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April 22, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 22, 2011, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not recommending that you watch it.
I mean, you're gonna need a very, very strong stomach and constitution to watch it.
But you might be well advised at the same time to watch it Drudge, the lead story, another beat down to near death in a McDonald's.
It is on the par of things that have happened in this country where you start asking yourself, have we lost our soul?
But there's also a reason I want you to watch the video or at least enough of it to get an idea where it ends up.
I mean, it's it's they they dearly beat a woman to death and then tell the the guy running the film camera that the cell phone video taping this thing tells the perps to get out of the restaurant before the cops get there.
Rather than asking the perps to stay or suggesting or trying to keep them there for the cops to uh to arrive, you might uh when visiting fast food restaurants want to make sure you wear uh a t-shirt that proclaims your love for Obama before you go in.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
It might be that you might need to wear an Obama t-shirt to be safe in a fast food restaurant these days.
Open line Friday, great to have you, El Rushbo behind the golden EIB microphone as we are each and every meaningful day.
The days that I'm here and not here is not a big deal.
Not much going on.
But the days I am here severely important as is today.
Now the uh rules on Friday differ greatly from our standard rules on Monday through Thursday, Monday through Thursday.
You gotta talk about what I am interested in.
Friday, we broom that, and whatever you want to talk about.
Feel free.
For example, I got snurdly, I got an email.
Are you watching that video?
Are you watching this?
This is not the first one.
This is the these kind of things are starting to become these these ethnic racial beatdowns are starting to become common in fast food restaurants.
So we don't know, I don't know what caused this.
But the employees make no effort to stop it.
There is no attempt to stop this.
This woman nearly dies.
She has a seizure at the end of this.
Uh it's just it it's I don't know, folks.
It ain't good.
It isn't good.
Anyway, back to open line Friday.
I got an I got an uh an email yesterday from I was it a subscriber.
No, it was not in the subscriber line, not from RushlandBoard.com, just uh the Ilrushbo at the EIBNet.com.
Rush, Rush.
You know, I I I I'm I'm big listener.
I mean, I I I just love you.
And I've been around my husband and I, but you know, uh you used to you used to just laugh about all this stuff.
It's just too serious.
I can't I can't deal with it anymore.
I can't I mean, every all you did is Obama this and Obama that, and I know it's true, but I can't handle it.
I why can't you be funny about it anymore?
I have to stop listening, except there's nobody better.
Now, that's not a frequent comment, but it was it was there.
This is this is what open line Friday's for.
If you got problems like that, you have comments like that.
Snurtly, you let them through if they got comments like that.
Well, you well, you normally would anyway, wouldn't you?
No, he wouldn't.
Let me see if I can find the email.
I've I was um it's somewhere here.
I know that I here it is.
And it's from Marina Del Rey, California, Johanna is the woman's name.
Sorry, Rush, but you're losing me as an audience.
I despise Obama as much as the next person.
But you've just become like every other talk show host, railing, venting, beating the idea To a pulp.
I hope it works for you in spite of my reaction.
You used to be amusing while making your point nonetheless.
I know there's nothing to laugh about these days, so I understand your angst, but it's over the top for me.
You're lucky, though, I can't find a better channel to listen to when you're on.
You're right to feel that this is one of the things the left is counting on.
One of the, you know, we we we're we're at a tipping point here.
And I got Walter Williams, guest host on this program is convinced it's over, that there's no chance that Obama loses in 2012.
It's done.
It's over.
He's got every he's got big business in his back pocket.
He's gonna have a billion dollars.
He's got uh he's he's rigged the game.
Uh Larry Saboteau using Rasmussen data pretty much concludes the same thing.
2012's over.
It's over.
Twenty but no matter the city that we got a we've got a poll out today from CBS New York Times, which ought to end Obama's candidacy today.
It ought to end his chances.
So should rising gas prices.
The general falling apart of this country ought to spell the end.
And in and and according to all of these experts, um, it it doesn't.
Obama's in a town hall meeting in in Reno yesterday.
He says, you know, we we just we just can't let the rich relax and count their money.
We just can't let them sit around and relax and count their money.
We we've got to get their money.
This is what he's saying.
Things like this at uh town hall meetings.
In South Carolina, you know, Boeing wants to build their dreamliner, the 787 in South Carolina, it's a right to work state.
No unions.
The National Labor Relations Board says, No, you can't do that.
You've you've if you you you have a shop in in Washington, you've got to build it there where there are union peoples.
Here's the federal government telling an American business where it can and cannot do business and who it can and cannot hire.
Now you've got government officials in South Carolina are upset about this, but not as much as I would be.
Uh Governor, no way they're gonna get away with this is Nikki Haley calling press conference, but this is uh you know, the federal government say private business can't can't conduct business in South Carolina because it's a right to work state.
I got a full stack uh on on just that story alone.
Federal labor board seeks to ground Boeing.
Can federal bureaucrats tell a private company where to build a factory?
Members of Obama's National Labor Relations Board think they can in a decision that even the New York Times is describing as highly unusual for the federal government.
Leif Solomon, who was appointed to the board by Obama, filed a complaint on behalf of the NLRB on Wednesday, seeking to force Boeing to build an assembly line in Washington State instead of South Carolina.
Now, Boeing first sought to build the new plant near its existing facility in Puget Sound, but negotiations with the International Association of Machinists broke down when the Union refused to agree to a long-term no-strike clause.
The union had struck four times since 1989, costing Boeing at least 1.8 billion dollars in revenue.
That's when Boeing chose South Carolina, a right-to-work state, where workers are not forced to join unions.
As a result of this policy, only 6.2% of South Carolinians belong to unions.
Construction of uh Boeing's new Charleston factory is nearly complete.
The company has already hired more than 1,000 new employees, drawn mostly from within the immediate region.
Back in Washington State, Boeing is actually increased employment by 2,000 workers at Puget Sound, but it isn't enough for the International Association of Machinists or the Obama White House.
After suffering major defeats in Wisconsin and Ohio, the labor movement looking for a scalp.
Obama's National Labor Relations Board trying to turn Boeing into one.
How many of you are asking yourself how much time does the country have?
As I mean, as we know it.
I mean, how much no seriously.
How much time do we have?
The statistics, the numbers that we've seen the last two weeks do not auger well.
Forty-five percent of the American people work.
The rest don't.
Transfer payments are larger than income tax revenues.
Stories like this out of South Carolina in Wisconsin.
Uh, trying to do something about it labor union wise, Obama out fundraising now.
We just can't let the rich sit around and count their mummy.
So it's uh it's a serious thing.
We we do find things to laugh at here, but at the same time, we don't want to take them um unseriously.
So it's a striking balance.
They're striking a balance that we seek to do here each and every day at the EIB network.
This Earth Day, by the way.
Now, Earth Day is a great great, great, great example here.
Now, Earth Day is a is a perfect example of liberalism.
Started out as something nice and fuzzy and innocent.
Well, not to me.
I knew what this was from from the get-go.
But yeah, it was people in tie-dye t-shirts and uh dancing around the Maypole, tossing people around in blankets and talking about clean air and clean water and so forth, but what's happened?
It has metastasized into a relentless attack on capitalism, every nook and cranny of our lives, just like everything else born of liberalism.
However, other than MSNBC, Earth Day's not a story today.
I can remember as recently as three years ago, Earth Day would this would have been wall-to-wall 24-7 coverage.
And every cable news outlet, every newspaper, uh, every magazine would be devoted to the latest progress, the warnings of global warming and so forth, and uh what we all must do to save the earth, and now it's not even a story.
It's not now it's just a joke.
Earth Day is a joke.
We could we could declare victory in this sense.
We single-handedly almost here at the EIB network made Earth Day a national joke, along with global warming as a hoax.
It used to be taken deadly seriously.
Now, people ask me, well, how come you stay so optimistic?
Well, that's one of the reasons why we have demonstrable successes at rolling things back if you fight them properly.
Earth Day is now a joke.
You even remember folks, Earth Day's founder.
Do you remember the story of Earth Day's Founder?
Do you even remember his name?
Ira Einhorn.
Ira Einhorn was on stage hosting the first Earth Day event at Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, April 22nd, 1970.
Seven years later, the police raided his closet and found the composted body of his ex-girlfriend inside a trunk.
Ira Aynhorn, the father of Earth Day, killed and composted his girlfriend.
And if you any time you mention this, the Earth Day acolytes try to shut you up, and they don't want you having any uh success at uh at besmirching the image of their great leader, self-proclaimed environmental activist Ayn Horn made a name for himself during the 60s and 70s by taking on the role of a tie-dye-wearing ecological guru and Philadelphia's head hippie.
Had a long beard, gap-toothed smile.
Uh Einhorn advocated flower power, peace, free love to his fellow students at the University of Pennsylvania, and claimed to have helped found Earth Day.
He was also a murderer.
Well, I see 1970, Diane Sawyer was she around?
Yeah, you know, back in 1970, Diane Sawyer might have been told of this story.
It said, Look, recycling even in the midst of murder.
The Earth Day leader is recycling.
Whoa.
The early, the early lawyer for Ira Aynhorn after his girlfriend had found composted in the closet, was Arlen Specter.
Arlen Spector represented Ira Aynhorn at his bail hearing.
And then Specter dropped the case.
Einhorn jumped bail and left the country.
And went international.
To lead the Earth Day momentum.
Now I realize, folks, that I am the nation's morale officer.
That is just one of the things that accrues to me.
It's by default.
I, El Roshboa, many things, including the morale officer of this country.
And I really do believe we're going to prevail in the long run.
The only problem is the long run keeps getting longer.
Which is going to require an even longer and greater commitment on the part of everybody on our side.
But we will prevail.
The other side will collapse of its own moral corruption.
As it has everywhere else it's been tried.
The key is to speed along that the collapse born of their own moral corruption.
The socialist model, the things that Obama's trying to do, simply can't the country can't exist.
They're going to kill the golden goose.
There's going to be no money to redistribute at some point.
And one of the things on our side is that the uh uninformed or ignorant acolytes of Obama actually think that's what what's at the end of Obama's success is everybody prosperous.
Uh everybody earning a lot of money or having a lot of money, however they get it, everybody having a certain degree of wealth.
They once they realize that the end result of Obamaism is servitude and near poverty, then of course they're going to revolt against it.
But right now we're stuck with their relative ignorance.
Uh born of the fact that the left has owned the education apparatus in this country for a hundred years.
Well, okay, maybe eighty.
So that's there are many things here that we're dealing with and have to overcome on a day-to-day basis.
But at some point, just like Reagan said up in the Soviet Union, it'll collapse on itself.
Cuba is collapsing on itself.
The Chicoms are having to incorporate capitalism into their culture in order to survive.
We just happen to be going the other way because we have a neophyte who was educated, mentored, and raised by communist socialists.
That's his experience.
That's who he is.
That's what he believes he knows nothing else.
And so he is an implementary tool of people who have been working for this objective in this country for a hundred years.
At some point it will implode upon itself.
I want to get to the um I want to get to the uh the New York Times poll.
It's fascinating.
There's some really interesting stuff in this poll, surprising that the that the uh uh New York Times actually published it in such uh great detail, but you've got to hear this.
We go back, Charlton Heston once called this program and asked to appear to say this.
You think man can destroy the planet?
What intoxicating vanity.
Let me tell you about our planet.
Earth is four and a half billion years old.
There's been life on it for nearly that long.
Three point eight billion years.
Bacteria first, later the first melt of cellular life, then the first complex creatures in the sea on the land, then finally the great sweeping ages of animals, the amphibians, the dinosaurs, at last the mammals, each one enduring millions on millions of years.
Great dynasties of creatures rising, flourishing, dying away, all this against a background of continuous and violent upheaval.
Mountain ranges thrust up, eroded away, cometary impacts, volcanic eruptions, oceans rising and falling, whole continents moving in endless, constant, violent change, colliding, buckling to make mountains over millions of years.
Earth has survived everything in its time.
It will certainly survive us.
If all the nuclear weapons in the world went off at once, and all the plants, all the animals died, and the earth was clicking hot For a hundred thousand years, life would survive somewhere.
Under the soil, frozen in Arctic ice.
Sooner or later, when the planet was no longer inhospitable, life would spread again.
The evolutionary process would begin again.
Might take a few billion years for life to regain its present variety.
Of course, it would be very different from what it is now.
But the earth would survive our folly.
Only we would not.
If the ozone layer gets thinner, ultraviolet radiation sears the earth.
So what?
Ultraviolet radiation is good for life.
It's powerful energy.
It promotes mutation, change.
Many forms of life will thrive with more UV radiation.
Many others will die out.
You think this is the first time that's happened?
Think about oxygen.
Necessary for life now.
But oxygen is actually a metabolic poison.
A corrosive gas, like fluorine.
When oxygen was first produced as a waste product by certain plant cells some three billion years ago, it created a crisis for all other life on Earth.
Those plants were polluting the environment, exhaling a lethal gas.
Earth eventually had an atmosphere incompatible with life.
Nevertheless, life on Earth took care of itself.
In the thinking of a human being, a hundred years is a long time.
Hundred years ago we didn't have cars, airplanes, computers, or vaccines.
It was a whole different world.
But to the Earth, a hundred years is nothing.
A million years is nothing.
This planet lives and breathes on a much vaster scale.
We can't imagine its slow and powerful rhythms, and we haven't got the humility to try.
We've been residents here for the blink of an eye.
If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.
Charlton Heston on this program, February 3rd, 1995.
That's from Michael Crichton's book, one of his many.
It's Open Line Friday.
Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have while telling you everything going to hell in a handbasket with a shortage of handbaskets.
800-282-288-2week.
We go to the phones earlier than usual on Open Mine Friday, and today's no exception.
We start in Indianapolis.
This is John.
Great to have you, sir.
You're up first.
You set the tone for the day, as far as callers are concerned, very important role that has befallen you.
Hey, Rush, uh, I know it's a heavy responsibility.
Hey, the reason I'm calling is there's uh a lot out there now about how the great Clinton tax increase of the early nineties spurred economic growth.
And it's a lie that we're gonna have to keep combating.
I know you do it.
But what people have to remember is in the wake of that, uh Clinton lost the Congress, and as a result of that, there was uh this tension and we didn't have a lot of spending, plus we cut capital gains, and that's what spurred the economic growth of the nineties.
Then you've got people like Ben Stein, supposedly on our side, arguing that we need to increase the quote taxes on the rich.
Here's dealing.
Here's the answer to that.
I came up with the answer to this last week or earlier this week.
If if if everybody says that we need to revisit the Clinton years, and if they say, look at the Clinton years, uh look at a great boom economy we had with a great great Clinton tax increases.
Okay, fine.
Let's go back to the Clinton spending levels too.
I mean, if we were in such a boom economy, if everything would just rollin' right along, if everything was hunky dory, then how in the world could we be harmed by going back to the Clinton era spending levels?
But here again, another problem intellectually, uh you and I know that the Clinton tax increases retarded economic growth in the nineties.
Yet the economic growth of the nineties that happened was still an offshoot of what happened in the eighties with Reagan.
Had the Clinton tax increases not happened, the economic growth would have been even better than it was.
The American people simply were not able to be shut down and stopped.
Circumstances today are different.
The government's gotten even bigger.
We're more in debt.
The more government borrows, the less capital there is in the private sector for expansion.
Today there's no there's there's no desire for expansion of private sector.
Uh there's no confidence.
There's no confidence among people who would want to invest in a company and grow it.
You got exceptions to that, but but for the most part, you have an entirely different circumstance today than the nineties.
The left is really on thin ice, and they want to go back and say, hey, hey, look at tax increases back in the 90s, look whatever.
Yeah, well, let's go back to spending levels.
How about that?
Did the country fall off the cliff?
Did uh did Medicare recipients end up dying?
Were old people eating dog food?
Was it so bad with Clinton's spending levels in the 90s?
Let's go back to that.
You know, ever they whenever we advance the notion we should genuinely cut spending, reduced the size of government.
Oh no, no, my God, look at the calamities that would strike old people would die.
All these dire predictions.
Well, it didn't happen in the 90s.
Now we were government spending was a lot less then than it is today.
So that is how um that's how I deal with that that whole thin ice explanation of the 90s and how Clinton's tax increases led to a uh a giant boom.
New York Times, Jim Rutenberg, nation's mood at lowest level in two years, according to their poll.
Let me summarize this poll for you.
It is brutal.
The data in this poll, if this were anybody other than Obama, there would be abject panic in the media and on the left.
Get this now.
70% of Americans feel things in this country are seriously off on the wrong track.
That's the highest number since 79% thought so on January 11th of 2009.
That's Bush was still in office.
That was right before Obama was immaculated.
70% of Americans feel things in the country are off on the wrong track.
Now, in listening to this data, I want you to keep one thing in perspective.
We go back to January 2009 when Obama was immaculated, and I want you to remember how upbeat and positive everybody was.
I mean, even people on our side, it was the dawn of a new day.
Finally, somebody who was going to unify us all uh was going to renew America's uh economic engine, was going to renew the love for America around the world.
Um we're gonna get out of all these uh uh wars and a close club getting all virtually everything bad that was going on was going to be fixed.
Just the opposite has happened, and the American people admit it in this poll.
Eighty percent rate the national economy as bad.
Only 19% rate it as good.
39% think the economy is getting worse.
Only 23% say it's getting better.
57% disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy.
There's one thing I know.
One thing, after going through all this data, any poll that tells you that Obama's approval numbers are at 47% is a lie.
Somehow it's a lie.
Because personal approval and likability are two different things.
I might be able to believe the notion that he has a likability number 47%, but not approval.
Not when you go through this.
80% rate the economy is bad, 70% think the country's off on the wrong track.
They're not blaming Bush anymore for this.
57% disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy.
59% disapprove of Obama's handling of the federal budget.
That's the highest uh number this poll has ever measured.
Obama's Libya approval numbers have completely flipped from 5029 approve in March to 4539 disapprove today.
46% disapprove of the way Obama is handling foreign policy.
That's the highest number ever for Obama in a CBS New York Times poll.
Fifty-five percent tell the New York Times and CBS that they would rather have a smaller government providing fewer services.
Only 33% want a bigger government with more services.
And when asked, do you think Obama has the same priorities for the country as you have, or doesn't he?
53% said no, and 43% said yes.
When Obama was immaculated, the numbers were 65 and 28.
So two years ago, January 2009, 65% of the people thought Obama had the same priorities as they did.
Today the number's 53%.
No, the 43%, 43% said yes, uh versus 65% said saying yes two years ago.
What are you talking about?
Well, they precisely because he was an empty slate.
Precisely because people were people were writing on Obama whatever they wanted him to be.
And everybody wants their president to be just like them.
Everybody wants their president to have the same objectives they do, precisely because he had never worked a day in his life.
He never had a job he didn't have a record.
Precisely because he had this uh marvelous media image that was concocted and created for him.
Sixty-three percent of the American people thought they and Obama were on the same page when he entered office.
Today it's just it's almost it's almost the reverse because now he's got a record.
That's the big difference.
You can talk about this automatic re-election, and I'm gonna tell you right now, folks.
I have all the respect in the world for all of these marvelous political scientists and columnists.
But I'm gonna tell you I don't believe a presidential election poll taken in April of 2011, when the election is November of 2012.
I just don't believe, particularly when the Republicans don't even have a nominee yet.
The hell and and people who want to start analyzing this stuff, fine.
That's their business.
They're political scientists.
But I'm there is nobody who knows.
There's not a single person alive who knows what's going to happen tomorrow, much less in an election for the presidency in November 2012.
And all this rot gun about how Obama can't be beat.
He's got everybody in his back pocket, all this stuff, this is this is to me, it it's it's just shy of lunacy.
Now, some of these people might want to, well, hey, you might not like hearing the facts, Limboy.
You might not like it, but this is the way it all adds up according to our in depth formulas and so forth.
Fine.
Well, your formulas are what they are.
I'll take what real people do a year and a half from now over anybody's formula a year and a half out.
Now all these people say, well, they're caveats, of course, things could happen that we can't foresee.
Exactly right.
Things could happen that we can't foresee.
Like any number of things.
Like, what are the odds the economy's going to improve?
What are the what are the odds everything's going to get better here?
There's not a whole lot of time for demonstrable improvement here.
There's plenty of time to fake it.
Plenty of time for government data to be Jimmied and so forth to make it look like it's uh better than it is.
What was Jimmy Carter's election projection two and a half years into his presidency?
Up until three months, maybe even less.
You realize Reagan was destined to lose that election a month going in.
I think the final polls uh in the least three weeks, I'll have to look this up specifically.
But if you'll recall, if you were alive and paying attention, 1980, Reagan's landslide was a shock on election night.
It was a shock.
The media couldn't that election was over two hours before California closed.
And nobody could believe it.
And they were oh, yeah, Carter conceded early, and the media was all bit out of shape because he did that, because he conceded long before California even closed the polls, or any state on the left coast had closed the polls.
He goes out there and quits, gives up.
He concedes the election, they were fit to be tied out there.
And all the polling data prior to that day suggested Carter was a shoe-in.
And I'm telling you, we're doing worse now than we were under Carter.
This is the second term of Jimmy Carter on steroids.
And I'm just here to tell you, you know, I am the I'm the morale officer of this country, and I'm here to tell you, and taking personalities out of it, there is no freaking way that President Barack Obama, with everything we know happening in this country as it is, is a shoe-in for re-election.
There is no way he's an automatic shoe-in for re-election.
And anybody telling you that cannot back that up with ontological certitude.
Anybody telling you that would not bet their own house on it.
So don't listen to them.
I don't mean this to be personal with the people saying this.
But I'm not going to let people tell talk me out of my common sense.
We have got a president who is reviled here.
In the bowels of this country, in the places where the people who live who make this country work, this guy, there's no more love.
There's no more hope.
There's no more investment in change.
It is now a known quantity.
Obama is a known factor.
He is a disaster.
Let me ask you this.
You look at the Tea Parties.
The Tea Parties, nobody even expected those things to happen, right?
The Tea Party, the people showing up and had never been involved in politics.
They show up at these town halls and give birth to the Tea Party.
And everybody's running around.
How did this happen?
Okay, who's the grand conspirator here?
Who's working behind the scenes to organize these people?
Answer nobody.
It happened because the people who make this country work were fed up and scared to death that if they didn't do something, the country has founded as they knew it and loved it was finished.
And so what do they do?
They started finding out what they had to do, where they had to go to go to these town meetings and let their opinions be known, and how to influence the outcome of elections and the votes of elected officials.
So Paul Ryan has just submitted a budget.
It is a budget that Obama has criticized in the most unpresidential and childish, immature school bully kind of ways.
What I want to know is, where are the left wing versions of those Tea Party people?
they're nowhere.
If the Ryan budget were so radical, so destructive, if the Ryan budget spelled the end of everything good and decent in this country, then Then where are the American people standing up and going to town hall meetings and demanding that it never see the light of day?
They don't exist because people want it.
There is no left wing version of the Tea Party out there.
Once again, we are all falling prey and victim to a massive campaign of media creation that there's this groundswell of love and support for Obama's reelection when there is not.
Reagan turned that election around in 1980 with a series of uh questions.
The exact same questions that can be asked of Obama and they will elicit the same answers.
Are you better off now than you were four years ago?
Reagan asked that in the campaign of 1980.
Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was four years ago?
Is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was four years ago?
Is America as respected throughout the world as it was?
Do you feel that our security is as safe, that we're as strong as we were four years ago?
And if you answer all those questions yes, then your choice is obvious.
You vote for Carter.
If you don't agree, then you vote for me.
Same questions can be asked.
Here's Susie, Jacksonville, Florida.
Great to have you on the program.
Thank you, Rush.
Uh, contrary to the email you received, I just want to say I wish you were on six hours a day, seven days a week.
You speak for me, and it relieves my frustrations to hear you because you say exactly what I'm thinking.
And I'd like to say that uh this country better get serious this next time around because we'll never survive another Obama administration if we make it through the next twenty months.
But like your uh email said uh people need to get serious this time because uh so many people just want to be entertained.
They don't want to hear the real truth.
Well, no, here's what the by the way, Susie, thanks very much for the uh for the call.
I I appreciate it.
She's reacting.
I got an email at the end of uh yesterday's program from Johanna in Marina Del Rey, California.
And she says, sorry, Rush, but you're losing me as an audience.
I despise Obama as much as the next person.
But you've become just another talk show host, ranting, railing, beating the idea to a pulp.
You sound like you're sitting there wringing your hands.
I hope it works for you.
In Spite of my reaction.
You used to be amusing while making your point.
I know there's nothing to laugh about these days, so I understand your angst, but it's over the top for me.
You're lucky, though.
I can't find anybody better to listen to at the time anyway, so I'm sort of stuck with you.
It is s people don't want to hear how Syria.
They know it.
Don't want to hear it.
It's a crushing reality.
There's a lot of uh there's a tendency to be ostrich-like.
Stick your hand or stick your head in the sand, and it'll all take care of itself.
And things take care of themselves, but there are things which need to happen first before things taking care of themselves, and that is informed public and people with skin in the game.
Anyway, that's what she was reacting to.
I gotta go.
Only because of the constraints of time.
Also, in the CBS New York Times poll, says the American people oppose raising the debt ceiling two to one.
Two to one, the American people oppose raising the debt ceiling.
The only thing in this poll that can likely be spun for Obama is ostensibly that the American people don't want anything to be uh uh about Medicare to be touched.
They just leave Medicare.
The Medicare is worth the cost.
That's about the only thing in this poll that Obama can hang his head on.
It's uh really shocking that they even published it once they got the results.
They tried to goose Obama into action.
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