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Nov. 19, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 19, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in.
Absolutely no supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Rush will return on Monday and take you through to Thanksgiving.
But right now it is 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, that means you can talk about absolutely anything you want to talk about.
1-800-282-2882, we are live in New York.
It's always a gamble for me because as I mentioned when I was here a few weeks ago, I received an official notice from the New York State Bureau of Compliance informing me that I was in non-compliance with the Bureau of Compliance.
So at any moment, a New York State SWAT team could kick the door down and drag me out of here because I am in total non-compliance with the New York State Bureau of Compliance.
But until they kick the door down and drag me out of here, my bullet-riddled body is dragged away in a cloud of tear gas.
1-800-282-2882.
Actually, if you're a New York State trooper, if you're in the SWAT team and you're just like climbing up the walls of the building with the suction caps, give us a call there live before you smash the windows and take me out.
I'd love to hear that.
1-800-282-2882.
Talk about anything you want, anything you want to talk about.
The president is in Portugal for what summit is this now?
It's the NATO summit, I think.
It was G20.
What was it?
G20 last week, NATO summit this week.
So there's a whole different bunch of countries that will be mocking and jeering him today.
It's not just James Carville.
International global leaders make jokes about this president too.
And we can talk about that.
We can talk about the terrific state of the economy.
White House, this is from Reuters.
White House says stimulus package exceeds jobs goal because this is the, whatever it's called, the American Recovery and Redistribution Act, or whatever it's called, said specifically, by some measures, it's exceeded the original goal of creating or saving, creating or saving 3.5 million jobs by the end of 2010.
I don't know if you if you got a job created by the stimulus, give us a call, 1-800-282-2882.
I'd particularly like to know if you're in the booming sign manufacturing sector of the United States.
The sign-making industry has received enormous benefits from the stimulus package.
Those signs that say the American Redistribution Act, putting America back to work by putting up putting America back to work signs every 200 yards across the land.
And at 300 bucks a pop, the signage alone should be enough to launch an era of unparalleled economic growth and prosperity, assuming that America's vast new class of gilded sign magnets don't all spend their newfound wealth on vacation properties in the Dominican Republic like Charlie Wrangell does.
But so if you've received a job from the stimulus, which they're now saying has it's stimulating, has exceeded all expectations.
It's turned out to be more stimulating than anyone ever imagined.
It's more stimulating than the special 2 TSA agent pat down you can get at LaGuardia on a Friday afternoon.
So If you have received a job, one of the millions and millions and millions of jobs that has been created by this stimulus package, give us a call, 1-800-282-2882.
The Senate agrees to delay huge cut in Medicare payments to doctors.
A 23% fee cut was supposed to kick in any day now, but the Senate has agreed to postpone it for a month.
This is what I was talking about, you know, the lack of certainty in the economy.
You think of the way it is in healthcare with Medicare reimbursements, where in a month's time, doctors were supposed to get a 23% cut in reimbursements.
But they've now postponed that for a month.
So they've got a little bit more certainty for another 30 days.
By the way, this is the only way government controls cost in healthcare, which is by denying the reality of those costs.
So, for example, it simply says, well, we will lower costs in Medicare by declining to reimburse doctors by whatever the rate is.
So, since 1997, there's supposed to be this sliding scale to control Medicare spending by reducing reimbursements to doctors.
But of course, you know, politics being politics, they've never implemented the cuts on the scale.
So every time they defer a cut, then the next cut has got to be cumulative and be even more drastic.
So that now they're looking for a 23% fee cut.
This is the only way that government can control costs in healthcare spending is by denying the reality of those costs.
And all you're going to do with that is drive doctors out of business.
Who wants to be a doctor performing work for Medicare when you're getting reimbursed nothing like the cost of what it costs to fix up the guy's broken leg or whatever it is?
And that's why healthcare is a disaster in the United States, because it's a classic third-party transaction.
And when the third party is government, it's even worse than if the third party is a private insurer.
All you care, no one can put a price, no one can put a price on any individual medical treatment anymore, because you can have three people with broken legs sitting in the doctor's waiting room, and one guy with a broken leg is going to get it reimbursed by Medicare, and the other guy with a broken leg is going to get it reimbursed by a private health insurer.
And the third guy with the broken leg is like Rush did in Hawaii.
He's going to get out a checkbook and pay for it and pay for it in cash at the point, you know, and that's, and so all those people, the guy getting out his own check, writing a personal check, the guy billing it to an insurer and the guy getting reimbursed by Medicare, they're all paying different amounts of money.
Nobody knows what the cost of a broken leg is in the United States anymore because we've made it a classic third-party transaction.
You think about anything you like.
You think, you imagine, say, you want to see a movie tonight.
What's a movie cost in New York City now, Kit?
$13.
$13 for a 3D movie, 3D movie, $13.
Okay, now suppose you had no idea what it costs.
You went to the movie theater and you had to show a card.
And the card might entitle you to, because you're on a government program, to see the movie for free.
Or the card might entitle the movie theater to bill it to your insurer, your entertainment insurer, and you'd receive it down the line.
Or you might be the old-fashioned type who just wants to pay the $13 out of it.
So you wouldn't care whether the movie costs $13 or $13,000 or $130,000.
When it's a third-party transaction, all you care is whether the third party will grant you access to the movie or the health procedure or whatever it is.
And that's what drives up costs in the American system.
And the most destabilizing third party in the American system is now government, which is why a country like India, where 80% of healthcare is private, country like India is going to be booming with healthcare tourism because you'll be able to jet off to India.
You need the hip replacement, so you'll go into the hospital and your wife can see the Taj Mahal that she's wanted to see for all these years, during which you weren't interested in taking her on a big-time vacation to India.
So she'll see the Taj Mahal.
You'll have your hip replacement and join her at the end at the Taj Mahal for a couple of days of photographs and then fly back to the United States for a fraction of what it would have cost to have the hip replacement here because third parties, of which the government is the worst offender, have so destabilized, destabilized the normal market.
If you look at, for example, that's also what happened to the property market.
The property market, which is most people's principal asset, we talk about all the cyberspace and the knowledge economy and all the other mumbo-jumbo, but actually for most people, their principal asset is good old-fashioned bricks and mortar.
The government destroyed the property market by intervening themselves as a third party through the Fannie and Freddie business.
Fanny and Freddie, at the time of the big crash in the fall of 2008, had a piece of 50% of the mortgages in this country and came close to taking out the entire global economy.
And they, by the way, they're like Charlie Wrangell.
They don't have to do basic audits.
You know, AIG, what's Ken Lay's big company?
Enron, Enron.
Enron couldn't get away with filing the paperwork that Fannie and Freddie get away with.
What's the point of having an SEC if it regulates Enron, but it doesn't regulate Fannie and Freddie when they've got a piece of 50% of the mortgages in the United States of America?
So Fannie and Freddie did such a great job on the property market.
They're now fanny-freddying the healthcare industry.
Basically, just as they said in the property market, you, the lender, cannot make an objective valuation about the risk of this guy coming in.
He's unemployed.
He spends all his money on coke and hookers, but he wants to buy a $2 million home.
You cannot make an honest evaluation of risk on that.
They're now saying the same thing to the health insurers.
So they're basically taking Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and transferring that model to healthcare.
And instead of Blue Cross, Blue Shield, it's Fanny Cross, Freddie Shield.
And that is going to be the healthcare model for the, you won't be able to make an objective analysis of risk.
So the absurd third-party insanity of Medicare will now be transferred to what had hitherto been the less irrational third-party factor of private health insurance.
This is going to be an amazing, this is going to be amazing to watch how quickly this all unravels.
So it's Open Line Friday, 1-800-282-2882.
We'll talk about that.
We will talk about the don't touch my junk stuff.
That is President Obama's message.
He's overseas in Portugal, and James Carville is mocking the presidential junk.
He's saying that if Hillary were to give one of her, quote, if Hillary gave one of her balls to President Obama, he would have two.
I think his math may be a bit off there, actually.
Maybe he's overstating it, James Carville.
Maybe he's understating it.
We'll talk about that and lots more straight ahead.
1-800-282-2882.
Open Line Friday on the EIB Network.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
Wesley Snipes.
Wesley Snipes, the actor, has just been sentenced to jail for tax evasion.
He's going to jail, I think, for three years.
Why doesn't he just walk into the House of Representatives and go into the well of the House and well up with tears and just say he apologizes for any embarrassment he's brought on this lush, full, beautiful body, the most beautiful body in the world?
Why doesn't he just do that?
And then maybe they could censor him and all his problems would go away.
No, Charlie Wrangell is actually a much better, much better actor than Wesley Snipes.
I love Charlie Wrangell in The Godfather.
He was terrific.
Much, much better than Wesley Snipes.
Let us go to Ron in West Palm Beach.
Ron, you're in West Palm Beach.
That's not too far from Rush, is it?
That's the other side of the tracks from Palm Beach, Palm Beach, isn't it?
Isn't that how it works?
It's down south from him, but we bump into him once in a while.
Thank you for your service.
All right.
That's pretty good.
Well, it's good to have you on the show, Ron.
What's on your mind?
Just a quick question.
I'm wondering if all this money General Motors is paying back is going to go to pay down the deficit.
Now, this is, you're talking about the IPO.
By the way, that's a phrase we used to hear a lot in America, IPO, and you don't like hearing it anymore, do you?
It's strange.
Ever since they passed Sarbanes-Oxley, private companies don't seem to have IPOs anymore.
I wonder what ever happened to all that.
But there's $26 billion, $26 billion here, I think, that was raised yesterday.
And you're saying, is that going to pay down the deficit?
Right.
No, no, no.
I believe what's going to happen is, because that, of course, was the taxpayers' money, that's the public's money.
So what I believe they're going to do is divide that $26 billion between all of us and actually send us a check.
I believe Timothy Geithner will be sending out the checks next week.
You didn't fall for that for an instant, Ron.
You know, you know who's going to get this, the $26 billion.
That's going to go in interest payments to the Chinese.
Yes, right.
And if you look at the details of the IPO yesterday, the Chinese bought up 18% of the GM offering yesterday, right?
So now, now basically they'll be introduced.
I don't know how many, what influence they're going to be having over there, but if the next environmentally friendly vehicle after the Chevy Volt is the Chevy Rickshaw, you'll know that the Chinese are really using their muscle over at GM.
But so basically, that's it.
We're taking, the Chinese have bought 18% of GM, and with the money that they're giving us for buying us that big chunk of GM, we're using it to pay back money to the Chinese.
Do you follow that?
We borrow money from the Chinese, and they then use our money to buy our car companies from us.
Does that make sense to you, Ron?
Well, I'm sure that's the way it is.
I guess it's better to have a U.S. government own GM than the Chinese government.
Absolutely.
You can't trust the United States government to run a car company.
If we're going to have government car companies, at least it should be foreign governments who know how to do this stuff properly.
Excellent, excellent point, Ron.
Ron, poor old, poor old naive Ron thought that the $26 billion raised yesterday was going to go to pay down the deficit.
Yeah, yeah.
We should all live so long.
No, it's a fascinating thing.
The Chinese, because this is the other business with the old quantitative easing business going on at the Fed.
The Chinese are maxed out.
They've got all the U.S. treasuries they or anybody else needs.
So they don't want to buy U.S. treasuries anymore.
They don't want to buy them at a higher rate.
They don't want to buy, basically, the Chinese and the Japanese are the biggest buyers of U.S. treasuries.
And the Chinese figure they don't want to buy any more than they've buying a little less than they were two years ago.
But that's no reason not to.
There's all kinds of other interesting things in America you can buy, like buying up American car companies.
That's like a good idea.
Buying up resources.
They're buying up resources all over the world, from the Alberta oil sands to nickel mining in Australia to the bauxite reserves of Jamaica.
You know, this is in return.
I mean, the way to think about it is like, this is like the first settlers and the Indians.
You know, the first settlers sold the Indian.
Yeah, Manhattan was 24 bucks, I think.
That's where it worked.
It was a great deal.
The Indians bought trinkets from the first settlers and gave them the land and gave them their resources.
And that's basically what we're doing.
We buy cheap Chinese-made junk from China, and in return, they buy up our resources.
And we say, who cares as long as they don't touch our junk?
It all works out great.
It's a perfect economic model.
So now the Chinese, the Chinese bought 18%.
The Chinese bought 18% of the offering on General Motors yesterday.
That is great.
We're going to get some real.
If you look at the ingenuity the Chinese are putting into these new warships that they're building with American tax dollars to challenge American naval supremacy in the Pacific.
By the way, I think I agree with Obama that we certainly need to be more multicultural in our approach to the world.
And I think actually funding the Chinese military is actually a great way of doing that.
It's a terrific way of just demonstrating that we're not going to be one of these petty nationalist little rinky-dink nation states anymore.
We're going to go the transnational routes and fund our enemies' navies.
I think that's terrific.
And in return, because we borrow money from the Chinese, so they're sitting on all this cash, and they can't build a navy big enough for what we're borrowing from them because that's more ships than anybody needs.
So in return, they're just like buying up American car companies.
When General Motors sneezes, the Chinese Politburo catches a cold.
That's the way it's going to go from now on.
It's fascinating.
Yeah, what's good for GM is good for Beijing.
You can't improve on this stuff.
Thank you very much for your call, Ron, in West Palm Beach, near to Rush.
Rush will be back Monday to take you through till Thanksgiving.
Mark Stein sitting in today, Open Line Friday.
Let's hear from you.
1-800-282-2882.
Lots more still to come.
Yes, the GM IBO was a terrific success.
If you're the Chinese Politburo and you could pick up GM shares cheap with money that the United States government has given you as part of its interest repayments on the money you loan them by buying U.S. treasuries.
You're following all this.
This is the historians.
The decline and fall of the Roman Empire is how many volumes is there?
That's like nine volumes, that book.
So you get the gist of it, that the decline and fall actually kind of lasts, it must have lasted a pretty long time If Gibbon needed all those volumes to write the whole story in.
But this one, this one, the Gibbon of the 21st century, what a story he's going to have to.
We borrow money from the Chinese.
The Chinese use that money to buy 18% of General Motors.
What was it, Dinosha used to see the Shanghai Bay in your Shivrole?
Oh, wonderful.
And nothing is more American than Chevrolet.
I mean, most, I'd be interested to know how many guys in the Politburo could even pronounce it.
But that's what's happening now.
Remember that guy who was the head honcho on the Politburo who liked to do the Elvis impressions?
He can now do the Dinosha impression.
See the USA in your chevrolet.
Anyway, let's go to Doug in Great Falls, Montana.
Doug, it's great to have you on the show.
What's on your mind?
Well, before I get to that, Mark, your opening monologue yesterday was better than anything Jerry Seinfeld ever dreamed of doing.
I just have to tell you that.
It was awesome.
Listen, you don't need a professional for that.
This Pat Down stuff, it's like sudden subjects.
Like, what was I talking about at the top of this?
Quantitative easing.
You've got to have like a skilled professional to craft comedy material out of quantitative easing by the Federal Reserve.
But when it's Pat Downs, you can take your hands off my joke.
When it's a government bureaucrat, what do you call it?
A GS8 civil servant saying, I will now be touching your groin.
You don't need a professional for that.
That's comedy gold.
It's dropping off the trees into your lap.
You know, you are in the lushest comedic orchard ever devised.
This don't touch my junk stuff.
If you had said, you remember George Orwell when he wrote 1984, right?
George Orwell writes 1984.
And if you'd said to him back then in 1948 when he wrote the book, hey, George, it's a great first draft, but you know what you really need in here?
You need a scene where the all-powerful totalitarian state has licensed bureaucrats who can reach into your pants at any time of their choosing and feel your genitalia.
George Orwell would have said, get out of here.
You're just, nobody's ever going to believe that.
You're just going to try to make me a laughingstock.
I'm going to put it in something like that.
That's crazy, George.
That's never going to happen.
But it did.
It's happened in the United States of America in the year 2010.
That is the world we live in, Doug.
So have you had your enhanced pat down yet?
Not yet.
I haven't had that pleasure yet.
Okay.
Well, they'll be doing it at the DMV soon.
So don't worry.
That'll be next.
Because this is the thing.
Once you've said that government can stick its hand in your briefs, the idea that that will be confined to the airport sterile area and won't, Like everything government does, metastasize and spread and seep into the wider world.
It's only a matter of time before they're reaching into your pants at the DMP.
No question.
Yeah, and it will be during the eye chart when they get to the small letters.
CA seriously throw you off at some of the more difficult vowels.
What's your point, Doug?
Well, Mark, on this Galani thing, this trial that ended the other day, I think we have to change some titles to the.
I think Holder's the Defense Attorney General and Obama's the public defender in chief, because these guys are way more concerned about the rights and protection of terrorists and murders than they are protecting our country.
To the point of, if that guy had walked the other day, if he'd have gotten off on the one count they found him guilty on, this is treasonous.
I mean, you know, throw that word around lightly, but this is treasonous.
Well, the stupidity here is that the United States Constitution is supposed to apply to citizens of the United States and people who are legally present within the United States.
This guy, this guy, he's born in Zanzibar.
He's captured in a firefight in Pakistan.
He's part of a plot to blow up embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam.
He has no connection with New York City.
He's never set foot in New York City.
He doesn't know anybody in New York City.
What is he doing in a New York courtroom?
Eric Holder chose to extend the protections of the United States Constitution to a guy who has absolutely no connection with the United States.
That's ridiculous.
And thereby put the people of the United States at risk, because if that guy walked out of that courtroom, we're at a much greater risk than we were.
Yeah, and we're at risk already, in effect, because the idea that these guys don't understand it, you know, the Al-Qaeda manual that they found in the safe houses, I think they found one in Safe House in England in Manchester, says that whenever you're, it gives instructions to these guys on how to milk the legal system once they're captured by U.S. troops.
In other words, once they're taken into U.S. custody, Al-Qaeda, in effect, has its sort of equivalent of the Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson shakedown artists on the payroll who give you advice on how to demand legal rights that you actually have no by any previous understanding of lawful combatants and enemy detainees and all the rest of it.
Legal rights that have just been invented out of whole cloth by Eric Holder.
And the Al-Qaeda and the Al-Qaeda shakedown artists, the equivalent of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, now advise these guys to start demanding their rights as soon as they're taken into U.S. custody.
We're making ourselves look like a laughing stock around the world.
And the idea that this will not have consequences, that next time around, when something big blows up and a big bunch of people die, and it turns out to be some guy who got sprung from Gitmo, or some guy who was never captured because there would have been legal complications, or some guy who was let go because they decided to upgrade him to the full OJ and give him rights that he has absolutely no claim on.
The next time that happens, remember what this administration did.
This administration decided to confer all the vagaries and all the legalisms of the civilian justice system on people who have absolutely no claim on it, Doug.
They're opening us up to death by 10,000 paper cuts.
Just little bit after little bit after little bit until that big injury finally comes.
Yeah, and let's hope it doesn't come to that anytime soon.
Thanks, Doug, for your call.
Doug in Great Falls talking about this fiasco of a case yesterday where apparently there was one, I think there was one juror there who wanted to, this wanted an acquittal and was holding out, was doing the whole full 12 angry men routine and was wanting to actually stay there and persuade the 11 other jurors to let this guy go.
Let this guy go.
This is, as I said yesterday, this is a form of decadence.
This is what is worrying about this is that the people who are in charge at the highest level within the United States government apparatus do not seem to have a survival instinct for the nation.
And they're effectively telling the world that the United States does not have a survival instinct.
1-800-282-2882, Open Line Friday, whatever you want to talk about, it's a crapshoot today.
Go ahead, make my day.
Mark Stein, infra rush.
I'm going nowhere.
Somebody help me.
Somebody help me.
Yeah.
There is a plea for our times.
Kevin in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Great to have you with us on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Thank you for waiting.
Hey, Mark, thanks a lot.
Hey, the point I want to bring up is: I think if the American people really want to rid themselves of the encroachment of big government, you know, especially with the TSA debacles happening now, I think they really need to demand that we fight our war like a real war rather than some great covert operation characterized by drones, special ops, and bribery.
I think if you really want to win this war decisively and quickly, you've got to go against the center of gravity of state sponsors of terror, Iran.
Now, I think if we went after Iran, if we actually went with physical force, I think you would have two major impacts.
One, you would show the world that we're not a paper tiger, but we're actually willing to take all necessary measures to protect our people, even without the consent of Europe.
And two goes to a point that Edward Gibbon made in Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, is that once you do that, you're going to incentivize all the Middle Eastern neighbors and potential state-sponsors of terror not to allow the activity in their area.
I think if we did that, we'd be safe.
But if not, I think issues in the more encroachment big government is going to happen to a greater, greater extent.
Well, we're not going to do that.
In fact, we're going to do precisely the opposite.
It's fascinating to read all this stuff in U.S. newspapers.
Will Israel, will Israel attack Iran?
You know, Israel is a tiny little country, barely at its narrowest point.
It's barely wider than my township in New Hampshire.
And the will of the West has come to depend on this little, tiny, tiny little sliver of a county-sized nation beached in the middle of the Middle East.
And even if that were to happen, in other words, if Israel were to total the Iranian nuclear program in some way, the fact that not just Europe, not just Britain, France weren't along for the ride, but that the United States of America was not along for the ride would tell the rest of the world something very profound about the will of the West and the weakness of the West.
It wouldn't, not just the Iranians, not just our other enemies in the terror-sponsoring states, but it would say something profound and eloquent about the United States that they would understand very well in Beijing and Moscow and Pyongyang and all over the world.
You're right.
You're right.
We've chosen not to, we're choosing to try and fight this war defensively by trying to put up a perimeter fence of which the don't touch my junk mentality is only the most absurd example.
So we're saying, no, no, no, we're not going to go out and get the bad guys, but we're going to try and fight it on the domestic front by groping the pants of every law-abiding American because the alternatives are too politically difficult.
And so we're not even talking here about something like the Pakistani nuclear program, which was done in secret.
The Iranians have done this in the eyes of the world.
And the so-called superpower, the United States of America, has sat there and let it happen.
And so you are right.
You are right.
That if we were interested in actually incentivizing, incentivizing, or more to the point, disincentivizing terrorism, we would do something like this.
But it's not going to, you don't seriously think that this president is going to hit Iran, do you, Kevin?
What's really amazing to me, I'm an ex-captain of the army and a war planner.
And one of the fundamental points of military strategy is a rule by Carl Von Klausevich.
He was one of the West's most prominent thinkers of war.
And the rule that he observed was that the longer the offense goes against an enemy and the enemy is still undefeated, the offense will become weaker and the enemy will become a powerful.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
That's a classic.
There's classic rules.
Little Hart in his book on, he was a great expert on tank warfare, but he understood that the point of war is not to destroy the enemy's tanks, but to destroy the enemy's will.
And you don't destroy the enemy's.
What we're doing at the moment is destroying our will.
We're saying to free peoples, freeborn citizens, you are sheep.
We're herding you through scanners.
We're looking at your most intimate body parts in every detail.
We're destroying our will, and we are not waging any assault on the enemy's will at all.
And the implications of that down the road are absolutely devastating for where we're going to be after another five or six years of this kind of thing, Kevin.
Yes, sir.
Yeah, and thank you for bringing that up.
But I do not think that plans to take out the Iranian nuclear program.
This guy, Ahmadinejad, by the way, he's openly mocked.
He's openly mocked the superpower and lived to tell the tale.
He's been in so-called, we did all this the multilateral way.
It was the French, the Germans, and the British who've been holding these European Union talks with Iran.
For how many years has it been going on now?
Six or seven years, something like that.
During which time they've built their nuclear, their nuclear program is almost complete.
They won't have to bother pretending to hold the talks anymore.
Because they know, by the way, and this gets back to the will issue, they know that Western nations would rather talk than do anything else.
They don't care about anything else as long as you can sit down across the table.
This pointless NATO summit to talk about the Russian treaty, this time-wasting NATO summit, to talk about a Russian treaty that might as well have been, sounds like it was written in 1972, bears no relevance to the world we live in.
That this guy, President Obama, is spending his time with in Portugal today is a classic example of how Western nations would rather sit around talking than doing anything useful.
And the Iranians understand that.
So they know that as long as we can keep the talks going, it doesn't matter whether we talk about anything useful, doesn't matter whether we openly mock the talks, doesn't matter whether we totally waste their time and make them a laughing stock, they'll do anything just to keep talking to no point whatsoever.
Thank you for your call, Kevin.
Mark Stein, InforRush, more to come.
Hey, let's go to Valita in Ontario.
Anywhere in Ontario in particular, Velita?
All it says here is Ontario.
Yes, just in Windsor, just across the street from Detroit.
Oh, right, right.
So you're in the little, the trivial pursuit question.
You're in the little bit of Canada that's south of the United States.
I know.
Yeah, so just across the bridge from Detroit in Windsor.
Great to have you with us.
What a lovely name, Valita.
Vallita.
What ethnic origin does that name mean?
No, I have no idea.
Oh, it's lovely.
It's delightful.
It should be in Russia's top 10 favorite names.
I love it.
Thank you.
And what did you want to speak about today, Velita?
I recently, my brother flew from Detroit to Washington.
I am an American, by the way.
I'm a very proud American.
And I'm disabled and he's disabled.
Well, we both had to go through the patting downs and the wanding and everything.
So my question is, when Obama and his family go on trips, who pats them down?
Who?
And I think, you know, the people that are at, say, LAX Airport and Metro Airport, they should be rotated so each one of them have a turn to pat them down.
Yeah, you might be right.
Who pats down, who pats down the patter down in chief?
That's an excellent point, Velita.
It reminds me of the old novelty song, who takes care of the caretaker's daughter while the caretaker's busy taking care?
Who pats down the patter down in chief?
And that's why these guys, Janet Napolitano, when she's saying, oh, there's nothing to be worried about, highly skilled government bureaucrats negotiating every crevice in your nether regions, that's because she knows they're never going to do it to her.
And come the revolution, folks.
They should.
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