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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 anchor man 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 wants to protect and look after.
	One of those many illegal, uh fine upstanding, law abiding, illegal, undocumented, unamerican Americans that Republicans would like to criminalize.
	Great to be with you.
	Rush returns tomorrow.
	He's wrapping up.
	He he he uh he teased.
	He was teasing yesterday.
	He was in the final stages of wrapping up some super duper big projects.
	So he may let you in on uh all of that uh tomorrow.
	But in the meantime, you can go to Rush Limbaugh.com and it's uh like uh like uh he's he's still here, and you don't have to worry uh about uh uh about the tweeted wiener hacking into the show and taking it over for for three hours.
	Uh Mark Stein infrarush before we leave, by the way, this Anthony Wiener business.
	Uh we were talking about the uh the the debt ceiling.
	He said uh uh that uh that that his uh his uh controversial tweet was uh uh 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 that the debt ceiling's staying where it is for now, and uh then we can talk about pulling it down somewhat.
	Um I got uh I I I 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 th is this right, H.R. that uh Congressman Weiner is married to Hillary Clinton's valet.
	Uh is that is that right?
	Is it That's true that's true.
	Now when when did women start having valets?
	By the way.
	Uh I'm not saying valet, don't don't don't correct my pronunciation, by the way.
	I'm an unassimilated uh uh uh un unassimilated Muslim on that.
	It's like uh, you know, some of us still like to say Alahu 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 when did women start having valets?
	Why has Hillary Clinton got a valet?
	And is this is this like a uh a government position, Hillary Clinton's valet?
	I'm astonished like that.
	So like Bur Well, I don't I don't like the sound I I think it's why why does 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 uh the p the percentage uh the the sum of money that I think my share is going to pay for Hillary Clinton's valet.
	This is ridiculous.
	So like uh so so like Hillary Clinton is Bertie Worcester, and uh and and and uh and Mrs. Anthony Weiner is Jeeves?
	Where is this?
	Some is this like the the uh the the the the the now the uh whatever it is, the National Organization for Women, is this like their politically correct remake of uh of of Jeeves and Worcester?
	Hillary Clinton has a valet, and Anthony Wiener is married to uh 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 used to mentor interns, and now Anthony Wiener is married to Valet is the new intern.
	I don't know, I don't know.
	Uh we were talking about the raising the debt ceiling.
	1800 282-2882.
	Spending, it's all about spending.
	If that valet if Mrs. Anthony Wiener, the Jeeves of the State Department, is on the public payroll, uh she shouldn't be.
	Uh you know who the first president 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.
	Uh the first Bertha conspiracy, by the way, if you're if you're keeping track, because people used to think he was Canadian.
	And uh Chester Arthur was the first president to have a valet in the White House.
	That's what happens once you start uh letting these uh British subjects.
	Now, a century and a third on, it's even worse.
	Now the Secretary of State has a valet.
	How how many how many other people in the administration have valots?
	Uh we talk about we talk about reigning in spending.
	Let's start.
	These are small changes we can make.
	Bill Clinton the other day said, Well, if you're gonna rein in spending, if you're gonna reduce the debt, it's uh like the old bank robbers uh used to say when they were asked uh why do they rob banks?
	Because that's where the money is.
	And Clinton said that's why you got to fix entitlements, because that's where the money is.
	And that's true up to a point, up to a point.
	Uh but there's an awful lot of spending in Hillary Clinton's valet and beyond, uh, that is nothing to do with entitlements, and that is just waste waste waste uh staring you in the face.
	Uh Cass Sunstein uh is head of something called the uh Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
	That's another position, by the way, that should go.
	He's the guy uh 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 uh to look at waste in the existing bureaucracies.
	This is this is the postmodern stage of Western civilization's decay.
	We now uh set up new bureaucracies uh to crack down on waste in old bureaucracy.
	So what what waste has he been cracking down on?
	I mentioned this in a column the other day, uh, that henceforth uh dairy farmers will be exempted from the burdens of a nineteen seventies era uh EPA directive uh that classifies milk as an oil.
	And uh because they classify milk as an oil, uh it basically uh basically every dairy farmer or anybody who transports milk, you know, you see uh a little truck with a few milk churns on it.
	Uh they have to 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 that uh 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 uh stay uh of application of this rule to dairy farmers.
	And so he takes to 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.
	Uh by the way, you better laugh.
	That's a federally licensed joke uh from Sunstein's colleagues at the agency of massive titters.
	So you are you are federally obligated to laugh at that joke.
	Uh it has taken four decades to get one single itzy 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 uh regulation to cease to be applied to to uh dairy farmers.
	Now I I I wrote something about this, and uh immediately, of course, whenever you write about regulation, people start sending you uh little bits of uh uh of other bits of regulation.
	Uh the the one I liked uh 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 uh a federal investigator to go through the backyard to see if the rabbits in some pen there, the way see if he's got some factory type uh like that chicken operation in Arkansas that uh Hillary was given all the the money to, uh getting all the campaign contributions from.
	Uh the the idea that he's uh they've got 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 uh to see uh 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 uh 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.
	Uh that is 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 I say if federal agents are so fascinated by magic acts.
	Why don't they do something useful?
	Why don't 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 crackdown on children's magicians in case when they pull the rabbit up out of out of a top hat, it's an unlicensed rabbit.
	Why can't they why don't they just why don't they just cut to the chase and you have magic shows where the magician would stand there with the and the and the gal and 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 ad uh there'd be no rabbit.
	You would see no rabbit but you would see the magician's license for the rabbit.
	That is the hyperpower at Twilight spending your money well actually not your money because you don't have it.
	None of us have it.
	Uh the Chinese don't want to lend it to us anymore.
	So uh Ben Bernanke at the Federal Reserve is basically issuing tweets with large numbers on it saying he's he's basically pulling trillions of dollars out of his magician's hat and with it he's sending federal investigators uh 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 this i this th this is why it starts long before the entitlements and it would demonstrate seriousness it would demonstrate the seriousness uh if candidates would uh to just say no we ain't gonna be fun as a presidential candidate uh I am opposed to spending money on that.
	As a presidential candidate I want to close down this cabinet department and that cabinet department uh because that's what it that's what it's serious uh that's that's what shows you're serious.
	Uh as long as these bureaucracies exist, they're gonna be engaged in these pathetic pointless makework schemes that uh 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 uh for Congressman Anthony's wiener tweets.
	Uh let's get him off the federal payroll uh let's get uh any uh miscellaneous valets out of the valets are unrepublican.
	I don't know why you guys are doing with ballots.
	It's ridiculous.
	If you wanted valets you should have stuck with George the third.
	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 uh to see if they've got unlicensed rabbits in there.
	Mark Stein in Farush uh talking about ways of uh not just halting the debt ceiling which was done in this vote last night but in ways uh ways in which we can lower it uh and actually eliminate it and get us back uh to the uh small government republic of free born citizens using their wit and self-reliance uh to exploit their full opportunities and live life to the fullest.
	What a what a ridiculous idea.
	Mark Stein in Farush, lots more still to come I've clarified a little bit uh uh people have uh b uh thankfully emailed me to clarify that uh that Anthony Weiner is married to the the Hillary Clinton valet that he's married to is humor humor M. Abaddin Humor M. Aberdin she was uh looking for a man with a sense of humor, as uh 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?
	Uh I'm gonna the big guys away uh there's nobody does it like you so uh keep it up pal.
	You're the best.
	I wanted to tell you that I uh I had to uh I had to laugh because last night um I'm when I get depressed I switch over to MSNBC and uh I was watching Chris Matthews on his program at softball or something like that.
	And he was uh he was ragging on Mitt Romney.
	So I guess Mitt is got to be the new guy they're afraid of uh in the White House because uh Chris who uh who spits all over his guests uh it just knocks me out he went crazy over Mitt Romler last night.
	And uh apparently they were talking about that interview where he went right after uh uh the the bombster about uh uh his foreign policy and he was uh failing as a president.
	And uh of course, in addition to that, I I had to mention Debry Wasserman Schultz, the new uh Democratic Committee uh chair, she absolutely she and uh uh and with this guy from New York Weasel or uh Winer, whatever his name is, they absolutely scare the hell out of me.
	Uh I I cannot believe uh when they go on TV the the the nonsense that they put out there.
	But anyway, I just wanted to call and and tell you that I I thought this uh North Korean poll may have been uh something that M M SNBC put out when I when I heard that we were last.
	Yeah, I think May M S NBC and North Korean TV actually have the same polling organization.
	I think they use the same polling or so you're saying like Chris Matthews is rattled by Mitt now, is he?
	Well, he apparently was uh last not mean I caught the uh the interview that he was on uh MSNBC or MBC and uh with Gangle or whatever her name is, one of their common people, and I was very impressed with him.
	I didn't know much about Ritt Mitt rather, except that uh uh, you know, I was kind of worried about his uh his health care program when he was governor.
	But you know, he explained uh and I want to tell you something.
	I didn't back away from it because mine is seventy pages, and I thought it was something that was needed up here, and Obama's is over two thousand pages.
	So there's no comparison between the two, although uh all the Democrats uh they come on and they claim, you know, Mitt uh Mit's the uh the pre-runner of uh all the time.
	Um I think I think he needs a I think he needs a better explanation than that.
	For a start, uh Obama's is for fifty-seven states or whatever he's up to by now.
	Uh so seventy pages uh for one state versus two thousand for Obama's full fifty-seven, isn't that he oh Mitt needs a better explanation than that.
	Because I can tell you uh I'm uh I'm broadcasting live from New Hampshire.
	In Southern New Hampshire, there are a lot of doctors treating uh patients from Massachusetts who can't find primary care uh in their own state now uh because they're getting uh they're getting up to uh Quebec level uh wait times to to see a primary care physician uh down there.
	Uh the the there are real problems with with the Mitt Romney thing.
	I Mitt is a very nice guy and he has a lot of you know, he's a lot of very appealing qualities.
	He turned around the winter Olympics, which is amazing.
	He made money out of stuff that uh sports that nobody likes.
	Curling.
	Nobody in the United States.
	I I once did play by play curling.
	If you're thinking uh oh, this I was listening to this Stein guy and he uh 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 uh north of the border, play by play curling on uh 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 uh what your cable packages, you can have like seven thousand stations.
	You can you can you can get the uh the twenty-four-seven Wiener tweet channel, but you won't be able to get the curling channel.
	It's not here.
	There's no there's no market for curling.
	Mitt made money out of curling.
	Uh he did he did an amazing thing with that winter Olympics.
	He turned around a disaster.
	Uh basically it all the old cronies, it was very much like the uh like the state the federal government's in.
	The cronies had absolutely debauched the whole thing and and uh uh they were looking at just uh throwing money down a huge pit and Mitt came in and turned it around.
	Uh and I don't deny that.
	But I am uh I am concerned at his what I think is his digging his heels in on this business with his health care plan, because that is not the way to go.
	Uh and Mitt should know that as a businessman.
	What he did was basically come up with a universal insurance mandate for Massachusetts and uh as a way of controlling costs.
	He should know as a businessman, by the way, that uh i if if you have any kind of third party arrangement for health care uh for 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, uh, or uh Blue Cross, Blue Shield, or whoever, you care about the third party granting you access uh to the care of uh of your broken leg.
	You don't care whether it costs eighty dollars, eight hundred dollars, eighty thousand dollars 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, uh you will make it mega inflationary, and Mitt as a businessman uh should have known that.
	So I respect uh a lot of things about Mitt Romney.
	I introduced Mitt Romney uh in Washington uh a few years ago at the start of his uh 2008 campaign, and he has many fine qualities.
	But he's on the wrong he's he's on this issue.
	Uh he should he should be de-governmentalizing health care.
	And uh on this issue, his defense of the Massachusetts Act uh I'm afraid causes me severe problems.
	Yes, Rush returns tomorrow, but this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in.
	1800 28282.
	Uh I I carelessly mentioned that I had once done play by play curling uh up uh up north, and uh and immediately HR uh gets in my ear and starts demanding to know whether I know what a Kizelcastle is.
	And I have to I have to confess I'd completely uh I'd completely forgotten.
	It's where you um uh w where you wobble your stones when you take the shot.
	And um and uh so I don't know what we we the w I forget the word we couldn't use when we were uh talking about uh Congressman Antony's tweeted 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 Kizelcastle uh for the term wiener.
	So we may start referring to uh Congressman Wiener's tweeted Kizelcastle.
	That's where when you when you take the shot you uh you wobble your stones.
	And that uh I think that's what that Ontario Conservative uh member of Parliament did when he accidentally uh his BlackBerry accidentally uploaded uh his Kizilcastle to uh to the internet for twenty minutes.
	Um Mark Snyder for Rush, one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two, talking about spending.
	You know, uh uh th the the debt ceiling, the dead ceiling, we've held the debt ceiling.
	The dead ceiling, this so-called fourteen trillion, entirely artificial number, by the way.
	It doesn't begin to uh get to the real scale uh of the problems uh facing uh the United States in in terms of uh the the uh liabilities.
	Um if you factor in uh Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, you're up to about seventy-five trillion dollars, or about five times GDP.
	Uh once you add in the state and municipal debt, you're up to uh uh uh uh about uh a hundred and forty trillion, or about ten times the number they were voting on last night.
	Now what do you get for that money?
	You get nothing.
	You get nothing.
	Now f take Mayor Bloomberg, Nanny Bloomberg from uh from New York City.
	Nanny Bloomberg.
	He introduced this grading system uh for New York restaurants uh last year.
	That this was the mayor look for the Bloomberg uh uh 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 it's it's not safe to do anything in New York City unless Nanny Bloomberg has established for you the helpless little weeny weenie 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 and his regulatory bureaucracy have determined that it is safe for you to enter this restaurant.
	Fox five, uh, which is uh Fox's uh 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 uh Michelin guide.
	If you're a French restaurant, you get 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, Fox does, uh several A-grade branches of Starbucks, and then they sent the specimens to Philip Tierno, 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 uh H.O. I don't know.
	Maybe I should say Wiener organisms.
	Oh no, I don't want I'd I'd like I'd rather say either Kizelcastle organisms or wiener organisms.
	Anyway, about half of the how 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 uh well you don't want to you don't want to know what it says here about uh the provenance of that.
	These these have all got A grade ratings uh from the New York City Department of Health and Mendel Hygiene.
	It's meaningless.
	It's not gonna 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 uh children's musicians and going through the backyards uh to look for the uh look for the unlicensed rabbits, wash your hands, and now go and see how high Genex Starbucks is.
	And you can go along there and you can give them the mu much coveted grade A rating, and it's completely meaningless.
	Completely meaningless, because the next day they're they're finding uh wiener organisms and yeast and kizzle 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 um say uh you 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 uh 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 people people think that oh, oh look, it's got a nanny bloombugs given it a an A rating.
	It must be safe to eat here.
	This is this is nonsense.
	The idea yeah, but yeah, uh the the cell phone, by the way, who's that?
	The d World Health Organization has now determined, after rigorous tests, uh, that there is the possibility of the possibility of the possibility of a risk of cancer.
	Uh thirty-one doctors from fifteen different nations have determined th 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 uh cancer from cell phone.
	But they took so long 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 uh uh uh 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 gonna give you cancer, but they've determined that the possibility, the possibility, the possibility of the possibility exists uh that the uh the old outmoded cell phones.
	So when when when was this uh when what uh generation of cell phones was this?
	It wasn't those 1983 brick ones that uh uh the the first generation of cell phones, was it?
	It wasn't the what the ones with the little and you're not gonna get for a start, if you had got cancer from your 1983 brick cell phone, you'd have died by now.
	Or uh you'd have been uh you you 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 it getting an granguinous infect.
	You went in with the uh 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.
	Uh 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 the WHO, by the way, is paid for by your money money, is all nonsense, nonsense.
	I'll give you one more regulatory story.
	This is from uh today's Toronto Star.
	This is this uh I have a sneaky admiration for this lady, by the way, Susan Blue Ann.
	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 the No, it's only no, no, no, you're being cynical, HR, not blue kids, not what you got 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 a company called Whole Green Kids, which is supposed to uh provide uh premium food to child care centers and schools in the Greater Toronto area.
	It's supposed to provide locally grown organic food.
	Uh these are all the buzzwords.
	Whole green, locally organic kids' lunches.
	They're genius, genius.
	Uh this this woman forms this company, whole green kids.
	Uh it turns out uh that she's cooking all this stuff out of a sports bar and the and and and uh a rented kitchen at burrito burrito Mexican restaurants out on Highway 7, and there aren't any organic locally grown ingredients uh out of it out of it.
	And she's but it doesn't matter.
	It doesn't matter because she called it whole green kids, uh the called company whole green kids, and it's got all the buzzwords, so uh let's let's just sign on with her.
	Uh you're fools if you fall for this stuff.
	Uh you're fools if you fall for Nanny Bloomberg's Starbucks rating at uh uh at uh uh at the Times Square Starbucks.
	You're gonna have to do what adult human beings do.
	You're gonna have to take responsibility for your own decisions.
	You're gonna have to go in, look around the Starbucks, figure what are your chances of having a uh venti macchiato in here and getting that alive.
	That's your call in the end.
	The government isn't gonna be there for you.
	You know, that's the big lesson of nine eleven, by the way.
	The airline cabin at uh on September eleventh, two thousand one, 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 uh 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 gotta do that.
	Uh the the uh September eleventh, two thousand one, the airline cabin was the most regulated uh uh jurisdiction in American life.
	It was like Massachusetts or California on steroids.
	And in the end in the end, uh 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 uh E. coli macchiatos from Starbucks isn't gonna 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 uh that will guarantee uh life for you in the government nursery is gonna proceed well.
	That's one of the big lessons of nine eleven.
	Mark sign in for us, more to come.
	We know Wednesday on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Let's go to Gloria in Pampa Pampa, Texas, living the pampered life in Pampa, Texas.
	Gloria, great 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.
	Um a bit ago, you were talking about it took forty years to get the all the milk debacle off our books.
	How long, in your estimation, will it take to get Obamacare off our books?
	Well, that's that's the uh that's the lesson here, uh, isn't it?
	Because Obamacare is exactly exactly the same, written the same way as the EPA was created.
	Uh dema Democrats don't really believe in law in the sense of uh a law is something passed by elected legislators in a legislature.
	That's what a law is.
	And uh and Democrats, on the whole, liberals always prefer to set up uh regulatory agencies that just make the rules up as they go along.
	When when uh the EPA was uh invented back in the Nixon era, nobody thought nobody in Congress said, Well, uh we're gonna we're gonna give the EPA powers to regulate uh Daisy the uh cow in the same way as the Exxon Valdees.
	They d 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.
	Um if you look at the Obamacare legislation, it's all about the Secretary shall determine this, the Secretary sh may determine that, the Secretary uh will determine this.
	What that means is that uh uh bureaucrats, the same kind of bureaucrats who put Daisy the Holstein in the same category as uh the Exxon Valdees are gonna be doing the same with your with your health care.
	There's a l there's a line in there.
	Let me see if I can find this.
	I want to make sure I get th this the secretary, this is my favorite line in Obamacare.
	The Secretary shall develop oral health care components that shall include tooth level surveillance.
	Did you know that, Gloria?
	That you are now under tooth level surveillance from Kathleen Sibelius.
	You're under tooth level surve uh surveillance, and so is everybody else in Pampa, Texas.
	Nobody voted on that.
	Uh it uh it's it's just up to her.
	She'll determine the level of tooth level surveillance.
	Uh You just 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, it's just taking away another one of our freedoms, Mark.
	We d we're losing our freedoms and it's kind of like I'm a science I was a science teacher for years.
	Um I learned in school that if you put a frog in lukewarm water, it won't jump out, 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 uh right to look at it that way, because if you do it to people incrementally, if you just say, well, we're just gonna regulate uh your your your cow, your grazing cow here, and we're just gonna regulate your teeth here, and we're just gonna re what you 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 uh of a free republic of uh of free born self-reliant citizens, uh that it strikes at the 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.
	Uh but today everyone's ignorant of the law, including these useless congressmen who passed the stuff.
	You know, that guy Conyers in Michigan.
	He said, Oh, you couldn't expect me uh there's no point 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, uh reading uh Playboy magazine.
	Not not just reading it, looking just looking at the uh the Centafold.
	And uh and he's looking there at the wiener of the month or whatever it is they've got in Playboy these days, and uh he's uh 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 and equality before the law to uh government bureaucrats, government regulators who who regulate entirely arbitrarily and harb 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 cause uh just because that happened to be the way it was that day.
	And so you 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 the the joint across the street got the A rating and it's all infected with E. coli and yeast and all the other stuff.
	Uh it's entirely arbitrary.
	It's entirely whimsical because tyranny is always whimsical.
	Uh that's why it's tyranny.
	Uh, because the tyrant uh just happens to pick on you.
	You happen to catch his eye, and he and he happens to pick on you.
	Uh whereas free societies uh you know what the laws are and you stand equal before them.
	Here uh unknown regulators, unaccountable regulators, where do you go to vote out the EPA?
	Where do you go to vote out Kathleen Sibelius?
	Uh America is being transferred regulation by regulation uh out of a republic of laws uh into a nation of men, where what matters is what particular subcategory of citizen.
	If you know who to cool call in Washington, you'll get an Obamacare waiver.
	Uh 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 got nobody to call in Washington, uh, 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 regulatory tyranny, and become a nation of laws once more.
	Mark Stein in for Rush, more to come.
	We know Wednesday on the Rush Limore show.
	A lot of strange things going on in the world.
	Strange things happening here and there.
	Uh 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.
	Uh the explosions in stores in the Belgian city of Ghent, Lille in Northern France, and Eindhoven in the Netherlands caused uh no damage or injuries.
	Don't you think that's a very odd thing to happen?
	Uh all of a sudden alarm clocks uh explode in IKEA furniture stores in three countries.
	I didn't even know.
	I presume these were alarm clocks that were uh w were uh brought into the store for the purposes because I don't think you can buy anything in IKEA that's already assembled, you know.
	So after the after the uh the alarm clocks exploded, uh police went uh went to the store and found everything in pieces.
	And then the manager said, no no, that's how we sell the stuff.
	Uh but that's uh 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.

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