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Dec. 7, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 7, 2010, Tuesday, Hour #2
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Greetings and welcome back.
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It's terrific to have you here.
Merry Christmas and happy holiday season, everybody.
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We are inching ever closer to when I divulge my take on the deal.
But we're still going to uh spend some time on the phones first.
You're the ones that made the election happen as it did.
We are still in the lame duck.
All this happening in the lame duck Congress, which the Democrats control by huge numbers.
Nevertheless, uh so far our informal survey here, our unscientific.
We've only had two people.
We've taken a lot of calls today already.
We're taking more calls today than we generally take in a whole show.
And the we only had two people in favor of this.
And the opposition to it seems to be centered on the fact that it's more tax, it's more unemployment extension benefits unpaid for, no work incentive, more spending, so forth, which is going to end up hurting Obama because it's going to keep the unemployment rate high.
Look, human nature is human nature.
You pay people not to work, they're not going to work.
It's that simple out there.
It's going to happen.
Now the White House is saying they got a 220 p.m. news conference this afternoon.
Uh in the uh somewhere at uh it's uh where's it gonna be briefing room or where Gibbs does his uh dog and pony show every day.
And we are saying, or we're hearing the White House is saying that the news conference a chance for Obama to further explain the deal.
That tells me the White House switchboard's melting down.
This tells me that the racism is at an all-time high on the left.
What do you mean by that, Mr. Lembaugh?
Wraith of them on the left.
Well, you guys are out there criticizing Obama.
He's a black president.
You've any bit of criticism that we've mounted against Obama all these uh all these years was racist.
So how does it feel?
Yeah.
Racism on parade.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
Now, by the way, Pelosi has come out and said she's for it, but the Hill is saying she attacked it.
Uh her full statement is somewhat ambiguous.
Claire McCaskill's pitchfork army uh probably on the way to Washington, although Claire McCaskins, that's just a Missouri term.
There really isn't a pitchfork army.
I'm from Missouri, and I can tell you right now, I've never heard pitchforks as being something exclusive to Missouri or even part of a Missouri term.
By the way, gasoline's up at 90 bucks now, or or oil at 90 bucks, and the gasoline uh price heading up to three bucks a gallon.
It's already there in some parts of country, 319 in California.
But let's go to the state control media.
They're not happy out there.
They are livid.
Jake Tapper.
Last night on ABC's World News tonight.
President Obama had originally told voters taxes on income of more than 250,000 a year should increase.
He gave in to Republicans on that.
So the family of the average Wall Street banker, paid more than 311,000 a year, will keep 9,318.
As opposed to the $8,012 the President wanted him to keep.
Take LeBron James.
He makes 14.5 million dollars a year and will continue to keep more than $666,000 of that, as opposed to the President's original position of letting him keep just over $8,000 of that.
The White House says President Obama would have gladly signed just the tax cut extensions for middle class Americans, but the votes simply were not there, and this is the best deal he could get.
Now, this is why they're they're livid and fit to be tied, because that just can't be.
What is their majority in the House?
The to say the votes are not there.
The votes clearly are there.
If Obama can't get the votes for ending the current tax rates for the wealthiest Americans, it's because the Democrats remember the Election outcome.
I cannot emphasize this enough.
We are still in the lame duck here.
The Democrats have a 100 seat majority in the House of Representatives.
Obama just said the votes were not there to give him what he wanted in a 100-seat majority.
House of Representatives.
Stop and think of that.
If that's even true.
But how do you like Jacob Tapper's lingo?
Obama was going to let Lebron James keep X. But no, Obama's only going to let LeBron James keep.
Why?
What is this Obama letting stuff?
I don't care.
Obama government government is going to let.
See, that's that's that furthers this notion that all money is Washington's.
And that whatever any of us end up with is what they allow us to have or to keep.
And it's a big bugaboo of mine.
Words mead things, and that that creates an image just isn't true.
Jake Tamper, uh, November 3rd, 2010.
Remember, it was Tamper who uh wanted Obama to decide who was rich enough.
It was Jake Tamper who wanted uh Obama to compromise on a number, like a million dollars in income.
This was during a QA at a news conference back in November, the third, right after the election.
They want all of the Bush tax cuts extended.
Are you willing to compromise on that?
Allow them to expire for everyone over a million dollars.
Where are you willing to budge on that?
It is very important that we're not taking a whole bunch of money out of the system from people who are most likely to spend that money on goods, services, groceries.
How that negotiation works itself out, I think it's too early to say.
Another thing it bugs me.
Only certain people spend money in ways that count.
Only what uh what uh very important.
We're not looking a whole bunch of money out of the system from people who are most likely to spend that money on goods services, groceries, buying a new winter coat for the kids.
I'm starting to resent this.
I'm starting to resent the fact that I don't spend my money in a way that's approving to Obama.
What the um this is this is fatuous.
People are more likely to spend that money on goods, services, groceries, buying a new.
I just bought a winter coat for me to use maybe twice a year.
But I just bought one.
Does that not count?
How about well, I don't, I'm not gonna get too personal here, but this notion.
These are jackassing comments, folks.
I am telling this is all of this government Obama letting people keep.
Obama deciding he doesn't know the half of anything.
Obama deciding who's spending money makes most sense.
That's right, Mr. Limbaugh, because people like you who don't need all the money you have, you just save it.
Well, what happens then, you dolt?
Okay, I save it.
What does that mean?
That means you put in a bank account, th no.
Well, some's in a bank account, but then what happens?
The bank spends it.
Whoever I give my money to spends it.
If I buy stocks with it, somebody's going out there and buying stocks with it.
You call that saving.
What's wrong with buying stock?
What's wrong with investing income?
What if I buy some municipal bonds?
They're in trouble out there.
Might be a stupid thing to do, but I'm doing it.
Might be a wise thing.
Who knows?
But this notion that people who aren't going out and buying a bunch of bubblegum are not helping the economy.
We gotta get our handle on this for this.
This is patently absurd.
That only the lower echelon of the middle class spending has any economic stimulus.
Everything that people do with their money is spending it.
one way or the other.
It's the only time money is not in circulation is when the government takes it away from you.
They're the ones who make all the spending errors with it.
They are the ones who go into debt.
They are the ones that can't be trusted with our money, and they've got it turned around to say they make wiser decisions than uh Than we do.
I thought we're supposed to be getting away from a consumerism economy anyway.
I thought these socialists don't like that.
I think they want Keynesian.
They want the government spending all the money.
What is all this talk about consumerism anyway?
This stuff really hacks me off.
It really hacks me off.
Here's uh F. Chuck Todd.
Another in the long line of ignoramuses in the media.
Here's F. Chuck last night on NBC's Nightly News was with Brian Williams.
And F. Chuck is bemoaning the lost revenue.
Chuck.
I want to know something, Chuck.
Do you really?
You have a wife.
I see your wedding ring.
Probably got kids.
You have a car, you've got life insurance, homeowners insurance.
Do you really spend your day worrying whether or not the government's got enough money when they've got a printing press, Chuck?
Do you really bemoan the loss of revenue?
Who does this?
I don't doubt that he does.
F. Chuck probably gets in depression fits over lost revenue.
Good lord.
Here's the soundbite from F. Chuck Todd on the NBC Nightly News.
Americans have been wondering how lawmakers in Washington could possibly extend tax breaks for wealthy Americans while allowing benefits for jobless Americans to be cut off.
Now, Brian, how much does this cost the government in lost revenue that they were projecting to have next year?
It's going to cost approximately half a trillion dollars.
Chuck, are you really worried about that?
They've got a printing press.
The government doesn't lose any money ever, Chuck.
They're the one entity that never loses anything.
They never do without Chuck.
Show me where a budget has been less one year than the next.
Full government budget.
And Brian Williams, Americans have been wondering how lawmakers in Washington can possibly extend tax breaks for wealthy Americans while allowing benefits for Americans to be cut off.
Americans are not wondering that, Brian.
Some of the kook fringe leftists on the websites might be, but not in this context.
Americans have been wondering how lawmakers in Washington could possibly extend tax breaks for wealthy Americans.
They're not.
In fact, a lot of the unemployed, those who want to work, are saying, when's Washington going to do something and stop punishing people who hire people?
These people pay no attention to election results.
And why?
Do they not read their own exit polls?
And F. Chuck, how much did this cost the government?
Chuck, do you really look at things this way?
Because nothing ever costs the government anything.
Nothing.
Besides, F. Chuck, it's our money.
Every dime is our money.
It isn't theirs.
We don't have a tax problem, Chuck.
We've got a spending problem.
We do not have a tax problem.
Don't we want people to put money in banks so they can lend it?
Isn't tight credit market one of the biggest problems facing the economy?
Well, that's for the rich.
They put their money in banks.
That doesn't count.
Their spending doesn't count.
Here's Pelosi's statement, by the way, which from her statement on the deal.
Any provision must be judged by two criteria.
Does it create jobs to grow our economy and does it add to the deficit?
Now, if that were really her criteria, she would have never allowed any of the legislation.
And they've ramm through Congress over the last four years.
She wouldn't allow it, because none of it grew the economy, and none of it reduced the deficit.
All right, Scarborough.
I guess.
You know, folks, I have to I have to.
I have to make an observation.
90%.
Jeez, it's even more than that.
100%.
99.9%.
Take it back.
95% of our media reaction to this comes from some NBC outlet.
The rest of it comes from CNN.
Some comes like Frank Rich was on Imus in the morning.
Shh.
But good lord, this is all.
I mean, how can how can a MSNBC?
You have to work to collect this amount of stupidity in one place every day.
Or ignorance or whatever.
You have this.
You have to make a concerted effort.
Joe Scarborough today on Morning Joe said this about the deal to extend the Bush tax cuts.
After this, you cannot say he's a socialist.
That's what the right has been calling him a socialist forever.
This is income redistribution, but it's taking it back to the rich.
I mean, millionaires are getting tax cuts, billionaires are getting tax cuts, the estate tax.
They're lowering the estate tax.
They are giving payroll tax breaks for the next couple of years.
He has become a Jack Kemp Democrat.
Uh, Joe.
Um there is no redistribution of income to the rich.
Where do you get this?
Well, I know we've been hanging around Chuck Todd.
You gotta allow for certain things he has to say over there to keep his job, but are there no limits?
Redistribution to the rich.
Who we taking the money from, Joe?
Where I mean, if if if if what billionaires at the estate tax, the billionaires are getting estate tax tax.
Where were we who who who has the money now, Joe, that we're taking it from and giving it to the billionaires?
Payroll tax, I mean, that's that's a one-year holiday of two percent.
But who are we taking the money from?
Technically, Joe, the estate tax is not a tax cut, it's an increase, it's zero, right?
Now there is no estate tax right now.
It's going up to 35%.
There aren't any tax cuts.
Technically speaking, the estate tax right now is zero.
You know how many families are trying to figure out well, never mind.
I'm not gonna go there.
Well, it's just you know it's a lot of life, end-of-life planning going on out there, and it's time is dwindling here.
By definition now, the state tax of zero ends at midnight on December 31st.
All right, I gotta take a break.
We'll be back.
Don't go anywhere.
I got a quick question here for F. Chuck Todd.
Chuck, have you calculated how much your salary from NBC costs the government?
You ever Chuck, you ever sat around and if you run the numbers, and do you worry about it?
Do you worry about the cost to government of your salary?
I'm not just talking about your taxes, F. Chuck.
Let's say I'm just guessing, I don't know how much F. Chuck makes.
What is a news business?
Star NBC, let's let's say F. Chuck's in there at he does a lot of double duty, works at MSNBC, which you really gotta pay the stars to do that.
And then he's uh news director, bureau chief, or whatever.
Let's say F. Chuck's at five million.
F Chuck.
You ever wonder?
Not just your salary, that five million that you make, the 14 million that Brian Williams makes, oh, the and Green Mitchell, whatever she makes, I mean how much is that costing government?
Do you worry about it?
Have you ever calculated how much it costs the government to let you keep any of what you earn, Chuck?
At what point, Chuck, will you get upset of the government not letting you keep certain amount of money?
Let's say, Chuck, you make five million instead of the government wants three million of it.
That's still costing the government two million dollars, the way I look at it, the way you do.
Chuck's probably listening, so the government doesn't pay me NBC doesn't.
No, no, no, Chuck, the way you think all money is government.
Government allows NBC to pay UX.
What does that cost them?
What's it cost the government, Chuck, for you to earn anything?
You know, run around and worry about this.
I'm trying to illustrate absurdity here by being absurd.
Because this is patently absurd to start worrying about what it costs the government.
And Chuck, you know what Newsweek says I earn.
No, I'm not, I mean, that's we all play games here.
If Chuck, do you ever worry about what that's costing the government?
Because I don't.
Another audio sum.
We squeeze one in here.
Mark Halperin on NBC, Morning Joe Today question: shouldn't Republicans be called out on their hypocrisy here when all the dust settles?
Isn't that what we're gonna see, Mark?
President cares about getting things done.
He doesn't care about making the base happy.
He doesn't care that much about getting re-elected right now.
He cares less about it than almost anyone I've ever covered.
He wants to do the right thing.
Now it was just yesterday that Halpern had a piece hoping for a catastrophe for this guy to get re-elected.
But he doesn't care about it.
He doesn't care about getting re-elected right now.
He cares about getting things done.
This is the first legislative loss Obama has taken in two years.
The first attempt to damage the country he's lost at.
One way to look at this.
We'll be back.
Your calls coming up next.
Hey, by the way, just a little aside here for my fanboys over at Gawker.com.
You need to read Richard Cohen today in the Washington Post, because he called you guys the cesspool of journalism.
Richard Cohen of the Washington Post called my fanboys over at Gawker the cesspool of journalism today.
It's a it's a story about WikiLeaks and how the media is not doing its watchdog job anymore.
Uh and uh got a little good gig gib.
Take two gratuitous swipe at the Gorker guys.
And I they probably saw it, but in case they didn't.
Well, I like the Gawker guy and the Gonker guys, you know, take every occasion they can in an infantile way to take swipes at me.
But in a way, it's uh sort of a good nature.
It's the comments at the Gawker guy stories that are really the the uh the filthy stuff.
But the Gawker guys themselves, they're not I mean, you just gotta know who they are.
You don't know who you're dealing with.
I kind of like the Gawker guys, but I just want them to know here that Richard Cohen, the Washington Post called them the um the cesspool of journalism.
Michael Shearer Time magazine, the Swampland Blog, why Obama compromised on tax cuts long before the midterm ballots had been counted, White House aides have begun to mull a coming agony of divided government.
As the Obama team worked out its options, one priority kept coming to the top.
However, the next two years shook out, they told themselves Barack Obama needed to convince the great middle of the American electorate once again that he was fighting for them, the bitter clingers.
He's never convinced them of that.
The president presented a series of major concessions to the Republican Party.
Proposals he had campaigned against, and with which he said he still disagreed.
For two years, expiring income tax cuts put into place by Bush 43 would be extended for all income groups, including the richest two percent.
A cut on the estate tax would also be extended, with no taxes on the first five million of inheritance and a 35% tax and everything else.
Now, the estate tax is an increase.
There is no estate tax right now.
In exchange, Obama said that he had secured An extension of unemployment benefits for 13 months and a number of tax cuts for education expenses, families with churrin, and a low income from the 2009 Recovery Act that were set to perspire.
And a 2% FICA or withholding tax holiday.
But at the White House, where there is much anxiety about the staggering performance of the economy, this is considered a victory in crafting the compromise.
Obama may be able to effectively able to sneak another stimulus bill through Congress by capitalizing on the Republican habit of refusing to acknowledge the deficit impact of tax cuts.
Now, I reasonably smart guy.
I don't know what this means.
Obama may be able to effectively sneak another stimulus bill through Congress by capitalizing on the Republicans' refusal to acknowledge the deficit income of taxes.
Anyway, they're looking a point is they're I uh I'll I'll bet you uh that Obama is gonna portray this as stimulus today.
Because Shearer mentions it there in Time Magazine, the LA Times, this is uh this is of uh an editorial, uh facing a backlash from the left, the Obama regime on Monday defended the deal that it cut with Republicans to extend all of the Bush era tax cuts by characterizing the plan as a stimulus package.
So the Bush tax cuts are a stimulus package.
Now that hardly puts Obama in a good position.
Even if they expire, even if they're it's only a temporary extension for Bush tax cuts.
I mean, for all these years, these these are the things that were destroying the economy.
The Bush tax cuts responsible for everything.
The Iraq war, no weapons of mass destruction, Valerie Plame, all of that.
I mean, these Bush tax cuts.
It was like showing Dracula the cross, these guys, hey, now all of a sudden they're a stimulus.
An economic stimulus?
And the White House already calling it that.
That's not a win-win for them.
Now that's on this on this uh on the two-year extension, I can tell you what Obama's thinking.
He's saying it's just two years, and by the time we get to the presidential race 2012, I'm gonna be all over this.
We're not going to extend them anymore, we're gonna be talking tax increases, I'll get my base back.
That's what he's figuring.
He's figuring just like every other politician, that two years nobody's gonna remember this, particularly his people.
That's what he's I guarantee you, that's what he's thinking.
That he's got time to do this.
And in his mind, what he got here was another year of unemployment extension, which is also, I don't think is good for him.
I think it's going to keep unemployment high.
So it's it's going to create the impression, uh, properly so that there is no economic recovery going on.
You can say there's a booming recovery if unemployment is still 9.810%.
It's still 9.81% and 16, 17% real unemployment.
But Obama's not worrying about getting re-elected, Mark Cowpern says, because yesterday did his stories that sees uh, you know, it's you know, nobody wants a catastrophe but starts talking about how Bush 43 benefited from 9-11, how Clinton benefited from Oklahoma City, oh where is such a catastrophe for Obama.
And I'd say he's already had a bunch of them.
He's had the uh oil spill, the economy in general.
But if he's not worried about getting re-elected, he's only worried about the right thing, then why would we have a two-year deadline on the tax extensions?
Now, this is the first legislative loss Obama has taken.
And it's occurring in the lame duck.
It's occurring with the Democrats and 100-plus seat Majority in the House of Representatives and 59 votes in the Senate.
Although they lost it's 55.
Yeah.
No, no, it's still 50, it's still 59.
He lost five votes.
He lost Manchin, he lost because he's going to lose a lot of guys because of 2012 when they saw the election returns.
But until this compromise was announced, we'd all taken it in the shorts.
Obamacare, this stupid financial regulatory reform bill bailing out failed businesses, oil drilling policy, the moratorium.
Everything he's done has been an attack on the greatness of this country.
Everything Obama has done from his standpoint's been a success.
Everything he's done.
Stimulus, TARP, General Motors Chrysler, oil drilling moratorium, health care.
Everything he's done has been assault on the traditions and institutions that defined the greatness of this country.
This one, he failed.
From his standpoint.
Now I know unemployment was extended, but this is the first time Obama isn't able to go ahead with another policy that makes the country worse off.
That would have been a tax increase.
He didn't get a tax increase.
He did on the estate side.
What are you shaking your head about?
Well, I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm gradually weaving my way into this, into my opinion, yeah.
But I'm before I get to the final pronouncement, I'm telling you, giving you my thought process on all this.
I mean, I gotta know what it is.
I'm just not gonna say I like it, and now back to the phones.
I'm not gonna say don't like it, and now back to the phones.
I'm gonna tell you how I've arrived at it.
And I still haven't told you the final like it or don't like it.
But I will tell you that a lot of this is not to his benefit.
Getting this extension of unemployment, I hate, I hate the fact that it's not paid for.
This election was about spending.
I hate the fact that it's 13 weeks.
We could have hung in there for six.
We don't need look.
There's an folks, for those of you who hate this, there are some realities.
One reality is there are three weeks left in the Christmas news cycle.
Okay, and not once in those three weeks can they do a story on the Republicans being scrooge.
Now, these sadly are factors our guys take into account.
But this 13-week business brings this back.
A 13-month business give takes us back to this time next year where it's Christmas time again, and guess what?
They're gonna be extended again.
Guarandam to you, they're gonna be extended again.
And that really rubs me raw.
Really?
Could have done this for six months, could have done it for four months, and you could have had a moral component and said, look, this is a disincentive to work.
You could have said, okay, we're gonna extend it, but you're gonna be cleaning up the highway.
Look at welfare reform.
That worked.
Welfare reform required you to go to work, be looking for work, find work to get welfare benefits.
And then Clinton came along and signed that, and these guys immediately do away with it.
Because they're trying to create a permanent underclass.
There's 13 weeks of this stuff, the fact it's not paid for, that's bad enough.
The fact that it's harming the people getting it, and believe me, it is.
In the long run, it is.
It's a disincentive to work, and the longer these people are unemployed, the less skilled and experienced they become.
Therefore, the less qualified they become as time goes on.
It's not good for them in the long haul.
And they're not rich, it's not even a middle class income that they're getting.
It's a lower middle class, and it's it's there's no dignity attached to this.
This is this is It just stinks.
But it's Christmas time.
And they don't want any covers of John Boehner and Mitch McConnell on Time magazine as the guys of the year as Ebenezer Scrooge.
Or the Grinch, as they did with Newt.
Or what have you.
I understand all of this stuff.
I also understand we won the election and we have more power than we're willing to use here.
We had more power than we were willing to use.
But they don't think so.
I don't think, because they live in Washington.
They live and breathe there, and their perspective is different from ours.
The people, the voters, we are all ahead of them.
And Wash, we know we have a better handle on what the people of this country are thinking, and they do even after the election results.
I have told you of the ranking Republican that called me before the election and asked me to tell you to lower your expectations because they're not going to have any power, because they're not going to have any control.
They're not going to be able to do anything.
Ask me to tell you that.
We are ahead of the game with it.
We know more about how we think than they do.
And we have a better handle on how teetering and tottering Obama is and all this stuff than they do.
They're still concerned about Obama's skin color.
There's a whole bunch of stuff here that's got them handcuffed.
And they're the ones putting the handcuffs on themselves, nobody else.
Now, also personally, being purely personal, I love the fact my taxes aren't going to go up with the extension of the deal here.
I love it.
I'm going to be totally honest with you.
The way our money's being spent, I'm no, no way.
I mean we all pay enough.
Nobody, nobody in this in this society is under or uh uh undertaxed.
Nobody.
But I also think why are we clapping our hands on an extension?
Where is the cut?
The table has been set to where the outcome of no change is considered a victory.
A real victory would have been tax cuts, corporate tax rate reduction, capital gains reduction.
That's scheduled to go up, by the way.
I don't haven't heard what's going to happen on capital gains.
Something that would have done something for job creation.
Now I know there's next year when we have the majority in the House.
And maybe uh they're waiting on that.
Just get through Christmas.
Let's get through Christmas without them calling us the Grinch.
Because they're just dying to do that.
That's why this whole extension thing's been set up on this timetable.
But it's going to happen again next Christmas.
Hell, I know prosecutors who don't want to go to trial because juries turn all mushy at the holidays.
Don't even want to send Charles Manson away during the holidays.
Understandably.
Oops, look at this.
I am way long here.
But I gotta go take a break because of that.
We'll be back right after this.
Back we are, Rush Limbaugh and the Excellence in Broadcasting Network back to the phones we go.
Now to Alexander, Louisiana, this Roger.
Uh, your thoughts on the deal, sir.
I don't like the deal at all, Rush.
I don't think we should have took it.
Uh everybody, every politician worth his salt knows that there was no way Obama was gonna allow taxes to go up on middle class and low income.
So we had the leverage there.
And instead we extend it for two years, and now we're gonna have to fight that battle again in 2012.
I I just I just don't think we we we had better leverage than that.
We could have got them extended permanently.
He was not gonna allow them to go up on low-income people because if he did after 2012, there wouldn't be enough Democrats in Washington to fill up a Volkswagen.
All right now.
Um that would be wonderful.
Yes.
If it were true, but what about the notion that uh the devil's advocate with you here that you think the Democrats with their media buddies could have succeeded in painting or tarring the Republicans as opposing tax cuts or continued rates for the middle class because they're holding out for their rich buddies, because that's you know Obama was in the process of trying that.
Well, I I agree that he's got the media on his side, but after we become uh speaker of the House, we're gonna get some access to some uh uh media ourselves, and we can say, hey, we wanted to extend them.
He was the one that didn't want to.
And after January, we could have sent a bill to him saying extend all of them and let him veto it, and then we can say, look, we tried to do it and he vetoed it.
I hear you.
I'm sympathetic to your point of view on this.
You happen to be in the majority of people I've spoken to.
I'll just tell you, uh, folks, the mass majority of people I've talked to hate this.
They don't like any aspect of it.
Not one.
I can't tell you.
Both, you know, Republican media buddies of mine and just friends.
Not a whole lot of love for the deal.
Just telling you, be back.
Three years after he led the charge to require consumers to ditch their old incandescent light bulbs in favor of these new CFL, the uh the uh whatever they say, spaghetti light bulbs, Fred Upton now wants to be the man to help undo that law as the next chairman of House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Fred Upton wants to end the ban on incandescent light bulbs that he originally supported in exchange for being Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
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