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Nov. 10, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 10, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
So the uh the Pentagon still doesn't know what that mystery missile was.
I was watching some physicist expert on TV today.
So it wasn't a missile, it was an airplane.
So they call the FAA.
The FBA said we had no reports of any airplanes in the area.
The physicist said it doesn't matter, it was an airplane.
I can tell a contrail when I see a contral.
The Pentagon doesn't know what it was, and yet they claim it's nothing to worry about.
How does that work?
How does any of it work?
Greetings and welcome, it's Rush Limbaugh.
This is the EIB network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's great to be with you.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address El Rushbo at EIBNET.com.
One of the big stories on cable news this morning is the UK student protest over the tuition hike.
Tens of thousands of students marched noisily through London today against plans to triple university tuition fees.
Some of them tried to occupy the headquarters of the governing conservative party.
That I think is the real objective here.
Uh in the largest street protest yet against the government's sweeping austerity measures.
Organizers said that 50,000 students, lecturers, and supporters, i.e.
reta mobs, were demonstrating against plans to raise the cost of studying.
Is that what you pay for to study?
No wonder I didn't get my money sworth.
School.
That's what you pay for us to study.
Organizers said that uh the uh all the supporters everything were demonstrating against plans to raise the cost of studying at a university to about $14,000 a year, three times the current rate.
That means it's uh less than five grand a year at major universities in the UK, as opposed to twenty grand a year here.
Or 25 at similar uh comparable institutions.
Violence flared as a handful of people smashed windows in a high-rise building that houses conservative headquarters, as others lit a bonfire of placards outside the building.
Office workers were evacuated as several dozen protesters managed to get into the lobby uh chanting Tories out.
That's that's what this is all about.
This is a to think that the students are protesting the universities is crazy.
What they're protesting is having to go to work someday.
What they're protesting is having to earn their way.
Folks, we I I can't I can't begin to tell you.
You know, I go in cycles.
Some days I think it's all lost and it's hopeless, and other days I think we got a chance to reverse.
I see stuff like this.
50,000 people basically protesting so they can run around and be given freebies the rest of their lives.
That's what this is all about.
All these budget cuts or these austerity cuts, nobody wants to pay their own way.
Nobody, and it's it's it's it's something that is increasing in this country, and the reason nobody wants to pay their own way in Europe is because they haven't had to.
It had all these socialist democracies, and they're going bankrupt.
Ireland is the latest, worse than Greece.
We're next, creating this illusion.
You have this this story the other day that the nations of the world borrow ten point two trillion dollars.
That's how much is owed.
Most budgets barely pay the service the cost of the debt.
Nothing's real.
Nothing has been real.
It's all been built on phoniness.
But I I sometimes it literally boggles my mind.
Uh it what is it in California?
What's the number um about unemployment uh benefits?
Forty 40 million dollars a day to pay.
Unemployment compensation benefits.
Uh uh for people not to work.
More and more people expect to be supported by the government.
And people who don't expect that, people who do want to make their own way, people who do want to assume these responsibilities are the ones being said to be hard-hearted, cold hearted, have no compassion or what have you.
Well, I just it makes me mad.
I can't help when I see a bunch of long haired maggot-infested dope smoking students, a bunch of ingrates who've had everything given to them all their life, protesting for everything to be given to them the rest of their lives.
By Mr. Limbaugh, Mr. Lumbo, you're myth characterizing that they're protesting the rising coffee to within.
It's going up three times what it normally is.
I understand that.
But things cost money.
The reason they're going up three times is because they haven't been charging what it actually costs in real terms up till now.
And it's only when everybody's running out of money that they start getting a response.
You know what ought to happen in California?
I have an idea for California, and it's gonna go, it goes against everything I have ever uttered.
It goes against every philosophy I have.
But California is simply feeding off of the rest of us.
I never got to that story in the Wall Street Journal last week, comparing California to Lindsey Lohan, constantly in and out of rehab, not being fixed.
The funny piece.
We just need to raise everybody's taxes in California because that's what's going to happen to us to bail them out.
Just raise everybody's taxes, make them pay for what's happening out there.
I am being dead serious about this.
These are the people voting for this kind of government, the people of liberals are voting for this kind of irresponsibility, this waste, this fraud, this make them pay for it.
Make them pay for it, make them pay for the kind of government they want.
But Rush but Russia, it's never worked.
That's my point.
It never has worked.
We have never cut spending in government, have we?
We've always increased spending, and we've always raised taxes.
We've never, you know, we've done everything to try to get out of this economic melee is but what will work.
We know what will work.
It has worked every time it's tried, reducing marginal tax rates.
Remember the call we had from the economist yesterday from uh Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Everybody, I got a lot of emails from people love that call.
She focused on the fact that the Fed and uh other financial institutions are focusing on lending.
They want banks to lend money to small businesses and so forth to create economic activity.
There's one thing missing from that equation.
It's called demand.
Nobody wants to borrow any money because they don't have any customers.
You can't grow a business without sales, be it of your product or of your service.
So you can talk all day long about my God, these banks are holding on the money.
They're just they're making money rather than investing it and putting it into circulation to be a loaning it, but there's no desire to borrow it.
Go talk to anybody in the business community.
There's no demand for business.
There's no demand for products and services.
And it would rare exceptions, of course, but before you can start talking about lending money and putting it in circulation that way, there has to be a demand side in the equation.
There isn't any.
And you can't just automatically create it.
You can't say, okay, credit's easy.
Mr. Small Businessman, go ahead and borrow it.
You can say, for what?
Why am I going to borrow money?
Why do I want to go in debt?
I gotta get I'm not gonna have any chance to pay it back.
What's the what's the point?
There's no demand for my product.
There's no demand for my service.
That's why I'm not hiring people.
There's no demand for what I'm doing.
Because people increasingly are losing their jobs.
So the one thing that we know works, we will never do because of this regime.
This regime diametrically opposed the marginal tax rate cuts, particularly on the producers and job creators, because they're the targets.
They're the targets of this regime.
Ask yourself a simple question, folks.
If you've had trouble getting your arms around my belief that all this is being done purposely, ask yourself simple question.
Why?
Why would anybody work so hard to be to become president of a country they hate?
Why would anybody work so hard to become president of a country if if it hates too strong a word, a country they don't like.
Why would anybody do that?
When you answer that question, Everything that's happened in the last two years becomes clear.
Somebody wants to become president of a country they don't like, it's obviously to change it, and what do they not like about it?
The way it was founded.
And that's that's where we are, and we're looking everywhere, every time something happens in Europe, we are seeing our future.
Every time something happens in Venezuela, we see our future.
Now this quantitative easing number two.
We've already tried this.
We've tried to increase government spending.
We have tried raising taxes.
We've tried all of these phony, artificial, related to no reality moves and measures before, and they don't work.
So what are we doing?
We're doubling down on them.
The thing that will work, marginal tax rates, even if they're not much, even if you just say they're coming.
One of the things that was part and parcel of the conversation we have with the economists yesterday was there's no confidence out there.
And without confidence, you're not going to borrow.
Uh and without demand, you're not going to borrow.
And without demand, there's not going to be any confidence.
So something has to happen to inspire confidence to think that maybe policies will be put in place that will allow this engine of economic opportunity to start percolating again on its own, and those policies involve getting people like Obama out of the way.
Well, Obama doesn't want to get out of the way.
And the Democrats don't want to get out of the way.
This is Wednesday, on Monday, I spent a lot of time on this program dissecting a political piece.
And there was uh one aspect, it was one quote from a usual as a political staple, an unnamed Democrat operative, complaining about Obama says he's a movement guy.
He's not really uh politician, doesn't really understand rolling up the sleeves and getting political things done.
He's a movement guy.
So I run across a piece by well-known liberal philosopher and Professor Saul Willens that appears today in The New Republic, and it's headlined Live by the Movement, Die by the Movement.
And this is about this story is about how Obama has blown it.
And how Obama has blown it because he's a movement guy.
And all of his supporters were movement people, and they expect the magic of the movement and the charisma of the movement leader to make everything happen.
And of course, the exact opposite.
It bombed big time.
This, and I'm gonna dissect this as we go because it relates to uh what I was saying on Monday.
It's about the movement or the organizing that happened to get Obama elected and how it fell apart after he was immaculated.
The movement ceased to exist.
Mr. Willens details how and why it was successful until the election and how it now has failed.
It's a long piece, but that's what I'm here for, to make the complex understandable.
It relates to what we were talking about.
And then if you if you listen to the soundbites which we have, and if you dig deep in the news, you find the liberals circling the wagons around whom?
Pelosi.
The Democrats are not circling the wagons around Obama.
The news stories that we've gotten this week are like this one.
And Saul Willens is a Clinton guy, but he was uh he's also big big Obama guy.
We're getting all kinds of stories political.
Obama blew it, Obama, something wrong with Obama.
There's uh this is not right.
Can we can we make this happen with Obama?
It's really there's more going on than we know.
At the same time, the progressives, the far-left wackos, are circling their wagons around Pelosi.
And you can find, if you if you if you dig deep as I have, uh, you can find stories written by the left to each other to itself.
They're happy.
They're talking about the ecstatic election results because They got rid of their centrists.
They got rid of the blue dogs.
They are now pure.
No matter how small they are, they are pure.
They are pure revolutionary leftists.
They got rid of all of their pollution.
They got rid of their Tea Party, so to speak.
So they're all happy.
Because now they can move forward as a unified bunch, and there's no ambiguity about what the Democrat Party is anymore.
Democrat Party is full-fledged Marxist socialists.
And they're happy about it because it gives them a uh jumping off point.
And as they circle their wagons around Pelosi and not Obama, just tells me that much, much more going on in the bowels of the Democrat Party than most people realize, people who are not in it.
Anyway, uh all this, I will try to make clear as the program unfolds.
We'll get to your phone calls.
Also predicted the fight for number two in the House, the rich white guy versus the black guy, Stenny Hoyer, uh, versus Kleibert.
It looks like Clyburn is indeed going to have to go back to the back of the bus.
It's uh it's an amazing thing here to watch.
All the stuff that supposedly happens with Republicans and conservatives is on display, as it almost always is right there in the Democrat Party.
Brief timeout, we'll be back and continue in mere moments.
We are back, Rush Limboh.
Happy to have you with us on the most listened to radio talk show in the country from the political today.
Two Democrats call for a delay in the Pelosi vote.
A pair of disaffected Democrat survivors calling on the party's top brass to postpone House leadership elections until December, a move that could give potential challenges to Speaker Pelosi and her top lieutenants more time to gather their forces.
This is the letter that we shared with you yesterday that's been leaked out there.
Following the loss of our majority, we should fully understand the causes of our historic losses before we begin the process of rebuilding.
If we don't learn from our losses, we will remain in the minority until we do learn.
Marcy Captor Ohio, Peter DeFazio of Oregon wrote to colleagues, we're not endorsing or opposing any leadership candidate with this letter, but we are seeking more time for a more thoughtful discussion with everybody in the same room.
The body of the letter calls on Democrats to spend more time to understand these historic losses before voting on leaders.
All right, so let's uh let's let's hang in there.
Let's let's make sure we don't.
This is a couple people that really do not want Pelosi to be re-elected leader.
We go to the audio sound bites this morning on uh MSNBC, Chuck Todd spoke to George Miller, Democrat California, and they had this exchange about Pelosi.
The reason I want you to hear this is because the Democrats are circling the wagons for Pelosi and not Obama.
Somebody who is a big supporter of Speaker Pelosi.
A hundred and sixty one thousand different TV ads separately ran going after her.
Does she need to provide a blueprint?
Do you think to House Democrats now to say, look, I will fix my own image because clearly she was used as a punching bag for Republicans.
We're talking about one of the most talented and smartest political figures, certainly in this town and in this nation.
And she understands what just took place.
But I think what you see is the overwhelming number of members of the caucus believe that she is the right leader with the right talent, with the right savvy to help rebuild this caucus and to take back the House for the Democrats.
Do you hear this?
Now you might be saying, Rush, I don't care about the Democrats, you better care about the Democrats.
I mean Republicans got their own problems, and they're having their own civil war over earmarks.
I cannot believe this on one hand, and then the other hand, I can believe it.
But they are circling the wagon.
You don't hear them talking about Obama this way.
But you hear them talking about Pelosi, and Pelosi, George Miller just admits it.
Pelosi is the face of this shellacking.
Nancy Pelosi.
Barack Obama, too, but Pelosi is the face of this wipeout, and they are circling the wagons to protect her.
Chuck Todd said, Well, look at is there um is there uh any something you say has spoken, maybe Speaker Pelosi?
When the president is of your party, you lose your ability to message.
When the presence of your own party, you go to the White House for the message, they fail to understand the level.
I represent a very blue-collar district.
Every meeting I go in, friend, foe, mix, however, you want to do it.
That economic uninsecurity underlies everything that's being said.
We passed dozens of job spills, dozens of tax credits for small business.
The Republicans chose not to vote for any of them.
They didn't want us to succeed on jobs.
They made a decision to sacrifice that in the name of pulling down this president of the United States.
They wanted him to fail, and that's their mission today.
So you want Pelosi back in charge to stop that?
These phantom tax cuts that you supposedly passed, these people are living in a total dream world.
By the way, I was right.
California, California is spending 40 million dollars a day for unemployment benefits.
California is spending 40 million dollars a day to pay people not to work.
That's the way to look at this.
Forty million dollars a day to pay people not to work, and those people are the first one are gonna bitch to high heaven if there are any kind of budget cuts or service cuts or what have you.
Now the interest that that by the way, it's all borrowed money.
California doesn't have it.
It's all borrowed money, the interest on which will cost at least $500 million a year.
40 million dollars a day.
And the people getting the money are the ones leading the parade of anger.
They're the ones that are all ticked off.
They're the ones that think life is unfair.
They're the ones being paid not to work.
Same kind of mentality when he's in greats protesting tuition price increases over in uh in the UK.
I got this Wall Street Journal piece on California to Lindsey Lohan Estates.
I'm gonna get to it in just a second, but I want to finish this thought.
Last night on MSNBC's Hardball Christmas, by the way, have you seen this this is absolutely hilarious.
CNN has a new advertising campaign.
They have they had a new promo that that is making fun of partisan cable news networks.
And the graphic here is one party or the other, one party that got Fox News written on an elephant and MSNBC on a donkey, and they're positioning themselves in the middle.
When you support one party or the other, uh, that's okay if you're a voter, but not if you're a news network.
If you want to keep them all honest without playing favorites, the choice is clear.
CNN, the worldwide leader in news that nobody watches.
Uh I don't know.
Uh again, I am overwhelmed here by the lack of ability of so many people to be real and to understand truth and reality.
CNN, you are as big a bunch of commie libs as MSNBC is.
You just go through the motions of trying to pretend to tell people that you're not.
There's not a dime's worth of difference between you and MSNBC.
You know what the difference is?
The difference is that MSNBC is honest about it.
They say we are lunatic liberals, and we are appealing to the lunatic liberal fringe in this country is our audience.
CNN's out there pretending they're all Edward R. Murrow, who, by the way, was a big lib too.
I mean, you if you are willing to lie to yourself, then there's no way you're going to be honest with anybody else.
If you are willing to lie to yourself about what you are, there's no way you're going to be honest with your audience, honestly in your reporting.
How many of you think CNN is right down the middle objective news that does not have an invested interest in the outcome of their news stories?
How many of you believe CNN hopes George Bush successfully sells a lot of books and rehabs his image?
How many of you hope, how many of you think that CNN will support any Republican opposing Barack Obama in 2012?
There's not a person in the world, not a sane person in the world who thinks that CNN is not as far left liberal as anybody else in the media is, except CNN.
Sometimes, I mean, you're surrounded, it seems, we're all surrounded by general, genuine insanity.
Or at least a lack of any ability to be in any way.
Stranded in reality.
Here's Anthony Wiener, back to MSNBC's hardball Chris Matthews last night question is it smart to stay with the same team after you have been battered?
This is about Pelosi.
I mean you lost seats.
You mean you got shellac.
You want to stay with the same leadership team?
You can make a list as long as you're armed about why that would happen.
And of all the people that deserve blame here, I think Nancy is the last of them.
The president didn't do a good job, the healthcare took too long, the Senate jacked us up more times than I can imagine.
Certainly wasn't Nancy Pelosi.
Right.
So there's more evidence here that they're all circling the wagons around Pelosi the far left libs, which is for all intents and purposes the mainstream of the Democrat Party now.
So all this love and adulation for Obama, it's gone.
It isn't there.
And we get to this piece by Saul Willens Live by the Movement, Die by the Movement, you will see even more that to which I refer.
Here's Luke Russert also on MSNBC last night.
Nancy Pelosi wants to stay in charge.
How much how much has she done if she's in charge and wants to stay in charge how much has she done can she do to put an end to this fight?
This is about Clyburn and Hoyer.
They both represent factions of her caucus.
Clyburn represents African-Americans as Hoyer represents moderates.
If you look at the people who are endorsing Hoyer, Lawrence, you have guys like Henry Waxman, Howard Berman, who are pretty much California Democrats, Pelosi-crats, if you will.
If they are endorsing Hoyer, it almost looks like Nancy Pelosi is giving the go-ahead that, OK, we're not going to try and stop Hoyer.
We're not going to try to get behind Clyburn.
Now the joke here is that these are a bunch of moderates.
I mean if if you're supporting Pelosi you are a lunatic fringe leftist.
And they're lining up behind Hoyer exactly as we predicted here you have a very able black guy in in their terms did a good job but all of a sudden they're all circling the wagons around the white guy.
Imagine a bunch of liberal Democrats all circling the wagons around a white guy.
Another black Democrat being thrown overboard cast aside just a twist in the wind from the party of compassion the party that doesn't see people in any way shape manner or form as racist or groups or what have you bunch of hypocrites phony bologna plastic banana good time rock and rollers.
California to Lindsay Lohanna states this by Alicia Finley.
She is a lapsed Californian is an assistant editor of Opinionjournal.com the Wall Street Journal.
Listen up California the other 48 states your cousin New York excluded are sick of your bratty arrogance.
You're the Lindsay Lohan of states a primadonna who once showed some talent but is now too wasted to do anything with it.
After enjoying ephemeral hives and spending binges you suffer crashes that culminate in brief unsuccessful stints and rehab.
This cycle repeats itself every five to ten years as the rest of the country looks on with a mixture of horror and amusement.
We'd feel sorry for you if you didn't constantly flip us the bird instead we're all making bets on how long it'll be before your next meltdown.
Oh except wait you're already melting down you've racked up nearly 70 billion dollars in general obligation debt.
That does not include your 500 billion dollar unfunded pension liability your own analysts predict that you'll face a hole of at least 80 billion over the next four years.
Your government is run by a brothel of environmentalist wackos, lawyers, public sector unions and legislative bums when they're not taxing or spending their creating regulations and commissions like the Board of Barbering and cosmetology and the California Blueberry Commission.
Many businesses Would leave if it weren't for your sunny climate, which may explain why you're so obsessed with climate change.
If your climate changes no one, including your Hollywood friends would tolerate you anymore.
So you've created a law to tax carbon emissions, no matter that it'll kill jobs.
It's not it's not as if you don't recognize that you got problems.
Roughly three quarters of you say that you're headed in the wrong direction, according to a recent survey.
You're even more depressed than Illinois and New York, and you got sunshine ten months of the year.
You appropriately give your government low marks, 28% approval for Governor Schwarzenegger, who, by the way, did you he's on the tonight show the other night?
He says, nobody's going to be bothered you to smoke a joint.
Nobody's gonna care if you smoke a joint in California.
Probably true, but try lighting up a cigarette and see what happens to you.
At any rate, 28% approval for outgoing Governor Schwarzenegger, 16% for the legislature, and yet you continue to re-elect the politicians who got you into this mess.
Not a single incumbent state legislator lost re-election this year, including one Democrat who died a month ago.
What's scarier is that you've just given almost all the keys to statewide offices to Democrats.
Jerry Brown is gonna be your old new governor.
This is the guy who acted as a gateway drug to your spending addiction thirty years ago when he gave public sector employees collective bargaining rights.
Helping enforce your wacky laws will be Lieutenant Governor elect Gavin Newsom, the San Francisco mayor who flouted state law by allowing same-sex marriage.
On the plus side, he has nice hair.
He loves you just the way you are.
This is what he said after winning his race.
We're nothing but a mirror of our constituent thoughts.
You tend to manifest what you focus on.
If you look around for what's wrong, you'll find it.
But as we all know, up here in San Francisco, when you focus on what's right, you see it all around you.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with California that can't be fixed by what's right with California.
If you were from another state, you'd love to have the problems of California.
Well, you've also just re-elected Barbara Boxer, that's Senator Barbara Boxer to a fourth term.
She boasted on election night that it's her 11th straight election victory, and what a sweet one it is, since everything was thrown at us, including the kitchen sink and the stove and the oven, and everything millions of dollars of negative ads from known and unknown opponents, millions and millions of dollars.
So Miss Finley says, We've tried to help you, California.
Some spent millions on campaigns to entice you to change your reckless behavior, and you told them a kick rocks.
So here's our final warning.
When you inevitably crash and burn, don't count on us to bail you out, although they are, and they will count on us to bail them out.
That's why I suggest and across the board, massive state tax increase.
Make them pay for it.
You know, I this one of these days, and my patience is wearing thin.
I go in and out of this feeling.
This notion that you don't you don't have to pay for what you want or have or need.
And California epitomizes this.
500 million billion dollars unfunded pension liabilities.
Paying people not to work, health care after they retire.
I know, Snerdley, me calling for tax increases is simply unbelievable, but for crying out loud, me these these are the people calling for tax increases on the rest of us.
To pay for them, they pay for it.
Make them pay for it.
They created their mess.
They voted the people who created this mess.
At any rate, brief time out here, folks.
There's much more ahead here on the EIB network.
Sit tight, don't go away.
Okay, to the phones we go.
We're gonna start in Hillsdale, Michigan with Sonny, and great to have you here.
You're up first on the EIB network today.
Hi.
Well, thank you so much.
Um, I'm a junior at Hillsdale College.
Well, well, that's all of your support.
An actual educated college student.
That's correct.
Well, thank you so much.
Um, I just wanted to comment um on your keys on Fred Upton yesterday.
Yeah.
Um, I'm actually from St. Joe, Michigan, uh, where Fred's from, and I've been a constituent for, you know, all my twenty-one years.
Um, he actually helped me get adopted.
Um I know him pretty well, but you know, I just want to say because Fred is no Democrat.
Um he has been against cap and trade from the beginning.
He proposed lots of spending cuts too.
He his first um task is to repeal Obamacare.
Um and he he votes with the GOP more times than most um members of our congressional um delegation.
And he actually has a stop Pelosi bumper sticker on his car too.
Um but he's worked hard to get others, you know, elected.
Um other Republicans elected, especially this this past election cycle.
And um, you know, as basically the the Cal Ritzkin of um Congress, you know, he missed I think one vote last year and hasn't missed a vote yet.
There's so many different um votes to look at over his his uh you know twenty years in Congress that you can find, you know, a number of things I guess, but um he's he's never been about attacking another um Republican because even in the primary,
especially when there are a lot of people attacking um his votes and his solid voting record, he he never um has you know, tried to characterize another Republican um as you know, in a in a bad light.
He's followed Reagan's eleventh commandment, I think.
Um and it's sad that there'd so many people um that are attacking, you know, what he's done and how he's um helped just a second.
There's so many people attacking what he's done.
Right.
Mm-hmm.
Like well, from the way you've described it, there's no reason to attack him, yet there are a lot of people who are.
Why are they?
Right.
Um I think it's uh it seems like it's because uh, you know, they they aren't looking at the the bigger picture and also um Well do you agree with the incandescent light bulb ban?
I mean do you think I mean you d I mean you can s I I'm I'm telling you that that if I don't care about cap and trade, I mean that accepting the premise that our light bulbs are destroying the climate bothers me.
Okay.
Because it's a it's a it's a foundation to go off the reservation a whole lot of other ways.
Mm-hmm.
Um well, you know, it seems like there are other Republicans that are vying for that spot um that are um trying to to bash his record, but um at the end of the day, you know, Fred's really committed, you know, I I've seen him so many different times.
He's really committed to um both repealing Obamacare especially and then also looking out for um for everyone's uh interest in terms of you know helping to to promote less less government um.
Um look I I you have a personal connection to Congressman Upton and I I'm not getting any way, shape, manner, or form gonna get in the way of that.
And I'm I'm not uh your your your personal attachment to him is um is wonderful.
I'm I'm very happy that you like him, but um you know the the when you start when you start talking about uh banning light bulbs and the premise behind banning certain light bulbs and going for a you know new kind of and partnering with a Democrat to do this.
Um and uh looking out for everybody's interest in pro that's not promoting less government.
That that that's it's the exact opposite of promoting less government.
It's it's it's it's it's government ought to have not a damn thing to say, but light bulb bye.
It's none of their business, especially when this is based on a total freaking hoax.
And if we're not gonna have a committee chairman smart enough to understand that I'm sorry, it just bothers me.
A lot of things are bothering me today, but that's not less government.
They have to be looking no business what I buy in a big Mac, nobody business how many calories are in it, no business, whether there's you know food justice or what the hell what kind of toys are in a big Mac happy meal.
These people are in order of fries short of a happy meal as far as I'm concerned, and they got no business telling me what kind of light bulb I can and can't have and when I can turn the damn thing on and off.
But they sure want that power.
If you look at the s at the facts and what Fred's committed to to doing as chairman too, um, you can see that he is uh, you know, a hundred percent on board with um advancing, you know, the the pledge to America that the Republicans have have crafted to to get us to get our country back on track, frankly.
And um I just don't see.
Well, I I hate to interrupt you here because I'm way over time now, but I'm I'm glad you call.
I appreciate it.
I don't mean to get mad at you.
Uh it's just one of those days.
My point about Fred Upton was he's the wrong guy to chair the energy committee.
And I'll just tell you this if Cal Ripkin, if Cal Ripton wanted to join some movement to ban my light bulbs, I wouldn't care that he had played in over 2,000 baseball games.
He's got no business banning my light bulb.
It's not what government's supposed to do.
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