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April 1, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 1, 2011, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 247 Podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in, Mark Stein, honored to be here.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
I'm a foreign exchange student at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a great program.
Guys like me get to study here, and uh in return, Janet Napolitano gets to defect to Libya.
So it all works out.
Uh Rush is not here.
He's transferred operational control to a Canadian general and the international community.
Don't worry about it, you won't notice a thing.
It's April the first, April the first, April Fool's Day.
A day when the papers are full of lame, pathetic stories uh that uh that uh purport to be true, but are obviously just pathetically limply amusing spoofs.
Papers papers are full of them.
Uh today New York University is hosting a conference of Stalinists.
Uh well, no, that's actually that actually is uh bound to be true, and so and so it is.
Uh uh Hillary Clinton calls Basher Assad a reformer.
True or just uh an April Fool's story.
In Libya, the United States and its allies are thinking of arming Al Qaeda.
True or just an April Fool story.
According to the Wall Street Journal, twice as many Americans work in government as in manufacturing.
True or just a pathetically obvious April Fool spoof.
Uh and here's my favorite from today's Washington Post headline, pressure grows to rain in compensation at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack.
These government interventions in the property market.
Uh artificial entities uh i interfering in the property market, distorting the property market.
Two years ago, two years ago, they came close to taking down the entire global economy.
They had a piece of over half the mortgages uh issued in the United States of America, and they came close to collapsing uh the entire global economy.
But only now, in April 2011, uh, is pressure growing to rein in compensation at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Uh the company's six top executives and a combined thirty-five point four million dollars.
Uh that's that's uh that's great, isn't it?
But don't worry, it's those fat cats on Wall Street you need to know about.
Uh what's her name?
Jamie Garelic.
She she's on uh Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and she's now being brought back uh to uh to head up the FBI.
She was the one who was responsible for the wall, the so-called wall, the uh the cone of silence or whatever it is between uh whatever it's called between U.S. agencies, which meant that uh uh if you hear there's like in if you're if if on the morning of September 11th you hear there's incoming toward the World Trade Center at the FBI, you're not allowed to uh alert the CIA or the uh new uh or the Air Transportation Safety Board or whatever.
Jamie Garelick.
Uh she went from the building the wall, walling off all these separate government agencies to a big time job.
I can't remember whether it was Freddie May, Fanny Mac, one of them, which of them, and now she's gonna be after d after doing a couple of years of light work at Fanny, uh Fanny Mac, Freddie Mae.
She's made enough that she can afford to return to government again, so uh Barack Obama is gonna make her head of the a head of the FBI.
Quote, pressure grows to rein in compensation at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
There shouldn't be a Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
And the idea that only now, two and a half years after these people came close to taking out the global economy, pressure is growing to reign in compensation.
I wish it were an April Fool's story.
But sadly, it is the glum reality of the world we live in.
It's the end of the week, and you know what that means.
Live from New York City, it's open line Friday.
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Uh if you are one of these people cheered by the news that the that the uh US uh unemployment rate has uh officially gone down uh below nine percent.
The the so-called real unemployment rate apparently is sixteen percent.
I don't know why the official unemployment rate, why should we have an official uh uh unemployment rate and then a real unemployment rate?
I mean, uh that's that's a slightly surreal uh thing uh right there.
But if you're if you're one of those impacted by the unemployment rate, if you're if you're enjoying the benefits of this new gangbusters economy, uh if you've managed to uh if you are unemployed, but you've now got a brand new job because of this gangbusters economy because of the recovery summer we had last summer and the recovery spring we're enjoying now.
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We will talk about anything you want to talk about, except uh cowboy poetry.
I did uh I did it I one one of the one of it's always the things you mention as an aside that come back to haunt you.
I ended the show yesterday at 3 PM Eastern, and uh an hour later, my inbox was full of uh emails from cowboy poetry seminar callers.
I was flamed by cowboy poetry seminar callers uh regurgitating cowboy poetry talking points.
What is this country come to when cowboy poets have talking points?
Uh cow cowboy I objected to federal funding for Cowboy Poetry Festival, and I got all these lame talking points saying, well no, only uh only fifty-two percent of the funding for the cowboy poetry festival comes from the federal government.
I'm I'm not interested in getting into the into the uh in in into the weeds or into the cacti with the uh of the cowboy poetry uh cowboy poetry situation.
Uh that's your problem right there.
When cowboy poets have talking points, cowboy po cowboys used to represent the self-reliance and resilience of the the the lone the the lone hero riding out, riding out onto the distant horizon under lonesome skies.
Now we got cowboy poetry talking points.
So uh 1-800-282-2882 will talk about anything except cowboy poetry.
Couple of uh l update, update from Al Qaeda, our new Al Qaeda allies in Libya, because um this is the sophisticated new development in the war on terror.
In Libya, uh there are don't worry, they're not all Al Qaeda.
The freedom fighters aren't all Al Qaeda, they're just Al Qaeda elements.
Uh and we're uh uh and uh now we're uh they're uh they're on our side.
And it's great.
It's great development in the war on terror.
Remember the way it used to be under Bush, Bush said you're either with us or you're with the terrorists.
This time round, we're with us and we're with the terrorists.
I mean, how fair is that?
You couldn't improve on that.
Uh but apparently Al Qaeda haven't got the the memo because the Al Qaeda spokesman, uh Abu Yahya Al Libby.
I got my Yahya working, baby.
Abu Yahya Al Libby has called Hillary Clinton, quote, the old lady of malice.
Uh maybe it sounds uh maybe it sounds uh funnier in Arabic, or maybe Al Qaeda needs some new writers.
I don't know.
But uh Hillary Clinton is the old is the old lady of malice, according to uh Al Qaeda spokesman Abu Yahya Al Libby.
Hillary Clinton is the old lady of malice from Friday at selected theaters nationwide.
Uh there was an old lady of malice who bombed Colonel Gaddafi's palace.
Uh the old lady of Malice, uh we had a bit of unfinished business yesterday, re Musa Cusa, uh, who defected to the United Kingdom the Libyan foreign minister who defected to the United Kingdom.
Uh he's known as the envoy of death.
Uh so uh I guess basically this new uh th this uh the old lady of malice versus the envoy of death.
It's like Godzilla versus King Kong.
Uh Hillary Clinton's the old lady of malice, uh Musakusa is the envoy of death.
You can't tell the players without a scorecard.
Uh Musicusa is not a nice guy.
Not a nice guy at all.
I mentioned yesterday that he'd been um had to leave he was uh Libya's ambassador in London, had to leave after he openly called uh openly announced that uh a couple of Libyan dissidents in Britain he was gonna have gunned down and killed.
Uh he's alleged to be part uh of a uh bombing of a uh French aircraft in uh 1989 and possibly also the Lockerby uh bombing at the same time.
This is uh this is a man who is head of Libyan intelligence, has an he was the the the head torturer of Gaddafi's regime, basically for about fifteen years.
Uh this is a guy with a lot of blood on his hands.
He's now uh we're making a big fuss about him because he's now defected uh to uh to to the UK and uh who knows the way things are going, he could easily end up as the free democratic president of free democratic uh Libya.
But we were talking yesterday about Musakousa, and uh someone uh I th uh HR actually said he thought he'd ordered musakusa in a restaurant, and uh I poo-pooed it.
Uh and a lady then called up and and uh gave us the recipe for coosa, uh which she said was uh a uh a kind of s uh stuffed squash.
And I had a I had uh uh several emails pointing out that coosa, in fact, in Arabic is uh just means squash.
It's just the vegetable, it's not a specific variety of the vegetable.
Uh Kusa is a type of squash, but it's also Egyptian slang for bribery, cronyism, and favouritism.
So Mousakusa is well named.
Uh uh uh if you go to uh the website uh I think it's closet conservative, the closet conservative actually says uh that sh uh she likes the recipe uh co i this is where what H.R. maybe did order, not Kusa Mousa, but cousamasi, uh which is really uh a delicious uh uh Arabic dish in the Middle East and uh is uh f uh full of delicious ingredients.
That's like stuffed zucchini, uh with your I believe seven ounces of ground beef or turkey meat, uh a cup of short grain brown rice, uh one thirty-two ounce can of uh chopped tomato, preheat your oven to three hundred and seventy-five degrees, and then insert your Libyan foreign minister, and you'll just have a perfect perfect dish.
Uh that's uh I think Kusa Massey.
I don't what what why what wine goes with what wine goes with that?
Uh Mike wants uh Mike wants to know.
The the the best wine to have with that is the Secretary General of the Arab League whining that the United States Air Force is not complying with the UN security resolution.
That's the wine that the best wine that goes with uh with Mousakasi.
Anyway, that's your uh that's your update on that.
And uh It'sy bitsy teeny weenie Lucy Juicy Moussacusa, that you ate for the first time today.
Uh Mark Stein, Inforush, uh open line Friday.
We will talk about anything you want to talk about.
The non-war, new developments in the non-war in the Middle East, where um NATO has threatened, after bombing Colonel Gaddafi's side for killing civilians, uh, is now threatening to bomb our allies, the rebels, the Al-Qaeda guys, uh who also apparently have been killing civilians.
Uh so we're on both sides of this war.
So we've got a sporting chance of coming out on the winning side.
That's how sound U.S. foreign policy is.
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We will also talk about developments in the looming government shutdown and the budget battles for this year and the budget battles over the 2012 budget.
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Mark Stein in for a rush.
Got a little distracted by the heavy breathing there.
Guy sounded like he'd uh got a touch of heartburn from eating too much Musakusa.
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Uh I was over at uh Fox News uh yesterday, and I was uh I was like standing there watching the monitor, and they had uh a Democrat congressman on.
And uh he was asked about he he was asked about all uh the uh the the proposed uh budget cuts that the Republicans are making, uh which are really, you know, incredibly feeble cuts in the in the scheme of things, extremely modest cuts.
But nonetheless, this guy was uh uh this guy was saying that uh that these cuts were were brutal and heartless and savage, and they would mean uh that children being kicked kicked out of uh head start and no help for seniors, and uh there would be fewer students attending college.
Uh and uh the uh the fascinating thing to me, I was just standing there saying, yes, yes, and what's wrong with that is uh we send too many students to college.
Uh we divert too much money into worthless college education.
Uh I made this point, I think a c a couple of weeks ago.
When you look at uh Obama's uh own uh Obama had a million dollar education.
He went to Occidental, he went to Columbia, and he went to Harvard, and then he became a community organizer.
There's no return on investment there.
His wife uh is uh graduate of Princeton and uh and she became a three hundred and fifty thousand dollar a year diversity consultant.
Actually the th that just the first couple are a very good example of the structural defects of uh U.S. education in uh in that respect.
Um but but uh th what was what was interesting to me is that the more th what this Democrat was doing, what Barney Frank was uh doing when he uh he said uh Republicans were in cloud cuckoo land, uh what these guys are saying that there that there is no way you are gonna get bipartisan reform.
The Democratic Party does not accept uh that the United States of America is broke, that it is in fact the brokest country in history.
No country has been as broke as the United States of America.
Uh Michael Moore says we're not broke.
Barney Frank says we're not broke.
This Democrat congressman uh I caught on the monitor at Fox uh yesterday says we're not broke.
Uh they think they think the richest one percent, the richest one percent.
Uh and by the time they're they're through actually identifying the richest one percent, you'll be uh you'll be stunned at how many of you fall into into that percentage.
The richest one percent, Michael Moore thinks the richest one percent uh have got all the money, but they're keeping it somewhere.
They keep they they're keeping it under the table, they're keeping it under the bed, and that if you can just access it, then we can pay for all these things.
We can put everybody in Head Start, not just every child in Head Start, but you can be in Head Start too.
You're 48, you're 49, maybe you'd like to be in a Head Start program.
Why not?
Why we can uh we can afford to to have even more three hundred and fifty thousand dollar a year diversity consultants once we send everybody to college until they're twenty-eight years old.
Uh the Democratic Party is not serious about this.
So the Republicans have to uh have to take all this uh take all this accusations that they're heartless, that they're sui that the that uh that they're just gonna savagely cut everything.
Uh and what they have to demonstrate is that you can cut this stuff and it doesn't actually make any difference.
You want a hundred billion dollar cut?
Uh Federal Department of Education.
That's a hundred billion dollars right there.
No one's gonna miss it, no one's gonna notice it.
This country spends more per capita, more per student on any other developed nation uh on education than uh than any country except Luxembourg, and it has nothing to show for it.
You could abolish uh the entire Federal Department of Education, hundred billion dollars right there, which isn't a Federal Department of Education, it's actually uh the edu the the the education union, the teachers union's own cabinet department.
You could abolish that, nobody would miss it.
It would not impact uh U.S. educational performance one whit and uh and and you've got a hundred billion dollars worth of savings right there.
The Republicans, what's necessary for the debate, the debate is for the Republicans to big it up, uh to to to st to to to take all the accusations, oh, of savage cuts, savage cuts.
Uh because most of this stuff is unnecessary to our lives.
Most of this stuff is unnecessary to most Americans' lives, and the programs that are uh uh modestly beneficial would be much better handled at state and municipal level uh where they can respond to Particular uh local variations.
Uh I I l I rejoice.
I think I think Republicans should learn to wear wear these accusations of extremism with pride.
As I said yesterday, the real extremist uh are guys like uh Chuck Schumer, the real extremists are the lunatics, the lunatics who spend four trillion dollars, want to spend four trillion dollars a year, two trillion of which is borrowed in perpetuity.
Michael Moore is an economic illiterate.
Uh he doesn't understand uh that that uh whatever the tax rates, you max out revenue at about nineteen percent of GDP.
In other words, no matter how punitively you tax, you can't make it go above that figure.
Because once you get to about that figure, sensible people realize it isn't actually worth working.
So you gotta live with those means.
And if you're spending twice those means, you're just driving a great republic off the cliff.
The extremists here, the extremists are the men like Barney Frank and Chuck Schumer wedded to that model.
Open line Friday on the Rush Limbaugh show.
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Uh fascinating uh report from uh talking points memo, which is a uh a liberal website, liberal website.
Uh but I like the way it just reports this thing uh deadpan.
The White House would forge ahead with military action in Libya even if Congress passed a resolution constraining the mission.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said during a classified briefing to House members Wednesday afternoon.
Clinton was responding to a question from Representative Brad Sherman, Democrat of California, about the administration's response to any effort by Congress to exercise its war powers.
Uh the answer surprised many in the room because Clinton plainly admitted the administration would ignore any and all attempts by Congress to shackle President Obama's power.
Uh and what is what is interesting about this is that these are all the same people who complained about uh President Bush's warmongering in the the first uh eight years of the century.
Uh the Obama and Clinton are basically flipping off uh their own Congress, uh and uh and and just saying they're gonna ignore them anyway, even when their their Democratic Party would in the end support them on this thing anyway, because Democrats always go to the wall for their guys, uh just like they stuck with uh as Hillary well knows, just like they stuck with her husband uh through thin and thick on the moniker business.
In the end, uh the Democratic Party will always vote in lockstep, except for one or two fellas like Kucinich and all the rest of it.
The Democratic Party would support would support the administration on Libya.
Uh the baby basically uh Obama could uh say he'd like Congress to pass a resolution saying this, this, this, and this, and they do it.
They do it for him.
Uh but uh but Obama and Clinton say, hey, we don't care.
You can vote how you like, we're gonna ignore it anyway.
We've got the support of the Arab League.
The we we have been authorized by the Arab League.
What do we need authorization from the United States Congress for?
We've got the Arab League to legitimize our war.
We don't need the United States Congress to legitimize our war.
That that is the uh that is how uh impeccably transnational and multilateral uh the Obama administration is that uh that the the justification for this war comes from the Arab League, not from the United States Congress.
Let's go to Roe in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Roe, you're first up on the Rush Limbaugh show on Open Line Friday.
Great to have you with us.
Thank you so much, Mark.
Um the comment I wanted to make this afternoon is about the budget.
Right.
I'm not happy with a thirty-three billion dollar budget cut.
I would like to see more.
But here's my here's my point.
No matter how small this is, if they do if they don't do something about it, all they're gonna do is win a budget battle.
And they're gonna lose the White House war.
Here's my point.
We cannot let that happen because you know darn well that the media will have a field day with us.
They're gonna come out and say, Oh, those darn Republicans, they can't even pass a budget.
We get to November, the elections, it's all gonna be used against us.
Our voices are never heard in the media, as we all well know.
So let's take what we can get, move on and say, look, we're willing to work.
See what we did, and then come November, you've got fuel for your fire.
I'm really, really concerned that if we don't do something, we will end up losing the White House war.
And by the White House war, you mean that uh Obama will be elected to a second term in the I do believe that.
You know I'm sad to say that, but my golly, I hear people out there, it's very concerning.
You you you have to I would I would say if you're looking at uh the path ahead for for the United States in the next couple of years.
What worked in the last uh last two years was that a Republican Party establishment that uh finds the Tea Party movement and all the rest vaguely distasteful and uh uh and doesn't care for them personally at all, uh was nevertheless dragged along by them,
dragged along by them, and uh and uh all the squishiest senators, the nice ladies in Maine, uh the reach across the aisle types, uh stayed on the reservation simply because uh there was so much anger out there uh among the uh among the electorate.
Right.
Uh and and uh you you make the point about the media that the the Tea Party were demonized as racists.
Oh Bill Clinton compared them to terrorists.
Bill Clinton compared the Tea Party movement uh to the uh to the Oklahoma City bomber.
Uh Bill Bill Clinton uh compared them to terrorists, they were compared to racists, uh Joe Klein in Newsweek said they were treasonous, they were seditious.
Uh and yet in the end none of it made any difference because uh those people held together and forced the Republican Party uh the Republican Party establishment to stick with them.
And I think there's a big lesson there.
I mean I ha I I think your scenario for twenty twelve that Obama gets elected to the set uh to a second term, uh no one should count that out, in part because of the Republican Party's ability uh to just uh shoot itself in the foot and nominate the wrong guy.
Uh last time round we nominated the guy that uh that the mainstream media wanted, you know, Mr. Maverick, Mr. Reach Across the Isle, John McCain.
Uh the minute the Republican Party nominated Mr. Maverick, Mr. Independent, Mr. Reach Across the Isle, uh they decided he was yesterday's man and uh uh and threw their weight behind Obama.
Uh the the uh the Republican Party nominated the wrong guy in nineteen ninety-six because it was Bob Dole's turn.
Uh they nominated the wrong guy in uh two thousand and eight because it was John McCain's turn, uh they're just as likely to nominate the wrong guy in twenty twelve.
What's important, I think, is to uh is to change the facts on the ground so that e even if the Republicans do the usual thing and uh and nominate the wrong guy, uh that the the the the the broader conditions,
as in two thousand and ten, the broader conditions out there in America uh uh have been so transformed that even the Republican Party's unerring instinct for blowing its left foot off uh does can't actually can't actually uh uh disrupt uh the reality of what's out there at the moment.
And so I think in that sense, Roe, uh it's important it's important to keep this stuff in, you know, in really hardcore basic terms.
Even if you even if you're forced to concede, even if you don't have the votes on this stuff, you've got to be talking about it in in really basic primal language.
I mean this country is si as I said, it's the brokest country in history.
It's astonishing that we've done that to ourselves, Roe.
Can't agree with you more.
I'm just saying I'm very, very concerned that we will be demonized as we always are, even more so.
Yeah, but you know but you know you're demonized for thirty-three billion of cuts, you'll be demonized for three billion of cuts, you'll be demonized for one billion of cuts.
But the demonization for the thirty-three billion will not last forever.
The demonization of not passing a buzz it budget will.
That's the difference.
So you think we're in nineteen ninety-five territory here?
Um close to it.
I think we've got to be very, very careful.
I am so I I have really good gut instincts, that's all I'm saying.
And this one is really hitting me in the gut.
Okay, well we'll put your gut instincts out there, Roe, and uh and see uh w what uh what the rest of America uh makes of that.
Is Roe uh does Roe have a point there that uh that that if we shut down the government, if if if Republicans stand firm and the government is shut down, that this'll be hung around their neck uh and they will be blamed.
Uh w th there's a dishonesty.
There's a level of dishonesty about the reporting uh of these stories.
I love the way I always love the way that uh b people say, oh, you know, uh Americans uh want the parties to work together to get things done.
No.
That's actually not what Americans want.
The message from November was that you've done too much.
Stop doing stuff.
You did all this stuff.
You passed Obamacare.
You uh uh uh nobody knew what was in it.
In the back of it are all kinds of little uh itsy bitsy um minor uh minor things nobody paid any attention to, like the extension of the 1099, the stupid ten ninety-nine form, uh by which uh by which the state presumes to regulate uh the right of one American citizen to contract services from another American citizen.
Uh the the scope of the 1099 is just uh expanded massively and uh and small businesses and independent contractors are just supposed to suck up the costs of that.
And not just that, by the way, but uh even even landlords, uh landlords who get a certain amount of rental income are gonna fall under this uh the the ten ninety-nine uh business.
Uh all this stuff uh c sucks up time out of the productive out of the productive economy.
There was a story uh today uh that certain banks are now going to be charging five dollars when you if you if you bank with the first national bank of dead skunk Nebraska and you want to uh withdraw some money out of a uh another bank's cash machine, uh the the charge is gonna be uh five dollars now.
And if you think, well, hang on a minute, doesn't that sound rather a lot for just like a basic service charge on taking a hundred dollars cash out of a machine in the wall?
Uh the reason the banks are doing that is because of new regulatory burdens imposed on them by the federal government.
They're passing those costs on to you.
They're passing those costs on to you.
That's what's going every time we have two thousand page legislation, uh more and more of that gets passed down and imposed on us.
And the idea that somehow out there is a vast mass of Americans panting for the parties to work together to do more.
No, they've done too much.
We need to we need to throw this stuff out.
There shouldn't be a 1099.
Uh small businesses shouldn't even know the name of stupid government forms like that.
It's it's embarrassing that in a republic of free citizens there are millions of us marching around with all this meaningless government mumbo jumbo numbers stuck in our head, because we know that tax season tax season, and that's another uh problem right there, by the way.
Uh baseball should have a season.
Tax shouldn't have a season, tax should be a day.
Uh but uh but there we uh but uh tax season, so we're all thinking Oh, have I got my ten ninety-nine for this?
I've got my W9, have I got my d uh Z have I got my have I filled in my IU one too?
This we shouldn't know this.
This is supposed to be a republic of free citizens.
The November was not about people saying, Oh, I want the parties to work together to get things done.
No, they want the parties to sit on opposite sides of the aisle and do less and undo a lot of what they've done in the last two years and the decades before that.
That was the message of November, and Republicans should understand that.
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Just to go back to Roe's point, uh that uh this thing is gonna be uh hung around Republican necks like an albatross uh come election season.
Today's Rasmussen survey finds uh that fifty-seven percent of likely US voters think making deeper spending cuts in the federal budget for twenty eleven is more important than avoiding a partial government shutdown.
Thirty-one percent disagree and say avoiding a shutdown is more important, and twelve percent are not sure.
Now uh this this is interesting because twenty eleven isn't uh tr that we in case you haven't noticed it is twenty eleven.
And uh it's uh it's April.
So uh quite a lot of twenty eleven's gone, and twenty eleven in um federal accounting terms starts preemptively uh back in uh back in the fall uh of twenty ten.
So this is something that uh the Democrats uh this is a Democrat budget.
This is something the Democrats should have done, and the Democrats didn't pass it because they didn't want to pass this thing uh before before the November election.
This is the Democrats' budget.
It's not the Republicans' fault that the Democrats couldn't pass a budget when they controlled the House, when they controlled the Senate, when they controlled the White House, when it was Democrat, Democrat, Democrat, and they had no compunction uh about taking uh the uh the huge uh mallet of federal power and hammering Obamacare down the gullet of the American people, even when the American people didn't want it.
They chose not, they chose not to pass a budget.
Uh this Rasmussen uh survey today says that fifty percent of likely U.S. voters think making deeper spending cuts in the federal budget for twenty eleven is more important uh than avoiding a partial government uh shutdown.
Uh thirty-one percent disagree.
Uh that's a big catch-em.
Now maybe you can transform.
Maybe the m once the media get on board with this thing and and start peddling the uh line about heartless Republicans uh cutting seniors out of head start programs and uh not sending kindergartners to college and all the other heartless things that uh the Republicans are doing.
Uh they'll be polluting our water, uh they'll they'll be uh they'll be doing all the other stuff that heartless Republicans do.
Maybe they can they can make up those twenty-six points.
But the fact that fifty-seven percent of likely US voters think spending cuts are more important than avoiding a government shutdown uh shows that actually every day more and more Americans understand the reality of where being the brokest country in history leads if you don't do anything about it.
Uh i i at a certain level, at a certain level, uh what is propping up this country is the the dollar as global reserve currency.
Uh but American ordinary American citizens understand the reality that if you have there's no point, if you've got a serious drinking problem, there's no point saying, well, I'm just going to increase my alcohol in intake uh until 2020 with a view to reducing alcohol intake uh in the years between 2020 and 2040.
Uh and I'm going to uh I'm going to set up a panel to to look into means by which I could reduce my alcohol intake in the third, fourth, fifth, or sixth decades of this century.
Uh uh uh m ordinary American citizens understand that the crisis is now and the time to solve it is now.
Uh uh and they're and they're not interested, uh they're not not interested in uh in in falling for the old s old school demonization.
Ooh, cuts in head start programs.
Ooh, who cares about head start programs?
This country this country is going head first off the cliff.
It's heading for the end.
Head start is irrelevant when you're heading for the end.
Let's go to Rich in White Plains, New York.
Rich, it's great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Thank you for having me, Mark.
Um Mark, whenever discuss uh uh uh we discuss changes to uh budgets, whether it be local school budgets or municipalities, we always refer to those changes in terms of percentages, and I find it amazing that the information coming from the Democrats and Republicans and the people reporting them, even Fox News refuse to use those terms of percentages.
I I don't understand if your average viewer understands what thirty billion is versus sixty billion without having to ask the question, what's the total budget?
And it it seems like uh I I don't know, neglectful to try to make it simpler for the viewer or the people to understand what these uh budget cuts really represent.
And I've only heard it once, and I watch a lot of news and I listen to a lot of radio, And my understanding is that the Democrats want something like three quarters of a percent cut, and Republicans are screaming about a whopping two and a quarter percent, something like that.
That's that's that's right, Rich.
I gotta stop you there because we gotta we gotta take a break.
But you're you're right.
That's what Democrats want.
Uh three quarters of a cent on the dollar cut.
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