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Again, Mark Davis.
Hi.
Nice to be with you from WBAP, Dallas-Fort Worth.
And yesterday we spent a lot of time on 2012.
I want to do some other stuff today.
Although, please, your 2012 talk is totally welcome.
It has certainly been the 24 hours of Michelle Bachman, and there are developments since we last spoke.
I'll share how a little bit of yesterday's show went and then deliver those updates.
And then we can either A, be totally done with that, or B, wallow in it as much as you want to.
It's like I do, my entire career is Open Line Friday, just in case you know.
Oh, sure, I do the occasional guest, and there's the certain thing every once in a while that I absolutely want to do in my local show here in Texas.
But for the most part, I show up here.
I bring up stuff that interests me and see what interests you.
And we just walk hand in hand through the talk show universe and just see how it all works out.
So 1-800-282-2882.
We're going to talk a little bit about the debt ceiling talks.
President Obama has now suddenly decided he wants to become engaged.
And at some point before we're done today, maybe sooner rather than later, Iran is sending a monkey into space.
I know, I'm not quite sure how to react either.
It's part Leno joke, part very serious global security concern.
I don't want Iran sending anything into space.
The article that I saw about this a little bit ago this morning said that this was likely to send alarm through Israel and the West.
It's probably going to alarm the monkey as well, too, because I'm guessing that Iranian spacecraft is something like a beat-up 68-dodge dart, just saying.
But you know what?
You don't need a Bentley in space to deliver a nuclear warhead.
And Iran's security chief, they have like an entire aerospace military operation.
And I don't want to see the word aerospace attached to anything with regard to Iran.
I don't want them launching anything.
And in fact, I will tell you, in the last quarter hour of my local show here in the Metroplex, I visited about something.
I'll throw it down to you because it's, you know, every once in a while, do you find yourself involved in a little bit of a parlor game called, if the election is really looking bad for this White House, what might they do in the last couple of weeks of October?
Ah, yes, the October surprise.
And usually there's not one.
I mean, it's kind of the stuff of legend and everybody comes into the home stretch of an election and they go, oh, man, somebody's going to do something.
And more often than not, they really don't.
I mean, the advertising gets a little more heated or some such or whatever.
Every once in a while, you'll get something.
Sometimes it's foreign policy related.
Sometimes somebody gets arrested.
Sometimes they're, I mean, you know, there's some operation that's undertaken by an incumbent that's really looking to protect himself or a challenger that's looking to get particularly bold or something or something or something.
And I find myself in an interesting quandary.
Let me go ahead and offer you this up now.
You can take this ball and run with it if you want to.
Because I don't know what these people will do.
I really, really don't.
And imagine the mixed feelings if the Obama White House throws down an October surprise that really essentially is, I mean, you know what the surprise would be?
Them waking up and doing the right thing, if only for a fleeting moment, in order to snow a slumbering nation into thinking that they are actually worthy of the world stage.
Some of you have gotten ahead of me since I have invoked Iran, but wouldn't it be something if around the third week of October we bombed the stuffing out of an Iranian nuclear facility?
That facility would explode and so might my head.
Because number one, you'd know why they did it.
To win the election.
Bombing an Iranian nuclear facility?
These people?
Are you kidding me?
That's not in their DNA.
This pacifist, accommodationist White House?
What?
Let's sit down with Mint T. Just give Ahmadinejad some time.
He'll come around to our greatness.
Come on.
But would they bomb an Iranian nuclear facility to win?
Are you kidding?
They'd bomb an American nuclear facility to win.
Kidding, officially kidding.
So how would that grab you?
I know it's a crazy fantasy game, but sometimes daily life is a crazy fantasy game in these days, in this day and age.
There's stuff going on.
We could have played a crazy fantasy game a couple of years ago.
It would have been a hoot.
A bunch of people sitting around, I don't know, you know, 1995, 2003, whenever say, listen, the economy is going to just crumble, right?
We've had a housing, we've had housing prices going way, way up, stock market going way, way up.
We had the dot-com boom, dot-com bust.
Well, the whole economy is going to go bust.
And then, stay with me here.
What if a president took office and tried to solve the economic problems of the nation by spending a trillion, maybe $2 trillion once it's all done, and call it stimulus?
No, really, really.
Let me finish.
And call it stimulus and like half the country buys it.
Oh, it all, of course, goes straight to hell, but we let him do it.
And the party that he's a member of continues to argue that it was actually a good thing to do, while unemployment stays up at like 9%.
Wouldn't that be something?
Oh, and it gets even better.
Let's say we're playing this in, let's go prior to, we'd have to go back maybe 20 years on this one before Hillary care.
All right.
Or, you know what?
No, let's make it right after Hillary care.
Hey, remember how Hillary's reputation essentially crashed and burned because she tried to essentially nationalize one-seventh of the economy?
We're going to get a president who's going to say he's going to do that and he's going to win and he's going to do it and we're going to let him.
This is rich.
This is rich.
So I no longer feel peculiar.
Okay, I do it in some ways.
I no longer feel peculiar offering up certain scenarios.
It's hard now for me to even say, oh, that would never happen.
Are you kidding me anymore?
So, I mean, yes, of course.
Yes, there are some things I suppose are truly beyond the realm of plausible possibility.
But so anyway, where'd that come from?
Oh, Iran sending a monkey into space.
Yeah, if Iran gets, and I will tell you, if they get particularly adventurous, and this is interesting, what does Iran want?
The easy narrative is that Iran wants a second Obama term because all he'll do is talk them to death rather than a Republican president who's serious, who might actually bomb an Iranian nuclear facility, oh, I don't know, repeatedly, or find some other sites after that.
You know what I call bombing an Iranian nuclear facility?
A good start.
And one wonders how Iran might feel about losing a nuke plant, but having that prove sufficiently popular in America that they get what they really ultimately long-term probably want, and that's a second Obama term.
Hmm.
Hmm.
I don't know.
You're welcome to.
It does get interesting, doesn't it?
You're welcome to weigh in.
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There's always great stuff there.
All right.
Yesterday, I have time to do this.
Yes, I do.
Yesterday, we got going, did some 2012 talk, and the legendary piece of audio from the Sunday news shows was the now completely familiar, we can all quote it in our sleep, Chris Wallace, are you a flake question to Michelle Bachman?
At the time, I offered up the following analysis.
Really bad moment for Chris Wallace.
Just stupid.
And he's not a stupid man.
And he's a good guy and a good host of Fox News Sunday.
And, you know, and I like that he does challenge the occasional conservative guests because I do not want, I don't want Fox News to be what Jon Stewart says it is, a nurturing womb for all conservatives.
I want intelligent and probing and challenging questions asked of conservative candidates.
Conservative guests, I want that.
It makes them tougher and it's good and it's good to do.
I don't want the questions to be rude or insulting or impertinent, however.
And that was.
And the good news is Chris Wallace either understood it immediately or was made to understand it by opening his email the hour following.
Whichever way, there are two kinds of people, people who realize when they mess up and those who don't.
And he realized he messed up and went right into the cubicle, fired up the webcam and said so.
Good for him.
Then the ball goes back into Michelle Bachman's court.
And during this show yesterday, she was brushing aside the opportunity to accept the apology, which led me to say, Michelle, please accept the apology, all right?
Don't create a landscape where for the next week, we're talking about Michelle Bachman in a pitched battle with Fox News.
Oh my gosh, look at this squabble.
Look at this feud.
I just didn't want to do that.
I didn't want to do that.
And I asked on the show yesterday, what is she doing?
Just making him twist in the wind?
Answer is, yep.
For one day.
You've heard, I trust, what happened after we broke camp here on the Rush Limbaugh show yesterday?
Michelle Bachman accepted Chris Wallace's apology when he called her and apologized in person.
Ladies and gentlemen, the genius of Michelle Bachman.
Because yesterday, as I sat here and said, oh, please, oh, God, don't let's not a week-long feud where we're not even paying attention to your agenda because it looks like you're trying to show your toughness by refusing to accept a genuine apology.
Oh, ah.
She knew exactly what she was doing.
Campaign could have emailed me and saved us a whole lot of time.
I'm kidding.
I'm kidding.
Well, actually, I'm not, but I'm half kidding, but only half.
Because as it turns out, as the entire day plays out yesterday, she gets the best of both worlds.
She graciously accepts the apology when Chris Wallace steps up.
It's kind of funny because I think the webcam apology was for the viewers.
Oh, he was apologizing to us, those of us who found the question insulting and inappropriate.
An apology to her is best delivered to her, and that's exactly what he did.
And it is on that occasion that Michelle Bachman accepted that apology, creating one day in which she said, oh, which she seems to say, oh, that's nice.
He's apologizing.
That's good.
You know, tell me when the phone rings.
And it did.
And the greatness of that one day of discomfort that I know Chris Wallace endured and deserved to endure.
I wonder when the next time is that some snarky questioner will ask her about the substance she brings to the table.
I think Congresswoman Bachman has created a landscape in which we will judge the substance she brings to the table by the substance she brings to the table.
Instead of asking her, you know, about whether her views are flaky or flighty or this or that, she's out there now.
And listen, anything she says deserves to be put under anybody's microscope.
And some of those microscopes are going to come from the left.
Got to deal with them.
And she better deal with them with skill and grace.
And I trust she will.
Okay, so there we are.
Now we can get on with the rest of our lives.
And Michelle could keep running for president, and Chris can go have a vacation week and come back and host the show.
And we could all just settle down.
Just settle down.
Or get as worked up as you like about this or various other things.
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Mark Davis in for Rush.
Here comes a big burst of topics and a whole bunch of your calls, I'm guessing, on the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Tuesday.
Back in just a moment.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show for a Tuesday.
I'm Mark Davis filling in just like I did yesterday with hopefully similar results.
We had a good time yesterday, and I hope to boost the enjoyment levels for you today.
But of course, the smiles return to our faces fully tomorrow with the return of Rush.
And I thank him and all the EIB folks, Mike and HR, for tolerating me for a day.
And thanks to you as well, Mark Davis at WBAP Dallas-Fort Worth, as we dive in to find out where you are and what you want to talk about from things I've brought up to things you want to bring up.
Got a bunch of news stories in front of me, but let's put people on the radio first, shall we?
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Let's do a little Ohio action.
Say hi to Joe.
Welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show, sir.
Mark Davis, how are you?
It's an honor and a pleasure, sir.
I just wanted to give you a quick call.
In regards to, first off, Michelle O'Bachman, classy woman.
Look at the way she took that in grace.
That's one thing I wanted to say.
She did.
You were asking about what could he do to postpone or whatever the election.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
God, please, please, please, please, please.
A lot of people dork out, he's going to invoke martial law.
No, no, no.
I'm talking about the textbook October surprise in which a candidate does something with the normal election schedule.
That's why it's called an October surprise a couple of weeks before the actual election day in order to sway the election his way.
Right.
Here's a theory.
You know, he is very, very tight with the, obviously, with the unions in this country.
Why can't he just get the unions a little uproared like they did in Wisconsin?
And then all of a sudden he's got to say we need to postpone this riot.
Not riots, but necessarily riots, but such a massive protest from all the union organizations across the country that he says, you know what, we need to postpone the election.
And then, oh, you know what?
We're not ready yet.
And then, you know, like you did in Greece.
Joe, you know I love you, right?
Come on, I don't trust this man.
Well, I don't either, but let's not write bad movie scripts.
Okay, I hope you're right.
No, trust me, I am.
There will not be a general strike by unions that results in rioting that forces the postponement of the election.
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Mark Davis in for Rush and loving every blessed minute of it.
Let's head down to Horse Country in Central Florida.
How I do love the hills of Ocala.
Hey, Chris, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How you doing?
Fine.
How are you, sir?
Good.
I just wanted to comment that I think it's wonderful timing that Supreme Leader Obama has gotten rid of the space program now that Iran obviously has one.
That makes me feel incredibly secure.
Yeah, you know, wow, that's do we know each other, Chris?
Let me thank you for that.
And let me tell you why I mentioned that because that's going to give me an opportunity for a brief rant.
You have stumbled across the Rush Limbaugh show hosted by the space geek of the ages.
I was 11 when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon July 20th, 1969.
And I bludgeoned my parents so mercilessly about this subject that I wound up that my buddy Fred Daly and I, his parents and our parents, they took us down for the Apollo 14 launch in January 1971, the Apollo 16 launch in April of 1972, the third and final Skylab crew launch in November of 1973.
I remember all those dates.
I can tell you all 12 guys who walked on the moon in order, but I can't find my car keys.
I'm an idiot savant in this way, with heavy emphasis on the idiocy.
However, as STS-135, the final shuttle mission gets ready to go on Friday, the 8th of July, Ferguson, Hurley, Magnus, and Walheim, which sounds like a law firm, but is in fact the crew of four.
That's the smallest crew in the longest time for the shuttle.
It's, you know, the shuttle missions are kind of whimpering to a close.
And I could go on at length.
Oh, trust me, I could go on at length about how I thought for sure we would have had footprints on Mars, and maybe they might have been mine.
That's how geeked out I was.
And I love the shuttle, and I love the International Space Station.
That's great, but what?
I mean, this is all we've done.
We've done nothing beyond Earth orbit in like four decades.
What?
And now we kind of gear things down.
Now, there's all kinds of projects on the drawing board and things being done right now that involve colonization of the moon and maybe human footprints on Mars before I'm dead.
But there's reasons for this, and some of them are strategic.
My reasons are because I believe that man's nature is to explore and the universe is there for us to explore.
But I don't want other countries, especially evil ones, growing more space proficient as we fall asleep at that switch.
You want to talk about that some today?
Oh, I'm right there with you.
All righty, but we have these and plenty of other things right around the bend.
Mark Davis filling in for Rush on the EIB network.
Stick around.
More of your calls are next.
Thanks, everybody.
Enjoying a Tuesday together.
And yet, I feel that even though we've brought up some more presidential politics and invoked some debt ceiling talks that we're going to talk about, and even though the Republic stands, you know, hangs by a thread and all these perils lie in our path, that I have a feeling at least half the audience is Googling about the Iranian space monkey.
I don't know.
It's the power of the Rush Limbaugh show.
I really need to be careful about oblique references and how arcane we get.
Leave that for my own gig for crying out loud.
Don't muddy the waters of the Limbaugh show with stuff like that.
That having been said, I have made myself chuckle during the commercial break, and I'll just offer one thing.
If Iran is going to put a monkey into space, there is, and they really are looking at this like within days.
I don't know how that's going to work out.
There's no chance whatsoever that the monkey will be named, that they will honor the first actual space monkey that America sent into space.
There's no chance that they will honor with the same name because our monkey was named Ham.
A little religious dietary humor there.
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The ham for our monkey, though, that was January 1961.
We stuffed this chimp into a Mercury capsule.
Ham was an acronym for the Holloman Aerospace Medical Center, which was located at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico.
So there's where the ham thing came from there.
And the Mercury capsule, this was four months before we put, how must Alan Shepard have felt about this?
Because as you know, or should know or may know, April 12th of 61, the Russians beat us, and we made it all right eight years later by beating them to the moon.
Ha!
Scoreboard.
But Yuri Gagarin went into space on April 12th of 1961.
And a few weeks later, I was three, so I have no memory of that.
But I remember my dad telling me about it.
My dad worked at the Pentagon and had been involved.
It's funny.
My dad never was 20 years Air Force and never went to war.
But I mean, if he'd been sent, he would have gone.
But dad was a personnel guy from Randolph Air Force Base, which is why I was born in San Antonio, to Andrews, to bowling in Washington, to the Pentagon, where he did a huge amount of personnel things, evaluating people for certain things, among them being part of the Air Force attaché, essentially spy work in London, where he was stationed from 63 to 65.
I got to go to first and second grade with all the other American military brats in London.
It was great.
But dad also got a first whiff at the early personnel funnel of things like our U-2 spy pilots and the original Mercury astronauts.
People like Alan Shepard and John Glenn and Wally Shira and Scott Carpenter and Gordon Cooper, Deke Slayton, who never got to fly.
Well, he did.
Yes, he did later in the Apollo-Soyuz test mission.
Enough, enough.
Stop me.
Stop me now.
But I'm thinking, what must Alan Shepard have been thinking as he was training when they stuff a monkey into the same kind of capsule and the capsule loses pressure?
Now, Ham's little monkey spacesuit kept him alive.
And he came back and he was about five years old at the time.
You know, Ham lived to 1983.
How long did chimps live?
I don't know.
Is that a long time?
1956 to 1983.
Good going there, Ham.
So the Iranian space monkey, an enormous theme today in history.
All right, let's do some other stuff.
Let's see what's going on in the world.
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Now, this is kind of interesting.
Bristol Palin is, was she interviewed by somebody?
She said that her mom has definitely made a decision on whether to run or not, but quote unquote, you keep some things in the family.
So Bristol says, mom has decided, but I'm not telling.
Someone thinks they have a, and I have said that I don't believe she will.
With counterpoint to this, we go to Glen Ridge, New Jersey.
Mike, Mark Davis, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you?
I'm doing fine.
How are you?
Great.
Welcome.
I wanted to disrespectfully disagree with a couple of points you wanted to do.
To disrespectfully disagree.
Thanks for being upfront about that.
I mean, respectfully disagree.
No, that's fine.
Be disrespectful if you like.
It's okay.
Okay.
You said yesterday that you didn't think the Sarah was running, and you also weren't sure that she would be our best candidate.
I want to disagree with you on both of those.
First of all, I don't think Santera's nature to run away from a challenge.
I think she's spent her whole life disproving her critics as to what a woman can and can't do, what a mother can and can't do, and what she can and can't do.
And when you tell her she can't run or she can't win, I think that's a challenge that she'll take.
But she doesn't need to be listening to, I mean, listen, there are a million people with a million opinions out there, from people who are absolutely certain she can win to people who are absolutely certain she cannot.
I just wonder about, and please let me make clear 5,000 times how much I love her and admire her, but I don't know if she has the magnet for crossover voters, independent voters that we're going to need.
I don't think she needs to pay any attention to what I say or others say or whatever.
That's not running away from a challenge.
And if she chooses not to run, it shouldn't be portrayed as running away from a challenge.
If she does not run, I thoroughly expect her to be wildly energetic and free with her opinions and anointing her own favorites and telling us what she thinks about the field and traveling the nation in the 2012 campaign and helping the nominee or helping us decide who the nominee should be.
She'll be everywhere, and I totally welcome that.
She's not going to just stay up in Alaska and hunt moose.
Right.
Well, my second point is that people seem concerned that her negatives are too high and that the damage has been done.
But I really look at it another way.
I look at it that whatever damage can be done to her has been done, and it was never justified in the first place.
And so it's fairly correctable.
Whereas any new candidate comes along, you're going to see whatever that amount of money that Barack Obama raises, whether it's a billion or something close to that, is going to be used to do exactly to him or her what they did to Sarah Palin.
I think that's a fantastic point.
How much worse can it get for her?
How much crueler can people be?
And might it start to backfire?
I believe it already has.
I mean, from the attempt to go through all those emails and the newspapers saying, you know, hey, readers, help us find embarrassing stuff in these emails, which totally backfired.
That's a thoroughly good point.
The one thing I would say, though, when you talk about when negatives are unwarranted, yeah, sometimes that doesn't matter.
Negatives are negatives, and sometimes they're fair and sometimes they're unfair.
But even when they're unfair, they still exist and you ignore them at your peril.
I'm not saying that she needs to look at that and go, oh, my negatives are high.
There's no way I should run.
If it's in her heart to do it, she should absolutely do it.
Well, you know, I just remind you of Ronald Reagan because, boy, this is similar to what happened in 1980.
Not so much.
I mean, no two stories are alike.
Reagan had doubters and a certain amount of detractors that any conservative candidate would have.
Governor Palin, again, fairly or not, has a high wall of detractors, and they're not all Democrats.
So listen, thank you.
And Lord knows I'm not one of them.
I really hope I'm being clear as the Liberty Bell on this.
I love this woman.
Her passion, her magic, her draw, her appeal.
I mean, people are like moths to a flame in a room that she walks into.
No other candidate that we have now or in the future can or will have the ability to match that kind of electricity.
However, There is a commodity.
We talked a little bit about it yesterday.
There's a commodity that's easier to recognize than describe.
Paul Ryan has it.
I think probably Chris Christie has it.
I pray our eventual nominee has it.
I guess we can call it the ability to take people who have never voted Republican in their lives and make them kind of nod and go, you know what?
I like this guy.
He makes sense.
I might vote for him for president.
There are two things our nominee needs.
And I would like to think it's possible to display both at the same time.
One is the ability to please the base.
Can those of us who are actual down-the-line consistent conservatives, can we have a candidate like us, please?
Can we give that a try, please?
But you know the other thing I want?
I want a candidate who, in the debates and in his advertising, and in his talk show appearances, will make people who have never voted Republican in their lives think about it.
That's what I want.
Am I asking too much?
All righty.
Well, I hope I'm not asking too much and asking for your calls at 1-800-282-2882.
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All right.
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I'm Mark Davis saying howdy from WBAP, Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas.
And let's do a little Texas call action.
San Antonio, Brian.
Hey, Mark Davis, you're on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you?
Hey, what's going on?
It's actually Colin from Louisville.
Holy cow.
Well, you seem the same to me.
Nice to have you.
What's going on?
New problems.
I wanted to address what you were saying about the Iran space program.
Yeah.
about how the October surprise could be a potential bombing of their space program.
And I think that...
Don't be careful, not their space program, ideally a nuclear facility.
Them sending a chimp into space.
Right.
A chimp into space doesn't bother me.
A nuclear warhead in Jerusalem does.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, no, I completely agree.
But I think bombing has really been, you know, the Republican sort of milieu, you know, for the past, you know, several decades.
And this bombing seems a bit 20th century to me because, I mean, we could just, you know, set up a cyber attack and turn the whole damn thing, you know, into an Amazon server selling shoes.
Yeah.
That's very clever.
Okay, I do.
Okay, I'll hop into the Tom Clancy novel with you here for a second.
Why drop ordnance on stuff when you can perhaps disarm a country with a cyber attack?
Might be a little simplistic.
Not that you don't have a bad idea there.
Lord knows Al-Qaeda and everybody else with whatever stone knives and bearskins technology they might have, and it's probably a little better than that, is looking at a cyber attack on us every day.
Why not?
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
I would suggest that moving forward in warfare into the rest of the 21st century, we'd probably better keep our eye on both.
We'd better maintain proficiency.
We better develop proficiency in cyber warfare and defending ourselves against it.
But we probably need to remain pretty good at surgical strikes too with actual bombs.
New schools.
A lot of money.
Yeah, but you know what?
That ain't the guiding force.
The guiding force needs to be, it needs to be what works.
And if a cyber attack doesn't, I'm going to turn it into an Amazon website selling shoes.
We are unable to launch the nuclear attack, sir, but we have espadrilles for $19.99.
Listen, I am always on board for technological answers that will save lives and money if they are equally effective methods of warfare.
And that's a big if, but I think you have a very, very good point there in terms of the way to plow forward with modern warfare.
All righty, let us shall I give this a second try?
Shall we attempt to head down I-35?
Shall we attempt to do a let's do a little action in Perrysburg, Ohio.
Keith, hey, Mark Davis, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you?
Hey, I'm all right.
How are you doing, Mark?
Good.
Good.
Hey, got a question for you.
Tell me why this won't work.
Why don't, since our House and the Senate can't quite seem to get together on how we're going to take care of this budget, why don't we just go in there straight 10% across the board?
Every department, every agency, with the exception of Social Security and the military.
Those two, nope, nope, nope.
We just don't touch those.
Everybody else, now that's fair.
You get a 10% cut on your department, your agency, straight across the board.
And some of you guys, this time next year, won't even be here because you're worthless.
You don't really provide anything for us anymore.
I think that's a wonderful idea on its face.
Let me suggest something to you because I think I've made clear, even in just the occasional hi there, I'm filling in appearance, that I am an enormous fan of the military.
That said, I think you will garner enormous additional political advantage if you subject the Pentagon to maybe just about the same thing.
Not in an attempt to reduce weapons programs, not in an attempt to make us weaker around the world.
Lord knows this administration is doing a good enough job of that.
But there might be an occasional base we don't need.
There might be an occasional cost-cutting measure that even the Pentagon that you and I love should pay attention to.
And if you get out there and you offer yourself up and say, look, no sacred cows, my love for them, that the candidate says my love for the military knows no bounds.
But in order to save America, even the Pentagon that defends us, even the military whom we love, and we're not going to cut veterans' benefits, and we're not going to cut military pay, and we're not going to have our guys going out in Humvees that are under armored, but there might be a little something in there that we can find and do more efficiently.
If we did that, we'd get all kinds of even additional support.
Wow, Republicans willing to make the Pentagon tighten its belt too?
We'd get some love for that.
Yeah, perhaps that might work.
You know, well, wait, wait, wait.
I've got more, too.
Why don't we go and take a look at foreign aid?
That's another thing you can look at.
Go look at the voting record.
Just call up on Google.
Who all we pay?
All the different countries?
Now go look and see when they vote at the U.N., see how many times they go along with it.
It's appalling.
Absolutely.
Other than Israel.
There's my other sacred cow.
That's it.
No, I mean, if you are with us, then we'll write you some checks.
If not, we won't.
Just so everybody understands what a tiny, tiny sliver foreign aid really is.
But you know what?
As soon as I say that, I will say some things just mean something.
Some budget cutting is important because it just saves you billions and trillions of dollars.
Some budget cutting is important because of the message it sends.
Foreign aid is nothing.
It's nothing, but it's enormously meaningful.
It is a statement.
If we write a check for 10 bucks to a country that's willing to urinate all over us, that's 10 bucks ill spent.
And when you finally close that checkbook and say, you know what, guess what?
You're not getting you 10 bucks.
Maybe you don't need to add that last part at the end, or maybe you do.
It says something.
It just says something.
All right.
I'm going to say more things, and you get to say them back when the Rush Limbaugh Show continues.
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Where do you want the line drawn in the sand?
What do you want the Republicans to do just to just say no, as Nancy Reagan would say, to raising the debt limit, or grudgingly do so as long as there are corresponding and real spending cuts?
And we'll talk about various other things as well as we plow through the remainder of the show today.
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Alan, hey, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
How are you?
Mark, I'm great.
Great to talk to you.
But I got a bone to pick with you.
I can't believe your statement about Sarah Palin.
You're doing the same thing that Rush rails about all the time.
You're letting the other side pick our candidate.
Man, in what way?
Well, you talk about how you love her.
You admire her magnetism, the way she can draw a crowd.
And then you say, but she can't be the candidate.
I hope she's not the candidate, or words to that effect.
No, I'll tell you, exactly.
Let's not do words to that effect.
Let's do the actual words I've said.
I said, I do not know about her ability to attract crossover or independent voters.
I am unsure of that.
And there are other candidates whom I feel fairly strongly about in that regard.
That's not letting the media pick the candidate.
Come on.
No, I'm just saying.
And with that, we'll say some more things to each other in just a moment.