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June 21, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 21, 2010, Monday, Hour #2
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Guess what?
Guess what Obama's doing today?
He's having a barbecue at the White House for fathers.
I wasn't invited.
I'm too busy anyway.
I couldn't have gone anyway.
No time for golf.
No time for barbecues.
Great to have you with us, folks.
Rush Limbaugh.
Serving humanity behind a golden EIB microphone here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
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Email address, lrushball at EIBnet.com from the Baltimore Sun.
Life after college for many means returning home.
Recent graduates continue to move back in with mom and dad.
For some reason, this depresses me.
This is not the way it's supposed to work.
But it's more and more of a trend.
There's really nothing new.
A survey of last year's college graduation class showed that 80% moved back home after getting their diplomas up significantly from the 63% in 2006.
The collegegrad.com survey of 2,000 young people showed that 7 in 10 said they would live at home until they found a job.
And they're not leaving even then.
That's the whole thing.
They're not even going to leave even then unless the job's out of town.
And if the job's out of town, they might not take the gig in the first place.
Rom Emmanuel expected to quit the White House.
You know, I always go to the UK papers for the proper perspective on this because there's all kinds of news.
Rah's going to quit.
Rah can't handle the idealism.
He can't handle working with these people.
He can't handle getting his own way.
Basically, here's the summation of the UK Telegraph story.
Democrats are upset with Rahm because their big government budget-busting health care takeover oil spill fiasco, Chicago-style politics have failed and have been continuously rejected by Americans.
I've just got a couple stories in the stack.
The Democrats are wondering what to do about the kiss of death.
The kiss of death is Obama showing up to campaign for you.
If you're a Democrat, how do they deal with this?
They don't want the kiss of death, but they don't want to anger Obama or Rahm or any of that.
They've got huge problems.
That's why they love this oil spill business.
They are looking for a scapegoat for their horrific record, and they are targeting Rah Emmanuel.
So maybe that's why it was leaked that he's leaving.
The White House says it isn't true.
Well, maybe somebody in Congress on the Democrat side leaked that Rahm is leaving.
That's the UK perspective.
Maybe it was Joe Barton.
Maybe Joe Barton leaked or Joe Wilson leaked.
But Rah Emmanuel is leaving.
The Washington Insiders say he will quit within six to eight months in frustration of their unwillingness to bang heads together to get policy pushed through.
Mr. Emmanuel enjoys a good working relationship with Obama, but they're understood to have reached an understanding that differences over style mean he will serve only half the full four-year term, which is not uncommon for chiefs of staff.
Friends say that he's also worried about burnout and losing touch with his young family due to the pressure of one of the most high-profile jobs in U.S. politics.
Oh, yeah.
Wants to spend more time with the family.
Wants to go back to Chicago and run for office doing something there.
I would bet that he'll go after the midterm, said a leading Democrat consultant in Washington.
Nobody thinks it's working, but they can't get rid of him.
That would look awful.
He needs the right sort of job to go to, but the consensus is he'll go.
So the UK version of the story is that the agenda is in a huge downward spiral.
Nothing is getting done.
And the stuff that is getting done is requiring all kinds of hard work, even with a supermajority of Democrats in Congress.
And they're not happy.
And every time they get something done or even ask or promote something they want to get done, their poll numbers plunge even further because they're governing against the will of the American people.
Their agenda is not what the American people now realize they want, and they certainly didn't vote for it.
It is well known in Washington that arguments have developed between the pragmatic Mr. Did I read that right?
The pragmatic Mr. Emmanuel, a veteran in Congress, where he was known for driving through compromises and the idealistic inner circle who followed Obama to the White House.
That is flat out BS.
That there's a conflict between the pragmatic Emmanuel and the idealistic inner circle.
I think I know what they mean by pragmatic.
What they mean is that Rahm is willing to bust heads and use the old Chicago-style way to get done what they want, where the ideologues, the dreamers, the utopians, think it just should happen because Obama's proposing it.
And they are looking at Obama's numbers plummeting, the idealists are.
They're looking at none of the agenda actually accomplishing anything.
None of the stimulus worked.
The healthcare is going to be a debacle.
We're going to have a double-dip recession most likely when the tax increases hit next year.
And the ideologue utopians don't dig it.
They don't understand.
The true duel, the true deal.
Well, they're blaming Rahm because Rahm is the liaison between the White House and Democrats and Republicans in Congress.
And Rahm's well-deserved reputation for sending dead fish to people and being a bare knuckles fighter for his stuff.
And the ideologues think that that's hurting Obama.
Of course, the ideologues see Obama is angelic.
Obama's above it all.
Obama doesn't do anything.
He just has the marvelous rhetoric.
And that it's Rahm Emmanuel that is taking that marvelous rhetoric and turning it into oil and other substances which are unpalatable.
And so somebody, some Democrat somewhere, either one of these ideologue utopians in the White House or somebody in Congress is leaking that Rahm's going.
It might not be his fault, but the perception is there, said the Democrat consultant, who asked not to be named.
Every vote has been tough from healthcare to energy to financial reform.
Democrats have not stood behind the president in the way Republicans did for Bush, and that was meant to be Rahm's job.
Also, Bush was good at something, and Rove was good at something, and Emmanuel can't even do it as well as Rove and Bush did.
Very, very interesting.
From the UK Financial Times, the United States remained the world's biggest manufacturing nation by output last year.
You know, I read this.
I saw this yesterday last night doing show prep.
I wondered, what do Americans think when they read this?
Again, a lot of Americans think we don't manufacture anything.
That it's all been shipped to Mexico or overseas ever since NAFTA.
A lot of Americans think that we have no manufacturing left.
Right?
Everybody thinks that China's been the biggest manufacturer for years, not just almost imminently.
I mean, may I assume I'm reacting in accurately portraying you when you read a story like this?
What?
We still lead the world manufacturing?
How can that be?
It's then who that's been telling you that we don't do manufacturing.
Who's been telling you this?
Democrats, media, and certain nativist Republicans have been running around talking about how we've lost all these manufacturing jobs and the sewing center jobs, the textile jobs, and all this stuff.
We don't do any manufacturing anymore.
We're losing our identity.
And here comes a story that says the U.S. remained the world's biggest manufacturing nation by output last year, but is poised to relinquish this slot in 2011 to the CHICOMs, thus ending a 110-year run as the number one country in factory production.
Something I've noticed.
And then it comes to the stock market.
I will admit to being a layman, but it appears to me the Chinese are running our stock market as well.
Chinese say something, one way or the other, market goes up or down.
Seems like the CHICOMs have control over the Wall Street market in indices.
And now this.
Next year, the ChiComs become the world's leading manufacturers, wiping out our 110-year run.
Now, in my mind, the environmentalist wackos and a bunch of leftists ought to be happy about this.
Because manufacturing is just filth, right?
Manufacturing pollutes.
Manufacturing destroys.
Manufacturing creates messes.
We never wanted those dirty, not very friendly jobs, earth-friendly jobs, did we?
Anyway, much better all around if we're a service economy.
Let the rest of the world pollute itself.
We need to clean ourselves up.
The figures are revealed in a league table being published today by the IHS Global Insight, a U.S.-based economics consultancy.
Last year, the U.S. created 19.9% of world manufacturing output compared with 18.6% for the CHICOMs, with the U.S. staying ahead despite a steep fall in factory production due to the global recession.
Not NAFTA.
A recession.
The U.S. became the world's biggest manufacturer in the late 1890s, edging the then-incumbent Brits into the number two position.
And the Brits, by the way, where are they?
Zilch Zero Nada.
You don't find them anywhere.
Hal Sirkin, head of the Global Operations Practice, Chicago-based Boston Consulting Group, said the U.S. should not despair too much at the likelihood that it would lose the global manufacturing crown to the Chikoms.
If you have a country with four times the population of the U.S. and a tenth of the wages and all the iPhone and iPad factories, it's fairly, I threw that in there.
It's not actually in the story.
It's fairly obvious they'll pull ahead at some point in productive capabilities.
Actually, folks, given the high cost of transportation and the availability of computerized design, CAD, and robotic technology in the U.S., this is not quite as inevitable as some make it out to be.
It's not inevitable we're going to lose this crown.
There's a lot of people hoping that we do.
Last year, according to IHS, goods output by the U.S. totaled $1.717 billion ahead of the CHICOMs at $1.608 billion.
However, in 2011, on the basis of the estimates here from IHS, Chikom factory output will come in at $1.870 billion, a fraction ahead of the projected U.S. figure for the year.
So what do we need to do to stop this?
Well, much as I said, we want to screw up the cultures of our international competitors.
We export liberalism, export feminism, export militant environmentalist wackoism, export all these wacko-leftist cultural ideas to the Chikoms, to the Japanese, and whoever.
And clearly, that's what needs to be done here.
We need to send some of our environmentalist wackos, some of our union thugs, some of our illegal aliens and community organizers over to China and saddle them with the same obstacles we have in terms of our business and manufacturing output.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
I got a funny note for a friend of mine, Jeff Lord at the American Spectator.
Hey, Rush, hearing you read that email from that guy comparing your golfing time on the Hank Haney project to that of Obama raises the obvious question this guy seemed to raise but didn't understand.
In his mind, you and your time are as important to the country, if not more so, than the president of the United States in his time.
The greed.
Excellent point.
Anybody getting mad at my playing golf?
Especially in relation to the elections coming up.
Good point.
Jeff, thanks so much for the reminders.
You know, regarding this manufacturing business, it's still sobering to see that all of our manufacturing output, 1.7 trillion is the number, doesn't even approach our debt.
And try this.
What's this from?
CNNMoney.com.
The mortgage meltdown is hitting the African-American and Latino communities harder than whites.
A new study is found.
No kidding.
I mean, this has become a predictable joke.
Economic story of the day, headline, women minorities hardest hit.
Of course, minorities would be hardest hit by the mortgage meltdown.
They were the ones that Chris Dodd and Barney Frank decided were worthy of homes and special deals when they couldn't afford them in the first place.
White people weren't allowed into these programs.
These were strictly for minorities.
The subprime mortgage mess was strictly a minority idea.
Banks had to keep their minority numbers up so they were approved for loans.
It's what happens when you make quotas.
It's what happens when you bring affirmative action to virtually every cultural enterprise within a society.
All right, Kathy in Potomac, Maryland.
I'm glad you waited.
You're next on the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Oh, thanks so much for taking my call and best wishes to you and Catherine Rush.
Before I get to my point, let me give you a quick idea as to where Ron Emmanuel may be going.
I think maybe he's going to join Hillary's campaign.
Hmm.
Join Hillary's campaign for president in 2012.
Yes, let's just keep a sharp eye, as you would say.
Now, wait a second.
Let's just examine.
Do you think here is Rah Emmanuel, chief of staff to the one?
He quits the gig or is forced out and joins Hillary?
Do you think that's going to help Hillary with the Democrat Party?
Well, he wants to get things done, Rush, and she's a doer.
Well, now that's an interesting perspective.
That Emmanuel might be tired of Obama because Obama's not helping him get anything done.
Obama's a net drag on things.
You may have a point.
All right.
Well, listen, I don't want to take up a lot of time.
I know you have a lot of callers.
So here's the reason I called Rush.
Like you, I'm really troubled by the way in which the White House seems to be getting away with corporate shakedowns.
And I think the rule of law is under assault because we've spent years talking about illegal immigrants as if illegal meant legal, granting rights to illegal immigrants.
So what we've done is we've desensitized people as to the meaning of the rule of law.
I don't think there's any question about that.
Whether it's illegal immigration or anything else, I think there's no question that there's been a desensitive.
Daniel Moynihan, Daniel Patrick Moynihan had a great phrase for it a long time ago called defining deviancy down.
When you tackle aberrant behavior and you give up, you say, okay, well, it's just normal now.
Kids are going to have sex when they're 14 and 15.
We just can't stop it.
They're going to have it.
We've got to realize it, Russia, this is going to happen.
Okay, so we permit it.
It's become the new norm.
And what he meant was a lot of things, criminal activity, too.
We can't stop it.
So we just declare it's the new normal.
It's a lack of moral clarity, too.
No question about it.
So what are you going to do about it?
I want to see more corporate chieftains stand up to this administration and say we have a rule of law.
If they don't stand up, they're just going to get rolled over and over again.
And who's next?
That's why people are out there in fear, hunkering down.
They don't know what industry is going to be hit next.
Or what individual is going to be hit next, meaning what kind of bracket an individual may be in is going to get hit.
But you have just, you've just swerved into something that explains it.
It's called crony capitalism.
For example, you'll have, well, let's just take a nameless Wall Street bank like Goldman Sachs.
Goldman Sachs will get in bed with the administration on some kind of financial regulatory reform as a matter of protection.
You go along with a regime, and the regime leaves you alone while your competitors get blown to smithereens and you own the market, even though you are inexorably tied to the government.
It's no different than when the White House went out to big pharmaceutical and big insurance and tried to extort a bunch of money from them for television ads to promote regime agenda items in exchange for those industries being given a pass on some of their behavior.
And it's no different than, say, a nameless multinational corporation, which makes any number of products, one of their divisions heavily invested in new green technology.
And if you get in bed with this regime, they give you plenty of, shall we say, grants, favorable contract bid status to advance your green energy program.
And at the same time, all your competitors get creamed because they don't have most favored corporate status.
So if you're the CEO of a corporation, CEO of corporations are not political ideologues.
They have an entirely different agenda.
It is to keep their business as profitable and as near the top as possible.
And if the lay of the land in a particular year is that you have to get in bed with the government to make that happen, then that's what you do.
If you have to donate to that regime, you have to set up for a PAC for that regime, then that's what you do.
This is, you know, I'm with you.
I would love for some of these people to stand.
We would all love for BP have gone in there and say, what, you're asking us against their law.
You're asking us to do things that we can get sued for by our shareholders.
And they might have done that.
To which the regime said, don't worry.
As far as anybody knows, we'll take care of you.
Nobody will know.
As far as anybody knows, you appear to be under our thumb.
But we'll make sure that we don't bankrupt you.
Now, if you run BP and you're in a mess like this, and you've got an activist regime who hates private sector capitalism, and they promise you not to bankrupt you in exchange for playing ball, what are you going to do?
Are you going to go out there and go public and say what happened?
We would all love for that to happen, but that's not what CEOs are.
That's not who they are.
That's not what they do.
Executing assigned host duties flawlessly.
Zero mistakes.
That's because I, as host, assigned myself the duties.
Haley Barber, the governor of Mississippi, has just said that the White House has done more right than wrong regarding the BP oil spill problem.
And again, this is a testament to the polling data that's out there on this.
And it's understandable.
I mean, it's a cumulative effect of the dumbing down of the American society on the role of government, the Constitution, the intricacies of how the private sector works, capitalism and all that, combined with 50 years of the Democrat Party and the American left demonizing American corporate entities.
Then you have an oil spill like this.
And the American people think, some of them, that BP is doing it on purpose.
I mean, you would be surprised the number of people who think corporations exist to deplete the country.
You would not believe the number of people who believe U.S. corporations are inherently and by design evil, that their express purpose is to screw individuals, customers, and the country.
This is 50 years of Democrat Party politics come home to roost.
So you have the oil spill out here.
And even if people don't think BP did it on purpose, they clearly believe BP doesn't care.
And they clearly believe the all-knowing, all-powerful, all-loving, and compassionate government does care.
Clearly believe this.
And so when you see polling data like this, and if you're Republican and you've got perspirations for higher office, as they say Haley Barber might, well, okay, you see what the polling data is, American people this or that.
I think it's a mistake.
The American public does not want to hear how the White House is doing good stuff or right stuff.
Obama, the Democrat Party is on the ropes.
Or more properly stated, are on the ropes.
But it is what it is.
Now there's this.
John Kyle, last Friday in Tempe, Arizona, at a North Tempe Tea Party Town Hall meeting, unidentified guy said, what's going on with the U.S. Senate as well as Obama?
Because it looks like he's going to challenge our immigration bill here.
I met with the president in the Oval Office, just the two of us.
The problem is, he said, if we secure the border, then you all won't have any reason to support comprehensive immigration reform.
In other words, they're holding it hostage.
They don't want to secure the border unless and until it is combined with comprehensive immigration reform.
So Kyle is claiming that the White House told him that if we secure the border, then you Republicans, you won't have any reason to support comprehensive immigration reform because securing the borders will fix the problem.
And of course, comprehensive immigration form is simply the largest get-out-the-vote drive voter registration drive in the history of the country.
It's called amnesty.
Amnesty, the single largest voter registration drive in the history of the country.
And that's what Obama wants.
And what he's essentially telling Kyle is, look, if we secure the border and we keep our potential new voters out, then there's no need for comprehensive reform, which is the massive registration of all these people.
The White House this morning told ABC News that John Kyle is lying.
The president did not say that.
Senator Kyle knows it, said communications director Dan Pfeiffer.
There are more resources dedicated toward border security today than ever before.
But as the president has made clear, truly securing the border will require a comprehensive solution to our broken immigration system.
Now, Kyle is maintaining, radio station in Iowa, maintaining that his account of the overall conversation in the Oval Orifice is accurate.
What I said occurred did occur.
One way you can verify the validity of what I said is that that's exactly their position.
Some spokesman down at the White House said, no, that isn't what happened at all, and then proceeded to say we need comprehensive immigration reform to secure the border.
That's their position.
And all I was doing was explaining why from a conversation with the president, why it appears that that's their position.
So the White House accusing Kyle of lying, Kyle standing his ground on this, saying, look, however they say it, it's their policy.
Securing the border cannot happen until we have comprehensive immigration reform.
Well, it'll be interesting to see if the Republicans want Kyle to apologize.
That's a good point.
How long, and Kyle's standing his ground, the White House accusing him of lying.
Comprehensive immigration reform is nothing more than a massive voter registration drive.
And so the interesting thing, a lot of Republicans, as you know, want comprehensive immigration reform because they want to have their chance at registering some of these voters to vote for them.
So we'll see.
We'll see how long it takes for some Republican in a leadership position somewhere asking Kyle to apologize.
And then we'll see what Kyle does about this.
So the phones we go, Chester in Champaign, Illinois, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, it's Justin Make It Ditto.
It's a major honor to speak with you, sir.
Thank you very much.
Your name is Justin?
Justin.
Justin.
But I assure you, I've been called worse.
Well, no, I'm just forever trying to figure out how Justin became Chester when Mr. Snurdley was talking to you.
Well, a little bit earlier, Rush, you were talking about how the Baltimore Sun printed an article about how college graduates now, increasingly, are coming out of school and they're going and they're moving back in with their parents, which I think is nearly the textbook definition of a liberal.
Now, it won't come as a huge surprise to you, but I was an abysmal student, started working in broadcasting, started my own entertainment company, but I'd like to be a very poor student.
And I can't imagine any of my friends who went to college and everything, starting their own business and doing anything of the like, because when you start talking common sense to these people and you start talking about work ethic and things like that, they look at you like you've got plants growing out of your ears.
And they've been taught that academia is a substitute for hard work.
And I just think that is all of the problem right now with the White House and the country.
I mean, no way.
Wait, wait, wait.
Way to explain this.
People are being told that academia is a substitute for hard work.
What do you mean by that?
I mean, what they've been taught is, well, if you go and you get a big degree and you get something that, you know, with a lot of initials after it, that it's going to let you glide on through and you're going to be able to move through and you're going to get a high-paying job and you're going to be responsible for very little.
Yeah, that is the thing.
I mean, that works in the government sector.
That is the PR.
There's no question about it.
And it doesn't happen, so what do you do?
Well, it's either one of two things.
You're going to go back.
Well, okay, three things.
One of three things.
You either go back to school, you move into mom or dad, or you're on for office.
Exactly right.
I think that's exactly, you know, that's exactly what happened.
The White House and Washington is filled with these people that if they weren't in the position that they are now, they'd be living at home in their parents' basement with no concept of positive cash flow, how things work.
And all they know is how to spend and then how to let other people make decisions for them.
In the interest of full disclosure, I need to include myself in this discussion.
I've mentioned this before on this program, but this new book out called Rush Limbaugh and Army of One by Zeb Chaffetz.
And by the way, I had nothing to do with this book.
I had nothing to do with the title.
Nothing whatsoever to do with the title of this book.
There's no, I'm, I mean, I talked to Zeb Chaffetz, the author for maybe 16 hours, but I had nothing to do with the structure of the book.
I had no input control, output control, textual, none of that.
But he has written about an incident when I was, I left home when I was 20.
And I'd started working when I was essentially 13.
My first job was shining shoes in a barbershop.
And then I started working at a radio station when I was 16.
And I worked all through the summers.
So I really never had your average, ordinary childhood, teenage years.
I mean, I still went out with the buddies and so, but I had to get up at 4 o'clock, 5 o'clock every morning, every day in the summertime.
So I leave for Pittsburgh in February of 1971.
And by 1975, I had moved back home because I had been fired twice.
And the only offer I had was from a small station in Wisconsin.
I said, this is not what I want to do.
And I went back home to try to assess things.
I'd sent out a bunch of tapes to radio stations all over the country.
And I went back home and I was going to collect responses there.
And it happened to be the summertime.
And for two months, I vegged.
For two months, I sat there and I vegged.
And I went out to dinner with my parents and so forth.
And just basically recaptured or spent a little bit of the ute period that I had not had because I started working when I was 16.
No, I was 24.
I was not 35 or 36.
But anyway, here's the point.
I thought for sure my dad was going to be livid with me.
Because I'm down in the basement.
I'm playing stratomatic baseball.
I'm playing Atma baseball.
I'm out just taking joyrides around.
That's why I like the movie The Graduate.
Because at that period, other than having an affair with a girlfriend's mother, which I never did, I relate to Dustin Hoffman because he gets out of school, has no clue what he wants.
He's worried about his future.
So he's hanging around the house, and his parents are throwing parties for him and making him go in the bathing or in the swimming pool with a scuba suit on.
And this went on for two or three months.
And I went to my dad and said, you're probably tired of me being here.
I said, no, no.
I figure you'll figure out what you have to do on your own in due course.
I know what you want to do.
And I know you're not really doing it sitting here.
I don't mind you being here.
But my mother did.
And one day a phone call came from somebody I had worked with in Pittsburgh.
Guy's name was Jim Carnegie.
And he was a program director at KUDL, Kansas City.
And I'm outside, actually sitting in the backyard getting a stupid suntan.
My mother comes out and says, there's somebody on the phone who wants to talk to you about going to work in Kansas City.
I said, could you get a number?
No, you are coming in and you are taking a call.
And if you are offered a job, you are going.
And the next day, I was in my car on the way to Kansas City.
So I have experience with this.
I have experience with going home after.
But remember now, I didn't go home after college.
I quit college to pursue my broadcast career.
And I went back home.
It was less than three months until my mother couldn't stand the sight of me anymore.
Well, it wasn't that.
This was just not right.
Sitting around vegging in the house and eating their food and sleeping in their house in my old room.
My dad didn't mind it for a while, but my mother wasn't having it.
So it's just strange.
The difference now is that a lot of parents believe that whatever happens to their kids is anybody but the kids' responsibility or fault and a little sympathetic and coddling and so forth.
And I was not coddled at any time in my life.
So just I just wanted to be truthful about this because if I'm going to sit here and be critical of it, there has to be full disclosure that I myself have found myself, I never intended to move back home forever.
And I never intended to stay.
No, I would just, Snerdley says two or three months doesn't count that I don't understand what's going on.
You mean they're coming back and they're staying home for years?
Yeah.
Well, okay.
Well, I know that.
I know that, but I still, I needed to, you know, for the credibility sake and so forth, I needed to say, if I'm going to have credibility talking about this, I have to let people know that I have experience.
Look, at age 24, I moved back.
I was still a kid, according to the government today.
And I'm still qualified my parents' health insurance, which we didn't have health insurance back then.
He just went to the doctor.
Oh, it was tough, Snerdley.
We went to the doctor.
Doctor diagnosed whatever the problem was.
We went home.
The doctor sent a bill.
We wrote the check.
It was scary.
That was really scary.
We felt like we were on death's door every day of our lives back then.
Sometimes, Snerdley, the doctor, even came to the house back when we were kids, brought us a little black bag, came to the house, dispensed whatever medicine was necessary and left, and then sent a bill sometime before the end of the month.
Yep.
It happened.
Cliff in Spokane, Washington.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush.
Greetings from the great Northwest.
Thank you, sir.
I hope you enjoyed your brief vacation here in the Weatherheld.
You know, it was great out there.
I'd been to Court d'Alene, Iowa, but I'd never been to Sun Valley.
I'd heard all about it.
And it was, well, we got there on Thursday at 30 degrees Thursday night.
I mean, it was, there's 4,000 feet elevation up there.
That's why it was fun playing golf on Friday and Saturday.
But it warmed up on, it got to get the mid-60s on Friday and Saturday.
It was in the 40s.
I kind of liked it.
It was a nice change of pace.
We're having August and June here in Palm Beach.
You know, nighttime lows are 86.
We're having a very cool spring.
Well, into summer now.
Yeah, well, we're just waiting for the hurricanes here.
I know you are.
Hey, listen, my comment.
I don't think BP should be responsible for the regime's decisions, i.e. the stopping of the offshore drilling and all those people down there unemployed because of it.
There's no way that BP is responsible for that, and they're not responsible for the delayed cleanups either.
Well, now all of this is true.
Let me translate this, folks.
What he's talking about here, they're going to be Boku oil workers out of work because Obama has shut down all oil drilling in the Gulf.
We've got 33 rigs out there and in Alaska now.
And BP has been forced, by the way, part of this slush fund, there's $100 million BP has to pay so that Obama can give the out-of-work oil workers in the Gulf of Mexico their payment, their checks.
That's wrong.
Well, look, I agree with you, but you and I happen to be in a minority on this.
I mean, what you're saying, it's not BP's fault that Obama shuts down drilling throughout the Gulf.
Correct.
It's not BP's fault that Obama shuts down drilling in Alaska.
It's not BP's fault that Obama refused all of these offers for help from experts at cleaning up oil from foreign countries.
It's not BP's fault that Obama waited 59 days to put the military in action.
It's not BP's fault that the government was lax in doing what it could have done.
You know, you're exactly right about that, but the political atmosphere for elected officials say something like that just is not, it doesn't work.
Well, Boehner and McConnell and the rest of them got to get a backbone.
They've got to back these guys apologizing for, you know, for the regime, because that is wrong.
Well, look, it's very simple.
David Plough sent out an email to all these Obama supporters from their website, Organizing for America.
Barton, we're going to make a TV ad.
The Republicans don't want a TV ad of what Barton said.
And they're going to get it anyway, regardless of his apology.
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