Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
It's almost exactly an hour and a half, ladies and gentlemen.
An hour and 30 minutes.
We're counting down President Obama and a second speech on the budget inside of 60 days.
Gave his first budget speech two months ago.
He's going to give another budget speech today, and our microphones will be there.
EIB affiliates have been peppering our offices all morning long, wondering if we're going to jip it because many of them want to carry it.
And if it causes problems, if a lot of them carry it and we don't.
So we're going to jip it.
And we'll be counting down a la Wolf Blitzer as we get close to it.
The big Obama speech.
I am surprised he ever found time to have any kids.
All the guy does is talk.
How are you, folks?
Wonderful to have you here with us.
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There was a hoax perpetrated on the media today about General Electric and Jeffrey Imelt.
CNBC ran with the story, but it was the AP.
AP ran a story that Jeffrey Imelt and GE had decided, because of all the bad PR they're getting, to give the government the entirety of their $3.2 billion tax refund.
It's a hoax.
It is a hoax.
AP was totally taken by it.
It's just a bunch of guys with a fax machine.
It's like the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
It's just a bunch of professional pranksters.
And they are called, what are they called?
The blue men.
Is that right?
Yeah.
And it's the group here is, I think it's, yeah, this guy, the yes men is the name of the group.
The yes men.
The yes men often impersonate corporate executives in an attempt to embarrass companies and draw attention.
Andrew Boyd founded the satirical group Billionaires for Bush.
He says he's a member of the Yes Men, and they just sent out a fake GE fax and AP ran with it.
You know, I was talking to some people this morning.
Well, why did AP run it?
Because they wanted it to be true.
You know, people need to stop and think about when something like that happens, you see the story, okay, GE going to, because of PR, give the government $3.2 billion that they don't owe.
I mean, they didn't break the law.
The tax law is what it is.
They ended up getting a $3.2 billion refund.
But because of PR, they're going to pay it back.
Now, if they had done that, Imelt is opening, the CEO, is opening himself up to shareholder suits, board of director problems.
He's got a fiduciary duty to the stockholders.
He just can't run around and arbitrarily send the government $3.2 billion.
Another thing, if he had done it and if it were real, what a horrible precedent.
That would say, what were we just talking about yesterday?
Doing things because of what you want people to think about you or what you hope people there because you think of what they think about?
Imagine if the precedent had been set to pay more taxes than you owe just to get good spin.
That's uh, in fact.
When I first saw it I thought maybe they're in league here, maybe maybe Obama, the regime and Imelt are in league here.
But the more I thought about it said no no no, no.
Then it was not long after that that um uh, that was revealed as a hoax, general electric not returning a tax refund to U.s government.
Earlier today, a report that appeared to come from the Associated Press claimed GE would pay the Treasury 3.2 billion dollars in taxes on monday.
GE has now denied that it plans to pay the taxes.
So it was a scam from the uh, from the get-go a hulks, and it worked all right to the audio soundbites, the media folks they're breathless.
It's not just Wolf Blitzer counting down to 135 this afternoon.
Do?
I think GE should get away with paying no taxes.
See, here's my prop.
Well, they made.
I think their U.s profit was 5 billion.
Their worldwide profit was 11.
I think really doesn't matter what the the two numbers are.
Um, the question is not, should GE get away without paying taxes?
The tax law is on the books, by the way.
Should you bring this up?
I mean, I was going to kind of let Obama surprise you, but I have a little idea what he's going to be talking about.
He's going to propose I have it on good authority.
Of course, we won't know for sure until it actually makes the teleprompter and he actually reads it but buy-by mortgage interest deduction is going to be one of his proposals, in addition to raising taxes on the wealthy again, and even USA Today has a story here.
You know you can go ahead and raise taxes on the rich, mr president, but then what are you going to do?
Because there aren't enough of them to make a difference.
That's unusual, but he's going to be talking tax increase all over the board, and everybody knows the situation we're in now.
Tax increases and economic growth alone will not bring us out of this problem.
There have to be serious cuts in spending have to be.
Um, now for what it's worth here.
Uh, ladies and gentlemen, general Electric gave Obama more money than they paid in taxes.
Obama gave GE more money than they paid in tax in terms of grants and this kind of thing.
Uh, google.
Same thing.
Now, whether or not I am fine or cool with GE paying no taxes if they didn't break the law, i've got no problem with it.
Snerdly, if they didn't break the law.
Now, obviously there's something screwy in the law that a company making 5.1 billion dollars in profits isn't paying taxes.
And then, when you further look at all of the corporate cronyism going on between the regime and GE yeah, you have to look at okay, what aspects of the law might have been exploited here, or well, you can't say exploited, because the law is the law.
But uh, you know, i've this whole.
You're going to be on dangerous territory you, you?
You're like a caller.
You're trying to trick me into coming out and supporting tax payments and tax increases and so forth.
Don't deny it.
You can sit in there and wag your finger.
Oh, by the way, by the way, Trump will be here on Friday in the second hour, top of the second hour.
Donald Trump will be here.
I said yesterday after the latest news about Trump, I said, I've got to get him back and ask him about this.
So he's going to be here.
Now, Friday, a little programming note is also our annual curathon for leukemia and lymphoma, ladies and gentlemen.
And Trump wants to appear during the curathon.
Surprise, surprise.
I gave him a choice of tomorrow, Thursday, or Friday.
And I told him what was going on.
I originally took Friday off the books as possible because it's the curathon date.
And I wrote me, no, we've got the curathon.
We do it once a year.
And I gave him a little details about, oh, I'd love to be part of that.
So he'll join us at the top of the second hour on Friday.
I'm going to get to the bottom of this.
What?
You're back on GE now?
How it sounds, GE, 3.1 million.
Yeah, I know.
See, Snerdley, Sterdley, what he just said, look at all the taxes you pay.
So you think if you were in my shoes that I'd be saying, okay, I pay X in taxes and GE, which got a lot more money than I do, not paying any, and I would be mad.
I don't see.
You're not going to believe me.
I don't look at it that way.
I'm not out.
I'm sorry.
My mind doesn't work that way.
I am more interested in the crony capitalism relationship here.
I'm more interested in just what's going on here with this wasteful investment of dollars into this non-existent green energy sector.
What really is happening there?
In terms of fairness, I gave up on trying to keep score on fairness a long time ago because I don't believe it exists.
Just like I tell you, I don't waste my time getting offended, and I don't give people power to make me offended or to offend me.
I don't know.
I'm weird.
I live in Litteralville.
It is what it is.
And I don't care.
No matter how mad I get, it ain't going to change.
So I'm not going to waste my energy getting mad about it.
And I'm not going to come here and act like I'm mad about it and start hoofing and puffing and acting.
It is what it is.
And, you know, when you live in Litteralville, life is a lot simpler.
It appears to be complex to people who don't live in Litteralville.
But I live in Littrellville.
It's very simple.
You know, you have to be able to accept things.
For example, I get this.
You know, when you start reading critical, caustic emails, that's the kind you get because people want to hear theirs red on the radio.
This is from Annette.
Oh, funny.
Yesterday I read an email from a guy who did not mention his last name.
Apparently, some time ago, there was a woman whose email I read and I did mention her last name.
And she got ticked off.
Apparently, she's still ticked off.
Must have gotten 10 emails from her yesterday reminding me how I did mention her name and it caused her undue grief.
I don't remember what it was about.
I don't even remember her name, but at any rate, this guy's a woman's name is Annette.
And the subject line is, you still don't get it.
I've listened for two days.
The mistake Newt Gingrich made was arrogance.
No one likes arrogance.
I have agreed with it.
Arrogant condescension are the two human characteristics that rub me wrong the greatest.
I do have, I have huge tolerance problems with arrogant condescension.
And I understand what Annette here is saying.
She said, no one likes arrogance.
Part of the reason people get elected is popularity.
People still like Obama.
I don't, but that's because I don't like his policies.
And I'm not fooled.
If Boehner is not careful, he will appear arrogant and lose his support.
We've got bigger fish to fry.
The next budget, the debt ceiling.
They're just not trying to overreach.
You could never get elected.
You're a favorite with us, but you're a lightning rod.
John Boehner doesn't have your luxury of saying and doing anything he wants.
I want to cut trillions.
This is just the beginning.
Drop it.
You're becoming a bore.
Drop it.
Hey, I'm the first to tell you that the fools in media who think they can get elected are a long list of people because it's a whole different.
I've said it yesterday.
I don't know where this woman was.
I don't know where you were.
But you can't get elected being hated.
You can thrive as a media figure being hated as long as you keep giving the haters a reason to hate you every day.
But a politician can't get elected being hated.
I know this.
But I think you need to know something, folks.
You're all wired and ready for the debt ceiling fight, right?
Don't be, don't be.
The ruling class on the Republican side has decided the debt ceiling is not the next battle.
The Ryan budget is.
Any number, any number.
You go to conservative media blogs.
If you see proper the right guests on television, yesterday afternoon and last night, you would have said that the message here, the real fight is not the debt ceiling.
It's the Ryan budget.
Pretty, well, no, what the conservative ruling class intelligentsia media is attempting to do here is to do is to accomplish the same thing they did with the budget.
Don't fight it.
Don't go for the government shut.
Don't, don't, don't, don't plant the flag here on the debt ceiling.
Don't do it.
We can't win.
Don't do it.
We're going to lose.
Don't do it.
The media will, it's a rerun, folks.
The people who gave you the tepid fight over this budget vis-a-vis the government shutdown are now the same people attempting to plant the flag in the area where, forget the budget, the debt limit.
That's not the next fight.
We've got to gird up.
We got to get ready for the Ryan budget.
That's what we have to focus on.
If you haven't heard it yet, just keep a sharp eye.
You will.
It's coming because it's already been said.
The groundwork has been laid.
Just warning you, and we will be back.
It's just one hour and 10 minutes from President Obama's budget speech where he will propose massive tax increases.
The Republicans, House, and Senate just held a joint press availability where they, in unison, opposed any tax increases, calling them job killers, any number of things.
So it's presidential election season.
It has begun.
Obama now trying to shore up his base.
He's in some trouble there.
Now, one thing, General Electric, Snerdley, drop what you're doing.
I want you to hear this.
He's out there screening calls.
General Electric may not have paid taxes, but we looked it up.
In 2008, GE gave $2,252,727 to wait for it, the Democrats.
So they did pay tribute.
General Electric did pay tribute, $2,200,000 to Democrats and Obama.
And over the last 10 years, General Electric has given $10,160,333 to the Democrats.
They do pay their taxes.
They do pay their tribute.
John Fund was on one morning show today.
I forget which one, but he was saying, look, the real fight's not the debt ceiling.
The real fight's going to be the Ryan budget.
And a lot of others are starting to say the same thing.
But the debt ceiling is not the next fight.
Now, all weekend long, the folks, you can get mad at me all you want for just pointing out what's happening.
You go right ahead.
But all weekend long, one of the reasons we were told that $38 billion, that's a lot of money.
We've planned to turn the boat on a $38 billion budget deal, real cuts.
$38,000 that's good because the real battle is going to be the debt ceiling.
There, we're going to be talking about trillions, not billions.
And now I'm telling you, the table is being set that we're going to forget the debt ceiling next.
And instead, the real focus is going to be on the Ryan budget.
Mitch McConnell, at that confab the Republicans just had, the Senate leader for the Republicans just spoke.
He talked about the importance of maintaining confidence in the United States around the world.
You can't threaten to go into default by refusing to raise the debt limit and keep the confidence of world markets.
So we are getting, I don't know if I like the term, I really don't want to make you guys mad at me, but I don't, the term pre-cave, but the debt limit.
We're going to focus on a debt limit.
Don't worry about what didn't happen with the budget deal.
That's chump changing.
We knew it was chump change.
Now, the debt limit, that's where we're going to, apparently not.
No, there's too much at risk in a debt limit.
Now we're going to move on to the Ryan budget.
A giant C, I told you, Larry Kudlow over at CNBC said the same thing yesterday.
Debt limit, it's too risky.
No, we're not.
We're going to, we're going to, and before long, before long, I'm just going to predict to you that it's message is going to evolve to be, you know, really, this is not the time to fight for the Ryan budget because we don't have the White House.
We've got to focus on the presidential election.
The Ryan budget, we need to wait on that a while.
I guarantee you.
Well, no, I'm not going to guarantee you on that.
But I'm just suggesting that you not be surprised because the pattern is starting to establish itself out there.
You know it and I know it.
Nancy Pelosi was at Tufts University.
You know, back when I worked in Pittsburgh, Tuft, there was a survey.
What?
Tufts.
It's a girls' school, or it was.
Maybe I'm confusing it with someone.
They did a survey, and they found that there was a correlation there between breast size and IQ.
The higher the bust size, the lower the IQ at Tufts.
Well, this is before fake.
I mean, this is in the 70s, before widespread fake.
But I don't know what the benchmark was.
I don't know if 34 was the mean, the average.
I don't know where they started, but that I remember reporting on that when I worked in Pittsburgh at the time.
That's where Pelosi was.
And wait till you hear what she said there.
IK Tufts University of Boston is not an all-girls school.
I got confused.
The New York Times, Arthur Schultzberger Jr. went to Tufts, and that's why I was confused.
It's not an all-girls school.
And here's the email or an email.
I told you moments ago that there was a woman whose email I read last year, and I mentioned her last name as she had she flipped a lid.
And I just mentioned it moments ago.
So she has written, and the lid is still flipped.
My name is Kay.
I'm not going to mention your last name this time, Kay.
That's what got me in trouble last time.
My name is Kay, and you mentioned my name in the final hour, the last few minutes actually, of last year's curathon.
Also, why did you say, I told you it caused me all kinds of grief?
I never said that.
Well, you acted like it.
And I didn't send you 10 emails.
Okay, seven.
Who's counting after the first two?
You're still a jerk, even if you might be the best and smartest political analyst around, and that's why I pay every month to listen.
Sign Kay.
You think it's all universal love and adoration out there, folks, but it's not.
It's an instant.
See, I told you so.
While I was warning you what was coming, while I was warning you that they're going to punt the debt ceiling and move on to the Ryan budget, here is the speaker, John Boehner, literally, when I was telling you that 15 minutes ago.
I fully support Paul Ryan's budget, including his efforts on Medicare.
But I think all of us understand that not meeting our obligations, our debt obligations, is a very bad idea.
And nobody wants to take that risk.
So they're going to kick the debt ceiling down the road.
They're going to kick it down the road.
This is because it was, again, I remind you over the weekend as an excuse for only $38 billion on the budget fight.
That's billions.
We're going to get trillions.
We're going for trillions on the debt ceiling fight.
Now, that's kicked down the can.
When we get to the Ryan budget, there's a prediction.
The same people are going to say, why fight this battle now?
The Ryan budget's about 10 years.
Nobody cares about that.
No current Congress can tie the hands of future Congress.
So the Ryan budget, we're going to hold that until we have the White House.
Let's focus on the presidential election.
We've got important issues to face out there, like regulating school lunches and making sure that people can't take them from home.
So don't doubt me.
Don't doubt.
Now, if the trend continues, if the trend continues, Obama today will propose raising taxes on somebody.
And actually, it'll be on everybody, no matter what he says.
Everybody will be faced with the prospect of paying higher taxes.
And we will agree to a certain percentage of tax increase.
And then elements of our conservative media will write praising editorials on the value of compromise.
Now, we took what could have been a disaster at a 10% Obama tax increase, and we only made it five and call it a win.
And our guys are hanging in there for us.
Snerdly scratching his dwindling supply of hair and air.
Okay, we're less than an hour from President Obama's budget speech, second one this year.
We will be jipping it on this program.
I got an email.
Don't carry that.
We just soon listen to you.
You will be.
You think I'm going to sit here and turn my microphone off when this is going on, folks?
Where are we starting?
Pompado Beach, Florida.
Hi, Mike.
Never turn your microphone off, and this is a lot better than talking to John Boehner's secretary or office when I called the other day.
But I'm just absolutely furious to any of the listeners that have sent those emails to you and anybody who's sitting on the sideline.
When Rush Limbaugh, the Tea Party, Mark Levin, and Dick Morris all think this is a bad deal, it's a bad deal.
You've got to remember who we're dealing with here, okay?
This guy has trampled all over the Constitution.
These are the same people that fought in Wisconsin.
We need to fight.
We elected these people to be obstructionists.
Nothing's going to get done on Ryan's budget because it's got to go through the Senate and get signed by the president.
You think he's going to sign anything worthwhile?
A shutdown.
Look, you're limited as an obstructionist, and the House has a ton of power to obstruct.
That's the role they need to play as obstructionists.
Because any other role is just Trump by their one-third of the government.
Well, and it infuriates you.
This is what I know a lot of people voting in November expected.
Voters are sophisticated.
They know the lay of the land.
They know that Obama can veto such things as a repeal of his health care bill.
But they want to see the effort.
Send it up there every week and make him veto it every week.
Make them own these disastrous policies.
Stand for something else.
I'm going to tell you what goads me, galls me.
This notion that we've got to put this fight off for another day, that we have to kick it, kick the can down the road.
Now, I really hate to keep harping on this, but this is the best illustration that I can come up with.
Here we had, we had Obama and Harry Reid locked into a position.
They were willing to shut down the government and not pay our soldiers on the battlefield in order to keep the money spigot flowing for the abortionists at Planned Parenthood.
And the Republicans didn't think they could win that PR fight.
Given the election results of November, where is it written that we can't win a PR fight with a bunch of people who are unwilling to pay the troops but want to make sure abortionists continue to get paid?
That's what the fight was about last week.
Elmer Fudd could win that fight.
Elmer Fudd could win it.
Crying out loud, would you know?
This is the thing that it's frustrating to me because there isn't.
So I told the Peritage People Friday, and I've told you, never in my lifetime has there been a greater opportunity to contrast who we are and what we stand for with our opponents.
And we don't really have to even say anything.
Just point to what they're doing.
People's lives, millions of people's lives are being seriously hurt, in some cases destroyed by this administration and by this administration's policies.
As the elections in November proof, we don't really even have to say anything.
It's that all we have to do is point out what we're for.
If you're afraid to criticize Obama because he's black and you're afraid of being called a racist or what, fine, just tell us who you are and what you stand for.
And it'll carry the day.
Never has there been a greater opportunity.
We have people who want to fundamentally transform this country and turn it into a welfare state where a majority of people are depending on government for their very existence.
Therefore, they will forever vote for big government.
And why wouldn't they?
They're never going to be paying for it.
That's where we're headed.
Well, that's a lousy future for us and your kids and grandkids.
I don't have kids and grandkids, but I do have dogs and a cat.
And Abby is depressed.
I didn't think dogs could get depressed.
Now, I don't want you dog owners getting upset with me here.
But, you know, I was out in Hawaii for a while.
We put Abby at a daycare center and we got the other puppy over at an obedience school.
Now, these are the first time the two, they're two little sheepdogs.
Well, they're just a little.
Abby is two, and Wellesley is coming up on her first birthdays has happened.
But they're inseparable together.
They're inseparable.
They've been separated here for since the 27th of March.
And Catherine not back from Hawaii yet visiting her parents.
I, of course, got back.
I was only there for four days.
I got Abby back from the daycare center, the school, and she's running around looking for Catherine.
She's running around looking for Wellesley.
She's just depressed.
I mean, she loves being around, but it's the first time the dogs have been separated.
So I've got Abby out helping the grounds crew today do the gardening and washing the cars.
Abby's helping them just to have some exposure to people while I'm here working to pay the bills.
We get Wellesley out of the obedience school on Monday.
Well, I got a depressed dog when I go home.
Gosh, if it's not the budget, it's something.
So Nancy Pelosi was at Tufts University in Boston last Friday.
She was giving the inaugural Alan D. Solomon lecture celebrating 10 years of Tish College at Tufts.
She said a number of things, but this, to me, is the highlight.
To my Republican friend, take back your party so that it doesn't matter so much who wins the election, because we have shared values about again the education of our children, the growth of our economy, how we defend our country, have security, and civil liberties, how we respect our seniors.
The fact is, is that elections shouldn't matter as much as they do, should be someplace on the spectrum where we respect each other's views and all the rest.
But if it comes to a place where there doesn't seem to be shared values, then that can be problematic for the country, as I think you can see right now.
All right, that sounds like she's speaking in a barrel.
But what she said to my Republican friends, take back your party, meaning get it back to the Tea Party, those kooks, so that it doesn't matter so much who wins the election.
She's telling us, folks, if you get the conservatives out of the Republican Party, it really won't matter who wins.
We're pretty much alike up here.
Republicans and Democrats are really pretty much alike.
But you get rid of your Tea Party elections, it shouldn't really matter as much who wins them.
The fact that it matters so much, she thinks, is why there's so much conflict and confrontation, split throughout our society and our culture.
They've got all kinds of things in common here.
Education for our children, the growth of our economy.
You don't believe in the growth of our economy, Ms. Pelosi?
She might think she does, but her recipe for economic growth kills the economy.
It grows government.
How we defend our country.
You care about that?
Rush, that's a really hard thing to say.
Well, all I know is these guys were hoping for defeat in Iraq.
Pelosi, Reed, they're calling General Petraeus a liar.
They were suggesting the war was lost before the surge even began.
Security, civil liberty.
You don't care about security, the border.
You guys are suing states in this country who are just trying to basically enforce federal law.
How we respect our seniors.
You're the guys with the death panels in your health care bill, Ms. Pelosi.
You see how convoluted this is.
But this is actually quite fascinating.
If the moderates would simply win control of the Republican Party, elections wouldn't matter that much, and we wouldn't be such a divided country.
And we wouldn't be at odds with each other so much.
It's just you, you know, if you just get rid of the conservatives and get rid of the Tea Party, that's what has to happen.
And if that happens, why we've got kumbaya, according to Pelosi.
Pelosi was basically saying that the ruling class should not be phased by elections.
They shouldn't have to spend so much money on them.
It shouldn't matter who wins because at the end of the day, whoever wins is going to be a member of the ruling class.
She was saying the ruling class have their shared values.
The ruling class in the Republican Party needs to tell the Tea Party to take a hike.
Here's Tom in Delmar, New Jersey.
As we head back to the phones, great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, it's a pleasure to speak with you.
You bet, sir.
Thank you.
Not only did the Republicans give in on the debt ceiling, or are they going to be giving in on the debt ceiling and they gave up on the budget deal, but lately on Judge Napolitano's show and a couple others, I've seen congressmen come on saying that they're going to abandon the balance budget amendment because Paul Ryan's proposed budget does not achieve it quick enough.
They're going to abandon the balanced budget amendment because, meaning they're going to shift their focus to the Ryan budget.
Right.
Originally, they said that the only way that they're going to vote to increase the debt ceiling is if they get a balanced budget amendment.
But now they're softening that, saying that just some hard caps will do.
But now the congressmen have been coming on and saying, this is Mike Lee's in the Senate is the one who proposed this.
But now House members are saying it's going to be abandoned because Paul Ryan's budget doesn't achieve a balanced budget quickly enough.
Okay.
I think what you're saying is that these guys are saying if they're going to be loyal to the Ryan budget, they have to give it up.
Yes.
Okay.
They've got to give up the balance budget amendment because they've got to support Ryan's budget.
Ryan's budget, the balanced budget, and it doesn't take it, what, 15 or 20 years for it to happen.
Well, it could be.
In 2006, and this is just a reminder, and that's just five years ago.
In 2006, every Democrat in the Senate voted against raising the debt ceiling.
In fact, some in the House did too.
Stenny Hoyer is the latest Democrat to come out and agree with Obama.
You know what?
That was a big mistake of mine.
You know, I voted against raising the debt summit 2006, debt limit 2006.
That was a big, big, big mistake.
Obama's saying it.
Stenny Hoyer has said it.
Every one of them in the Senate, every Democrat in the Senate 2006, voted against raising the debt ceiling, even though we were at risk of losing the wall in Iraq.
Now, some people might say that they voted against the debt ceiling because we were at risk of losing the Iraq war.
And that was their strategy.
But isn't it funny now how times change?
They are probably going to vote unanimously for raising the debt ceiling next month.
They have such strong principles, don't you know?
So you, and now the Republicans, they were hoping to, you know, plant the flag in the ground on the debt, so that's, okay, you had an email once, so why are they, Rush?
They know that we're paying attention.
They know that we're watching.
Why are they caving here in a matter of 24 hours on this?
It appears.
That's what all the words seem to mean.
No, I don't know.
I mean, I can only speculate.
I think one of the tactical reasons for it is that, okay, they're claiming to plant the flag.
A budget battle.
That was billions.
Whereas Chump Chase, don't worry.
We're going to really hunker down here on the debt ceiling.
That's where we're going to demand trillions and so forth.
Except they threw away the weapon.
They have telegraphed they will not shut the government.
I don't think, you know, Andrew Malcolm has a piece in his blog, the L.A. Times Today, why Obama was forced to give today's deficit speech.
And it's all about how Obama's been kind of forced and maneuvered into this.
And I read it, and it's well-written pieces.
All of Andrew Malcolm's stuff is.
I'm not sure I agree with it.
I don't think Obama thinks he got snookered at all on this.
I'm telling you, Snerdley, the dog is depressed.
I know that sounds strange, but I've never seen the dog as morose.
I mean, I thought the dog would be happy to see me, and it was.
But, I mean, when Catherine gets home, that dog is going to come to life times 10.