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June 11, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 11, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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I always have to remember when I'm doing Russia's show that the audience isn't familiar with the things that I never shut up about on my Milwaukee program.
One of the things that I say all the time is that you have to give liberals the same treatment that they give conservatives.
You've got to turn the tables on them because they can not take it.
They can't take we all know people like this in our personal lives.
They're the ones that are always ribbing you and throwing in the jibes.
You make the slightest little comment about them and they're all offended and they wilt away.
They can't handle it at all.
Their thin is so skin that the thin that they don't even have any skin.
That's how liberals are.
They can make every rip imaginable.
You say anything about them, they can't handle it at all.
They go nuts, they go batty.
Part of it is because of the old double standard.
Conservative does something, it's a scandal, liberal does the same thing.
It's no big deal, it's a distraction.
We've been dealing with that double standard forever and ever and ever.
But this one might take the cake.
Carly Fiorina, the new Republican nominee for the United States Senate in California, she's the woman running against Barbara Boxer, made some comment off mic.
I think she was being interviewed by a local TV station, maybe Sacramento, in which she made fun of Barbara Boxer's hair.
I'm tell this story is in the New York Times.
MSNBC, the official voice of American liberalism, they were all over this.
They're talking about does this sink?
Carly Fiorina.
She made fun of Barbara Boxer's hair.
Now the whole off-mic thing is something that everybody who works in radio has nightmares about.
We all think that's the way our career is going to end.
That some you're you're talking to your producer off the air, and somehow the microphone is on, and you say a bad word or you say something, we're all mortified about it.
When they teach about getting into radio, just always assume the microphone is hot.
You're lectured that.
See, we understand the whole thing that talking into a microphone is a dangerous thing.
Well, Carly Fiorina is a new politician, and even though she ran Hewlett Packard, she doesn't know this, and she's making these side comments, and the side comments are heard.
And one of them was making fun of Barbara Boxer's hair.
I've got the exact quote in here.
Uh referring to one of her aides, Laura saw Barbara Boxer briefly on television this morning and said what everyone says.
God, what is that hair?
So yesterday.
That's it.
And this is post Carly Fiorina looks mean.
She looks petty.
Why the one thing you don't do is criticize a woman's hair.
Oh, poor frail.
Barbara Boxer, she must be shattered.
Her hair is being made fun of.
Well, if you think that's bad, listen to what we do.
Oh, that's so mean spirited.
That's terrible.
Those right wingers, it's not just that big mouth limb.
Now it's his guest host.
They're saying these terrible things.
Oh, come on.
I'm a conservative.
Can't even keep track of the insulting things that are said about us all the time.
Remember Sarah Palin?
How they mocked and criticized and ridiculed everything about her?
What?
We don't like her hair.
We don't like this.
We don't like that.
She wears too much makeup.
Who's she kidding with those glasses?
How young is she trying to pull herself off?
This goes on forever.
And Sarah Palin's an attractive, stylish woman.
Remember uh what is it?
Catherine Harris, the uh Secretary of State from Florida, who uh made the uh decision to affirm the uh results of the Florida election, the ridicule she was given almost all on her appearance.
They called her Cruella Deville.
The Washington Post did an entire lengthy piece on her appearance, how she was so stuck in the 70s.
This stuff goes on all the time.
They hit us at every aspect of our personality, every foible we have for crying out loud, turn on Saturday Night Live.
And we're supposed to be treating Carly Carly Fiorina's political prospects as being damaged because she makes a comment about and it isn't even that bad.
By the way, what is the deal?
What What do we think?
Is Barbara Boxer's hair boxer's hair weird or not?
I'm told we're men we don't care.
I actually don't know that it's all that weird.
Everything else about Barbara Boxer strikes me as odd.
Now Carly Fiorina is being forced to explain all of this, saying, Look, I'm kind of sensitive on the whole hair issue myself.
Carly's hair is very short.
She had chemo after a bout with uh breast cancer, so she said she's been tuned in on the whole thing.
The my point in bringing this up is how absolutely childish, how absolutely inane the left gets whenever you take any kind of a pop at them.
And I'm gonna prove it.
Well, this story's all over the national media.
There's another story getting very little attention from the same state.
In the other statewide race that everyone's watching, the one in California for governor, Meg Whitman, the uh former eBay executive, is the Republican candidate for governor, and she's running against the Democrat Jerry Brown, the old governor is the attorney general.
Jerry Brown, and I'm quoting here from uh one of the San Francisco newspapers.
Brown compared Meg Whitman's messaging ability to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels, quote.
Goebbels invented this kind of propaganda.
He took control of the whole world.
Brown is quoted as saying, he went on to say he believes Meg Whitman Whitman wants to be the first female president.
So you can compare a Republican candidate in California to one of the worst Nazi war criminals of all time, but you can't make a little ciny little comment off Mike about the hair of a Democratic candidate.
It's gotten to be so ridiculous.
At the very least, Carly Fiorina now knows what she's in for.
If they're gonna rip her apart because she said something about boxer's hair, wait till she gets to boxer's wrinkles.
I mean, there's a whole lot of material.
It has just gotten ridiculous.
I don't think Carly should apologize.
I don't think she can back off at all.
I think she come back right back and say, look, get real.
Barbara, if you can't handle this, if you are upset because of my little comment about your hair, maybe you need another line of work.
We're sending young men and women to Afghanistan, Iraq, and who knows where to put their lives on the line.
This is serious stuff, and you're gonna fall apart and you're going to get into tatters over a silly little comment like that.
Other political news.
The South Carolina story gets weirder by the day.
South Carolina's Democratic primary on Tuesday.
The candidate who won the nomination for the United States Senate is facing felony charges dating back from November.
The Democrats are now saying the candidate whose name is Alvin M. Green, is a Republican plant.
That the Republicans put him up to run.
The Washington Post has gone down to South Carolina and they've done a profile of Green.
The whys of Green's victory are as mysterious and baffling as his mysterious and baffling candidacy.
Some explain it away as a fluke attributable to his name coming before his opponents alphabetically.
There's no way to know whether large numbers of Republicans crossed over to vote for the weaker of the Democrats because voters don't register by party in South Carolina's open primary system.
Green lives with his ailing 81-year-old father James on the outskirts of Manning, South Carolina, a crossroad town of 4,000, ringed by truck stops, motels, and fast food restaurants.
He has no cell phone and no computer, except the one at the public library.
This, my friends, is the Democratic candidate for the United States Senate in South Carolina.
Green, a solidly built 32 year old with a close-shaved head, sighs heavily as he speaks, pausing often during meandering monologues, wearing a green t shirt from a nineteen ninety-three family reunion, he taps his fingers, alternating between staring at the floor and covering his face with both hands.
Where it gets hazy is Green's discharge from the Army in August 2009, six months before the end of his three-year commitment, according to the Pentagon.
The Pentagon does not confirm whether service members are discharged honorably or dishonorably.
Green says he was honorably discharged from the Army, but it was involuntary.
Things were not working out.
Same thing happened in the Air Force.
It's a long story in both services.
Green says he put up his own money in March for the $10,000 campaign filing fee, an assertion many in South Carolina doubt.
At that time, it was not widely known that he had been charged with obscenity.
His felony charge is for showing internet porn to a college student.
Still he says Carol Fowler, the state's Democratic Party chairman, tried to talk him out of running, saying he wouldn't be able to afford the stuff required.
She told me, think about this.
If you change your mind before filing closes, you could get a refund.
Green, shining a negative light on our state is the lead story.
The news report says he has not entered a plea or been indicted and conducted with the obscenity charge.
Green asks, I have not been indicted.
Indicted, what does that mean?
His brother explains that a charge and an indictment are different things.
He nods.
I'm on the not guilty side of things, Green says.
I have to be.
I mean, I mean, I mean, I have no comment.
I mean Democratic candidate for the United States Senate in South Carolina.
Green's attorney, a public defender named Spencer S. Beckman, who served as an intern for former Senator Ernest Hollings, Democrat South Carolina.
Can we play dueling bozos?
Is this my excuse?
We got Hollings back in the news.
Declined to be interviewed.
Green is at first reluctant to talk about the charge, but once he starts, he goes on at length.
So the voters in South Carolina, apparently having no idea who they're voting for, the Democratic voters, choose a guy who did not campaign, is facing a felony charge, and who party leaders are now trying to convince to please get out of the race.
In the meantime, they're claiming the only reason he ran in the first place is he was a Republican plant.
If so, the possibilities here are endless.
If Democratic voters are so dumb that all we need to do is have a Republican run in each of their primaries, let's have Sarah run against Obama in the Democratic primary.
I don't know who to vote for.
Let's grab every state we've got out there.
Find a Republican to run in a Democratic primary because the Democratic voters are apparently so ill-informed that they have no idea who's who.
I wish the Republicans were smart enough to be able to pull this off.
In the meantime, the reality is this.
In the state of South Carolina, the Democratic Party voters in that state went to the polls and chose as their candidate for the United States Senate a man that his own party leaders didn't even know is facing felony charges and who has apparently never done much of anything with his life.
And Democratic leaders only now are finding out that their nominee is facing criminal charges.
In the meantime, they're upset because Carly Fiorina is making fun of Barbara Boxer's hair.
When do we start talking about this guy?
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
Call her off the air.
Says, no, Sarah wouldn't beat Obama in South Carolina because in South Carolina they vote alphabetically.
Democratic voters, at least.
You know, Republicans had a lot of problems down there with the meltdown of Mark Sanford, but they've got a great United States senator in Jim DeMint.
I mean, he is one of the real conservative leaders of this nation.
Lindsey Graham, not so sure about it.
They've just nominated for Governor Nikki Haley.
I think she has a runoff election, but heavily favored to win it, and probably a shoe-in for election in November.
Staunch conservative, well spoken, enlightened, bright.
The Republicans in South Carolina seem to have their act together.
In the meantime, the Democrats don't even know who they have running.
They're blaming a Republican plan on their the whole thing that it was a Republican plan doesn't make any sense because the Republican primary was hotly contested in that separate race over there for governor, so there weren't Republicans voting in the Democratic primary.
Fact of the matter is the Democrats knew they couldn't beat Jim Dement.
They know they're not gonna knock off any incumbent Republican anywhere.
So nobody ran.
They weren't even paying attention to the race, and this guy won and now they're yelping about it.
In the meantime, a real race out in kill out in California.
Poor Barbara Boxer is getting picked on for her.
Look at the things they've said about Rush.
What was remember Frankens stupid book?
You know, they make fun of every possible aspect of our lives.
Look at the ridicule that they heaped on Bush.
Look at the ridicule they heaped on Cheney and his family.
The slightest little thing you say about them.
They can't take it at all, which is exactly why they need to have it dished out.
It's why they hate Rush.
It's why they hate the talk show hosts.
It's because we have fun here and throw at draw attention to their excesses and their foibles, and they can't take it.
They like to throw stones, they can't take anything back.
To Garden Grove, California, Mike, it's your turn on EIB with Mark Belling.
Hi, Mark.
Good to listen to you.
Um yeah, I just had a thought about uh Carly Farina's um uh apology.
Uh I think she should go through with it.
Uh, although I can't help but uh think that there would be kind of a uh cartoon caption bubble above her head saying, you know, I'm sorry I called your hair uh so yesterday, and I'm sorry I just helped everybody understand the um washed a politician image that they should understand about you.
Well, if she's saying that her hair is so yesterday, how about the policies of Barbara Boxer?
I mean, you talk about somebody who's just a classic.
If you listen to the comments that I had in the first hour of the program in which I talked about Democrats and liberals just treating government as a you know a big candy store in which they've been spending money like crazy, Barbara Boxer personifies all of that.
She also personifies all the stereotypes that are out there.
You know, California has had two female United States senators.
I don't care if you're Democrat or Republican, everyone has always acknowledged that Diane Feinstein is the more intellectually strong of the two.
Barbara Boxer's not been perceived as a leader on much of anything, which may be why she's so sensitive to suggestion that there's something wrong with her uh remember the old uh game you play in college and when you're younger and guys decide which female was hotter?
My favorite one from college was this is a great debate.
Marsha Brady or Lori Partridge.
You know, Maureen McCormick or uh Susan Day.
The other big one was Mary Ann or Ginger from Gilligan's Island.
I've got a California Democratic political one.
Pelosi or Boxer.
You could argue that one for a long time.
Pittsburgh and Samir, it's your turn on the Rush show with Mark Belling.
How are you doing?
I have a question.
How come uh when conservatives call uh Republic uh Democrats Nazi, it's okay, but when they get called that, it they get their panties all up in a bunch.
I think you've answered your own question.
They can't take it.
Any comment we ever made, humorous, intentional, whatever.
If it's the slightest bit of skew, they go nuts.
They go bonkers, they're all out of sorts.
This is how hateful the right is.
But then they dish it out and they sling it with venom.
And it's never ever humorous.
It's always mean spirited, it's always very personal.
They look at the weakest possible aspect of someone and they mock and ridicule.
Look for crying out loud.
Look at the treatment Dan Quayle got, the entire tenure is of his vice presidency.
You're exactly right.
They like to dish it out and they can't take it, which is precisely why you ought to keep throwing it at them.
Now, I'm not suggesting Carly Fiorina should be making fun of Barbara Boxer's hair giving her own hair issues.
I'm just saying the fact that in this important race, this is the only thing the Democrats can talk about and the media can cover is very revealing about them.
Halfway through the show, and I haven't made fun of the World Cup yet.
Fifty percent down, 50% to go.
Let's go to Iran.
I understand President Obama's policy toward Iran.
I understand it entirely.
It appears as though we are in a major, major dilemma here.
The United Nations passed these sanctions this week that everybody knows aren't real sanctions.
They're tepid.
It's the only thing that we've done now in a year and a half of the Obama presidency as Iran gets closer and closer to the nuclear bomb.
The president knows America's not comfortable with this.
Even when he campaigned in 2008, he used the term game changer, which is the oddest language, but he said it all the time.
Well, it's a game changer.
We can't allow that.
It's unacceptable.
That's a game changer.
He wouldn't let it happen.
Yet they're closer and closer and closer.
The best we can do is pass these tepid minor sanctions that won't inconvenience Iran at all.
In the meantime, the president is saying he has accomplished one thing.
That thanks to his willingness to work with other nations, unlike cowboy Bush, you'd go alone, we've managed to ostracize Iran, that they're now isolated in the world.
He says this all the time.
Watch him talk any catch an interview of Obama about Iran.
Anytime he's talking about Iran, he always says, Well, we've isolated them.
They're a pariah.
Now I understand why that's important to him.
How you're viewed by the world is to him the be all and end all of everything, and Iran is now viewed as a pariah.
We've isolated them.
The problem is, we haven't.
Charles Crowdhammer, who's really good, columnist Washington Post, has a column today in which he challenges this notion that Iran has been isolated at all.
Crowdhammer writes on Tuesday, one day before the president touted passage of a surpassingly weak UN resolution and declared Iran yet more isolated.
The leaders of Russia, Turkey, and Iran gathered at a security summit in Istanbul in a display of regional power that appeared to be calculated to test the United States, as the New York Times put it, I would add, add calculated to demonstrate the hollowness of U.S. claims of Iranian isolation, to flaunt Iran's growing ties with Russia, and quasi alliance with Turkey, a NATO member no less.
Apart from the fact that isolation is hardly an end in itself and is pointless if regardless, Iran rushes headlong to become a nuclear power.
The very claim of Iran's increasing isolation is increasingly implausible.
Just last month, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hosted an ostentatious love fest in Tehran with the leaders of Turkey and Brazil.
The three raised hands together and announced a uranium transfer deal that was designed to torpedo U.S. attempts to impose UN sanctions.
Six weeks ago, Iran was elected to the UN Commission on the Status of Women, a grotesque choice that mocked Obama's attempt to isolate and delegitimize Iran in the very international institutions.
He treasures increasing isolation.
In the past year alone, Ahmadinejad has been welcomed in Kabul, Istanbul, Copenhagen, Caracas, Brazilia, La Paz, Senegal, Gambia, and Uganda.
Today he is in China.
Three Iran sanctions resolutions passed in the Bush years.
They were all passed without a single no vote.
But after 16 months of laboring to produce a mouse, Obama garnered only twelve votes for his sorry sanctions, with Lebanon abstaining and Turkey and Brazil voting against.
From the very beginning, the Obama strategy toward Iran and other rogue states had been to offer goodwill and concessions on the premise that this would lead to one of two outcomes.
A, the other side changes policy, or B, if not, the world isolates the offending state and rallies around us, now that we have demonstrated last mile good intentions.
But hence Nearly a year and a half of peace overtures, negotiation, concessions, two New Year's messages to the Iranian people, a bit of groveling about U.S. involvement in the 1953 coup, and a disgraceful silence when the regime's very stability was threatened by peaceful demonstrators.
Iran's response?
Defiance, contempt, and an acceleration of its nuclear program.
And the world's response?
Did it rally behind us?
The Russians and China's Chinese bargained furiously and successfully to hollow out the sanctions resolution.
Turkey is openly choosing sides with the region's strong horse Iran and its clients Syria Hezbollah Hamas as it watches the United States flailingly trying to placate Syria and appease Iran while it pressures Israel, neglects Lebanon, and draws down its power in the region.
To say nothing of Brazil.
This comes after sixteen months of assiduously courting these powers with one conciliatory gesture after another, resetting relations with Russia, cowtowing to China, lavishing a two-day visit on Turkey, highlighted by a speech to the Turkish parliament in Ankara, and elevating Brazil by supplanting the G eight with the G twenty.
All this has been read as American weakness, evidence that Obama can be rolled.
Well stated.
For all the kissing up that President Obama has done to all of our enemies, for all of the extending his hand in peace as he said he was going to do.
Where has it gotten us with anybody?
We've gotten nowhere.
We haven't gotten the Russians to cooperate at all in pressuring Iran.
We haven't gotten the Chinese to cooperate at all in pressuring Iran.
Despite sucking up to Turkey for a year and a half, Turkey has become proran and almost anti United States.
Yet we were told for eight years of the Bush administration that cowboy Bush, thumbing his nose at world opinion.
You have to work with everybody.
You can't be unilateral, you must be multilateral.
Well look where all the multilateralism has gotten us.
We can't get anybody in the world to do anything we want.
Obama is being regarded by the world's tyrants as a wimp.
Bush.
They respected Bush.
Bush acted.
Bush didn't worry about world opinion.
Now President Bush's finest hour was not Iran.
Iran moved toward the nuclear toward nuclear weapons during Bush's presidency.
In fairness to Bush, he was occupied with Afghanistan and Iraq.
But President Bush never worried about what the rest of the world thought.
This president has been obsessed with that.
This president has naively thought that by being nice and by being open, by playing off his own identity, he could make deals and work with people that those evil Republicans couldn't.
It's gotten us nowhere.
We have made no progress in slowing down Iran's nuclear ambitions, and we have absolutely no relationship that we can exploit with the Russians, the Chinese, or anyone else.
I happen to think that Russia and China are just fine with this regime in Iran.
Russia and China are essentially dictatorships themselves.
They can relate to a theocracy run by extremist mullahs who crush dissent in their nations.
It's the way they run their countries.
Democracy, freedom, that stuff is unpredictable.
They don't like that.
They're perfectly fine with Iran getting stronger.
The United States was never going to get any help from Russia and China on this.
So what has Obama done?
He's painted himself into a corner because he is playing nicety nice has flopped.
Why didn't he get tougher and where does he go from here?
I'll tell you where he's going from here.
He's going nowhere.
This is why the Israelis are so freaked right now.
You know, I mentioned the Russians and the Chinese, they're okay with the Iranian government.
I think Obama is too.
Obama's got that same degree of tyrant in him.
He knows better than everyone else.
He thinks he his way is the only way that should be pursued.
It's the reason why.
The only time the president of the United States ever gets angry at a foreign power, it's always one of our friends.
It's always some country that has a democracy.
He gets frustrated all the time with Israel.
Our relations with Great Britain are getting worse.
He's sucked up to Pakistan while antagonizing India.
His whole relationship is the same as the way the Russians and the Chinese regard Iran.
I think the president is okay with Iran being under the thumb of tyrants.
He seems totally unbothered by it.
So when the Israelis decide to do something about it, we can all point back to how it got to that point.
Because the President of the United States not only didn't intervene, he paved the way for Iran to join the group of world superpowers.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
Is Iran in the World Cup?
I'm trying my best.
Trying my best.
You criticize soccer.
You you think Democrats can't take it.
Try criticizing soccer.
Play that rush parody on soccer.
Play that one.
North, what is that?
Miami, oh Miami.
Antonio, you're on EIB with Mark Belling.
Hey Mark, how are you doing?
I'm great.
I I wanted to just compliment you on your uh effeminate voice.
It really makes me laugh when I hear you talk so tough.
Yeah, policy.
No, we can we can't make fun of Barbara Boxer's hair, but the first thing out of the mouth of the of the liberal caller here is making fun of the effeminate voice here.
This is the point.
This is the point that I make.
Do you have any other shot you want to take at me?
Yeah, I want to I want to know, right?
We've got a nine year and a seven-year war that has benefit us and the world uh a total uh you know value of zero.
And I wanted to know, should we continue fighting more wars?
Or do you think maybe Obama should be given more than 18 months uh to fix all of our problems?
I want to hear what you have to say as far as that concern.
Yeah.
Should we give Obama more than 18 months to fix our problems?
All of our problems.
Yeah, to solve all of our problems.
Yeah, exactly.
How much how much time do you how much time do you want to give him before it's okay for somebody who disagrees with his approach to say anything?
What would be an appropriate period of time?
Yeah, that was my question.
You don't have to repeat it.
How about before?
How about we wait until he's inaugurated before we we start to bash him?
Do you think maybe the right could do that?
Before he's inaugurated.
Well, he's he's been inaugurated.
Can we wait more than two months?
In February, Rick Santelli was complaining about the uh Yeah, I know.
I'm asking I'm asking you, therefore, what would be the appropriate what would be the appropriate amount of time before it's fair to uh criticize any of President Obama's policies?
You haven't given me that number.
I have a better question.
No, well, I know, I I know you don't seem to like this one.
I'm wondering if it, you know, maybe three years and nine months into his first term, would that be enough?
No, no.
How long does it take for a role?
Four years?
Five years, six years, seven years, I don't know.
Reagan turned the American economy around in a couple of years.
What I've noticed from the left is they have absolutely no enthusiasm anymore for defending President Obama's policies.
You can't get anyone to say that what we're doing with Iran, our failure to address the issue at all, is working.
So instead, all they can do is say, you shouldn't be able to criticize.
I guess he's looking for the same kind of honeymoon period that uh President Bush was given.
There isn't an answer for that.
I don't think the left right now is very comfortable with defending any of Obama's policies.
And the reason is for them, all Obama was was someone other than Bush.
They wanted to win.
They've never wanted to govern.
Even on health care, they never had any real public support for this.
All of the opposition, all of the public reaction, was opposition.
So when you get a call like that, suggesting that I'm being unfair and criticizing the Obama policy, it's because they can't defend the Obama policy.
What should the approach be?
Now, if his question to me was sincere and legitimate, he'd say, okay, talk show host, okay, fill in.
What would you do with Iran?
It's a terribly difficult problem.
If a country is moving toward nuclear, and that country is aligned with fundamentalist Islamic terrorists, it's a frighteningly scary problem.
It is not easy.
What I would do is start with backing our allies, Israel.
And I would leave open the option of trying to take out their nuclear sites.
And I would make clear to them that we would do it, we will do it if they are at the point where they could have active nuclear weapons.
Because I believe the world's safety is threatened.
If this nation, run by Stone Age Islamic theocrats, get their hands on nuclear weapons and start handing them off to the Taliban, Al Qaeda, and every other terror group in the world.
Now, you may not like that approach, but it's better than the non-approach of Obama, the kiss up to everybody and become less popular every day.
That approach has never worked.
You would have thought we would have learned it from Carter to Reagan.
Carter, who tried to appease the Russians, Reagan who tried to defeat them and won the Cold War.
Carter, who was clueless as to what to do with Qaddafi?
Reagan attacked them and neutered him.
The approach that we have right now, I'll be nice to you and you be nice to the rest of the world, isn't just naive.
It's dangerous.
And it's hard to find a liberal who will defend it anymore.
They only want to tell the rest of us to shut up because they don't have a good response to what we're saying.
I'm Mark Belling, sitting in for Rush.
I'm Mark Belling, sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
I've got one of those you-can't-make-this-stuff-up kind of stories that...
The financial regulation bill.
The House and Senate have passed their own versions.
They've got to resolve the differences and pass them.
They're trying to work out a bill that can clear both chambers.
You know, the let's regulate every bank in the United States to death, which is our way of dealing with excesses on Wall Street, that bill.
The one that every small town banker is mortified about, that bill.
The one that allows them to say, see, I'm tough on Wall Street, even though all they're doing is creating permanent bailouts.
That one.
Here are the lead negotiators.
The chairman of the Senate banking committee is Senator Christopher Dodd, outgoing Democrat of Connecticut.
Nominating Representative Barney Frank, Democrat of Massachusetts, and the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee to lead the conference.
Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd are going to work out the banking bill.
You can't is this a cruel joke?
You can't make this up at all anymore.
Christopher Dodd, the friend of Angelo from countrywide.
And Barney Frank, the guy that turned Freddie Mack and Fannie Mae into the funders of all the subprime mortgages, they're going to work it out.
I mean, what are the Democrats going to give us next?
Bring back Teddy Kennedy for a commission on drunk driving?
How about Rod Logoyevich on ethics reform?
John Edwards on the commission on absentee fatherhood, I could go on.
Elliot Spitzer on the committee to combat prostitution?
I've got it.
How about Barack Obama and cleaning up oil spills?
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