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Sept. 9, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 9, 2011, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, Mark Stein.
Honoured to be here.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Hey, Mike, you big shot guys in New York, what happened to the little ident that says, and now, ladies and gentlemen, sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
What happened to Johnny Donovan?
Where's he gone?
He went home.
That's great.
That's terrific.
Budget cuts.
The unemployment situation is getting crazy in America now.
They've just laid off the Rush Limbaugh show announcer.
That's how bad things are getting around here.
It was bad enough.
I was here the week, I think the week before last.
And if you recall, midway through the show, Mark Belling arrived to substitute for the pre-scheduled guest host to interview me about my new book.
And Mark Belling got a little out of control and started dropping in all his idents every 10 minutes.
You know, Mark Belling on the Mark Belling show.
And it took me a while to reassert control of the show.
And now I find that my little ident has been scrapped entirely and that Johnny Donovan has been laid off as part of Barack Obama's.
Oh, he apparently has arrived.
Oh, filling in for Rush Limbaugh.
Ladies and gentlemen, Mark Stein.
And they say the American Jobs Act isn't working.
We've just managed to, what's the phrase they use?
We've just managed to create or save Johnny Donovan's job.
He's back.
Well, it's and they said that American Jobs Act wouldn't work.
It's been less than 24 hours, but Obama's Jobs Act is doing an incredible thing.
Pass this bill.
Pass this bill, he's been demanding.
And next thing you know, not only is the Rush Limbaugh show announces jobs saved, but the EIB network hires one lucky foreigner for three hours of casual day labor.
So that's a second job created or saved right there.
Well, okay, I'm an illegal immigrant, so it doesn't show up in the statistics.
But let's face it, when the Border Patrol guy arrives to kick down the door and deport me, that'll be a third job created and saved.
And of course, many of the 40,000 people being laid off at Bank of America today will be needed to do new green jobs, printing large amounts of green paper for the half a trillion dollars that the American Jobs Act is going to cost.
So that's even more new jobs being created or saved right there.
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Mr. Snerdley is live with us in New York.
I'm at Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire, keeping an eye on the border because evidently since Barack Obama announced his new American Jobs Act, there were hundreds of thousands of Canadians attempting to get into this country.
And then they heard his speech and they all ran off in the opposite direction.
And we don't want a big stampede of Americans fleeing north to escape to.
We'll get into the Barack Obama American Jobs Act.
We'll get into his speech.
Frankly, getting into his speech is a lot easier than getting out of it.
His great thing, his great catchphrase is pass this bill, pass this bill now, which Mr. Snerdley said reminded him of Billy Mays.
He was the pitch man for what was it again?
Yeah, Oxy Claims, pass this bill.
If you call to pass this bill in the next 15 minutes, we will throw in a free Ginsu knife.
So you can slash your wrists if this speech hasn't wrapped up in the next 25 minutes.
Call 1-800 American Jobs Act now, and you can pass this bill.
Pass this bill.
Pass this bill now.
I think he's been training at some, what's it called?
The Actors Studio in New York.
The different inflections in pass this bill.
Pass this bill.
Pass this bill now.
Pass this bill now.
There is no bill.
That's even better.
We have to agree to his debad to pass the bill before we can find out what's in it.
There is no bill.
He hasn't put anything on paper.
That would be asking too much of him.
He's a guy.
It exists on the teleprompter.
It's somewhere there on the teleprompter.
But it doesn't exist in paper.
There is no bill.
You can't pass a teleprompter.
It's not in the U.S. Constitution.
By the way, if he'd been at the Constitutional Convention, he'd have been saying, pass this Constitution now.
And the other founding fathers would have been saying, wait a minute, you haven't written it yet.
There is no Constitution.
Pass this bill now.
Pass this bill.
There is no bill.
There's no half trillion dollars to cover the cost of it.
By the way, I do think that people say that Barack Obama does not learn from experience.
And clearly he does.
First time round for the first stimulus bill, he took just shy of a trillion dollars, tossed it out of the window into the Potomac and watched it float out to sea.
Now for Stimulus 2, son of stimulus, just when he thought it was safe to go back into the water, he's going to toss a mere half a trillion dollars out of the window into the Potomac and watch it float out to sea.
So I think this is the kind of bipartisan spirit that we can all get behind.
He could have gone for another full trillion dollars tossed into the Potomac and watched it float out to sea.
But instead he decided, no, he's going to be fiscally responsible by only tossing into the Potomac a half trillion dollars and watching it float out to sea.
Yeah, no, that will be stimulus three, Mr. Snerdley.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
Once this stimulus has failed, he will be back with stimulus three, which might be another half trillion.
It might be a mere quarter trillion dollars.
I mean, that's the thing.
You know, it's like the old Hollywood thing.
The sequel is never as good as the original.
They had a big trillion dollar budget for stimulus.
Now for stimulus two, the stimulus strikes back, they've got a mere half trillion dollar, half trillion dollar budget.
And this is fascinating to me where this half trillion dollars, just to get this figure in perspective, by the way, this is half a trillion dollars for a jobs bill right now.
Do you remember the debt ceiling?
It was in all the papers just a couple of weeks ago.
You must remember.
I think what was the big cutoff date?
Was it August or July?
For a while, it was everywhere.
August 2nd.
Yeah, that's right.
August 2nd, the first day.
It was also, wasn't it Obama's birthday?
It was either Ramadan.
Okay.
Ramadan, Obama's birthday.
Basically everything was August 2nd.
So he celebrated.
So we had this thing, increase the debt ceiling, got to increase the debt ceiling.
And in return for agreeing to an increase in the debt ceiling, the negotiators in Washington spend a month negotiating savings of $7 billion.
$7 billion in fiscal year 2012.
Now, if you were in your average advanced Western economic basket case, if you were in Greece or Iceland or Portugal, $7 billion would be a fair chunk of change.
But here, it's equivalent to what the government of the United States borrows every 30 hours.
So they spent a month negotiating savings of $7 billion.
Now, just to get that in perspective, after spending a month saving $7 billion from fiscal year 2012, Barack Obama gives a speech for 20 minutes and just adds another half trillion dollars to it.
So now we're not saving $7 billion.
We've added basically an extra half trillion dollars to the budget.
What happened to the $7 billion savings?
And he says, oh, not to worry about it.
Don't you worry about a thing.
Because he's asked the super congressional supercommittee, the super friends on the super Congress supercommittee, John Kerry and the gang, to add half, to cover the cost of the American Jobs Act by finding an extra half trillion dollars of savings.
They're pledged to save the, to cut out of the budget within the next 10 years a trillion and a half dollars.
By the way, that's less than half of what the United States federal budget spends in a single year.
So even if they succeed in doing that, we're still doomed.
We're still done for.
But now they've said to John Kerry and the super friends on the Super Congress Supercommittee, they've said, oh, but Obama's added another half trillion dollars.
So you've got to find $2 trillion worth of savings.
So you don't have to worry about anything because we'll still get to enjoy the $7 billion of savings in fiscal year 2012.
And it won't matter that we've added another half trillion dollars to the budget because in 2021, John Kerry and the super friends of the Super Congress Supercommittee will announce that they've managed to claw back half a trillion dollars in 2021.
This is American national government taken to new heights of absurdity.
Pass this bill!
Pass this bill now!
I demand, I'm calling upon you to pass this bill, pass this bill before the next time I say pass this bill, pass this bill, or the bill gets it.
I'm not, I mean it this time, pass this bill.
There is no bill and there is no money to pay for the bill.
There's nothing.
Oh, sorry, I'm laughing at him.
I'm laughing at him.
The Washington Post, I am laughing at him, and I regret that because the Washington Post, Dana Milbank, has said that it is inappropriate.
The president gave one of the most impassioned speeches of his lifetime.
And all Republicans did was laugh at him.
You should pass this jobs plan right away, said Obama.
Senators Bob Corker and Lindsey Graham chuckled.
Now, that's okay.
That's mildly disrespectful.
A chuckle.
A titter is okay.
A chuckle is okay.
But when you get to open guffaws and side-splitting, then you are just totally disrespecting this president.
Warren Buffett, quote, Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary, an outrage he has asked us to fix, Obama went on.
I'm sorry, I'm tittering now.
I'm actually more than tittering.
Yeah, I'm chortling.
I'm borderline guffawing, so this is totally disrespectful.
I'm going to try and get my chortle back down to a titter again.
Warren Buffett.
The only businessman Obama knows.
Actually, Warren Buffett must be the most quoted businessman by any president ever.
Obama mentions him all the time.
Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary.
An outrage he has asked us to fix.
Do you know why Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary, by the way?
The outrage he has asked Obama to fix.
Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary because he asked his highly paid accountants to arrange it that way.
He asked them to fix it so he pays less tax than his secretary.
And now he's asked Obama to fix the outrage of him paying less tax than his secretary.
Widespread laughter broke out on the GOP side of the aisle.
You only have to say the words.
Warren Buffett is a punchline now.
You try.
Obama goes out on stage and he goes, Warren Buffett.
People crack up.
They're falling in the aisle.
Pass this bill now.
Yeah, Warren, well, Warren Buffett, Mr. Snurdley, is a typical small businessman in the United States.
You're probably thinking of the Warren Buffett, the big international conglomerate type guy, but I assume Obama's talking about Warren Buffett, the guy who owns Warren's hardware store at Dead Moose Junction, because he always cites Warren Buffett as a typical small businessman.
And I'm sure he wouldn't do it if he had in mind the multi-gazillionaire, Warren Buffett.
This isn't political grandstanding, Obama said.
Representative Paul Ryan, Republican of Wisconsin, gufford.
Now, that's just totally unacceptable.
You're allowed to titter at this president.
If you really insist you can have the occasional chortle, but when you are guffoing at this president and his American Jobs Act, you are totally disrespecting him.
So we will enjoy some guffors with the President of the United States and some respectful titters as we continue on Open Line Friday.
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Yeah, pass this bill now.
Don't make me say it again.
Pass this bill now.
All we are saying is pass this bill now.
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Yeah, more Dana Milbag in the Washington Post.
This is very funny.
This is almost as funny as the speech itself.
He's complaining that all these Republicans just get, oh, now it's worse.
They're not just guffawing, they're giggling.
Quote, we've identified over 500 regulatory reforms which will save billions of dollars, the president claimed.
House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Republican of Virginia, and Whip Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California, giggled.
It's getting worse.
It's getting worse, folks.
They're not just tittering at the president.
They're not just chuckling at the president now.
They're giggling at him.
They're giggling at him.
And Milbank says, after one of the most impassioned speeches of his presidency, he said the same four words over and over and over again.
Pass this bill now.
I'm demanding that you pass this bill now.
He had the he obviously had one of the The 12-year-old speechwriter who knows the polysyllabic words was out that day, so he just had to load it up with the monosyllables.
Pass this, pass this bill now.
And Dana Milbank in the Washington Boast says, This is more insulting than Joe Wilson saying, you lie, you lie, sir, during his previous whatever it was, State of the Union or whatever it was supposed to be when he, the last time he was doing it, was it a State of the Union?
I can't remember.
It was because he does so many of them now.
Didn't he do a State of the European Union?
That was pretty much what he had in mind for us.
It's great, isn't it?
He didn't have the Greek columns, the Styrofoam Greek columns.
I don't know why he didn't have them because our economy is trending highly Greek-like.
So for once, the Styrofoam Greek columns would have been highly appropriate.
Milbank says this, it was more respectful when Joe Wilson, at least Joe Wilson, took this president seriously enough to say, you lie, sir, to him.
Instead, these Republicans just sit around tittering and giggling when he calls on them to pass this bill now.
How disrespectful of that?
As Nancy Pelosi said, they're so disrespectful that they didn't even bother to make a response.
What's there to respond to?
He's asking us, he's asking Congress to pass a bill that does not exist.
It has no corporeal reality.
It is like the Loch Ness monster.
There may have been occasional sightings of this bill from a distance, through a fog, but when you look at it on the photograph, it's not clear whether that's the monster of a jobs bill or just some strange, murky, shadowy blur.
But he's saying, pass this bill now.
And find that half a trillion dollars out of John Kerry's Super Friend Super Congress Super Committee.
When they report back to us, don't worry about the half a trillion dollars because they'll claw that back in the year 2021.
Ladies and gentlemen, if you are one of the 53% of Americans who voted for President Pass This Bill, then call now.
I would love to hear if this is what you were expecting.
A Potemkin president standing up and asking Congress to pass a non-existent bill with non-existent money.
Eventually, the Republic becomes simply too absurd to survive.
And when President passed this bill is standing there and saying, pass a non-existent bill with non-existent money, you have reached heights of postmodern political theater undreamt of in human history.
If you're one of the 53% who voted for this guy, because you can't all be community organizers and members of the Teamsters Union and the rest of it, you can't all be.
The 53%, there's lots of room for all kinds of other folks in there.
If you're one of the 53% who voted for President Pass This Bill, I want to hear from you and I want to hear what you thought of this speech last night.
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We'll get into that.
And we'll also observe the 10th anniversary of an act of war.
Not a lot of the commemorations on Sunday will be talking about it as an act of war, but that's what it was.
September 11th, 2001.
Mark Stein Infra Rush on the EIB network.
Lots more still to come.
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Hey, great to be with you.
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If you call 1-800 Jobs Bill before I, President Obama, have finished saying pass this jobs bill now, we will give you completely free a Ronco Vegematic, a free Ronco Vegematic.
If you were to buy this as a separate item, it would cost you half a trillion dollars.
But if you call 1-800, pass this jobs bill now, we will send it to you completely free.
Barack Obama says, Pass this jobs bill.
We're looking at, here's another quote from the speech: pass this jobs bill.
Well, we've heard that bit.
Quote, pass this jobs bill.
And starting tomorrow, small businesses will get a tax cut.
Pass this jobs bill, by the way, it's starting tomorrow.
That's today.
There is no jobs bill.
He hasn't written it.
But already its effects are kicking in.
Pass this jobs bill.
And starting tomorrow, small businesses will get a tax cut if they hire new workers or raise workers' wages.
Pass this jobs bill, and all small business owners will also see their payroll taxes cut in half next year.
If you have 50 employees making an average salary, that's an $80,000 tax cut.
And all businesses will be able to continue writing off the investments they make in 2012.
You should pass it right away.
Pass this jobs bill.
You're absolutely right.
They should have.
I think it was insulting.
He was there.
He was saying pass this jobs bill.
Mr. Snadley points out that they should just have all stuck their hands up, basically, in Congress and just passed it instantly.
They should have passed it instantly.
The reason, and right now, that would have made, that would have meant that starting today, small businesses will get a tax cut if they hire new workers or raise workers' wages, because that's actually what a healthy economy needs, isn't it?
You don't raise your workers' wage because her productivity has increased.
She's doing such a terrific job.
She deserves a wage.
You raise it in order to get a tax credit.
Not a tax cut, by the way, a tax credit, a little reward that President Pass This Jobs Bill will give you if you agree to run your business the way he wants you to run it.
And President Bahaas O. Jobs Bill has now said that if you pass this jobs bill, small businesses will get a tax cut if they raise workers' wages, which is fantastic.
So if you just, just the simple act of you have no rational basis to raise your employees' wage, except that Barack Obama has said you'll get a tax cut if you do so.
That is terrific.
That makes so much sense.
Let us go to Bob in, let's go to Bob in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Bob, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Oh, great to be on.
First time I ever called anybody from any show.
Really?
Well, you're making sounding like you're very adept and competent at using telephonic equipment.
So that's a great start.
I hope you'll be calling in regularly from now on.
Call in every day, Bob.
What's on your mind?
You know, I'm a small businessman in Florida, and I never voted Democrat before.
I voted for Obama.
And it's the biggest single mistake I've ever made in my 57 years.
The biggest.
And I've been doing that.
Why did you do it every day more?
Why on earth, Bob, did you do it?
Well, I just felt, and it sounds stupid now, that the Republicans were getting irresponsible financially, which I still believe they were.
And Obama pointed out this.
He said that he wasn't going to do this.
He actually said the economy cannot get better till we bring the troops home.
So I thought he was going to bring the troops home, not send more money.
I thought that being from a liberal background that he knows that everybody knows doesn't work, that he would be more entrepreneurial, more pro-prepared.
No, no, no, no, wait, wait a minute, Bob.
This is fascinating to me.
So you thought that because he was from a liberal background, he would understand that liberalism doesn't work.
Yes.
Because if you look at the guy who took over Brazil, Rue, he was actually a hardcore socialist head of the unions there.
And when he took over Brazil, he did amazing capitalistic things.
And it also happened in Australia.
They voted for a very liberal guy.
And because it's easier for a liberal government.
Now, who was that?
Nobody did that in Australia, not in recent Australian history.
This was about 20, about 20, years ago, before they had the Olympics.
It's a good 20 years ago.
Bob Hawke, is that the guy?
I'm sorry, Bob.
Is that the guy you're thinking of?
Right, right.
You would see that he actually was very pro-capitalistic.
And I was very disappointed in Bush.
And I guess what McCain looked like during the debates.
I mean, the guy that I voted for in the primary was Romney.
I like a business guy.
I come from a business with limited government background, but some government, but a business background I liked.
Doesn't mean I like the other Republicans.
Now, Bob, what business are you in, Bob?
I have a small printing company.
Okay, well, I hope you have the...
I've been to overseas.
I just recently moved back from the Philippines in Thailand.
I had businesses there, so I'm very familiar with international and local businesses.
Well, if you're lucky and you've got a printing company and you've got a ton of green ink, the Federal Reserve will give you the printing contract for all the dollar bills that are going to be needed to pay for that.
The government has taken all the green ink.
That's great.
Green jobs, Bob.
What part of that don't you understand?
Green jobs.
Green jobs, green ink, green paper.
The government's got it a coordinated strategy.
You're only concerned about one job, and is that you're the mind.
No, Bob, but that's the lesson here.
You're looking at a man.
Bob, you were suckered, and you shouldn't let yourself be succored next time.
You're looking at a man who has been marinated his entire life.
I voted for Nixon.
I just temporary insanity is the only thing I could say happened to me.
And it won't happen again.
I guarantee you that.
Okay, Bob.
I hope your business survives your voter 2008 because that was a hell of a flyer to take on America's future.
This guy was marinated in a particular worldview, an anti-business worldview, an anti-capitalist worldview.
He has no understanding of it.
He's never had to make payroll in his life, never had to do what Bob did.
Bob is a printing company.
Come the end of the week, come the end of the month, he has to pay his employees.
Barack Obama never had to do that, never held a position where anything he did had any consequence and where he was ever forced to accept the consequences of what he did.
And it is a disgrace.
This is why I always say Barack Obama is not the problem.
He's the symptom of the problem.
The fact that 53% of the American people of a sophisticated electorate in one of the oldest free constitutional societies on earth voted for this guy is a devastating indictment of the American electorate.
There was no evidence.
There was no evidence that he either knew how to run a multi-trillion dollar economy, which admittedly is a pretty rare skill, but that he even had any interest in trying to make it function effectively.
And yet 53% of the American people went out and went out and voted for him.
And as I said, I'd like to hear from Obama voters.
53%, because he hasn't got 53% right now.
And the minute the Republican nominee is named and they start doing the old demonization thing.
Look at this.
He goes to a bit of a strange church where they say things about gay marriage.
The minute that starts, Obama's numbers are going to start to creep up again as people say, well, he seems to talk a lot of sense.
He looks in command of the situation when he stands there at the podium saying pass this jobs bill, shrieking it ever more hysterically every six or eight seconds.
His numbers are going to go up again once the Republican nominee is named and the media start to do a number on him.
So if you're one of that 53% who delivered Barack Obama to the White House, I would like to talk to you today.
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There's a reason, and Bob understands this.
Bob's got a printing company.
There's a reason people aren't hiring because there's uncertainty in the economy.
You need to have, that's why people invest, when people outsource jobs to the other side of the world, they don't go and outsource it to Sudan or the Congo.
They outsource it to countries that have a stable business environment.
And when you do these little gimmick things, like, oh, you'll get a tax cut if you hire a new worker or you raise a worker's wage.
What kind of company hires a new worker in order to get a tax cut?
I've got a small business.
If you've got a small business, you know this too.
You take on a new worker because you need it.
You take on a new worker because you're getting so many orders you can't fulfill those orders with the staff you've got.
What kind of business takes on a worker it doesn't actually require in order to get a tax cut?
So-called tax cut.
By the way, that's a dishonest use of the word tax cut.
Tax cut is when you take the disgusting 35% American corporate tax rate and you cut it down to 16%, like it is in Canada.
That's a tax cut, when the rate changes from 35% to 16%.
When President Pass This Bill agrees to give you a lollipop because you take on a new worker, that is not a tax cut.
That is a little reward that President Pass This Bill is giving you in order for agreeing to live your life the way President Pass This Bill wants you to live it.
And that is not the same thing as a tax cut.
It's not permanent.
It's a gimmick.
Anybody who's in business understands it's a gimmick.
It's like the green jobs fiasco, where virtually every single green jobs company that starts anywhere on the planet goes belly up as soon as the government funding stops for it because it's not a real business.
It was just a business that existed as a means of accessing government funding.
And that's the same thing.
If you're hired for a job that exists only because Barack Obama says your boss will get a tax credit for taking you on, that isn't a real job either.
Real jobs are when you need to take on an extra person because you've got too much business.
You've got too much demand for your products.
You need to make more products.
You need to sell more products.
You need a bigger manufacturing team.
You need a bigger sales team.
And there's no sign of that in President Pass This Bill's economy.
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Pass, pass, pass this bill now.
Pass, pass, pass this spill now.
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Let's go to Renee in New York City.
Renee, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hello.
Hi.
Nice to talk to you.
I failed to see the logic in your finding humor in Obama telling the Congress to pass the bill.
I don't see the point.
Because there is no bill.
Where's the bill?
Have you seen the bill?
Yeah, I know you've said that.
Yeah, but where is the bill?
So by the way, you guys had a revolution two and a third centuries ago.
You objected to bills from fellas like King George III.
He got the quill pen out and he put it down on paper before Parliament was asked to pass the stuff.
And it was because it was on paper that the American colonists rebelled because they saw it on paper and they decided they object to it.
Where's the paper for this bill?
I don't see the connection at all.
You're going back hundreds of years and connecting it to today.
That doesn't seem to make a point.
That's the way it works.
Have you heard about that constitution?
Do you know that 200 years ago they had my ancestors enslaved?
Oh, right.
Does that make sense?
Right, right.
By the way, so because 200 years ago your ancestors were slaves, nothing that happened before last Tuesday is relevant.
Okay, tell me this then.
Tell me this, genius.
Where is the half a trillion dollars for this?
Where's it coming?
Where's the half a trillion dollars?
Do you have it?
Is it in your attic?
Is it in your neighbor's attic?
Is it in Warren Buffett's secretary's safe?
Where's the half a trillion dollars?
I think he's the president of the country.
I think he is able to pull together the funds necessary.
Oh, Rene, if you only learn once this country is the legal person to try and cast aspersions about the president of this country.
Rene, let me just give you a brief explanation of this.
This country, did you follow the debt ceiling debate, Renee?
Do you remember that?
It was in the papers all the time.
Did you follow that?
You guys embarrassed yourselves.
No, no.
Here's the thing about that.
$15 trillion.
$15 trillion, Renee.
Where's the extra half trillion to that now?
Where's it coming from?
Have you got it?
Because if you've got it and you want to share it with us, if you and Warren Buffett and Warren Buffett's secretary would like to share the half a trillion dollars, we'd love to see it.
Are you keeping it out back in the barn?
Where is it, Renee?
It's pointless.
What's pointless?
It's pointless.
No, your logic is pointless.
It's pointless and it's insulting.
It's insulting to freeborn men like you, Rene, when your elected leader, when the citizen executive of a republic of self-governing citizens stands up and says, pass this bill now when there's no bill and there's no money to pay for it, you're being insulted.
You're not being insulted by guffoing and tittering Republicans.
You're being insulted by the citizen executive of this republic and you don't even get it.
You don't even get it.
And by the way, Renee, when you said that we embarrassed ourselves with the debt ceiling, are you talking about like the downgrade?
Like the old AAA rating that this country has had since they started the AAA rating system?
Why do you think America got downgraded, Renee?
Why?
Because you guys were making a fool of yourselves by bringing it.
So it's like a comedy downgrade, is it?
When somebody stands up and makes a fool of themselves, somebody like me, saying a guy who has no role in the government of the United States, that's why the rating agency keep telling yourself this, Rene.
This is the brokest nation in history.
The Chinese are on course to become the dominant economic power on the planet, and you should be ashamed of yourself because you're not taking that seriously.
What?
Well, apparently, you don't take it very seriously because you're making jokes and you're laughing.
Yeah, I'm laughing because when a guy...
That's right, Rene.
I'm laughing because this guy is not serious.
He's serious.
He's serious about spending.
He's serious about ramping up the debt.
But nobody takes this guy seriously, Rene.
Nobody takes this guy seriously.
Do you know how many seats there are in the press gallery of the United Congress?
Do you know how many seats there are, Renee?
Well, 90.
You know.
90.
And 26 of them were filled.
Not even the media take this guy seriously.
Not even Democrat congressmen take this guy seriously.
When you're asking someone, this is like a bad children's magician.
Look, can you see the jobs built?
No, I can't actually.
No, I can't actually see it.
Pick a card, pick a card, pick any card.
There's no jobs built.
There's no money to pay for it, Rene.
You're watching a third-rate children's conjurer who's all out of tricks.
Mark Stein in Farush, lots more to come.
I'll tell you what I did like about Rene, by the way.
I love that voice, that kind of deep monotone.
That's what Obama should have used last night.
It sounds so cool.
Pass this bill now.
You are making a fool of yourself.
Pass this bill now.
If he'd done it like that, I think he would have had the whole country with him.
Rene should really be giving elocution lessons to President Obama.
Mark Stein in Farush on Open Line Friday on the EIB network.
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