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Feb. 2, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 2, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #2
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We had a number of people call this week and point out, rightfully so, that it's uh it's incredibly interesting.
Obama hears the concerns and the demands and the desires of whatever numbers of people there are in the streets in Cairo.
He does not hear the Tea Party.
He couldn't care less about the tea.
It's a great observation.
What you need to understand is that there is a huge difference between hard of hearing and tired of hearing.
Obama is simply tired of hearing any opposition to his ideas and his agenda.
He is tired of hearing from Middle America.
He's tired of hearing from flyover country.
In fact, he never has liked hearing from people he considers to be outside the ruling class.
But I think it's it's it's great that more and more people see in the old days.
I look I look at this and I revel, but in the old days, uh there would not have been a media for people to share this kind of conclusion.
In the old days, there would have been riots in Egypt.
The media would have covered them.
Whatever the president wanted conveyed about them would be conveyed if he were a Democrat.
And there would be nobody to oppose it.
I mean, they'd be opposing it, they wouldn't be heard, they wouldn't have uh an avenue.
And this, I think, is one of the things the Democrats are having trouble adjusting to is that they've never really had to work hard to earn their position in the media.
It's just there.
Now there is competition, and they don't quite know how to deal with the competition, so all they want to do is try to shut us up.
So they get ridiculous with this business of we're responsible for whatever acts of violence occurred domestically in the uh in the country.
Anyway, great to have you back, folks.
L Rushball here at 800-282-2882, the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
How long do you think it would be before Al Gore or somebody in the environmentalist wacko movement would take the occasion of this extraordinary winter weather to say, see, see, I told you global warming, climate change.
Well, it has happened.
Al Gore has posted this on his blog, Al's Journal.
Last week on his show, Bill O'Reilly asked why has Southern New York turned into the tundra, and then said he had a call in to me.
Well, I appreciate the question.
As it turns out, the scientific community has been addressing this particular question for some time now, and they say that increased heavy snowfalls are completely consistent with what they have been predicting as a consequence of man-made global warming.
In fact, scientists have been warning for at least 20 years that global warming could make snowstorms more severe.
Snow has two simple ingredients, cold and moisture.
Warmer air collects moisture like a sponge until it hits a patch of cold air when temperatures dip below freezing.
A lot of that moisture creates a lot of snow.
A rise in global temperature can create all sorts of havoc, ranging from hotter dry spells to colder winters, along with increasingly violent storms, flooding, forest fires, loss of endangered species.
This is what Al Gore has posted.
The problem is nobody believes it anymore.
You're not going to convince anybody driving around Chicago or stranded.
Do you know I don't know if you are aware, I am because we are hosting a couple of events this weekend in Dallas for clients.
That city, DFW shut down yesterday for a while, and they're still playing ketchup, getting people in there.
There were no you couldn't get there from late yesterday afternoon through last night from Houston.
You could get there from New York, but not too many other places.
And now there's a new storm in the south.
I mean, they've got winchels below zero.
The two teams have had to move their practice sites indoors because of all this.
Now by the weekend, when it gets there, 40s and 50s for the actual Super Bowl weekend, but this is all playing happy.
You're not going to convince those people.
They're in the middle of global warming.
And we are fortunate to have been able to help expose the hoax of all of this.
It's a pure unadulterated hoax.
Even we had a soundbite last week or earlier this week, and I didn't have a chance to get to it.
One of the one of the founders of Greenpeace.
Some Patrick is his first name.
I can't remember his last name.
But he admitted that the whole environmental movement is solely oriented toward anti-capitalism.
Just exactly as I've always said.
The militant environmental movement since the early 90s is simply the new repository for displaced communists after the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union went by by.
Anti-capitalist.
It's all they are.
Just like the feminists, another anti-capitalist movement, pro-socialist, pro-Marxist, pro-big government.
That's all they are.
And now here you've got Gore, who I mean, he's he's not a scientist quoting all these people for for a guy who pretends to be so scientific.
You'll notice what I read to you here from his blog.
He seldom, if ever, backs up his assertions with actual documentation.
This quote, that long quote that Gore posted above that I just read, is from a famous scientist and climate expert.
And that is the columnist Clarence Page.
And I kid you not, it is Clarence Page who wrote In fact, scientists have been warning for at least two decades that global warming could make, would make snowstorms more severe.
Snow has two simple ingredients cold and moisture.
Warmer air collects moisture like a sponge until it hits a patch of cold air.
When temperatures dip below freezing, a lot of moisture creates a lot of snow.
Clarence Page wrote that.
Gore is citing it here as scientific community evidence.
Clarence Page, who writes the Chicago newspaper syndicates him, but we know that Clarence Page isn't a scientist.
He's not even a pretend climate change scientist.
He's just a liberal pundit.
So I I would like to see some of these authoritative predictions from scientists from 20 years ago that supposedly claim that man-made global I don't want to hear from UN hacks.
I don't want to hear, I want to hear from actual scientists.
I would like to hear, for example, from our own climate expert, Dr. Roy Spencer.
Dr. Spencer, I ask you now, 20 years ago, did you forecast, did any reputable climate scientists forecast massive warming leading to record snowfalls 20 years ago, exactly as we're seeing today, in the manner in which Clarence Page describes it here, sponges and the like.
A rise in global temperature can create all sorts of havoc.
Hot or dry spells.
We haven't had those.
Colder winters.
Rise in global temperature equals colder winters.
People used to buy this until we exposed it.
But now the greatest weapon we have is all of this extraordinary weather.
I don't care what people think.
They know this isn't global warming.
Now they may be buying into climate change if they really are invested in this.
But if they do that, even they must know that the terminology here is uh is being changed.
Now, let's go back.
We're gonna go back 11 years.
This is from the climate research unit, University of East Anglia, the Hadley bunch, the people who were at the forefront of the hoax.
We were warned by the climate research unit at the University of East Anglia as recently as March of 2000 that snow would soon be a thing of the past.
And now I mention this because these were people who were at the forefront of the hoax, at the forefront of the idea that we were destroying the climate with man-made uh uh greenhouse gases emissions, driving RSUVs, you name it, you know what it is, burning coal for fuel.
We were destroying the planet.
Now, Gore in this post Says, oh yeah, scientists 20 years ago warned us of all these massive snowfalls as the world's climate got warmer.
But March 20th of 2000.
According to Dr. David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climate research unit, University of East Anglia, within a few years, winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event.
Children just aren't going to know what snow is.
But you see, Al Gore's not a scientist.
He is a propagandist.
He has a considerable financial stake in the success of his own propaganda, and that's what this is about.
I hate to say it, but this is about Al Gore enriching himself on a hoax.
Propaganda.
So you can't expect him to bother too much about inconvenient details.
While he wants to tell us scientists are warning us 20 years ago that oh, the snows are going to get even worse, like we have never seen before ten years ago.
The experts at Hadley were telling us snow would become so rare that it would be something children will not even recognize.
They wouldn't even know what it is.
March of 2000.
Quick timeout, back right after this.
Don't go away.
I want to hear an audio sound by Joe Bastardi.
He was on the Fox & Friends show this morning to talk about Al Gore and all of these people.
Joe Bestardi is from um uh Acuweather.
And Steve Ducy said Al Gore came out last 48 hours on his website and said that scientists have said that all these storms are indicative of the Earth getting warmer.
You got evaporation out there, you got more precipitation, and hence what's going on here.
Uh, you, Mr. Bastardi, say that is not right.
You know what this is like with those folks?
It I don't mean to demean you.
It's like the more your opponent scores, the more points you get.
The fact of the matter is, these guys are sitting there is there any answer they don't own.
Four or five years ago, we're hearing no winters, uh, lots of hurricanes, everything else.
When the opposite happens, they say, Well, we're right about that.
There, people think that by 2030 we're back where we were in the early 1800s, which is a mini ice age.
And by the way, folks, cooling is worse than warming.
It takes a lot more energy.
That's why your energy bills go up in the winter to heat houses than it does to cool you down.
Right.
So, and it's a great point that Mr. Bastardi makes.
Is there any answer they don't own?
Whatever happens, they claim they called it.
They claim they were right.
There's no science about this whatsoever.
And I did get the answer from uh Dr. Spencer, and there was no scientific prediction that anybody took seriously that global warming would produce more snowfall.
It was the exact opposite.
It was Patrick Moore, the guy was trying to think of.
Fox Business Network, Varney and Company.
January 20th, Stuart Varney said, Why did you leave Greenpeace?
You mean you co-founded it?
Why did you leave?
Greenpeace was hijacked by political and social activists at the time who began adopting extremist positions on a number of issues.
I saw the writing on the wall, especially when they decided to ban chlorine worldwide, which happens to be the most important element for human health and medicine.
I had to leave because they were adopting positions I could not justify in science.
And since then they have adopted many positions, which I believe in some cases are the opposite to what they should be for truly being environmentally correct.
Stuart Varney, well, if you looked across the whole spectrum of the environmentalist wacko movement, would you say that it's still primarily anti-capitalist as opposed to pro-pure environment?
Yes, I believe it is.
It's more about globalization and anti-capitalism than it is about science or ecology.
Half a million kids go blind every year in the rice-eating countries because of vitamin A deficiency.
Golden rice invented twelve years ago could cure that overnight, and yet the activists have prevented it from being planted in Asia and Africa.
Exactly.
And they it's particularly Africa.
People are being forced to live backward lives and not modernize them to the theory that it is modernization which has led to the destruction of the planet.
So these people are essentially enforcing poverty on people found in the midst of it.
So Stuart Varney uh finally says, Now bring us up to speed for a moment.
The key debate seems to be around global warming.
Where do you stand on it?
Is it happening?
If it is happening, what would you, a former member of Greenpeace, do about it?
Global warming has been happening since about 1800 when the Little Ice Age came to an end and the Thames River in England stopped freezing over on a regular basis.
This is obviously a natural phenomenon.
The climate has been changing throughout the millennia and has generally been warmer than it is today for the last half billion years.
I personally believe that a little bit of warming would be good for the planet by and large.
Certainly we should be very concerned if it cools, because in a warmer world we can produce more food.
In a cooler world, we will only be able to produce less food.
I just do not believe that we have the proof of this, and the alarmism is driving us through scare tactics to adopt energy policies that are going to create a huge amount of energy poverty among the poor people in our society.
By design, by design, folks, it is how you keep people in need.
It is how you keep people from prospering.
The more people prosper, the less they need government, the less they need their elected officials.
It is hideous.
It is heinous.
What is being done in the name of progressives?
What is being done in the name of leveling the playing field?
What is being done in the name of closing the gap between the rich and the poor?
They're just making more poor people.
And don't forget for a moment.
What I passed on Monday.
This business in Egypt, you're not going to have a whole lot of people admitting it.
You've got rising food prices over there.
You have unemployment.
You have all of the domestic unrest.
Whatever politics these people are upset about, you got gut level economics that's behind this.
The Muslim Brotherhood comes into this at the end of it all.
This is they're not the political army.
Mohammed Obaradai, these people are hangers on.
These are the people trying to take advantage of these are the Rahmen manuals of the world.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
These protests, they may hate Mubarak, I don't care.
They may want freedom.
Good.
But but the idea here that that um this is all happening for a specific political reason is to miss the point.
There's gut level economics behind this.
And this is a socialist country.
It's not as bad as it has been, but this is what you get.
With a central planning authority on the economy, on health care, and everything else.
This is what you get shortages, rising prices.
You have no distribution, you have no production.
There's no incentive for any of it.
It's been demonstrated around the world every time it's tried.
And that's why so many Americans are so alarmed, because they know it's failed around the world and they don't understand why someone else wants to try it all over again here.
Well, I do understand why somebody else wants to try it all over again here.
It's about power.
It's about payback.
It's about any number of things that have nothing to do with what's best for the American people.
I defy anybody.
Take a look at the past two years of this regime and tell me how the American people have benefited.
Where is it?
Where's the benefit from the stimulus?
Where's the benefit from all of the shovel ready jobs?
Where is the rebuilt infrastructure?
There is one group of people who have benefited, and it's unions.
Primarily public sector unions.
Well, and the yeah, yeah, the automobile unions.
Yeah, they own Obama motors.
They have quite a large stake.
But these are this this is, I mean the payback.
These are people who are being rewarded for all of their hard work in tearing down capitalism all these years.
This is their reward for it.
Pete, in Alfretta, Georgia.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
You're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush Mega Ditto, thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Um on Faro Obama's uh speech last night, pegging the protesters on with the uh, you know, we got to get this done now.
I wonder where the mainstream media was back when George W. Bush, I remember the speech where he said, bring it on.
They pilloried the guy in the press for egging on the terrorists who, you know, were apparently sitting around innocently doing nothing at the time.
They said about Bush that that was unpresidential.
It was more like a cowboy, or you know, John Wayne, okay, bring it on, bring it on.
Yeah, bring it on.
And and and so we got the pharaoh out there saying this has got to be done now.
You know, we got to get out there now and do this.
How's that read by the protesters?
Well, we see what happened today over there.
Yeah, but there's there's there's a stark difference in the two.
When Bush says bring it on, he's leading America.
When George W. Bush post-9-11 said, bring it on, he is leading America.
He is inspiring America.
When Obama takes to TV last night and says whatever he says about wanting Mubarak out of there in a certain amount of, he's simply trying to take ownership of the issue.
He's not leading anything.
Although people react.
Obama's about me, me, me, me, me.
Whatever happens, I guarantee you, the political people in the White House, okay.
How can we use this to benefit our guy?
We got a re-election effort coming up.
How can we everything and the press too?
Oh, what does this mean for Obama?
Everything, folks.
What does it mean for Obama?
Well, he thinks so too.
How can I get in front of how can I own this?
So Obama goes on TV, not leading America, but actually doing the exact opposite, trying to own the actions of a mob for his own selfish reasons and purposes, which in effect then makes this country look totally ineffective.
President of the United States says, Calm down, disperse.
I'm gonna make this go away for you.
And what happens?
It gets worse.
Nobody's listening to him.
He has no moral authority.
This is not good for us around the rest of the world.
Now here we go.
I want to stay on the same theme here before we get back to the phones, because folks, there's evil being done out there.
This this attempt by Al Gore, this is utterly irresponsible.
I I it's worse than irresponsible.
There is a word.
I mean, I'll just tell you it's worse than irresponsible what Gore is doing.
Personally profiting off this extraordinary weather, which is subjecting people.
I mean, this is people are losing lives, people are losing livelihoods for a while.
This has wrought havoc.
And to try to take the occasion of this to advance uh a a f a false fallacious premise for the purposes of what?
Personal enrichment, advancement of a liberal cause is embarrassing, it's irresponsible, it is it's worse than that.
It's evil.
They have all of these people, and it's like Joe Bastardi said, no matter what position, is there a position they don't own?
They have yet to be right about anything, and yet everything that's happened, they've predicted.
This is the worldwide left in cons in consort with the American left, and they are destructive.
And now we've got the EPA under the authority of this regime in total control of greenhouse gases and how to regulate them.
And the Republicans, it's as I keep I keep saying it's it's a shame that news about Egypt and the weather is keeping everybody from hearing about some of the good things the Republicans are trying to do in the House and Senate, like this.
AP sources, House GOP ready as restrictions on EPA.
In a sharp challenge to the regime, House Republicans intend to unveil legislation today.
They may have done it by now, to ban the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
They expect to advance the bill quickly.
The official said the bill would nullify all the steps the EPA has taken to date on the issue, including a threshold finding that greenhouse gases constitute a danger to the public health and welfare.
Once they have that authority, folks, it's all over.
It's the same thing with health care.
You put them in charge of who gets treated and who doesn't, and it's all over based on call.
It doesn't matter.
You take you out of the equation.
When you have a bunch of bureaucrats with the power guiding them that says greenhouse gases constitute a danger to the public health and welfare.
There's no limits on them.
I mean, when you're fighting danger.
When you're fighting elements harmful to the public health and welfare, you can define anything you want, however, you need in order to exercise unchecked federal power.
Marshall law based on a hoax is one way of putting it.
Now a greenhouse gas, one of them is what you exhale.
Carbon dioxide, greenhouse gas, you exhale it.
And somehow we've gotten to the point where that is destroying the planet.
I happen to believe in God.
I believe in a loving, brilliant.
I know that just there is no way.
I don't want to sound simpleton here, but there is not.
It is not possible that we would be created by a creator in such a way that we would destroy by virtue of our created existence our own planet and environment.
It just doesn't compute, and yet that's what these people are trying to tell us.
I don't care whether they believe in God or not.
The very idea that the natural existence of mammals, something we can't do anything about, the only thing we can do is die to prevent carbon dioxide coming from us.
That's all we can do.
And even then we're going to decompose.
Well, not all mammals is true.
Basically just humans.
But all of this has been a huge insult to my intelligence.
Now we have that gas, carbon dioxide, is now called a danger.
To public health and welfare.
Do I remember winters like this when I was a kid?
Yeah, this uh I remember 1967.
I was 16 years old.
Chicago's had this before.
I there was a day in February of 1979.
I had just started work for the Kansas City Royals a month prior.
I had gone home the end of February for my dad's birthday, his birthday is February 26th.
And I went home on a weekend closest to his birthday.
And on a Saturday night, Sunday of this weekend, 24 inches of snow fell on Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and eight to ten miles away, no snow fell.
Regardless, we couldn't get out of there.
I had a drive back to Kansas City to get back to work.
I got on the phone.
I called the boss whose name had be Herc Robinson, and I was scared to death.
I thought, you know, that there wasn't the internet back then.
I was gosh, I hope he believes me.
Because there isn't any snow in St. Louis, there's no snow anywhere here.
And are they reporting snow in Cape Girardeau in Kansas City?
So I got on the phone and I Herc, I can't get oh, that's that's fine.
Just get here when you can.
What?
24 inches of snow.
I mean, my yeah, I've had ice stores.
We've had school cancel because of freezing rain and ice storms, and we've had power lines drop because of ice on them, and we've had people's roofs cave in because of ice on them, and we've had store roofs and stuff collapse because of the weight of snow on them.
What are you asking me this for?
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
People are acting like this has never happened before.
Well, let me explain part of that.
I don't actually mind that.
I don't mind the drive-by's doing this as Armageddon.
To this extent.
This ain't global warming.
Anything that convinces people they're written global warming going out there.
I'm fine.
If the if the drive by's want to fall into a trap that they made.
The last ten years, it's getting hotter, it's getting hotter, it's getting hotter, we're all gonna die, we're gonna die, we're gonna die.
We gotta go buy electric cars, SUVs, change light bulbs, warming, warming, warming, and then we get what people think is a winter like we've never had.
Um I'm down with it.
If it convinces them that there's no global warming, fine.
Drive by go to town, lie all you want.
You tell people it's never been this bad before.
Because it's all happening in the context of them thinking it's because of global warming, and they're not gonna believe it anymore.
So as far as I'm concerned, drive buyers are cutting their own throats, and I'm down with it.
Hunky Dory.
I must take a um let me let me grab a quick phone call here before we go to the break.
Who is it?
Chalice, Idaho.
This is Carla.
Carla, great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Greetings from Flyover Country Rush.
Yes, ma'am.
Yes, ma'am.
I'll tell you what.
Um, couple of things.
Congratulations on your wedding.
You looked very handsome.
Catherine was stunning.
Thank you.
And she still is, by the way.
I'm sure she is.
And don't you find it ironic that all of the Islamic states that tout they're for the people, they're looking after their best interest.
Allah is good, all of our run by dictators.
Hmm, let me uh yeah.
Uh not just Islamic states, by the way.
Well, but but but isn't that the direction that that our president is headed and would like to see us.
He's not a Christian.
Um, although he touts it, he says he's for our best interest, although Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
He says he's a Christian.
Right.
He says he does.
And he he does go to church.
But I don't believe it.
Okay.
Any more than he spent twenty years in the um the church with the Reverend Wright, and he didn't hear anything.
I don't believe that.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
But I just wanted to get it out there.
The president says he's a Christian.
I yeah, I heard that too, but I don't believe it.
And as far as the environmentalists, my my position has always been, you know, these guys, um, uh they they come up with this chicken little, the sky is falling, uh, global warming.
My premise has always been they lack leadership.
They need to get off the planet first, show us how it's done so that we'll have more air, space, and water for ourselves.
That's an excellent point.
Where that is a good question for the okay, where on earth is the ideal that we should all emulate?
That's a good question for the wackos.
Where are there's got to be someplace here you guys like.
Where on earth is it being done the right way?
Show us.
Or if there is no such place, you guys go create it.
You guys go move somewhere, you all live together and show us.
I like that idea out there, Carla.
I really do.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, again, let me be very, very clear.
Carla stated her opinion that Pharaoh Obama is not a Christian.
He goes to church and says he's a Christian, but she simply said that she doesn't believe it.
I wanted to make clear I pointed Carla, you still there.
Carla?
Yes.
Carla, uh, uh what what do you think about uh the controversy over where Pharaoh Obama was born?
You know, uh there's two sides to the story, and then there's the truth.
So there's three versions.
Could be.
Okay.
I I don't know.
I haven't seen any evidence to either way.
Anyone can make a document.
Anybody can get a photocopy.
But there's two sides of the story, and then there's the truth.
And you know, I'm the jury's still out on that one.
All right, so your fallback is you haven't seen any proof.
No.
Yeah.
No.
And and uh one more comment.
Yeah.
Last week you had a caller, a woman, and I have to tell you, Rush, I believe your application for sainthood has been pre-approved for listening to her.
Oh, yes, I remember.
Uh she was like listening to the Energy Bunny on speed.
Yeah, but that was see.
I got I checked the email after that call.
And And people get rid of her.
Oh boy, why do you let these people waste value?
Eric, I loved it.
I had more fun with that call.
That was the woman that was upset with me the way I laughed, the way I did a little kid voice.
The woman was upset.
She she yeah, it was I love callers like that.
That that was She was upset with your delivery and how you treat your people, and she treated you just like she accused you of treating everybody else.
Yeah, yeah, it was I loved it.
I love I love callers like that.
Caller's name was Pat.
Whatever.
Yeah.
But um, it was Pat.
Your application for Saint Hood, I'm sure has been pre-approved for for just listening to all those people.
Thank you very much.
Um I hope you have a wonderful marriage and find great happiness and whatever it is, you enjoy it.
Thank you very much, Carla.
And uh same to you.
If you're in flyover country, wave to us.
I will.
How far is uh how far is Chalice from Court of Wayne?
About um 400 miles.
Oh, how far is some catchem?
120.
Oh.
Well, I'll be in catch them now and then.
There you go.
Send Sun Valley.
Yep, I know where the Sun Valley is.
We're 120 miles, and my elevation is more than my population.
Oh, that's gotta be fun.
Oh, yeah.
Well, we'll take an extra wide approach pattern, fly over your place and dip the wings next time we're there.
There you go.
And and the thing is, you know what?
This is a place you could get lost.
Would you want to?
Uh no, what I'm saying is you could you could escape from everything.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, I see what you mean.
Yeah.
You could you could it's it's uh um it's uh one of God's best creations, it's heaven on earth.
They have internet?
Oh, yeah.
Direct TV?
Oh, yeah.
Cool.
Well, here's the thing.
The elevation is more than the population.
This is the third largest county in the state of Idaho, area of land size, 70th overall in the entire United States, and in this county, there isn't a single stoplight.
There's not a single stoplight.
Correct.
Wow.
Just stop signs?
Correct.
Wow.
Well, I appreciate that.
That's that's tiny.
That would be tiny.
Understand what she means.
Brief time out, back with more after this.
By the way, one other point.
We are in the middle of a worldwide Great Recession.
In that case, I think everybody would uh agree to this.
It's a worldwide see if if if not a great recession, it's a significant downturn.
How come we are still having global warming?
I mean, economic activity is way down, is it not?
The things that produce greenhouse gases, all of the man-made activity that caused planetary destruction, climate destruction, way down.
And it's not having any impact.
We don't have anybody out there praising this, do we?
No, we've got Al Gordon, the others, it's getting worse.
Every snowfall, look at this, getting warmer, warmer, warmer, and it's got causing all this snow.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen.
For those of you who don't have a job, this is what the environmentalists want.
This is we're part of the way there, what they say is necessary to stop the destruction of the planet.
Why isn't it working?
This is Bob in Montgomery, New York.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hey, Megadetto Rush, how are you?
Fine, thanks much.
That's great.
Earlier today, you mentioned that the Attorney General in Wisconsin, I believe, said that they were not going to be complying with the health care law since it was deemed void.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
If the penalties for not attaining coverage were going to be levied uh by the IRS, how would the attorney generals for different states protect their citizens from the IRS?
Uh well, I don't think if the law is void.
You see, here's your premise.
The premise, your question is that a judge voids the law, but that Obama can still continue to implement it and therefore fine people.
Well, isn't That the apparent intention based on the administration's take on everything?
It is.
Well, if if they continue to go forward in the face of this ruling and use the IRS to levy fines against citizens, how would an attorney general protect the citizens against it?
I don't know that an attorney general would have to.
I don't think there's a federal judge or a tax court judge that would side with the government if a citizen refused to pay a fine based on a law that's been proclaimed unconstitutional.
I mean, if if if if if we have a judge proclaim a law unconstitutional, and yet the federal government can continue to implement it and in fact implement penalties, financial penalties.
Uh, we got something worse than a constitutional crisis here.
We're we're living we're talking dictatorship totalitarianism.
The law here would be totally on the side of the Wisconsin Attorney General.
The law would be totally on the side of any citizen refusing to pay any kind of a penalty imposed by virtue of a law that has been declared unconstitutional and voided.
Uh, bottom line, ladies and gentlemen, uh as far as the caller's question, there's nothing to defend against.
The law has been voided.
There there is no law.
They they can't impose the fine.
You don't have to defend yourself.
And this provision doesn't get implemented until 2013 or 2014, anyway, long after the regime's face their last election.
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