Rush Limbaugh Program - July 8, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
Aired: 2011-07-08
Duration: 34:10


=== Jobs Business Worse Than Reported (13:28) ===

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[00:00:52]  Now, this jobs business, folks, it's even worse than reported.
[00:00:59]  In the Reuters story today, look at me.
[00:01:04]  Look at me.
[00:01:05]  In the Reuters story today, buried in this article on the job numbers is this.
[00:01:14]  Contributing to the weak tenor of the report meeting today, the Labor Department said the economy created 44,000 fewer jobs in April and May than previously thought.
[00:01:30]  Now that is one heck of a downward revision.
[00:01:35]  44,000 fewer jobs created in April and May than previously thought.
[00:01:41]  What were the numbers in April and May?
[00:01:43]  How many jobs are created in April?
[00:01:45]  What was it?
[00:01:45]  The usual 23 or 25,000?
[00:01:47]  Folks, we're in negative territory here.
[00:01:52]  Buried in this story.
[00:01:54]  Contributing to the weak tenor of the report, practically whispering this.
[00:02:00]  The Labor Department said that the economy created 44,000 fewer jobs.
[00:02:05]  Don't tell anybody.
[00:02:06]  We have to report it.
[00:02:07]  It's all a bit limbo, can't you?
[00:02:08]  We got to report it.
[00:02:12]  By the way, Byron New York via Twitter.
[00:02:16]  John Boehner's office responds to Bill Crystal's prediction and Republicans will cave in the budget talks.
[00:02:23]  Boehner's spokesman said, well, that's clear as crystal.
[00:02:29]  No tax hikes.
[00:02:34]  Further from the DC Examiner, Boehner, no GOP won't cave in budget talks.
[00:02:39]  House Speaker Boehner's office pushing back against speculation that Republican negotiators will cave to Obama in talks on raising a national debt ceiling.
[00:02:51]  Every Republican's been clear as crystal.
[00:02:54]  No tax hikes, says a Boehner spokesman.
[00:02:56]  Tax hikes destroy jobs, and they cannot and will not pass the House.
[00:03:04]  That clear as crystal, but they're spelling that C-R-Y-S-T-A-L.
[00:03:10]  That formulation, I mean, that's no accident.
[00:03:14]  Crystal spells his name K-R-I-S-T-O-L.
[00:03:18]  That's clear as crystal.
[00:03:20]  So Boehner's office is pushing back.
[00:03:24]  Folks, that 44,000, this Reuters number, Labor Department said that the economy created 44,000 fewer jobs in April and May than previously thought.
[00:03:38]  That means they cut the numbers by half.
[00:03:41]  44,000.
[00:03:44]  Means they cut the numbers by half.
[00:03:45]  The May number alone was revised down by 25,000.
[00:03:52]  That cut the number of jobs added in May in half.
[00:04:00]  That means that this number today that we created 18,000 jobs, that's not true.
[00:04:07]  That's going to be revised.
[00:04:10]  They're just now telling us how bad they missed it in April and May.
[00:04:16]  The thing is, I don't have to tell you.
[00:04:18]  You know this.
[00:04:19]  Everyone's living this.
[00:04:25]  Everybody's living it.
[00:04:28]  I got a note here from a former member of Congress.
[00:04:31]  He doesn't give me permission to use his name, so I'm not going to.
[00:04:35]  If somebody doesn't grant me permission to use their name, I won't do it.
[00:04:39]  But he heard Vinny from Brooklyn call wanting to go, what is a tax loophole?
[00:04:43]  And we got into a discussion of definitions: tax break, tax loophole.
[00:04:48]  This guy's a Republican.
[00:04:50]  He said, Rush, Republicans always want to cut tax rates.
[00:04:54]  The standard Democrat mantra is: hey, I support tax cuts, but not this Republican tax cut.
[00:04:59]  I support targeted tax cuts.
[00:05:02]  Now, a targeted tax cut equals a loophole.
[00:05:08]  And then a few months later, they scream about the loophole that they created.
[00:05:12]  He said, there's an example in the stimulus bill.
[00:05:17]  The depreciation extension for aircraft from five to seven years.
[00:05:22]  Not one Republican voted for it.
[00:05:25]  In the Porculus bill, they extended the depreciation for aircraft from five years to seven years.
[00:05:34]  So now it's two years later, the Democrats are able to derail the discussion about cutting spending to closing loopholes for corporate aircraft, painting the Republicans as protecting their private airplane-owning friends and killing poor people.
[00:05:50]  But the Republicans had nothing to do with either creating the loophole, and they were blindsided six times in the president's press conference as seeking its continuance.
[00:06:03]  The Republicans, not one Republican voted for the stimulus, so not one Republican voted for the increase in depreciation for private aircraft in five, seven years.
[00:06:13]  And yet here's Obama running around just today or yesterday saying the Republicans' big buddies are corporate jet owners and his tax break.
[00:06:21]  He was the author of it or his Democrat buddies.
[00:06:28]  It's a public relations mastermind or masterpiece, and it's undermined only by me telling you about it.
[00:06:41]  A targeted tax cut, by the way, usually means a tax break for Democrats.
[00:06:44]  Don't forget, Teresa Hines-Kerry has a corporate jet.
[00:06:49]  John Kerry flies in it.
[00:06:51]  She owns it.
[00:06:55]  A lot of Democrats have corporate jets.
[00:06:58]  A lot of Democrats benefited from the extension in depreciation from five years to seven years.
[00:07:08]  So it's classic.
[00:07:10]  It's classic.
[00:07:11]  They go destroy the economy, accuse the Republicans of it.
[00:07:14]  They go create this tax break, this tax loophole, accuse the Republicans of doing the same thing.
[00:07:21]  You know that fast and furious, the gun-running thing?
[00:07:27]  Justice.gov website located on page 96 of a report on this program, 2009, February.
[00:07:46]  The Recovery Act signed into law allocated $10 million to ATF for Project Gunrunner.
[00:07:53]  That's the program.
[00:07:55]  Stimulus money paid for this is what has been discovered.
[00:07:59]  Stimulus money paid for Fast and Furious.
[00:08:04]  $10 million was allocated in the stimulus bill to buy machine guns and revolvers and let Mexican drug lords take them across the border back to Mexico and use them.
[00:08:22]  Stimulus money.
[00:08:23]  That's shovel-ready job stuff.
[00:08:25]  You remember that?
[00:08:27]  Right here it is.
[00:08:28]  2009 February Recovery Act signed into law allocated $10 million to ATF for Project Gunrunner.
[00:08:35]  2009 June Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2009 allocated an additional $6 million to the ATF for Project Gunrunner, which means we can trace the money back to Obama.
[00:08:54]  Or if you want, you can trace it back to Bite Me, who was put directly in charge.
[00:08:59]  But you can trace the money back to the Department of Justice.
[00:09:01]  They administered the program.
[00:09:03]  Stimulus money.
[00:09:07]  This is important because now there is a way to follow the money.
[00:09:11]  This is stunning.
[00:09:12]  Fast and Furious funded by the Porculus bill.
[00:09:19]  2010 August Emergency Border Security Supplemental Appropriations Bill of 2010 allocated $37.5 million to the ATF for Project Gunrunner.
[00:09:33]  Just a little over a year ago, another $37.5 million.
[00:09:38]  Just more money from Obama's stash.
[00:09:43]  So let's add it up.
[00:09:44]  $10 million in February 2009.
[00:09:48]  $6 million in June of 2009.
[00:09:52]  So that's a total of $16 million in 2009.
[00:09:55]  Then in 2010, $37.5 million.
[00:09:58]  So $53.5 million spent on this program to buy machine guns and revolvers.
[00:10:07]  $53.5 million, all taxpayer dollars.
[00:10:14]  Isn't that fascinating?
[00:10:20]  Back to the audio soundbites.
[00:10:22]  Last night, CNN's in the arena.
[00:10:24]  Had a fill-in host out there, a guy named Tom Foreman.
[00:10:28]  He spoke to Mr. Conventional Wisdom, David Rodham Gergen, about the federal debt negotiation deal and the talks.
[00:10:39]  Foreman said, look, when you've got a big Titanic war like this, you want people to be agreeable, but you also want them to represent their interests because they're supposed to represent the interests of a lot of people in the country, right?
[00:10:49]  Republicans are holding tight on this.
[00:10:51]  They feel very strongly no tax increases.
[00:10:53]  And so what's happened is the president is conceding more and more spending cuts, and now he's starting to, you know, promise entitlement reform, Medicare and Social Security.
[00:11:02]  You and I never thought we'd be talking about this now.
[00:11:05]  And progressive Democrats are saying, wait a minute, that's the issue we're going to run on.
[00:11:10]  We're going to run in 2012 as saying protect Medicare.
[00:11:14]  Nancy Pelosi said just the other day, there are three big issues for us in 2012.
[00:11:18]  Medicare, Medicare, Medicare.
[00:11:20]  Yeah.
[00:11:22]  The Democrats that have cut them or have cut it.
[00:11:25]  But anyway, David Rodham Gergen here is a little upset here because they've heard the fact that the White House might agree to cuts in Medicare and Social Security if Republicans go along with revenue increases elsewhere.
[00:11:39]  So Pelosi is worried about it.
[00:11:40]  David Rodham Gergen's worried about it.
[00:11:43]  Foreman then said, well, look, Harry Reid, too, Dingy Harry is getting in that bandwagon, so we got to protect this.
[00:11:48]  That compromises of Democrats, it takes them off the high road for 2012.
[00:11:53]  And I think what we're seeing is the president's interests in 2012 are not the same as members of the House and Senate, especially progressive Democrats.
[00:12:03]  The House and Senate people all want to run on, let's protect Medicare, let's protect Social Security from these terrible Republicans.
[00:12:09]  And so you've got a growing split now between a lot of the progressives.
[00:12:14]  Nancy Pelosi, I think it must be just furious about what she sees going on.
[00:12:18]  I wonder.
[00:12:20]  She probably, I don't know whether to believe you've got these guys talking about Democrats, whether they're actually furious as though they too are clueless about what Obama's doing.
[00:12:32]  It's kind of hard to believe.
[00:12:34]  But just notice in these sound base, notice how just automatically, oh, yeah, Republicans want to destroy Medicare and Social Security.
[00:12:41]  I mean, that's a given, right?
[00:12:43]  Well, yeah, that's a given.
[00:12:47]  The Democrats want to run on let's protect Medicare, let's protect Social Security, these terrible Republicans.
[00:12:52]  Oh, yeah, the Republicans, that's what they want to do.
[00:12:55]  They want to kill a program, right?
[00:12:59]  Everybody just assumes this.
[00:13:05]  See how easy it is?
[00:13:07]  Oh, yeah.
[00:13:08]  Republicans, sure, they want to end Medicare.
[00:13:12]  They want to end Social Security.
[00:13:13]  Oh, sure, absolutely.
[00:13:16]  No question about it.
[00:13:18]  I don't know, folks.
[00:13:19]  A guy that'll throw his own grandmother under the bus might not stop or think twice about throwing Pelosi under a bus, twice.

=== Bus Shelter Poster Placement (03:09) ===

[00:13:28]  And he did.
[00:13:29]  He threw his own grandmother under the bus.
[00:13:32]  Yeah, she's a typical white woman, right?
[00:13:33]  Didn't he say that?
[00:13:35]  Typical white person.
[00:13:39]  He's a black guy.
[00:13:41]  Sees a black guy.
[00:13:42]  Oh, my God, I'm going to die.
[00:13:43]  You know, runs for the bus stop cover.
[00:13:49]  You know, my brother has his kids in the nation's capital.
[00:13:55]  David took his family to Washington, showed them the sites there.
[00:13:59]  My parents took David and I, David and me, to D.C. when we're about the age a lot of his kids are.
[00:14:05]  They're 18 down to five or six now.
[00:14:10]  And we bought some 2F by T posters at bus stops, where they have the kiosks at the shelters, the bus shelter you sit in if it's raining.
[00:14:22]  I'm getting people downtown D.C., we bought it there on purpose.
[00:14:26]  They're seeing these 2F by T, the Raspberry Red with me is Rush Revere.
[00:14:31]  We've got them all over town.
[00:14:34]  Yeah, we got a billboard all over.
[00:14:37]  We've got a billboard on the 405 out in Southern California.
[00:14:44]  Well, they're just going up.
[00:14:46]  They went up two weeks after we launched.
[00:14:49]  And David sent me a picture last night of the kids standing in front of one of these things in Washington, downtown Washington.
[00:14:59]  Yeah, it is.
[00:15:00]  It's cool.
[00:15:01]  Uncle Rush Revere.
[00:15:05]  It's the red raspberry of who?
[00:15:16]  Oh, the Committee for Creative Non-Video, the Homeless Guy.
[00:15:19]  Oh, put a poster on the sleeping grate.
[00:15:23]  Right.
[00:15:24]  Put a poster on the sleeping grate.
[00:15:28]  Now we've got them all over.
[00:15:29]  We've got one in Cleveland.
[00:15:31]  We've got billboards, I think in like 15 or 16 states.
[00:15:36]  And we've got these bus shelters in Washington.
[00:15:42]  And I'm getting people seeing these things and taking pictures.
[00:15:47]  Let's see.
[00:15:48]  What else?
[00:15:50]  Oh, folks, just before I go to the break, I want to get back to this Fast and Furious program.
[00:15:55]  Remember now, stimulus money.
[00:15:58]  Everything else going on to kind of gloss over this and we shouldn't.
[00:16:01]  Stimulus money was buying weapons for Mexican drug cartels by design.
[00:16:08]  That was its purpose.
[00:16:11]  I got to go.
[00:16:12]  We'll be back.
[00:16:17]  Okay, I found the picture that Davidson.
[00:16:21]  I just sent the picture up to Coco Jr., whose actual name is Dean.
[00:16:27]  It's a picture of my five nephews and nieces in front of a 2F by T Rush Revere, the Raspberry Poster.
[00:16:36]  It's in front of the Smithsonian.

=== Liberals, Rhinos, and Conservatives (12:34) ===

[00:16:38]  That's where this bus shelter is.
[00:16:42]  Very, very, very nice placement.
[00:16:45]  Absolutely right.
[00:16:45]  Now, you don't see the Smithsonian in a picture, because the bus shelter is right there on the street.
[00:16:53]  And David took the picture so that you don't see the Smithsonian, but that's where he told me they were.
[00:16:58]  So that's what I put there.
[00:17:01]  I want to go back to David Rodemberg and this.
[00:17:03]  Notice how natural it is.
[00:17:05]  The Democrats want to run on Medicare, Medicare, Medicare.
[00:17:08]  The Republicans, those rascally Republicans, don't want to take it away from you.
[00:17:13]  And I listened to that, and as I note, you know how easy it is.
[00:17:18]  Oh, of course, that's what Republicans do.
[00:17:20]  They take Social Security away from old people.
[00:17:23]  They take Medicare away from old people.
[00:17:24]  Oh, yeah, that's what they do.
[00:17:25]  Yeah, right.
[00:17:26]  Easy, huh?
[00:17:26]  That's, yeah, everybody agrees with that.
[00:17:30]  Is David Gergen on this planet?
[00:17:34]  The so-called progressive Democrats who want to run on Medicare and Social Security are led by Pelosi, cut Medicare $500 billion in Obamacare.
[00:17:47]  Paul Ryan doesn't do anything to Medicare.
[00:17:51]  His plan doesn't affect current recipients of Medicare at all.
[00:17:55]  The Democrats, Obamacare, cut $500 billion from it, folks.
[00:18:04]  And by doing so, they're going to deny seasoned citizens their drugs and care.
[00:18:11]  It's the death panels.
[00:18:16]  The so-called progressive Democrats did that.
[00:18:22]  It's the same as Obama wailing and moaning about the depreciation schedule for corporate jets when the Republicans didn't even vote for it.
[00:18:34]  The Republicans didn't even propose it.
[00:18:39]  It is indicative of the height of utter incompetence and irresponsibility on the part of the media.
[00:18:54]  If there were such a thing, it'd be journalistic malpractice.
[00:18:59]  The way this stuff gets reported because it's all untrue.
[00:19:02]  everything they're saying about the Republicans.
[00:19:11]  Morning Bell today.
[00:19:13]  Heritage Foundation and Economy in Pack.
[00:19:16]  A panic.
[00:19:18]  Two items of note here.
[00:19:20]  The Morning Bell is the Heritage Foundation blog, and it's always great.
[00:19:25]  And there's this note, dovetails, is I was probably sound like I was complaining yesterday.
[00:19:32]  Why is it that when you learn two plus two is four, you remember it?
[00:19:36]  Why is it when you learn that tax cuts create jobs, you forget it?
[00:19:42]  If you want a comparison of what job growth could look like, go back to the 1980s Reagan recovery.
[00:19:50]  20 months into the Reagan recovery, the unemployment rate had dropped from 10.8% to 7.5%, 3.3% drop.
[00:20:02]  In contrast, under Faroe Obama, the unemployment rate has risen a full percentage point to 9.2% at his 20-month mark.
[00:20:16]  Comparisons.
[00:20:19]  The American people have Obama's big spending economic policies to thank for slowing the pace of recovery.
[00:20:25]  Paul Ryan explains how the president's debt-laden reliance on Keynesian interventions in the economy have helped put our economy in its current state.
[00:20:36]  Investors and businesses make decisions on a forward-looking basis.
[00:20:42]  They know that today's large debt levels are simply tomorrow's tax increases, tomorrow's interest rate increases, or inflation, and they act accordingly.
[00:20:55]  Which means they don't act.
[00:20:58]  Everyone said, well, Kendall, Greenville, North Carolina.
[00:21:01]  Hi, glad you waited.
[00:21:02]  Welcome to the EIB Network.
[00:21:05]  Mega Rush Baby Dittos, Rush from Jim to Meg Country.
[00:21:08]  Thank you, sir.
[00:21:09]  Rush, my question for you was, and I haven't been paying attention to politics for a real long time, but, you know, we know what liberals are.
[00:21:19]  We know what we get when we elect a liberal, i.e. Barack Obama.
[00:21:23]  That's right.
[00:21:24]  But what about the Rhinos?
[00:21:27]  You know, we elect these Republicans.
[00:21:30]  Olympia Snow, the list could go on and on.
[00:21:33]  My question is, in your mind, who's more dangerous, a liberal or a rhino?
[00:21:39]  Rhino.
[00:21:44]  Gut reactions, rhino.
[00:21:45]  I mean, it's it's because I would say that because just what you said, we know who the liberals are.
[00:21:54]  And so you know what you're getting with them.
[00:21:58]  So by definition, they are who they are.
[00:22:02]  The rhinos destroy the Republican brand.
[00:22:05]  The rhinos destroy what conservatism stands for.
[00:22:09]  The rhinos not only betray, they redefine.
[00:22:17]  You know, the rhino-Republicans are a bigger obstacle to the Republican Party being perceived as what it really is than the liberals are.
[00:22:30]  Now, if you want to talk which does the most destruction to an economy, I mean, it's hard.
[00:22:37]  They work together.
[00:22:39]  What is a Republican enabling?
[00:22:41]  What is a moderate Republican?
[00:22:44]  A liberal Republican.
[00:22:48]  So, you know, rhinos confuse the vote.
[00:22:54]  They destroy the GOP brand.
[00:23:00]  They're, to me, they do more damage to the Republicans than the liberals do.
[00:23:08]  Yes.
[00:23:09]  Well, and like you were talking earlier, Rush, you said what's behind, you know, Bill Crystal saying that the debt talks were going to go the Democrats' way.
[00:23:18]  And to me, it's what you say the bluebloods or the establishment, which is the same Dorinos to me.
[00:23:27]  And you had warned your listeners that if that does occur, the Republican Corporate Party would be no more, and you'd have a third party with the Tea Party.
[00:23:37]  But I consider myself Tea Party.
[00:23:41]  There's a handful of Republicans in the Senate and Congress that are conservatives, true conservatives.
[00:23:49]  What's the point of electing Republicans?
[00:23:51]  2010, what was the point?
[00:23:53]  I mean, there is no point, you know.
[00:23:56]  I just don't see how without the Tea Party or another influence that things will ever change.
[00:24:04]  Well, let me just tell you, let me just, I know where you're going with this, and I'm going to shut you down.
[00:24:10]  If you're thinking third party, forget it.
[00:24:17]  A, you're never going to have me supporting it.
[00:24:21]  B, you're never going to have me as a member of it, as an official functioning political party.
[00:24:28]  I am not going to willingly commit suicide.
[00:24:33]  And that's what a third, particularly if you try to do it for 2012.
[00:24:38]  Third, the Republicans have not caved yet.
[00:24:43]  Four, the conservatives that you mentioned that are in the House and the Senate are worth supporting.
[00:24:51]  The point is to take back the Republican Party.
[00:25:00]  Now I know why you're asking me a question about rhinos.
[00:25:04]  You're looking for you think Open Line Friday's trick the host day.
[00:25:09]  I got you.
[00:25:10]  Yeah, you're calling the first time.
[00:25:12]  You don't really pay much attention to politics.
[00:25:15]  Do you want me to think you're a doofus?
[00:25:17]  Then you come in here with this circuitous route trying to trick me into going, you're good out there, Kendall.
[00:25:25]  You're good.
[00:25:26]  And it might have worked with another host.
[00:25:30]  My congratulations to you.
[00:25:32]  It's a good effort.
[00:25:34]  I like your technique out there.
[00:25:35]  John in Daytona, Florida.
[00:25:37]  Welcome to the EIB Network.
[00:25:38]  Hello.
[00:25:39]  Hey, Rush.
[00:25:40]  Would it be wrong of me to say that Warren Buffett should butt out of the American economy?
[00:25:45]  Because at this point, I don't remember him being elected for anything.
[00:25:48]  And he doesn't have $12 trillion.
[00:25:51]  Well, no, because that would be like telling any citizen to butt out of it.
[00:25:57]  You can't tell me to butt out of it.
[00:26:00]  We are a representative republic.
[00:26:02]  He's on TV.
[00:26:03]  He can say whatever he wants.
[00:26:05]  He doesn't have to be right, but he can say what he wants.
[00:26:08]  He is confused everyone because I do respect his business sense.
[00:26:12]  And I wish I don't think he would run Berkshire Hathaway the same way.
[00:26:16]  He wouldn't run it 12.
[00:26:17]  No, no, he doesn't.
[00:26:20]  But the Kennedys didn't run their businesses the way they make everybody else run theirs.
[00:26:24]  The Liberals do not send their kids to public schools.
[00:26:28]  The Liberals are not out there driving battery-powered cars.
[00:26:33]  It's no different.
[00:26:36]  So you say, well, why do they do it?
[00:26:38]  Well, it's the age-old classic.
[00:26:40]  This is how they relate or try to make the average middle-class American think that they support them, that they've got their back.
[00:26:49]  It's no more complicated than that.
[00:26:55]  Pure and simple.
[00:26:56]  Now, where are you right?
[00:26:56]  Okay, Warren Buffett, I forget, $43 billion, $50 billion, and he and Gates and some of these other high rollers have signed this pledge to give all their money to Gates, basically, when they die.
[00:27:12]  Gates is charity.
[00:27:13]  Stop thinking of that.
[00:27:20]  That's fine, but don't tell me I have to.
[00:27:24]  If you don't want to keep what you've earned for your family when you pass away, that's fine.
[00:27:29]  But don't tell me that I have to give my estate away.
[00:27:38]  It's fine.
[00:27:39]  Now, there's one Democrat that ran his business like the Democrats do.
[00:27:48]  In other words, the Democrats don't send their kids to public schools.
[00:27:52]  The Democrats don't drive electric cars.
[00:27:54]  The Democrats don't do all these things that the Democrats are suggesting, particularly economically and physically, fiscally.
[00:28:03]  The Democrats do invest their money in Social Security, but they don't want you in the stock market.
[00:28:09]  The Democrats fly corporate judges.
[00:28:11]  The Democrats do all these wealthy, rich things.
[00:28:15]  They just don't want you to know about it.
[00:28:17]  There's one Democrat who ran his business like the government does.
[00:28:28]  And there have been lesser, but Bernie Madoff.
[00:28:35]  Bernie Madoff was the one Democrat who was solidly thorough from front to back, start to finish, top to bottom.
[00:28:45]  Bernie Madoff ran his business the exact way the Democrats run the government.
[00:28:56]  Folks, look, we took over the states with just conservative Republicans.
[00:29:02]  Look at Wisconsin, Ohio, some blue states.
[00:29:08]  And we did it with solid conservatives by defeating Rhino Republicans.

=== Tax Breaks and Anti-Cave Arguments (04:05) ===

[00:29:12]  That's what needs to happen.
[00:29:14]  Not go third party.
[00:29:17]  You know what?
[00:29:18]  I got an email.
[00:29:20]  We got a Catherine just forwarded this to me, in fact, from the customer service wing at 2ifbytea.com.
[00:29:31]  Dear whoever, said the customer, this isn't really a question.
[00:29:36]  I'm not really sure where exactly to leave comments.
[00:29:39]  I just wanted you to know that you've done something nobody else could.
[00:29:42]  I actually loathe iced tea.
[00:29:46]  I mean, loathe it, not just dislike it.
[00:29:51]  I ordered a case of your Diet Raspberry 2 if by tea when I first heard about it because the purchase was for a good cause.
[00:29:58]  That's our sponsor, the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
[00:30:01]  I figured that I'd give the tea away to my sisters when I saw them.
[00:30:05]  Not only did I drink the first case myself, I just ordered three more cases.
[00:30:10]  This tea is awesome.
[00:30:12]  The Diet Raspberry.
[00:30:13]  It is.
[00:30:13]  I got a bottle right here.
[00:30:16]  Chug it.
[00:30:18]  I'm thinking, if this tea is that powerful, I mean, somebody who loathes tea ends up loving it with ours.
[00:30:27]  Imagine what a case or a number of cases, if sent to the Republican leadership, would do.
[00:30:35]  Maybe we could have two if by tea, you'll never cave.
[00:30:41]  The anti-cave product, the anti-cave two if by tea.
[00:30:46]  Now think about it.
[00:30:48]  Fayetteville, North Carolina.
[00:30:49]  Hi, Joe.
[00:30:50]  Great to have you on the EIB network, Fort Bragg, right down the street.
[00:30:54]  Hello.
[00:30:55]  Hi.
[00:30:55]  Thanks for having me on the air.
[00:30:57]  I'm a Democrat Obama supporter.
[00:31:00]  And I wanted to call, I wanted to talk about Republican candidates, but something else comes real quick.
[00:31:10]  You're talking about the tax loopholes.
[00:31:12]  And I think your definition is wrong.
[00:31:14]  I don't think a tax loophole refers to just tax breaks and tax laws.
[00:31:19]  We say tax loop for your friends, you exploit of tax breaks, tax codes to reduce your tax liability.
[00:31:28]  For example, if there's a provision of the tax code that says that if you get divorced and you can reduce your, what you call it, your tax liability, a couple can go across the border to Mexico, file for divorce there, like on the 31st of December.
[00:31:48]  You know what I mean?
[00:31:48]  Come back to the U.S. That's the age-old marriage penalty.
[00:31:55]  And that's like the ARM.
[00:32:01]  That just ensnares everybody.
[00:32:05]  But, you know, you're wrong about, you know, you can sit there.
[00:32:08]  This is the problem with Democrats.
[00:32:11]  You revel in being wrong.
[00:32:13]  You've called here and you are proud to be wrong.
[00:32:19]  You've just told me that what I said a tax loophole is, isn't.
[00:32:22]  And it is.
[00:32:23]  I got no reason to lie to you.
[00:32:25]  I've got no reason to be wrong about it.
[00:32:28]  I define a tax loophole, a tax break, perfectly, flawlessly.
[00:32:34]  The corporate jet break is a loophole.
[00:32:40]  Yeah, it was a benefit to corporate jet owners in the depreciation schedule.
[00:32:46]  Obama put it in the stimulus bill.
[00:32:47]  It was written right into the stimulus bill.
[00:32:49]  Your stimulus bill, your shovel-ready jobs bill.
[00:32:58]  The tax loophole is not exploiting the law.
[00:33:02]  It is the law.
[00:33:05]  A tax loophole is not an end around.
[00:33:08]  You're proving the point of how the language distortion has worked.
[00:33:14]  You think you're right.

=== Can't Relate (00:52) ===

[00:33:18]  You think you're a genius.
[00:33:19]  You think you call here, you're going to outsmart old El Rushbo, and you're proud to be wrong.
[00:33:24]  It's stunning.
[00:33:26]  I can't relate.
[00:33:28]  I revel in being right.
[00:33:30]  Some people revel in being wrong.
[00:33:31]  I don't know how it goes for you, but I can't relate to it.
[00:33:38]  Well, that's it, folks.
[00:33:39]  It's over.
[00:33:41]  Another exciting edition of Open Line Friday.
[00:33:45]  El Finito.
[00:33:48]  Big weekend coming up, and I hope you enjoy yours.
[00:33:52]  Whatever happens between now and then on Monday, we get back here.
[00:33:55]  Don't worry.
[00:33:56]  I'll know about it.
[00:33:57]  I'll research it.
[00:33:59]  I'll tell you about it.
[00:34:01]  And if you're lucky, as an added bonus on Monday, I will also tell you what to think about it.
[00:34:06]  Thanks so much for being with us today, and I can't wait for Monday.
[00:34:09]  See you then.
[00:34:10]  We do.