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July 16, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 16, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
A very happy Friday to everyone.
Mark Davis of WBAP Dallas-Fort Worth, proud Limbaugh affiliate since, oh, I don't know, mid-90s.
And it's great to be with you, as I occasionally amid the other fill-in guys.
All of us are very honored to fill in when Rush needs a day or a week or whatever off.
Rush back on Monday, and I'm just glad to be with you here today on what would be Open Line Friday.
But I mean, Open Line Friday to me is a rush thing.
We're not going to fire off the big Open Line Friday sounder.
I sort of conduct my whole life like that anyway.
So presume that the Open Line Friday rules are exactly as they would be, even though Rush isn't here and I am.
So again, Mark Davis and Dallas Fort Worth at WBAP.
How are you?
I hope your week's been good.
What a talk show week it has been.
And the usual Open Line Friday notion of, and honestly, here's the deal.
I've got stuff stacked up to offer you.
And I know there's stuff in your brain that you'd like to offer the Rush Limbaugh Show.
So do it.
1-800-282-2882.
Bring it.
And we'll put you through the not-so-arduous screening process.
And you'll do some of the heavy lifting, and I'll do some.
We'll get through three hours, have a great time, get into the weekend, and Rush is back on Monday.
Sound good?
Good.
Let's do it.
We have an amazing week to look back on.
From the NAACP versus the Tea Partiers to the financial overhaul bill, that piece of you-know-what that we got to talk about passed with the help of three Republicans.
I mean, Olympia Snow and Susan Collins.
What are you going to do?
But when Scott Brown rose, when his ascendancy was complete in Massachusetts, I am prepared to be as continuously, residually happy about Scott Brown's win over Martha Coakley as I was the day he won.
And as Rush told you that day, as I told my listeners here in Texas, you know, this is not Jim DeMint who's won here, the magnificent South Carolina conservative.
This is not a died-in-the-wool conservative Republican who has won in Massachusetts.
After all, it's Massachusetts.
There will be times when he will make our teeth itch.
This is one of those times.
And so the people of Massachusetts got to figure out what to do with this guy.
I mean, do we go tea party on him and make him pay next time in the primaries?
Or do we do that at our peril?
And does that, since it's Massachusetts, just hand that seat back to a Democrat if the conservative we want gets the nomination?
These are the quandaries of the modern day when you have a Tea Party movement that is magnificent in its commitment and determination to hold candidates to what Republicanism is supposed to be,
what conservatism is supposed to be, a devotion to genuinely smaller government, genuinely lower taxes, genuinely constitutional behavior.
That is where the touchstone is.
That's where the bar is set.
That is the measuring stick.
It has nothing whatsoever to do with race.
Memo to our friends at the NAACP.
And we'll, oh boy, will we talk about this today.
And we'll talk about, and God bless Newt.
I love Newt.
How many of you love Newt?
Show of hands.
It's a lot of you.
And I love Newt.
I love it.
Presidential run?
I don't know.
Maybe.
We'll see how that works out.
But I will tell you this.
And I love Newt.
Did I say I love Newt?
I sure as shooting don't need Newt walking around suggesting the Tea Party reach out to local NAACPs for town hall meetings.
What?
How can such a smart man have such a dumb idea?
And I love Newt.
Please tell Newt, I love him.
But doggone it, man.
If someone slanders you, if someone is a bully, you don't reach out to them except to beat down their ridiculous claims and require them to act right before there's real meaningful dialogue.
Get out with these town halls with the NAACP.
And this is nothing but sad.
Nothing but sad.
A once proud, once great organization reduced to this kind of malicious, clownish behavior.
Anyway, so what got me all ADD there for a minute was the commonality of the Tea Party angle, baselessly accused of racism, but the Tea Party drama that takes hold here, and I think we're seeing it in a bunch of states.
Let's go to California.
Once again, hello, it's California.
Meg Whitman is running for governor of what?
You know, Mississippi, Alabama, Utah, Texas.
No, she's running for governor of California.
Is there some wisdom that says, and is it wisdom, that if you are the Republican running in a Massachusetts or a California, not exactly hotbeds of pulsating red state conservatism, that you kind of got to back it down a little bit in terms of the conservatism?
School of thought number one is, yeah, that's what you got to do.
You know, that if we were to offer up, you know, Rush for governor of California, okay, bad example.
That would just transcend all politics.
That would just, that would, the tectonic shifts would be so great that California would eventually would finally drop off into the ocean.
Let's make it someone with Rush's conservatism, someone who has his every view, my every view, you know, that kind of Tea Party, a Tea Party Republican offered up for governor of California.
I'm just saying, I mean, I don't know.
Wouldn't that person get his clock cleaned by the Democrat?
Maybe not.
Maybe not.
I mean, I know Sharon Angle has a little bit of a lead on Harry Reid.
That's Harry Reid.
But it's also Nevada.
Not Nevada.
It's Nevada.
And Nevada is kind of a purple-ish state.
But in California or Massachusetts, you offer up a genuine Limbaugh Reagan-style conservative.
The conventional wisdom is that person gets his hat handed to him.
So, A, is that true?
And if it is, does that mean that we're going to kind of have to hold our noses a little bit for somewhat less conservative Republican nominees?
Or is that just a bunch of hooey?
And you offer up down the line reliable conservatism in a marketable package.
I'll tell you what I mean by that in a minute.
And if it prevails, it prevails.
Good for you.
And if it doesn't, you bring it back again the next time until it does.
But because California is in such profound financial ruin that there may be all kinds of independent voters willing to listen to a Republican message because they've all of a sudden become enamored of conservatism or Republican thought?
Nah, not necessarily.
But they're just tired as all get out of what the Democrats have done to them or what a squishy Republican like Governor Schwarzenegger has done to them.
And that logic may be what applies this very election year.
If Republicans are going to get this big bounce in 2010, and I believe we will, if Republicans are going to be able to reclaim the White House in 2012, and I believe we will, it will not be because millions of Americans have suddenly decided, oh, I've been so wrong.
I really am a conservative Republican.
Well, for some it will, but for most, it'll be the same way Obama won.
Fatigue with the status quo.
Give me something new.
I don't like what's going on right now.
And you know what?
I'll take it.
I'll take it.
I'll take that vehicle of success, that pipeline through which success will flow and gush into the elections of 2010.
At least the oil's not gushing in the Gulf.
What are we on almost a full day of that?
Fingers crossed.
That's fantastic.
Kind of slooped over shoulders at the White House, though.
Because part of them, part of them, the environmentalists, the environmentalist angle of White House liberalism, sure.
And listen, that's just human decency that deplores the environmental effects of the spill.
We all have that.
But when you go to our respective political corners, boy, I guess they're just hoping in Barack Obama's America that there's been enough damage by this spill that we may choke that thing off today.
But their hope is that it will remain a sufficiently shocking environmental scourge that this is oil's three-mile island and that all of us will go, ooh, oil, and go run out and crave those alternative energy sources earlier than we otherwise would.
But nonetheless, as we get down to the elections here, what we've got is a situation where we have choices and the choices that we offer in terms of the candidates that we package.
Let me tell you what I meant about that two minutes ago.
I want, I'm going to get really greedy in 2012, okay?
Tell me if you're with me on this.
I want someone whose brain and heart are driven with the proper conservative compass.
But I want, and I think we're going to need someone with a skill set to go up against Obama.
And here's my test.
And there's two ways to do that.
Number one is go toe-to-toe with him when that needs to happen on a debate stage or through commercials or whatever.
When they lie about our nominee and they will, when they lie about their own sorry record, and they will.
We need a nominee who will call them on it.
But it needs to also be somebody who has that certain likability, that certain relatability.
And I'll define it the following way.
Sarah Palin has a ton of it.
Newt Gingrich has virtually none.
Bill Clinton had it.
George W. had some of it.
John Kerry and Al Gore had none of it.
It's that sit down with you for a cup of coffee kind of thing.
Now, that's not the most important thing about a candidate, but without it, it's harder to win.
And with it, it's easier to win.
So here's where I'm getting greedy.
Give me somebody with the right heart, the right mind, and that skill set.
And I don't know if that's some, and I don't know if that's somebody who we're even talking about among the frontrunners.
You know, God bless Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee and all of this.
That's all lovely.
And if one of them winds up being the nominee, great.
Let's go win.
But that's why there is so much thought.
What's this young guns book that's getting put out right now?
Paul Ryan, one of the authors of that, and I love Paul Ryan and I love that roadmap.
Check it out.
It is magnificent.
And the thing that you need to love about Paul Ryan and the roadmap is that it makes people nervous.
Anybody coming to the table with a solution that doesn't make people nervous is a wimpy solution.
And I don't just mean the left.
There are Republicans nervous about the Paul Ryan roadmap.
Ooh, this might be, you know, too, this might ruffle feathers.
Well, it doggone well better.
Because if there are any feathers that need to be ruffled, it's in the Republican establishment as well of people who have talked a good game for years about coming into power, making taxes lower, making government smaller, obeying the Constitution more ardently, and they simply haven't done it well enough.
It's time for people who will.
In there with him on this are Kevin McCarthy of California, very good guy.
And Eric Cantor of Virginia, whom I really, really like, didn't enjoy the role he took in throwing Joe Barton under the bus.
Not a favorite moment, not a favorite Eric Cantor moment of mine, but an apparent listener.
I think Eric called, Eric called Byron York or did somebody call Frank once.
There you go.
And so Mr. Minority Whip, I really do love you.
And I really, really do.
And if you wind up being in the mix in 2012, man, I'm prepared to listen.
But Joe Barton, I'll tell you some things about Joe Barton.
Joe's a friend of mine.
He's one district.
He's one district away from being my congressman.
And when he went before that committee, okay, listen, he'll be the first to tell you the apology to BP, not his best moment.
You don't need to couch it in those terms.
But the notion of the shakedown for the trust fund, absolutely correct.
The revulsion that Joe Barton felt for this deal cut where BP's guy is brought into the White House, and there's Barack Obama and Eric Holder, the Attorney General, holding a lawsuit guillotine over his neck.
Oh, yeah, there's a nice even playing field on which to have a discussion about what ought to happen next.
Joe Barton's instinct on that were 100% correct.
And yet, even the Republican power structure said, oh, we have to show the proper amount of disgust at Joe having apologized.
Well, that moment was about 2% of everything Joe had to say.
And that's why what I wanted from the Republican leadership was what I just gave you.
Okay, the apology, bad thing.
Sorry.
I'd like to have that back.
All right.
But everything else Joe said, spot on.
That's what leadership sounds like and feels like.
It makes some people mad, even on your own side.
That's what leadership is.
If nobody's ever upset, oh, then what you have is just NAMBY PAMBY, go along to get along.
And that's not what beats this regime in 2010 and 2012.
So it's time for everybody to gut up and grow up and put people out there who are, these are not mutually exclusive, who are tough and likable.
And if I need to define both of those more during today's broadcast, the good news is we got time.
So with that, I got all, as you can tell, I've got all kinds of things in my head, but let's see what's going on in the world of phone calls and let's do it next.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Davis in Dallas, Fort Worth on WBAP, filling in for us just today.
Rush is back on Monday.
Happy Friday.
And phone calls are next on the EIB network.
It is the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in.
Let's see if we can get a call or two in for the bottom of the hour.
Start off in Tampa.
Hey, Aaron, Mark Davis, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you?
Good, Mark.
How are you?
Fantastic.
You made a comment earlier about if a Tea Party candidate ran for governor in California, they'd have their clock cleaned.
Well, I wondered.
I wondered aloud, would they be eaten alive because it's California, or is there a sufficient Tea Party passion where the turnout would be so huge that there could actually be a Tea Party candidate success in a state as purple toward red, or red toward purple, or more blue, as California.
Yeah, that's very true.
Originally, I am from California.
Grew up there.
I'm 26 now.
I've been in Tampa for about 10 years.
I understand what you're saying, yes, but I think the people of California would go for someone standing on principles rather than choosing someone who does the whole politics as usual thing.
Like if you look at the 2000 and 2004 election map by county, California is more red than they are blue.
Well, but that's kind of like the that's like the Bush 2000 United States map by county.
It looks like a massive mandate, but counties don't vote.
People do.
And that's why Gore won the popular vote is because he had the far more populous counties, even though President Bush had far more actual counties.
That's correct.
But I just tend to think like when Reagan ran for governor, of course, this was years and years ago before I was even four.
Tell me.
I believe he won on principle.
And if the candidate, the Tea Party candidate were real, if they were a candidate like that, I think that they'd give whatever Democrat liberal a run for their money.
Aaron, I think you could well be right.
And thank you for your call.
Because it may just be raw numbers.
We have been locked for my entire life.
I'm 52.
Roughly half of everybody votes.
Isn't that pretty true?
I mean, in big-time elections, presidential elections, big time elections, about half of everybody votes and the other half doesn't.
There have been some times when it's been a little depressed, 40%, 45%, sometimes 50%, 55%.
But we've never had 75% of people voting in a presidential election.
I think this November, you might see some turnout of 60, 70% and higher, and it'll be fueled by Tea Party people.
I mean, I guarantee you that in Democrat circles and among young voters, exponentially higher voting totals were what got Barack Obama elected.
People who hadn't thought about voting and who wouldn't have been voting otherwise, they went and voted for that guy.
Well, in the case of Tea Party candidates and Tea Party fervor, that's what you're going to see.
Now, in a state like California or Massachusetts, it is possible that you could offer up a Tea Party candidate as a Republican nominee for something.
First thing you'd have to do is win the nomination.
But then in the general election, the Tea Party people would just go wild.
They would show up in such overwhelming numbers while all the other constituencies, moderates, independents, liberals, sort of more conservative Republicans even are kind of in there at 40, 50%.
And the Tea Party people are out there with 75, 80% voting totals.
You do that and you can win.
Now, I mean, California has about 40 million people in it.
Here in my state of Texas, we got just under 25 million people and we're a lot more conservative than California.
Turnout, turnout, turnout, turnout, turnout.
That's what's so very important.
And when you're done with that, turnout.
So lessons lie ahead in that this November and in the all-important year of 2012.
When we come back, I want to tell you a little bit about something that might happen in 2012 that could shock you.
Mark Davis, right back.
It's the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis from roughly 100-degree Texas, or as they call it in Arizona, the place we go to cool off.
Jeez, what is going on in Phoenix and such?
As if things aren't hot enough in Arizona, ideologically.
Anyway, it's the middle of summer, so that's what happens.
Now, I mentioned as we close the last segment, something that could happen in 2012 that could shock you.
Well, okay, let me revise and extend those remarks.
It won't shock you because it will have been in the making for a long time.
So let me establish this as we go back to your calls.
Let me lay another layer of topicality because I've been thinking about this for, well, a long time, but for a few weeks in particular.
There's a piece written by Pete DuPont, no liberal Democrat there, on this subject this past week.
And you can go find it after I tell you what I'm talking about here if you wish to.
What is one thing that could happen?
What is one thing that could happen that would erode your 2012 confidence?
Maybe there are a lot, but there's one single thing that could happen where all of a sudden you'd say, wow, this could be trouble.
That would be the Hillary Clinton I Told You So tour 2012.
This has gone in my mind from being a preposterous impossibility to being infinitesimally remote to now just being unlikely.
And please understand the meanings of all those words.
That means essentially going from a 0% chance to a 5% chance to maybe a 15% chance, just to attach some numbers to this.
I have no solid expectation, I mean, whatsoever that Hillary challenges Obama in 2012, a definitive, oh, I think she's going to do it.
Not right now.
But is it so preposterous?
Look at the things that make it usually a total deal breaker.
It involves usually someone burning every bridge he, she ever had to challenge an incumbent that's always messy.
It involves blood on the walls.
Oh my God, that again, Hillary versus Obama again.
Oh, my heavens.
So why in the world would the Democratic Party want that or why would they be even willing to tolerate that in the upper party echelon structures, fundraising halls and corridors?
Because maybe it's the only way they fend off disaster.
I mean, the only thing certain in politics is change.
I don't even know if November 2010 works out as well as I think it will.
Look at what can change.
So you talk two in a fraction years out?
Please.
I don't know.
All I know is the way things might go, seem to be going.
And if certain things hold, then yeah, Republicans are going to win the White House back because everyone is just going to be so glad to see Barack Obama return to private life.
Well, that is somewhat less true, isn't it?
If he's not the nominee.
And a Democratic Party staring, not just defeat, but embarrassment, staring it in the face, the embarrassment of knowing what they should have known about this nominee, knowing that Hillary was the infinitely superior nominee over Barack Obama.
But they just, oh, the anointed one, oh, can we get some water?
People are passing out.
Can we get some water?
I mean, all that entire exercise in cult of personality.
Well, look where that got you, kids.
Look where that got you.
A president where even among his own base, there is some buyer's remorse.
That's not what you want when you're trying to get a second term.
I guarantee you, there are Democrats right now in the uppermost echelons of Democrat-ness thinking, oh my heavens, Hillary, would you even take our call if we called you?
And she's the only one.
I'm not talking about any old Democrat.
No, it would need to be someone with the star power.
Now, the resume.
You can't just say, well, she's just been first lady of a state and first lady of the country.
What's that?
She's been a senator and secretary of state.
She's got twice the resume Obama ever had.
She is tanned-rested and ready.
And there are Democrats right now thinking, well, their first thought is we hope that things aren't so bleak that we need to entertain this.
But you tell me how things get better.
What?
He's going to all of a sudden become competent?
So an exhibit A, that this is a genius idea if Democrats actually do it is it scares the living daylights out of me because suddenly 2012 is on.
I mean, it's on no matter what.
President Obama's not going to be easy to beat.
I mean, please.
But we will have one thing going for us, and that is his incredibly failed record.
If Hillary's the nominee, we don't have that anymore.
I mean, obviously she can be linked to all kinds of things that he would do that he did, that she'd keep doing, but there'd be enough different where a lot of Democrats and a lot of crossover voters and a lot of independents who are falling so out of love with President Obama, where all of a sudden they would go, well, shoot, let's give her a shot.
And then you'd have that bit of, oh, and everybody gets all caught up in the history again.
History, first black president.
Yeah, that worked out real well, didn't it?
But now we'd have, oh, first woman president.
And I understand that.
I mean, you know, when we actually, I mean, listen, I had that going for us.
Sarah Palin.
I mean, she wasn't the first female running mate.
That was Geraldine Ferraro, but who had no chance of winning.
The McCain-Palin ticket, hard though it may be to believe, did at one point have a chance of winning, I guess pre-September or something.
So we had that.
And I was as energized by, or I was additionally energized.
Not just that I liked her and liked her on the ticket and she brought a little jolt of electricity to an otherwise fairly sleepy ticket at times, but I thought it was really cool that we'd have a woman vice president and it would be somebody whose views I actually admired.
You know, I mean, even when President Obama won, it's like, oof, well, nothing I can do about it.
So at least, you know, we got the black president thing taken care of.
And that's good.
It gets good to have that barrier.
I like it when barriers fall.
I like it better when barriers fall with people who I actually voted for.
And I'm not going to vote to knock down a barrier when it's somebody whose views I don't support.
But I'm just saying, as we work our way through today, here come some more calls right now.
But you know you're thinking about this.
I hope Hillary is enormously happy as Secretary of State.
I hope she is thrilled with her current life.
Or maybe there's just something in her ethically or I don't know what adverb where she would never challenge a sitting President Obama.
I'll just give you some free advice to the Democratic Party.
You ditch him and run her, your chances of keeping the White House in 2012 double.
And as Republicans, that means, listen, beating President Obama will not be easy in 2012.
It will be easier than beating her.
So there you go.
Do with that what you will.
All right.
Rather than give somebody a short shrift, let's go ahead and take our first break of the second half hour of the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis in Texas with you, and you on the phone with me next on the EIB network.
It is the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in.
Let's hit the phones, shall we?
We are in Louisville, Kentucky.
Greg, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
How are you, sir?
Hi, Mark.
How are you today?
Good.
Well, I had a, I think your idea is interesting.
I thought about it myself, and I think certainly Hillary would do it if she thought she could pull it off.
I think she and Bill have been sort of planting some seeds of disruption for a while anyway.
My only question is, how does she pull it off?
Let's say his numbers tank.
Let's say the president's numbers tank and we have a bad economy, maybe worse than it is now, and the tax increases go in next year, and then it gets even worse.
And say his numbers drop into the 30s or whatever.
How does she pull it off without alienating the most loyal Obama demographic, which is the black voter, the black Democrat voter?
Good point.
You have two things you got to do to be president: win the nomination of your party and then win the general election.
In the primaries, she would not have the black vote, but guess what?
She didn't have it last time, and she almost beat him.
Now, what you have, though, is even some black folks who are interested in keeping the White House Democrat.
If they know their guy is going down, there are some who will, you know, shrug and say, well, you know, see who we can offer up sometime next time, but let's go with Hillary.
What I think is interesting is, you know, Obama's, Obama's not on the ballot this November, but his policies and his puppets are on the ballot.
Correct.
And we really have a chance to speak up and say, you know, no, we need to stop this.
Exactly right.
So if Hillary were going to get the nomination in a bold challenge to Barack Obama, she would just have to get an overwhelming white, Asian, and Hispanic vote, whatever, because the black vote is still going to largely go to him.
Can she do that?
Of course she can.
Just finished the sentence.
And then in the general election, even with some wounded feelings, she would, as any Democrat would, get about 90% of the black vote.
Go ahead.
Oops, he didn't.
Oh, not my.
Wow, sorry.
Just need to finish a sentence there.
Just 20 more seconds.
Well, that accrues to the benefit of Mark and Los Angeles.
Hi, how are you doing, Mark?
Hey, Mark.
How are you doing?
Very good.
I listened to your show when I'm in Texas on business a lot.
Thank you very much.
It's kind of interesting seeing the view of California from outside of California.
Being a Reagan conservative myself, I heard some analysis earlier about a Tea Party candidate here, and I realized that the prize is, you know, 55, maybe 56, 7 delegates now with population in California.
It's never going to happen, and I'll tell you why, unfortunately.
California, number one, is dominated by unions.
And we all know that unions typically vote Democrat no matter what, just to keep their gravy trough full.
The second reason is the demographics here are consistently going Democrat, Democrat, voter, Democrat voter base based on the Hispanic population.
Then, because all those observations are sound, does this mean that you are telling me that the current polls, which show Carly Fiorina with a little edge over Barbara Boxer, that's just fiction?
When election day comes, everybody goes to their natural predilections, and Barbara Boxer probably wins decisively.
No, no, no, I'm not saying that, Mark.
Why not?
If it's all unions and all liberal Hispanic, yeah, you know, but Carly Fiorina is not what you think.
She's not at all what you think.
How do you know what I think she is?
Tell me what you mean.
Well, she's very much Democrat, heavy, conservative, or Republican wife.
She's nowhere near what a Republican or a standard GOP candidate would be like in the rest of the country.
You've got to remember that.
That's a fair point, and it's almost always going to be the case in California.
That's sort of what I was talking about.
So if Carly Fiorina may beat Barbara Boxer, we should not take that as the indicator that a Tea Party candidate would have.
Absolutely.
I think the only way to get any kind of Tea Party candidates in motion in California is at the local level.
And kind of like the Long March strategy, which has been the case in so many other parts of the country, you start local.
It takes a decade to build that kind of movement.
And I don't see that happening here just yet.
But that's the only opportunity that I see.
And by the way, I want to make this a quick one here.
I think that the Arizona SB 1070 is a direct result partially of Californians leaving California in the 80s after Reagan gave us the first amnesty.
And I think a lot of Californians left and they saw what happened and they moved to Arizona.
And I think some percentage of that is as a direct result of that.
You mean that a lot of the people voting for it and the support that we see for it in Arizona is from folks who have been in Arizona from California for a few years since they moved to Arizona for what they hoped would be a tougher border.
I know people personally that left here in the late 80s, early 90s because of what they saw happening, especially in Southern California.
You could well be right.
I mean, I don't know what number of people that is, but it's probably appreciable.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate it.
My best to everybody in L.A. Let's go to the fine capital city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg.
Chris, Mark Davis, in for Rush, how are you?
Hey, there.
How are you doing, Mark?
I am good.
Thank you.
I listen to talk radio all the time because it tells the truth.
But I went and read on the bill that they passed through.
And if people just go to it and read it, they will see the travesty that happened.
We are now going to go into a socialist economy.
And I'm not even kidding.
Well, no, I mean, the bug-eyed rant of 25 years ago is the thoughtful analysis of today.
It's socialist.
It's not America anymore.
People who used to say that, you'd say, come on, calm it down, Uncle Fred.
It's going to be okay.
Well, now, you know, it's somewhat different.
Well, one thing that gets me is, to me, a government and a state is a business.
We're in to make money to survive to pay our bills.
Well, in this bill, it's so vague that they could easily misinterpret and take over other forms of the government, just saying, well, you're not producing.
You're not putting out the economy.
You're not helping.
And another thing, and watch, it's going to happen next Tuesday.
They got this unemployment bill.
They've been holding on to it in the House because it's showing that unemployment's gone down.
It's not going down.
People aren't fighting because they're not getting anything.
Well, the sad thing, Chris, the sad thing, when you talked about if people read the bill, they'd see the outrage.
I only wish that were.
Some would.
A lot of people would read the bill and are familiar with the bill already and think, well, whatever.
We have to have government control of all these Wall Street Titans.
We can't let these people run unfettered through a free market economy.
A ton of Americans, a shockingly high percentage of Americans, are just fine with this, especially when you have a White House crafty enough to wrap it in the terminology of consumer protection.
Chris, thank you.
What we need protection from is out-of-control expansionist collectivist government.
I don't need protection from my bank.
I need protection from these people.
Mark Davis in for Rush.
Be right back.
All right, we've got a couple of minutes left in this first hour of the Friday Rush Limbaugh show.
Mark Davis fell in.
Voila, there's a Freudian slip I shan't make.
Here's something, though.
Speaking of other radio people, my buddy Inga Barks at KMJ in Fresno.
I was on with her last night at her show just to kind of plug ahead of time what the good people of Fresno would be hearing on today's Rush Limbaugh show.
And she texts me today and reminds me, properly so, that Chuck DeVore was the Tea Party favorite in that primary, and it wasn't Carly Fiorina.
But now that Carly is the nominee, now that she is the Republican, the Tea Party people are finding ways to love her, and she's got to be finding ways to attract them because that's the only way she's going to beat Barbara Boxer.
In Tennessee, Tim, Mark Davis, in for Rush, how are you?
I'm doing great.
How are you doing?
Great.
Nice to have you.
Nice to have to be with you, sir.
My question is this.
Hopefully, we don't have to wait to 2012.
But anyhow, once we get Obama out of office, how hard is it going to be for us to reverse the laws and the bills that his administration has passed?
It depends on which ones.
Of the bills that are passed by Congress, some are like flipping a switch.
They passed, you unpass them, you pass the opposite.
Boom, you're done.
Others, unfortunately, the ones on which they've done the most damage, things like health care, require a whole lot of hoops jumped through in order to take the tentacles out from around our necks that they have placed.
But the good news is, though, all of this can indeed be done.
It'll take a lot of time.
It'll take a lot of resilience.
It'll take a lot of Republicans.
But if we keep our eyes on the prize, the way they have, the way they have to turn us into a socialist country, we can turn it back into America again.
It'll take some time.
I am optimistic.
We can do this.
All we got to do is hang together and not lose sight of the hole we got to dig ourselves out of.
So everybody, spring in your step and let's move forward, like to the next hour on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
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