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Oct. 25, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 25, 2010, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Ladies and gentlemen, one thing I can assure you of is that I am not playing to a two-thirds empty high school gymnasium, as was the former President Bill Clinton over the weekend.
In Michigan, in Detroit, two-thirds of the hascrew was empty.
Obama's only going to blue states.
And he's having trouble holding crowds.
Clinton can't draw any crowds.
But don't worry.
That's all on purpose.
Operation Reverse Chaos.
Greetings, folks.
El Rushbow here.
Brand new week of broadcast excellence.
Great to have you here.
Telephone number 800-282-2882.
The email address, LRushbow at EIBNet.com.
Oh, by the way, I have a question.
I see where Obama and Muchel Maibel are literally leaving the country two days after the election.
And they're going over to India, and they have taken out the entire Taj Mahal hotel.
570 rooms, every banquet room, all the restaurants, 570 rooms, the whole Taj Mahal Hotel.
And at this, on this trip, Muchel Maibel Obama is going to meet with sex workers in India.
I kid you not, she is going to meet with sex workers.
Now, when you stop and think of who's not on the trip, she's going to meet with sex workers, but she's not taking Elliot Spitzer.
She's going to meet with sex workers, but she's not taking Bill Clinton.
She's going to meet with sex workers, but she is snurdly.
I am not making it up.
But she's not going to take the Brett girl.
No.
I mean, I've got it right here in the stack.
I'll get to it.
Ladies and gentlemen, I must warn you.
I must warn you this next week and coming weekend are going to be intense as far as the state-controlled media is concerned.
They are going to flood the zone with stories of Republican leaders wanting to compromise with Obama.
They are going to do everything they can to depress you and your turnout.
They know full well.
It's very simple.
What's going to happen here?
If Republican candidates do not win in these historic landslides, the media is setting up to declare the Tea Party's influence on the election vastly exaggerated.
One of the reasons I think, and I've got everybody asking me, I said people over last night to watch the football game.
I got people emailing from California.
Rush, this conventional wisdom, Republicans winning big in the House, maybe winning the Senate, is this real?
And I said, well, who's writing the conventional wisdom?
They said, yeah, yeah, I know.
The conventional wisdom is being written by the other guys.
Here, Charlie Cook, latest from Charlie Cook via the National Journal.
It's easy to look at what appears to be a gigantic Republican 2010 midterm election in the House and feel a little slack-jawed, but not so much surprised.
There were plenty of signs well over a year ago that Democrats were facing grave danger.
But even when expecting an onslaught, Cook writes, one can still be shocked at its size and unrelenting force.
It would be a surprise if this wave does not match the 52-seat gain on election night in 1994, and it could be substantially more.
Do you see how this works?
If it's not 52-seat, let's say it's 50.
Republicans need 39 to take control.
Let's say it's just 50.
Let's say it's just 49.
You know what Charlie Cook's next headline is going to be?
Tea Party not that important.
Tea Party not that influential.
Rumors of a Republican route were, and we're going to get to the bottom of it, greatly exaggerated.
And make no mistake, state control media is hoping and praying that this is what happens.
If these conventionally wisdom predicted big-time landslides don't happen, and I mean exactly as they're predicted, they're going to declare the Tea Party dead and going to try to never mention the Tea Party again in order to fulfill their own prophecies.
That's what's shaking up.
And in the process of trying to make this happen, you're going to get stories like this.
This is from a couple days ago at theHill.com.
Headline, Boehner would welcome finding common ground.
That's a six-month-old quote.
Boehner said it six months ago.
They're making it look at thehill.com as though he just said it yesterday.
House Minority Leader John Boehner has said, say they know that the headline is all that's read here.
The headline, Boehner would welcome finding common ground.
Listen to the first story, first sentence.
John Boehner has said that he's willing to work with President Obama to find areas of compromise where possible if the GOP wins back the House.
Now, the people at theHill.com know full well that that's going to tick you off.
They know full well that you're going to be calling Boehner's office.
What the hell are you talking about?
What are they compromised?
You're going to be all that's exactly what they want you to do.
They're reviving a six-month quote here, making it look like it's yesterday.
NPR re-aired Boehner's remarks on Friday, a day after House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence said the time to go along and get along is over.
So here you had Pence on Friday compromise.
What's there to compromise with?
And he's dead right.
So the Hill and NPR go back six months, get a quote from Boehner.
Oh, yeah, we'd welcome finding common ground.
And the story is Boehner's the leader.
Pence isn't.
So get ready for this.
I mean, it's been going on for the past week or two anyway.
It's going to intensify this week.
Here's another example.
Obama's playbook after November 2nd, the New York Times is Cheryl Gay Stolberg.
It took President Obama 18 months to invite the Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell to the White House for a one-on-one chat.
Their August the 4th session in the Oval Orifice, 30 minutes of private time, was remarkable, not for what was said, but for what it took to make it happen.
Not long before the meeting, Trent Lott, the former Republican Senate leader, lamented to his one-time Democrat counterpart Tom Daschell that Obama would never get an important nuclear arms treaty with the Russians ratified until he consulted top Republicans.
Mr. Lott, who recounted the exchange in an interview with the New York Times, was counting on the puffster Tom Daschell to convey the message.
Lo and behold, McConnell soon had an audience with the president.
And what are we hearing about this?
McConnell says he's willing to compromise.
Boehner willing to compromise?
McConnell says he's willing to compromise.
Ranking Republicans are quoted as saying they expect Obama to moderate.
Well, he hasn't yet.
You know, speaking of expecting Obama to moderate, let's look at Mitch McConnell as an example here.
The election in Kentucky, Rand Paul, Rand Paul defeated McConnell's first guy.
Defeated McConnell's guy was the chosen guy, the establishment guy, got beat by Rand Paul.
Now, one would say that, okay, well, if that happened, Mr. McConnell should realize that his guy lost, meaning his way of doing things was defeated.
Maybe McConnell ought to moderate a little bit and move toward Rand Paul.
Has that happened?
No, I mean, I'm not picking on McConnell.
I'm just saying all the evidence that Obama's going to move to the right isn't there.
Our guys don't even move to the right when they get beat.
Why is Obama going to move to the right?
But my point is this.
Do not go wobbly on me here this week.
Do not.
Do not believe anything.
Folks, I'm going to report to you what's reported in the Politico, but you've got to know that they are deeply now fully in the tank.
I mean, running a story last week that conservative radio hosts were mad that Sarah Palin had canceled interviews when she hadn't.
I mean, it was just Beck Hannity and Levin, and it didn't happen.
Did not happen.
They did not cancel interviews with Palin as it was reported.
So it's, I mean, this is, as they say, in football during the Oklahoma drill, it's nutcracking time.
Speaking of nutcracking time, speaking of football, what we're hoping for on November 2nd is something tantamount to what the Oakland Raiders did to the Denver Broncos yesterday, 59 to 14.
Raiders haven't scored that many points.
I don't know in how long.
So it's in the 60s.
Now, my point here is, and I can't emphasize this enough, and I'm going to be finding examples for you throughout the week.
Republican leadership doesn't like Tea Party.
Republican leadership thinks Tea Party unsophisticated.
Republican leadership willing to find common ground with Obama.
Tea Party candidates stupid, odd, and weird, and don't understand Constitution.
Christine O'Donnell, Sharon Angle, the guy Joe Miller out in Alaska, because they're panicking.
They're never going to come around.
Even after this win, they're not going to say, you know what, the American people have spoken.
And I guess we had better reorient ourselves and get in line.
That's not going to happen.
The opposition is going to become even more strident.
The anger, the arrogance, the condescension, the contempt for conservatives is going to be ratcheted up.
There will be no respect accorded any of the victors, only abject anger and an attempt to get rid of that new leadership as quickly as they can.
I'm never wrong about these things.
I have never been wrong, especially this kind of stuff.
I am never wrong about it.
The ruling class, the big click, is not going to all of a sudden say, okay, Hicks and Hayseeds, you know what?
We've been wrong about you.
Come on in and join the club.
Well, that's how they look at us as Hicks and Hayseeds.
And I'm going to, you know what?
You guys may have a, you may have a better beat on all this than we do.
It ain't going to happen.
Hey, Hicks and Hayseeds, you may have won this one, but you're not getting out of your pickup truck.
We're going to make sure you're still in a church parking lot a year and a half from now.
That's as far as you're getting.
Maybe we'll be right in.
Don't get depressed at this, but this is a great sign.
This is not trying to depress anybody.
I'm just warning you.
This is what's going to get depressed.
Understand it's they who are disoriented, discombobulated, ticked off and livid.
They know they're being rejected.
They know it.
And also be prepared for this.
If they're out there this week, don't be surprised if Charlie Cook and the boys, all these other polls, you know what?
We've said 100 seats are in play, but we never really thought it could be that many.
But this week, it's looking like maybe the Republicans could take 70 seats.
And then if they only take 65, it's a loss.
It's a disappointment.
Keep in mind, the magic number is 39.
That's what's needed.
They're already putting out 52.
That's the year that's 1994.
Anything less than that, no big deal.
Sitting presidents always lose the midterms.
Obama courageously taking on policies that few presidents would tackle given our tough economic times.
It's totally expected to have this kind of opposition until the people get up to speed.
Oh, that's another thing.
Howard Kurtz has moved on from the Washington Post over to the Daily Beast.
This is Tina Brown's website, $10 million in debt, by the way, still.
We're not in debt at Rush 24-7.
We're not in debt at the EIB network.
The Daily Beast, $10 million in debt.
I don't know why.
How in the world can it take $10 million to do a website?
I do not know.
Well, I think I read that there was negotiations trying to merge the Daily Beast with Newsweek, and somebody decided not to do it at the last minute because they didn't want to take on the debt.
I'm not being critical here.
I just, I don't know how to lose $10 million on the internet.
I just don't know how you do it.
I mean, I could probably do it if I tried, but it would take some effort.
And real, well, how do you do it?
How do you maybe it's worth losing $10 million to have your name in the game?
Your name on a byline on websites quoted by people like me, enemy mainstream media.
Anyway, Howard Kurtz, White House goes into bunker mode.
This is another thing.
This is a continuing theme that in the White House, they're discombobulated.
My gosh, if Obama can't be great, nobody can be great.
If Obama, with all he's got going for him and all of his majorities, if he can't get his face on Mount Rushmore, who can?
You know, all this lowering of expectation stuff.
Here's how Kurtz begins his piece.
As the GOP prepares for landslides in November, the Daily Beast's election oracle forecasts a 50-50 split in the Senate and a substantial Republican lead in the House, and the Obama team seems powerless to stop it.
Howard Kurtz on the White House's fascinating belief that the bully pulpit has been downsized, forcing the leader of the free world to shout for intention.
This is an unfortunate turn of events.
Just Obama happens to be elected president when all of a sudden events conspire in a totally coincidental way that all of the new media dwarfs the bully pulpit of the presidency.
Damn, what a shame.
Who would have ever thought this could happen?
And what a rotten deal for our young President Obama to have to be elected president with a confluence of events.
Imagine, get this next paragraph.
Imagine they're feeling sorry for Obama.
Imagine if the Chilean mining disaster had happened here in the United States.
President Obama would have been hammered for 69 days for failing to rescue the men right up to the moment the first one was pulled safely.
Safety.
We have been in the mine.
We've been in the mine almost for two years.
We're still in the shaft.
He hasn't brought us out of it.
Nobody has rescued this country at all.
But see how unfair it is.
The bully pulpit, if Obama were president, he would have been blamed for 69 days.
If Obama were president, They'd still be in the mine.
The mine company would be facing three lawsuits.
Obama would be on the air daily, ripping the mine company.
Don't give me this garb.
So now, poor old Obama can't stop it.
Now, if this landslide doesn't occur, see what they're setting up here.
Be vigilant, my friends, and do not go wobbly on me.
And we're back, Rush Liboy, and a brand new week of broadcast excellence.
The Operation Reverse Chaos stack.
Clinton, Bernaro, or Bernaro, the best choice to lead Michigan.
Clinton had to go to Detroit one week before an election.
More than 500 people came to the rally, but the gym at Renaissance Haskrule was only about one-third full, even though Clinton used to command full houses wherever he went, especially in Detroit.
Clinton also went to Ann Arbor for a rally with John Dingell, D. Detroit, who is facing a challenge from Republican Rob Steele in Battle Creek, he went to for a campaign stop for Mark Schauer, Democrat Battle Creek, locked in one of the most competitive races in the state against former U.S. Representative Tim Wahlberg.
So here you've got Clinton all over a blue state drawing half crowds.
There was a story last week that Obama is still drawing his crowds, but they're leaving shortly after he begins speaking.
They're showing up and they're waiting and they're forming lines, which has been happening.
Well, they've been, yeah, some of them have been paying to get in, not all of them.
Well, they've been bussed in and some of them are paying to go to fundraisers, but they're leaving shortly after Obama starts because it's the same old, same old, and it's right off the teleprompter.
And of course, what this means is that the enthusiasm gap we've been hearing about is real.
Now, you look at this, the Democrats have unleashed Clinton, and they're trying to turn on women.
So they're bringing out Bill Clinton because the belief is that nobody turns on women more than Bill Clinton does.
I know this is an intended double entendre.
He turns women on and he turns on them at the same time.
But Clinton is their big draw here, and that's not even working.
But see, that plays right into Operation Reverse Chaos.
The more Clinton goes out there for Obama, the more Clinton goes out there for Obama, ostensibly, save Obama's bacon.
And it doesn't work.
Clinton says, you know, we gave it everything we have for this guy, but Democrats are staying home.
And that's what needs to happen.
For those of you who think Hillary got shafted, for those of you who think it was Hillary's and it was taken away from her, sit home, you Democrats, on November 2nd.
Now, there's something even more devious going on at the New York Times and simply trying to depress your voter turnout with stories like Obama's playbook after November 2nd, Cheryl Gay Stolberg, a story about how it took 18 months, but finally, finally, finally, Obama got together with Mitch McConnell.
And even though it was talking about nuclear arms reduction treaties, still there was dialogue.
This is all about the New York Times.
This story was aimed at Mitch McConnell, praising McConnell.
Hey, finally, finally, Mitch, you went in there.
He had a meeting with Obama.
Keep it up, Mitch.
Keep it up, Senator.
And Congressman Boehner learned from this.
The New York Times is pushing for Republicans to work with Obama.
Remember, the White House line is that the Republicans are going to have to move to Obama to work with him.
Obama's willing to work with Republicans after this election because he's tired of trying to work with the Democrats who were such obstacles to what he wanted to do.
So maybe he'll have better luck with the Republicans.
Meanwhile Obama, at all of his campaign rallies, keep saying that the Republicans plan on undoing his reforms.
The Democrats are running for office must be wondering what side is he working for here.
Undoing Obama's reforms is what everybody wants.
So Obama running around telling everybody that Republicans want to undo his reforms is a positive message for Republicans and everybody else who wants to undo Obama's reforms, which is a clear majority of the American people.
But this Obama playbook after November 2 story, Cheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, is all about pushing for McConnell, Boehner, Obama to work together.
In other words, to make permanent Obama's destructive policies over the last 20 months.
And then to no doubt proceed to other areas of compromise, say cap and trade.
That's what this New York Times story is all about.
Yeah, the Republicans are going to win, but you know how you can be liked?
You Republicans, yeah, you're not going to win, but we also know that you want to be loved by the New York Times.
We at the New York Times know, and our compadres of the Washington Post know that you Republicans want favorable press from us.
We know that you want to be loved by us.
We know that you can't wait for positive style section pieces of the Washington Post on you.
So, how do you do it?
You work with Obama, work together, go ahead and cement what Obama's already done, and then proceed on other areas, compromise, such as cap and trade, eliminating the home mortgage interest deduction, the VAT tax.
And Trent Lott, always the compromiser, now the lobbyist, is appreciated for his wisdom and maturity in putting Mitch McConnell together with Obama.
Trent Lott, the most hated and reviled guy in Washington after that Strom Thurmond birthday party.
Trent Lott, against whom both Republicans and Democrats lined up to get him kicked off his leadership position in the U.S. Senate after the Strom Thurmond birthday party comment.
Now all of a sudden, Trent Lott, much appreciated for his wisdom and maturity in working with Tom Dashell to get McConnell and Obama together in the White House after 18 months.
Keep it up, guys.
I'm just warning you.
You're going to see this and more intensely all week long.
You're going to get sick of it.
You are going to get livid.
If you're not careful, you're going to be calling here and asking me, what are these Republicans doing?
Rush, we're on the verge of big victory and all they're talking about working with Obama.
That's what the media is saying that they're going to be doing.
The media, this New York Times plot, the media is trying to do to McConnell and the Republican leadership what they did to George H.W. Bush after his read my lips, no new taxes pledge.
The media promised in endless articles that they would understand if Bush of 41 had to go back on his promise and raise taxes.
They'd understand.
They sent the signal.
He wouldn't be excoriated by the New York Times, the paper professional, ruling class politicians all want to be appreciated by.
So, Mr. President, we will not hit you.
Your own party will kill you, but we will support you.
And once Bush did reverse himself, they never stopped reminding us what a liar he was.
It never works.
They dangle a carrot.
They promise all these Republicans, we're going to treat you nice.
We're going to let you become a member of the club.
We're going to give you favorable stories.
And then after all of it happens, they still continue to run after.
This is what you and I at a distance have trouble understanding why Republicans don't see that no matter what they do, they're going to be ripped to shreds.
We've always said, just do the right thing because they're going to rip you anyway.
You can't curry favor with them.
Look at McCain.
At the end of the day, after McCain made mention of the fact that the mainstream media was his base, after McCain had gone out of his way to make those people love him, when it came time to pay him off, what happened, they endorsed Obama.
And they ran around with story after story, making McCain look like a senile old man who had botched his campaign.
You cannot, you cannot buy a permanent place of favor.
And yet, the media knows that it's all too possible to affect Republican movement this way.
So they're going to keep it up.
Dee Dee Myers was in Fairfield, Connecticut last Wednesday night at Fairfield University.
There was a forum there on the 2010 midterm elections.
By the way, not looking good in that Senate race.
Blumenthal, what's his first name?
I can't remember his first name.
Richard, yeah, Dick Blumenthal.
Richard, I'm proud of my theory.
I'm proud of the time I spent in Vietnam.
I'm proud of my...
I saw the guy over the...
He looks like a skeleton with skin.
You don't trust people like that.
I'm proud of my theater.
He needs up nine points over Linda McMahon, according to the latest polls.
And it's about the same in California with Moonbeam over Meg Whitman.
So a lot of people are saying, well, Rush, I mean, how big is this victory going to be?
I mean, if we can't beat the Democrats in this year in California, if as far gone as California, if we can't beat somebody like Jerry Brown, we're not.
Those two races are not the test.
Those two races are not the test.
And yet they're the ones, if you read the news today, those are the two races that are being highlighted by the media as evidence here that this Republican landslide, this onslaught is not going to be exactly what it is shaking out to be.
So they're running conflicting stories on it, all designed to get you spinning and depressed and calling here and saying, Rush, why are the Republicans doing this?
And they're setting up a big story next Wednesday about how, wow, you know what?
The Republicans, yeah, they won, but not nearly, not nearly like everybody thought.
The Tea Party, ho-hum, not that big a deal.
They don't have any substance.
All they've got is mind games.
And they're in the midst of playing.
Anyway, De Dee Myers, former Clinton White House press secretary.
I mean, these people, for some reason, no matter where they go, they have me on the brain.
I live rent-free.
When was the last time we mentioned Dee De Myers on this program?
It's been years since we mentioned Dee De Myers on this program.
It might play an audio sound by the De De Myers in the past six months or so, but I don't even remember that.
Why in the world am I on Dee De Myers' mine in Fairfield, Connecticut, at a forum on the 2010 midterm elections?
I was reminded of a story about one of my favorite Washington characters, Rush Limbaugh.
Yeah, I love Rush.
It seems that Rush was visiting Washington not too long ago, and he was out jogging along the Potomac River because he is obviously a fitness boss.
And he was going along, and he came on these three girls who were riding their bikes, and they recognized him and they waved.
And he was very flattered that these young girls recognized him.
And he waved back, and somehow he became very distracted by all this, and he slipped and he fell into the river.
Not to worry.
The girls saw the whole thing and they raced over on their bikes and they pulled Rush out of the river and they revived him and he was so grateful.
He said, Girls, what can I do to repay you?
I'm so grateful for your having saved me.
And one of the girls looked at him.
She said, Mr. Limbaugh, she said, I know this is a tall order, but you're a powerful man.
He said, what is it?
She said, I'd like to be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
And he said, you can't be more than 10 years old.
Why on earth are you thinking about where you want to be buried?
She said, will I get home and tell my mom who I just saved?
Now, we haven't talked about Dee Dee Myers since her last DUI.
I don't remember when that was.
All I remember was her husband had to go get her out of jail.
But it's been a long time.
By the way, you know, Dee Dee Myers' joke, I'm not a Washington character, and I have no say-so over who gets buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Dee Dee Myers ought to know, who specializes in getting people buried at Arlington National Cemetery, be Bill Clinton, especially if the price was right.
Greetings and welcome back.
El Rushbaugh.
Well, Snerdley, remember all the stories you paid up?
You got a burial plot at Arlington National Cemetery.
And that's right.
I am Rush Limbaugh doing more for Hillary 2012 than she could do for herself in a lifetime.
Reverse Operation Chaos.
If you have not heard the philosophy and the theory and the strategy behind it, sit tight.
We will explain it again as the program unfolds.
But first, Glenn in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.
Nice to have you on the program, sir.
Thank you very much, Rush.
I just felt an opportunity to call because of the president visiting Rhode Island today, my former state residents.
And needless to say, he's not endorsing the Republican, I mean, the Democratic candidate for governor, Frank Caprio.
His comments in regards to being questioned about that, tell him to shove his recommendation, and that's plain English.
Well, we've got the audio soundbite.
I really don't quite understand this because Obama's not endorsing anybody.
But here's the way it went.
This is the soundbite.
This morning in Providence, on the radio, the anchor, John DiPetro.
You remember DiPetro, Snerdley?
You remember here from WABC, right?
Oh, yeah.
John DiPetro interviewed the Democrat candidate for governor, Frank Caprio.
And DiPetro said, very exciting day.
Obama will be in Rhode Island today.
Front page of this morning's Providence Journal says Obama won't endorse Caprio during the Rhode Island visit.
He could take his endorsement and really shove it.
We had one of the worst floods in the history of the United States a few months back.
And President Obama didn't even do a flyover of Rhode Island like President Bush did when New Orleans had their problems.
He ignored us, and now he's coming into Rhode Island treating us like an ATM machine.
So what I'm saying to President Obama very clearly is I'll wear as a badge of honor and a badge of courage that he doesn't want to endorse me as a Democrat.
That's a Democrat speaking.
The Democrat gubernatorial candidate, Rhode Island, Frank Caprio, not to be confused with Frank DeCapra.
Basically, and you have to understand now that this is really maladroit on the part of the White House.
This is not skillful.
I mean, to go into Rhode Island, not endorse anybody, go in there and raise money?
What are you going for?
I mean, you're going in there hoping people win, right?
You're campaigning for people to run for Congress, but you don't endorse, you don't even mention the guy running for governor.
And so the gubernatorial candidate, well, you can take his endorsement, really shove it.
We had one of the worst floods in the history of the U.S. a few months back.
He didn't even fly over.
He ignored us.
Now he's coming into Rhode Island, treating us like an ATM machine.
Mr. Caprio, I hate to tell you this.
And although Obama doesn't know it, he's doing you a favor by not endorsing you.
The absolute worst thing could happen.
You know, Obama's running around saying Republicans want to undo his reforms.
That is an endorsement for every Republican that Obama is running against.
Everybody wants Obama's reforms undone, except about 25% of the country.
So Obama's running, yeah, hey, the Republicans, hey, they want to undo my great work.
All right, vote Republican.
That's the reaction to that.
So, Mr. Caprio, while it may have ticked you off and you looked at it as a sign of disrespect, the end of the day, it's a net pus, net plus for you that Obama did not endorse you.
So, doing you a favor.
You really have to be amazed at the wonderful eloquence of the Democrats.
He can take his endorsement and shove it.
Here's John in Mishawaka, Indiana.
Great to have you on the EIB network, and welcome.
Hey, Rush.
I just thought I'd give you a call and let you know that the joke with a burying in Arlington Cemetery is not even an original joke.
And it was originally put out right after the election after Obama won.
And it was Obama that actually fell in the river, and three boys rescued him.
Basically, along the same lines, she shortened it up.
He gave the first two boys some stuff, and the third kid asked for a wheelchair because when his dad finds out, he's going, you know, he's going to put him in a wheelchair.
So it wasn't even an original joke on her part.
Well, not surprised.
Nor am I.
But I just thought I'd let you know as soon as she started telling the joke you were airing it.
I was like, she couldn't even come up with something on her own.
Now, am I on the ballot in Connecticut?
Connecticut?
Yeah, that I don't know.
Am I on the ballot there?
Is there a way of?
Are you running there?
I don't even live there.
No, I wanted to.
But, yeah, no, I don't, you know, they got to attack somebody since you're the leading voice of the conservatives.
Well, you know, here's the thing.
If you go back, if you go back, I mean, the first leadership meeting that Obama had with the congressional leadership after he was emaculated, John Boehner is in there and Mitch McConnell.
Obama says to these guys, now, look, you got to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh.
That's not how things get done in Washington.
That was their first attempt to demonize me as the titular head of the Republican Party.
Now, I should, could, and will say to Mitch McConnell and John Boehner and any other Republican inside the Beltway: don't listen to President Obama.
That's not how things should get done in Washington.
I'm holding here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers a story from the Miami Herald in July of this year, July the 10th.
And the headline, Bill Clinton on Haiti, my job is to keep the work going.
Clinton, Obama, Haiti.
It ain't going to be another Katrina.
It ain't going to be another New Orleans.
We're going to make sure we have compassion.
We are good people.
We are going to fix Haiti.
Have you heard about the major outbreak of cholera?
Grim news about the spread of cholera.
We don't know how many deaths so far, but probably a lot more if Bill Clinton hadn't been in there saving the day, right?
The way to look at this.
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