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	There was another Supreme Court ruling today.
	They get a whole bunch of uh attention, but I want you to know a little bit about it.
	The court has rejected appeals by the uh Obama regime and the big tobacco companies to get involved in a legal fight about the dangers of cigarette smoking and going on for more than ten years.
	The court's action issued without comment today leaves in place rulings that the tobacco industry did illegally conceal the dangers of smoking for decades, but it also prevents the regime from trying to extract billions of dollars more from big tobacco, either in past profits or to fund a national campaign to curb smoking.
	So the Supreme Court of the United States told the regime no slush fund from big tobacco.
	You ain't getting it.
	In asking the court to hear its appeal, the regime said the industry's half century of deception has cost the lives and damage to the health of untold millions of Americans.
	The appeal was signed by Elena Kagan, the solicitor general, a couple of months before Obama nominated her to the Supreme Court.
	So she got slam-dunked again.
	And now her confirmation hearings have begun.
	Greetings, my friends, and welcome back.
	It's Rush Limbaugh.
	This, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, 800 282-2882.
	If you want to be on the program, Michael Baron.
	Americans relate to the founders, not progressives.
	This kind of dovetails with a little story a half hour ago.
	I've been really you don't even have to run into liberals personally.
	You can just see all over the place.
	They're miserable.
	Now you would think they'd be ecstatic.
	I mean, they they won the election, they got Obama in there.
	They're doing every got health care.
	They they got their stimulus, they got TARP, they've got two stimuli.
	Three.
	The uh unemployment benefits have been forever extended, of course, until last week.
	And yet they're miserable.
	And I maintain that one of the reasons they're miserable is that they finally got it and it's not working.
	All of these decades of utopian dreams they've had.
	They have believed that all of this has never worked in the past simply because the right people had not yet been in charge, and they hadn't yet spent the requisite amount of money.
	No.
	Now we're what?
	14 trillion in debt.
	Obama wants to go even more in debt.
	The rest of the world is saying, Ain't no way, pal.
	We're not doing it your way.
	We've done it your way for 50 years, and we're dying out here.
	And health care is a mess.
	I mean, there's a s there's a there's a uh story today about the administration is going nuts here trying to implement three months into it, they don't know where they're what they're doing, where they are.
	Uh it's it's a giant mess.
	Nothing about it is working.
	We all know this, but they've had these dreams.
	We are the ones we have been waiting for.
	Well, this is their time.
	Their time is now, and the country's going to hell.
	It is not turning into this panacea.
	It's not turning into utopia.
	There is no one, there's no giant unity.
	The American people are not happy and finally relieved and happy that finally we're doing things right.
	And Michael Baron writes about it, Democrats reportedly planning to raise 125 million dollars for a campaign to sell Obamacare to the voting public.
	Apparently, the idea is that what 50 or more presidential speeches and statements and months of congressional debate could not do can somehow be done by 125 million dollars spent on everything from TV ads to community organizers.
	Maybe.
	But there seems to be a more fundamental problem here.
	The Obama Democrats didn't set out.
	Now, this is I think gets to the nub of it.
	And some of you may want to argue this may be debatable to some of you.
	The Obama Democrats did not set out to produce an unpopular stimulus package.
	They did not set Out to produce an unpopular health care bill.
	And they did not set out to produce an unpopular cap and trade scheme.
	They thought these initiatives would be popular.
	In their view, history is a story of progress from small government to big government.
	And as historians of the New Deal wrote, that progress is especially welcome in times of economic distress.
	The massive unpopularity of the Obama Democrats' programs suggests that view of history is defective.
	Barone says, let me propose another, starting with the founding fathers.
	Now, before we go further, do you agree with what Baron says here?
	Do you believe the Obama Democrats did not set out to produce an unpopular stimulus package?
	Do you agree that they did not intend for health care to be disapproved by over half the people?
	Do you believe that they intended cap and trade to be welcomed by all?
	Some people think they know this stuff isn't going to work.
	Some people know that they know it isn't going to work, and they don't want people to be happy.
	They want people miserable, they want chaos.
	They want all of the stuff not working because it's an excuse for even more government.
	Remember, when government screws up, what's the fix?
	More government.
	When something screws up in the private sector, what's the fix?
	A trial.
	Criminal charges.
	But the government makes a mistake.
	Oh no, the intentions were good.
	We just need more government.
	A new program to fix the defective program.
	I'm I'm undecided.
	I do think there's two kinds of garden variety of liberals, but I think the average ordinary common everyday liberal who has no power, who is a faceless, acne zip zit-faced little kid sitting out there on the website, blogs, and posting all the hate.
	I do believe that they think all this stuff will be totally popular, that will lift them from their irrelevance, make their lives have meaning.
	Yes, I supported health care, and now every American.
	Affordable health care for all America, I think there's a cadre of irrelevant, duped, useful idiot libs who think this stuff would automatically work, make them happy, make them feel relevant because they supported it, and would be popular.
	Now the liberals at the top, from Obama on down, you have to assume some things for them, if you want to believe that they didn't set out to produce an unpopular stimulus package.
	If you believe that Obama set out to produce a popular health care bill and is shocked that it's not, then you have to believe he's a little naive and idealistic and uh rose-colored glasses.
	If on the other hand you believe that these people from Obama on down are not idiots, that they know it doesn't work, but they're going to do it anyway because it's going to give them more power.
	Where I think I tend to fall is I don't see there's certain things to me that are common sense.
	And I know liberalism is devoid of a lot of common sense.
	But it's been clear from the get-go that nobody wanted the stimulus bill, and nobody nobody wanted health care, and yet they did it.
	The idea that these things were unpopular was well known before they happened, especially the health care bill, and yet they still did it.
	So the notion that they expected it to be popular, I'm having trouble getting my arms around that.
	Well, they might think everybody come around, and they still might think everybody will come around once it gets implemented, but the fact of the matter is, snurdly, all you have to do is look anywhere in the world where it's been tried, it doesn't work, and the patients are not happy, the doctors are not happy, the unemployed are not happy after stimulus bills.
	Nobody's happy.
	And the liberals aren't happy, and I'm talking about the zit-faced little irrelevant libs out there on the blogs filled with hate, wanting their lives to have meaning.
	Well, I know there's a portion of them, we are the ones we've been waiting for.
	The only reason stuff hasn't worked is because the wrong people have been implementing it, and finally we're the right people.
	But maybe, maybe, you know, my problem, I could very well be cursed, with at least in the context of this example, with just too much common sense.
	And therefore, I assume, because it's so easy for me to see, as a student of history, it doesn't work.
	Socialism communism doesn't work.
	It does not create happiness anywhere.
	We've only got how many thousands of years of history?
	And for this arrogant bunch to come along and think the only reason it hasn't worked is because they haven't done it.
	Well, maybe.
	The mistake I'm making is assuming that everybody is as smart as I am.
	That everybody has the same degree of common sense that I have.
	Well, let's go with Baron's theory because it's his piece.
	And let's just keep going and examine this.
	Because he says the Obama Democrats did not set out to produce an unpopular stimulus package.
	I think Obama did.
	I think Obama knows exactly.
	I think Obama's the architect of chaos.
	Look at what he said over the weekend.
	He wants more spending the world.
	Why?
	Because he wants more world government power.
	He's all for a single currency, probably agrees with Medvedev on that.
	And Putin.
	And he also said that one nation should not have no nation should have an advantage over another.
	Now, folks, can I tell you very before we go to the break, can I can I translate that for you?
	When Barack Hussein Obama says that no nation should have an advantage over another, what he means is it's time to cut the United States down to size.
	The United States has had an unfair advantage.
	We haven't earned it, we have stolen it.
	We have taken what the rest of the world has.
	We have not compensated them for it.
	We have used it to enrich a precious few in this country, excluding minorities and women and the usual minority panache.
	And so, you know, to say that we had an advantage.
	Nobody gave us an advantage.
	We became the engine of the economy for the free world because of our constitution.
	Because of freedom, the human spirit, entrepreneur, all of that.
	And that's what's got to be cut down.
	That's criminal to people like Obama.
	So I think he wants people unhappy.
	I don't think he anybody that puts a stimulus package like his together a year and a half later sees the result is three to four million lost jobs and wants to keep doing the same thing.
	Don't tell me that they expect people to be happy when they implement this rot gut.
	By the way, stand by soundbite's 27 through 29.
	From the hill.com.
	Obama polster.
	U.S. will like health care bill despite poll numbers.
	President Obama's pollster said the health care bill will win over public support once it becomes law, despite polls showing Americans against the plan.
	The argument by Joel Benenson, Obama's lead polster, this guy, by the way, is one of these youngest 21-year-old guys, one of these young guys I'm talking about, sitting out there, these idealists thinking it's going to all work out.
	The argument rests on a chunk of Americans who now oppose the bill, supporting it after it's passed.
	Beninson said a group, which is anywhere from a tenth to a third of Americans, according to surveys by CNN, is skeptical of the bill because it doesn't go far enough, which is a crock.
	But nevertheless, with Baron's contention here, that the massive unpopularity of the Obama Democrats program suggests the view of history, their view of history is defective.
	And he proposes starting with the founding fathers.
	The founders believed that there was a tension between representative government and the right to life, liberty, and property.
	So they wrote the Fifth Amendment to ensure that no citizen was deprived of those rights without due process of law.
	In Britain, that tension had been limited by allowing only property owners to vote.
	That way, those without property could not elect representatives who would steal from the rich and give to the poor.
	But in conclusion, Barone says we still live in an America like the America of the founders, and unlike the America of the progressives and the New Dealers, in which a majority of citizens are or have every prospect of becoming property owners.
	A nation of property owners is less willing to plunder the property of others in search of some promised gain than a nation where most people don't and will never own significant property.
	So it's got a you know, a good point.
	Uh that the uh Democrats are under the illusion that everybody's gonna love their policies, and the liberals are.
	I I'm I'm gonna exempt Obama from it.
	I I don't think he cares.
	In fact, I know he doesn't care whether people are happy or not.
	I think it's just the opposite.
	What we have going on in the Gulf of Mexico is an absolute case of criminal neglect.
	It is what are we day 70 down there?
	Now this is simply outrageous and unacceptable.
	All of these skimmers all over the country, and Obama will not release them to be used in the Gulf because, quote unquote, they might be needed where they are.
	For some unimaginable, unforeseen disaster which has not yet occurred.
	The refusal of aid from foreign countries early on.
	Crisis should never go to waste.
	It is it is criminally negligent what's going on down there.
	What do you mean, Limbo?
	You're for big government.
	No, no, no, no.
	Don't throw that one at me.
	I'm for responsible government that's willing to work in partnership with people in the private sector when things like this happen.
	Still, we got an adversarial relationship going on the government suing the state of Arizona.
	We got the government all over British patrol or BP.
	We don't have anybody working.
	Where is all this promised unity?
	Where is all this promised utopia?
	Where is all this?
	Where the ones have been waiting?
	Where are the falling sea levels?
	Where's the end of global warming and all of this stuff?
	All of it was just nothing but lies, pure lies.
	Now, the rank and file Democrats, and I I mean these these and believe you folks, there are tons of them.
	You you go to these Democrat websites, I don't care where you go, and you read all the hate, the comments, and all these people even populate websites, the general newspaper, they comment, I mean the filth and the anger, you really have a bunch of self-loathing people who know they're irrelevant, who are miserably unhappy, probably can't even stand to look at themselves in the mirror, and they blame everybody else for it.
	And so they love big government to come in and punish all the people they think are responsible for their misery.
	And that's how they define happiness.
	Everybody else is miserable along with them.
	And that's where oh, by the way, by the way, the official word from the principal media organ, the New York Times, stymied my political opposition, focused on competing priorities, the Obama regime has sidelined efforts to close the Guantanamo prison, making it unlikely that Obama will fulfill his promise to close it before his term ends in 2013.
	I told you they weren't ever going to close it.
	They're not gonna close it.
	And never were.
	That was just uh you know, another little stone thrown to this dumb radical extreme fringe base, this 20% minority that thinks to uh seems to think they run the country.
	I remember Obama kept talking about what if we happen another 9-11.
	What do we well I want to talk about the first responders?
	First responders, that's where we ought to focus our attention.
	Well, what about the first responders with the Gulf oil spill?
	He always harped on the need for first responders.
	That's all he wanted from Homeland Security after 9-11.
	Well, we didn't know, ramp up the first responders.
	Well, in the Gulf, Obama doesn't care about the first responders.
	He's done everything he can to frustrate the first responders in the Gulf.
	The first responders are how Obama wanted to fight terrorism, not oil spills.
	Remember that, don't forget it.
	Quick phone call here.
	This is uh Pulaski, Wisconsin.
	It's Jim.
	Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
	Hello, sir.
	Hi.
	Well, congratulations, first, and uh nice to talk to you.
	Uh I was just gonna say, you know, regarding the Al Gore story, and I also would apply to the Kagan hearings.
	How about if we apply their the Democrat standard?
	Do you remember the Anita Hill standard?
	If the accusation is serious, it must be true.
	Well, it's the serious of the charge uh that deserves uh the investigation, not the nature of the evidence.
	And I don't remember which one it was, one of the leading feminists.
	It may have been Helen Gurley Brown or Gl Gloria Steinem who said that Anita Hill should be believed because no woman would make an accusation like that unless it was true.
	And I about fell off my chair when she said it.
	Yeah, I remember that.
	So we want to apply this to the massage therapist in Oregon.
	Yeah, let's, you know, just to keep it all even and square across the board.
	Right.
	No woman would ever accuse such a pubic hair on a can of co- nobody would ever accuse anybody of doing things like that.
	Oh true.
	Well, you know, no massage therapist, even one massaging piece of wood, would accuse somebody of acting like a sex poodle if they hadn't acted like a sex poodle.
	I like it.
	I like your way of thinking out there.
	And remember, if if a woman makes an accusation, you cannot say anything about her, even if it's even you know, negative, even if it's true.
	How dare you?
	Oh, yeah.
	Because you are repressing all women if you do that.
	Remember all that?
	Oh ho ho, do I remember all that?
	Oh, yeah.
	Well, hell, we've been shaped by all that.
	Yeah, I'm I big believer in in uh bringing that back.
	You know, let's let's let's apply it to their let's apply the Bork standard to the Kagan hearings.
	No she liked it then.
	Well, I look it.
	Um, she did.
	I think the application of Kagan here is my undeniable uh truth of life number 24.
	Look it up.
	We are back.
	I am L. Rushable, America's real anchor man, America's Doctor of Democracy and America's truth detector.
	I have to note here, uh, ladies and gentlemen, Elena Kagan is wearing Democrat Infidelity Blue today, the uh standard issue infidelity blue suit, the color of blue, uh worn by Democrat wives at the I'm sorry press conference.
	They stand by their husbands who've cheated on them.
	Uh you can't miss it.
	It's the same maybe we have a name for it.
	Democrat infidelity blue suit.
	And the requisite pearls.
	It's a giant collar out there with huge black buttons.
	Also, uh Snerdley came in today and asked me, so have you have you picked any pictures to post uh from from wedding and the reception and all that, the parties uh on your website.
	Well, folks, we we we've changed our mind.
	We are gonna do this.
	We are gonna post some pictures, but we now have a challenge.
	We received last night, we got back from Minneapolis last night by eight o'clock, and about 10 o'clock, all 5,000 came in.
	All 5,000 photos.
	And uh this this is going to be a project to pick them.
	Because some of these are works of art.
	They're not just photographs.
	We can't put them all up there.
	Uh I uh spoke with Elton John last week, and we've gotten permission from him uh to post pictures of him during his performance and uh with us and some other people backstage prior to the performance.
	So we're gonna try to put a package together as soon as we can and uh and get the pictures up there.
	And we'll uh it'll be at Rush Limbaugh.com.
	It's uh I hope we get a couple up there this week.
	But I mean, it's really tough.
	These are these are that good.
	And we've also got you know, we we banned cameras.
	We did not let anybody bring their own cameras in there for a whole host of reasons.
	We didn't want unauthorized pictures.
	So now we promised all the guests that we'd get pictures of them to them.
	We're gonna do that too.
	That's gonna be an all-summer long project.
	Plus have to sit here and serve humanity each and every day, plus do the Haney project on uh on the golf channel.
	Uh and of course, yeah, my new aerobic training, which will maybe once or twice a week, but it's all part of the uh all part of the mix.
	Yeah, so but we I just wanted to tell you that that uh we are working on it.
	Jeff Sessions, a Republican senator from Alabama, dismantled Elena Kagan today in his opening statement.
	Now, in addition to uh attorney general or Solicitor General Kagan, decked out in Democrat infidelity blue, she has practiced, I've been rehearsing the aggrieved Democrat wife Stoneface.
	Uh you remember when uh Elliot Spitzer, client number how about CNN highway.
	Can you believe this?
	Reese Schoenfeld, the founder of CNN, this is it, he said.
	That's it.
	I can't believe they've done this.
	They've hired client number nine, Elliot Spitzer, and Kathleen Parker, who has made her bones by being conservative who attacks conservatives.
	Uh, as a columnist in the Washington Post.
	Uh yeah, she's a reasonable conservative.
	Elliot Spitzer, and it's they're saying it's not going to be a revival of crossfire, but I mean what message does this send?
	You want to work at CNN?
	Go hire a prostitute and get caught.
	Uh, I it just anybody can be in the media today.
	It's no, it's nothing special.
	I'm thinking of becoming an astronaut.
	At least that's something unique.
	My God, Ditzy housewives that break into the White House get a TV show these days.
	There are more people that have TV shows than don't.
	And the way they get them is unheard of.
	Do you realize Walter Klundike would be spinning in his grave to realize that an all news network had hired client number nine for an eight o'clock prime time show to discuss the issues.
	Think of Edward R. Murrow.
	Think of William Paley.
	These days, William Paley could be a host of his own network.
	Any rate, back to the uh back to the matter at hand here.
	Here's Jeff Sessions three sound bites.
	Opening statement, Elena Kagan, I'm sure they've rehearsed her.
	I mean that's a standard operating procedure.
	They put her in a room and they they have people pretend to be senators and say the most insulting uh things about her record and take it out of context, and she's supposed to show no emotion.
	Just sit there, don't frown, don't smile, don't show any reaction.
	And she's done a good job of that.
	She has, I think she.
	Her stone face looks, she looks perturbed, but she looks at least perturbed all the time.
	Doesn't matter who's speaking, so at least it's consistent.
	The nominee was the central figure in the Clinton Gore effort to restrict gun rights, and as a dramatic five to four decision today in the McDonald's case shows the personal right of every American to own a gun hangs by a single vote on the Supreme Court.
	Miss Kagan was also the point person for the Clinton administration's effort to block congressional restrictions on partial birth abortions.
	During her time as Dean at Harvard, Miss Kagan reversed Harvard's existing policy and kicked the military out of the recruiting office in violation of federal law.
	Her actions punished the military and demeaned our soldiers as they were courageously fighting uh for our country in two wars overseas.
	Sessions next says that her idea the government has the right to suppress speech is breathtaking.
	Miss Kagan told the court that the speech and press guarantees in the First Amendment would allow the federal government to ban the publication of pamphlets discussing political issues before an election.
	I would remind my colleagues that the American Revolution was in no small part spurred by just such political pamphlets.
	Thomas Payne's common sense to suggest that the government now has the power to suppress that kind of speech is breathtaking.
	And in this bite, he says that she's nothing but an Obama clone, which is right on the money.
	In the wake of one of the largest expansions of government power in history, many Americans are worried about Washington's disregard for limits on its power.
	Americans know that our exceptional Constitution was written to ensure that our federal government is one of limited, separated powers, and part of a federal-state system with individual rights reserved to our free people.
	But we've watched as the president and Congress have purchased ownership shares in banks, nationalized car companies, seized control of the student loan industry, taken over large sectors of our nation's health care system, and burdened generations of Americans with crippling debt.
	Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions opening statement to Elena Kagan today.
	By the way, uh speaking of Justice Thomas, as we did in the first hour of the program, do you remember when uh when Obama was out at Saddleback Church, uh that w uh Rick Warren's church out there with uh he's with McCain?
	And uh he said of Clarence Thomas, I would not have nominated Clarence Thomas.
	I don't think Clarence Thomas, I don't think he was a strong enough jurist or legal thinker at the time for that elevation, setting aside the fact I profoundly disagree with his interpretation of a lot of the Constitution.
	Somehow, Elena Kagan is enough of a jurist or a legal thinker to be elevated to the Supreme Court.
	By the time he was nominated, Clarence Thomas had worked in the Missouri Attorney General's office, he had served as an assistant secretary of education, he had run the EEOC, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, sat for a year on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, the nation's second most prominent court, and since his elevation of the High Court in 1991, he's also shown himself to be a principled and scholarly jurist.
	What has Elena Kagan done?
	For that matter, what was Obama's background before being elected president?
	Kagan's entire hearings this week.
	You know what a way to think about this?
	Kagan's entire hearings this week is just gonna be an exercise in don't ask, don't tell.
	That's all this is.
	Don't ask, don't ask for anything, and Miss Kagan, don't take anything.
	Don't ask, don't tell.
	That's what's going on.
	As far as Elliot Spitzer and Kath uh Kathleen Parker, I hope this is not a new crossfire show, but if they're gonna do that, they might want to re-examine, maybe make it a cross-dressing show with client number nine as one of the co-hosts.
	Back to the phones we go, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone to Clearwater, Florida, Christine, and great to have you here.
	Hi.
	Hello, Mr. Lambo.
	Congratulations on your new marriage.
	Thank you.
	Lots of love to you and misses, and good luck on your program.
	I hope you'll be strong enough to stay on uh my with the my golden microphone for years to come.
	Don't sweat it, it's the case.
	I'm in recently in Florida, but originally from Illinois.
	I've been listening to your program for years.
	I didn't know people in Illinois had an accent like you.
	What part of Illinois are you from?
	Uh uh WLS.
	Yes.
	And I tell you something.
	The way the country is going, I was telling you today, sorry, that uh I was born and raised in Poland, then here in the United States, nobody gave me any footstands or a credit card or an apartment or a free cell phone.
	We had to work for everything.
	And I we came legally, it took years, not like today, and we didn't have any rights to demand anything.
	Now that we build up our little Nasteck, start a business forty-five years already, now, Mr. Limba, our business is zero.
	Obama had a gut to tell us, don't complain to Washington, tell you boss, because he fired you.
	We had thirty-five people, family, kids, future, nothing, zero.
	We had to let him go.
	Where do we get the help?
	Not out of Washington, because Little by Lilo, inch by inch, step by step, they taking away our liberty.
	Exactly you worked.
	I cannot even pronounce, I'm so nervous, because this is my first time I make the call and I finally got through.
	Well, you don't sound nervous.
	You don't sound nervous.
	I have to I have to, you know, you you you you talk about uh taking away our liberty uh step by step.
	If they take the court, if if the ob if the left takes the court, where do we go to protect our this was five four today?
	They voted on the second amendment five to four.
	Imagine it was the first amendment that passed five to four.
	If they take the court, where do we go to protect our liberties?
	Because they will own everything.
	They'll have the presidency, they'll have Congress, they'll have the courts.
	Let me uh let me ask you a question.
	Christine, when you lived in Poland, did they give you food stamps there in cell phones?
	You know, are you k are you coming from Mars or what?
	I'm just asking him No I tell you what it was.
	We had a food stamps because there was a food rationing.
	Well Okay, now I'll tell you I tell you two stories.
	Years go by and I go back to Poland to visit.
	Okay.
	And uh here in Chicago uh council, I had to get the visa and I had to pay per year.
	And those days, I don't know now, but those days they were like seven dollars fifty cents a day for nothing for air.
	So when I got there, I need to buy food for my parents and stuff.
	I could not because everything was stamped.
	Okay?
	This is nineteen eighty.
	And uh so I went to the official office and present my uh American uh passport, and I know I pay 750, maybe I get something, right?
	He says, Huh, he says, you can go to the PKO, which is the international store, you can get the ham, you can get the cognac and uh, you know, the chocolate and I says, sir, my father just passed away.
	My stomach is upset.
	I need the barley.
	I cannot buy barley.
	I didn't know the barley was on foot stamps.
	You know, they gave you a stamps and it's allowance.
	So much body per month or family or whatever.
	Do you believe this?
	Yeah, I do because you're telling me.
	Now they take in uh the census.
	This was a joke.
	And I'll tell you why.
	I'm registering Florida.
	I'm your neighbor.
	Okay?
	Oh, yes.
	But the paper came to Illinois on my address.
	I have a condo in Illinois in Chicago.
	Yeah.
	And the house in in Clearwater also received a censor application.
	Okay?
	Yeah.
	Now I was confused.
	Should I fill it out both?
	Then I'm thinking, no, that's not right.
	That's more politician on my account.
	So I call up the 800 number in Chicago to find out which application I should be filling it out and sign my name.
	Do you know what the man said on the other end of the line?
	Tell me.
	If you're gonna be here, this is exactly what he said.
	If you're gonna be here on April 1st, you gotta fill this out.
	And I says, Well, April 1st, yeah, I'll be invited to dinner.
	Should I so just you were gonna be in Chicago one day, you had to sign it in Chicago?
	Yes.
	So I didn't quit.
	Well, now you know why, don't you?
	I I know why.
	I know why, because that's exactly what they did in Poland.
	They divide the people into smaller groups instead of uh twenty-five counties, they make a 45 counties, and each county has to have a uh government building, and uh each government building is getting taller and bigger and more politicians.
	I had somebody, you know, you it's interesting you say that.
	I had somebody tell me yesterday.
	I did not know this.
	Uh you know the old classic, the original General Motors building, the old tall art deco build.
	Do you know that it's all been taken over by government workers now?
	General Motors no longer in it, they've got a new building, but government workers are in that building.
	Well, they're tearing down houses in Detroit.
	I don't know Federal State, I don't know what workers they are, but they're in the old General Motors building.
	How fitting long long before they took over General Motors.
	Just uh is the case.
	You know, we get calls like this a lot for people who have come from the the former Eastern bloc, who lived through all of that and and are a little frightened that they see signs here of what they lived through.
	Does this woman have it pegged or not?
	More government buildings, taller and bigger, more politicians.
	She's exactly right.
	Uh, Vice President Bite Me at the custard shop.
	Gets some custard from the guy and says, What do we owe you, pal?
	What do we owe you?
	And the guy says, Don't worry, it's on us.
	Just lower our taxes and we'll call it even.
	And Senator Bite me says, Well, why don't you say something nice instead of being a smart ass all the time?
	Well, Senator Bite Me, who works for the citizen at the custard shop.
	Custom guys says, Would you lower our taxes?
	Don't be a smart ass.
	Said Vice President Bite Me.
	Hey, got a funny story.
	Well, it's not funny.
	Uh story here out of Louisville, Kentucky.
	Jim Campbell, the president and CEO of GE's appliance and lighting division, rushed to a doctor after he collapsed just before 11:30 this morning as Vice President Joe Bytemey was speaking.
	Campbell was seated on a stool at the end of the stage, set up inside a warehouse at GE's Appliance Park in Louisville.
	He fell off a stool off the stage as Biden was uh nearing the end of his remarks.
	And we have a doctor here, Biden said.
	Ladies and gentlemen, it's a sad note to end this on.
	Do we have a doctor here?

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