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Aug. 31, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 31, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #2
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And the way, folks, before we get back to this scam that Obama's running on his joint speech, I want to point something out to you.
Poor little Vermont, poor little Vermont is getting really hammered by the worst of the flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene.
You know what I want to know?
You know, there aren't very many black people that live in Vermont.
I want to know if Obama steered the storm there to punish the white people in Vermont.
I know they're all Democrats there, and I know they're all socialists and liberals, but I remember how Bush steered Hurricane Katrina to New Orleans to get all the black people out of there.
And I'm just wondering if this isn't Obama payback.
I remember, I remember hearing in the mainstream media how Bush steered Hurricane Katrina to New Orleans.
And I just think it's only fair to ask if Obama steered Hurricane Irene and the aftermath of the flooding to the state of Vermont.
Well, it's a legitimate question because I just remember hearing the mainstream media saying that about Bush.
Don't you?
So once it's been established that presidents steer hurricanes, we didn't know they had that power to where we're told Bush did it.
So obviously there is somewhere in the White House you can steer a hurricane.
And little old Vermont, there are no black people there.
Greetings and welcome back, folks.
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Well, what started off as a very quiet, really nothing extraordinary about it program other than this Congressional Black caucus guy saying that Republican Tea Partyers want to lynch blacks.
I mean, other than that, it was kind of a low-key day.
And now this rank amateur Obama has just announced his jobs plan, a speech.
Another speech.
That's his jobs plan.
And I'm going to guarantee you something, folks.
Whenever he gives this speech, it's not going to be about jobs.
It's going to be about government getting bigger.
It's going to be about government spending.
It's not going to have a thing to do with jobs.
It's a spending plan.
It's a taxing plan.
It's a print money plan.
It's a borrowing plan.
What I want to know is, how does Obama justify a joint session in the first place for this?
Now, if you're just joining us, you're a welfare recipient, you're just getting out of bed, you don't know that the Republicans scheduled another debate for September the 7th at the Reagan Library.
It so happens to be the first Republican debate that Rick Perry will be part of.
So this morning, the White House announced, shortly after the show began, shortly after 12 noon today, the White House announced that they want a joint session of Congress for Obama to announce his big job savings plan or creating plan on the same night and at practically the same time, 8 p.m.
Now, you may not know this, but John Boehner, the Speaker of the House, can reject this request.
Just because a president asks for this, he has not automatically granted it.
And Boehner should say, Mr. President, I'm not going to assist you in your political games.
You didn't consult me before you publicly issued this date.
You are obviously trying to disrupt the plans at the Reagan Library.
You're going to have to learn if you really want to work together as you keep claiming, Mr. President.
Then it's going to be up to us to show you how it's done.
And if you want a joint session here to date, September 6th, September 8th, September 9th, September 10th, or even if you want to come up here on September 11th and talk about volunteerism.
And by the way, if I were Boehner, you know what I would also say?
I'd say you can have a joint session when your party and you present a budget to us.
We've gone over 800 some odd days without a budget from your party.
Otherwise, no joint session.
This really is amateur politics.
This is not something that a genuine president of the United States would do.
This is really amateur.
And snurdly, you know, trying to stir it up in the last hour.
So, well, you think that, you know what the media is going to say?
The media is going to say, would Boehner turn Obama down if he weren't black?
Would he turn Clinton down?
Would he turn Bush down?
Well, he would never have to turn down Bush or Clinton because they got enough class not to do something like this.
If I may be so blunt, this is intended to disrupt the Republican debate.
It's intended to make Obama look bigger than the Republicans, to look bigger than politics.
And this is part of the presidential election campaign, and the House Republicans are going to have to realize they are part of it.
And this guy, this president, is I know what's going to happen.
Somebody's going to tell Boehner, and it's going to be a Republican.
It's going to be a member of the Republican pundit class.
Somebody in the intelligentsia, some people smarter than we have, somebody is going to write a piece or post a blog and say, Mr. Boehner, Mr. Boehner, you are going to send the independents running right back to Obama if you don't demand, if you don't grant him this speech.
Because all the American people care about right now is jobs.
They don't care about the Reagan Library.
They don't care about the Republican presidential debate.
All they care about is jobs.
And if you tell the president that he can't come up on the date he wants, you're just going to send independents running back.
That's what they're going to say to him.
That's how they're going to try to intimidate Boehner by claiming the independents will hate this and that the independents will abandon the Republican Party.
So it's easy for me.
I'm not an elected official.
I'm not the Speaker of the House.
And it's easy for me to sit here and tell you what I would do.
No fallout will happen to me, but I still would do it.
Because this is not going to be a jobs plan.
And ABC News, this is why, by the way, tens of millions of Americans cannot stand the media in this country.
ABC News is reporting that Obama wants to address a joint session that the House Speaker has not responded yet.
That's what they said.
Not a single word about Obama asking for the same day and time as a Republican debate at the Reagan Library.
No, no, no.
Their news story, the ABC news story, is that Boehner hasn't responded yet.
So what Obama's doing here is demonstrating what he does not have, class.
I'm sure over at the White House, they're laughing about this.
I'm sure they think this is all funny.
I think they think it's great.
They got the Republicans all tied up in knots here.
And I'll bet you he and his advisors are laughing and having the biggest time behind the scenes.
And so are their supporters.
So are the kook fringe on the blog.
So are all the Democrats, Pelosi, you name it, Harry Reid.
They're all having the grandest time.
But there isn't anything presidential about this.
Here's Jay Carney at the White House this afternoon during a Q ⁇ A, a reporter at Said the timing of this speech.
Mr. Carney, there's a Republican debate that night in California.
Did the White House specifically choose that date and time?
No, of course not.
There were a lot of considerations that once you decide you want to do a speech to Congress and you have to deal with congressional schedules.
There are many other factors here.
And obviously one debate of many that's on one channel of many was not enough reason not to have the speech at the time that we decided to have it.
Yeah.
Got a big factor here.
One debate, one channel versus our job speech?
No.
What do you mean, coincidence?
Pure coincidence.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Strategy behind this whatsoever.
What network is carrying that debate?
I need to find out what network is carrying the next Republican debate.
Fox had the last one.
I want to find out what network Obama wants to screw here is essentially what I want to find.
NBC, NBC has the debate.
They won't mind.
They won't mind because Obama's sending them boatloads of money over there at GE and so forth.
Yeah, they're down for the struggles.
No big deal.
That's fine with them, I'm sure.
I keep wanting to go to the phones and they keep breaking news on me out there.
Here's Jay Carney at the White House.
He's getting grilled.
Carney is getting grilled from the press corps on the fact that Obama has chosen the same date as a Republican debate at the Reagan Library for his jobs speech, request a joint session of Congress.
So a reporter said, look, I'm wondering if you're at all concerned by him delivering the speech at the same time at the debate, that he's somehow depriving Americans out of the community to get an educated opinion of these candidates.
Whatever the competing opportunities on television are, whether it's the, you know, the wildlife channel or the cooking channel or political.
But I would be, I wish that I could say that just compared to the wildlife journey.
What I mean is that would it were so that I could be sure simply by having the president of the United States speak at a certain hour that every American who's watching TV would be watching him.
I wish that were the case.
If the sponsors so chose and the candidates so chose to adjust the timing of their debates so that it didn't conflict, that would be completely fine with us in the spirit of democracy and that.
Yeah, it'd be fine with the arrogance here.
And of course, there's the press.
You heard the press laughing with the president's press secretary on his comparison of Republicans to the Wildlife Channel.
You compare to Republicans to wildlife.
Ha ha, well, yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
And then they go on to talk about the Republicans ought to move their debate.
So Obama has decided that a Republican debate doesn't merit the same attention as his speech.
Isn't that his way?
So, Mr. Carney, why couldn't the president give his great speech on Tuesday, Thursday, or Friday?
And what's so magical about the 7th?
Tell us, We can't do it on the 8th because that's the NFL opener.
Green Bay, New Orleans, on NBC.
Tell us why he can't just speak in front of the media any time of the day and night.
Doesn't need a joint session of Congress here to announce the jobs plan.
Mr. Carney, tell us why Martha's Vineyard was a good enough reason to delay Obama's great plan and speech.
Remember, Obama went on vacation and he said, I'm going to have my big jobs plan when I get back from vacation.
So it really wasn't urgent.
The vacation took precedence over the jobs speech for the second consecutive year.
Obama said the same thing last year.
I'm going to have a jobs proposal when I get back from Martha's Vineyard in my vacation.
He said that last year.
He said that this year.
So his vacation takes more precedence or takes precedence over his jobs speech.
Then, of course, they say that Obama is looking out for the nation, that politics can wait.
The Republican debate is just politics.
But Obama, he's looking out for the nation.
Well, this is all about politics.
It's all about Obama's massive ego, an ego that's obviously out of control.
He's got, let's see, he's got time for, what, 80 rounds of golf?
But now the only day, the only day and time he can speak to the nation is the exact day and time of the Reagan Library Republican debate.
Jay Carney, I don't know if the press briefing is still going on or not.
And I know he's not listening, but I still have a question.
Jay, what do you earn?
What's your integrity worth?
How much you paid to lie to the American people, Jay?
Because that's the price of your integrity.
Because you're just sitting there lying to the American people about all this on behalf, which is what Democrat press secretaries do.
Maybe Obama has fundraisers scheduled the other nights, and that's why maybe that's the only night open.
Because he got fundraisers.
But he can announce the jobs plan in a fundraiser.
The media is going to be wherever Obama goes.
Okay, let's go to the phones.
Because frankly, folks, I need a break.
And it's about time you people carried this show for at least a little while.
So where do we start?
Milwaukee.
Hey, Jerry, I'm glad you waited.
You're up first.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
I agree with you on the point that what that congressman from Indianapolis said was horrendous, deplorable.
Tea Party members don't want to lynch blacks.
I mean, that was over the top.
And I deplore that.
And I'm progressive.
I'm glad you do.
You officially deplore what Andre Carson said?
It's horrible.
It's one of the worst things I've ever seen.
I've heard that.
Jerry in Milwaukee, folks, I just want you to know Jerry Milwaukee officially deplores what Andre Carson said about the Tea Party wanting to lynch blacks.
Good for you, Jerry.
Good for you.
Okay, this is my disagreement with you.
Now, true, it was Democrats who supported things like segregation and lynching, but I think that's kind of simplistic because they're not the ideology.
Those Southern Democrats weren't progressives.
They weren't liberals.
What they were beholden to is a special brand of Christian fundamentalism religion, which opposed equality and equal rights for groups throughout our nation's history.
They opposed women's rights.
They oppose gay rights now.
And they oppose rights for blacks then.
Jerry, I don't care what they were.
They were Democrats, and they were lynching blacks.
They were opposed to the children.
The parties changed.
Look at historically, it was a Democrat Party to engage in all this discrimination back then.
It wasn't the Republicans.
You want to try to say that the Democrats of that day are now the Republicans of this day?
I'm saying that the ideology of the party changed.
You know, when Jay Carney gets canned, you need to apply for the job at the White House.
Rush, the ideology of the party changed.
The Republican Party is the Christian fundamentalist party.
They don't support segregation today, but they support a view of limited rights, especially for gays and the Christian fundamentalists at that time.
Wait a minute.
Are you saying that Christians are opposed to equality?
Christian fundamentalism, a very right-wing brand of Christianity, not all Christianity, are opposed to equality.
Yes, that's the thing that is opposed the right of women, blacks, and today, gays.
It's Christian fundamentalism.
But they are not opposed to the rights of women, and they're not opposed to the rights of gays.
You are taking what was a truth that is embarrassing to you as a Democrat, and you're trying now to transfer it to the modern era.
Well, you can't get away with it.
You're just absolutely wrong.
Christians ended the slavery in the U.K. and in the U.S. and around the world.
The Christian church has done more to advance equality than any other force in the history of the world, Jerry.
And you want to try to say that Christians are the big discriminators today?
I can't help how it makes you feel.
The Democrats lynched blacks in the old South.
It was the Democrats that were opposed to civil rights.
It was Al Gore's dad.
It was J. William Fulbright.
It was any number of them.
Human Talmudge.
Ernest Hollings.
Lester Maddox, George Wallace, Bull Connor.
Now, you want to try to tell me they are the Republicans of the day?
You call and tell me when they switch parties.
After you look it up, Mary in Baltimore, welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Hi, Rush.
I first heard you in 1988 when I was sailing down the coast to California, and I was so happy that there was a voice for us.
Well, thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
What I wanted to say was they ran to the telephone today because the Obama regime is a criminal enterprise, equal to the mafia or Al Capone.
They're just operating, and they're flaunting the law.
They're flouting the law, whatever.
This AT ⁇ T thing, it's just pushing their power around.
It's AT ⁇ T.
It's the new Black Panther Party case.
It's wanting to give Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his cronies a multi-party.
It was a raid on the Gibson Guitar Company yesterday, or this week, whatever it was.
It's just a warning to all companies.
That is interesting because the guy that runs Gibson is a Republican donor.
He gets raided for using wood that's somehow rare and protected.
A Democrat owner of a guitar company making the same kind of wood donates to Obama, doesn't get raided.
And people are asking, there's a posted, I forget, National Review Online or something.
Really?
Is it as simple as that, that this regime will target opponents who don't, yeah, it is that simple.
Gibson's also non-union.
So I can understand.
If you want to call this a bunch of thugocracy, I can understand where you're coming from.
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You know what's funny about all this?
You know, this choosing the same date as the Republicans.
On one hand, I have to marvel at it.
I mean, it's a kind of practical joke I would play.
It's a high school prank.
It's the kind of thing that you and your buddies conceive of and you sit there and you laugh at, but it's not a presidential.
There's no other president that would do this.
But it's a great prank.
And I know that Obama and his advisors are, they're probably popping some corks.
I mean, I am sure that they think they have just hit a grand slam home run.
They're in the White House right now laughing about this.
They probably got this show on.
They're probably going to listen to Limbaugh get all exercised about that.
It's this great man.
Whoever came up with this idea.
Give him a raise.
But it's not classy.
This is not at all commensurate with the office.
See, folks, I got to take a swig of water here.
Hang on a second.
And I didn't make the noise because I have no manners.
I did it so that you would know I was doing it.
Just dead air.
People panic over it.
The fact of the matter is that there's nothing that Obama can do to create jobs.
Nothing.
No, he's not creating jobs.
In fact, I've got the plan here.
The National Journal's published a plan.
The only thing Obama can do is to stop doing things that are destroying job creation.
If he were really going to announce a jobs bill, you know what he would tell us?
Things he's going to stop.
Regulations he's going to roll back.
Agenda items that he is going to cease.
There's nothing he can do to grow the private sector.
He doesn't know the first thing about it anyway.
Now, according to the National Journal, these are probably going to be included in the jobs speech.
And they probably know, I'm sure this is where F. Chuck Todd used to work.
So I'm sure they got a pipeline in there.
Create an infrastructure bank, renew payroll tax cuts, implement a new higher tax credit of about $2,500, which is not going to appeal to any small businessman with a brain.
Extend unemployment benefits.
Create a tax credit for hiring returning veterans.
Ratifying pending trade deals.
Reforming the patent process.
Provide aid for teachers.
Improve rural internet connections.
Provide job training for the long-term unemployed.
Fund renovations of schools.
I guess that would occur at the infrastructure bank.
Provide incentives for private sector engagement.
I don't know what that means.
Boosting energy-related jobs.
Funding cash for caulkers.
This is what the National Journal says is the jobs program.
And not only is it not a jobs program, it's a pretty pathetic campaign platform because nothing's new.
There's not a damn thing in that list or the National Journal that's new, which is exactly what I predicted would happen.
I hate to do this.
I hate to say I told you this.
I hate to, but this is just going to be doubling or tripling down on the stimulus.
A laundry list of items the Republicans will reject.
And that will form the basis of the campaign.
Powell, Wyoming.
Mike, thank you for calling, sir.
Great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hello.
Hey, black and gold dittos, Rush.
Thank you, sir.
Just wondered what George Stephanopoulos' sudden love of Mitt Romney last night on his program portrayed Perry as evil, and he loves Mitt Romney now.
And you were saying with Rick Perry's first, you know, being on the panel for the debates, I just wonder, you know, is this all coordinated?
Or are they laughing?
Or is it true coordination?
Are they really going to try and prop up Romney just because Rick Perry is scaring him so bad?
Or I just wanted to get your feelings on that.
They're scared of Perry.
They are scared to death of Perry.
They are petrified of Perry.
They'll always tell us who they fear.
They're not worried about Romney.
They think they can beat Romney.
They also think that they can scare Romney into being a little bit more compliant and less combative with Obama.
I don't think they think that about Perry.
I think they are very much concerned about Perry, just as they are very much concerned about Sarah Palin.
That's what they're telling us here.
So transparent as he can be if he's sidling up to Romney right now.
I mean, your interpretation, that's right on the money.
You know exactly what that's about.
The images, the guns, and the move to California if you support gay marriage and all the other things that Georgie put on last night was just amazing how much he loves Mitt now.
Well, they got the same hair.
Romney and Perry have been telling who's really going to scare them.
I think so.
I think so.
I haven't, since you say you're watching Georgie, I haven't watched a network nightly newscast.
I can't tell you.
It's been years since I actually saw one.
So I have to listen to your report to find out what happened.
I didn't know.
I'm not afraid to admit this.
I did not know that Stephanopoulos all of a sudden fell in love with Mitt Romney.
Well, it doesn't surprise me.
Makes total sense.
It's totally understandable, given who they're really afraid of out there.
John in Indianapolis, hello, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Thanks, Rush.
Hey, real quick, I think Jerry from Milwaukee was taught by a union teacher.
Yeah.
Hey, earlier, you were speaking about Pelosi and Carson.
Quick factoid.
You remember the healthcare debate in its passage, of course, and you also remember Nancy Pelosi and her ginormous gavel walking through the crowd of tea partiers.
Right.
Yeah.
Well, guess who was one of the clowns hanging on her arm escorting her through that crowd?
Well, let me see.
There was John Lewis.
And Andre Carson.
And, of course, you remember the ensuing racial debate that followed that.
Yeah, yeah.
This is somebody supposedly, the Tea Party, supposedly spitting and shouting the N-word and stuff, and yet nobody could find it on video.
I had forgotten that that was Andre Carson on the other side of Pelosi with John Lewis.
So this is nothing new for Mr. Carson.
And on top of that, what is he going to say to Alan West next time he sees him?
Well, Alan West is quitting the CBC.
Well, okay.
Okay.
Well, then how about Herman Cain?
I don't think you'd ever run into Herman Cain.
When would Andre Carson run into Herman Cain?
I really, I did see it.
I didn't print it out somewhere here.
I've got it on my stack here that Alan West is going to resign the Congressional Black Caucus.
I remember he said when he was first elected to Congress, he's going to join the Congressional Black Caucus.
Hey, it's Congressional Blacks.
I'm a Congressional Black.
I'll go in there.
I'll go to the meetings and I'll see what I can do.
Apparently, he has realized that there's not much he can do.
But the question has to be asked again.
He's thinking about leaving.
I guess it's not definite.
He's thinking about leaving the Congressional Black Caucus.
But I got to ask the question again.
Maxine Waters, Andre Carter, what's Adolphus Towns, all these guys?
I don't care.
one.
They have been in office for how many?
Barbara Lee, they're entrenched.
They have been in office for how many terms?
And yet their constituents, their districts, are experiencing some of the toughest economic times in the country, from unemployment to just general economic melees.
How can that be with all the power these people have, all the access to Obama, the Congressional Black Caucus has, how in the world can this be?
Many terms.
Maxine Water has been there forever.
And so has Jim Clyburn.
Eddie Bernice Johnson, Barbara Lee, and then Celin Jackson Lee.
And the Meek family.
I mean, they're all over the place there.
And yet every one of their districts, there is real economic suffering going on.
How can that be?
If you're just joining us, if you're a welfare recipient just waking up, Andre Carson is a member of the Congressional Black Caucus from Indiana.
And we uncovered tape from 10 days ago in Miami.
He said that the Tea Party, if they could have their brothers, would be lynching blacks.
They'd be hanging them from trees.
That's what the caller was calling about.
And then they went to Andre Carson's office.
Did you really mean to say that?
And they said, yep, we stand by it.
You look at all the nutrition cuts and the food cuts that this Tea Party people have engineered.
Yep.
And there, of course, have not been any nutrition cuts or food cuts.
They have any cuts, period.
Anyway, quick timeout.
You sit tight.
We'll be right back.
I don't know, folks.
I mean, you look at the news today and it runs the gamut of emotions.
Get this.
Standard and Poor's, the debt rating crowd.
Standard and Poor's has rated subprime mortgages higher than U.S. debt.
Standard and Poor is giving a higher rating to securities backed by subprime home loans than it assigns the U.S. government.
You know what?
I tell you what this does.
This sounds like some sort of payback going on.
This sounds like a war going on between Standard and Poor's and Obama.
Standard and Poor's is not backing down.
They came out and they downgraded our rating and then the regime comes out with their assaults on Standard and Poor's and Standard and Poor's go, oh, yeah, okay, let me tell you something.
Subprime mortgages are a better bet than you, Obama.
That's what I guarantee them to you, whoever is not, I think they got rid of the CEO at the S ⁇ P.
So whoever's not running it, you guys better look out the SEIU or some of Trump's gang, some of these union guys are going to be showing up on your front yard.
They've just said, Standard and Poor's just come out and said that subprime mortgages are a better bet than Obama.
And the S ⁇ P president was forced out while I was away last week.
I knew it happened.
John Conyers, Congressional Black Caucus, Detroit.
John Conyers, a lot of power.
And John Conyers, by the way, here's a guy who is chairman of a House committee.
What, judiciary?
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee during the debate and the vote on Obamacare who said, there's no way I'm going to read the bill.
We hire lawyers to tell us what it says.
I can't understand it.
Who's next?
Dave in West Covina, California.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Tara Dittos, Rush.
Yeah, that last caller, Jerry, said that the Democrats' views changed over time, and I think their tactics just changed.
They realized that it was easier to pull blacks and minorities down with promises of welfare and food stamps than it was to push them down with things like that.
I think you are exactly right.
It's been easier to keep them on the plantation with a bunch of welfare and getting and breaking up their families than it was to use violence.
I don't think there's any, I think you're exactly, I think the Democrat Party simply matured and changed tactics.
Look how they treat them as soon as they wander off the plantation.
Exactly right.
They had started lynching them.
Well, in an economic sense, yeah.
Political sense, yeah.
Oh, thanks.
Yeah, but he's not talking about that.
He's talking about what Democrats do to wayward Democrats who go off the reservation.
They don't really lynch them.
I don't want to get lost on this lynch business because Scarborough already has taken something way out of context that I said a year ago.
And I don't know if his memory's failing him or if he did it on purpose.
I'll play you a video in the next hour to tell you what I mean, show you what I mean.
But when we talk about modern-day lynching here, we're talking about political or high-tech or something.
But Dave's point here is that the Democrats have figured out a way that is totally nonviolent.
All of these welfare programs, all at war on this and a war on that, keeping people dependent, dumbing down their schools.
Ike's right on the button with that.
Jim in St. Augustine, Florida.
Hello, sir.
You're next.
Hi, Rush.
Mega Small Business Dittos from Florida.
Thank you, sir.
I think you're right on the money that Obama scheduling his job speech at the same time of the date proves that he'd be a great high school president.
Yeah.
But my take on it was a little different.
I think we should fight fire with fire and get as many people as we can to watch the debate.
And then when the debate ratings outdo the job speech, see how they sweat in.
Oh, well, look, I'm not going to get the first nail in the plank towards getting rid of Obama in 2012.
Look, don't misunderstand me.
I think Maynard ought to tell him no.
No.
You didn't consult me before you chose this date.
Here, you can use the 6th, the 8th, the 9th, the 10th, usually 11th if you want.
But we're busy on the 7th and deal with the fallout.
I don't know if both events happen on the same night.
You're going to have one network carrying the Republican debate, every other network carrying Obama.
It's going to be impossible to outrate Obama, just in terms of the number of networks.
You only got one versus many.
Biden, I like your way you're thinking.
Nevertheless, okay, folks, a new story.
New as of right now: San Francisco Bay Area Solar Company to declare bankruptcy.
President Obama touted the facility only a year ago.
Solyndra, major manufacturer of solar technology in Fremont, California, shut its doors shortly after it opened a massive $700 million facility.
It canceled plans for a public stock offering earlier this year and warned it'd be in significant trouble if federal loan guarantees didn't go through.
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