama himself admits that if this was a shallow water rig that had blown up instead of like the deepwater horizon, like, you know, however many miles out and 5,000 feet below, he admits that if this was a shallow water rig, that the problem would have been solved weeks ago because they could have simply just gone out, put a cap over the top of it with people instead of trying to use these little robotic rigs that are really clumsy and awkward, and it would have been done.
Well, he's correct about that.
I have a feeling that he doesn't consider himself to have thrown his own environmental extremism under the bus.
I think one has to objectively admit that this would be an easier cat to skin if the thing were not 40-some miles out.
But President Obama is glad to have these things 40, 50 miles out.
He'd like to have them on the moon if he had any interest in going there because the guy just hates oil.
Well, exactly.
And it's what this what this has done is it's created the perfect, I mean, and to be honest, this is kind of conspiracy theory territory, almost info war type, you know, talk, but it almost seems to me like he would like this to go on as long as humanly possible because the longer it goes on, A, the more it damages BP's stock and, you know, and public image.
And B, the longer it goes on, the more it turns people so rapidly against oil that they're just going to be willing to jump into any environment legislation that comes down the pipe, like cap and trade or, oh, we need to just, you know, cut ourselves off from oil totally and get on electric cars and solar panels, which, I mean, honestly, you know, I'm all for alternative energy.
I'm all for nuclear power.
I'm all for solar panels.
Whatever we want.
But at the same time, it's got to be done in a way where it's like, you know, we augment what we're already using with that technology so that we have like an overarching energy portfolio.
Sean, go back.
Go back, Sean, two minutes because I want you to undo, it wasn't self-criticism, but I want you to backtrack on something for me because you set up those observations that you made by saying it seemed kind of like wacky, conspiratorial, Infowars kind of stuff.
No, sir, it does not.
What you then unfolded for us was thoroughly rational analysis on what might be motivating an administration that hates oil so much that at least part of them loves every day of this spill, because it is Oil's three-mile island that will hopefully freak people out and cause the as Three Mile Island did of the abandonment of an industry that did not deserve to be abandoned.
That that's not uh, that's not from the fringe that uh, that shows clarity and um, it just does so.
Anyway listen, thank you, let me scoot.
I need to and I much appreciate it.
Best to everybody up there in the beautiful state of Oregon.
Oh hey, let's go to New York.
Let's go to the Mighty W ABC, let's see what's going on.
Joe, you're on the Rush Limbo show, Mark Davis filling in.
How are you?
Hey, very good Mark, and how are you?
Fantastic.
And mega dittos to Rush.
And, of course, congratulations on his writing.
I'm very happy, absolutely so.
Listen, I was listening to this morning the president on FOX, and the whole day something has been going through my head.
I think the president, without even knowing it, has actually just coined the rallying cry for conservatives everywhere, whether they're Republicans, TEA Party members.
He's just created the.
He basically has coined the entire phrase for everybody.
Now to look at what he said again, you used the word Potty Mouse, but essentially he used the words as.
Now, if you look at the uh, the Democrat symbol, it's a donkey.
Now what's another word for a donkey which is linguistically correct is an ass.
So he actually, if he wants to know who's asked to kick, he should kick the asses out of office in 2012.
i was afraid this would happen so i tell You what?
There is some poetic sense to this, and it's certainly in terms of the various logos of the parties.
It follows.
Thank you, man.
I appreciate it a lot.
Best to everybody of the Big Apple.
Will this, because that is certainly what Republicans are looking to do in November.
Will they?
Will they?
I mentioned I was at an event last night with Polster and Word Maven Frank Lunt.
Let's do this.
Let's take our last break, come back.
I'll throw you a couple of things Frank told us last night and then sprinkle in another call or two for the top of the hour.
Then we got another entire hour for more of your calls and more.
Let's talk a little bit about message because Frank's message was: sure, things are looking pretty good.
The pendulum is swinging back in a Republican direction, but can we still screw this up?
You bet we can.
And I'll give you some of those thoughts next.
Mark Davis, in for rush on the EIB network.
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We radio guys, we know clocks, man.
We know clocks.
We don't always obey them, but we know them.
So, in our final minute here, before we give way to some top-of-the-hour news that will serve you well, I'm sure, on whatever proud limbaugh affiliate you're listening on, we'll tell you what's coming up in the next hour.
We've got, if obviously, I'm interested in talking to somebody in South Carolina, but I'm particularly interested because here's somebody from Michigan who has apparently gone to South Carolina to do some traveling volunteer work and will be back in Nevada.
So, we got all kinds of things that are lining up for our next hour.
So, I mentioned that I was at a Congressman Sam Johnson event, 3rd District of Texas, just an enormous hero.
And Frank Luntz was in the house.
And I'm going to give a little bit of a tease here.
There's a word that he doesn't want Republican candidates to use ever.
It's a thoroughly good word and one that makes me glow with pride.
That word is capitalism.
But he says, don't use that word because it carries a negative connotation.
And listen, fairly or not, you got to play the field the way it's striped, right?
So, what word shall we replace capitalism with?
What term?
I'll tell you what Frank recommends and see what you think next.