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July 12, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 12, 2010, Monday, Hour #2
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So the Mel Gibson story is all over the place.
William Morris Endeavor, talent agency, instantly dropped Mel Gibson as a client.
However, Eric Holder and Barack Obama continue to protect and represent King Samir Shabaz.
This is the new Black Panther Party guy who said he hates white people and wants to kill cracker babies.
The Department of Justice refuses to prosecute the new Black Panther Party on the basis of their voter intimidation, even though line attorney who was retired from the case said the case of Slam Dunk.
So the Department of Justice appears to be protecting a racist when they should be prosecuting him for civil rights violations, and yet none of this is in the news.
But Mel Gibson's all over the news.
The left is condemning Mel Gibson's behavior and ignoring or celebrating, I don't know which King Samir Shabaz.
I'm not denying what Mel Gibson says is raunchy, but but what's the bigger story here?
Well, what what's really more important?
You know, an audio tape rant of Mel Gibson or the Department of Justice politics justice on the basis of race.
Now, remember last week, uh ladies and gentlemen, I took and I take grief all the time.
In fact, I love grief.
Grief is part and parcel of my professional life.
And last week I made a comment out there that uh in fact, Mike, well, I think uh this uh let's see uh yeah, 1112 and 13 and 40.
Yeah, let's do this right because we're gonna set this up.
Uh I'm gonna remind people of some things.
I'm gonna set this up though with the audio.
We'll start with 11, 12, and 13 because Howard Kurtz, who is better than this.
Howard Kurtz either was lazy Sunday and let a typical CNN producer put together a segment, or else Howard Kurtz has changed and has become a a genuine activist looking to get it wrong for the purposes of advancing a narrative and template, which is that conservatives like me are a bunch of racists.
This was on CNN's reliable sources yesterday morning.
Yeah.
Rush Limbaugh also loves to stir controversy by design.
Yeah.
Uh and this week uh he talked about the president and made a bit of news.
Let's take a listen.
Same thing you can say about Obama.
He wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black.
But somebody asked people to weekend why does somebody earn a lot of money have a lot of money?
If Obama weren't black, he'd be a tour guide in Honolulu.
Or he'd be teaching Sol Olensky constitutional law or lecturing on it in Chicago.
Now, if those of you uh were listening last week who heard that know full well that that's the second half of something I said, and you'd hear how this started.
That's exactly the same thing you could say about Obama.
Who am I talking about there?
As you'll hear in a moment, I was talking about Cynthia Tucker as she was making racist comments about Michael Steele.
Let's keep going with the audio.
Howard Kurtz then talks to political columnist Roger Simon about me and my remark about Obama.
Of course, here we are talking about Rush, but did you find those comments to be uh more than just the usual limbo rhetoric?
I mean, did I find them to be racist and repugnant?
Yeah, I found them to be racist and repugnant.
And then Howard Kurtz finally says, Well, uh Roger, uh what let's let's keep going.
Why do you think they're a racist?
Why racist?
Can a case be made just on Part of this that Obama was a white freshman senator, he wouldn't have beaten Hillary for the nomination.
I think anyone who beat Hillary for the nomination had something going for him besides race.
And let's be fair.
His race was not going for him.
We only said that after he won, he had a win in states where there was almost no black population.
If he had lost in Iowa the first Democratic contest, he would have been through.
There are no black people in Iowa.
He convinced white people that he really was an agent of change.
Well, this is not altogether true, Mr. Simon, and we're now learning from Gina Gaston, who is a uh a Democrat activist.
She'd been putting together a documentary.
She started out, and this was on Fox News Sunday yesterday morning.
She started out putting a documentary together to prove there wasn't any voter fraud in the Democrat primaries of 2008, and she found out there was all kinds of Democrat voter fraud on the part of the Obama campaign, and specifically Mr. Simon in Iowa.
Ms. Gaston documents that the Obama people locked the Hillary people out of the caucus locations.
They simply locked the doors.
You know, everybody was how the hell did Obama pull off this Iowa caucus thing?
Because that's that's the launch.
And must Mr. Simon here mentions it, and Miss Gaston, who says she can't get coverage of her documentary anywhere but on of all places Fox News.
She recounts all kinds of voter fraud on the part of the Obama campaign aimed at Mrs. Clinton.
And Iowa was one of those places.
So Kurt says they won't write racist.
Can't can't a case be made just on part of this that Obama was a white freshman senator, he wouldn't have been Hillary for the nomination.
Now, what spawned all of this?
And this is where I'm actually kind of surprised at Howard Kurtz, because you know, whenever the media has has joined these uh out of context, erroneous made up narratives, how I'm a racist, Kurtz has never done that.
And all of a sudden he airs a piece, but what do you leave out?
Let's go back in the cut eleven here that I played.
It starts with me saying that's exactly the same thing you could say about Obama.
So obviously I'm responding to something, but Kurtz either knew it and ignored it, or didn't know it, and got befuddled by one of the CNN producers.
Here is the entire sound bite from last Tuesday, and you'll hear that a full sixty-five percent of this soundbite was not aired by Howard Kurtz.
Cynthia Tucker, ABC's This Week, Sunday round table, they discussed Michael Steele.
And by the way, this woman is the editorial director of the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation, and she has been for a long, long time.
Cynthia, you once called Michael Steele uh an affirmative action hire gone bad.
What is your take?
By the way, she can say this because she's African American.
Here's what she said.
Michael Steele is a self-aggrandizing gaff-prone incompetent.
Who would have been fired a long time ago were he not black?
Of course, the irony is that he never would have been voted in as chairman of the Republican Party were he not black.
Same of Obama.
Stop the tape a second.
That's exactly the same thing you can say about Obama.
He wouldn't have been voted president if he weren't black.
Somebody asked me over the week.
Oh, and I gotta remember.
Somebody asked me over the weekend.
Why does somebody earn a lot of money have a lot of money?
No, it can't be.
Yes, it is.
There's a lot of guilt out there.
Show we're not racist.
We'll make this person wealthy and big and famous and so forth.
So a full 65% of that sound bite didn't air on CNN.
And you know they had it because they had to edit it.
Same with Obama.
Same with Obama.
She you heard Cynthia Tucker.
Michael Steele wouldn't be where he is if he weren't black.
So I simply said, yes, so you can say the same thing about Obama, but they at CNN present this as though I originated the thought.
But here is the piece the resistance.
March 7th of 2008.
A big scoop from the Los Angeles area Daily Breeze, Geraldine Ferraro, and you'll remember this.
Obama's lucky he's black.
Geraldine Ferraro said, if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position, meaning to get the Democrat nomination.
And if Obama was a woman of any color, he would not be in this position.
He happens to be very lucky to be who he is.
And they took her to task.
She's on Fox, of course, and then she defended it.
She defended it again in The Daily Breeze.
Ferraro defends controversial comments on Barack Obama, March 11th of 2008.
The writer of the story, Gene Medeius.
Anytime anybody does anything that in any way pulls this campaign down and says, let's address reality and the problems we're facing in this world.
You're accused of being racist, so you have to shut up.
Racism works in two different directions.
I really think they're attacking me because I'm white.
How's that?
And then she said, in all honesty, do you think that if Obama were a white male, there would be a reason for the black community to get excited for a historic first?
Am I pointing out something that doesn't exist?
said Geraldine Ferraro.
Obama campaign manager David Axelrod called Ferraro's comments part of an insidious pattern of remarks from Clinton supporters that have drawn attention to Obama's race.
He said, When you wink and nod at offensive statements, you're really sending a signal to your supporters that anything goes.
And Ferraro said, for all this, sexism's the bigger problem.
It's okay to be sexyist in some people's minds, but it's not okay to be racist, she said.
So once again, Mr. Kurtz and all the rest of you in the drive-by media.
What you have for me was reacting to comments made by others.
Cynthia Tucker.
No longer with the Atlanta Urinal Constipation, by the way, now.
So I guess she's a consultant at ABC or whatever, paid to show up and pundit, opine.
Michael Steele.
He wouldn't be chairman of Republican Party if you weren't black.
I said, hey, you could say the same thing about Obama.
And Bill Clinton, a few months ago.
Bill Clinton said, you know what?
If these were normal same times, Obama'd be bringing us coffee.
Bill Clinton said this.
I forget if it was during the campaign or if it was um afterwards, probably during the campaign.
Oh, yeah, is Obama, he'd be bringing us coffee.
And yet, Mr. Kurtz fails to find Ferraro's comments, fails to air Cynthia Tucker's comments, which were part of the soundbite on me, he did air.
So once again, a virtual smear, veritable smear, done on purpose.
The thing that surprises me is that Howard Kurtz has never done anything like this before.
Not to me, anyway.
I don't know about other people he's covered.
But I wanted to set the record straight.
If Obama weren't black, he wouldn't be president.
Geraldine Ferraro said it first.
And then Bill Clinton echoed it.
And then Cynthia Tucker said, Michael Steele wouldn't be chairman of the Republican Party if he weren't black.
So once again, your host, El Rushbo, simply commenting on the news, commenting on the comments that others have made.
Your phone calls are coming up right after this.
Sit tight.
Much more straight ahead right here on the EIB Network.
Music From the uh from the hill.com.
This is from yesterday.
Democrats plan attack over Republicans meeting with business leaders.
Congressional Democrats believe the House GOP planned to meet with business leaders and trade lobbyists in the Capitol this week, has provided them with yet another opening to retack attack Republicans for cozying up the big business.
After reports of the Business and Trade Group meeting surfaced, Democrats predictably went on the attack.
In a release, the DNC chided Republicans for holding a lobbyist speaking out for them.
Now wait a second, though.
Something about this doesn't jibe, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh, the White House is trying now to say that they're not anti-business.
The White House is trying to say they're pro-business.
And yet, the Democrats are attacking the Republicans for meeting with business leaders.
You see how this works.
To the phones we go to Fort Pierce, Florida.
This is uh Marty.
Glad you waited, sir.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi there.
Uh Diddles from uh Underemployment Land USA.
Thank you very much, sir.
Um, well, you were talking uh about a reuters piece and how that uh the economy is gonna be chugging along, but uh and they were glum about that, or uh it was chugging around along uh certain growth rate, but that employment was gonna go down.
Um but without growth, how can employment go down?
And I think that just doesn't make sense.
Well, exactly right.
Not only that, I mean, without growth, how can unemployment go down?
The real question is who's gonna be hiring anybody in the first place with all this uncertainty out there?
We have the stories last week of all these companies sitting on cash.
They're not spending it, they're not investing it because of the uncertainty of what the years ahead hold.
And one of the one of the big things they're waiting on is uh what's going to happen to Lame Duck Congress and the Irks and Bulls Alan Simpson babe debt commission.
And of course, these guys had a little preliminary uh news for us yesterday.
It's a cancer, the debts of cancer is gonna kill us.
Uh, and it's uh it was it was obvious that we are in dire consequences, dire straits.
So there's a lot of uncertainty out there, and people are not going to invest in growth, which means jobs, until there is some certainty.
Uh let's see.
Uh let's see.
Sean in Columbus, Ohio.
Welcome to the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, how's it going?
Uh very well, sir.
Thanks very much.
Oh, thank you.
Um, the reason why I wanted to uh call was you were mentioning that um sorry, I'm trying to walk to where I can talk uh because I'm at work.
Um you mentioned that people would be in order for it to fail, people would need to be un not uneducated, but you said basically they would have to be naive.
They would have to be uneducated with with the certain policies.
Ignorant or ill-informed, yeah.
Exactly.
My response back out to that was it happened.
I mean, look how much information came out against the current president, ranging from his church, ranging from his association to heirs, uh, ranging to um his voting policies, ranging to his policies in Chicago about abortion for late-term abortion.
All this information came out, and what did the general public decide to do?
The majority of the general public.
They didn't go out and research.
No, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Wait a minute.
That's the uh did it really come out.
Where did you, other than here or Fox News, did you hear anything about Jeremiah Wright or Bill Ayers or Obama's support for late-term abortions?
Did you hear any of that in any of what's called the mainstream media?
And that's what you're saying, it the mainstream media, none of that information came out.
So unless we're able to get it out to the general public, the majority, it's gonna happen again.
Uh I know that's that was my point.
The only way this can work is if there's an ill-informed public.
Or an uninformed public.
And I fear that it will happen again.
And another another thing I wanted to throw out, throw out at you, um, I know you're precious for time, was the bonuses.
Remember the bonuses where the government said that they were going to ex nay the bonuses.
Uh good.
Like AIG in New York, when there was like this big hoorah that they were going to say all these companies could not do bonuses and so forth.
Right.
Even though that some of them were in contract and some of them weren't in contract.
Yeah.
Information that I don't think most people don't know is um I work in the accounting aspect of like payroll.
And if the government decided to do with away with all bonuses, regardless of the size of the bonuses, that would be a huge major tax revenue that they would be losing out.
Because if a bonus is over a million dollars, that's taxed federal at 35%.
And then at the same time, the employer and employee contribution for Medicare comes out.
So business pays 1.45 1.45% for Medicare.
And if the employee has not capped out their Social Security, again, the employee pays Social Security, and so does the business itself.
So they pay it twice.
And if anything is over a million, that's 35%.
If anything's under a million, that's 25%.
That is in itself a tax loss for the government.
The bonuses are also what I consider to be an economic stimulus to everybody.
Because if you receive a bonus, you're going to save it, you're going to invest it, you're going to spend it on stuff that you need.
Yeah, but see, this this goes to the age-old argument here.
We've talked about it in a number of different ways.
But the upshot here, and you're the way you're pointing this out makes it clear that the Obama regime, they're not interested in raising revenue.
They're not interested in creating revenue streams to run the government.
They're interested in debt.
They're not interested in raising revenue.
They're more interested in class envy.
They are trying to divide the people of this country.
So all this rhetoric about no bonuses.
You'll note the bonuses were paid, by the way.
The dirty little secret is the bonuses were paid.
The best way to illustrate this, let's go back to LeBron James and ask people.
LeBron James chooses Miami, Florida over going to New York or staying in Cleveland or going to New Jersey or anywhere else.
In the process, LeBron James, as compared to New York, is going to pay probably per annum twelve million dollars less in taxes because Florida has no income tax.
Now that's 12 million dollars that LeBron James is going to spend himself.
On what?
Who knows?
He might go out and buy an auto dealership, he might buy five condo buildings.
Who knows what he's going to do?
But he's going to spend that money in the private sector.
Even if he invests it, it's still in the private sector.
And yet there are some people who think that he's committing a uh a quasi crime, or at least a sin, by not giving that money to the government.
Because what's the government going to do with it?
Well, they're going to give it to other people who aren't working, but they're certainly not going to use LeBron James tax revenue or anybody else's to grow the private sector.
And yet there are still people in the country who think LeBron James and people like him are less than patriotic by escaping and running away from taxes when it's an option to.
And my point is, whatever LeBron James does with that $12 million New York's not going to get is going to be far more beneficial to people in Florida than it would be to people in New York if he lived there.
And it corrects something.
LeBron James, $12 million New York tax savings is not per year, it's for the entire life of the contract's five-year deal, uh $96.1 million.
It comes out to about $2 million a year, uh, a little bit more that he would not be paying in New York taxes.
But still the argument and the and the point is the same.
Uh LeBron James theoretically earning the money, and he can go to a state where he can pay two million dollars less in taxes, keep the two million for himself.
There are people who think that that's not patriotic, that that's somehow committing a sin.
And yet I would argue that LeBron James or anybody else is going to do far more for a growing economy for employment and economic stimulus in the private sector by using that two million dollars however he chooses to, rather than dump it over to New York.
I mean, New York has proven that despite their highest tax rate in the country, they're still running a debt and deficit.
I mean, it's it's it's hopeless.
Feeding the beast with even more money is not going to solve any problem here.
So it did it really is it's amazing how the whole concept of taxes has become a moral argument.
I remember when I announced I was leaving New York for the very purpose, for the very same reason.
There's no state income tax in Florida.
You know, LeBron's simply following me down here.
Tiger Woods follow me down here.
It's the same thing.
And I get calls from people, you, you are, I can't believe you would you would stiff the people, the poor people of this country.
No, I'm not stiffing anybody.
I'm probably doing more for them.
And LeBron James is doing more for them than anybody at the government, state or federal, is doing with the tax revenue they collect.
Isn't it obvious?
I mean, it's patently obvious.
It's also, is it smart or stupid?
Is LeBron James, let's say, we don't know, but let's just for the sake of discussion, let's say that he chose to go to the Miami Heat to save the $12 million over over 10 years or five years visit of his uh income.
Is he stupid?
There are people who say he's stupid if he would do that.
Others would say he's smart.
But when you go buy a car, it's interesting.
People love to tell people how they screwed the car dealer.
They love to tell people how much their house cost, but they love to tell people how they screwed the car.
Is it fair to screw the car dealer?
You're got you got uh you only pay 300 bucks over sticker?
That's not fair to the car dealer, is it?
I mean, he's got to earn a living too.
Nobody ever says that.
When, yeah, yeah, boy, I really took the car dealer to the cleaners, uh, sort of see me negotiating.
By the same token, somebody go out and buy a hundred and fifty thousand dollar house, and they'll Tell you it cost them a 300 because they want you to know how much money they've got.
So, regardless, uh, is it who's whose business is it anyway?
What LeBron James does with his income.
And if there's a chance to save two million dollars of it for his family or charities, whatever he wants to do with it, whose business is it?
And why is there a sin committed?
And why is there some immorality?
Just because the wonderful glowing holier than now state of New York is getting shafted, apparently by two million dollars.
How can how can they say New York's getting shafted when he's not ever lived there and not paid taxes per se?
He pays per diem taxes when the Cavaliers play there, which he will do when the Heat does, but he's never been a New York resident, so how are they getting shafted?
And yet there are people who say that New York's getting shafted.
Because LeBron chose Florida where he wouldn't have to pay 12 million dollars in taxes over 10 years.
Joe Bite me said it's not patriotic to not pay your taxes.
He said it's it's a very patriotic thing to pay your taxes.
Joe Bite me would say that LeBron James is not being patriotic.
I doubt he would say it to his face, but the vice president has indeed said that.
By the way, just for you to be able to hear it in her own words, March 7, 2008, Torrance, California newspaper, the Daily Breeze, Democrat Geraldine Ferraro.
If Barack Obama were a white man, would we be talking about this as a potential real problem for Hillary?
If he were a woman of any color, would he be in this position that he said, absolutely not.
Or two years ago, 2008.
And she was raped over the colds for saying this.
And she came back and defended herself.
What's wrong with what I said?
There's nothing racist about it.
I happen to think it's true, she said.
She may have a point.
Well, the Reverend Dax, ladies and gentlemen, weighing in, speaking of LeBron James, the Reverend Dax criticized Dan Gilbert, the owner of Cleveland Cavaliers, yesterday, said that Gilbert sees LeBron James as a quote, runaway slave, close quote, and that Gilbert's comments after LeBron James decided to join the Miami Heat put the player in danger.
The Reverend Dax said his feelings of betrayal personify a slave master mentality.
Gilbert sees LeBron as a runaway slave.
This is an owner-employee relationship between business partners and LeBron has honored his contract.
That is the uh Reverend Jackson.
So Dan Gilbert is a runaway or a slave owner, and LeBron Jackson uh LeBron James a runaway slave.
How can forget the fact that the Reverend Daxon seems to be profiling LeBron James and Dan Gilbert?
Would the uh what the uh Reverend Daxon have said this if the races were reversed?
If Dan Gilbert were black and LeBron James were white and had fled to Cavaliers.
And how much, how much did LeBron James make?
This is the first time I have heard that making 15 to 20 million dollars a year in the National Basket Association is slavery.
I didn't know that slaves got that kind of money.
And if they had gotten that kind of money, I doubt they would have wanted anything to end.
So you got obviously some racial profiling going on, but beside besides all that, I thought the election of Barack Obama was going to end all of this kind of acrimony.
It's gonna come to a screeching halt that we're gonna have a post-racial post-partisan president with a post-racial postpartisan country.
What we've got is a post-achievement president, and a country in which there is an ongoing war on prosperity being led and fought from the White House.
So I guess with President Obama, we are in the post post racial period now.
This is this is really incredible for the Reverend Jackson to say this.
Runaway slave is how Dan Gilbert sees LeBron James.
The runaway slave, who is paid, what, 15, 18 million dollars a year?
The NAA LCP.
On Friday, their president and CEO, that's the N there's the National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People.
The President CEO sent a letter to BP, the CEO of BP, Tony Hayward, blasting the company for endangering communities of color in its response to the oil spill.
Dear Mr. Hayward, on behalf of the NAALCP, our nation's oldest and largest grassroots-based civil and human rights organization in the United States, with an active presence in over 1,200 membership units in every state in the United States in a 100-year history of advancing rights, and specifically our units in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, representing thousands of persons who have been affected by this oil drilling disaster.
I am writing you urgently to request a meeting with you to ensure that all communities, including communities of color along the Gulf Coast, are fully restored and receive needed support and assistance from BP.
And the letter goes on and on and on and on and on.
What they are demanding here, community organizations offering a range of support services to families suffering from this disaster are financially strapped.
This is acorn, impeding their ability fully to address the magnitude of the problem.
So NAALCP wants BP to fully fund community organizations in these states.
We understand and appreciate that BP has been engaged in numerous efforts to address the spill and its impact on communities, including the concerns that were shared with me, but we urge BP to take further steps, including the following actions.
Number one, establish monitoring mechanisms and take remedial action to ensure that workers of color are not relegated to arduous tasks and low-paid positions.
Mr. NAALCP leader, there aren't going to be any, before Obama's through, I mean the first oil rig has already left.
The first oil rig is now on its way to Egypt.
But rush, but rush, the moratorium has been blocked.
I know.
But they're not going to sit around and wait because they know that the regime wants to block any further drilling.
They're going to get out of there.
They can't take the chance the regime is going to win this down the road.
There's uncertainty.
They're not going to hang around and just wait to get socked in the face.
They're going to move to Egypt wherever they can go to drill for oil.
So whether it's people of color or whatever NAALCP, not going to be anybody down there in the oil business.
People of color or otherwise.
Number two, NAACP demanding that BP guarantee that communities of color are awarded their fair share of mitigation contracts.
Number three, the NAALCP demanding at BP provide financial support to community-based organizations that are assisting distressed families.
Well, this is, everybody just wants their own personal shakedown.
The President of the United States shook down BP for $20 billion.
So now everybody else is lining up for their own personal shakedown.
Now, of course, the White House said, no, no, no, it wasn't a shakedown.
What kind of talk is that?
It wasn't a shakedown.
Well, it's a shakedown.
I mean, I don't I don't know what Obama said in his meeting with the BP people, but we do know what the NAA LCP is saying, and probably not that much different.
Demanding this, demanding that.
So everybody wants their own personal shakedown.
And then there's this.
From ABC News, the NAA LCP, the Tea Party, and the question of racism.
The National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People is reported today to be considering a resolution condemning the Tea Party movement for racism within its ranks.
Now, interestingly, Gary Langer is the uh director of polling at ABC News.
And in this story, he is honest and honest drive-by, tells the truth that racism is not an animating aspect of the Tea Parties.
He said we polled them.
We've talked to them.
We've asked them questions.
We know who they are, and they're not animated by racism.
So the MAALCP has been rebuked here, at least temporarily by ABC News.
In fact, this passage from the story, Tea Party supporters are less apt than others to see racism as a major problem in the country.
A majority do so, 58%, compared with 75% of all Americans.
So 75% think there's racism is a problem, but only 58% of the uh of the Tea Party.
Well, anyway, I got a brief time out here, folks.
Sit tight, we'll come back and squeeze more of your phone calls in right after this.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
From Eau Claire, Wisconsin, authorities call it a complex scheme.
They say someone using John Menard's personal information, the same John Minard who built the Menard Home stores, tried to steal nearly a half million dollars from his personal bank account.
O'Care Eau Claire police officer Jason Cavini said a request was made to transfer an amount of money to an offshore bank account just short of 475,000 dollars.
Eau Claire Cops said somebody who claimed to be Minard called his bank on April 1st.
The caller had nearly all of his personal information home address, home telephone number, social security numbers.
Every day there are stories like this.
Every day.
Every day.
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Mr. Menard is a high profile guy.
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This is Stuart in uh what is this?
Morocca, California Moraga, California.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
And um wanted to say that when you say that uh the Democrats are setting up the Republicans by hoping that they win in November, it could really backfire on them from the point of view of if the Republicans take the House and close to 50 seats in the Senate and have the ability to pass legislation that reverses part of the Obama agenda,
then that puts the president into the position of being the president of no and having to veto.
That's the thing.
This is exactly exactly right.
This is why I said there's this strategy the Democrats have hatched hinges on two things.
It hinges on an uninformed or naive or ignorant electorate, and it hinges on the Republicans doing nothing.
And this is why the Republicans are only as strong as their weakest link.
Now, here, here's an illustration.
And herein lies the problem with Republican governance.
Because Republican governance is different from conservative governance.
There's a story, MSNBC, Scott Brown, the Republican who won Ted Kennedy's seat, Is going to vote yes on financial reform.
There is no conservative anywhere who would vote yes on financial regulatory reform.
It is a fraud of a bill.
It should not come close to even passing.
But here we have a Republican voting for it.
And if you read the story, he makes arguments that sound very much like liberal arguments.
That it does all these wonderful things, that it's got a consumer bill of rights in it, uh, it's gonna make sure the big fat cats on Wall Street don't get to screw anybody anymore, when in fact it does not do that, and it cannot do that, and it will not do that.
So this is gonna be up to the Republicans.
What they do with uh this victory in the House that even the White House now appears to be hoping for back after this.
You know, I'm sitting here, I'm remembering the old days, folks, when the Republicans took over the presidency and full control of Congress, the House, and the Senate.
And all we heard from the uh from the Democrats and of course their echo chamber, the one-party media, was about the virtues of divided government.
I remember Pelosi talking about the um the uh the rights of the minority, and the rights of the minority were being totally ignored, and now of course we hear none of that.
In fact, I bet you what we're gonna hear now: the virtues of divided government.
That'll happen soon.
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