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June 1, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 1, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in.
Great to be with you.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
I'm one of those brave band of people that Debbie Wasserman Schultz wants to protect and look after.
One of those many illegal, fine, upstanding, law-abiding, illegal, undocumented, un-American Americans that Republicans would like to criminalize.
Great to be with you.
Rush returns tomorrow.
He's wrapping up.
He teased.
He was teasing yesterday.
He was in the final stages of wrapping up some super duper big project.
So he may let you in on all of that tomorrow.
But in the meantime, you can go to rushlimbore.com and it's like he's still here.
And you don't have to worry about the tweeted Weiner hacking into the show and taking it over for three hours.
Mark Stein, in for Rush.
Before we leave, by the way, this Anthony Wiener business, we were talking about the debt ceiling.
He said that his controversial tweet was a massive distraction from raising the debt ceiling.
Well, thank God for it because he voted to raise the debt ceiling, but half the Democrats didn't.
So the debt ceiling's staying where it is for now, and then we can talk about pulling it down somewhat.
I got a ton of emails from people saying, I'm not looking at the big picture here and saying that what's significant.
Is this right, HR, that Congressman Weiner is married to Hillary Clinton's valet?
Is that right?
That's true.
Now, when did women start having valets, by the way?
I'm not saying valet.
Don't correct my pronunciation, by the way.
I'm an unassimilated Muslim on that.
It's like, you know, some of us still like to say Allahu Akbar when we're going to the men's room on the plane, and some of us still like to say valet.
I'm unassimilated on that point.
When did women start having valets?
Why has Hillary Clinton got a valet?
And is this like a government position, Hillary Clinton's valet?
I'm astonished like that.
So like Bert.
Well, I don't like the sound.
Why does Hillary Clinton, if Hillary Clinton has a government-paid valet, that's it?
I'm a conscientious objector.
I'm withholding from my taxes the percentage, the sum of money that I think my share is going to pay for Hillary Clinton's valet.
This is ridiculous.
So like so like Hillary Clinton is Bertie Wooster and Mrs. Anthony Weiner is Jeeves?
Where is this?
Is this like the Dow, the whatever it is, the National Organization for Women, is it like their politically correct remake of Jeeves and Worcester?
Hillary Clinton has a valet and Anthony Weiner is married to Hillary Clinton's valet.
So that's great, isn't it?
Valet is the new intern.
So in the old days, Bill Clinton used to mentor interns and now Anthony Weiner is married to Valett is the new intern.
I don't know.
I don't know.
We were talking about raising the debt ceiling.
1-800-282-2882.
Spending, it's all about spending.
If that valet, if Mrs. Anthony Weiner, the Jeeves of the State Department, is on the public payroll, she shouldn't be.
You know who the first president to have a valet in the White House was?
Chester Arthur.
Chester Arthur.
George Washington didn't have a valet.
No president had a valet until Chester Arthur.
The first Bertha conspiracy, by the way, if you're keeping track, because people used to think he was Canadian.
And Chester Arthur was the first president to have a valet in the White House.
That's what happens once you start letting these British subjects.
Now, a century and a third on, it's even worse.
Now the Secretary of State has a valet.
How many other people in the administration have ballots?
We talk about reining in spending.
Let's start.
These are small changes we can make.
Bill Clinton the other day said, well, if you're going to rein in spending, if you're going to reduce the debt, it's like the old bank robbers used to say when they were asked, why do they rob banks?
Because that's where the money is.
And Clinton said, that's why you've got to fix entitlements because that's where the money is.
And that's true, up to a point, up to a point.
But there's an awful lot of spending in Hillary Clinton's Vallot and Beyond that is nothing to do with entitlements and that is just waste, waste, waste staring you in the face.
Cass Sunstein is head of something called the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
That's another position, by the way, that should go.
He's the guy who's in charge of reducing government waste.
So naturally, they've given him a whole new bureaucracy to head, wasteful bureaucracy to head up to identify government waste.
Did you know, by the way, this is one of the fastest growing areas in government is new bureaucracies to look at waste in the existing bureaucracies.
This is the postmodern stage of Western civilization's decay.
We now set up new bureaucracies to crack down on waste in old bureaucracy.
So what waste has he been cracking down on?
I mentioned this in a column the other day, that henceforth, dairy farmers will be exempted from the burdens of a 1970s era EPA directive that classifies milk as an oil.
And because they classify milk as an oil, basically every dairy farmer or anybody who transports milk, you know, you see a little truck with a few milk churns on it, they have to abide by the same rules that are designed to prevent oil spills.
Okay, so the federal government classifies Daisy the grazing Holstein.
It puts Daisy the grazing Holstein in the same category as the Exxon Valdez.
The EPA did this in the 1970s.
They say that milk, like petroleum, is an oil, so therefore they have to be regulated the same.
This is the way bureaucracies think.
And four decades on, four decades on, Cass Sunstein has succeeded in getting a stay of application of this rule to dairy farmers.
And so he takes the pages of the Wall Street Journal to crow about this.
He says Washington is, quote, giving new meaning to the phrase, don't cry over spilled milk, unquote.
By the way, you better laugh.
That's a federally licensed joke from Sunstein's colleagues at the Agency of Massive Titters.
So you are federally obligated to laugh at that joke.
It has taken four decades to get one single itsy bitsy little regulation that is totally insane, utterly insane.
The federal government of the United States of America cannot tell the difference between Daisy the Holstein and the Exxon Valdez.
And it has taken four decades to get this ludicrous regulation to cease to be applied to dairy farmers.
Now, I wrote something about this, and immediately, of course, whenever you write about regulation, people start sending you little bits of other bits of regulation.
The one I liked was the one about the Federal Rabbit Police cracking down on magic shows.
You can go to Andrew Breitbart's site at biggovernment.com.
He's got a whole thing on the Federal Rabbit Police cracking down on magic shows.
This is USDA.
The United States Department of Agriculture has been sending agents to snoop around the backyards of children's magicians in case they've got a rabbit there in the backyard, an unlicensed rabbit that they're using in the act.
Right?
Now, these are magicians, right?
Okay?
So, where does a magician keep a rabbit?
He keeps it in his hat anyway.
The idea of sending out a federal investigator to go through the backyard to see if the rabbit's in some pen there, see if he's got some factory type like that chicken operation in Arkansas that Hillary was giving all the money to, getting all the campaign contributions from.
The idea that he's got some industrial rabbit breeding operation in the backyard.
No, he keeps them in his hat.
You can't see them.
That's the highlight of the show.
He pulls it out of his hat.
But no, the federal government has the money.
The brokest nation in history has the money to send United States Department of Agriculture inspectors to children's shows to see or just to go through the yellow pages listing children's magicians or to or to look in, you know, the Fluffy Bunny Times or wherever they list classified ads for children's magicians.
And then send federal agents round to the backyards of children's magicians to snoop around to see whether they've got any unlicensed.
rabbits in there.
That is what the United States government, the brokest nation in history, is still doing with your money, still doing with your money.
You know, I say if federal agents are so fascinated by magic acts, why don't they do something useful?
Why don't you dress up the federal budget in a Basque and spangled tights and saw it in half?
If you're that fascinated by magic acts, why don't you try to earn that?
But no, no, no, no.
They've got all the money in the world to go around crack down on children's magicians in case when they pull the rabbit up out of a top hat, it's an unlicensed rabbit.
Why don't they just cut to the chase?
And you have magic shows where the magician would stand there and the girl in spangled tights would come on and hold the top hat.
And the magician would say, look, this top hat is completely empty.
And then to the amazement of the audience, which is filled entirely by federal investigators, the magician would reach into the top hat and pull out a federal permit, granting him the right to use a rabbit in his act.
There'd be no rabbit.
You would see no rabbit.
But you would see the magician's license for the rabbit.
That is the hyperpirat Twilight, spending your money.
Well, actually, not your money, because you don't have it.
None of us have it.
The Chinese don't want to lend it to us anymore.
So Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve is basically issuing tweets with large numbers on it saying he's basically pulling trillions of dollars out of his magician's hat.
And with it, he's sending federal investigators to investigate to crack down on children's magicians on the possibility, on the possibility that they might have an unlicensed rabbit in there.
This is why it starts long before the entitlements.
And it would demonstrate seriousness.
It would demonstrate the seriousness if candidates were to just say, no, we ain't going to be funding.
As a presidential candidate, I am opposed to spending money on that.
As a presidential candidate, I want to close down this cabinet department and that cabinet department because that's what shows you're serious.
As long as these bureaucracies exist, they're going to be engaged in these pathetic, pointless makework schemes that justify not only their own perpetuation, but the need for even bigger and bigger stuffs.
So let's get the guy, let's get the guy who's paid by taxpayers to issue ludicrous explanations for Congressman Anthony's Wiener tweets.
Let's get him off the federal payroll.
Let's get any miscellaneous valets out of the valets are un-Republican.
I don't know why you guys are doing with valets.
It's ridiculous.
If you wanted valets, you should have stuck with George III.
And let's get the guys, let's just start here.
Let's just start here.
And let's get the guys who are paid by the United States government, which means by you, paid by you to go around snooping through the backyards of children's magicians to see if they've got unlicensed rabbits in there.
Mark Stein in for Rush talking about ways of not just halting the debt ceiling, which was done in this vote last night, but in ways in which we can lower it and actually eliminate it and get us back to the small government republic of freeborn citizens using their wit and self-reliance to exploit their full opportunities and live life to the fullest.
What a ridiculous idea.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
Lots more still to come.
I've clarified a little bit.
People have thankfully emailed me to clarify that Anthony Weiner is married to the Hillary Clinton valet that he's married to is humor.
Humor M. Aberdin.
Humor M. Aberdin.
She was looking for a man with a sense of humor, as they say in the small ads, and she certainly found one.
Let's go to Joe in Jacksonville, Florida.
Joe, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Hey, Mark, how are you?
I'm giving the big guys away.
There's nobody does it like you.
So keep it up.
You're the best.
I wanted to tell you that I had to laugh because last night when I get depressed, I switch over to MSNBC and I was watching Chris Matthews on his program at softball or something like that.
And he was ragging on Mitt Romney.
So I guess Mitt has got to be the new guy they're afraid of in the White House because Chris, who spits all over his guests, it just knocks me out.
He went crazy over Mitt Romney last night.
And apparently they were talking about that interview where he went right after the bombster about his foreign policy and he was failing as a president.
And of course, in addition to that, I had to mention Deborie Wasserman Schultz, the new Democratic Committee chair.
She absolutely, she and this guy from New York, Weasel or Weiner, whatever his name is, they absolutely scared the hell out of me.
I cannot believe when they go on TV the nonsense that they put out there.
But anyway, I just wanted to call and tell you that I thought this North Korean poll may have been something that MSNBC put out when I heard that we were last.
Yeah, I think MSNBC and North Korean TV actually have the same polling organization.
I think they use the same polling organization.
So you're saying that Chris Matthews is rattled by Mitt now, is he?
Well, he apparently was.
Last night, I caught the interview that he was on MSNBC or NBC with Gangle or whatever her name is, one of their comment people.
And I was very impressed with him.
I didn't know much about Mitt, rather, except that, you know, I was kind of worried about his health care program when he was governor.
But, you know, he explained, and I want to tell you something.
I didn't back away from it because mine is 70 pages.
And I thought it was something that was needed up here.
And Obama's is over 2,000 pages.
So there's no comparison between the two, although all the Democrats, they come on and they claim, you know, Mitt's the pre-runner of all the people.
I think he needs a better explanation than that.
For a start, Obama's is for 57 states or whatever he's up to by now.
So 70 pages for one state versus 2,000 for Obama's full 57.
Isn't that Mitt needs a better explanation than that?
Because I can tell you, I'm broadcasting live from New Hampshire.
In southern New Hampshire, there are a lot of doctors treating patients from Massachusetts who can't find primary care in their own state now because they're getting up to Quebec level wait times to see a primary care physician down there.
There are real problems with the Mitt Romney thing.
Mitt is a very nice guy and he has a lot of, you know, he has a lot of very appealing qualities.
He turned around the Winter Olympics, which is amazing.
He made money out of stuff that sports that nobody likes, curling.
Nobody in the United States.
I once did play-by-play curling.
If you're thinking, oh, I was listening to this Stein guy and he isn't very good at the old talk show format.
You should hear me do play-by-play curling.
I did that once.
I filled in for some guy north of the border, play-by-play curling on whatever it was, the curling channel, I guess.
You can't get the curling channel down here, by the way.
I don't care how many cable packages.
You can have like 7,000 stations.
You can get the 24-7 Wiener tweet channel, but you won't be able to get the curling channel.
It's on here.
There's no market for curling.
Mitt made money out of curling.
He did an amazing thing with that Winter Olympics.
He turned around a disaster.
Basically, all the old cronies, it was very much like the state the federal government's in.
The cronies had absolutely debauched the whole thing, and they were looking at just throwing money down a huge pit, and Mitt came in and turned it around.
And I don't deny that, but I am concerned at what I think is his digging his heels in on this business with his healthcare plan, because that is not the way to go.
And Mitt should know that as a businessman.
What he did was basically come up with a universal insurance mandate for Massachusetts as a way of controlling costs.
He should know as a businessman, by the way, that if you have any kind of third-party arrangement for healthcare for any transaction, you don't control costs because nobody cares what the cost is.
You know, if you break your leg, you don't care the cost of repairing your broken leg.
You care about whether the third party, whether it's the government of the United States, the government of Massachusetts, or Blue Cross, Blue Shield, or whoever, you care about the third party granting you access to the care of your broken leg.
You don't care whether it costs $80, $800, $80,000 to fix your broken leg.
You just care about getting access that the third party will grant you access to the treatment.
That is inflationary.
If you universalize it, you will make it mega-inflationary.
And Mitt, as a businessman, should have known that.
So I respect a lot of things about Mitt Romney.
I introduced Mitt Romney in Washington a few years ago at the start of his 2008 campaign.
And he has many fine qualities, but he's on this issue.
He should be de-governmentalizing healthcare.
And on this issue, his defense of the Massachusetts Act, I'm afraid, causes me severe problems.
Yes, Rush returns tomorrow, but this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, 1-800-282-2882.
I carelessly mentioned that I had once done play-by-play curling up north, and immediately HR gets in my ear and starts demanding to know whether I know what a Kisselcassel is.
And I have to confess, I'd completely forgotten.
It's where you wobble your stones when you take the shot.
And so I don't know.
I forget the word we couldn't use when we were talking about Congressman Anthony's treated wiener.
So we had to keep saying wiener.
But I think we've been saying wiener too much now.
So I may, in fact, substitute Kisselkassel for the term wiener.
So we may start referring to Congressman Wiener's tweeted Kisselcassel.
Where when you take the shot, you wobble your stones.
I think that's what that Ontario Conservative Member of Parliament did when he accidentally, his BlackBerry accidentally uploaded his Kisselcastle to the internet for 20 minutes.
Mark slide in for us, 1-800-282-2882.
Talking about spending.
You know, the debt ceiling, the debt ceiling, we've held the debt ceiling.
The debt ceiling, this so-called 14 trillion, entirely artificial number, by the way, it doesn't begin to get to the real scale of the problems facing the United States in terms of the liabilities.
If you factor in Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, you're up to about $75 trillion, or about five times GDP.
Once you add in the state and municipal debt, you're up to about $140 trillion, or about 10 times the number they were voting on last night.
Now, what do you get for that money?
You get nothing.
You get nothing.
Now, take Mayor Bloomberg, Nanny Bloomberg from New York City.
Nanny Bloomberg, he introduced this grading system for New York restaurants last year.
This was the Mayor, look for the Bloomberg guarantee.
You get color-coded.
The highest grade, it's the opposite of the security alerts.
The highest grade is A. If you get A, that's Nanny Bloomberg saying it is safe for you because it's not safe to do anything in New York City unless Nanny Bloomberg has established for you, the helpless little weeny, weeny, weeny New Yorker, that it's absolutely safe for you to do it.
So when you see the A rating on a restaurant, you know that Nanny Bloomberg and his regulatory bureaucracy have determined that it is safe for you to enter this restaurant.
Fox 5, which is Fox's New York affiliate, took testing kits to several Starbucks in the New York area, all of which had received the much coveted A grade rating by the City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
This is like having, whatever it is, five stars in the Michelin guide.
If you're a French restaurant, you look for your five stars in the Michelin guide, but if you're a New York restaurant, you want to get the A grade from Nanny Bloomberg, City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
So they go, they take testing kits to several Starbucks, Foxtars, several A-grade branches of Starbucks, and then they sent the specimens to Philip Tierneau, Director of Clinical Microbiology and Immunology at New York University's Langone Medical Center.
About half were contaminated with fecal organisms.
Can you say fecal HR?
I don't know.
Maybe I should say wiener organisms.
Oh, no, I don't want to.
I'd rather say either Kiselkas organisms or wiener organisms.
Anyway, about half the specimens taken from the countertop at Starbucks were contaminated with wiener organisms.
One specimen taken from a countertop at Starbucks near Times Square was teeming with bacteria, including E. coli, more wiener matter, a swab from a countertop at Hell's Kitchen Starbucks, reveal, ooh, a colony of yeast.
Oh, which was, well, you don't want to know what it says here about the provenance of that.
These have all got A-grade ratings from the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
It's meaningless.
It's not going to, you can go there.
You can have your A, you can send all these people around.
You can say, okay, stop pestering.
Stop going to the children's musicians and going through the backyards to look for the unlicensed rabbits.
Wash your hands and now go and see how hygienic Starbucks is.
And you can go along there and you can give them the much coveted grade A rating and it's completely meaningless.
Completely meaningless.
Because the next day they're finding wiener organisms and yeast and kisel castles and all kinds of stuff all over the counter.
So it's a complete waste of time and money.
You're basically taking your chances.
When you go in there for your Say, when you go in for your fecal macchiato or whatever it's called this month, you're just taking your chances.
You're just saying, I'd like a Venti E. coli.
You're just taking your chances.
Having a huge regulatory bureaucracy is meaningless.
People have become dumb to this.
People think that, oh, oh, look, it's got an nanny bloomberg's given it an A rating.
It must be safe to eat here.
This is nonsense.
The idea.
Yeah, the cell phone, by the way, who's that?
The World Health Organization has now determined, after rigorous tests, that there is the possibility of the possibility of the possibility of a risk of cancer.
31 doctors from 15 different nations have determined by according to a World Health Organization survey that there's the possibility of a possibility of a possibility of a risk of contracting cell phone, cancer from cell phone.
But they took so long, by the way, to do this test that all the cell phone models they tested are out of date now.
So they can't tell you whether any cell phone you go to, if you go to your local Walmart or Radio Shack or wherever you buy cell phones, they can't tell you whether the cell phone that they've actually got in the front window, the only available cell phones for purchase, are going to give you cancer.
But they've determined that the possibility, the possibility, the possibility of the possibility exists that the old outmoded cell phones.
When was this, what generation of cell phones was this?
It wasn't those 1983 brick ones that the first generation of cell phones, was it?
It wasn't the ones with the little...
And you're not going to get...
For a start, if you had got cancer from your 1983 brick cell phone, you'd have died by now.
Or you'd have broken your arm trying to hold the thing up and it would have fallen on your toe and you'd have died from getting an agranguinous infection.
You went in with the you broke your toe with your brick cell phone.
You went into Starbucks contaminated with E. coli.
The E. coli got on your toe and you died of that.
But now the World Health Organization has determined that there's a risk of a risk.
Most of this stuff, most of this stuff, these bureaucracies, because WHO, by the way, is paid for by your money, is all nonsense, nonsense.
I'll give you one more regulatory story.
This is from today's Toronto Star.
I have a sneaking admiration for this lady, by the way, Susan Bluen.
She operates a company called Whole Green Kids.
Now, that's just great, isn't it?
Because you think it's got green in the title.
That must be good.
And it's got kids.
It's kids in there.
No, it's only, no, no, no.
You're being cynical, HR.
Not blue kids.
You've got to get kids in there.
You've got to get green in there.
You've got to get whole in there.
And then it sounds like a healthy, environmentally friendly, children's-friendly company.
She starts a company called Whole Green Kids, which is supposed to provide premium food to childcare centers and schools in the greater Toronto area.
It's supposed to provide locally grown organic food.
These are all the buzzwords.
Whole green, locally organic kids' lunches.
Genius, genius.
This woman forms this company, Whole Green Kids.
It turns out that she's cooking all this stuff out of a sports bar and a rented kitchen at Burrito Burrito Mexican restaurants out on Highway 7.
And there aren't any organic, locally grown ingredients out of it.
And it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter because she called it whole green kids.
They called the company whole green kids, and it's got all the buzzwords.
So let's just sign on with her.
You're fools if you fall for this stuff.
You're fools if you fall for Nanny Bloomberg's Starbucks rating at the Times Square Starbucks.
You're going to have to do what adult human beings do.
You're going to have to take responsibility for your own decisions.
You're going to have to go in, look around the Starbucks, figure what are your chances of having a Venti Macchiato in here and getting out alive.
That's your call in the end.
The government isn't going to be there for you.
You know, that's the big lesson of 9-11, by the way.
The airline cabin on September 11th, 2001, the airline cabin was the most regulated aspect of American life.
You can't do anything.
Can't smoke, can't have a drink, can't have a drink until the stewardess graciously agrees to consent to bring you a drink.
You've got to do everything they say.
You can't smoke.
You can't get up to go to the bathroom.
You've got to sit down.
You've got to do this.
You've got to do that.
The September 11th, 2001, the airline cabin was the most regulated jurisdiction in American life.
It was like Massachusetts or California on steroids.
And in the end, in the end, when the powder keg went up, big government wasn't up there for you.
And like those brave guys on Flight 93, you were on their own.
And there's an important lesson on that.
That in the end, the meaningless, third-rate, mediocre bureaucracy trudging around regulating rabbits in magicians' hats, regulating E. coli macchiatos from Starbucks isn't going to be there for you.
You're on your own.
Act like a grown-up.
Take responsibility.
You can never have a big enough nanny state that will guarantee life for you in the government nursery is going to proceed well.
That's one of the big lessons of 9-11.
Mark, signing for us.
More to come.
Weena Wednesday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Let's go to Gloria in Pamper, Texas, living the pampered life in Pamper, Texas.
Gloria, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Thank you for taking my call.
I'm a first-time caller, Mark, and it's an honor.
A bit ago, you were talking about it took 40 years to get the milk debacle off our books.
How long, in your estimation, will it take to get Obamacare off our books?
Well, that's the lesson here, isn't it?
Because Obamacare is exactly the same, written the same way as the EPA was created.
Democrats don't really believe in law in the sense that a law is something passed by elected legislators in a legislature.
That's what a law is.
And Democrats, on the whole, liberals always prefer to set up regulatory agencies that just make the rules up as they go along.
When the EPA was invented back in the Nixon era, nobody thought, nobody in Congress said, well, we're going to give the EPA powers to regulate Daisy the cow in the same way as the Exxon Valdez.
They didn't need to.
They just said to the EPA, make it up as you go along.
And the EPA have done.
And that's exactly how Obamacare is written.
If you look at the Obamacare legislation, it's all about the secretary shall determine this.
The secretary may determine that.
The secretary will determine this.
What that means is that bureaucrats, the same kind of bureaucrats who put Daisy the Holstein in the same category as the Exxon Valdez, are going to be doing the same with your healthcare.
There's a line in there.
Let me see if I can find this.
I want to make sure I get the secretary.
This is my favorite line in Obamacare.
The Secretary shall develop oral healthcare components that shall include tooth-level surveillance.
Did you know that, Gloria?
That you are now under tooth-level surveillance from Kathleen Sebelius.
You're under tooth-level surveillance, and so is everybody else in Pampa, Texas.
Nobody voted on that.
It's just up to her.
She'll determine the level of tooth-level surveillance.
All you have to do is just open wide, and the federal bureaucracy will peer down your gullet and determine the level of tooth-level surveillance that they think is appropriate for you.
Well, if you're taking away another one of our freedoms, Mark, we're losing our freedoms, and it's kind of like I'm a science, I was a science teacher for years.
I learned in school that if you put a frog in lukewarm water, it won't jump out.
And you heat it up, it still won't jump out.
It will boil itself to death, and this is what's happening in America.
It scares me.
Yeah, and you're absolutely right to look at it that way, because if you do it to people incrementally, if you just say, well, we're just going to regulate your cow, your grazing cow here, and we're just going to regulate your teeth here, and we're just going to what you do with every one of these things is you're shriveling liberty.
You're shriveling liberty.
And it strikes at one of the core principles of a free republic of freeborn, self-reliant citizens, that it strikes at the idea of equality before the law.
Because nobody, they used to say ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
And that was true.
But today, everyone's ignorant of the law, including these useless congressmen who pass the stuff.
You know, that guy Conyers in Michigan, he said, oh, you couldn't expect me, there's no point in me reading the bill.
I would need all these lawyers to tell me what it all meant anyway.
He doesn't even understand what he's legislating.
He was photographed.
It's out there on the internet.
He was photographed on a flight to Michigan reading Playboy magazine.
Not just reading it, just looking at the centerfold.
And he's looking there at the wiener of the month or whatever it is they've got in Playboy these days.
And he's right.
He's right to do that.
Why would he waste his time reading the law?
He has no idea what it means.
Because essentially, we're transferring law and equality before the law to government bureaucrats, government regulators who regulate entirely arbitrarily and whimsically.
You think if you're one of those New York restaurants that didn't get the coveted A rating from Nanny Bloomberg, you got a D rating just because that happened to be the way it was that day.
And so you've got to pay some fine or you've got to bring yourself into compliance with the Bureau of Compliance.
And meanwhile, it turns out that the A rating, the joint across the street got the A rating and it's all infected with E. coli and yeast and all the other stuff.
It's entirely arbitrary.
It's entirely whimsical because tyranny is always whimsical.
That's why it's tyranny.
Because the tyrant just happens to pick on you.
You happen to catch his eye and he happens to pick on you.
Whereas free societies, you know what the laws are and you stand equal before them.
Here are unknown regulators, unaccountable regulators.
Where do you go to vote out the EPA?
Where do you go to vote out Kathleen Sebelius?
America is being transferred regulation by regulation out of a republic of laws into a nation of men, where what matters is what particular subcategory of citizen.
If you know who to call in Washington, you'll get an Obamacare waiver.
If you're one of his Chicago cronies, you know who to place the call to in Washington.
You'll get the Obamacare waiver.
If you're just Joe Schlubb going to work at your hardware store every day and trying to run a small business, you've got nobody to call in Washington, so you're done for.
It's unrepublican, it's unbecoming, and we need to roll back these regulations, squash these regulations, drive a stake through the regulation to regulatory tyranny and become a nation of laws once more.
Mark signing for Rush.
More to come.
We know Wednesday on the Rush Limbo Show.
A lot of strange things going on in the world.
Strange things happening here and there.
From Brussels, courtesy of Agence France-Presse, small explosives concealed in alarm clocks detonated at IKEA furniture stores in Belgium, France, and the Netherlands yesterday.
The explosions in stores in the Belgian city of Ghent, Lille in northern France, and Eindhoven in the Netherlands caused no damage or injuries.
Don't you think that's a very odd thing to happen?
All of a sudden, alarm clocks explode in IKEA furniture stores in three countries.
I didn't even know.
I presume these were alarm clocks that were brought into the store for the purposes, because I don't think you can buy anything in IKEA that's already assembled.
So after the alarm clocks exploded, police went to the store and found everything in pieces.
And then the manager said, no, no, that's how we sell the stuff.
But that's what's going on.
Alarm clocks blown up in three countries yesterday, Belgium, France, and the Netherlands.
A lot of strange things going on.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
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