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July 22, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 22, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in for low-grade cheap foreign knockoff excellence in broadcasting.
Rush returns on Monday.
He was out unexpectedly today because Myra Kraft died earlier this week and Rush is attending the funeral in Massachusetts, but he will be back behind the Golden EIB microphone live on Monday.
Mr. Snerdley is running the show from New York because under the National Labor Relations Board, it's no longer permissible for the host and the head guy to be in the same state.
So that's why when Rush was in Los Angeles, Mr. Snerdley was running the show from Palm Beach.
I'm in New Hampshire.
Now he's got to move to New York.
Then when Mark Davis is hosting the show from Texas, then Mr. Snerdley will have to run the show from Alaska.
That's how it works.
It's a simple matter.
You'll soon get used to it.
It's just part of the new federal regulatory regime.
It all works out very nicely.
A little bit of an update on this business about the downgrade of the US bond rating.
Standard and Poor's have said that the US bond rating will be downgraded in three months' time, if not sooner, unless the following happens.
There is a plan to reduce the debt by about $4 trillion.
That's their minimum.
And they've got to, and the plan has got to be one in which the fiscal discipline is built into it.
In other words, it can't be the usual stuff about the out years and all the rest of it.
It's got to be a real plan with real numbers.
So where is the president on this?
You know, I love this.
Speaker Boehner was talking about it in the first hour of the show with Rush.
And John Boehner was saying, you know, otherwise risk a downgrade, risk a default and all the rest of it.
The world's rating agencies now are telling the United States $4 trillion within three months or it's a downgrade.
And then your bank, as I pointed out last hour, if you bank at the First National Bank or whatever, you get your savings account in there.
The banking system of the United States, the American banks, hold about $1 trillion in US Treasury debt.
And when that gets downgraded, your bank gets downgraded with it too.
Your pension fund gets downgraded with it too.
Your insurance company gets downgraded with it too.
You can't have a AAA-rated bank holding a lot of non-AAA debt from the US Treasury.
And there's one thing, I'm not, I'm, you know, people know that I'm not the world's biggest Europhile, but the European Union have got a point on this, that, you know, they stamped.
These rating agencies stamped to downgrade Portugal and Ireland their government debt to junk.
Boom.
And the Europeans say, well, you know, these are American ratings agencies.
They're anti-European.
And there's a point to this, because at least the governments in the European Union, all of whom, most of whom are not anybody's idea of conservative governments, are all talking about austerity, austerity measures, austerity, austerity.
Harry Reid isn't talking about austerity.
The word has never passed his lips.
Barack Obama isn't talking about austerity.
They're talking about more spending.
More, more, more.
How do you like it?
How do you like it?
That's another song they'll be playing at the Barack Obama 50th birthday disco.
More, more, more.
How do you like it?
How do you like it?
It's the Barack Obama 50th birthday anthem.
SNP, Standard and Poor's, are now saying $4 trillion within three months or the dollar is going to be downgraded.
And That's all that's propping us up right now, is the fact that U.S. government debt is going to be downgraded.
That's all that's propping us up right now, is the AAA rating.
The fact that U.S. government debt has not been marked down to junk the way that a lot of European debt has.
But the more these guys aren't even talking about raining it in.
They're talking about new spending.
Kathleen Sebelius has just announced a whole new lot of wonderful health care programs for women that aren't going to cost you anything.
They're, quote, without cost, unquote.
What do you mean they're without cost?
What that means is that, you know, I've got to pay for them and every other federal taxpayer's got to pay for them.
There's nothing without cost.
And we're not even, so we're not even talking about it in the sane language that the Irish and the Portuguese and the Greeks have been forced by reality to adopt.
They don't want to.
They're spenderholics like Obama and Harry Reid.
But reality has trumped political reality and they're having to do it.
And we're going to be in that situation in three months' time.
This is serious stuff.
If you've got money in an American bank, if you've got an American pension fund, if you've got an insurance policy with an American insurance agency, a downgrade of U.S. Treasury debt is going to be a disaster for you.
1-800-282-2882.
Stop the spending.
Let's just stop it.
I want August II to roll around because I think every head of every agency should have to justify every spending.
Right now, you only hear about it if something kind of crazy is so crazy it makes a local newspaper somewhere.
There was one of the border crossings here.
I'm up near the New Hampshire-Quebec border.
I'm in the sort of, and also the Vermont-Quebec border.
I'm in that kind of little triangle.
The big border crossings are in Vermont.
New Hampshire's just got one sort of tiny little border crossing.
But the big Vermont border crossings aren't actually that big.
And that bothers the United States government.
It allocated in the stimulus package $5 million for a border crossing at Morse's Line, Vermont.
And what they would have done with this $5 million, they would have upgraded the border post to a two-story facility and widened the road to take eight lanes of traffic.
Morse's line border crossing averages two cars an hour.
What do they need eight lines of traffic for?
Eight lanes, so that's two cars an hour.
So let's say we take one car, each car has its own lane per hour.
So that's one car in lane one, one car in lane two, and that leaves six lanes for customs and border protection officials.
Also, also, they were getting, apart from the eight lanes of traffic, in their new two-story facility, they would have had their own fitness center.
They don't need a fitness center in the building because they'd have six lanes of empty traffic to go bowling in if they wanted to.
That is one small example of how everywhere you look in federal government spending, there is grotesque diseased waste going on.
And you couldn't, I thought this image, this sleepy little US-Canadian border crossing, where you'd have had the new two-story facility, Uncle Sam would have had his eight lanes of traffic and his new two-story facility with the purpose-built fitness center sitting opposite the Queen's little one-room shack on the other side.
That you couldn't have actually had a better example of out-of-control, spenderholic Obama-era federal government than that.
But there's actually an even better one than that, and that's, I think it's in a Montana town called Whitetail, where there's not just two cars an hour, there's fewer than five cars a day.
And they were supposed to be getting an $8.5 million upgrade, stimulus upgrade, in order to serve 30 cars crossing that border post a week.
And as I said, that would have been even better than the big facility, the eight lanes of traffic for Uncle Sam sitting opposite the Queen's little one-room shack on the other side of the border in the Vermont-Quebec border.
At the Montana crossing, Ottawa noticed that this border crossing was also only getting five cars a day.
So instead of lavishing $8.5 million on it, they announced they were going to close the border.
They were going to close that border post.
The United States government was going to spend $8.5 million on a border post to nowhere.
And that, again, is the perfect image of spendaholic government in the Republic of Twilight.
An $8.5 million purpose-built express checkout with nowhere to go on the other side.
This is why August the 3rd, I would love it if there was no debt ceiling deal.
And on August the 3rd, every little item of federal expenditure had to be justified because this waste is sick.
It's sick and decadent.
And you can't go on like this.
Nobody's doing it on this scale.
We look at the Greeks and we laugh at the Greeks.
We look at the Portuguese.
We laugh at the Portuguese.
We look at the Spaniards.
Laugh at them.
All these Mediterranean layabouts.
You look at the numbers.
You look at the numbers of the Mediterranean layabouts.
The T-word isn't involved.
Trillion isn't involved.
Trillion was a word, trillion was a word that was of no use to anyone except astronomers until a couple of years ago.
The T word, trillion, was something to do with however many lightly years this particular planet was from Earth.
That's the only context in which anybody used it.
The Democrats mainstreamed trillion.
They normalized it.
You know, Obama says millionaires, he wants to increase taxes on millionaires because millionaires can afford to pay more.
No, the problem isn't the millionaires.
The problem is the first class of trillionaire politicians in the Republic's history.
That's Obama.
That's Harry Reid.
That's Barney Frank.
That's Nancy Pelosi.
The first trillionaire politicians in American history.
And the Republicans should be the party for putting the T word in mothballs, for putting the T word, burying it, driving a stake through the T word and burying it and salting the earth and saying, no, we're going back to the days.
We're going back to the days when we only had deficits in B word, in billions, when budgets were with B words, billions.
We're going to restore this country to a billion-dollar republic.
The nightmare of trillionaire politicians, the first generation of trillionaire politicians, is over.
We're going to drive a stake through that word and you're not going to hear it again because there is no way.
There is no way it can be afforded.
We've got to come up with now, the ratings agencies have just told us, we've got to come up with $4 trillion worth of savings, real savings, within three months, or U.S. Treasury debt will be downgraded.
And how does the joke president respond?
Because he's busy getting ready for his 50th birthday party and recording his 50-minute birthday address and getting ready for the special 50th birthday performance of more, more, more.
How do you like it?
How do you like it?
So he can't take too much time on this.
So he says his one specific proposal is that he's going to increase the eligibility of Social Security from 65 to 67 by the year 2036.
That's it.
You think that's going to be enough?
Think that's going to save $4 trillion in three months?
Do you think that's going to be enough to prevent a downgrade of U.S. Treasury debt?
There's no money on the planet to afford the trillionaire class.
The trillionaire class.
Obama, Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Dick Durbin, Barney Frank, the first generation of trillionaire politicians in the Republic's history.
It's time to bury that word.
Mark Stein for Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein for is this more borrow?
How do you like it?
Yeah, I don't think I've heard this in decades.
Who is it?
The Andrea True Connection?
Is that who did it?
Oh, there we go.
More, more, more.
How do you like it?
How do you like it?
Yeah, more, more, more.
How do you like it?
How do you like it?
This should be the national anthem for the Obama era.
I think to mark his 50th birthday, we should make more bore.
How do you like it?
How do you like it?
The new national anthem of the United States.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Seide for Rush.
Open Line Friday.
Let us go.
Let's go to Ron in Claremont, Florida.
Ron, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Mark.
How are you?
Definitely my favorite guest host.
Oh, well, there's damning with feign praise.
But I'll take what I could get.
Yes, I have a quick question, and then something that maybe you can help me out with.
Just a little concern, okay?
My question is: what kind of approach do you think it's going to take to beat Obama in the next election?
Do you think, I mean, would it have to be more like a Steve Wynn and Donald Trump approach?
Because it almost seems to me like everybody that's stepped up is afraid of Obama.
I mean, that's just what it seems like to me.
But the only two people that have ever really come forward are Trump and Wynn and called it like they've seen it.
Well, you know, I'll say this about Donald Trump.
And this is why people liked the, you know, the 20 minutes while he was running for president.
Trump isn't a conservative in any sense.
And his idea that somehow the problems of the United States are China's fault, that's ridiculous.
China didn't say, hey, you guys run up a $15 trillion debt.
We did that to ourselves.
We did it to ourselves.
And understanding that is the first step toward dealing with it.
So Trump is not anybody's idea of a conservative.
But what conservatives loved about Trump for the 20 minutes he was in the race was the way he just clobbered Obama.
He didn't care about being respectable and being house-trained.
And, you know, that's what I think that's what people want in a candidate.
They want to see Obama on the ropes.
Obama reeling.
Obama, where's your plan?
You stand there in front of the teleprompter and all the pansies in the media say, oh, yes, he's proposed a $4 trillion plan.
No, you didn't.
You read out the number, $4 trillion off the track.
That's not the same.
Put a piece of paper.
Come on.
Just one piece of paper outlining your plan.
Where's your plan?
Where's your plan?
And conservatives, conservatives, what they enjoyed about Trump was the tone.
They enjoyed the way he was secure enough in himself not to worry what the media thought about him, not to care about whether they asked him back on to meet the press.
He just basically decided he was going to battle this campaign on his terms.
And I think that's the way to put it.
I think a guy like Steve Wynn, when Steve Wynn says this guy's the biggest wet blanket on the economy ever, I think they're the terms we should frame it in.
I was a bit worried.
You know, I thought John Boehner, given the absurdity of the situation, which as Rush puts it, is basically because the Democrats don't have any plans, we're basically watching Republicans negotiate between themselves with various shades of Republican plan.
And I thought John Boehner, tonally, I think tonally, John Boehner should be far ruder about a president of the United States facing a downgrade in Treasury debt.
And he can't even type double-spaced one sheet of paper with a plan on.
He's got zillions of aides sitting around with nothing else to do.
And none of them, none of them can sit there and get out the old keyboard and type up a one-page plan.
Boehner, that's why people like Donald Trump.
It was a tonal thing.
And I think you're right there, Ron, that actually somebody who puts the Democrats on the ropes and who makes them defend this stuff in conservative terms, I think would be one.
So I'm with you on that.
Is there anyone looming that meets that description?
Well, I don't, you know, I don't really know Mr. Stein, but I mean, you know, Perry and Michelle Bachman, but it's almost like they just, I mean, they just hold back.
I mean, from what I understand, the only two people who have come out and called it like they've seen it was Trump and Mr. Wynn the other day.
Yeah.
But you know, I think that's because Steve Wynn lives in the real world.
And if you live in the real world, even if you're a Democrat, you know, like as he said, he voted for Harry Reid.
But he's got a big bunch of buildings that he's losing money on unless they're full of people gambling and listening to the music acts in his showroom and eating in his restaurants and staying in his hotels.
And, you know, you need an economy.
You need an economy for that.
Nobody in Iowa is going to take a vacation in Vegas when the economy heads south in January 2013 when Obama's elected and all the tax cuts, all the tax increases and extra regulation and EPA burdens that he's put a two-year delay on until after his re-election, when all that stuff kicks in in 2013, Steve Wynn's hotels, Steve wins casinos, Steve wins restaurants, Steve Wynn's showrooms are going to be even emptier.
And that's why this guy is in the real world in a way that even a conservative member of the full-time political class isn't, because these guys never wander in.
You know, a politician never wanders into the legislature and says, oh, gee, nobody's here.
Everybody's left.
Nobody can afford to come here anymore.
Steve Wynne gets that, and he's secure enough in his sense of self to be able to say it.
And I want whoever runs for the Republican nomination to match that tone, to put it in real terms like that, and not to be cowed by Obama in the way that too many Republican politicians are.
More to come.
Yes, it's Obama's 50th birthday party music on the Rush Limbaugh Show today.
Rush returns live Monday at 12 midday Eastern.
He's at the funeral of a friend, Myra Kraft, in Massachusetts today.
He would have been here today following the ongoing debt so-called negotiations, but they're likely to go on Monday, so he won't really miss anything.
He'll be back Monday to take you through the next interminable stage of the so-called grand bargains before America's looming date with destiny, August the 2nd.
August the 2nd, the debt ceiling collapses.
We have mass default.
We have downgrading.
We have the collapse of the dollar.
But not to worry, because August the 3rd is Obama's 50th birthday party, so we can all party on.
And you just know, you just know that the media are going to be celebrating the good times at the Obama 50th birthday party rather than the societal collapse going on all around us.
The Ecuadorian authorities say they've seized 357 dead sharks from a boat that was fishing illegally in the Galapagos Islands National Park.
357 dead sharks.
That's like amazing for what is presumably a pretty average-sized Ecuadorian fishing boat.
I love the way, by the way, sharks have changed from being this predator to now being this species that we protect.
I notice the new James Bond films, nobody gets tossed into a shark tank anymore.
I don't know whether that's something that Daniel Craig insisted on when he took over the role.
Daniel Craig, he's a big Obama supporter.
He said that Obama would make a great James Bond because he, I think, what was his quote?
Because he'd be quite willing to quite literally look the enemy in the eye and go toe-to-toe with them.
That was why Daniel Craig supported Obama.
Yeah, because he'd be willing to go to Blofell's secret lair in the hollowed-out volcano and deliver a 50-minute speech until Blofell surrendered and begged to be released.
Let me out of this volcano.
Obama won't stop talking.
But I noticed with the Daniel Craig thing that he never gets tossed into a shark tank anymore.
Maybe as an Obama supporter, he doesn't want that.
But maybe I would like to see a scene in the next James Bond movie where a poor old shark gets tossed into a tank of Democratic Party operatives.
You know, that would be real.
I mean, maybe that would just be too bloody and hideous for them to see.
But I think that would be an interesting twist in the next Bond movie if they toss a shark into a tank of Democratic Party operatives.
Let's go to John in Crofton, Maryland.
John, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Thanks for waiting.
How are you doing, Mark?
You bring me back to my college days in Hanover.
I guess you're in New Hampshire, right?
You're a Dartmouth man, are you?
Players are 62.
Next year will be my 50th reunion.
The president is going to turn 50.
I feel like I could have been his father.
I think I probably would have gone to pay.
Please, please, we don't need any new birth of conspiracies right now.
So if you've got the long-form birth certificate, keep it to yourself on there.
We don't want any paternity suits in the county court in Maryland.
Speaking about birth certificates, I think Donald Trump, that was his big single issue.
They came out with, they produced some kind of a longer form birth certificate.
But you know, when you buy the Mona Lisa or anything that has to be validated, you go to Sotheby's or Christie's and you say, hey, is this the original piece of paper over here in Honolulu?
Is this paper 50 years old or not?
But they know that.
That's right.
Providence.
Provenance is the most important thing when you're going to buy a painting at Sotheby's or whatever.
Now, I don't know whether you're going to your 50th anniversary at Dartmouth, but you will find the place, I think, has changed from the Dartmouth menu.
Hey, let me tell you.
You know, Tim Geithner, our Secretary of the Treasury, he's a graduate from there.
And Jeff Immelt, the head of GE, big buddy, big crony of the president, he's a graduate from there.
And I know where it's gone.
It's gone to hell, for Christ's sake.
I don't give him any money anymore.
Well, there should be more of you like that because actually that's the one way these guys, one way these guys get the message.
The Tea Party, by the way.
Yeah, that's a better way I do.
The president, I'm down outside of Washington, D.C., and the president, whenever he wants to take a break and he doesn't go golfing, he goes to some school where these heads full of mush, these young people that support him will just look at him in awe.
But he went to the University of Maryland this morning, and I understand his big message was he wants to raise taxes in this new negotiation.
And Rush said, watch out.
Don't let him raise taxes.
That'll mean that the Republicans lost.
And so this reminds me of a Ponzi scheme.
This guy has got to take in new money, as in any pyramid scheme.
And I'm Italian-American, by the way, and I think we should stop calling it a Ponzi scheme because that was small potatoes.
You got Bernie Madoff sitting in jail because he had a Ponzi scheme, and he was dealing in billions.
Now you've got a president that's got a Ponzi scheme dealing in trillions in our future.
And so we ought to call this the Obama scheme.
Yeah, yeah.
And you are right.
In fact, this is a Bernie Madoff kind of operation because if you look at the government entitlements, the government does not have the money to honor the commitments it's made.
That's basically what Obama's saying that when he said, oh, no, Granny's going to get it on August the 3rd, the day of my birthday, I'll be having a great time, but she won't get her Social Security check that month because we got nothing.
And Bernie Madoff was doing that.
Bernie Madoff was doing that, and he's sitting in jail now.
That guy is going to die in jail.
But the United States government, along with states and municipalities, which have made commitments and pledges and promises and guarantees that they cannot honor, they ain't going to be going to jail.
You're right, we should change it from a Ponzi scheme.
We should find a new governmentalized term for that because it is the all-time greatest thing.
And the idea, by the way, that we're going to have new taxes, any new taxes in this economy will be a defeat for the Republicans.
What don't they get about this?
Nobody's hiring anyone because the cost of hiring an American worker is too high.
The cost in what you take on board in terms of regulation, in terms of what you take on taxation, in terms of what you take on healthcare commitments and insurance commitments, and the idea that now is the time to say, no, we're going to tax you even more, and you're going to, because you have to pay your share.
Where do they get this idea?
Where does a rich guy spend money?
A rich guy goes into restaurants and orders a meal, and he tips the waiter.
So when you say to the rich guy, no, you won't be able to go to the restaurant because we're taking more of your money, what's that going to do to the waiter's tips?
This idea, corporate tax is another good example of this.
Corporations don't pay tax.
Every single dollar that a corporation pays in tax has to be fished out of a real-life human being's hands, whether it's a stockholder, whether it's an employee, whether it's a customer.
There's a real person, a corporation, articles of incorporation sitting in the bottom desk drawer at the desk in the corner of the president's office.
A corporation doesn't pay any tax.
Every dollar of tax that a corporation pays has to be pulled out of the pocket of a real-life human being.
And yet half the country is still falling for this.
Oh, he's not raising taxes.
He's only raising taxes on corporations.
I mean, they're not like people, are they?
He's only raising taxes on rich people.
Who do rich people spend their money on?
They pay poor people.
Who hires poor people?
Rich people hire poor people.
And the fact that this guy is even, you said at this school in Maryland this morning, he was just talking about raising taxes again.
Is that right, John?
Sir.
Well, then he's out of his mind.
That's the point I was making about when I was comparing it to the headlines in Ireland and in Germany and in Greece and in Portugal and in Spain.
Because those guys, those guys have got the message that government has to tighten its belt.
I don't know whether they mean it.
They don't want to do it.
They're all big spenders.
But they're not going out and saying, hey, no, we don't have a spending problem.
We just need a few more taxes and that'll solve everything.
That was the Obama message in Maryland, right?
That's what it was.
Hey, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, she said a while back that the president owns this economy.
I think that's what John Boehner and Eric Canner and even Mitch McConnell, if he can open his mouth, that's what they ought to tell him, and they shouldn't negotiate with him anymore.
This guy is supposed to be coming up with a plan.
The only plan he has is called a Ponzi scheme, and he's out high-falutinated again.
He lives high on the hive while the rest of the country, our standard of living, has gone down so bad that people are getting depressed.
They're committing suicide.
This is a hell of a thing.
This is the death of the American dream.
That's absolutely a good way to put it.
There isn't going to be an American dream.
This will be the first generation in American history to bequeath the certainty of poorer, meaner, shrunken, shriveled lives to the next generation.
And that should be a point of shame to the people who did this to us.
That, by the way, is the rather dramatic portion of my forthcoming book deals with that.
Essentially, the end of the American dream.
Look around you.
Look around you.
This is as good as it gets because your children and your grandchildren are going to be in smaller homes, in smaller cars, without the economic opportunities.
And the American dream won't have any meaning.
It'll be some phrase from a lost world, lost world, like date farmers in 19th century Nazarea, who vaguely remember that the great ziggurat of Ur is buried around here somewhere.
It'll be a fading memory of lost grandeur, that phrase.
Thanks for your call, John.
Lots more to come.
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The death toll in Norway is mounting, and the helpers of Global Jihad, so-called, are walking back their claim that they were responsible for it.
Mark Stein, Open Line Friday.
Let's go to Jan in Houston, Texas.
Jan, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Mark.
It's great to talk to you.
You're my favorite guest host, and I love your humor.
You have to have a chuckle as we go over the Niagara Falls in a barrel and head towards the rocks at the bottom.
What's on your mind today, Jan?
I'd like to eliminate all the czars.
I'd like to eliminate three-fourths of Michelle's staff.
Right.
Now, how many people are that?
I think the last time I saw her, I think she has a staff of, is it 24, 24?
I thought it was 40-something.
Oh, you may be right.
Maybe I'm defining it narrowly.
And you may be, and I think that's right.
I mean, on what constitutional basis does the first lady have a staff of 40?
What for?
She has no constitutionally defined responsibilities.
It's not an official position.
She just happens to be the person who's married to the chief executive.
Why is that something that the taxpayers should pay for?
Well, I mean, I could see her having a personal shopper and a nanny and maybe a hairstylist and a makeup artist or a nail tech, but that would leave her with approximately six people to take care of her calendar and social media.
No, I'm way beyond you on that.
I don't think.
I think this is the wrong way to look at it because life's been good to me and I've met enough kings and queens over the years and princes and so forth.
I met Queen Elizabeth, I met the Queen of the Netherlands, I met the Queen of Spain.
These are queens, right?
These are people who are born into royal houses and they do not live as grandly and with the level of expectation as the First Lady of the United States does.
In other words, if you're in the average continental royal house and you want to get a haircut, you call a hairdresser.
You don't go to the hair salon and sit there reading People magazine until she's ready to cut your hair, but the hairdresser comes to you.
You don't need a hairdresser on staff.
This is just the wrong way.
This is the wrong way of looking at it.
You go back to what Mamie Eisenhower had to make do with.
In those days, in Mamie Eisenhower's day, the White House, the first lady just had a social secretary and that was it.
The idea that there's this big bloating.
Well, wait.
Oh, now, Mr. Snirdley is saying we don't want to go back to First Ladies.
That is most ungallant of you, Mr. Snuddley.
So you're now saying it's a national reputation thing.
We've got to pay what it takes to get.
I don't want to even.
I mean, I think I made the point, Jan, yesterday that I thought that if the TSA has made planes as secure, so secure that if they're now going through the crotches of every six-year-old girl who tries to board an American airline.
those planes must be the safest places on the planet.
So why can't the President of the United States fly commercial?
I mean, no other.
This is not.
I found myself on a plane not so long ago talking to some guy, and I said, oh, what is it?
You know, he's making a bit of chit-chat.
He said, what do you do?
I said, oh, I'm a writer.
I said, what do you do?
And he says, I'm the president of Costa Rica.
And the idea that somehow you can only go anywhere, you can only move around with this vast medieval entourage is, I think, is, I think, ridiculous.
There's absolutely no need for it.
And three-quarters of Michelle Obama's staff is a good place to start.
And what was the other thing you suggested, Jan?
Well, we said cut out the czars, eliminate three-fourths of our staff, and I'd like to see them have stay-at-home vacations at Camp David.
They call it vacations.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, you mean you don't want her on wherever it was the Costa Brava last summer where they have to close the beach and they're at the most expensive hotel in Spain and they've got 128 Secret Service guys booking every room in the hotel.
Okay, I think you're also right about the Tsars.
The Tsars are un-Republican.
The Tsars are unaccountable.
America should not be dancing with the Tsars at this point in history.
So, Jan, you are right on that.
And thank you for your call.
Open line Friday, Mark Stein in Farash.
Rush has been attending a funeral in Massachusetts today, but he will be back live, 12 midday Eastern Time, 9 a.m. Pacific, this Monday.
More in a moment.
Mark Stein in Farash.
It's been great.
I didn't expect to be here today.
This third appearance of the week was very sudden and last minute, but it is always, always a great honor to be here, even in these perilous times for the Republic.
And that's why I sometimes can sound a little hysterical when I'm talking about this stuff, but that's because I'm an immigrant.
I've seen how this stuff plays out in other countries, and I don't want to see it play it out here.
I came here for the American dream.
The American dream is the opportunity to live your life to the fullest potential.
And that's what's being crushed by the size of the state, by the size of the government Leviathan.
It ensures you cannot live your life to its fullest potential, and that has disastrous consequences.
So I always enjoy being here, but don't forget the man himself, Rush Limbaugh, the indispensable voice of American conservatism.
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