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March 31, 2011, Thursday, Hour #2

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	But you will be relieved to hear that operational control of the Kinetic Scope Limited Rush Limbaugh Show has been transferred to the international community.
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	community is it legitimate.
	That's what President Obama has assured us and I'm happy to take him at his word for it.
	Just before we just say one other thing about this business of because they're lawyers and doctors, they're professional people, it's safe to arm these guys.
	John from Killene in Texas, and if you know Texas, you'll know where Killeen is near.
	He said, here at Fort Hood, too, we armed one of those doctors to find out who he was too.
	And that's, of course, a reference to the U.S. Army psychiatrist who killed 14 people at Fort Hood, Texas, and in effect got wafted up into the position where he was able to do that, Major Hassan, because at every step along the way, political correctness prevented everybody from pointing out that the guy was an obvious nut.
	His superiors worried that he was psychotic, but they thought it wouldn't look good to report one of the few Muslim psychiatrists in the United States Army to report him for being psychotic.
	And so they didn't report him.
	They promoted him to major and they transferred him to Fort Hood and they found out what happened.
	And there's an interesting point about all this.
	We have money, no object government.
	Money, no object government.
	Major Hood, what's fascinating about Major Hood is that he was being monitored by not just one but two anti-terrorism teams, because it's money, no object government.
	And neither of them spotted the fact that he was an obvious loon jihadist who was likely, who was not, who was objectively an enemy of the United States, who was committing, in effect, committing treason.
	He was a treasonous figure.
	And he was being monitored by two anti-terrorism teams.
	You know, most countries, they just have him monitored by one.
	So if they fail to spot him, at least they fail to spot him at half the price that we failed to spot him in the United States.
	This money-no object government.
	Money-no-object government.
	And that is for our foreign intelligence, too.
	How much do you really think the CIA knows about these guys?
	The CIA, you know, all the budget business going through?
	A couple of weeks ago, a new item turned up in the budget, a request from the CIA for an emergency appropriation of $513.7 million.
	That's a half a billion dollars.
	And you were thinking, okay, what's that for?
	What's that for?
	Topling Kim Jong-il maybe?
	Taking out the Iranian nuclear program?
	No, it was an emergency payment to stop the CIA pension fund going bankrupt.
	And if they don't get the money, by next year, 2012, the CIA pension fund will go bankrupt with unfunded liabilities of $6.4 billion.
	This is the CIA, the most lavishly funded intelligence agency on the planet.
	And we forgive them a lot.
	You know, they failed to see the collapse of the Iron Curtain coming until it happened.
	They failed to spot that Pakistan was going nuclear until it happened.
	But when an intelligence agency fails to spot that its own pension fund is bankrupt until it happens, then maybe they're in the wrong business.
	You know, maybe they should, maybe they, you know, would you really want to buy intelligence from an intelligence agency that doesn't spot its own pension fund is bankrupt until it you don't need to have a man in deep cover in the insurance agency.
	You don't need to get one of your somebody from the clandestine division to parachute into behind the lines of the insurance agency and find out that your pension fund is bankrupt.
	They didn't find out their own pension fund was bankrupt, and that's the CIA.
	So, what is the likelihood that the CIA actually has a clue about who it's helping out in Libya today?
	Mark Stein in Farush, we will talk about that, and we will also talk because that is a budgetary issue.
	As I said, these are budgetary issues.
	One of the reasons why you start blundering around like that is because of this whole money-no-object approach to government.
	The United States, the problem with the United States, in a nutshell, I would say, is that we think it's still 1950, that the Second World War has just ended, everybody else has been bombed to smithereens, we're the last man standing.
	We got all more money than we know what to do with.
	We can afford to basically pay for other countries to fight wars.
	In this case, the Arab League and Monsieur Sacco Z and David Cameron in London decided they'd like to knock off Gaddafi, but they decided that they'd like to send the bill to the United States taxpayer.
	And because we think it's 1950 and money no object, we're happy to do that.
	That's a big part of the problem.
	I was in London, I got back a couple of days ago, I was in London on Saturday for the big riot.
	There were hundreds of thousands of people on the streets of London demanding an end to government cuts.
	There aren't actually any government cuts, but they're still demanding an end to them.
	It's like just on the off-chance that there might be a government cut, we might as well object to it now.
	It's like preemptive strike in what's going on in Wisconsin.
	It's a preemptive version of what's happening in Wisconsin.
	And so, I'd had a lovely couple of days in London.
	I'd had a beautiful room overlooking Green Park, one of the royal parks in London.
	It was a beautiful spring, you know.
	I was thinking, oh, it's wonderful, eternal undying.
	I was looking out of my window at the cavalry riding by, changing the guard.
	Beautiful, absolutely beautiful.
	And then on the Saturday morning, there's all this noise, and I wakes me up and I can't figure out what's going on.
	I call down to reception.
	I say, What's with all this noise?
	What's going on?
	And the fellow on reception says, I'm most terribly sorry, sir.
	There's hundreds of people rioting down Piccadilly, smashing the windows of the Ritz and trashing department stores.
	I do apologize if it's disturbing you, so I'll see what I can do about it.
	But he wasn't, unfortunately, he wasn't able to, he wasn't able to, he wasn't able to stop the riot.
	So they smashed up everything, they lit fires in Trafalgar Square.
	It coincided with what was that big thing the environmentalist guys have, Earth Hour.
	You know that, where you meant to turn your lights out.
	You meant to turn your lights out.
	Well, they did a grand job because once glittering storefront windows were absolute darkness.
	The only lights were the rioters, the mob, having burning fires, burning refugees in the street.
	Now, these are anarchists.
	These were people who call themselves anarchists.
	Anarchists.
	Do you remember anarchy in the old days?
	Anarchists, anarchists in the good old days, used to be anti-government.
	These are big government, welfare-funded anarchists, anarchists demanding more government.
	How crazy is that?
	This is the way.
	And to be honest with you, I prefer the welfare-funded big government anarchists smashing the place up to the nice protesters, the hundreds of thousands of people who just gathered to call an end to the cuts that don't really exist, demanding that their unsustainable pensions, unsustainable welfare carry on in perpetuity.
	This is where the big government state ends.
	With the kind of riots that I saw in London on Saturday, that we've seen in France, that we've seen in Greece, that we're going to see in Spain any day soon, that we may yet see in Ireland, in which government workers and government welfare dependents and government anarchists of all crazy things take to the streets to demand that the unsustainable benefits and pensions and welfare checks that they're getting be maintained in perpetuity.
	This is where the big government state ends.
	And we don't want to get to that stage.
	We don't want to get anywhere near that stage.
	And what is worrying to me is that we do not, is that with every month that passes, that we do not, that we do not make for sure.
	We're like drifting.
	We're heading towards Niagara Falls.
	And Greece and France and Spain and Ireland and Portugal and the United Kingdom are all ahead of us going towards the falls.
	And we can still pull for sure.
	Greece can't pull for sure.
	Greece is going over the falls.
	Portugal's going over the falls.
	We can still pull for sure.
	And every month that goes by when we don't pull for sure makes it more and more difficult for us ever to do it.
	Now, we're talking, we're looking at a so-called government shutdown coming up, a so-called government shutdown.
	And the question for the Republican Party here is, can you win this battle?
	We know what Chuck Schumer and Howard Dean think.
	Chuck Schumer and Howard Dean thinks if it comes to a government shutdown, they're going to win.
	Because the executive branch determines what are so-called essential services and what aren't.
	So they can cancel certain things and they won't be working.
	There'll be chaos at the airports and whatever, and you'll be able to blame it all on the Republicans.
	They think they can do that because the executive branch determines what stays open and what doesn't, and because they will have the media on their side.
	And so the question now is whether enough of the country understands the scale of the crisis here.
	Enough of the country understands the urgency of the crisis.
	Because we know what the president thinks.
	The president makes these rhetorical ticks nodding towards the fiscal crisis.
	But he doesn't propose anything serious to do.
	Rush mentioned this the other day, that he's willing to cut $125 million out of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
	That's because we've got officially a $1.7 trillion deficit on this year's budget.
	That's just this year's budget.
	And the President, to portray himself as a man bold enough to take the tough decisions to restore the healthy finances of this republic, says he's willing to cut $125 million out of the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
	Because otherwise, our $1.7 trillion deficit would be a deficit of $1.700125 trillion, and that would never do.
	That would be completely unacceptable.
	So the President is taking the tough, courageous decisions to reduce the deficit of $1.700125 trillion to a nice, clean, round $1.7 trillion.
	At this rate, at this rate, we are going over the falls with Greece and Portugal and the United Kingdom and Spain and all the rest of them.
	And if you don't want to and if you and the time invested in arguing about the $125 million of the Great Lakes restoration budget or Harry Reid's money for the cowboy poetry festival in wherever it is, Elko, Nevada, if we fight back and forth on every little itsy bits of itsy bitsy bit of cowboy poetry federal funding, and that, by the way,
	that phrase has never existed in any language in the entire course of human history.
	Quote, federally funded cowboy poetry, unquote.
	That's an innovation of our time.
	That's an innovation of our time.
	And the fact that those combinations, that combination of words can be used with all seriousness by the Senate majority leader of the world superpower is an indication of the depths we're in.
	We can argue about cowboy poetry.
	We can argue about Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
	And by the time we've won the argument on the cowboy poetry, we will be over Niagara Falls.
	So we need to move the goalposts in this conversation.
	We need to move the center of the conversation fast.
	We need to emphasize the urgency of this.
	And it should be a given that the cowboy poetry and the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative are out of there.
	The Great Lakes can take care of themselves.
	When this country has collapsed, when it's Mad Max on I-95, when it's a wasteland, there will still be the Great Lakes.
	The Great Lakes, don't worry about the Great Lakes.
	They can take care of themselves.
	It's time to look after the United States of America.
	Mark Stein in Farush, 1-800-282-2882.
	Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network, 1-800-282-2882.
	Let's go to Andrew in London, Ontario, who's been waiting an awful long time.
	And I said to HR, I said, oh, I know an Andrew in London, Ontario.
	I said about a minute ago, I said, I know an Andrew in London, Ontario.
	In fact, it turns out to be that very same Andrew.
	Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show, Andrew.
	I should explain to non-Canadians that Andrew was my piano accompanist when I appeared in London, Ontario.
	He was a piano-playing Imam who accompanied me when I sang Marshmallow World, because, of course, every act needs a piano-playing imam.
	So, Andrew, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Thank you, Mark.
	It's great to be on, and I do miss that Imam costume.
	Well, you can, you can, if it turns you on, you can climb into it anytime you like.
	I was rather hoping you were wearing it right now.
	It kind of turned me on.
	But it's great to have you with us.
	And, Andrew, I'm glad to be able to speak to you.
	You were very seriously ill, in fact, over the Christmas vacation period, in part because of the whims of the Canadian healthcare system.
	And it is good to know that you're well enough to call hateful right-wing American talk shows that would be banned in Canada.
	And glad to have you with us.
	What's on your mind, Andrew?
	Well, it's one of these I was thinking about this whole Libya situation, and I can't help but wonder, you know, regardless of what people think about the U.S.'s presence there, how bad is it that Canada is taking the lead on a global mission because the U.S. wasn't doing anything.
	And I think that's more problematic than anything else in this debate, just about how much of a lame Duck Obama is on foreign policy.
	Yeah, his whole thing is that he demonstrates leadership by forswearing it.
	He feels that what the world is looking for at the moment is American leadership that understands that real leadership means having the confidence not to lead and to put the non-war under the hands of General Bouchard, who is the Canadian general who is now apparently running the war, which, as you say, is a very strange state of affairs.
	Exactly.
	And I don't want to downplay, I mean, Canada's military role in the past.
	I mean, Canada has obviously been great in Afghanistan, but I mean, if you look at when the U.S. went into Iraq and could really use Canada's help, we weren't there.
	No, that's true.
	But you know something?
	There is a great Canadian military tradition.
	You know this, Andrew.
	The great Canadian military tradition continues.
	The Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry did a magnificent job in Afghanistan.
	Three of their snipers, the Pentagon, wanted to award them the Silver Star because of the fantastic numbers of kills they got.
	These guys were the best snipers in town.
	They were killing people from incredible distances.
	The Pentagon was really grateful to have these three guys from the Princess Patricias with them and wanted to give them the Silver Star.
	And you may remember Monsieur Chrétien's ministry in Ottawa decided to nix the award until it eventually leaked.
	But the reason they vetoed the award is because they didn't want it getting out that Canadian soldiers still actually killed people.
	That, you know, we're supposed, that the whole thing, oh, no, no, no, we're the nice people who wear the blue helmets and do the UN thing.
	Who knew that we still issued them with guns?
	And in fact, they did an incredible job.
	They killed bad guys, which is what soldiers do.
	And the Canadian government was telling us.
	The US is involved in an international conflict.
	Even the Canadians say, no, no, no, we're peacekeepers.
	It's not a war.
	We're peacekeepers.
	We don't even want to admit when we're doing something good for the world.
	No, have you got a $5 bill in your pocket, Andrew?
	Because I think that's what I paid you for playing the piano, isn't it?
	If you've got a $5 bill in your pocket, that's the one that supposedly honors the Canadian Armed Forces.
	Pull it out of your pocket, turn it over.
	Not one of those soldiers on there has got a weapon.
	You know, there's a female soldier looking through her binoculars, like a Bosnian peacekeeper looking through her binoculars at the Serb irregulars coming to take the machete to her stomach towards her.
	She hasn't got a gun.
	And then there's a little wizened old First World War veteran being helped to a Remembrance Day ceremony, all bent over and stooped.
	He's like an old soldier.
	He hasn't got a gun.
	None of the soldiers on the $5 bill honoring Canadian Armed Forces has got a weapon.
	That tells you a lot about the psychology of the official Canadian attitude to its military these days.
	Yeah, and it's one of these things where I would like to see that change.
	But as of this point, I mean, it's very scary that Canada has to be taking the lead on this mission when Canada doesn't have a history of getting involved in the conflicts it needs to.
	Oh, Andrew, don't thanks for your call, by the way.
	I've got to run because we've got an EIB profit said to Kavier.
	But don't worry about a thing.
	The fact that Obama has now transferred operational control of the Kinetic Scope Limited action over Libya is the surest sign that things are just going to be going swimmingly by now.
	Because as he said, what really legitimizes this war is that it's got the approval of the Arab League.
	If you've got the approval of the Arab League and Canada, you're pretty much covered on all fronts.
	Mark Stein, In for Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
	I'll be here tomorrow.
	Don't forget, Rush returns live, fit, fresh, and rested, Monday at 12.
	Yes, 1-800-282-2882.
	I'm devastated to report, devastated to report the climate of hate that is out there.
	You know, I mentioned the way Christ had materialized in the three cheese pizza in Brisbane, Australia.
	And then I mentioned the Scottish Muslim lady who found the word Allah inscribed on the inside of her potato in Arabic.
	These are all heartwarming stories.
	People had been excited about them.
	People had been supportive about them.
	People had hailed them as miracles.
	But now we have a story out of Lanscove Devon in England where a couple who carved one of their hedges into a Buddha have received death threats and hate mail.
	Hate mail.
	The first letter began, it is with sorrow that we saw you cutting and shaping your bush into a Buddha and objecting to this, that it's one thing to have, it's one thing to have Christ on a three cheese pizza.
	It is another thing to have Allah in Arabic on the inside of your potato.
	But when you have your bush shaped into a Buddha, then that is simply unacceptable.
	And these people have apparently pulled out of a television show in which they were supposed to be displaying their Buddha-shaped bush and have decided that they're not going to be part of it anyhow.
	So it's a climate of hate out there.
	Pretty nasty stuff going on out there.
	Let's go to Debbie in Salem, Oregon.
	Debbie, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Thank you for taking my call.
	My pleasure.
	I think the Republicans need to have confidence that enough of the American people understand the economic trouble that we're in.
	And I also think that this budget vote is an excellent opportunity to find out who's up to the job.
	So in other words, you think that when you say up to the job, you mean it's a way of identifying those legislators who are in fact, you know, just going to, when push comes to shove, the guys are just going to wimp out.
	Who's going to fold like a house of cards?
	Who didn't tell the truth to get into office?
	I think it'll be, yes, given their individual votes, I think it'll say a lot.
	And are you confident?
	Because this is a – what's interesting to me is that although the disapproval of Obama on this and that is widening, he's still got this 40-something percent.
	And okay, it's low 40s, but we're still a 50-50 nation in which half the nation does not realize the scale of the crisis that confronts us.
	You're confident that 51% of the American people basically understand the reality of what's happening here.
	I think what it seems like to me that I'm seeing is that we're getting cold feet.
	Washington is an awful place.
	I mean, it literally just seems to devour people for confidence or whatever else.
	And it seems to me that we're getting cold feet at the 11th hour, and it's kind of spreading.
	And we didn't get this far with cold feet.
	And I do believe as this thing, the gas prices increase and all these various other things start taking place, I think more and more people will come to realize and this is not a time to pull back.
	It's not a time to get nervous.
	It's not, it's just and we need to do more educating.
	And I think the economy itself is going to do that as food prices go up, as gasoline goes up, pick something that will affect the price of clothing.
	Right.
	And a myriad of other things.
	Well, you just mentioned the gas price.
	Gas has doubled on Obama's watch.
	I think exactly doubled.
	So he keeps playing the victim in all of this, but what is not getting out is how much he is literally responsible for.
	Maybe that's our fault because we're not getting the message out clearly enough to these people who are just cruising past the television or the radio, and they're missing this.
	Well, no, they get the message because when gas goes from $1.79, which is what it was, the national average when he took office, to $3.58, which is what it is now on average, that changes the economic.
	If you, as many people do in suburban and rural America, if you commute a long way to a low-paying job, you are – the whole economic viability of that job, you're – your basic hourly wage changes significantly when you were paying $1.79 a gallon to get there and you're now paying $3.58 a gallon to get there.
	I mean, the economic incentives change.
	People understand that.
	People understand that that has changed.
	The question is: do they blame Obama?
	Do they blame Harry Reid?
	Do they blame Nancy Pelosi?
	Do they blame the party that is throttling the economic life of this country?
	Well, all I know is we did not make it this far to start cowering and falling back into the old we have to do what we have to do for votes and they won't understand and this isn't going to work and they're not going to like it.
	That's how this whole thing was created in the first place.
	Absolutely.
	Whether they understand or not, this thing is going to take them down and their children down and their grandchildren, every bit as much.
	And so I just can't help it if they don't understand.
	They will at some point.
	Okay.
	Okay, Debbie.
	You're right.
	We don't want 2004, 2006 era Republican legislators back in Congress again because that's a large part of the reason we're in this mess.
	Debbie, thank you for your call.
	Debbie is absolutely right on this.
	The important part, November seems a long way away to me.
	November was a great night because it demonstrated that the popular accountability, the accountability of representatives to the people still functions.
	The people sent a message in November.
	Now here we are, four months later, and November seems an eternity away.
	November seems an eternity away.
	And we have to, and it's not just about getting the votes to do this.
	It's about demonstrating that you have the will to hold the conversation.
	It's about demonstrating that even if Harry Reid and his cowboy poets still control the Senate, that you, you still have the capacity to move the broader public conversation in your direction.
	And Republicans have to be willing to do that.
	That's absolutely critical here.
	Because there is no, this idea that somehow simply by trimming a little bit here, trimming a little bit there, we're going to deal with it.
	You know, Obama is a fraud on this.
	He's a fraud.
	He's one of these people who'll make rhetorical gestures towards the center and the right, and then he will leave the actual legislating and the lawmaking and the regulating to the lefties in the Democratic Congress.
	So he set up his own debt commission entirely as a feint, it's a Potemkin debt commission.
	Those guys didn't understand it.
	Again, Rush made the point that all these big shots thought they were getting back in the game.
	They're going to be taken seriously.
	It's a blue-chip debt commission.
	He got Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, all these grandees to go on the debt commission.
	They take him seriously.
	They think it's a real job.
	They produce a report melodramatically entitled The Moment of Truth, The Moment of Truth.
	And they proposed all these dramatic actions such as raising the age of Social Security eligibility to 69 by the year 2075, you know, which is really bad news for if you're in nursery school now, or you might have to work a couple years longer before you get your social security benefits by the year 2075.
	There isn't going to be an America by the year 2075 if that's the rate of reform.
	And yet even that was too much for Obama.
	Too much for Obama.
	So he mothballed.
	Nobody remembers the debt commission now.
	Nobody remembers that report.
	Who knows?
	That report is lining the birdcage in the Oval Office.
	That's gone.
	That's forgotten.
	That's history.
	The moment of truth came and went.
	Nobody cared.
	Nobody cared.
	Let's just stick with tweaking the Great Lakes restoration budget or maybe give Harry Reid a hard time on the old Cowboy Poetry Festival in Elko, Nevada, before we concede or reach a compromise.
	Let's have a reach across the aisle compromise where we agree to fund half the number of federally funded cowboy poets in Elko, Nevada.
	This is not enough.
	This is insufficient.
	And if you don't have the votes, and I accept that, the Republicans control one house.
	The Democrats control the Senate and the Democrats control the White House.
	But you have to be moving the conversation the way Marco Rubio, bless him, moved the conversation yesterday and keeps moving the conversation.
	This is what's necessary.
	You have to change, you have to reframe the way this debate is understood.
	This country is broke.
	The idea that federally funding cowboy poetry festivals is even an issue is basically a reflection that half the country still doesn't understand it's broke.
	We've spent the money.
	We've spent the money.
	And the fact that the cowboy, who used to be the embodiment of the self-reliant frontier spirit, the fact that the cowboy is now, the cowboy is now a federally funded poet, just right there and then encapsulates American decline.
	Half the country still doesn't get it.
	And the Republican House and Republicans in the Senate, if they're not moving the conversation in the direction of reality, they're just going to make things worse for you and your children and your grandchildren when eventually we have to collide with reality as we surely will.
	1-800-282-2882.
	Let's go to Ed in Brunswick.
	My eyesight's getting worse.
	Is that GA or CA?
	Ed, are you in Georgia or California?
	Georgia.
	Okay, Brunswick, Georgia.
	Great to have you with us.
	It's a pleasure to talk to you, Mark.
	You know, I was listening to you on my way home just a few moments ago about Greece and about how everybody's going over the falls, even without a barrel.
	And I started to think about what that really means to us.
	I mean, most Americans couldn't find Greece on a map.
	So once the last picture, what it would mean for the United States to follow Greece and the United Kingdom and Spain and Portugal over the falls.
	And I don't think many people are getting exposed to the reality of that.
	Can you dredge up a couple of examples of how that might work in this country?
	Well, let's look at it in basic terms, Ed.
	What is the main reason why Americans don't understand the scale of the crisis?
	And I would say what's putting it off at the moment is that the dollar is the global reserve currency.
	The dollar is basically the world's currency.
	That's what makes the difference between not just between America and Iceland, but between America and Zimbabwe.
	If you create the conditions by that's before the dollar, the pound was the de facto world currency.
	These things come and go.
	The Chinese and the Saudis and other interested parties are already actively musing and publicly musing on the world after the dollar.
	Yes, you're right.
	I just returned from China.
	I was there for four months.
	Right.
	And we have no concept.
	The United States people have no concept of what the Chinese are doing.
	No.
	And they're going to bury us.
	I'm old enough to remember when Khrushchev slammed his shoe on the desk at the United Nations and said, we'll bury you.
	They're not going to do that.
	They're just going to quietly do it.
	Yeah, and they've found, and like Khrushchev, they've managed to come up with an economically viable form of communism, which is an extraordinary achievement.
	Exactly correct.
	It's a mixture of capitalism and communism.
	But I don't know whether you heard this when you were in China, but this is the way the Chinese big shots think.
	They think that a half-millennium period of Western domination is ending and that China is returning to natural ascendancy.
	And that's the way to think of it.
	Goldman Sachs says that China will be the biggest economic power on the planet by the year 2027.
	They're not learning English.
	In fact, that's exactly what I was doing, was teaching English to kids and adults in China.
	Learning English.
	Yeah, but you know, that's now.
	Pitch it on 25 years, and they're going to be over here teaching Mandarin to English speakers.
	That's exactly correct.
	And the other thing about the budget thing, Mark, I mean, Obama's favorite trick was to blame Bush and the previous administrations for every sin that he could lay on them.
	Well, Congress was controlled, and the executive branch was controlled by the Democrats.
	Right.
	And they couldn't pass a budget or wouldn't pass a budget.
	And if anybody has any illusions about the Democratic Congress acting in the best interests of the United States, those illusions should be shattered right now because they would not touch the budget issue before the elections in November.
	No, so we're not talking Republicans, no Republicans were harmed in the making of this budget crisis.
	It all came about when Democrats had total control of everything.
	They controlled the White House, they controlled the House, they controlled the Senate.
	It was Democrat, Democrat, Democrat.
	No Republicans were involved in the conversation.
	They had huge majorities.
	They could do exactly what they wanted.
	And the most basic function of government, passing a budget to enable the government to proceed, they weren't able to do it.
	This crisis is entirely of the Democrats' making.
	The Republicans weren't part of this conversation.
	And why is it, Ed?
	Why do you think, Ed, that they didn't go ahead and do that, pass the budget?
	Because they knew that they were in political trouble already with the Tea Party rising up and people saying enough is enough.
	And then to add the glaring, cold, hard light of day onto the budget situation and have it publicly debated in Congress would have been the absolute death knell to these people.
	And it should have been.
	And they knew it, and they wouldn't do it.
	So now they're kicking the ball to the Republicans with Chuck Schumer saying extreme, extreme, extreme, like a puppet, that it's the Republicans' fault that the budget wasn't passed last year.
	Folks, both houses of Congress were controlled by the Democrats last year, and they wouldn't touch it.
	Their political future was more important to them than the welfare of this country.
	No, and what's more extreme?
	What's more extreme than basically the Democratic model of government, which is to spend $4 trillion but only raise in revenue $2 trillion?
	That's extreme.
	That's beyond extreme.
	That's suicidal.
	And that's Chuck Schumer.
	The extremists here, the extremists here are the ones who think you can go on running trillion dollar, trillion-dollar plus deficits year in, year out, without consequence.
	Basically, the United States of America is now in the situation where it expects the rest of the world to buy the equivalent of a G7 economy in federal treasury debt every single year.
	The United States Treasury under the Chuck Schumer model, under the Harry Reid model, is issuing the equivalent of twice the economy of India in federal debt every year.
	That's extreme.
	That is not extreme, but it is actually wicked.
	It is evil.
	It is undermining the very foundations of this country.
	Ed, thank you for your call.
	If Republicans are stupid enough to get tagged by Chuck Schumer, the extremist, the extremist member of the extremist party that expects to be able to govern in perpetuity by spending $4 trillion a year and $2 trillion of which is buried, that's the extremist.
	And if the Republicans are stupid enough to get tagged with the blame for that, then more fool them.
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	Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
	Michelle Obama.
	Michelle Obama, who is leading the campaign for healthy behavior, her congressional district ranks dead last in the United States for healthy behavior.
	It's apparently the unhealthiest.
	The first congressional district of Illinois is the unhealthiest congressional district in the United States.
	Only, if only the first lady had started her healthy eating and anti-obesity campaign, perhaps closer to home in the first congressional district of Illinois, in which she lived for so many years,

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