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April 1, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 1, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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We're talking about the economy.
We are talking about uh Libya.
You know, it's uh it's fascinating.
Uh the Pentagon is now pulling uh US attack planes uh out of Libya.
I think they're going back to Italy and they're uh gonna leave it to they're gonna leave most of the active missions to the Royal Air Force and uh the French Air Force uh and uh I f a couple of others.
I think the actual I think the Belgians actually uh took out uh some Libyan jet uh yesterday, which must be the first I can't remember the last time the Belgian Air Force actually took out uh some other guy's plane, but apparently they did yesterday.
So it looks as if uh the the US uh under Obama is actually quite serious about this business of uh of taking a back seat in the Libyan conflict.
And it will be interesting to know whether Gaddafi, when he's making his calculations, uh thinks that's a good thing or a bad thing.
It's it's an old piece of advice.
Who was it?
Uh was it Hannibal or or Scipio?
Uh but uh one of those one of those guys way back when Scipio Africanus, I think, who said that you should always offer an enemy an escape route.
In this case, we've ruled out an escape route.
Um David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, said uh we are gonna we we we're gonna put uh Gaddafi on trial.
Uh so what that basically means is that Gaddafi's not going to take any deal to settle down in s in some nice uh villa on the uh coast somewhere uh and agree to go into exile because he's gonna be thinking these guys are gonna stiff me and have me up on uh genocide charges at the International Criminal Court or whatever.
So we've incentivized his staying in Libya right to the bitter end and killing as many people as possible.
But we'll see we'll see what calculations he draws by this uh decision by the Pentagon to pull US planes out uh of uh active missions and basically uh send them back uh to Italy.
A bit of a bit of unfinished um uh business from the last hour.
I was uh I was saying there was nothing caring and compassionate about guys like Harry Reid and Barney Frank and Chuck Schumer being caring and compassionate by spending money yet to be earned by children yet to be born.
And Greg from Blair, Nebraska, which he says is just twenty-five miles north of the location of stuffed trigger.
You remember Roy Rogers' horse.
We were talking about him yesterday, he's uh stuffed uh and he used to be in Roy Rogers' uh living room when he died.
He was stuffed and mounted, or stuffed and not mounted, I guess, at this case.
And uh uh he's apparently twenty-five uh miles from Blair, Nebraska.
That's his come and whereabouts, the stuffed trigger.
But anyway, Greg says uh you mentioned spending money yet to be earned by people yet to be born.
I would call that the ultimate in taxation without representation, wouldn't you?
Yes.
I think that's a good way of putting it.
It negates the American revolution.
The American Revolution was about taxation without representation.
When you're spending money uh by people uh the and presuming that those in uh our kindergarten and first grade will pay it back, uh or at the rate we're spending that the children of those currently in American kindergartens will pay it back, uh you are imposing on them taxation without representation.
Uh the people we're sticking with the tab.
Chuck Schumer, the extremist, Chuck the Extremist, Schumer the Extremist, is imposing on uh unborn generations of Americans taxation without representation.
Chuck Schumer is the negation of the American revolution.
Uh We're not even talking about all governments at one time or another find themselves having to borrow a little bit here and a little bit there.
But borrowing on this scale, borrowing uh one point seven trillion a one point seven trillion dollar deficit on an annual budget.
Uh that is a negation of the American revolution, because you are saying to Americans born in twenty eleven, uh you have tax you will be living with taxation without representation.
You didn't get to vote on this stuff, but you're gonna be taxed to pay for it.
Uh and that is contemptible.
That is contemptible.
And that uh Greg is absolutely right when he says that is the ultimate in taxation without representation.
Uh one one of the problems here is and one of the reasons why we need to move fast on this stuff, is because eventually you reach a tipping point uh where there are so many people uh who are invested in uh either in p in in uh providing the government workforce or being dependent on the government workforce that the the the people in between being squeezed by both sides, there's not enough of them.
There's not enough of the productive class left uh to outvote uh the the uh massive numbers of government workers independents.
You take a state like California, it's got two point four million government workers.
Two point four million government workers.
Uh that's that's incredible.
I mean, that's that's like over half the population of New Zealand.
You know, this this this would be uh this this is actually the size of a di uh a government workforce the size of the entire population of a developed country.
Two point four million government workers.
Uh you take the people who are dependent on government workers, uh, who are on welfare, uh, and you you uh make that the basic vote for big government.
Uh and that's the advantage that the Democratic Party starts with in uh in in California.
So in every election, you take the 2.4 million workers, right there, that's 2.4 million votes for the Democratic Party, for the party of government that the Republicans have to try and catch up with.
And you add to that, then you add to that uh the dependency class, the welfare class, and that's millions more uh that that the Republican Party has to start and try to catch up with.
And eventually it's not possible to catch up.
And I want to be clear what we're talking about here, by the way.
Uh, because uh I had an uh had an email from uh somebody who said that uh, you know, you've been demonizing government workers.
Uh well, my family are government workers, uh my father's uh a veteran, and uh I'm in uh the Navy and uh my uh sister is in the army or whatever.
That's not the government workers we're talking about.
Providing uh providing for the defense of the nation is a legitimate part of government.
Providing cowboy poetry festival grant administrators is not a legitimate role of the federal government.
Uh and we're not talking we're not so we're not talking here uh about soldiers and sailors and airmen.
Uh we're talk we're talking about the vast number of bureaucrats in the Bureau of Compliance, in the Bureau of Cowboy Poetry compliance.
We're talking about the the vast number of regulatory agencies that are sucking the life out of the American economy.
Uh and when we get rid of those, then we can uh start talking about the number of active sailors we have or the number of active airmen we have, but that's not the kind of government worker we're talking about.
We're talking about the government re micro-regulation of every area of endeavor.
Uh we're talking in the state of California with its 2.4 million government workers.
We're talking about people like the bureaucrat, the bureaucrat who went into the uh into the hardware store uh in whatever county it was and uh told the guy whose family had been putting out complimentary coffee and donuts for generations on the counter that it is against the law in California to offer free coffee and donuts to your customers.
You've got to have a regulated food preparation kitchen or you've got to have a food preparation service, you've got to have stainless steel sinks, uh you've you you you've got to have licenses and permits.
It's illegal.
It's illegal in uh in whatever county this is in uh in California for a hardware store uh to offer complimentary free coffee uh uh and donuts to its customers, even when they've been doing it uh for generations.
Uh uh this is Vent uh Ventura County, I believe.
Ventura County in uh uh does that sound right?
That doesn't sound is uh is there a county called Ventura County?
That can't be right.
Some is there in California?
Ventura County.
Uh offering free hardware services.
Uh uh in its hardware store free coffee f and the manager of community services for the Ventura County Environmental Health Dis Division, Elizabeth Huff says that uh you can no longer do this.
Uh that's what we're talking about.
Uh Commissar Huff.
Uh America doesn't need commissar huffs.
The Republic will survive if people are offering free coffee in hardware stores.
And at a certain point you reach uh you reach the level where this is unbalancing uh unbalancing uh the the productive class.
There's so many people in the government class, so many people in the dependent class, the productive class in between get squeezed.
And you don't want to leave it too late to push back on this stuff.
And we are leaving it awfully late in states like California.
It's virtually impos it would be impossible now for a small government party, a genuine small government party, to get elected in the state of California.
And that is why it is important to take action.
And that is why uh, by the way, uh guys like Barack Obama want to divert even more members of the productive class into government.
The uh state and local workforce has expanded six times faster than the general population since nineteen fifty, and it's still not enough for these guys.
They still want more regulators, more bureaucrats, more agencies of this, more departments of that, more bureaus of compliance, micro regulating every aspect of your life.
This is this we are getting near the last chance.
We are in the 11th hour.
If we do not roll this stuff back in the next two to four years, it will be too late.
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We we were talking about uh Al Qaeda denouncing uh Hillary Clinton as the old lady of malice, and I did say there would be a Federal Cowboy Poetry Grant uh in it for uh uh limericks on the old lady of malice and uh Scaramouche, uh who has uh is a blogger, sends me this one, which I I like.
I'll tell you why I liked it afterwards.
There was an old lady of Malice who wanted to bomb a dude's palace.
Now the Arab League moans she's the one with the stones, while Obama needs lots of Cialis.
And I apart from the uh fact that I like the idea of Obama uh needing Obama needing geopolitical Cialis, uh I hadn't uh uh riffling through the uh Ribing Dictionary in my head, uh, as many people did.
They came up with uh old lady of Malice, Palace, Chalice, and Phalas.
Uh but this is the first one uh to actually rhyme uh it with uh Cialis.
There was an old lady of Malice who wanted to bomb a dude's palace.
Now the Arab League moans, she's the one with the stones, while Obama needs lots of Sea Alice.
Let's go to Patrick in Rockford, Illinois.
Patrick, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
A pleasure to speak to you, sir.
Of all the uh the many marks that that guest host you have to be my favorite without question.
A man among marks, a marked man, a marked a marked man.
Great uh great uh great uh great to have you with us.
Uh how's the economy treating you in Rockford, Illinois?
They're there you're heading for failed state status almost as fast as Libya, I think, aren't you?
Yes, uh we're enjoying the train ride right down the tubes.
It's wonderful.
Absolutely.
Great.
Well, I r I remember the budget shutdowns in 1981 and 1984, and as usual, the polls, instead of cutting frivolous things like apparently cowboy poetry, we cut the weather bureau and we cut meat inspection and we cut vital services in a in an attempt to get the public to call their legislators and urge them to cough up more money and and move on with the you know the whole circus.
Right.
And I remember distinctly when when the Weather Bureau thing that locally here, there was a bad storm that came through in 1984, and some people came very close to uh having some real problems, and they kind of papered it over.
And in fact, when you would call the bureau, there would be a guy recording who would say, you know, such and such and so and so and if there's a bad storm we will try to get in and do this and do that and you know I I typically looked at the sky and thought, okay it's bad, I think I better take cover.
But I guess my point is we people need to realize that what's coming here and and but you know eventually there aren't going to be any more of those services.
Because if you look at this uh if you look at this uh model that uh uh nearly half of the two point two trillion dollar cost of state and local government is the one trillion dollar a year tab for the pay and benefits of uh state and local workers.
That's Stephen Moore in the Wall Street Journal today.
So if you were to ask uh if you uh were to ask these guys to cut a trillion dollars out of the budget, which trillion dollars are they going to cut?
The services or the employee pay and benefits.
And eventually I think you'll you will have situations where there's the Bureau of this and the Department of that, including core services like policing for example, where you you still have basically the same number of employees on the same rates of pay being hired by their agencies.
But to to save costs uh they're not actually getting into their cars and driving around town to do any actual policing.
In other words, they will uh you will get less and less service uh while well uh essentially the uh the the salaries of the r total remuneration and compensation packages stay the same.
So you'll be calling not just the Weather Bureau but all kinds of bureaus and getting that recorded message.
Correct.
Uh that's the way it's gonna be simply because uh once uh you you know we see this in Wisconsin.
A court has ruled that uh a court is essentially ruled that it's illegal to pass a law.
If I understand I'm not uh an expert in Wisconsin law but if I understand this judge correctly uh the judges rule that it's illegal to pass a law.
Uh what what they're actually saying there is uh is that the the government class will do whatever is ever is necessary to protect its privileges.
And in the end you will it won't matter whether it's the Department of Weather or the Department of Cowboy Poetry because neither of them will actually be doing anything.
They will be they will essentially exist to to pay their current workers and their retirees uh but they will not be performing any actual services that that you could recognize, Patrick.
That is basically the world we're heading in on that.
Yes.
And I remember the the House bank and the House Post Office.
Right.
And in you know the free haircuts and the limo ride and and on and on and on it's the elites they have no they have no idea what what we're headed for.
No, no, and they and and that idea as well, which I think is is absolutely has no place in a in a republic of supposed citizen legislators.
That the the people who make the laws are not bound by the laws.
The the people who make the laws are exempt from the laws.
And the idea that you will have a and and and there will be that is the model to think of as uh as the uh differences between the government class and the productive class grow ever wider.
The government class will develop a kind of gated community mentality uh in their approach to governing.
They will want to impose things on you that they don't want to be bound by.
And then they're and then their priority will be how to ensure that there's a big enough gate to stop you from getting at them.
We saw what that looks like on the streets of Wisconsin that uh that uh when when the citizens attempt to restrain the government class, the government class is prepared to do what is necessary uh to protect its privileges.
It's not going to be pretty a lot of this stuff.
Uh and there's not a lot of uh there's not going to be a lot of difference as we saw between what's happening in Madison and what's happening in the uh in the Greek riots and the riots in London last weekend uh the the the dif the the the incompati the incoherence I mean if you think it's bad between the Shia and the Sunni in Bahrain uh you you or you think it's bad uh in uh between the uh you know the Kurds and uh the Arabs in Northern Iraq.
Uh what is going to happen here between the government caste and the beleaguered band of taxpayers who pay for them is going to be far worse, Patrick.
Yes sir.
Yep, yep.
We got we got my ancestors escaped Ireland five generations ago just because of this well if Ireland weren't also going belly up there that would be a uh that that you you would you would be back on the you would be back on the ship there.
But I j I had an email from I think it's the Supreme Islamic Council of Ireland uh who saw are saying that the solution to Ireland's economic woes is to have Islamic law po uh imposed on Ireland.
So I I don't want I don't want to get into the sectarian divide and know whether you're uh your family were Protestant or Catholic, but the big sectarian divide in the Ireland of the twenty first century is going to be Shia versus Sunni.
So uh so that that's that's funnily enough, that's the way it goes pretty much anywhere on the planet these days.
Patrick in Robert Illinois.
Uh thank you for your call.
Yeah, this uh this stuff is gonna is gonna get crazy because it won't be the benefits.
In other words, the way to impose pain on the people who vote to cut uh spending is to say uh we're not gonna cut the employee benefits, we're not gonna cut the health care, we're not gonna cut the salaries, we're not gonna cut the early retirement age, we're gonna cut the services and and we're gonna stick it to the citizenry.
There's gonna be lots more of that in the years ahead.
Yes, Rush returns live Monday for another week of excellence in broadcasting, but in the meantime substitute host level excellence in broadcasting, uh uh I'm afraid.
I think we are still in full compliance with the Bureau of Regulatory Compliance for Excellence in Broadcasting.
I hope we are.
Just barely.
We just barely scrape through it, but we are just about in compliance.
I want to get to this before we wrap up today, because I laugh my head off at this.
This is from the Los Angeles Times.
Why should writers work for no pay?
And this is in reference to uh the Huffingdom Post, uh founded by Ariana Huffington.
And uh Arianna, God bless her, sold it to A.O. L in uh February, her site, for three hundred and fifteen million dollars.
That's a third of a billion dollars.
Ariana sells her website to a third of a billion dollars.
Now, most of the content on this website she doesn't pay for.
Uh most of the website is written for free by people who when they joined up, when they signed up, uh, were thinking, well, this is just some nice little community kibbutz like website, and I'm willing and and happy to be able to write for free just to get my voice out.
And then it turns out the little online community website is worth a third of a billion dollars, and Ariana Huffington is getting it all.
And uh and uh these writers, by the way, these are these are the is this a left wing website.
So these are the ones who uh who spend their whole time writing and denouncing Governor Walker in Wisconsin for wanting to wanting to roll back public sector pay.
Uh who who claim that Governor Walker, you know, is in the hands of the sinister Koch brothers, these new robber barons who are wanting to crush crush the wages of American workers, who go on all the time about greedy Wall Street fat cats.
You're working for free for a woman who has just made a third of a billion dollars by selling what you write to AOL.
You know, you're not even doing it for sweatshop uh labor.
You know, there's no s the sweatshop, a sweatshop uh over on the other side of the world will at least be giving you six cents an hour.
You're not even getting six cents an hour for that.
And now they've finally woken up, these guys, according to this op-ed in the uh Los Angeles Times.
And uh and they're figuring out, well, you know, uh maybe we should do something about it.
Maybe we should uh maybe we should uh uh uh uh uh uh uh uh form a uh form an uh an an internet contributors union uh or whatever and and uh and get collective bargaining.
No, no, Ariana, Arianna and her crowd are in favor of uh collective bargaining uh for uh Scott Walker and for the public sector workforce.
But Arianna isn't in favor of collective bargaining for you guys.
You guys write for free.
You write for free for years and years and years on end, and then she sells it uh for a third of a billion dollars.
Uh for a third of a billion dollars.
And that is uh uh uh and that is uh the the business model uh that she imposes.
You know, the fascinating thing about big time liberals is that you should always look not at what they say, but at what they do.
It's the same with Jamie Garelic, this uh this woman who's uh uh who no matter how disastrous she is, always seems to bounce from one lucrative private sector job to one prominent government job to one lucrative private sector job to one prominent government job.
You look at what liberals do, not at what they say.
Uh this woman made a third of a billion dollars by paying uh idealistic left wing writers to demonize guys like Governor Walker for wanting to cut uh the wages of uh government workers in Wisconsin.
She's she she made a third of a billion dollars, and you made zero, not even sweatshop labor.
Let's go to Bill in Bosia, Louisiana.
Bill, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to have you with us.
How are you doing, Mark?
I always enjoy when you're on the show.
Um back uh towards the l end of the last hour you talked about the Missouri State Senator that uh refused the federal money.
Right.
And I was just telling your call screener earlier that um I had a call from the Social Security Administration, my ex-wife had done on disability.
Right.
And I thought, well, not a big deal to me.
I'm you know, we're not married anymore.
So uh she said, Well, no, your son qualifies for it.
Well, my I have custody of him and I told her, I said, Well, that's nice, but I don't really need the money, and she said, Well, it's free money, and I thought So that wasn't bad enough.
That was, you know, probably back around January.
Well, I just kind of you know, I didn't think any more of it.
She called me back about a week ago and a disgusted boy said, Well, you haven't went and signed up to sign him up yet, and I'm thinking, well, I told you I wasn't.
I didn't need you know, I don't sure everybody needs a little extra money, but that's not my money, and she couldn't understand that.
Right, right, right.
You know, I mean thinking it's not your money.
It's really not the government's money, it's our money.
In fact, it's not even our money, it's money borrowed from uh some foreign democracy, and but she could not get that to her head that I was refusing free cash from the government.
No.
No, I know.
And you know, you know, Bill, you're very old fashioned like that.
Because because uh somebody uh th there are large numbers of people, there are tens of millions of people across this country who thinks that there is such a uh a uh thing as free government money.
What's that bit that Rush always plays about uh the people going up to uh uh get the uh get the stimulus money and and he plays that clip of the ladies talking uh and the interviewer is asking them where they come from uh uh where the money comes from, and the lady says, Oh, I don't know, I guess it comes from Obama's stash.
Uh there are tens of millions of people who think that either Obama's got it in his stash that it's uh that it's in the basement of the White House somewhere and they're just passing this money out, or that, you know, uh somehow it's uh in a uh uh b found in uh in in a trunk of uh Zanzibari de balloons that uh Somar washes up off the coast of Somalia or whatever, that there is somehow some some big pile of uh government money that that uh that exists.
Government doesn't have any money except what it gets from Bill in Bosia, Louisiana, and the few other people stupid enough to still be doing working and making net contributions to this society.
And what's important is to i is uh when you've actually spent all the money that Bill uh in Bosia can uh give to the government, you then have to move on to uh taxing Bill's children and grandchildren and great grandchildren, yea, unto the generations.
Uh and in the meantime, while you're waiting for them to be born and uh get out of uh get out of the maternity ward and get into school and get through school and get through the six-year college and eventually emerge from school at twenty-eight or twenty-nine to start contributing to society.
In the meantime, you've got to borrow it, as Bill said, from hostile foreign powers uh who at the moment are uh buying our debt at low rates of interest.
One percent interest.
And at the one percent interest, we're gonna be paying uh twenty somewhere between sixteen and twenty percent of federal revenues in debt interest.
If it goes up to what it's been historically in the last uh ten, fifteen years to around four or five percent, we are in the all-time biggest hole.
There is no money.
There is no not only is there no free money, there's no non free money.
We've spent all the non free money there is.
The only money that there is now is uh is uh is money uh that we borrow from foreigners and that we pay back uh with money uh that we have yet to earn, and at the scale we're doing it, we can never earn that money back, Bill.
That's the trouble.
You gave a very principled answer, And this government bureaucrat said, uh I don't care what your answer is, you should still take the money anyway.
That's basically it, isn't it, Bill?
And well, and you know, the thing is I think most people need to remember.
I'm I'm early forties, but I can remember back when the in the Soviet Union when there were people standing outside and you know, hundreds of long yards long lines wedding just to loaf of bread.
Right roll the tourna paper for that week.
Right.
You keep printing money, you keep carrying us down their Soviet social you know, socialist and Marxist, whatever you want to call this government we're trying to establish now.
That's gonna be us in the next two years.
No, no, no, Bill.
People forget that.
You know, uh the uh the Soviet supermarket where every checkout line is for five items or less.
Those those were the those were the grand old days.
They m they could well be coming here sooner than you think.
Thank you for your call, 1-800-282-2882, Mark Steid in for Rush.
Mark Stein for Rush on the EIB network.
Let's go to Donna in Middletown, Maryland.
Middletown, Maryland, that sounds just the kind of town that you'd a centrist independent weigh both options and then uh take part in a CNN panel on the eve of uh election night saying you're still not quite ready to make up your mind kind of town.
That's Middletown Maryland sounds like the kind of town a nice centrist independent voter would live.
We're gonna go to Donna.
Donna, uh you don't fall into that category, do you?
Uh no, I'm a conservative.
Woo!
Go.
You're an extremist.
Many of us out here.
You're an extremist in Middletown.
That's what we want.
Right, right, right.
Just right of Middletown.
Yeah, I've got a question for you, Mr. Mark.
Okay, you go for it.
And my question is this um in lieu of uh George Soros and all the damage he's trying to do to our financial um system here and abroad and all the lefty lunatics that are going along with the charade and all the um uh is radical Islamists that are um tied together as long at uh uh along with people in our own government.
Who do you see, and and I think there's a hunger for this in this country, as uh the next stand-up person on the conservative side who rein this thing in and beat them at their own game if that's possible.
Well well uh uh let me let me just say this, Don, a be before uh before uh let me come at that at a slightly sideways thing.
You know, the party that is looking for uh messianic figure is the Democratic Party.
The Democratic Party decided that Obama rem remember the guy at who who was it, the guy at Newsweek who said he's kinda bigger than God.
He bestrides the planet like a colossus.
He has come down from Mount Olympus, this mighty figure.
Do you remember Michael Beschloss, uh the supposedly distinguished presidential historian, supposedly distinguished presidential historian, who said that Obama is probably the smartest guy ever to become president.
In other words, they invested everything in this messianic leader.
Uh do you uh do you remember who was it, the uh the film director uh who said that uh basically they would uh they would uh change the way we now uh dated things.
Instead of B C and AD, it was gonna be B O before Obama and AO for after Obama or whatever.
Uh they're the ones who inve uh invested in the messianic leader who can do no wrong.
Conservatism, by its definition, uh doesn't doesn't want a messianic figure.
You know, we we're the we're the guys who elect people like Calvin Coolidge.
Calvin Coolidge uh is the embodiment of the citizen of the s of the citizen president who looks on himself as one of us uh performing a very limited job.
And so you don't want to invest everything in the idea of the supreme leader, because he will always disappoint you.
The great news, you know, I love the way the the the the left-wing media in this country mocked uh the Tea Party movement uh because they said at first they said it was AstroTaf, you know, it was fake grassroots.
And then when it turned out it was real grassroots, then they began mocking uh the Tea Party for not having uh preprinted uh logos and uh slogans and placards uh and for not having designated leaders.
And in fact, being a leaderless, diffused, genuine grassroots movement, uh it it it it uh produced a uh an incredible election result in twenty ten.
Uh the most impressive uh uh election result in three quarters of a century, uh and it did that without any Messianic leader, without Mess any Messianic leader.
Now in twenty twelve, we're gonna have to name one person, because you can have a lot of senators, you can have a lot of congressmen, you can have a lot of governors, but you only have one presidential candidate.
And the thing about it is a lot all these guys always turn out to have flaws.
I I like Chris Christie when he comes along.
I love the way he handles himself.
I think he's great, but he's lousy on the second amendment and all kinds of things.
You know, that's just the nature of the business.
I love Michelle Buckman.
Michelle Buckman uh posed with my book, uh, which uh she's photographed with my book.
It was a Congress Reads Day, and it was supposed we're supposed to pick Thomas the tank engine or something that the little kids, the grade schoolers would like, and she picked America alone.
She stood there photographed with my book, and all the Democrats in Mini Minnesota said, This is perfect proof of how she's flown the coupe, she's out of here, she's gone, she's off the charts.
I love Michelle Bachmann.
She made a terrible mistake when she came to conquered New Hampshire because she thought she was in Concord, Massachusetts.
You know, nobody, nobody is perfect.
Nobody is perfect.
And and what is uh we are gonna we don't want to just pick the guy the media imposes on us.
We want to listen to the the the ones that the media uh are most frantic to demonize.
That's often a uh a great way to look at it.
Who are the Democrats and the media scared of?
Uh because in their frenzy to to pile on somebody, they're often telling you something very useful.
They're telling you who they're worried about.
In the end, they weren't worried about John McCain.
They're not worried about Bob Dole, because they think they're decent old sticks who who know how to give a great concession speech.
Uh what is important here is to recognize that you need somebody at the apex of the movement, uh, but that is that all that is all they are.
They're not Moses, they're not gonna lead you into the promised land, they're not gonna lead you out of the wilderness.
Uh those days ended uh in 1776.
George the Third was a beneficent monarch, and he couldn't understand why his colonial subjects uh didn't appreciate all the good he was doing for them.
And the American colonists said we don't need a beneficent monarch.
We need uh we we are a self-governing republic, and we hire a guy who works for us.
And uh and the critical thing here, Donna, is to is to learn the lessons of the last two years with diffused Tea Party, genuine grassroots mobilization liberty.
Pick the candidate who best exemplifies that, uh, but don't invest in him, the messianic qualities uh that the Democrats invested in Barack Obama, because they just made themselves look like the biggest bunch of patsies and saps and rubes on the planet.
Now he's gonna now he's got more wars going for him than George W. Bush.
Uh they they fell for it.
They fell for that.
They're the saps, they're the Rubes, we're not like that, Donna.
This is a citizen's republic.
Uh, you look for the guy who best represents the movement of the last two years, but he's not a messianic figure.
Thanks for your call.
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Yeah, happy trails to you.
It's the last roundup here with the uh Rush Limbo uh here at the Rush Libush.
Oh, before I forget, by the way, uh a listener said me a great thing.
He said, Is the number one uh federally funded cowboy poet in the United States given the title of Poet Larryat?
I loved it.
Uh loved it.
But uh that's uh that's it, that's the end.
We reached the end of the trail.
Uh the the this is your uh this is Markstein, your gnarled old wrangler.
Well, okay, gnarled old metrosexual federally subsidized wrangler, saying it it's time to hit the trail.
There's a clump of sagebrush that's a beckoning me in the sunset, and it's time for me to ride out there and lope along on my faithful old paint.
He's uh he's a painter's uh he's an old paint who's uh looking to retire and uh live on eighty percent federal benefits and federally funded health care.
Rush will return live on Monday.
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