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Aug. 6, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 6, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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I am here folks.
Sorry, I got 15,000 things going on at the same time here.
Great to have you back.
Rush Limbaugh, the Open Line Friday edition of the EIB Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's Open Line Friday.
And the telephone number is 1-800-282-2882.
The email address, lrushball at EIBnet.com.
Whenever we go to the phones, the program is all yours.
Public policy polling.
Now, this is April 15th of this year.
And it showed up in roll call, Congressional Quarterly Roll Call.
President Obama just passed another milestone.
His popularity is polling behind that for his predecessor, George W. Bush.
Public policy polling back in April asked, would you rather have Obama or Bush as president right now?
The answer was Obama 48%, Bush 46%, 4% margin of error.
Imagine what the answer would be today.
I mention all this because Gloria Borger and the rest of the news media out there saying, oh, yeah, it's going to work great for Obama if he runs out and runs against George W. Bush.
Why, that's the ticket.
Run against Bush.
Well, Obama's out there praising himself for 9.5% unemployment, praising himself for all these foreclosures and bankruptcies.
So if you like, if you like where the economy is and you want more of it, then vote for the Democrats.
It's that simple.
If you think 9.5% unemployment is success, vote Democrat.
If you think continued foreclosures, good news, vote Democrat.
I mean, as I said the previous hour, I'm very close to whipping out happy days are here again.
Happy days are here again.
This guy, Obama, is so out of touch.
He is so devoid of reality.
He's living in such a self-created fantasy world, so full of himself and his own lies.
He's starting to believe all of his own BS.
To go out and campaign at a Ford plant and take credit for their jobs, they didn't get any bailout money.
Ford surviving in spite of Obama, as is everybody else in this country who is succeeding.
Whoever is enjoying success, whoever's making a go of it, is doing so in spite of Obama.
He's jetting all over the place.
His wife is jetting all over the place, ordering special food, special clothes, vacationing every other week, four vacations in July alone.
See, Obama and his wife don't understand what anyone's complaining about.
They've never had it so good.
They don't want for anything.
They don't even pay for anything.
In fact, they look at it as though they are owed this.
They are owed this.
They have been shafted all of their lives because of racial discrimination, because of being a minority.
This is the first time Michelle Obama is proud of her country when her husband was running for office.
And so now, okay, fine, it's our turn.
Like Marion Berry said, tonight, tonight, we on the inside.
Well, they're on the inside now, flying all over the country while everybody else is tightening their belts because they deserve it.
This is owed to them.
And they want to be thanked for all of their efforts on our behalf.
They want our appreciation and adulation.
They want to be thanked for taking your paycheck and giving it to the politicians and bureaucrats and then spread it around like confetti to their friends and special interests.
Another $26 billion for the NEA.
Another $26 billion for teachers to bail out teachers and pensions.
And they want thanks.
They want praise.
They're able to take your money, give it to the SEIU, the NEA, community activists, federal bureaucrats, even state bureaucrats.
And you dare to complain about it.
How dare you complain, Lindbaugh?
Obama's doing great for people.
Yeah, Bush never did this great.
You run against Bush.
That's right, run against Bush, and everybody will vote for Obama and vote for the Democrats because they hate Bush.
Right.
The ruling class is out having a party.
The wealthiest three counties in the country now, right outside Washington, D.C. Ruling class having a big party, partying like never before.
Obamas are living it up.
Concerts at the White House, top chefs cooking for them, flown in from all over the country.
Meanwhile, they preach a hatred of capitalism.
They preach a hatred against profit.
They insist that you sacrifice, that you rebalance and reset your lives, that you adjust, that you realize the salad days are over, that the days of America leading the world economically are over, the days of you getting all kinds of credit card loans and so forth, the living of those days are over.
You have to pay the piper.
Michelle has a beach closed down in Spain after taking 40 of her best friends and leasing 60 rooms in a five-star hotel, paid for by you, because they deserve it.
But you have to pay.
You have to pay up.
They preach against capitalism while living off of it.
The Obamas have not done a day's worth of work in their lives to generate this kind of lifestyle for themselves.
They are living off of you and every one of us.
What do you mean?
Rush, he wrote a bunch of books.
Okay, he wrote a couple of books.
Even that, a couple of autobiographies by age 40.
You know, Rush, yeah, and they really sold well.
Okay, fine.
So he has an iron butt for a couple years to write a couple of books.
I'm not even going to go to the place where he didn't write them, but point is they are living a lifestyle they have not earned.
And they're living it off the taxpayers while criticizing the very system that enables them to live this way.
$100 Kobe beef as appetizers at White House parties.
The American people do not like this kind of arrogance.
The American people do not like this kind of aristocracy.
The American people will deal with this in November.
So Mr. Obama and Ms. Borger and the rest of you in the partisan political operative media, if you want to go around and say that running against George W. Bush is a ticket.
That's the ticket.
You go right ahead.
You've already demonstrated how out of touch you are with the real people of this country who make it work.
Stocks are tumbling today down the last I looked at 136.
That's another reason to party.
Happy days are here again.
A stock market.
Think of all those pension plans and college plans losing value.
Thank you, Mr. President.
Yes, we're just as excited as we can be because all this great economic news keeps happening.
Happy days are here again.
We've got your phone calls on haul.
People have been waiting for.
I promised to get to some phone calls in the last hour, and I obviously didn't pull that off.
Let's take a brief time out.
We'll come back and get to your phone calls right after this.
Don't go away.
I think it's 65th anniversary of Hiroshima today.
So we've gone from the A-Bomb to the O-Bomb.
The O-bombing Obama.
All right, to the phone, Cincinnati.
Let's start with David.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, how are you?
Very well.
Thank you.
Hey, I want to discuss the declining wages of people who are actually getting jobs.
I work at an aviation repair facility, and we picked up a few of the laid-off workers from DHL in Wilmington.
Yeah.
And they were rattling off some of the wages they were making.
Some of them were making north of $34 an hour, and I don't think we're paying them that at our place.
Now, what I'm seeing here is with declining wages, you have a declining tax base.
So you have a declining tax base with government spending growing.
It's a mathematical impossibility to solve.
I even, you go anywhere.
I mean, I was going to the grocery, and I had a 55-year-old man bagging my groceries.
I mean, there are no good jobs to go back to.
We have no manufacturing.
In fact, the regime has put out stories saying that many of these jobs that we've lost are not going to be replaced.
Yes.
Yes.
And they're going to try to blame that on George W. Bush.
Well, I'm going to tell you something that happened to my dad in 1980, 789.
He got laid off from Ford Motor Company.
But when things did turn around, thank God for Reagan, he got called back.
These guys who are getting laid off from General Motors, they're tearing the building down.
They are not going back to good jobs.
No, and you know what?
The General Motors CEO, by the way, Mr. Whitaker, is out there saying, you know what?
We don't like being government motors.
We don't like people talking about being home by the government.
But we're going to go out and we're going to have an IPO.
We're going to have an initial public offering.
We're going to go back and go public.
We're going to sell stuck.
We're going to have investors.
Now, how many people are going to want to pony up and invest in General Motors, given what happened to General Motors in Chrysler the last time?
Who's going to want to invest in a company that's being run by the union?
The union is the vast, I think in the case of Chrysler, one of the two, Chrysler General Motors, the union is the majority owner.
Now, there's a, I don't know, you probably haven't heard about this.
The latest Carville Greenberg poll, James Carville, Stan Greenberg, Democracy Corpse is the name of their company.
They say that disapproval rates for Obama are now at revolution levels.
The only question is, are they talking about the American Revolution or the French Revolution?
We have Michelle Antoinette Obama running around Spain, King Louis Obama II.
It could be both.
Revolution levels.
You got Pat Cadell, a Democrat pollster, Jimmy Carter, Doug Schoen, Democrat pollster Clinton, going on Fox News saying the Democrats had better wake up.
They do not understand what is happening.
I think a lot of them do.
There is dissatisfaction with the Democrat Party, and it has nothing to do with George W. Bush.
I remember how the state-controlled media turned up its nose at Bush's record employment growth.
They called all those jobs hamburger-flipping jobs.
We were, you know, unemployment, people forget, got down to 4.7%.
This is after 9-11.
We came out of a recession, then had 9-11, another mini-recession.
Bush tax cuts 2001-2003 kick in.
We have burgeoning economic growth.
Nobody's complaining about the economy at all except the media trying to create in people's minds that we're headed for a recession.
We hit 5% unemployment and they started talking, oh, this is horrible.
This is ethnically, oh, my God, the bottom is falling out.
We're at 9.5%, and we've got a weak recovery.
Wonderful, 9.5%, and there's a future out there.
9.5% happy days are here again.
And all during the 2000s, the decade, first decade of this century, state-controlled media turning up its nose at Bush's record.
Employment growth.
Yeah, just hamburger flipper jobs.
And remember, Pelosi specifically, running down and making fun of hamburger flipper jobs.
These people have a rude awakening coming in November, and they know it.
Here is Stephen Long Island.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Well, thank you very much, Mr. Linbaugh, and thank you for your team for taking my call.
You bet.
How are you today?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
Hey, first, I just quickly wanted to beg to differ with you on your listening numbers, your audience.
You recently became number one in India, which nearly has a billion people and the largest democracy in the world.
So certainly that's one for the book.
Well, that's an interesting point that you bring up, sir.
Thank you for reminding me of that.
Well, you did it all by speaking the truth, which is remarkable.
He's talking about, folks, there's a story in the media not long ago in India that the only people left on the radio there are Rush Limbaugh types.
That they got one liberal in India is left.
The rest are Rush Limbaugh types.
Well, let's hold on hope.
You'll convert him too, I'm sure.
But I just quickly wanted to say that, and I only say this to add credence to what I'm saying.
My uncle was friends with Ira Hayes, who raised a flag on Iwo Jima, Manila John, who was at Guadalcanal, another Congressional Medal of Honor winner.
And this chatter about we should apologize for the Hero She-Wa bomb.
After we finally defeated Germany, Japan, and Italy, we captured their archives.
How do you mean we should apologize to John the A-bomb?
No, no.
We already do.
When I was in Sacramento living in the mid-80s, there'd be a delegation from the city that went over there and apologized.
Please forgive us.
We didn't mean to do it.
I mean, the mayor, I think her name was Ann Rudin, if I'm not mistaken.
Ann Rudin was the mayor.
She might have gone or some emissary from the mayor's office in Sacramento went over there.
It was a routine thing.
The Bay Area sent some people over every August to apologize.
Forgive us.
We didn't mean to do it.
And I was, yes, we did.
We sure as heck meant to do it.
Obama sent an official delegation to Japan this year.
It's the first time ever that's happened.
I think the administration said, we're not going to apologize yet.
But don't rule it out.
Andy, Frisco, Texas, you are on Open Line Friday.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Hey, teacher.
Hey, rabbi of the conservative temple.
Here's what I have to say to you.
Here's the flaw in President Obama's auto-logic.
What person in their right mind is going to go out right now and take out a car loan for $50,000 or more on a vehicle that will be worth less than half when it's paid for?
It's not going to happen.
Wait, what are we talking about?
You're talking about the vault by any chance here?
No, sir.
I'm talking about any car note.
I've been through this.
We're getting through it.
But let me tell you, Rush, I will never have another car note again.
If I can't afford to pay for it up front, I won't buy it.
I suspect there are a lot of Americans out there that think just like I do.
And here we are, God help us, throwing stimulus money after an industry that's predicated upon people going to a bank and borrowing money they don't have in the first place.
Mark my words, the auto successes that he claim are going to be short-lived.
Well, you know, General Motors just did buy a lending company in the private sector, which means the government now owns a lending company.
Now, what story are you bouncing off of?
You said Obama talked about Carson.
What did I miss here?
From what I understand, from what you said and what I hear, he talks about how the stimulus is a success.
And that's just not true.
It's a fallacy.
It is based upon him taking money that we don't have in the first place and giving it to the automakers.
Look at what General Motors did.
He came out a few months ago.
Whitaker came out and said, we're a success.
We're paying these loans off.
No, they didn't.
They robbed Peter to pay Paul.
That's what I'm talking about.
Oh, okay.
Well, yeah.
I thought there was something new that Obama said about cars.
Yeah, that's, well, there's no question.
You're right.
Nancy in Albany.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
27 years ago, my daughter was born, and I started listening to you, or 25, however many years you've been on.
And I thought, this is the worst thing that will ever happen to this country.
Me.
You.
You thought that.
I was an ultra-liberal.
And when I was listening to you, I'm thinking, oh, my gosh, this is the worst thing that will happen.
Why?
Why did it happen?
Because it's going to ruin the country because of your conservative viewpoints.
Well, but is it because I was effective and I might persuade people?
Well, yes, yes.
I was afraid that you would persuade people, but thank God you hung in there.
But then in 1987, my son was born, and I started looking at things a little bit differently.
And now, thank the Lord that you and Hannity and Savage and you're all out there.
So all it took was the birth of your son to change your point of view.
Well, it was that, and then I was in a really ultra-liberal church, and I changed churches and things like that.
And then I started listening to you, and you made so much sense.
And I really, I stopped listening to AM radio for the longest time.
And I didn't realize that people, well, I knew that you existed, but I didn't realize that's where other people, other conservatives out there, pointing out the bad things of government.
So I started to tune into Talk Radio again and was like, oh my gosh, there are actually people out there who know what's going on and are telling the people.
It had to be a great feeling.
It had to be a great feeling for you, Nancy, to have this awakening.
All because of the birth of your son.
I mean, in your case, the child is the father of the mother.
Back after this, folks.
Don't go away.
Open Line Friday, El Rush Boast serving humanity from behind the Golden EIB microphone.
Look at this.
Even Arab support for Obama is dropping dramatically.
This is from the Daily Caller.
That's Chatsworth Osborne Jr.'s website.
A new poll of the Arab world unveiled yesterday at the Brookings Institution shows support for Obama among Arabs has dropped significantly in the past year.
62% of Arabs have a negative view of Obama.
That's up from 23% in 2009.
This is according to a 2010 Arab public opinion poll conducted by the University of Maryland and Zaghbi.
The survey polled sample sizes between 500, 800 Arabs earlier this summer in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Poll also shows that more than 75% of those polls believe that Iran has the right to a nuclear weapon.
That's up from 53% last year.
57% believe that Iran is trying to develop nuclear weapons.
That's up from 39% at the end of the Bush administration.
Now, I mean, this is the guy, the Rock Hussein Obama, who was going to heal the world, and he was going to make the Muslim world like us.
We're going to reach out.
He went to Cairo when we were even going to build a mosque at ground zero.
And yet, Arab support for Obama drops dramatically.
And I assume that there are people in the partisan political operative media who are worried about this.
The poll pointed to disturbing trends among Arabs toward Israel.
59% believe that movies or programs about the Jewish Holocaust bring sympathy toward Israel and the Jews at the expense of Palestinians and Arabs.
Almost 90% see Israel as their biggest threat with the U.S. close behind it, 77%.
So the Arab world sees the United States, 77% of them see us as their biggest threat, even with Obama as president.
This wasn't supposed to happen.
The Arab world was supposed to love us.
Why, we were going to put Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on trial.
Let him have years to spew his anti-American hatred.
He wanted to be exterminated.
He wanted to be executed.
Obama and Holder said, no, no, no, we're going to put him on trial.
We're going to build a mosque in the shadows of -11.
NASA outreach isn't working.
I mean, NASA, we're going to be reaching out to Muslims.
We're going to make sure that the world knows of their great contributions to math and science.
I hope this doesn't cut into his fundraising from Hamas.
I mean, this is horrible news out there, folks.
I mean, we're doing more than any nation ever has to reach out to the Muslim and Arab world, and they hate us.
And this wasn't supposed to happen.
I mean, we thought that they hated Bush.
But now they hate Obama.
Who's next?
This is Phil in Las Vegas.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Been a fan of yours for 20 years.
My wife turned me on to you years ago when we got started our business here in Las Vegas, and I've been listening ever since.
Thank you very much, sir.
Let me tell you, I have two concerns.
I know you've talked about this, and I'd love for you to refresh our memory.
When the Republicans do kick butt this November, which I'm expecting them to do, then obviously the opposition is going to say, okay, see, now all the problems from then on are going to be the Republicans' fault.
So the two things that I've really been disappointed so far with the Republicans in their ability to articulate their points of view is I'm not seeing anything in writing like Newt Gingrich had with the contract with America in 94.
And two, how are they going to differentiate their position from Obama's and the Democrats' position leading into 2012?
Because without the 2012 election happening, I don't think the OTEN election is going to mean as much as it could.
I guess we lost him.
His cell connection died.
Are you still here?
Oh, I thought you dropped you in mid-sentence.
No, no, no, no.
I'm sorry.
No, what I was asking was, is what is the Republican strategy after the O-10 election?
Why are you asking me?
Well, what should it be?
I know you've talked about this, and I've heard it before, but this is the frustrating thing that I have with the current craft of some Republicans, is I'm not seeing anything in writing or on and really articulated well on TV or radio about what the policies should be for the Republicans when they win in 2010, and then how can they apply that to win in 12?
Because without a victory in 2012, I don't see that 2010 could be available.
Wait, the two are not connected.
You can't say that whatever happens in 2010 is going to have a role in whoever wins the White House in 2012.
That's going to be up to whoever the Republican nominee is to win 2012.
It's not up to whoever, it's not up to if the Republicans win the Congress or at least the House, maybe the Senate win both.
And it's not up to them to define what's going to happen in 2012.
That's going to be the presidential nominee, whoever that is, and we don't have any idea.
Now, I agree with you that the Republicans are not putting anything out there to distinguish themselves against the regime.
They are simply relying on the fact that we aren't Democrats.
That seems to be what they're relying on.
I don't know how to say this any differently.
I think the Republicans, there are exceptions to this, but the vast majority of them that live in Washington want to be part of the Washington culture.
They don't want to be dismissed, criticized, disrespected, or any of that.
And so they're not going to make a whole lot of waves.
I don't see an ideological movement right now coming out of the Republican Party.
The ideological movement's in the Tea Party.
And that's happening at the grassroots area.
Now, whether the Republicans need something in writing, you know, that really doesn't happen until you get a presidential nominee.
We go into any presidential year, 2004, 2008.
The Democrats didn't have anybody speaking for them until after they had a presidential nominee.
And they had the media speaking for them.
The media was carrying their water.
But they didn't have a single identified leader.
I understand your frustration that the Republicans are not taking the opportunity here to contrast themselves.
And it's the greatest opportunity they will ever have to contrast who they are with what Obama is.
I just think there's some lingering fear at elected Republican politics levels to be critical of Obama because of what the media is going to say about them and fear that they're going to be called racist or worse or what have you.
But I'll tell you one thing.
Where we are right now, Phil, just speaking between you and me, you know, don't repeat this.
Don't tell anybody.
But if all the Republicans did after November is stand up and say, stop, I'd be happy.
If all they would do is stand up and say, stop, Mr. President, no more.
That would be a great beginning as far as I'm concerned.
Right now, I'm not going to obsess about whether they're going to come up with an agenda because they're never going to get an agenda passed, Phil, as long as he's president.
They're never going to be able to override his veto.
What the Republicans are going to have to be instructed to do, or what they're going to have to do, is come up with a stiff spine.
Because after saying no, everybody is going to dump on them.
Obama can't wait for a Republican-led Congress.
It's easier to blame the Republicans for things going wrong than it is to blame your own party.
And right now, it's inescapable.
The Democrats are in charge of everything going on here.
That's why they're running against Bush.
So Obama's looking forward to having Republicans in Congress say, see, I want these great ideas to create jobs, reduce the deficit, but the Republicans are standing in a way and saying no.
That's when the Republicans are going to have to have the guts and say, damn right, we're saying no.
We're saying no to the last two years.
We're saying no to any more of this.
If they would just do that, Phil, I think we'd all be happy.
If we could just get unified on the Republican Party standing up and saying no, no more.
Stop.
That would be huge progress back after this.
Well, I know it's easier said than done.
I mean, the Republicans are going to have to, they're going to have to run as the party of no.
And they're going to have to vote like the party of hell no.
And I know what you're thinking.
But Russia, if they do that, the Democrats are just going to call it party of no, and we're not going to get anywhere.
We've got to say, at some point, we've got to start saying no.
At some point, we have to say, stop.
Isn't that what we're all doing?
Stop it.
Just stop.
We want to turn back the hands of time.
Now, people are saying, they're going to need more than just no.
They're going to have to have an agenda.
Or what's hard about an agenda given what we're seeing here?
All you have to do is talk positively about the future of the country.
Economics, we know what works.
Tax cuts.
Cut the corporate tax rate.
Cut the personal income tax rate.
Do not have the health care plan tax increases go into play.
Make the Bush tax cuts continue.
Put money in the hands of the American people.
Stop putting it in the hands of government.
It's easy.
Very simple.
Well, it's simple for you and me.
Well, defund some of the programs.
That's not going to go anywhere.
They're not going to defund anything.
Maybe health care would be the way of going about that instead of repealing it off the bat.
But it's not going to be hard to show a contrast with socialism.
How much work does that take?
How much thinking or strategy does that require?
We're not socialists.
We're capitalists.
We're going to rebuild the job creation sector of America.
We're going to put you back to work.
We're going to get all the obstacles in your way out of your way, including President Obama.
Stephen in Omaha, great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Welcome, sir.
Hello, guys.
Glad to talk to you.
I'll be real quick.
I have two points to make.
In July of 2009, President Obama gave a speech to the NAACP where he went on to great lengths about the Jim Crow South.
He neglected to mention a few things.
One is that it is the Democratic Party itself, which is the party of Jim Crow.
George Wallace, Oral Father, Strom Thurmond, William Fulbright, Bill Connor, they were all Democrats.
It is the Democratic Party that is the party of all the whip-to-chain and the lynch rope.
It is the Republican Party, which incidentally grew out of the abolitionist movement, which is the party of economic and physical freedom.
The party of Abraham.
That's absolutely right.
The party of Abraham Lincoln, who set the slaves free, and Ronald Reagan, which set this economy free.
The second point I'd like to make is the Democratic Party still feels the same way about black America today that they did in the antebellum South.
They just use different methods of control.
They can no longer physically control blacks, so they use economic methods to keep them in line.
They still feel that blacks need to be controlled and suppressed, that they can't quite make it on their own.
This accounts for things like affirmative action, which has become a permanent program, and welfare.
They just feel blacks can't make it on their own, that they need to be controlled, suppressed, and helped along.
I can't disagree with any of it.
All I want to say is that.
Well, I know.
I can't disagree with any of it.
I've been saying it for 20 years.
They've done more, though, than just keep them poor.
The Democrat Party has blown up the black family.
The Democrat Party has destroyed it.
The Democrat Party has allowed the dissolution of the nuclear family in the black community.
A Democrat Party purposely, and it's not just the blacks, every constituent group they have, dumb them down, keep them poor, keep them dependent, and somehow use the media to blame the Republicans for all these people's lot in life.
Blame the Republicans for it.
The guy's exactly right.
All these Democrats in the civil rights days that opposed civil rights were Democrats.
Bull Conner, Democrat.
Lester Maddox, Democrat, George Wallace, Democrat, J. William Fulbright, Democrat.
If it weren't for a greater percentage of Republican senators in 1964 voting for the Civil Rights Act than Democrats, it would not have passed.
Robert Byrd, an actual Grand Kliegel, as a Democrat in good standing, and at his funeral, Bill Clinton goes out there to do a eulogy and says, yeah, there's some things that Bob did in his past he wasn't really proud of.
I mean, look where he came from.
He came from the hills and the hollers of West Virginia.
You know, he made some mistakes.
He spent the rest of his life atoning for those, but I tell you what, he had to get elected.
He became a member of the Klan for you.
He didn't really want to become a member of the Klan, but he knew that's what he had to do, get elected in that racist state of West Virginia.
Now, the Clinton didn't use these exact words, but he did say he had to get elected.
Came from the hills and hollers of West Virginia.
Everybody knew the Klan was running around around that state.
What do you think he's got to do, Limbaugh, in order to get elected?
He got to run.
He got to run.
He got to go out and join the Klan.
He had to get elected in order to do his good work of supporting health care.
So they'll go out of their way to eulogize and excuse Klan members and somehow always end up blaming the Republicans for being the racists and the sexists.
And the plantation days are still alive and thriving.
White plantation is still alive.
It's just that it's in Washington and being run by the Democrats.
There's no question about it.
You guys are absolutely right.
I'm glad to hear somebody call and actually say it besides me.
Maybe taking hold out there.
John in Nedford, Oregon, welcome to the EIB Network and Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor to speak with you this afternoon, I suppose.
I just want to encourage Obama to continue spouting these speeches about the economic recovery because I feel like those of us out here in the private sector, we're experiencing the exact opposite with perfect clarity.
And those of us who still have jobs, I'm one of those still fortunate to have a job, you know, we're extremely insecure with our situation now.
I agree.
Let him go out there and keep touting his great economy.
why I say, when we get to 10% unemployment, let's throw a huge party.
I mean, he's celebrating now at 9.5% unemployment, patting himself on the back.
He's talking about all the great things happening.
I'll lose 131,000 jobs in the month of July.
And he talks about all the jobs we're gaining.
Keep it up.
And then run against Bush right on.
Right on.
He's beginning to believe all this pap.
He's living the lie.
We'll be back after this.
Now, another thing, you know, the Republicans have to think about something.
Three months before the election, and there's a cardinal rule, and that is when the opponent is committing suicide, making an idiot of himself.
You just get out of the way and let it happen.
And the Democrats are doing that.
There's no reason the Republicans need to make themselves a target right now.
That's going to happen soon enough.
Let the action continue to focus on what the Democrats are doing, not what the Republicans may or may not say.
We'll be back.
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