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Nov. 19, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 19, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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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 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 before sternly censoring him for ethics violations.
It's a bit of a squeeze in there.
They make the blue dog sleep in the yard, but they all have a great time.
Did you see Congressman Wrangell's performance 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 his colleagues he apologized for any embarrassment he'd caused to the greatest body in the world.
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 live 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, whatever you want to talk about.
It's a total crap.
It's a total crapshoot.
If you're that Australian guy who called up last year and wants to talk about cricket, the one who cost us, 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 lost 300 affiliates in the first 45 seconds.
It's a record.
Jay Rockefeller couldn't even get the FCC to cancel the show faster than affiliates were bailing because that Australian guy wanted to talk about cricket.
So if you've seen, 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.
Rush gave extensive coverage to Dancing with the Stars when he was here on Wednesday.
But he then said, 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 here.
Yeah, golf and golf.
Well, I didn't mind him saying Stein will have lots of golf and football stories.
But then he said, Stein will have lots of Dancing with the Stars.
What's that?
Some kind of, is that some sly metrosexual dig?
He's been putting me in the new Castradi cap.
I don't know.
I don't know.
But Dancing with the Csars.
You want to talk about Dancing with the Stars?
You want to talk about Prancing with the Tsars?
Prancing with the Tsars.
That's the new show.
It's a simple format.
Eight minor celebrities face off against Janet in Competano with a latex glove.
It's a terrific show, Prancing with the Tsars.
You like it.
Do you want to talk about the Federal Reserve?
The Federal Reserve, which is now buying America's debt.
Perhaps if you're one of these Keynesian economists, you can explain to me how this works.
The Federal Reserve buys the federal government's debt, which is like paying off your visa with your MasterCard, isn't it, at the end of the month?
Because 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 going to work splendidly.
But if you want to, so what were the, what were they, what else are they doing?
The quantitative easing, right?
If you want to talk about quantitative easing, then by all means, give us a call.
1-800-282-2882.
You know, the Debt Commission is talking about how we could save money by eliminating wasteful government programs.
So I think we should merge the Transport Security Administration with the Federal Reserve, and then TSA agents could give you an enhanced pat-down with complementary quantitative easing.
I think that would be nice.
It would do wonders 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 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 presidential cojones.
Do you remember when Jesse Jackson said he wanted to cut Obama's nuts off?
It was last, I was here, I think it was last year, two years ago, maybe.
It was during the 2008 campaign.
I remember I was a guest hosting.
Democrats are weirdly fascinated with the presidential package in this respect.
But it's Open Line Friday.
So whatever you want to talk about is grand by me.
And especially if you're a liberal, if you're an Obama voter and you think 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.
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Now, I don't think Carville is entirely correct on this.
I don't even know what Carville means on this.
Carville is speaking for the Clintonian faction of the Democrat Party.
And it's interesting to me that he takes this view of President Obama because if you step back and you look at it not in terms of this or that loss of congressional seats or whatever, I'm not sure he's right about President Obama's manhood.
Basically, Obama shoved healthcare down the throats of the American people in the teeth of massive popular opposition.
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 are the cojones in that?
You know?
Clinton took a poll to determine where he should go on vacation.
Do you remember that?
Clinton liked to go to Martha's Vineyard.
That's where he went to go on vacation.
And he'd land at Martha's Vineyard and he'd be officially greeted by Carly Simon.
Do you remember that picture of him landing at 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?
That was where Clinton liked to go vacationing.
And then he takes a poll and the poll Dick had Dick Morris commission a poll for him.
And Dick Morris's poll found that people would prefer it if he took a simpler vacation backpacking in Montana or something like that.
So 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?
Obama doesn't care about any of that.
Obama doesn't take a poll.
He knows what he wants to do and he's done it.
And he doesn't, what do you mean by Hillary should give one of her balls to Obama?
What you mean is he didn't lift a finger to help Blanche Lincoln in her Senate race.
He didn't lift a finger to help this or that 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 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 use when they return to power.
So if we're talking about the comparative manhoods of the Democratic Party, 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 this thing Rush talked about a while back?
Newticles.
Newticles.
These are like synthetic testicles you can have given to your dog if your dog has been neutered and is suffering from lack of self-esteem.
I don't know.
I don't know how that works.
How do you determine whether your dog is suffering from lack of self-esteem?
Do you take him to the canine therapist?
But apparently, if your dog is suffering from lack of self-esteem, you can get a set of artificial nuticles for your neutered pooch.
And I think that's what we're talking about here in the Democratic 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 so-called effectiveness, they were walking around wearing nuticles.
You know, okay, Clinton won.
Clinton got re-elected in 1996.
Big deal.
What does the left-wing agenda have to say for it?
What's the point of getting re-elected if all you do is team up with Newt Gingrich to pass welfare reform or whatever?
What's the point of getting 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 nuticles.
And James Carville can't tell the difference between the nuticles and the real thing.
Now, I'm just running with James Carville's analogy here.
He's like your big shot Democrat pundit.
What the hell do I know about the internal affairs of the Democrat Party?
But I think this is where he's got it wrong.
And it wouldn't surprise me, by the way, if Obama did decide to be a one-term president, if he didn't decide to have another two years like he had last two years and do whatever he 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 itsy-bitsy little nothing things like defunding national public radio, you know, that didn't go anywhere.
It wouldn't surprise me if Obama were to decide, okay, I don't care about re-elected, 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 cohonies here and who's wearing the nuticles.
And I think James maybe ought to give that just a little bit more thought than he has done with his disparaging of the presidential manhood of the Christian Science Monitor.
We'll talk about that and lots more straight ahead.
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It is Open Line Friday.
That means you are free to select the topics.
The highly trained broadcast specialist is away today.
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So anything goes.
It's a crapshoot in here.
You can talk about whatever you want.
This Charlie Wrangell censure.
Charlie Wrangell is being the first congressman, is becoming the first congressman to be censored by the House of Representatives in 27 years.
You know, it's fascinating when you add Wrangell to the list.
80% of the congressmen censored by the House of Representatives are Democrats.
It's fascinating.
The last two were on July 20th, 1983.
Jerry Studs.
Do you remember he was censored for sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old House page?
And HR reminded me about this.
The House then applauded.
He got a standing ovation because the page was underage.
Oh, right.
So he declared that he declared that his truth was, I am a gay American, like that dude go judge.
Right, okay.
And at the same time, Daniel B. Crane, a Republican, he was also censored for sexual misconduct with a House page.
Were they on the same page?
No, not on the same page.
Oh, okay.
That's a shame.
I thought it might have been the same page.
I thought it might have been like a little bit of bipartisan, you know, mutual bipartisan outreach.
But no, so they were the last two.
And then it was Representative Charles H. Wilson, Democrat of California, censored on June the 6th, 1980 for receiving improper gifts for using ghost employees, ghost employees.
It's a bit like the stimulus.
Jobs created by the stimulus turn out to be ghost employees doing ghost jobs, often in ghost congressional districts.
According to the government website, the stimulus has created like 2,000 jobs in my part of the world in the New Hampshire 16th congressional district.
New Hampshire only has two congressional districts, but I'm impressed that the stimulus has managed to create jobs in ghost congressional.
So he was censored for giving 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 $66,000 to him.
So here we go.
Jerry Studds, D. Mass, Representative Charles H. Wilson, D. California, Representative Charles C. Diggs, D. Michigan, and now Charles Wrangell D. New York.
D D D D D.
I do declare.
This censor thing, despite Charlie Wrangell welling up with tears welling in the well of the House of Representatives, it doesn't really mean anything.
He's a mere 80 years old.
He could easily have another eight or nine congressional terms left in him and be back chairing if he goes like the full bird, like Robert C. Bird.
He could have another couple more decades in him, still with plenty of committee chairmanships to come.
But here's the point.
Here's the point.
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 Beachfront villa in the Dominican Republic.
I think in a sane world, that actually shouldn't be the business of the United States government.
But the thing is, 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 going to keep it all to myself.
Go for it.
Good for you, Charlie.
But the trouble is, if we all did this, then where would they get all the money from?
Where would the United States government get the money from 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 Wrangell, or we were all to be like Timothy Geithner, who can't understand the basic yes-no prompts of basic 999 tax software that you buy at Staples, he can't understand the yes-no prompts.
Did you claim this as a deduction?
Yes, no.
He can't do that.
But he apparently is the only man in the world qualified to save the global economy.
So we have to overlook his curious attitude to tax returns and install him as the guy who's in charge of tax returns.
If you look at Tom Dashall, Tom Daschell, who didn't understand that his car and driver from whatever lobbying firm, healthcare lobbying firm he works for, 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.
This is only these people get away with this.
The rest of us would be hauled over the Colesfair.
And if you look at what, if you look at what Charlie Wrangell's excuse is, that he didn't understand all this stuff, he's not a rich man.
And it's true, he's not a rich man by the standards of most people in the House of Representatives, and he's certainly not rich by the standards of most Democrats in the United States Senate.
And he says, oh, I simply doesn't understand all this stuff.
Well, why does the guy who owns Fred's hardware store, why does he have to understand this when he does this 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?
But Charlie Wrangell doesn't.
Why couldn't Charlie Wrangell, in his pathetic plea, you know what I was saying when he was talking about, oh, oh, you know, I apologize if I've brought any embarrassment to the greatest body in the world?
What does he say?
How can 40 witnesses measure against my 40 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 1099s and fill in some stupid government form for hiring anybody to do the slightest little nothing thing in this over-regulated 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 in the way that, who was it, McGovern did?
McGovern said he never understood anything about business until he 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, 1-800-282-2882.
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Let's go to Doug in Washington, D.C. Doug wants to talk about Charlie Wrangell.
Doug, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
You're a great American.
I'm a groped American.
I'd like to say that 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 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.
And I'm paying all the fees associated with it.
And I'm telling you that the Wrangell rule that's been established by the House and all the other legislature 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 bound by them.
Now, you make an important point because Charlie Wrangell was the guy who, on the House Ways and Means Committee, he, in effect, wrote the nation's tax laws, the tax laws that apply to you, but not to him.
Well, this is what I plan to do next year.
I plan to write down 10 dependents on my taxes on my W-2.
And then, when they come to get me, when the Gestapo from this regime comes to get me, then I intend to claim the Wrangell defense.
Yeah, the Wrangell defense, the Timothy Geithner defense, that it's just an innocent mistake, the Tom Daschell defense, that he had no idea that getting a free chauffeur and a free limousine counted as a taxable benefit.
Why doesn't that defense apply to the citizens of the United States as well?
Why doesn't it apply to Doug, but it applies to Charlie Wrangell and Timothy Geithner and Tom Daschell and anybody else who's a member of the club?
I mean, this is not a small point because this is my problem with, I'd 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 aren't you entitled to get confused about the bookkeeping, Doug?
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 and, if necessary, 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 well of the house of the body that he loves so much.
Why is it one rule for you, Doug, and an entirely different one for the guys who impose these rules on you?
Because the old enage that he who casts the first stone, all of them are crooked and they're unwilling to cast the first stone because of the exposure they have.
Yeah, well, I think that's true.
Then you get into things like, what was that lady's name?
The one who was giving out Congressional Black Caucus College Scholarships to her relatives.
Eddie Bernice Johnson, who, a congresswoman, and she was giving out the Congressional Black Caucus 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 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 citizens and the legislative class is a difference in attitude here.
These are supposed to be citizen legislators.
And what was the great cry of the founding of this republic?
No taxation without representation.
It's like no taxation by representation with these guys.
No taxation of representation.
These guys are representatives, so they don't have to get taxed.
Thank you for your call.
Thank you for your call, Doug.
This is a big point, by the way.
It's not a big issue.
It's like nickel and dime stuff.
But it wouldn't be nickel and dime stuff if you did it.
You know, these guys are not corrupt on the scale of like Saddam Hussein, for whom a career in public service in Iraq turned out to be amazingly lucrative if you look at his bank accounts at the time he died.
But 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 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 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 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 New York Democrats have always thought about you.
And we'll always love you, Charlie.
But we've got to, 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 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, can 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 ning-rinky ding little nothing thing and terrorize his life and ruin his life?
That way, at least, your worthless, useless, half-century career in so-called public service would at least end with a useful contribution to society.
What have you done otherwise?
You know, you parked your Mercedes in one of the most 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 money that you gave to the, what was it, the Harlem Urban Development Corporation, which in 23 years burned through $100 million 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're a lifetime legislator.
You're one of the emirs of Encumbersan 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 the tent to starve in the freezing tundra, 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 some menacing inquiry from a government agent who has the power to destroy his life the way if they can destroy Charlie Wrangell, 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. Bird.
Everything in West Virginia is named after Robert C. Bird, 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. Bird Airport and they'll be taking, 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. Bird Memorial Building and going by the Robert C. Byrd Ice Hockey Stadium and no one will know who Robert C. Bird is.
It's a joke all that.
Remember Bird when he turned against the war in Afghanistan?
Like he was one the first, I think, about seven or eight years ago.
And I said, you know, in a spirit of bipartisan outreach, I said, maybe if we just agreed to rename Afghanistan Robert C. Birdistan, he might possibly feel he could support the war effort for a couple more years.
But no, Robert C. Byrd, he got everything.
He's got a Coast Guard station in West Virginia named after him.
Oh, no, I think that might be the one.
I think that might be that and the local Klan headquarters are the only two buildings in 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 as pathetic as Charlie Wrangell's performance here is, 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.
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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 talk about.
You can talk about Charlie Wrangell.
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.
Like this headline in the Los Angeles Times: House GOP blocks extension of jobless benefits.
You know, they've been extending jobless benefits, unemployment benefits for people who are out of work every basically every six months now.
So I think they're actually the longest in the Western world at the moment.
And by the way, this is a very strange thing to do because as sluggish as the economy is, all the evidence from any developed nation 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, this Los Angeles Times headline is completely wrong.
The House GOP did not block extension of jobless benefits.
They said that they wanted it paid for by using unspent stimulus funds to pay for it.
Because as you know, a lot of the money that's gone down the hole of the stimulus hasn't actually been used for anything.
A lot of it because there were no shovel ready projects.
There is money there, unspent money in the stimulus funds, and the House GOP was basically just saying that that should be used before any other additional funds should be used.
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.
There simply isn't the money to do this.
And the reason there isn't is because of this, all this patching.
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 the business with the so-called Bush tax cuts, which are really the Obama tax increases.
In other words, when tax cuts so-called expire, what that means is 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.
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 going to make hiring decisions on a business climate in which there is no certainty.
And when essentially a rapacious Congress is reserving the right to change its mind 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 is what you, you know, certainty is why, for example, people outsource jobs to Singapore, but they don't outsource jobs to Sudan.
Because Sudan, you can say, well, I can get a great deal on a new plant in Sudan.
And then the next thing you know, the Janjaweed ride in with their machetes and kill all your workers, and suddenly you can't even outload the plant 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, his solution to everything.
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.
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.
And that is the only certainty that Obama offers.
When it comes to the economy, all he is offering is total uncertainty.
The idea that there is nobody knows the environment.
Nobody knows the environment.
And without a secure environment, you will never get this economy to do anything other than be the moribund dead goat the Afghans play Buskaji with.
You've seen that game?
Fantastic game.
Actually, if you don't want to talk about cricket, talk about Buskaji.
That's where the Afghans kick 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 it with a polo mallet, this dead goat, right?
And 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 self-esteem issues, and his nuticles would be in pretty poor shape by the, unless he's got like titanium nuticles, 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 that is.
Nothing is going to change until he stops treating the economy like an Afghan goat.
Mark Stein, infra rush, lots more to come.
It's the triviality, it's the pettiness of these guys like Wrangell and the rest of them.
You know, Eddie Bernice Johnson, she handed out scholarships to her relatives.
Robert C. Byrd named buildings after himself.
Charlie Wrangell fiddled his taxes while Rome burned.
It's the triviality of this stuff.
While this country is facing serious structural deformities, and these guys are indulging in a pitiful little pity party like Charlie Wrangell's performance yesterday.
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, infra rush on the EIB network.
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