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June 1, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 1, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, Mark Stein, undocumented and loving it, no long form paperwork whatsoever.
I'm from the uh foreign exchange student wing of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a it's a great program.
Guys like me get to uh come and study here, and in return, President Obama gets to go to France and reauthorize the Patriot Act with his auto pen while everyone's asleep.
Uh by the way, by the way, uh when Anthony Wiener's president, he's pledged to sign all legislation with his autopenis.
It's got a mind of its own.
Uh Rush is away today, but he will uh return tomorrow.
Uh d did I hear that right uh yesterday, that he's he's tying up the final pieces of some super secret new deal.
That's that's why he's away today.
That's Oh, yeah, something something big.
So maybe he'll maybe he'll let us in on all that when he's uh when he's back uh tomorrow.
So uh he's not here he's not here today, but if uh if you go to Rushlimbore.com, you got all the rush content there, and uh and it's almost as if he's uh uh not gone.
But he is gone from the airwaves for the next three hours, so just just think of the show as a as a contressional Twitter account, and and I'm just an inappropriate organ that's managed to hack its way into it.
That's that's the way to think of the show today.
It's uh it's June the first, the start of another great month of excellence in broadcasting.
June is busting out all over, just like Anthony Wiener's tweeter.
Uh it's great great great to be with you, the middle of the week.
Uh and normally when I'm behind the golden EIB microphone in midweek, that means it's Weigher Wednesday.
But today, due to an unfortunate typing error on HR's running order, it's Wiener Wednesday.
It's very easy, very easy to confuse, even if you're an expert.
It's very easy to confuse Uyghurs and Wieners.
You know, if I were Congressman Wiener, uh I'd say that I was trying to send that co-ed in Seattle a snap of my favorite Uyghur and some idiot staffer misheard.
You know how that happens.
The Uyghur with the Wieners in the vessel with the pestle.
Um by the way, I believe uh Dominic Strauss Khan is now claiming that someone hacked into his underwear.
So there's a lot of it about, you know, there's a lot of it about.
You don't want to dismiss these implausible stories straight out of hand.
Wiener Wednesday, uh as you recall from yesterday's show, uh Congressman Wiener and Rush have the same position on the tweeted Weena.
Yesterday, uh Rush was being all high-minded, uh, apart from he was doing a few uh, I thought frankly, rather uncalled for jests, uh querying whether the evidence would stand up in court and that kind of thing.
Uh but otherwise Rush was being all high-minded and said that the tweeted Wiener was a distraction from saving the Republic.
And that's more or less what uh Congressman Wiener said in his disastrous press conference yesterday, I don't know whether you saw this thing.
It was like a slow-motion nine-minute meltdown uh on CNN with uh uh that lady, uh what's her name, Dana Bash.
And uh and uh he said the upshot of his argument, which he he said over and over again, is basically that his penis is an unfortunate distraction from raising the debt ceiling.
Um Congressman Wiener wants to raise the debt ceiling with his penis, which isn't as easy as it sounds.
I saw a guy do it in one of the side shows uh at the Plymouth State Fair in New Hampshire a couple of summers back.
But you know, there were a lot of mirrors and dry ice, so I'm not sure how genuine it was.
Uh anyway, if uh Congressman Antony's Wiener is a distraction from raising the debt ceiling, then I say, bring it on, let's have more of it.
24-7.
If that's what it takes to save the Republic, let's get uh Congressman Anthony's tweeted Wiener out there.
Uh if that's all that's standing between us and utter financial ruin, uh we'll take what we can get.
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For the moment the debt ceiling is not being raised.
Uh yesterday the House voted not uh to raise the debt ceiling.
Uh Congressman uh Anthony Zweiener did vote to raise the debt ceiling, uh so he was being consistent there that he was not going to let his uh his rogue tweet distract him from raising the debt ceiling.
But what is what is interesting about that vote, it was uh three hundred and eighteen to ninety-seven.
That's how m uh the vote to uh raise the debt ceiling was defeated.
Three hundred and eighteen to ninety-seven.
Every single Republican voted against the debt ceiling increase.
So we got no reach across the aisle types on this issue.
There's no, you know that whole reach across the aisle thing that uh that these uh so-called moderate, nonpartisan, maverick type congressmen are prone to, the old twitchy reach across the aisle itis.
It's the uh where you where you start your hand starts twitching to reach across the aisle and join with the Democrats.
It's the I believe it's the only illness that is not covered with uh Obamacare.
There's no known cure for it.
Uh nobody got reach across the Iolitis in the Republicans on the Republican side, and nearly half the Democrats opposed, voted to oppose raising the debt ceilings, including uh the the this season's Howard Dean, uh Debbie Wasserman Schultz, you know, the new um uh Democratic uh National Committee head honcho, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, she voted to oppose raising the debt ceiling.
Stenny Hoyer voted to oppose raising the debt ceiling.
Nancy Pelosi, a woman who did her best in the uh in the previous uh four years to r uh run up as much debt as possible.
Nancy Belosi voted to oppose raising the debt ceiling.
And it's it's amazing this.
Uh we were told by all the responsible people by that that uh who's that eleven-year-old boy who's the Treasury Secretary, Tim Timmy Geithner.
Uh all these all these people uh told us that uh if if we uh opposed raising the debt ceiling, markets would collapse, the full faith and credit of the United States government would be revealed to be a total bust, uh we would be looking at global financial meltdown.
I don't know, has it happened yet?
I haven't checked the markets today, but uh are we uh have we plummeted into the abyss?
I don't think so.
Now they're saying, hey, it's just a meaningless showboat, bit of political theater doesn't mean anything.
Interesting if true, uh, but the point is that nearly half the Democrats uh voted against raising the debt ceiling, including Nancy Pelosi, Stenny Hoyer, and the head of the DNC, Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
In other words, we're winning this argument.
We've won it with the Republican Party.
There were no defections on this issue.
Uh Republicans understand that raising the debt ceiling unconditionally uh is a disaster.
And by the way, that's going to do more damage to the markets, because basically we'd be sending the message to the world that we're sick freak out-of control spenderholics, and we got no intention of reigning in uh our appetites one little bit.
That's going to do far more damage to the markets uh than uh than than voting down the debt ceiling.
Instead, instead the entire Republican Party uh held the line on this thing, and nearly half the Democrats joined.
Now, obviously Nancy Pelosi, Steny Hoyer, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, they don't care about the debt ceiling one way or another.
They want it to go up.
But they understand that for the moment it's politically problematic for them to be seen to be approving more out-of-control spending.
So we're winning this argument.
Don't the next time you if you're a Republican uh presidential candidate and you go on meet the press or whatever, don't get suckered uh by the interviewer into uh thinking this is an argument about should we increase taxes, should we repeal the Bush tax cuts, all the rest of it?
It's not.
As this vote showed yesterday, the public understands what this argument's about.
The public understands this is about out-of-control, spenderholic government spending us into oblivion.
We're winning this argument.
We've changed the terms of the political discourse in the United States of America.
That happens very rarely.
And it happens very even more rarely if you happen to be a conservative, because on a lot of these issues, like uh the big uh global warming uh and uh and and uh immigration amnesty and all the rest of it, all the all the the f terms of the debate uh are generally speaking framed by the left.
In this case, we've succeeded in framing this issue on our terms.
It's about debt and out-of-control spending.
It's not about just tweaking the tax code a bit or just putting it a little incy wincy bit on on uh on on the top one per cent of Americans so they can uh generate enough tax revenue to cover the debt.
No, it's about reducing the debt, which you can only do by reducing the spending.
So we've changed the terms of this uh debate.
And uh and and uh I think in that sense, Uh whether it means anything or not, that vote yesterday was uh was quite significant.
Uh so we'll talk about that today.
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You know, the the interesting thing about uh because it is Wiener Wednesday, so we will talk touch on Wiener stories in the course of the show today.
Uh the interesting thing is what Congressman Wiener said just two years ago uh when he warned uh the President of the United States about being about not appointing a cyber security czar.
Uh the president, President Obama wanted to give the NSA more power to uh to collect information on who's tweeting and Twittering and Facebooking and all the rest of it.
And uh and uh Congressman Wiener cautioned against it.
He said cyber attacks, both foreign and domestic, are real and demand immediate action, Wiener said.
But we need a balanced approach.
It's important that we don't give too much authority to a government agency that collects information and rarely shares it.
And as we understand from his tweets, he uh you know, the one thing you can't say about Congressman Wiener is that he doesn't share his information.
He shared it with this uh co-ed over in Seattle.
That's awfully sporting of him.
He's a big time Congressman, doesn't have to do that.
Uh so he's got he's got a uh what's what's the word that Obama's always using?
Transparency.
You can't get any more you can't get more transparent uh than Congressman Wiener's underpants.
So he's certainly sharing information.
He's uh he's sharing it with uh all these co-eds he follows across uh across the fruited plain.
Uh but he's saying, he does say uh that that's why he doesn't approve the appointment of a cyber czar.
Cyber czar.
I they gotta find a better name for these sides.
Zybazaar, that's that thing in the Netherlands, isn't it?
The Zida Z. Did you see the Zybazaar beside the Zider Z?
Uh that's um that's uh President Obama.
So anyway, I believe the Zybazar by the Zyder Z been Nick's.
There's there isn't going to be a cyberzar by the Zyda Z. Uh but but uh what uh Congressman Wiener did say is that cyber attacks, both foreign and domestic, are real and demand immediate action.
He's he's reined back on that.
Now he just says this particular uh cyber attack was a prank.
It wasn't necessarily the work of the Chinese government.
Uh he's not saying the uh Politburo hacked into his tweet and uh and uh and and sent his underwear to this girl in Seattle.
Uh so he doesn't, he's he's backpedaled on that.
But it is interestingly, it is an interesting phenomenon.
This is from this week's Toronto Sun, Toronto, Ontario.
Uh rookie conservative candidate George Lepp says he's embarrassed that a photo of his family jewels was posted on his campaign Twitter account for about twenty minutes before it was quickly unzipped.
I didn't even know is this the lingo you use for the uh do you if you've got a rogue tweet, do you unzip it?
Is that the is that the is that what you do with it?
Anyway, uh he said the photo was in inadvertently taken by Lepp's BlackBerry when it was his front pocket.
I'm being entirely bipartisan here.
We've been mocking this uh liberal democrat uh with his rogue tweet.
We now have a rogue tweet from a conservative in Canada.
Uh the BlackBerry uh photographed, accidentally uh was in his front pocket, somebody uh jostled him, and uh and the BlackBerry switched on to camera mode and took a photograph of uh what the Toronto Sun describes as his uh Mr. Lepp's family jewels.
Now through it through his pants pocket.
He he wears this is by this is why you should this is why you should always have your hand-tailored suits, by the way, from Savile Row in London, because you'd get nice thick pocket uh you wouldn't get it's not like if you go to JCPenney and you buy the uh the pair of slacks reduced to 799 or whatever they are, you then they they've got the translucent uh pockets and then uh your BlackBerry switches on, uh photographs your crown jewels, and you got a whole big bunch of problems.
So it this rogue BlackBerry switched on in his pocket, photographed uh the old wedding tackle, and then uh uploaded it to his Twitter account.
And you know, as ridiculous as this story sounds, it's a million times more plausible than Congressman Wiener's.
This guy has got it this is actually technologically plausible, unlike anything Congressman Wiener has said about this.
This guy, if I was Congressman Wiener after that disastrous thing on CNN with Dan Abbash yesterday, I my official explanation for it would be now that that isn't his Uh wedding tackle uh that was uh uploaded uh in in the underwear and sent to the girl in Seattle that it's some rogue Canadian conservative uh crown set of crown jewels that uh uh that illegally seep through the border in defiance of NAFTA regulations.
I would that would be my explanation.
But uh for the moment, this conservative candidate who said that his BlackBerry switched on in his pocket, uh photographed uh the offending item and uploaded it to his Twitter account, this is a million times more plausible than Congressman Wiener's explanation for it.
And and by the way, uh this is obviously going to be a huge problem now.
It's happening in the United States, it's happening in Canada.
The idea of uh political uh pol political uh uh uh uh uh body parts being uploaded to Twitter is now obviously an occupational hazard of the political life in North America.
It's probably happening in Europe too.
Uh we'll we'll look into there, we'll see if we can find some uh some rogue tweets from Australia to uh to bring you, see if there's uh anybody uh uh down there, maybe from the House of Commons in London.
We'll keep you up to date on rogue political tweets from across the spectrum.
But it's obviously rampaging out there, uh out of control, uh, and this Canadian guy's explanation is way ahead of Congressman Winus.
1-800-282-2882, we'll get into his tweet, and we'll get into raising the debt ceiling, lots more straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Mark Stein in for us on the EIB network.
Rush returns tomorrow.
I'll tell you who we're very glad to have back with us today.
Uh K-Z R. G, our affiliate in uh Joplin, Missouri.
This is the uh first time uh we've been back with our friends at KZRG uh since uh the tornado uh hit uh Joplin, uh uh did uh terrible damage.
Uh I think it's up to around 150 uh people dead now, which is in a city the size of Joplin is uh is a mighty big death toll.
We are glad to have folks back with us in uh Joplin, Missouri.
I've th the f the first time I ever visited Joplin, Missouri, I was a teenager and I was doing the uh the Route 66 route, because like uh like most foreigners, the only thing I knew about Joplin, Missouri was that it turned up in the middle.
You go what was it, you go through St. Louis, Joplin, Missouri, Oklahoma City looks mighty pretty, and that's that's what I did back when uh when I was a teacher.
I'll tell you what else uh uh the fellow who wrote uh uh when you wore a tulip, a big yellow tulip, and I wore a big red rose.
I think he also came from uh Joplin uh Missouri as well.
But it's great to have uh uh the folks back with us at KZRG.
They've had a uh terrible time of it uh in last uh last month and we hope for better things now uh into uh June and uh and July.
Mark Stein in for the infrarus on the EIB network, 1-800-282-2882, talking about this overwhelming vote not to raise the debt ceiling.
Uh we're talking, by the way, they uh we're talking uh about the way, still dealing with this 14 trillion dollar debt figure, which is not what it is, which is not what it is.
Um if uh the uh United States federal government had to report its liabilities uh the way that my company does, the way the Excellence in Broadcasting Network does, the way your business does or anybody else does, uh the real liabilities of the United States are something like uh ten times that amount, uh closer to one hundred and forty trillion dollars.
Uh in other words, twice the entire wealth of the United States of America.
So if we can't even if we can't even agree uh when we're talking about the debt ceiling not to spend new money, not to run up new debt.
Uh if you've got no plan uh by the way, this is how crazy this this uh system is.
When people talk about the debt ceiling, uh where the borrowers, in how many situations you if you got a master card, you got a visa card.
In how many situations does the borrower uh determine uh his own debt ceiling?
It's the lender who determines the debt ceiling.
Uh right now, uh we're uh spending a fifth of a billion dollars every hour that we don't have, about seventy percent of which is borrowed from ourselves.
Uh right now, the Federal Reserve is buying 70% of new treasury debt because nobody else in the world wants it.
Nobody else wants to lend us any money anymore.
They've realized uh that uh we just want to raise the debt ceiling more and more and more and more, and that at a sudden point it's impossible for this stuff ever to get paid back.
So right now, 70% of U.S. Treasury debt is being bought by the Federal Reserve.
Uh in uh if you're not an uh a trained economist, a way to look at this is your left hand issuing an IOU in return for your right hand tweeting you a number uh uh uh with a huge figure on it.
So that your left hand issues you an IOU and in return your right hand gives you a tweet with a very large number on it.
That's what the United States is doing when uh seventy percent of United States treasury debt is being bought by the Federal Reserve.
So this this is the f the the debt ceiling across the last four decades has simply been raised automatically.
It was one of those things nobody debated it.
It was one of those things you just voted up automatically.
One more time should do it.
Just one more lifting of the debt ceiling, and that should be enough uh to put us in the clear.
And and so this is an historic vote because people are saying no, enough is enough.
We've changed the terms of the discourse.
Yes, America's An Command is away.
Your undocumented anchor man sitting in one eight hundred two eight two eight eight two.
Uh fascinating poll out of North Korea.
I didn't even know they took polls in North Korea.
I'm kind of uh kind of impressed they've got the technology to do that.
But this is from North Korea's Chosun Central TV.
Uh and they polled North Koreans, they polled North Koreans on uh the happiness index of each nation.
And uh and and according to this poll, the happiest country in the world is China.
China's the happiest country in the world.
North Korea is ranked number two as the happiest nation in the world.
Because that's like, you know, obviously they've got like millions and millions of starving people, and uh, you know, Kim Jong il has the car.
So life isn't quite as perfect as it could be, but it's still pretty good.
So they're in like number two just below uh China.
South Korea, by the way, woo, way down, ranked number one hundred and fifty-two.
They don't enjoy the blessings of rule by Kim Jong-il.
They are way down the rankings, number one and fifty-two.
And the United States ranks last the least happy country in the world, number two hundred and three.
It's the unhappiest country in the world.
It's full of sad people.
Sad, miserable people uh tweeting their wieners to co-eds in Seattle in the in the hope of finding a little bit of human happiness.
Uh so where number bo uh number two hundred and three, the uh least happy country in the world.
China scored a perfect score of one hundred points.
North Korea uh came in at number two with ninety-eight points.
As I said, they just lost a couple of points just because like all the millions and millions of starving people.
It's kind of a bummer, you know.
You're you're really happy, you're in such a a good mood, and then you gotta go past all these starving people eating dog food and things, and kind of uh put you in a put you in a take take take just a little sh the sheen off life, just a little bit.
Just a couple of points.
So they came in number two at ninety-eight.
The third country, third happiest country in the world is Cuba.
Cuba, they're really happy.
Iran, number four, they're deliriously happy.
They've got they've just gone nuclear.
Uh South Korea is way down only at 18 points, and the US, which came bottom, the least happy nation in the world, uh, big hit sound number two hundred and three.
Its score was not detectable.
It uh China had a hundred points, uh North Korea had ninety-eight points, Cuba had ninety-three points, Iran had eighty-eight points, Venezuela had eighty-five points.
But America is such a miserable, rotten dump of a place to live.
Its happiness score is undetectable.
It cannot be measured.
It's too small to register.
It's too small to register.
That's how gloomy we are.
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We are talking uh about the debt ceiling.
We would be a lot happier, by the way.
I'm happier than I was yesterday because we voted down the debt ceiling.
Maybe maybe if they took the happiness survey again, our happiness rating would actually be d uh detectable again.
The uh we're not going to be happy as long as we keep raising the debt ceiling, but we've decided for the moment to draw a line.
There is the possibility of happiness.
There is the b not not happiness per se, but at least the possibility of possibly being allowed to once again pursue happiness at some point down the road.
So that will take us off big hit position number two hundred and three in this North Korean survey uh of the world's uh of the world's happiest uh nations.
Uh let's go to Jay in Stillwater, Maine.
Jay, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Mark.
Good to talk with you again.
My pleasure.
It's very appropriate that uh that we're using this debt ceiling is leverage to finally get the uh the Democrats to uh to step up to the plate and get serious about spending cuts.
Um the the the challenge is and I've heard Rush say this before is it's hard to talk about numbers especially on the radio and have them make sense to any anyone um the they all kind of get jumbled up.
And uh a couple of years ago I looked up what does a billion dollars look like?
What does it actually look like?
And if you stacked $100 million in $100 bills, that would fill a four-foot square pallet.
So $1 billion fills 10 of those pallets.
$1 trillion fills 10,000 pallets.
And the $109 trillion unfunded liability that the Medicare and Social Security trustees reported on last couple of weeks would fill over a million pallets of 100%.
dollar bills four foot square so at some point it it it would behoove the Republicans to just get down and make the case based on the graphic instead of all these numbers because million and billion and trillion all kind of runs together in people's minds.
No, you're right about that.
And in fact, there's something liberating about when the numbers get so big that they're beyond human comprehension.
I mean, you don't often stop at the gas station and say to the guy, can you break a million dollar bill?
Never mind, can you break a billion dollar bill or a trillion dollar bill?
And in a sense, there's something liberating.
As long as these numbers fly the coop of lived human experience, in a sense, they're beyond worrying about.
Powerline, the Powerline blog, whatever it is, powerline.com or whatever, Powerline blog has a competition at the moment.
The prize is $100,000, which is visualizable.
That is a real sum of money related to human experience, can make a lot of difference in most people's lives.
$100,000 prize for the person who finds the best way of bringing the reality of this size of debt to the American people.
Whether you do it with a visual, with a graphic, whether you do it with a song, whether you do it with a piece of artwork or whatever.
Coming up with a shorthand that brings home in real terms what this number is.
But, Jay, to go back to your point.
Until the United States government started spending on this scale, you didn't have numbers like $140 trillion in real life.
The only place you would have a number like $140 trillion.
A reader mentioned this to me a couple of weeks ago, and she's absolutely right.
You used to just have that in – the only place you'd find that size number would be a book about astronomy.
140-000-000-000-000-000.
number only existed uh in books about astronomy about how far this particular asteroid or this particular rock happened to be in light years from our own solar system.
Sure, there's a wonderful song, the galaxy song from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, which puts it all in perspective, you know, 100 trillion light years away or whatever.
It's wonderful in terms of telling a story about how insignificant we all are.
Well, yeah, but it's also in this case, because this number, in other words, we have outspent, we have spent on such a cosmic scale, we have outspent the bounds of the planet.
You would have to be in the deepest reaches of the galaxy to ever have any use for this number, 1-4-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 before.
And you were talking about these various pallets of $100 bills.
This lady also said to me that if you take $140 trillion right now and spend $1,000 every second from right now going backwards through time, you would run out of money in 2400 B.C., uh which would be about just in time for the invention of the abacus uh and as a bankrupt time traveler you happily won't need an abacus because you're you're flat you're broke you got nothing.
Uh in other words that's like spending uh that's that's uh spending a thousand bucks every second uh right now all the way back through human history you would run out of money you would run out of 140 trillion dollars in twenty four hundred BC.
In other words, the United States has outspent human history.
That is extraordinary.
This is a level.
This is a a scale of suicide no other nation has contemplated in the entirety of human history.
And we have to uh you're right.
There will s th the guy who can come up with a visual image, a shorthand that brings home the colossal scale of the irresponsibility of our feckless leaders and this debauched bureaucracy, uh will we will be in their debt uh for for all time, Jay.
What's what's your your best shot?
You'd like to you'd like to see uh Republican candidates uh stacking up pallets or stacking up some other kind of visual shorthand in an act.
Well, it's on page Tudor.com.
I'm not pimping for the for the website, I just happen to find it on that.
But yeah, I mean it's it's a very convincing image.
I've shared it with people that seem to think that our debt issues are uh are are not a big concern.
But um, you know, we're all elections are important, but uh twenty twelve is obviously critical.
We're at a tipping point now where uh the takers uh may succeed in beating the makers, the deceivers may succeed in uh overcoming the achievers.
And uh thank you, Mark, for for all the wonderful things you do on National Review and and your website at and Russia's show.
You you make uh you make such a compelling point, many compelling points in such an entertaining way.
I so enjoy hearing your host for Rush.
God bless Russia, wherever he is, but you do a great job, sir.
Well, thank thanks.
Thanks a lot, Jay.
These are these are critical times.
Not just because uh, as Jay suggests, we may be approaching the point of which the takers can outvote the makers.
This is even more pronounced, by the way, in the rest of the Western world.
In in uh in the Eurozone, uh the countries that are on the euro, uh, less than forty percent of citizens participate in the workforce.
Once you once once you're at that level, basically where a majority is uh can can vote itself more goodies from an ever smaller and beleaguered minority, there aren't a lot of ways back.
Uh so w so uh this will be a critical election, and for other reasons too.
The IMF uh now says that China will uh be the number one economy by the year twenty fifteen.
In other words, the guy who gets elected in twenty twelve will be the last president of the United States to preside over the world's dominant economy.
That should shame every American.
That should shame every American.
1 800, 282 2882, we are not content with just freezing the debt ceiling.
We want to get on top of that debt ceiling and stomp it down into a debt basement.
Mark Stein in Farush, more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network, weena Wednesday on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Uh and uh a story from uh story from South Africa.
Things could be a lot worse for Congressman Wiener, you know.
A trial date is to be set this week for the tragic case of a South African pastor that was burnt alive for having a magic.
Uh HR, what's the word I'm not allowed to say?
Gotta be careful here.
What okay, I'm not yeah, I'm not allowed to say that word.
I'm gonna what what do you told me to call it a uh wiener, okay?
Uh it makes it difficult reading news stories from South Africa, where apparently you can say the word.
A trial date is to be set this week for the tragic case of a South African pastor burnt alive for having a magic wiener.
Twelve people are to appear in uh umbuma langa court on charges of murder and arson.
Uh the villagers burnt the pastor to death after claiming that he had been talking to animals and was using an invisible wiener to sleep with women in the community.
So things could have been a lot worse for uh Congressman uh Wiener.
By the way, if uh if you sleep with a woman and she says you've got an invisible wiener, that's normally not a good sign.
But anyway, that it uh it all ended unhappily in South Africa.
Uh whether it will end happily for Congressman Weiner, I do not know.
Let us go to Mark in Hamburg, Pennsylvania.
Mark, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
One of the few Marks who is not an accredited guest host of the Rush Limbaugh Show.
And like Mark Davis, Mark Belling, uh you're you you're to get in there, Mark.
You should be our uh regular guest host from Hamburg, Pennsylvania.
Uh taking my call and good to talk to you, Mark.
Uh, listen to you all the time when Rush isn't there.
Um my beef with this whole thing with Wiener is that if this was a Republican, they would have this splashed over every bit of the lame stream media, and it would be a an outrage.
It would be, you know, a tragedy, it would be against the girls' civil rights.
It you know, one way or another, and Wiener would probably weren't be one of the ones to uh you know toted up his flagpole and make sure that it was out there on the uh on the news every minute of every day.
Oh no, he'd be he'd be gone.
Yeah.
Remember uh it would just be so so uh so against us and so against any conservative that uh you know i i it just the double standard it just kills me.
Yes, everybody.
You remember Mark Mark Foley?
Remember Mark Foley?
This guy he didn't even have any he didn't uh send any inappropriate photographs or anything.
Uh he just tweeted uh some page and he was gone.
He was gone, he was gone in forty-eight hours.
Nancy Pelosi used that, used Mark Foley uh as an example of Democrat corruption to change the result of the uh two thousand and uh two thousand six election.
He made him the poster boy for the Republican Party, and the media went along with it.
You'd be out there pounding this guy and getting him every time he sticks his head out of his little hole.
And any time you see his face coming out of there...
Somebody should ask him, somebody should berate him, somebody should get him so that he's always, always on defensive like they do to us.
Yeah, no, absolutely right.
Now t uh I think I interviewed uh Congressman Wiener, by the way, on uh Fox uh a couple of years ago, because he's one of these guys who loves uh to get on TV, loves to be a he wants to be a celebrity politician.
Uh and uh I would imagine that's part of what got him into this uh this mess, as it were, because uh uh I think he I don't think it would be unappealing to him the idea of being a pin up for uh for for coeds out in Seattle.
But uh but but yeah, you're right.
This guy should have nothing to say.
Why would you listen to a guy?
Why would you listen to a guy who's tweeting this kind of stuff uh across the fruit of plain?
If he doesn't if he didn't tweet it, all he has to do is uh is say he didn't.
He wouldn't answer the direct question.
He wouldn't answer is this photograph of your body parts, did you send this this tweet?
Yes, no.
Those are easy questions to answer.
He wouldn't, he would say, Oh, I just regard this isn't unfortunate distraction from the many you know, this uh serious I need to get back to work for the American people.
I exactly tireless work for the American people.
By the way, I don't want you guys working for the American people.
That's why we've got a hundred and forty trillion dollars in debt and liabilities.
If you did less work for the American people, uh the American people would do just fine.
So on the whole, I'd rather that uh you're treating your wieners back and forth to each other all day long and not getting back to work for the American people.
So the longer uh that Congressman Wiener is out of the game, uh because he's on the back foot over all this business, uh the the the better it is.
Um but yeah, that's what that was his thing on uh Danabash says, Well, he says, Well, did you do this, did you do that?
He instead of saying yes or no, he says, Well, look, if I give a speech to forty-five thousand people, right there, by the way, that's fantasy land for a start.
Uh he he couldn't fill a he couldn't he until this little bit of problem, he couldn't fill a room with forty-five hundred people or four for four hundred and fifty people.
But he's saying this is his fantasy now.
If I was speaking to a crowd of forty-five thousand people, and somebody in the back row threw a pie at me, I wouldn't spend the next two hours talking about the pie.
We're not asking you to spend two hours talking about the pie.
Well, can you give a simple yes or no answer?
Uh is is this uh your uh your crown jewels in the felicitous phrase of the Toronto Sun.
Did you send this photograph?
Those are yes or no questions.
Uh in all this so I refer you to the statement of my deputy assistant under associate aide for uh congressional tweeting affairs.
Uh it's this is all nonsense.
This is why, by the way, by the way, while we're on about uh wh while we're on this subject, if we are going to elect sad, lonely, miserable people with nothing better that to do than to tweet their wieners to coeds in Seattle all day long, the least we could do is not give them the congressional retinue of uh of a of a low ranking gulfer mayor.
I mean, the idea that you have aides issuing sa you're sitting there in your lonely room tweeting tweeting random co-eds across the land, but you need you can do that for yourself, but you need an aid to issue a statement about it.
That's what's wrong with the Republic right there and then.
Mark Stein, in for rush, lots more still to come.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the uh Rush Limbaugh show.
I mentioned uh Debbie Wasserman Schultz, uh, who's this season's Howard Dean.
She's the new head honcho at uh the DNC.
And she voted against raising the debt ceiling.
Uh good good for her yesterday.
She also said this that Republicans uh are opposed to immigration reform because they want to make it a crime to be an illegal immigrant.
That's just terrible, isn't it?
Uh that's those that's those mean spirited Republicans for you.
It's uh it's it they want to make it a crime to be an illegal immigrant.
Why shouldn't an illegal immigrant, why shouldn't a perfectly law-abiding illegal immigrant say have exactly the same rights as everybody else?
They're a fine law-abiding, illegal, non-citizen citizen of the United States.
I think Debbie Wasserman Schultz makes an excellent point here.
Republicans just want to make it illegal to be illegal.
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