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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 247 Podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away today.
And this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in.
Mark Stein.
Honor to be here.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
What he hey Mike, uh you big shot guys uh in New York, what what happened to the little IDEN that says, and now, ladies and gentlemen sitting in for Rush Limbaugh, his what happened to Johnny Donovan?
Where's he gone?
He went he went home.
That's great.
That's terrific.
Budget cuts.
The the unemployment situation is getting is getting crazy in America now.
We they've just laid off the Rush Limbaugh show announced, so that's how bad things are getting round here.
It was bad enough.
I was here uh the uh week uh I think the week before last, and uh if you recall uh midway through the show, uh Mark Belling arrived to substitute for the pre-scheduled guest host to interview me about my new book, and uh Mark Belling got a little out of control and started dropping in all his like idents every ten minutes, you know, Mark Belling on the Mark Belling show.
And uh it took me a while to reassert control of the show, and now I find that my little I dent has been uh scrapped entirely and that uh Johnny Donovan has been uh laid off as part of Barack Obama's Oh, he apparently he's arrived.
Uh now 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 uh what's the what's the phrase they use?
We've just managed to create or save Johnny Donovan's job.
He's back.
Uh well, it's uh it's and they said that American Jobs Act wouldn't work.
It's been less than twenty-four hours, but uh Obama's Jobs Act is doing an incredible thing.
Um pass this bill, pass this bill, he's been demanding.
And uh next thing you know, not only is uh is uh the Rush Limbaugh show announcers job saved, but uh the EIB network hires one lucky foreigner for three hours of casual day labor.
So that's a second job uh created or saved right there.
Uh well, okay, I'm an illegal immigrant, so it doesn't show up in the statistics, but uh but let's face it, when the border patrol guy arrives to kick down the door and deport me, uh that'll be a third job created and saved.
And of course, many of the forty thousand 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 uh going to cost.
So that's even more new jobs being created or saved uh right there.
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Mr. Snardley is live with us in New York.
I'm at Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire, uh keeping an eye on the border because uh evidently since uh Barack Obama announced his new American Jobs Act, uh the there were 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 uh opposite direction.
So uh and we don't want a big stampede of Americans fleeing north to uh 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.
Uh his uh his great thing, uh his great catchphrase is pass this bill, pass this bill now, uh, which Mr. Snerdley said reminded him of uh Billy Mays.
What was the he was the pitch man for what was it again uh uh uh Yeah, Oxyco pass this bill.
If you call to pass this bill in the next fifteen 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 twenty-five minutes.
Call 1 800 American Jobs Act now.
And you can pass this bill.
Pass this bill.
Pass this bill now.
He's he's uh he's I think he's been uh been training at some uh what's it called, the actors uh studio in New York.
In the different inflections in pass this bill, pass this bill, pass this bill now.
Pass this bill now.
Uh 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 he he it exists on the teleprompter.
It's somewhere 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 US Constitution.
By the way, if he'd been at the uh at the Constitutional Convention, he'd have been saying, Pass this Constitution now.
And the father founding fathers, other founding fathers would have been saying, But wait a minute, you haven't written it yet.
There is no constitution.
Pass this bill now.
Pass this bill.
There is no bill.
Uh there's no half trillion dollars to cover the cost of it.
Uh by the way, I do think that's people say that Barack Obama does not learn from experience, and clearly he does.
Uh first time round for the first stimulus bill, uh he took a 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 two, son of stimulus, uh, just when he thought it was safe to go back into the water, he's gonna toss a mere half a trillion dollars out of the window into the Potomac and watch it fl uh 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 flo 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. Snerdling.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
Once this once this stimulus has failed, he will be back with stimulus three.
Uh but you which which might be another half trillion, it might be a mere quarter trillion dollars.
I mean, that's that's the thing.
You know, the they 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 uh 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 oh, it was in all the papers just a couple of weeks ago.
You must remember it.
Uh I think what was the big cutoff date?
Was it uh d August uh or July?
It was uh it it for a while it was everywhere.
The the August second.
Yeah, that's that's right.
August second, the first uh the first day uh it was also uh wasn't it uh Obama's birthday or uh it was either Ramadan, okay.
Ramadan, Obama's birthday, basically everything was August 2nd.
So it was every so he celebrated so we had this thing, increase the debt ceiling, increase it 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 seven billion dollars.
Seven billion dollars in fiscal year twenty twelve.
Now, if you were in your average uh uh advanced Western economic basket case, if you were, you know, in Greece or Iceland or Portugal, seven billion dollars would be a fair chunk of change.
Uh but here it's equivalent to what the uh government of the United States uh borrows every thirty hours.
So they spent a month negotiating savings of seven billion dollars.
Now just to get that in perspective, after spending a month saving seven billion dollars from fiscal year twenty twelve, Barack Obama gives a speech for twenty minutes and just adds another half trillion dollars to it.
So now we're uh now we're not Uh saving seven billion dollars.
Uh we've added basically an extra half trillion dollars to the budget.
What happened to the seven billion dollar savings?
And he says, Oh, not to worry about it.
Don't you worry about a thing.
Because he's asked the Super Congressional Super Committee, the super friends on the Super Congress Super Committee, uh John Kerry and the gang, to add half to to cover the cost of the American Jobs Act by finding an extra half trillion dollars of savings.
They're pledged uh to save uh the uh to cut out of the budget within the next ten years a trillion and a half dollars.
Uh 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.
Uh but now they've said to John Kerry and the Super Friends on the Super Congress Super Committee, they've said, Oh, but uh Obama's added another half trillion dollars.
So you've got to find two trillion dollars worth of savings.
So you don't have to worry about anything, because we'll still get to enjoy the seven billion dollars of savings in fiscal year twenty twelve, and it won't matter that we've added another half trillion dollars to the budget uh because uh in 2021, uh John Kerry and the Super Friends of the Super Congress Super Committee will announce that they've managed to claw back half a trillion dollars in 2021.
Uh this is uh 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.
There's no oh sorry, I'm laughing at him.
I'm laughing at him.
The Washington Post, I am laughing at him, uh, and I regret that, because the Washington Post, Dana Milbank, has said that it is uh inappropriate.
The president gave one of the most impassioned speeches of his lifetime, and all Republicans did was laugh at him.
Uh 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, the chuckle.
A titter is okay.
A chuckle is okay.
But when you get to open guff oars 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.
I'm I'm 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.
Um 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 uh Warren Buffett pays a lower tax rate than his secretary, by the way?
Uh the outrage he has asked Obama to fix.
Uh 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 uh secretary, and now he's asked Obama to fix the outrage of him fixing uh 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 you uh you you try you watch the you you 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. Snerdley, is a typical small businessman in the United States.
Uh you're probably thinking of the uh that that the the the Warren Buffett, the big international conglomerate type guy, but I assume Obama's talking about, you know, Warren Buffett, the guy who uh uh owns Warren's hardware store at uh Dead Moose Junction, because he's he 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, uh Warren Buffett.
Uh this isn't political grand scanding, 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 if you really insist you can have the occasional chortle, but when you are guffawing, guffoing at this president and his American Jobs Act, you are totally disrespecting him.
So we will enjoy some guff ours 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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Uh yeah, more Dana Milbag in the Washington Post.
This is this is this is this is very funny.
This is almost as funny as the speech itself.
He's complaining that all these Republicans just kept oh now it's worse, they're not just guffouring, they're giggling.
Quote, we've identified over five hundred 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 um he obviously had one of a th the twelve-year-old street uh speechwriter who knows the polysyllabic words was out uh that day, so he just had to load it up with the monosyllables.
Pass this pass this bill now.
And uh Dana Milbank in the Washington Post says this is more insulting than Joe Wilson saying you lie, you lie, sir, during his previous uh whatever it was, State of the Union or whatever 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 uh because he does so many of them now.
Didn't he do a State of the European Union to uh that was pretty much what he had in mind for us.
Um the uh it's great, isn't it?
He didn't have the Greek columns, uh the styrofoam Greek columns.
I don't know why he didn't have them, because uh our economy is trending highly Greek like, so for once the styrofoam Greek columns would have been highly appropriate.
Uh i i 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 how disrespectful of that?
As 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, uh but when you look at it at f uh on the photograph, it's not clear whether that's the l the monster of a jobs bill or just some strange, murky, shadowy blur.
But he's he's saying pass this pass this bill now.
Uh and uh find that half a trillion dollars out of John Kerry's Superfriend Super Congress Supercommittee, when they report back to us they 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 fifty-three percent of Americans who voted for President Pass this bill, then call now.
I would love to hear if this is what you are expecting.
A uh 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, uh, you have reached heights of postmodern political theatre undreamt of in human history.
Uh if you're one of the fifty-three percent who voted for this guy, uh because you can't all be community organizers and uh uh and uh members of the Teamsters Union and and the rest of it, you can't all be.
The fifty-three percent, there's lots of room for all kinds of other folks in there.
If you're one of the fifty three percent who voted for President Pass this bill, I want to hear from you uh and I want to hear what you thought of this speech uh last night.
1 eight hundred two eight two eight eight two Markstein uh Infrarush on the EIB network.
We'll get into that.
And we'll also uh observe the tenth anniversary of uh an act of war.
Uh 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 eleventh, two thousand and one.
Mark Stein Inforush on the EIB network.
Lots more still to come, and don't forget Rush Returns Monday.
Hey, great to be with you.
Uh uh if you uh notice on all our bumper music this Friday, what it has in common is that you can sing pass this jobs bill along to any piece of bumper music we have on the show this Friday.
That is our guarantee to you.
Pass this jobs bill now.
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If you call 1800 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 rongo vegematic.
If you were to buy this as a separate item, it would cost you half a trillion dollars.
But if you call 1800 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 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 cut taxes cut in half next year.
If you have fifty employees making an average salary, that's an eighty thousand dollar tax cut.
And all businesses will be able to continue writing off the investments they make in twenty twelve.
You should pass it right away.
Pass this jobs bill.
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
They should have.
I think it was insulting.
He was there, he was saying pass this jobs bill.
Mr. Snodley 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 uh and w 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 uh 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 passed this jobs bill uh will give you if you agree to run your business the way he wants you to to run it.
And uh President Bahas O'Jobs Bill has now said that if you pass this jobs bill, uh small businesses will get a tax cut if they raise workers' wages.
Uh which is fantastic.
If so if you just just the simple act of you have no rational basis uh to raise your employees' wage except that Barack Obama has said you'll get a tax cut if you do so.
That that is terrific.
That makes that makes so much sense.
Let us go to Bob in uh let's go 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?
That's uh well, you're you're you're you're you're making uh you're 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 I'm a small businessman in uh in Florida and uh I never voted Democrat before I voted for Obama for and uh it's the biggest single mistake I've ever made in my fifty-seven years.
The biggest.
And I'm not sure what every day more.
Why on earth, Bob, did you do it?
Well, I j I j I just felt and I 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 gonna do this, and he was gonna 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, that send more money.
I thought that being being from a liberal background that he knows that everybody knows doesn't work that he would he he would be more entrepreneurial, more prosperous.
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, Ruble, he was actually a hardcore socialist head of the unions there, and when he took over Brazil, he did amazing capitalistic things.
And also happened on Australia.
They voted for a very liberal guy, and uh because it's easy for a liberal.
Now who was who was that?
Nobody did that in Australia, not in recent Australian history.
This was about 20 years ago, before they had the Olympics.
It's a good 20 years ago.
Bob Hawk, is that the guy's I'm sorry, is that the guy you're thinking of?
Right, right.
You uh you would s you know you you would see that he he actually was very pro-capitalistic and uh you know I I was very disappointed in Bush.
And I just thought McCain look looked like doing the debates.
I mean, the guy that I voted for in the primary was Romney.
You know I like a business guy.
I come from a business with limited government background, but some government, but f a big a big business background I liked.
Doesn't mean I don't like the other Republicans.
Now, Bob, what what business are you in, Bob?
I have a small printing company.
Okay.
Well I hope you uh I hope you have the businesses I had businesses overseas.
I just recently moved back from the Philippines in Thailand.
I had businesses there, so I'm pr I'm very familiar with international and local businesses.
Well, if you're if you're lucky and you've got a printing company and you got a ton of green ink, uh the uh the the Federal Reserve will give you the printing contract for all the dollar bills that are gonna be needed to pay for it.
The government has taken all the green inks.
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.
And is that yours or mine?
No, Bob, but that's the lesson here.
Uh you're talking 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 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 I hope your business survives uh your vote of two thousand and eight, because that was a hell of a flyer to take on America's uh future.
This guy was marinated uh in a particular worldview, an anti-business worldview, an anti-capitalist world view.
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.
Uh come come the end of the week, uh, come the end of the month, he has to pay his employees.
Uh Barack Obama never had to do that, never had to 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 uh and it is a disc this is why I always say Barack Obama is not the problem, he's the symptom of the problem.
The fact that fifty-three percent of the American people of a sophisticated electorate in one of the oldest uh free constitutional societies on earth uh voted for this guy uh is a devastating indictment of the uh of the American electorate.
Uh 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 fifty-three percent of the American people went out and uh went out and voted for him.
Uh and as I said, I'd like to I'd like to hear from uh Obama voters.
Fifty-three percent, because he hasn't got fifty-three percent right now.
And uh the minute the Republican nominee uh is named and they start doing the old demonization thing.
Ooh, look at look at this, he goes he goes to a bit of a strange church where they say f things about gay marriage.
The minute that starts, uh Obama's numbers are gonna start to creep up again as people say, Well, he seems to talk a lot of sense.
He uh he looks um looks in command of the situation when he uh stands there at the podium uh saying pass this jobs bill, shrieking it ever more hysterically every six or eight seconds.
Uh his numbers are gonna go up again once the Republican nominee uh is named and the media start to do a number on him.
So if you're one of that fifty-three percent who delivered uh Barack Obama to the White House, uh I would like to talk to you today.
One eight hundred two eight two uh two eight eight two.
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 in the economy.
You need to have that's why people in uh that's why people invest.
When people uh outsource jobs to the other side of the world, they don't go and uh outsource it to Sudan or the Congo.
Uh 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 uh worker's wage.
What kind of company uh hires a new worker in order to in order to uh 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 get in so many orders you can't fulfil 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.
Uh by the way, that's a dishonest use of the word tax cut.
Tax cut is when you take the disgusting uh thirty-five percent American corporate tax rate and you cut it down to sixteen percent like it is in Canada.
Uh that's a tax cut when the rate changes from thirty-five percent to sixteen percent.
When when President passed this bill agrees to give you a lollipop uh because you take on a new worker, uh 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 passed 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 every uh virtually every single green jobs company uh 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 uh uh a business that existed uh as a means of sort uh of accessing government funding.
And that's the same thing.
If you're hired for a job that exists only because Barack Obama says uh your b your boss will get a tax credit for taking you on, that isn't a real job either.
Real jobs uh are when you need to take on an extra person, uh because you've got too much business, uh you 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 big uh need a bigger sales team.
And there's no sign of that in President Pass This Bill's economy.
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Puss, pus, pass this bill now.
Puss, pass this bill now.
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Let's go to uh Renee in uh 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.
Um I fail to see the logic in your finding humor in Obama telling the Congress to pass the bill.
Uh because there is no bill.
Where's the bill?
Have you seen the bill?
Yeah, I know you said that.
Yeah, but where is the bill?
So so d by the way, you by the way, you guys had a revolution two and a third centuries ago.
Uh you objected you objected to bills from fellas like King George the Third.
He he he got the quill pen out and he put it down on paper before uh before Parliament was uh asked to pass the stuff, and it was because it was on paper uh that uh that uh the uh American uh colonists rebelled because they saw it on paper and they decided they object to it.
Where's the paper for this bill?
Um I don't see the connection at all.
Uh you're going back hundreds of years and connecting it to today, that doesn't seem to make a point.
That's that's the way it works.
Have you heard about that constitution?
Do you know that two hundred years ago they had my ancestors in slave?
All right.
Right, right, so so because two by the way, so because two hundred years ago your ancestors were slaves, that nothing that happened uh before last Tuesday is relevant.
Okay, tell me this then.
Tell me this, genius.
Where is the half a trillion dollars for this year?
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 to pull together the fun necessary.
Oh, Rene, if you only learn one fact...
...is the last person to try and cast aspersions about the president of this country.
Rene, let me let me just give you a uh uh a brief explanation of this.
This country do did you follow the debt ceiling debate, Renee.
Do you remember that?
It was in the papers all the time.
Yeah.
No, no, here's the thing about that.
Fifteen trillion dollars.
Fifteen trillion dollars, 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?
Pointless.
What's pointless?
It's pointless is pointless.
No, your logic is pointless.
It's pointless and it's insulting.
It's insulting to free-born men like you, Renee, to say for 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 triple A rating that this country is uh has had since they started the uh the triple A rating system.
Why do you think why do you think America got downgraded, Renee?
Why w w because you guys were making a fool of yourselves by bringing the standard So it's uh it's it's like a comedy downgrade, is it?
When somebody stands up and makes a fool of uh a fool of themselves, uh somebody like me, uh say a guy who has no uh no role in the government of the United States, that's why the rating agencies keep telling keep telling yourself this, Renee.
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.
Why because you're not taking that seriously.
What?
Well, apparently uh 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 that's right, Renee.
I'm laughing because this guy is not serious.
He's serious.
Oh, he's he's serious about spending, he's serious about ramping up the debt.
But nobody takes this guy seriously, Renee.
Nobody takes this guy seriously.
Do you know how many seats there are in the press gallery uh of the United uh uh the Congress?
You know how many seats there are, Renee?
Well 90.
And twenty-six of them were filled.
Not even the media take this guy seriously.
Not even uh Democrat congressman uh take this guy seriously.
When you're asking someone, This is like this is like a bad children's magician.
Look, can you see the jobs built?
Uh no, I can't actually uh no I can't actually see it.
Uh pick a card, pick a card, pick any card.
There's no jobs built, there's no money to pay for it, Renee.
You're watching a third-rate children's conjurer who's all out of tricks.
Mark Stein in Farush, lots more to come.
I tell you what I did like about Renee, by the way.
I love that voice, that kind of deep monotone when he 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 uh with him.
Renee should really be giving uh elocution lessons to President Obama.
Mark Stein in Farush on open line Friday on the EIB network.
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