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July 8, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 8, 2010, Thursday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Folks, I don't know if you know this or not.
I may be, in fact, the first person to tell you this.
Do you know that Lindsay Lohan has an obscenity printed on her fingernail?
Did you know that?
What is our country coming to?
Why is the media not covering something just as important as this?
This is profoundly important news.
Lindsay Lohan with an obscenity on her fingernail while she was in court.
I know you haven't heard about this.
That's why you listen to this show because I am the first to tell you things otherwise people would ignore.
Greetings, Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
Actually, of course, yes, I'm being facetious.
Everybody and their pets knows full well that Lindsay Lohan, there's nothing they don't know about her.
Thirdly, I'm watching this last night.
I'm thinking, you know what we ought to do?
We need to have, just like we have an official Obama criticizer, we need to have an entertainment reporter.
I mean, I'm not going to deign to do it.
I am not going to lower myself to do entertainment news, but we may as well go out and hire some idiot who really thinks it's important, you know, some valley girl type.
And, you know, like, wow, to come in here and talk about this big news, because obviously there's a market for it.
I mean, virtually everywhere you go, it does.
Every cable news channel, every nightly newscast had a story on Lindsey Lohan going to jail.
Meanwhile, you can't find any news about the oil spill.
You cannot find any news about it anymore.
You cannot find the truth about this Berwick guy and the reason he was recess appointed to be the healthcare, Medicare, Medicaid administrator.
Do you know why he was recess appointed?
He was not being blocked.
He was not being blocked.
Normally, recess appointments are when the opposing party will not even give the guy a hearing.
The Republicans couldn't wait for hearings on this guy.
They wanted to expose exactly what a left-wing redistribution of socialist he is.
And the White House didn't want that.
Four months before the election, the White House didn't want the truth known about how their health care plan is going to be administered.
So they recess appointed because this is unprecedented.
It is authoritarian.
It is quasi-totalitarian.
Just to avoid, I mean, this is another czar, essentially another czar that's been appointed.
But we know who the guy is, but the administration, the regime, did not want this guy testifying in public, but he was not being blocked.
We are not getting any stories about the lack of intellect and experience of Elena Kagan.
That's off the radar.
The hate speech of King Shabazz Saleh Skyhook, whatever, the new Black Panther guy in Philadelphia wants to kill white babies new white crackers.
Can you imagine if this guy headed up some racist group of right-wingers or white people was saying stuff like this, it'd be all over the news.
You can't find it.
No, but Lindsay Lohan, Lindsay Lohan for everything, including what's with close-ups.
We're getting close-ups of her fingernails with the obscenity painted on there.
Here from Broadcasting and Cable magazine, oil spill coverage trending down.
The BP Gulf oil spill was a top story among a mix of media for the week ending July 4th, but there are signs a story may be losing some steam.
That's because the regime's not letting people out there to cover it.
The regime doesn't want any news about this.
And of course, the media doesn't really care to cover it if the regime doesn't want it covered.
Because it's looking more and more like an absolute regime disaster.
And they don't want any news of this.
According to the latest Project for Excellence in Journalism, weekly news coverage index, the BP oil spill captured, I'm sorry, what did I say they should start calling it?
The BP oil spill.
The private sector-caused natural disaster captured 15% of the news hole, but that's down from the week before when it had 23% for the number two spot behind the General McChrystal story.
So we don't know if Obama's plugged a hole or if the state-run media has plugged a hole on Mother Nature and all these environmental disaster stories.
We're not getting any coverage.
But folks, don't worry.
It's only the Gulf of Mexico.
It's just a bunch of fishermen.
It's just a bunch of oil rig workers.
They're the ones being hurt, and they deserve to be hurt.
They deserve to find out what it's like to have been a minority in this country for 200 years and find out what real pain and suffering is.
It's called payback.
We all know that Obama's pro-environment.
We all know that he's pro-business.
We all know that he's pro-fiscal responsibility.
He says so.
So why ruffle his feathers with some pictures of oil-soaked birds?
Obama says it's the biggest environmental disaster in history.
Why beat it into the ground?
It is what it is.
Let's get our priorities straight.
Lindsey Lohan.
Oh, and LeBron James.
LeBron James.
The rumors are out now that LeBron James is going to pick Miami over New York.
He's got this big one-hour show tonight on ESPN where he's going to announce his decision.
He's going to announce a decision 10 minutes into the show.
This story rivals Lindsey Lohan and what she had printed on her fingernails.
Has LeBron ever won anything?
In the pros, no, but he's, are you trying to get me, Sturdly, to wade into the water of whether or not LeBron James is worth all this?
Because I'm not going there.
Snerdley says he doesn't get the madness.
It's not the madness over a basketball player.
It is that there's so much else that is rotten and depressing and unnerving that this, you know, sports has always been an escape from the humdrum of reality for everybody else.
This represents a giant.
I mean, we are on fantasy island with this.
Everybody wishes they were LeBron James.
They wish they had this kind of opportunity.
Now, there are stories coming out of Cleveland today.
If he doesn't re-sign with them, $48 billion or $48 million lost in economic activity every year.
If he goes to Miami, remember what I said?
There are no state income taxes in Florida.
And you can't discount that as part of the equation.
Okay, so we got Lindsey Lohan.
We got LeBron James in his big decision tonight.
Well, we're not getting any coverage of the serious things happening in this country.
The absolute damage.
In fact, there is a story in the Politico today about the Blagojevich trial and how the White House is sweating it out, which so far they've dodged a bullet because the stuff that's been learned in testimony, yeah, it might be grazing the administration.
It might be brushing up against them, but there hasn't been any really bombshells out there.
But the White House is this is like Walter Cronkite saying there hadn't been enough coverage of the Vietnam War, blaming everybody else for not Politico.
If there hadn't been enough coverage in a Bogoyevich trial and how it might impact Obama, why don't you try covering it?
Why don't you tell us what's going on?
I mean, they touch on it briefly, but it's amazing to watch the state control media analyze all the others in the state control media and say, well, the White House dodging bullets here.
Why?
What bullets?
Tell us.
What are they?
Now, let's see, oil spill coverage trending to, oh, Madison Square Garden shares fall before LeBron's decision.
Here it is.
This is from Bloomberg News.
I mean, this is this, ladies and gentlemen, is in a, it's one of the lead stories in one of the leading news websites out there.
LeBron James had meeting with six teams, including the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Madison Square Garden, Incorporated, owner of the New York Knicks, retreated in U.S. trading after ESPN reported that LeBron James is leaning toward playing basketball for the Miami Heat.
James, the NBA's most valuable player of the past two seasons, will probably announce at 9 p.m. New York time that he'll shift to the Heat instead of the Knicks after leaving the Cavaliers.
ESPN's reporting this.
They happen to be the one that has the exclusive coverage of the big hour-long ceremony.
How long would it take you, Snurdley, to announce where you are going to go in your next job?
20 seconds max.
Camera goes on, hi.
I'm Rush Limbaugh.
I am leaving the EIB network and I'm forming a new network and I'm going over to X. Thanks very much for watching.
Now here's 59 minutes of commercials.
But no, no, Sports Center, three-hour extended sports center leading up to LeBron James' hour-long decision show, and then a two-hour expanded sports center after LeBron's hour-long decision show.
They are going to, Eric, got three people interviewing LeBron James.
You're going to have Jim Gray interviewing LeBron James, Michael Wilbon interviewing LeBron James, and Stuart Scott interviewing LeBron James.
And LeBron James will probably interview himself and answer questions he wish he was asked but wasn't.
And then it'll be post-decision analysis and what's all this mean for the NBA?
What does it mean for Obama?
What does the LeBron James decision mean for Obama?
What does it mean for healthcare?
What does it mean for global warming?
Because it'll relate everything.
In fact, it probably, I wouldn't be surprised if they have a cutaway to the White House with Obama watching the show and weighing in on his decision afterwards.
And then they'll send somebody to ask Lindsay Lohan, before you go to jail, what do you think of the LeBron James decision here to play basketball somewhere else?
And then she'll just flip him the bird with a finger to say, I don't care.
I'm going to jail.
Why don't you cover that?
We'll be back in a second.
Greetings, my friends, music lovers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
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Ladies and gentlemen, changing gears here.
Am I getting serious?
Look at me.
There is a most amazing story at Tina Brown's website called The Daily Beast.
It's written by Lloyd Grove, who used to be, well, he used to write about Lindsey Lohan for the Washington Post.
Because that's about all gossip.
I don't care what magazine, what gossip column in the newspaper you read, it's all about Lindsey Lohan.
And Lloyd Grove has made the transition out of hard news.
And a couple of days ago, this week and late last week, I shared with you the information from Jeffrey Immelt of General Electric, who was in Rome at a private dinner and told the truth about the relationship of Obama and business in America and the private sector and the destructive nature of his policies.
And I said to you then, if Immelt is saying this, then I guarantee you there are many others, titans of industry in their own fields, who are saying it as well, people who voted for Obama.
And that's what Lloyd Grove's story is about.
It's about the Aspen Ideas Festival.
It's the Aspen Institute.
It's out there in Aspen.
And it's run by Walter Walter, oh, metal block.
He used to be at Time Magazine.
Then he went to CNN.
Oh, geez.
Walter Isaacson.
It's run by Walter Isaacson.
And it's interesting that this thing goes on at the same time a bunch of media moguls are gathering in Sun Valley at a media summit held annually by Herbie Allen of Allen and Company.
Of course, you know, there's not too many people bigger in media than I, and I have yet to be invited to the media mogul summit every year at Sun Valley.
Nor have I been invited to the Aspen Institute.
Well, no, I haven't been.
No, I think I have been.
I think Isaacson did invite me once at a thing he was doing in August one year, and I couldn't make it because of the schedule.
I really, when I read this, and I'm going to read it to you, I don't quite know what to make of it because there is a name, there are two names suspiciously absent, not mentioned in this story.
And let's see if you can figure the two names out when I give you details.
You would think, writes Mr. Grove, by the way, the title of his piece is The Elite Turn Against Obama.
You would think the well-heeled and enlightened eggheads at the Aspen Ideas Festival, which is running all week in Aspen, with heady panel discussions, earnest disquisitions involving all manner of deep thinkers and do-gooders, would be receptive to an intellectually ambitious president with big ideas of his own.
In a way, the folks attending the Aspen Ideas Festival, which is put on in conjunction with the Atlantic Monthly Magazine, might even be seen as Obama's natural base, but apparently not so much.
Mort Vuckerman, owner of the New York Daily News and U.S. News and World Report, and a real estate barrier to billionaire in his own right, Mort Vuckerman, the real problem that we have are some of the worst economic policies in place today that, in my judgment, go directly against the long-term interest of this country.
This is Mort Zuckerman speaking to a cavalcade of liberal Democrats, Harvard professors at the Aspen Institute.
Now, this is Mort Zuckerman's way of saying, what the hell is going on here?
This doesn't appear to be just wrong-headedness or accidental.
Mort Vuckerman, the real problem we have are some of the worst economic policies in place today that, in my judgment, go directly against the long-term interest of this country.
Now, how is what Mort Vuckerman said there any different than us saying we have a regime governing against the will of the American people?
Obama's top economic advisor Larry Summers and the departing budget director Peter Orszog are going to show up at this thing later in the week.
Lloyd Grove says they can expect heavy weather when they land to make the case to this civic-minded clique of wealthy skeptics.
Here is Harvard business and history professor Niall Ferguson, or maybe it's Neil.
I don't know, N-I-A-L-L.
During Monday's kickoff session, the Harvard professor of business and history said, if you're asking if the United States is about to become a socialist state, I'd say it's actually about to become a European state with the expansiveness of the welfare system and the progressive tax system like what we've already experienced in Western Europe.
As Lloyd Grove says, this is a withering critique of Obama's economic policies, which the Harvard professor of business and history, Mr. Ferguson, then said policies are encouraging laziness.
Obama's policies are encouraging laziness.
He continued, the curse of long-term unemployment is that if you pay people to do nothing, they'll find themselves doing nothing for very long periods of time.
Long-term unemployment is at an all-time high in the United States, and it is a direct consequence of a misconceived public policy.
So you have Zuckerman, and now you have Ferguson.
And Zuckerman votes Democrat, always has Ferguson, a Harvard professor of businesses and history, both of them just launching a broadside against Obama's economic policies, and they are right.
Ferguson was joined in his harsh attack by billionaire and real estate mogul and New York Daily News owner Mort Zuckerman.
Both of them lasted their lambasted Obama's trillion-dollar deficit spending program in the name of economic stimulus to cushion the impact of the 2008 financial meltdowns.
We are without question, Zuckerman said, in a period of decline, particularly in the business world.
The real problem we have are some of the worst economic policies in place today that, in my judgment, go directly against the long-term interests of this country.
Thuckerman added that he detects in the Obama White House, quote, hostility to the very kinds of business culture that have made this the great country that it is and was.
I think we have to find some way of dealing with that, or else we're going to do great damage to this country with a public policy that could ruin everything.
This is being said.
It was said this week at a seminar that continues to this day at the Aspen Institute.
And there are more speakers that weigh in in this piece.
I'll tell you about it when we come back after the break.
Lambasting Obama's policies as purposefully destructive.
The damage that's being done to this country purposely.
And that we have to come to grips with it finally, they're saying.
Now, this is not the first time that Mort Zuckerman has spoken out on this.
At the Aspen Institute this week, Zuckerman is unloading, but Vuckerman unloaded in January in the same website, the Daily Beast.
And let me read some of what Zuckerman said in the Daily Beast piece in January.
I'm very disappointed.
We endorsed him.
I voted for him.
I supported him publicly and privately.
I hope there are changes.
I think he's already laid in huge problems for the country.
The fiscal program's a disaster.
You have to get the money as quickly as possible into the economy.
They didn't do that.
By the end of the first year, only one-third of the money was spent.
Why is that?
Thuckerman ended his January piece by saying, I can't predict things two years from now, but if he continues on the downward spiral, he's on, he won't be re-elected.
That was Mort Vuckerman, January Daily Beast.
Lloyd Grove writes to the Daily Beast.
Vuckerman's out at the Aspen Institute with a bunch of other people are all saying the same thing.
Thuckerman is even piling on more.
Vuckerman added, he detects in the Obama White House hostility to the very kinds of business culture that have made this great country that it is and was.
I think we have to find some way of dealing with that.
And by the way, he's not saying this to the reporter.
He's saying this on a seminar, on a panel to the assembled audience.
There are hundreds of people at this thing.
It's not going on in private.
Now, Lloyd Grove's not the only journalist there, but probably the only guy writing about it.
The Harvard professor of history and business, Mr. Ferguson, said, the critical point is, if your policy says you're going to run a trillion-dollar deficit for the rest of time, you are writing for a fall.
It really is goodbye.
He added, can I say that having grown up in a declining empire, he's from the UK, I do not recommend it.
It's just not a lot of fun to actually decline.
Ferguson called for what he called radical measures.
I can't emphasize strongly enough the need for radical fiscal reform to restore the incentives for work and remove the incentives for idleness.
He praised really radical reform of the sort that, for example, Paul Ryan has outlined in his wonderful roadmap for radical root and branch reform, not only of the tax system, but of the entitlement system, and unleash entrepreneurial innovation.
He's citing a Republican in the House of Representatives as a guy who has a great radical reform idea for the economy.
Otherwise, the professor warned, do you want to be a kind of implicit part of the European Union?
I would advise you against it.
All of this was greeted by hearty applause from a crowd that included Barbara Streisand and her husband, James Brolin.
Depressing but fantastic, Streisand told Lloyd Grove afterwards, rendering her verdict on the session.
So exciting, so wonderful.
Brolin said, it's mind-blowing.
Now, folks, you know, you know that we are in deep doo-doo.
We are in huge trouble.
When Barbara Streisand starts making more sense than the Republican Party does, when Barbara Streisand is more willing to call this administration for what it is than anybody in the Republican Party is, you know, we got a problem.
Here you have Mort Vuckerman who admits campaigning for, donating to, voting for Obama, expressing his fear that this is not accidental, it's not some Dumkoff, that there is a hostility in the White House to the things that have made this country great.
Jeff Immelt said the same thing in private speech at a dinner in Rome.
Now, you're probably saying, Rush, why are you so shocked?
You've been saying this since before Obama was immaculated.
Shocked is the wrong word.
I'm just telling you this unprecedented.
This kind of a seminar, the Aspen Institute.
I mean, this, folks, this is not, you know, a bunch of Reagan wannabes showing up here.
These are all people who voted for Obama.
These are all people that thought the world would be better than it's ever been.
We'd be unified post-racial, post-partisan, post-all that.
These are the people who drank the Kool-Aid.
These are the people who believed every word of the campaign.
These are the people that fell for it.
These are the people who stand to lose a lot of their wealth now, and they see it, and they realize it.
You know, once you start talking about a wealth tax, if you ever wonder why the rich, the really truly rich, don't care about tax rate increases on the upper brackets, it's because many of them have so much wealth, they don't have income anymore.
It's not earned income as in salary and wages.
It's investment income, which is taxed at a capital gains rate of 15, going up to 20%, not the 39.6% that's coming and higher.
But you start tacking a wealth tax on which they have in France and which this administration is thinking about, a wealth tax of 1.8% on your net assets, then you get their attention.
That means the rich are being targeted.
The real rich are being targeted.
Everybody's being targeted.
More and more people are starting to realize we have a president and a regime who are interested in payback, who have a real tough time, a real problem with the structure of this country, with the behavior of this country, the behavior of this nation's people for over 220 years.
You know that there have been America haters, Blame America First Crowd throughout our history.
We've now elected one, and we have a whole administration full of them.
I don't care why they hate the country.
It doesn't matter.
It's interesting to me, but the fact that they do is all you need to know.
And now some of the best and brightest are starting to figure this out.
In a session Tuesday morning at the Aspen Institute, Silicon Valley guru Michael Splinter piled on.
He said, from an industry standpoint, it's below what a lot of people in industry have viewed as the solution to the jobs problem.
Splinter is president of the Applied Materials Solar Energy Company.
He complained about Obama's economic performance.
He's in the green energy sector.
Solar energy company.
I mean, he and Obama ought to be going to bed together every night, and this guy doesn't like what he's seeing.
When I talk to venture capitalists, and by the way, he was speaking to an audience being interviewed by one of the sponsors of this Aspen Institute gathering, David Bradley, who owns Atlantic Media.
He said, when I talk to venture capitalists, their companies are starting to move their manufacturing operations out of the United States.
Our corporate tax rate on a worldwide competitive basis is just not competitive.
Taiwan is lowering their tax rate to 20 to 15 percent in order to stay competitive with Singapore.
These countries have made it their job to attract industry.
You don't get that sense here in the United States.
Really?
Of course not.
This administration is about shutting them down.
Talk to the oil industry.
Talk to people that work on the rigs in the Gulf.
Talk to people in the oil industry up in Alaska.
This is an administration that is punishing private sector business.
Not the least of which way is the forthcoming tax increases.
These people are now starting, all of them, these are the elite folks.
They loved Obama.
They bought into every social aspect of that campaign.
I'm a better person.
I support Obama.
We're going to be a better country if he's president.
This is that we can't miss.
The world loves him.
The world hates us with Bush.
It's going to be a new world, a new dawn.
What we have is a new sunset.
We're at dusk.
Shining city on a hill.
There aren't any lights burning.
There are not too many anymore.
And these people are starting to realize it.
Mr. Grove writes, the consensus at this meeting was similar in an afternoon panel discussion on the decline of the American middle class.
He said jobs, this is Obama supporter Arianna, Ariana Huffington.
She was there.
They quote her as saying he said jobs are going to be his number one priority.
There's a huge disconnect between Washington and what's going on out in the country.
The president's economic team kept talking about a cyclical problem.
Larry Summers said jobs were a lagging economic indicator.
All these things are simply wrong.
The president put all of his trust in the wrong economic team, an economic team that didn't understand what was happening.
This is where Ms. Huffington, if I may address you for the first time in years, he knows exactly what he's doing.
He chose the people for the express purpose of implementing his ideas.
Everybody, from his czars to his cabinet appointees, are rubber stamps for the Obama agenda.
We have somebody who is actively, happily presiding over the decline of this country, and he's happily doing so because he's instigating it.
Now, I said at the outset, but when I first read this, I didn't know what to make of it.
There are two names missing.
The two names are Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Because the one thing that I know is that every one of these people quoted is a Clinton supporter, either Bill or Hillary.
I think Vuckerman, even during the primaries, if he got involved, I went to Obama late.
These people who are quoted are Clinton supporters.
Now, if I were Bill Clinton and I wanted to restore my place in a Democrat Party, I would not speak ill of Obama in public, ever.
But I'd certainly encourage my friends to.
I'd whisper in their ears.
I'd tell them what I, yeah, Limboy, you know me too well.
I swear I got there.
I tell them what I really thought's going on.
But just between you and us, we can't go public with this.
I understand we got a major problem here.
These guys hear it.
Ex-President Clinton, personally loves saying it, ooh, resonates.
They're thinking it on their own anyway.
Then Clinton comes along and their own thoughts are validated.
I don't know.
I'm not, I'm just a wild guess here.
My instincts very rarely let me down.
And my friends in social circles would know what I thought if I were Bill Clinton.
And they'd feel free to express their disappointment without ever mentioning me or Hillary by name.
I mean, there's been a whole lot of criticism of Obama lately.
Jeff Immelt comes to mind, James Carville.
By the way, somebody told me, I didn't know this.
Check it out.
Somebody told me Saturday night, wedding, my wedding and a dinner and a reception after the party afterwards.
Carville left early because everybody was praising him for jumping on Obama's case.
I don't know if this is true.
I think he had a TV appearance the next day.
He got, people say, Jay, were you really, you were on a ball with what you said about Obama?
He apparently was not thrilled with it.
At any rate, that's a brief sidebar.
I just, I wouldn't be surprised if the Clintons are sending signals that Obama is a disaster for the Democrat Party.
Not so much the country, although that's true too, but Clinton would focus it more on the Democratic Party.
I don't know that Hillary would run against Obama in a primary.
I don't know any of this stuff.
But If I were the Clintons and I had designs, I would certainly try to isolate Obama if for no other reason and knock him down a notch.
Look, you know, Clinton's very proud.
Bill Clinton, very proud of being only the second, second term president since FDR, the only Democrat to win the second term.
And the way Clinton thinks, I am sure he would not like that record broken by Obama.
Clintons ought to know how to spot disaster for the Democrat Party.
This is a festival.
This Aspen thing, Bill Clinton has attended it for years.
He owns the crowd.
Streisand?
We all know the stories.
Hillary was gone to White House residence doors, but we all know Streisand?
Streisand's in there?
Barbara Streisand of the Aspen Institute making more sense than most of the Republicans today?
Barbara Streisand with at least a willingness to say a public is a disaster?
Clinton's ego, too big not to be enjoying Obama's problems here.
So anyway, regardless whether Clinton's involved in this or not, the bottom line is, once again, why do you listen to this show, Cutting Edge Societal Evolution?
The difference between me and these titans of industry is I knew this and I knew it was all going to happen.
That's why I said I hope he fails before he was even elected.
These guys drank the Kool-Aid.
Now they see it.
Is it too late?
No.
And we're back.
Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, as always, having more fun.
Yes, I'm in a better mood than I was yesterday.
Oh, man, yesterday, I can't tell you, folks.
I told you I was in a bad mood, but I didn't even get 10% into how bad it was.
And you didn't know it because of my professionalism.
But I mean, it was bad yesterday.
I feel fine.
I feel dandy today.
Now, we just got through talking about what went on in the Aspen Institute all week.
All of these moguls, all of these Democrat left-winger Clinton supporters just ripping this administration, the same with different words, but the same way we do here.
Here's a story from the Politico White House pushes pro-business message.
The administration pushing back against the view it has taken hold in some quarters of corporate America and most of Wall Street that it has an anti-business agenda.
The latest examples were Obama's remarks on free trade yesterday and Treasury Secretary Geithner's interview on CNBC's Kudlow show last night.
Geithner stressed the administration hopes to keep the top tax rate on capital gains and dividends at 20%, said the economy was healing.
It's a tax increase to 20%.
It's 15%.
What do you mean they're going to try to keep it at 20%?
My question is, to all of you people, the Obama regime, if you are so pro-growth, tell me why in the world your base is made up of anti-capitalists and anti-free market types.
Tell me why your cabinet is made up of anti-free market and anti-capitalist people.
If you're so pro-growth, where is the pro-growth?
This is typical of what they do.
We're for full employment.
We want to end the business cycle.
We want jobs to come back while $700,000 a month are lost.
Here's Kelly in Tampa.
Great to have you.
First call today.
EIB number.
Hi.
Yeah, my comment basically is I've been a Democrat all my life, basically because I was raised in a Democratic household.
Yes, I did vote in this past election Democratic, but I realized as a Christian man, this is not the way the country should be going.
It's going in a negative direction.
I need to stand on principles.
And it seems that the left doesn't have the principles that I thought it did have.
Well, when did you realize this?
Well, the way the economy is going right now.
Was it after Obama was inaugurated?
That and when the job situation started accumulating.
Right.
I've been.
Right.
Okay.
So you may not be able to put your finger on it, but you know, as an American, this isn't the way it's supposed to happen here.
We got a guy who says the border's too big.
The leak is too big.
We can't fix any of these things.
Well, they continue to just get worse and worse and worse.
So this is a lot of people.
This is just not the way things happen in this country.
And everybody, well, more and more people like Kelly here are starting to realize this on their own, which is the best way for it to happen.
Let me tell you something.
It sounds like, it sounds like Obama has lost Streisand based on Lloyd Groves' story.
If that's true, is that akin to LBJ losing Cronkite in the Vietnam War?
Well, probably not.
No.
Try this headline from the Business Insider.
Details coming up after the break.
Young Americans learn that trying to find work is pointless.
Young Americans learn trying to find work is pointless.
The new jobs of today simply aren't open to them.
That's what they're for.
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