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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, Mark Stein, honored to be here.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
	Entirely unlicensed by any federal or state authority.
	But back to give the American people a secondary pat down.
	You know you'll enjoy it.
	I'm from the Foreign Exchange student wing of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
	It's a great it's a great program.
	Guys like me get to come and study here.
	And in return, the entire House Democrat caucus gets to stay for two weeks at Charlie Wrangell's vacation condo in the Dominican Republic, uh, before sternly censoring him for ethics violations.
	It's a bit of a squeeze in there.
	They make the blue dogs sleep in the yard, but they all have a great time.
	Did you see Congressman Wrangle's performance in the uh in the well of the house?
	As the tears welled as he stood in the well, welling in the well, there was no end to it.
	He told he told his colleagues he apologized for any embarrassment he'd caused to the greatest body in the world.
	Uh oddly enough, that's what the TSA agent said when my briefs fell off during the enhanced pat-down.
	Hey, it's the end of the week, and you know what that means.
	Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's open line Friday.
	Yes, yes.
	You know how this works.
	From Monday to Thursday, a highly trained broadcast specialist rigorously controls the content of the program.
	But we have no highly trained broadcast specialist here today.
	So anything goes, what whatever you want to talk about.
	It's a total crap.
	It's a total crapshoot.
	If you're that Australian guy uh who called up last year and wants to talk about cricket, the one who cost us uh what were we talking about?
	The New Zealand Sri Lanka match?
	Yeah, the New Zealand Sri Lanka match.
	What a cracker that was.
	I think we we lost 300 affiliates in the first 45 seconds.
	It's a r it's a r it's a record.
	The uh the Jay Rockefeller couldn't even get the FCC to cancel the show faster than affiliates were bailing, because that guy won that Australian guy wanted to talk about uh about cricket.
	So if you've seen if you've uh if you if you want to talk about if you want to talk about the test match, if you're a big cricket fan, now is your moment.
	Call up.
	We'll talk about anything you want to talk about.
	Dancing with the Stars, uh Rush gave extensive coverage to Dancing with the Stars uh when he was here on Wednesday.
	Uh but he then he then said uh I don't even get what that's all about.
	He said Stein will have lots more on Dancing with the Stars when he's he's here uh yeah, golf and golf and uh well, I didn't mind him saying uh Stein will have lots of golf and football stories, but then he said Stein will have lots of dancing with the what's that?
	Some kind of is that some sly metrosexual dig?
	He's he's be putting me in the new Castrati camp.
	I don't know.
	I don't know.
	But uh Dancing with the You want to talk about Dancing with the Stars?
	You want to talk about uh prancing with the Czars, uh Pancing with the Tsars.
	That's uh that's the new show.
	It's a it's a simple format.
	Eight minor celebrities uh face off against uh Janet in Competano with a latex glove.
	It's uh it's a terrific show, Prancing with the Czars.
	You'll uh you like it.
	You want to talk about the Federal Reserve.
	Uh the Federal the Federal Reserve, which is now buying uh America's debt.
	Uh the I I uh perhaps perhaps if you're if you're one of these uh Keynesian economists, you can explain to me how this works.
	The Federal Reserve buys the Federal Government's debt, uh, which is like um is like paying off your visa with your MasterCard, isn't it, at the end of the month.
	Because like one hand of the federal government buys the debt of the other hand of the federal government.
	It's a terrific idea.
	I'm sure it's gonna work spl uh splendidly.
	But if you want to so uh what were the what were they what else are they doing?
	The quantitative easing, right?
	If you want to talk about uh quantitative easing, then uh then by all means uh give us a call 1800-282-2882.
	You know, the debt commission is talking about how we could save money by eliminating wasteful government programs.
	So I think we should merge uh the Transport Security Administration uh with the Federal Reserve, and then TSA agents could give you an enhanced pat down with complimentary quantitative easing.
	I think that would be I think that would be nice.
	It would would do wonders uh over at over at the airport.
	In other news, James Carville has touched Barack Obama's junk.
	He told a Christian Science Monitor breakfast discussion, quote, if Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, he'd have two, unquote.
	Now that's what I call an enhanced put-down.
	If uh if Hillary gave up one of her balls and gave it to Obama, he'd have two.
	If ever there were a time for the President of the United States to stand up and say, hey man, don't touch my junk, this is it.
	But Democrats are weirdly fascinated by the uh the presidential uh cajonies.
	Do you remember when Jesse Jackson said he wanted to cut Obama's uh nuts off?
	It was last uh it was I was uh here this I think it was uh last year some uh two years ago maybe.
	It was during the 2008 campaign.
	I I remember I was uh guest hosting uh it's a Democrats are weirdly fascinated all with with the with the presidential package in this respect.
	But it's open line Friday.
	So whatever you want to talk about is uh is ground by me.
	And especially if you're a liberal, if you're an Obama voter and you think he's got he's he's packing everything he needs down there, you think this guy's done a terrific job, call us up and we will let you have your say, because on this show we don't cut the nuts off.
	Uh so give us a call 1-800-282-2882.
	Now I don't think Carville is entirely correct on this.
	Uh what what I don't even know what Carville means on this.
	Carville is speaking for the Clintonian faction of the Democrat Party.
	And uh it's interesting to me uh that uh he takes this view of President Obama because if you like step back and you look at it not in terms of uh this or that uh loss of congressional seats or whatever, uh I'm not sure he's right about uh President Obama's manhood.
	Basically Obama shoved health care down the throats of the American people uh in the teeth of massive popular opposition.
	Uh if he'd been Clinton, Clinton looked at the polls and decided he wasn't going to do this and he wasn't going to do that.
	Clinton triangulated to where the polls were.
	Where where are the cojones in that?
	You know?
	Uh Clinton took a poll to determine where he uh should go on vacation.
	Do you remember that?
	Clinton Clinton liked to go to Martha's Vineyard.
	That's where he went to go on vacation.
	And he'd he'd land at Martha's Vineyard and he'd be officially greeted by Carly Simon.
	Uh do you remember that picture of uh him landing in Martha's Vineyard and he's sliding his hands up and down Carly Simon's back as if he's like a TSA agent and she's got a flight to catch?
	Uh that was where Clinton liked to go vacationing.
	Uh and then he takes a poll, and the poll uh uh Dick he had Dick Morris commission to take a poll for him, and Dick Morris's poll found that people would prefer it if he took a simpler vacation uh backpacking in Montana or something like that.
	So he takes uh he takes a poll.
	He and Hillary pretend to go backpacking in Montana and have a miserable time.
	There's no Martha's Vineyard, there's no Carly Simon, there's no nothing.
	Where are the cojones in that James Carville?
	Uh was Obama doesn't care about any of that.
	Obama doesn't take a poll.
	He he knows what he wants to do, and he's and he's done it.
	And he doesn't what you mean by uh Hillary should give one of her balls uh to uh to to Obama, what you mean is he didn't lift a finger uh to to help uh Blanche Lincoln uh in her Senate race.
	He didn't uh uh uh lift a finger to help this or that uh congressman.
	Because he doesn't care.
	Because he doesn't care, because he shoved health care down the throats of the American people, and it's there, it's done, and when the pendulum swings and the uh Democrats return to power, it'll be there waiting for Democrats to use.
	He got the financial regulation through.
	It'll be there waiting for Democrats to uh to use when they return to power.
	So if we're talking about the comparative manhoods of the Democratic Party, uh what do Democrats have to show for the supposed manhood of Bill and Hillary Clinton versus that of Barack Obama?
	So I'm not sure James Carville has called it right here.
	Do you remember do you remember this thing Rush talked about uh a while back, uh uh nuticles, newticles.
	It turns uh i these are like synth synthetic testicles you can uh have uh given to your dog if your dog has been uh neutered and is suffering from lack of self-esteem.
	I don't know, I don't know how that works.
	Uh uh how how do you determine whether your dog is suffering from lack of self-esteem?
	Do you take him to the like canine therapist?
	But apparently, if your dog is suffering from lack of self-esteem, you can get a set of artificial nuticles for your for near neutered pooch.
	And I think that's what we're talking about here in the Democratic uh party.
	If you're looking at it from Obama's perspective, Obama loathes the Clintons.
	And one reason he loathes them is because for all their uh so-called effectiveness, they were walking around wearing newticles.
	You know, uh okay, Clinton Clinton won.
	The the Clint Clinton got re-elected in 1996.
	Big deal.
	What it what uh what is what does the left wing agenda have to say for it?
	What's the point of getting re-elected is uh is if all you do is team up with Newt Gingrich to pass welfare reform uh or or whatever.
	Uh what's the point of getting uh re-elected if all you do is triangulate to wherever the Republicans happen to be on any issue?
	So as far as Obama is concerned, he's got the authentic he's got the authentic testicles, and the Clintons are walking around wearing newticles, and uh and James Carville can't can't tell the difference between the newticles and the real thing.
	Now I'm just uh I I'm just running with James Carville's analogy here.
	He's like your big shot Democrat pundit.
	What the what the hell do I know about uh the internal affairs of the Democrat Party?
	But I think this is where he's got it he's got it wrong.
	And it wouldn't surprise me, by the way, if Obama did decide to be a uh one-term president, if he didn't decide to have another two years uh like he had uh last two years, and do whatever he uh has to do by whatever means necessary, including executive orders and all the rest of it, and dare and dare the Republican Party to oppose him.
	You notice, for example, even it'sy bitsy little nothing things like defunding national public radio, uh, you know, that that didn't go anywhere.
	He oh it wouldn't surprise me if Obama were to decide uh, okay, uh I don't care about re-elected.
	I'm I because I don't care about sitting in the chair for eight years if I can transform this nation in four years.
	And so in James Carville's James Carville terms, you have to ask, who's got the real Cajones here and who's wearing the nuticles?
	And I think uh James maybe ought to give that just a little bit more thought than he uh than he has done uh with his uh disparaging of the presidential manhood of the Christian Science Monitor.
	We'll talk about that and lots more straight ahead.
	Remember, you can talk about anything you want to talk about because it's open line Friday, 1800-282-2882.
	Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
	It is open line Friday.
	That means you are free to select the topics.
	The uh highly trained broadcast specialist is away today.
	Rush returns Monday to take you through till uh Thanksgiving.
	Uh so anything goes.
	It's a crapshoot in here.
	You can talk about whatever whatever you want.
	This Charlie Wrangle censure.
	Charlie Wrangle is being uh the first congressman is becoming the first congressman to be censored by the House of Representatives in twenty-seven years.
	You know, it's it's fascinating when you uh add Wrangell to the list.
	Uh eighty percent of uh the congressmen censored by the House of Representatives are Democrats.
	Uh it's uh it's fascinating.
	Uh the uh the the last two were uh on July twentieth, nineteen eighty-three, Jerry Studs.
	Do you remember he um uh he was censored for sexual misconduct with a seventeen-year-old House Page and uh H.R. reminded me about this.
	The House then applauded.
	It's uh that he got a standing ovation.
	What's the page was underage.
	Oh, right.
	So he he declared that he was a he de he declared that his truth was I am a gay American, like that dude go judge.
	Right, okay.
	And and uh at the same time, Daniel B. Crane, a Republican, uh, he was also censored for uh sexual misconduct with a house page.
	Were they on the same page?
	No, not the same page.
	Oh, okay.
	I that's a that's a that's a shame.
	I thought I thought it might have been the same page.
	I thought it might have been like a little bit of bipartisan, you know, but mutual uh bipartisan outreach.
	Uh but uh no, they were uh so they were the last two, and then it was uh re representative Charles H. Wilson, Democrat of California, censored on June the sixth, nineteen eighty for receiving improper gifts but for using ghost employees, ghost employees.
	It's a bit like the stimul jobs created by the stimulus turn out to be ghost employees doing ghost jobs, uh often in ghost congressional districts.
	There's uh according to the government website, uh the uh the the stimulus has created like uh two thousand jobs in my part of the world in the New Hampshire 16th Congressional District.
	New Hampshire only has two congressional districts, but it's uh I'm impressed that uh the stimulus has managed to create jobs in ghost congressionals.
	So he was censored for giving uh improper gifts via ghost employees, representative Charles C. Diggs, Democrat Michigan, he was censored on July 31st, 1979 for payroll fraud that involved raising his employees' income, then having them kick back sixty-six thousand dollars to him.
	So here we go.
	Jerry Studs, D. Mass, Representative Charles H. Wilson D. California, Representative Charles C. Diggs D Michigan, and now Charles Wrangell D New York.
	D, I do declare.
	Uh this censor thing, despite uh despite Charlie Wrangle welling up with tears, welling in the well of the uh of the House of Representatives, um it doesn't it doesn't really mean anything.
	He's he's a mere eighty years old.
	He's he could easily have another eight or nine congressional terms left in him and be back uh chairing uh if he if he goes like the full bird like Robert C. Byrd, he could have another couple more decades in him, uh still with plenty of uh committee chairmanships uh uh uh uh uh to to come.
	But here's the point.
	Here's the point.
	Only any anybody else other than an elected official would be in huge trouble for this.
	Now I happen to agree with him, actually.
	I don't really see if you happen to own a uh uh uh a beachfront villa in the Dominican Republic, I think in a sane world, uh that actually shouldn't be the business of the United States uh government.
	But the thing is that so I'm not unsympathetic to him saying, hey, I'll collect rental income on my beach villa in the Dominican Republic, and I'm gonna keep it all to myself.
	Uh go go for it.
	Good for you, Charlie.
	But the trouble is, if we all did this, then the where would they get all the money from uh to uh where where where would the United States government get the money from uh to give it to the stimulus and all the other useful things they do with it?
	So if we were all to be like Charlie Wrangle, or we were all to be like Timothy Geithner, who can't understand uh who can't understand the basic yes-no prompts of uh of of basic 999 tax software that you buy at Staples, he can't understand the yes-no prompts.
	Did you did you claim this as a deduction?
	Yes, no.
	He can't do that.
	But he apparently he's the only man in the world qualified to save the global economy, so we have to overlook uh his curious attitude to tax returns and install him as the guy who's in charge of tax returns.
	Uh if you look at Tom Dashel, Tom Dashel, who uh didn't understand that his car and driver from the whatever lobbying firm, healthcare lobbying firm he works for, if we didn't if he didn't understand, he couldn't be expected to understand that that's a benefit that he's supposed to declare to the United States government.
	Uh this is uh only only these people get away with this.
	The rest the rest of us would be hauled over the co cols for.
	And if you look at what, if you look at what Charlie Wrangle's excuses, that he didn't understand all this stuff.
	He's not a rich man.
	He and it's true he's not he's not a rich man by the standards of uh most people in the House of Representatives, and he's certainly not rich by the standards of most Democrats in the United States Senate.
	Uh and he says, Oh, I simply doesn't understand all this stuff.
	Well, why why does the guy who owns Fred's hardware store, why does he have to understand this when he does this uh on his uh on his tax return every year?
	Why does every small businessman have to waste his time drowning in paperwork with 1099s and all this other government mumbo jumbo?
	Uh but Charlie Wrangle doesn't.
	Why couldn't Charlie Wrangle in in in his pathetic plea?
	You know what I was saying when he was talking about, oh, oh, you know, I apologize if I've I brought any embarrassment to the greatest body in the world.
	What does he say?
	How can forty witnesses measure against my forty years of service and commitment to this body I love so much?
	Instead of going on about the body you love so much, why don't you think about everybody else, all the other guys out there and think how they feel when they have to do the stupid paperwork and fill in the ten ninety-nines and fill in some stupid government form for hiring anybody to do the slightest little nothing thing in this overregulated country anymore.
	Instead of standing there whimpering, why couldn't you at least go out like a man and say I understand now?
	In the way that uh in in the in the way that who was it, McGovern did?
	McGovern said he never understood anything about business until he um uh had to run a bed and breakfast in Maine or whatever it was, and his two years for that taught him more than all his political career had done beforehand.
	Yes, it's open line Friday, one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two.
	I know Rush Rush broke format, 'cause it's like his show, and he did open line Friday on Wednesday, uh a couple of days ago.
	Uh and he'd said the the previous, because the previous open line Friday last week had been a total bomb.
	So we're gonna try and do uh we're gonna try and do it a little better today, get it get it right.
	And so if you want to call up with that big time call about cricket, one eight hundred two eight two eight eight two.
	Let's go to Doug in Washington, DC.
	Doug wants to talk about uh Charlie Wrangle.
	Doug, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	You're a great American.
	Uh I'd like to I'm a groped American.
	Yes.
	I'd I'd like to say that uh I'm a taxpayer.
	I'm a good citizen, I'm a good moral person.
	I do my fair share, I pay my part.
	But uh I have two years worth of back taxes that I filed that I had to make arrangements to pay because I didn't have the money.
	Right.
	And I'm paying all the fees associated with it.
	And I'm telling you that the Wrangle rule that's been established by the House and all the other legislature uh with this so-called smack on the wrist is an insult to my integrity, to my family's integrity, to the entire electorate, and the House of Delegates was so worried about being embarrassed, they have embarrassed themselves.
	Well, they are establishing the principle that you, the subjects, are bound by the rules, but the rulers who make the rules are not bind bound by them.
	Now you you make an important point, because Charlie Wrangle was the guy who on the House Ways and Means Committee, he in effect wrote the nation's tax laws.
	Uh the tax laws that that apply to you, but not to him.
	Well, this is what I plan to do next year.
	I plan to write down ten dependents on my taxes.
	On my W two.
	Right.
	And then when they come to get me, when the Gestapo from this regime comes to get me, then I intend to claim the Wrangle defense.
	Yeah, yeah, the the the Wrangle defense, the Timothy Geitner defense that it's just an innocent mistake, the Tom Dashell defense that uh he had no idea that getting a free chauffeur and a free limousine uh counted as a taxable benefit.
	Why d why doesn't that defense apply to the citizens of the United States as well?
	Why does why doesn't it apply to Doug?
	But it but it applies to Charlie Wrangle and Timothy Geitner and Tom Dashell and anybody else who's uh who's a member uh of the club?
	Um this is I mean, this is not a small point, because th and this is my problem with with with I rather they didn't bother censoring him.
	Who cares?
	I'd rather they said, you know, let's take Wrangell's story at face value, that it's all just so complicated that he got all confused about the bookkeeping.
	Well, why why aren't you entitled to get confused about the bookkeeping, Doug?
	Why why isn't the guy across the street from you entitled to get confused about the bookkeeping?
	Why does the IRS have powers to freeze your bank account uh and if necessary your your spouse's bank account and your children's bank account and any bank account with any slender connection to you and reach in there and take any money that's in it?
	But Charlie Wrangell gets censored in the in in in the in in the well of the house of the body that he loves so much.
	Why do why is it one rule for you, Doug, and an entirely different one uh for the guys who impose these rules on you?
	all of them are crooked and they're unwilling to cast the first stone because of the exposure they have.
	Yeah, I think well, I think that's true.
	Then you you get into things like uh w what's what was that uh lady's name, the one who was uh giving out Congressional Black Caucus College scholarships to her relatives.
	Uh Eddie Eddie Bernice Johnson, uh who uh uh Congresswoman, and she was giving out the Congressional Black Caucus uh foundation scholarship awards to either her own relatives or to relatives of her senior aide.
	And again she claimed oh this was an entirely innocent mistake.
	Who who would know that you're not meant to give out a third of these scholarships to your own family unless it's written out for you in large print.
	Anybody could make this mistake.
	This small time corruption is very telling the difference between the uh the the citizens and the legislative class is uh is a difference in attitude here.
	These are supposed to be citizen legislators.
	Uh no and what was the uh what was the great cry of the founding of this republic?
	No taxation without representation.
	It's like no taxation uh from uh fr by f by representation with these guys.
	No taxation of representation.
	These guys are representatives so they don't they don't have to get taxed.
	Thank you for your call uh thank you for uh your call Doug this is a big point by the way it's the it's it's not a big issue.
	It's like nickel and dime stuff uh but it wouldn't be nickel and dime stuff if you did it.
	You know these guys are not corrupt on the on the scale of uh like uh Saddam Hussein uh who be who uh for whom uh career in public service in uh in uh in Iraq turned out to be amazingly lucrative if you look at his uh bank accounts at the time he died.
	Uh but it's just it's just nickel and dime stuff.
	But you wouldn't be allowed to get away with it.
	And in fact it's the smallness and the trivialness of it that illustrates just how deep uh the grip of the central government goes into every aspect of your life these days.
	So rather, if I were Charlie Wrangell, let's face it he's over.
	His his own Democrat colleagues are like disowning him.
	That's what the slap of the wrist means.
	The slap of the wrist means look sorry Charlie it's nothing personal.
	It's just business.
	Strictly business we all love you God God love you man, as Joe Biden would say.
	You're the greatest guy.
	You're a great guy.
	You're a famously great guy.
	That's what that's what New York Democrats have always thought about you.
	And we'll and we'll always love you, Charlie, but we've gotta unfortunately throw you under the bus.
	It's nothing personal it's just business.
	And so he, why instead of pathetic whining and pleading and sobbing and welling with tears in the well of the house, why couldn't he at least go out uh and make a useful contribution to society by saying I now realize that if I, a powerful congressman from the House Ways and Means Committee could be reduced to a quivering, pathetic wretch in the fetal position of the well of the House?
	How must it feel for an ordinary small businessman all across this country when the IRS came after him for some little lingo-lingo-lingo-nothing thing and terrorise his life and ruin his life?
	That way, at least, your worthless, useless, half-century career in so-called public service at least end with a useful contribution to society.
	What have you done otherwise?
	You know, you parked your Mercedes in uh in uh in one of the most uh highly coveted parking spaces in the house parking garage for a decade threw a tarp on it and left it there and left it there for years and you're supposedly not meant to do that.
	So what?
	Forget the parking thing.
	Forget all the all the money that you gave to the uh the the what was it the Harlem Urban Development Corporation, which in uh twenty three years burned through a hundred million dollars and left not a trace on the urban development of Harlem.
	Complete waste of money.
	They audited it and they said it accomplished absolutely nothing except for the people who run it.
	You've got nothing to show you you're a lifetime legislator.
	You're one of the emirs of incumbestan with nothing to show for the decades you've sat there.
	So why not?
	Why not?
	As Your final contribution, instead of whining and pleading before your colleagues as they shove you under the bus, as they say, unfortunately it's time to take one for the team, Charlie, as they kick you out of out of the tent uh to starve and the freezing tundra to to be set off across the ice like an unwanted inuit child to go and freeze to death out there.
	Why don't you at least say why don't you at least stand up and say, I now know how the small businessman of the United States feels when he receives uh some menacing inquiry uh from a government agent who has the power to destroy his life the way if if they can destroy uh uh Charlie Wrangle, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, how must it feel if you're just running a small business on Main Street USA?
	Why doesn't he do that?
	Pathetic.
	He's like Robert C. Byrd.
	Robert everything in a everything in West Virginia is named after Robert C. Byrd, and in the end they still won't know who he is, because what the hell did they be going down, they'll be coming out at landing at Robert C. Byrd Airport, and they'll be taking uh hanging a left on Robert C. Byrd Parkway, and they'll be going by Robert C. Byrd Park and turning right at the Robert C. Byrd Memorial Building and going by the Robert C. Byrd Ice Hockey Stadium, and no one will know who Robert C. Byrd is.
	Uh I i it's it's a joke all that.
	When remember Byrd when he uh turned against the war in Afghanistan, like uh he was won the first, I think, about seven or eight years ago.
	And I said, uh, you know, in a spirit of bipartisan outreach, I said, maybe if we just agreed to rename Afghanistan Robert C. Burdistan, he might he might he might possibly, you know, feel he could support the war effort for a couple more years.
	But no, uh Robert C. Byrd, he got everything he's got a Coast Guard station in West uh in West Virginia named after him.
	Like uh oh no, I think that might be the one I think uh that might be that and the uh and the local clan headquarters are the only two buildings in uh West Virginia not named after Robert C. Bird.
	Now, what has he got to show for it?
	Other than that, what did he accomplish?
	That's why I think uh as as pathetic as Charlie Wrangle's performance here is he could have he could have gone out like a man by saying he now knows what a small businessman in the United States of America feels like.
	Mark Stein Infor Rush, 1800-282-2882.
	Mark Stein, InfoRush on the EIB network.
	1800-282-2882.
	We are talking about whatever you want to talk about, because it is open line Friday, and no highly trained broadcast specialist was available to host the show today.
	So you get to pick the topics, whatever you want to whatever you want to talk about.
	You can talk about Charlie Wrangle, uh, you can talk about Bristol Palin and Dancing with the Stars.
	You can talk about any interesting pat-downs you've received from government bureaucrats lately, whatever you want to talk about.
	Uh like this headline in the Los Angeles Times.
	House GOP blocks extension of jobless benefits.
	Um, uh they've been extending uh jobless benefits, unemployment benefits for people who are out of work uh every uh basically every six months now.
	So I think they're actually the longest in the uh in the Western world uh at the moment.
	And uh by the way, this is uh very strange thing to do, because as sluggish as the uh uh as the economy is, all the evidence uh from any developed nation uh shows that people only begin whether the unemployment benefits last three months, six months, one year, two years, or beyond, people only begin seriously looking for work in the last month or two of however long their unemployment benefits last.
	But in fact, in fact, this Los Angeles Times headline is completely wrong.
	The House GOP did not block extension of jobless benefits.
	Um they said uh that they wanted it paid for by using unspent stimulus funds uh to pay for it.
	Uh because as you know, a lot of the money that's gone uh down the hole of the stimulus hasn't actually been been used for uh for anything.
	A lot of it uh i because there were no shovel ready pro ready projects.
	Uh there is money there, unspent money in the stimulus funds, and the House GOP was basically just saying uh that that should be used before any other uh any uh any other additional uh funds uh should be used.
	Um they wanted they wanted the benefits paid by shifting federal funds from economic stimulus accounts or from other programs.
	You know, there simply isn't the money to do this.
	Uh there simply isn't the money to do this.
	And the reason there isn't is because of this all this uh patching.
	You can't you can't plan.
	If you've got a business, you can't plan by the government passing six month fixes and one year fixes and two year fixes and all the rest of it.
	It's like uh it's like the business with the so-called Bush tax cuts, where they're now uh which are really the Obama tax increases.
	In other words, when tax cuts so called expire, what that means is uh Obama has put your taxes up.
	So let's not call them the Bush tax cuts anymore.
	Let's call them the Obama tax increases.
	Uh they're now trying to reach a compromise whereby some of the lower tax rates would remain in place for a year or two.
	You're a businessman, right?
	You're a businessman.
	You're not gonna make hiring decisions on on a business climate in which there is no certainty.
	And when you and when uh essentially a rapacious uh Congress uh is reserving the right to change its mind uh six months down the road and change the rates of tax and change the regulation and impose more and more paperwork on you, then this little six month increase here or a two-year waiver there isn't going to make any difference.
	This economy is kaput because there is no certainty.
	Certainty you know, certainty is why, for example, uh people outsource jobs to Singapore, uh, but they don't outsource jobs to Sudan.
	Because Sudan, you can o you can say, Well, I can get a great deal on a a new plant uh in uh in uh in Sudan.
	And then the next thing you know, the ganger weed ride in with their machetes and kill all your workers, and uh suddenly you can't even outload the plant because uh because the place is covered in blood and nobody wants to buy it and it's just like bad karma and all the rest of it.
	Now, that's why people don't outsource jobs to the Sudan, because there's no certainty.
	That's why the jobs get outsourced to countries and economies that have certainty.
	And that is where the United States is killing itself.
	This guy Obama is the certainty killer because all he offers the certainty of is more government, more his solution to everything.
	I love it the way I love the way when Obama stands up and does one of these speeches and he goes, Washington is broke.
	The people recognize that.
	They understand that Washington doesn't work anymore.
	Washington needs fixing.
	Washington isn't working.
	Washington is broken.
	Uh and what is his solution to everything?
	More Washington.
	More Washington, more Washington in your car, more Washington in your prostate examination, more Washington in your pants when you fly down to Florida, more Washington, more Washington, more Washington.
	And that is the only certainty that Obama offers.
	Uh when when he comes to the economy, all he is offering is total uncertainty, uh the the idea that there is no th nobody knows the environment.
	Nobody knows the environment.
	And without a secure environment, you will never get this economy to do anything between uh other than be the moribund uh dead uh goat uh the uh the Afghans play Buskashi with.
	You seen that game?
	Fantastic game.
	Actually, if you don't want to talk about cricket, talk about Buscaji.
	That's where the Afghans kicked the carcass.
	It's polo, but played with the carcass of a dead goat.
	And you can imagine what the dead goat looks like at the end of the game, right?
	You hit you hit it with a polo mallet, uh, this dead goat, right?
	And uh d any PETA listeners, by the way, you want to call up and talk about I should say this is a dead goat.
	It's not respectful to the goat.
	The goat would certainly have uh self-esteem issues, and his newticles would be in pretty poor shape by the unless he's got like titanium new tricles, they'd be in pretty poor shape.
	But that's what the Obama economy looks like.
	It looks like an Afghan goat at the end of a buskashi game.
	And that is what uh that is nothing is gonna change until he stops treating the economy like an Afghan goat.
	Mark Stein, infrarus, lots more to come.
	It's the it's the triviality, it's the pettiness of these guys like uh like Wrangell and all and uh the rest of them.
	Uh you know, Eddie Bernice Johnson, she handed out scholarships to her relatives.
	Robert C. Byrd named buildings after himself.
	Uh Charlie Wrangell fiddled his taxes while Rome burned.
	It's it's the triviality of this stuff.
	While this country is facing serious structural deformities, uh, and these guys are indulging in a pitiful little pity party like Charlie Wrangle's performance, uh performance yesterday.
	It's not they're simply not up to the task.
	They're big big government by small men, small self-absorbed men.
	It is truly pathetic.
	Mark Stein, Infrarush on the EIB network.

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