Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in, Mark Stein, undocumented and loving it.
No long-form paperwork whatsoever.
I'm from the foreign exchange student wing of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a great program.
Guys like me get to 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.
By the way, by the way, when Anthony Wiener's president, he's pledged to sign all legislation with his auto-penis.
It's got a mind of its own.
Rush is away today, but he will return tomorrow.
Did I hear that right yesterday, that he's tying up the final pieces of some super secret new deal?
That's why he's away today.
Oh, yeah, something big.
So maybe he'll let us in on all that when he's back tomorrow.
So he's not here today, but if you go to rushlimbor.com, you've got all the Rush content there, and it's almost as if he's not gone.
But he is gone from the airwaves for the next three hours.
So just think of the show as a controgressional Twitter account, and I'm just an inappropriate organ that's managed to hack its way into it.
That's the way to think of the show today.
It's June the 1st, the start of another great month of excellence in broadcasting.
June is busting out all over, just like Anthony Wiener's tweeter.
It's great to be with you.
The middle of the week.
And normally when I'm behind the Golden EIB microphone in midweek, that means it's Uyghur 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, 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.
By the way, I believe Dominic Strauss-Kahn 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, as you recall from yesterday's show, Congressman Wiener and Rush have the same position on the tweeted Wiener.
Yesterday, Rush was being all high-minded.
Apart from he was doing a few, I thought, frankly, rather uncalled-for jests, querying whether the evidence would stand up in court and that kind of thing.
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 Congressman Wiener said in his disastrous press conference yesterday.
I don't know when you saw this thing.
It was like a slow-motion, nine-minute meltdown on CNN with that lady, what's her name, Dana Bash.
And he said the upshot of his argument, which he said over and over again, is basically that his penis is an unfortunate distraction from raising the debt ceiling.
Incidentally, I believe 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 sideshows 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.
Anyway, if 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 Congressman Antony's tweeted Wiener out there.
If that's all that's standing between us and utter financial ruin, we'll take what we can get.
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For the moment, the debt ceiling is not being raised.
Yesterday, the House voted not to raise the debt ceiling.
Congressman Antony Zwiener did vote to raise the debt ceiling.
So he was being consistent there that he was not going to let his rogue tweet distract him from raising the debt ceiling.
But what is interesting about that vote, it was 318 to 97.
That's how the vote to raise the debt ceiling was defeated.
318 to 97.
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 these so-called moderate, non-partisan, maverick-type congressmen are prone to, the old twitchy reach across the aisle itis.
It's the way your hand starts twitching to reach across the aisle and join with the Democrats.
I believe it's the only illness that is not covered with Obamacare.
There's no known cure for it.
Nobody got reach across the aisle itis in the Republicans on the Republican side.
And nearly half the Democrats opposed, voted to oppose raising the debt ceilings, including this season's Howard Dean, Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
You know, the new Democratic 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 previous four years to run up as much debt as possible, Nancy Pelosi voted to oppose raising the debt ceiling.
And it's amazing this.
We were told by all the responsible people that who's that 11-year-old boy who's the Treasury Secretary?
Timmy Geithner.
All these people told us that if we 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.
We would be looking at global financial meltdown.
I don't know, has it happened yet?
I haven't checked the markets today, but have we plummeted into the abyss?
I don't think so.
Now they're saying, hey, it's just a meaningless show, but a bit of political theater doesn't mean anything.
Interesting, if true, but the point is that nearly half the Democrats 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.
Republicans understand that raising the debt ceiling unconditionally 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 reining in our appetites one little bit.
That's going to do far more damage to the markets than voting down the debt ceiling.
Instead, instead, the entire Republican Party 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.
The next time, if you're a Republican presidential candidate and you go on meet the press or whatever, don't get suckered by the interviewer into thinking this is an argument about should we increase taxes?
Should we repeal the Bush tax cuts or 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 the big global warming and immigration amnesty and all the rest of it, all the terms of the debate 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 insyncy bit on the top 1% of Americans so they can 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 debate.
And I think in that sense, whether it means anything or not, that vote yesterday was quite significant.
So we'll talk about that today.
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You know, the interesting thing about, because it is Wiener Wednesday, so we will touch on Wiener stories in the course of the show today.
The interesting thing is what Congressman Weiner said just two years ago when he warned the President of the United States about being about not appointing a cyber security czar.
The president, President Obama, wanted to give the NSA more power to collect information on who's tweeting and Twittering and Facebooking and all the rest of it.
And Congressman Weiner cautioned against it.
He said, cyber attacks, both foreign and domestic, are real and demand immediate action, Weiner 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, you know, the one thing you can't say about Congressman Weiner is that he doesn't share his information.
He shared it with this co-ed over in Seattle.
That's awfully sporting of him.
He's a big-time congressman.
He doesn't have to do that.
So he's got a, what's the word that Obama's always using?
Transparency.
You can't get more transparent than Congressman Weiner's underpants.
So he's certainly sharing information.
He's sharing it with all these co-eds he follows across the fruited plane.
But he's saying, he does say that that's why he doesn't approve the appointment of a cyber czar.
A cyber czar.
They've got to find a better name for these Zyberzar.
That's that thing in the Netherlands, isn't it?
The Zyda Z. Did you see the Zyberzar beside the Zyda Z?
That's President Obama.
So anyway, I believe the Zyberzar by the Zyda Z has been nicked.
There isn't going to be a Zyberzar by the Zyda Z.
But what Congressman Weiner did say is that cyber attacks, both foreign and domestic, are real and demand immediate action.
He's reigned back on that now.
He just says this particular cyber attack was a prank.
It wasn't necessarily the work of the Chinese government.
He's not saying the Politburo hacked into his tweet and sent his underwear to this girl in Seattle.
So he doesn't.
He's backpedaled on that.
But it is, interestingly, it is an interesting phenomenon.
This is from this week's Toronto Sun, Toronto, Ontario.
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 20 minutes before it was quickly unzipped.
I didn't even know is this the lingo you use for do you if you've got a rogue tweet, do you unzip it?
Is that the is that is that what you do with it?
Anyway, he said the photo was inadvertently taken by Leps BlackBerry when it was his front pocket.
I'm being entirely bipartisan here.
We've been mocking this Liberal Democrat with his rogue tweet.
We now have a rogue tweet from a conservative in Canada.
The BlackBerry photographed, accidentally was in his front pocket.
Somebody jostled him and the BlackBerry switched on to camera mode and took a photograph of what the Toronto Sun describes as Mr. Leps family jewels.
Now, through his pants pocket, this is why you should always have your hand-tailored suits, by the way, from Savile Row in London, because you'd get a nice thick pocket.
You wouldn't get it.
It's not like if you go to JCPenney and you buy the pair of slacks reduced to $7.99 or whatever they are, they've got the translucent pockets.
And then your BlackBerry switches on, photographs your crown jewels, and you've got a whole big bunch of problems.
So this rogue BlackBerry switched on in his pocket, photographed the old wedding tackle, and then uploaded it to his Twitter account.
And you know, as ridiculous as this story sounds, it's a million times more plausible than Congressman Weiner's.
This guy has got it.
This is actually technologically plausible.
I'd like anything Congress Weiner has said about this.
This guy, if I was Congressman Weiner after that disastrous thing on CNN with Dan Abash yesterday, my official explanation for it would be now that that isn't his wedding tackle that was uploaded in the underwear and sent to the girl in Seattle, that it's some rogue Canadian conservative set of crown jewels that illegally seeped through the border in defiance of NAFTA regulations.
That would be my explanation.
But for the moment, this conservative candidate who said that his BlackBerry switched on in his pocket, photographed the offending item and uploaded it to his Twitter account, this is a million times more plausible than Congressman Weiner's explanation for it.
And by the way, 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 political 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.
We'll look into there.
We'll see if we can find some rogue tweets from Australia to bring you.
See if there's anybody 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, out of control.
And this Canadian guy's explanation is way ahead of Congressman Riener's.
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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 Rush on the EIB network.
Rush returns tomorrow.
I'll tell you who we're very glad to have back with us today.
KZRG, our affiliate in Joplin, Missouri.
This is the first time we've been back with our friends at KZRG since the tornado hit Joplin.
Did terrible damage.
I think it's up to around 150 people dead now, which in a city the size of Joplin is a mighty big death toll.
We are glad to have folks back with us in Joplin, Missouri.
The first time I ever visited Joplin, Missouri, I was a teenager and I was doing the Route 66 route because like most foreigners, the only thing I knew about Joplin, Missouri was that it turned up in the middle.
What was it?
You go through St. Louis, Joplin, Missouri, Oklahoma City, looks mighty pretty.
And that's what I did back when I was a team.
I'll tell you what else.
The fellow who wrote When you wore a tulip, a big yellow tulip, and I wore a big red rose.
I think he also came from Joplin, Missouri as well.
But it's great to have the folks back with us at KZRG.
They've had a terrible time of it in last month, and we hope for better things now into June and July.
Mark Stein Infra Rush on the EIB network.
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Talking about this overwhelming vote not to raise the debt ceiling.
We're talking, by the way, we're talking, by the way, still dealing with this $14 trillion debt figure, which is not what it is, which is not what it is.
If the United States federal government had to report its liabilities the way that my company does, the way the Excellence in Broadcasting Network does, the way your business does, or anybody else does, the real liabilities of the United States are something like 10 times that amount, closer to $140 trillion.
In other words, twice the entire wealth of the United States of America.
So if we can't even agree when we're talking about the debt ceiling not to spend new money, not to run up new debt, if you've got no plan.
By the way, this is how crazy this system is.
When people talk about the debt ceiling, where the borrowers, in how many situations, if you've got a MasterCard, you've got a Visa card.
In how many situations does the borrower determine his own debt ceiling?
It's the lender who determines the debt ceiling.
Right now, we're spending a fifth of a billion dollars every hour that we don't have, about 70% of which is borrowed from ourselves.
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 that we just want to raise the debt ceiling more and more and more and more, and that at a certain 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.
If you're not 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 with a huge figure on it.
So 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 70% of United States Treasury debt is being bought by the Federal Reserve.
So this is 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 to put us in the clear.
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 anchorman is away.
Your undocumented anchor man sitting in 1-800-282-2882.
Fascinating poll out of North Korea.
I didn't even know they took polls in North Korea.
I'm kind of impressed they've got the technology to do that.
But this is from North Korea's Chosun Central TV.
And they polled North Koreans, they polled North Koreans on the happiness index of each nation.
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, 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 like number two, just below China.
South Korea, by the way, woo, way down, ranked number 152.
They don't enjoy the blessings of rule by Kim Jong-il.
They are way down the rankings, number 152.
And the United States ranks last the least happy country in the world, number 203.
It's the unhappiest country in the world.
It's full of sad people, sad, miserable people tweeting their wieners to co-eds in Seattle in the hope of finding a little bit of human happiness.
So we're number 203, the least happy country in the world.
China scored a perfect score of 100 points.
North Korea came in at number two with 98 points.
As I said, they just lost a couple of points just because all the millions and millions of starving people.
It's kind of a bummer.
You know, you're really happy.
You're in such a good mood.
And then you've got to go past all these starving people eating dog food and things and kind of put you in a take, take just a little 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 South Korea is way down, only at 18 points.
And the US, which came bottom, the least happy nation in the world, a big hit sound, number 203.
Its score was not detectable it.
China had 100 points.
North Korea had 98 points, Cuba had 93 points, Iran had 88 points, Venezuela had 85 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 1-800-282-2882.
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 ceilings maybe maybe, if they took the happiness survey again, our happiness rating would actually be 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 possibility 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 203 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.
Main Jay, you're live on the Rushlimbaugh show.
Great to have you with us.
Hi Mark, good to talk with you again.
I?
Um, it's very appropriate that uh, that we're using this debt ceiling as 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 they, 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 sacked $100 million in $100 bills, that would fill a four-foot square pallet.
So a billion dollars fills 10 of those pallets.
A trillion dollars fills 1,000, or excuse me, 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 bills, four-foot square.
So at some point, 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.
Prize is $100,000, which is visualizable.
That is a real sum of money related to human experience.
It 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.
140000000.
That number only existed 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.
You've got to 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, 140000 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 BC, which would be about just in time for the invention of the abacus.
And as a bankrupt time traveler, you happily won't need an abacus because you're flat.
You're broke.
You got nothing.
In other words, that's like spending, that's spending $1,000 every second right now, all the way back through human history.
You would run out of money.
You would run out of $140 trillion in 2400 BC.
In other words, the United States has outspent human history.
That is extraordinary.
This is a level.
This is a scale of suicide no other nation has contemplated in the entirety of human history.
And we have to, you're right.
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, we will be in their debt for all time, Jay.
What's your best shot?
You'd like to see Republican candidates stacking up pallets or stacking up some other kind of visual shorthand in an act?
Well, it's on page tutor.com.
I'm not temping for the website.
I just want to find it on that.
But yeah, it's a very convincing image.
I've shared it with people that seem to think that our debt issues are not a big concern.
But, you know, all elections are important, but 2012 is obviously critical.
We're at a tipping point now where the takers may succeed in beating the makers.
The deceivers may succeed in overcoming the achievers.
And thank you, Mark, for all the wonderful things you do on Natural Review and your website and Russia's show.
You make such a compelling point, many compelling points in such an entertaining way.
I so enjoy hearing your host for Rush.
God bless Rush, wherever he is.
But you do a great job, sir.
Well, thanks a lot, Jay.
These are critical times.
Not just because, as Jay suggests, we may be approaching the point at which the takers can outvote the makers.
This is even more pronounced, by the way, in the rest of the Western world.
In the Eurozone, the countries that are on the Euro, less than 40% of citizens participate in the workforce.
Once you're at that level, basically where a majority can vote itself more goodies from an ever smaller and beleaguered minority, there aren't a lot of ways back.
So this will be a critical election and for other reasons, too.
The IMF now says that China will be the number one economy by the year 2015.
In other words, the guy who gets elected in 2012 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.
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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 for Rush, more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Weena Wednesday on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
And a story from South Africa.
Things could be a lot worse for Congressman Weiner, 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 HR.
What's the word I'm not allowed to say?
Got to be careful here.
Okay, I'm not allowed to say that word.
You told me to call it a wiener.
Okay.
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 Mpumalanga court on charges of murder and arson.
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 Congressman Wiener.
By the way, if you sleep with a woman and she says you've got an invisible wiener, that's normally not a good sign.
But anyway, it all ended unhappily in South Africa.
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, you ought to get in there, Mark.
You should be our regular guest host from Hamburg.
Thank you so much for taking my call.
And it's good to talk to you, Mark.
I listen to you all the time when Rush isn't there.
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 lamestream media, and it would be an outrage.
It would be a tragedy.
It would be against the girls' civil rights.
One way or another.
And Wiener would probably be one of the ones to tote it up his flagpole and make sure that it was out there on the news every minute of every day.
Oh, no, he'd be gone.
Yeah.
It would just be so against us and so against any conservative that, you know, it just, the double standard, it just kills me.
Yes, everybody.
Remember Mark Foley?
Remember Mark Foley?
This guy, he didn't even have any, he didn't send any inappropriate photographs or anything.
He just tweeted some page and he was gone.
He was gone.
He was gone in 48 hours.
Nancy Pelosi used that, used Mark Foley as an example of Democrat corruption to change the result of the 2006 election.
She 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 anytime 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, I think I interviewed Congressman Weiner, by the way, on Fox a couple of years ago because he's one of these guys who loves to get on TV, loves to be, he wants to be a celebrity politician.
And I would imagine that's part of what got him into this mess, as it were, because I don't think it would be unappealing to him, the idea of being a pin-up for co-eds out in Seattle.
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 across the fruited plane?
If he didn't tweet it, all he has to do 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 tweet?
Yes, no.
Those are easy questions to answer.
He wouldn't.
He would say, oh, I just regard this as an unfortunate distraction from the many, you know, this series.
I need to get back to work for the American people.
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 $140 trillion in debt and liabilities.
If you did less work for the American people, the American people would do just fine.
So on the whole, I'd rather that 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 that Congressman Wiener is out of the game, because he's on the back foot over all this business, the better it is.
But yeah, that was his thing on.
Dan Abash says, well, he says, well, did you do this?
Did you do that?
Instead of saying yes or no, he says, well, look, if I give a speech to 45,000 people, right there, by the way, that's fantasy land for a start.
He couldn't fill a, he couldn't, until this little bit of problem, he couldn't fill a room with 4,500 people or 450 people.
But he's saying, this is his fantasy.
Now, if I was speaking to a crowd of 45,000 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.
We're asking you to give a simple yes or no answer.
Is this your crown jewels?
In the felicitous phrase of the Toronto Sun, did you send this photograph?
Those are yes or no questions.
In all this, so I refer you to the statement of my deputy assistant under associate aide for congressional tweeting affairs.
This is all nonsense.
This is why, by the way, by the way, while we're on this subject, if we are going to elect sad, lonely, miserable people with nothing better to do than to tweet their wieners to co-eds in Seattle all day long, the least we could do is not give them the congressional retinue of a low-ranking Gulf Emir.
I mean, the idea that you have aides issuing, you're sitting there in your lonely room tweeting random co-eds across the land, but you need you can do that for yourself, but you need an aide to issue a statement about it.
That's what's wrong with the Republic right there and then.
Mark Stein, infra rush, lots more still to come.
Mark Stein, infra rush on the Rush Limbaugh show.
I mentioned Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who's this season's Howard Dean.
She's the new head honcho at the DNC.
And she voted against raising the debt ceiling.
Good for her yesterday.
She also said this: that Republicans 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?
That's those mean-spirited Republicans for you.
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 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.