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Sept. 9, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 9, 2011, Friday, Hour #2
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Oh no, can't we get Renee to do the announcement?
I'd love it in that dark, that dark monotone.
And now, sitting in for Rush Limbaugh, Markstein.
Yes, Rush is away.
Rush will return Monday, but this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, looking back at the president's speech.
Pass this jobs bill now.
Pass this jobs bill now.
Pass this bill now, or the bill gets it.
President Obama is serious.
He's so serious that he's gave a speech.
He's not serious enough to type up the jobs bill so there actually is a bill to pass.
You just have to pass the bill now so you can find out what's in it.
That's the way it works in the United States in the 21st century.
Pass this bill now so we can find out what's in it.
And you may already have won.
If you call 1-800, pass this jobs bill right now before the president finishes speaking.
You will not only get your free complimentary jobs bill, but we will throw in a new Ronco Vegematic.
Just said it and forget it.
1-800, pass this jobs bill now.
We'll be talking about that.
I am living testament to the fact that the jobs bill is already working.
I got three hours of casual day labor today.
That's pretty good for an undocumented immigrant.
I'm grateful to it.
There may be a job opening up.
Let's have a look at this.
There may be a job opening up at KARK, Channel 4 News in Arkansas.
The Weatherman's gig may be opening up there.
This is a headline from the New York Daily News.
Arkansas weatherman Brett Cummins found in hot tub with naked dead man wearing dog collar.
Don't you just hate it when that happens?
He was like the weatherman on Channel 4, and he wakes up one morning in the hot tub with a dead guy wearing a dog collar next to him.
So he is now on leave from his job as a weatherman at KARK in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The station has said that Brett is not on the air as he is mourning the loss of his friend, presumably the dead guy in the dog collar in the hot tub next to him.
So there may be a weatherman's job.
So that may be yet another job saved or created.
More jobs being saved or created after a fashion.
Yesterday, union longshoremen closed a port in Longview, Washington.
They took the security guards hostage.
So this is just right there.
That's a great increase in the hostage taking industry in America.
They damaged rail cars and they dumped a shipment of grain.
All because, not because, by the way, the owner of the terminal was using non-union labor, but they were using a contractor whose workers belonged to a rival union.
So it's not enough now that you use non-union scabs.
You can use non-union, you can use unionized non-scabs, but if they're not from the union that meets the approval of this other guy's union, they'll come in, they'll take the security guards hostage, they bust up the rail cars, and they'll dump a shipment of grain.
This is what Barack Obama means by a shovel-ready project.
These guys took the shovel to the security guards, they took the shovel to the rail cars, they took the shovel to the shipment of grain and trashed the joint.
It's going to be an extremely, I would predict this will be a very ugly and violent election season.
Jimmy Hoffer Jr., you can make excuses for the line he was using about when he was, I don't even know whether you can say it on the radio.
You can apparently say it when you're appearing next to the press.
I don't even know.
Can you use the SOB phrase in full on the radio, Mr. Snerdley?
SOB?
You can.
Okay, good.
Yeah, actually, Rush used it just a couple of days.
Okay, let's take these sons of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong.
That was the Jimmy Hoffer Jr. thing.
Don't take these things lightly.
It's going to be a very ugly and unattractive election season because these guys are takers.
And they're exactly the same like the government goons on the streets of Athens who killed those three bank clerks.
Burned the set this bank alight.
Three bank clerks burned to death because the government workers demonstrating in defense of their government privileges would not let the emergency workers get to the bank and rescue these three bank clerks.
Don't underestimate the possibility of things like that happening here.
These guys are serious.
They're takers.
They're takers from the productive class.
It's not hard to figure out why the American economy is where it is.
It's because there's too many takers.
And the productive class is groaning under the weight of the government class and the dependency class.
And it's being crushed by it.
And so when President Parsis Jobs stands up and offers a few gimmicks and just repeats pass this jobs bill endlessly in front of you and he expects to be taken seriously, sorry, it's not enough.
It's not enough.
You took a trillion.
Nobody has ever done this before, by the way.
Just to put this business in perspective, the entire Greek government deficit, I believe, is about $35 billion.
In other words, that's a drop in the ocean.
That's not even one program.
That wouldn't be enough to staff one branch office of the federal bureaucracy that Barack Obama is planning on setting up under his American Jobs Act.
These sums of money, this is like a half a trillion dollars worth of nothing.
He took it last time around, it was a trillion dollars worth of nothing.
So we're supposed to be encouraged now that he's only shrunk it by half.
It's just half a trillion dollars worth of nothing.
We're going to be talking about that because this is the end of the week on the Rush Limbaugh show, and you know what that means.
Live from New York City, it's open live Friday.
Yeah, I think Rene should do that too.
I think he should do Live from New York.
It's open on Friday.
1-800-282-2882.
Don't forget, the way it works is lack of this.
From Monday to Thursday, the show is under the tight control of a highly trained broadcast specialist.
But we couldn't get one of those today.
We could only get some undocumented immigrant.
So there's no highly trained broadcast specialist in sight.
All you have to do is call 1-800-282-2882 and you can create or save the content of this show.
1-800-282-2882.
Whatever you want to talk about.
If you want to talk about President Jobs Bill, we can talk about that.
We can talk about the 9-11 anniversary.
We can talk about anything else that happens to be on your mind.
Now, I often, when I was here, I think it was the week before last, or maybe it was on an early occasion, I often mention the little rustic border posts around here.
They're basically just in the middle of the woods, and they used to be just like huts, and they're still huts on the Canadian side.
On the Canadian side, Her Majesty the Queen makes do with a little one-room hut.
On the U.S. side, the huts are all being replaced by spectacular new buildings.
This is a border post on the Saint-Croix River.
I don't know whether you said like that actually in Maine.
I should get a maniac to call in and confirm the pronunciation there.
But that's the border between Maine and New Brunswick.
Forest City, Maine, and Forest City, New Brunswick are two adjoining communities.
By the way, Forest City, Maine, and Forest City, New Brunswick are both heavy on the forest and light on the city.
Combined, the Forest City, Maine and Forest City, New Brunswick have a year-round population of about 15 people.
Okay, I don't know how it works.
Maybe there's eight people on the Maine side, seven people on the New Brunswick side.
They used to walk over the bridge because, like, it's way, it's like if you, if you live in a community where there's 15 people and there's only seven people on your side of the border and eight on the other side, you can get a bit long winters.
You can get pretty sick of those seven people, and you might want to walk across the bridge and meet some of the eight people on the other side of the bridge.
And that's what they used to do on Forest City, New Brunswick, Forest City, Maine.
And 15 people.
There's a border crossing which sees roughly six cars a day.
Six cars a day.
Okay, so we're talking like one-room hut territory, six cars a day.
That's one car every four hours.
One car is going through the border every four hours.
So naturally, the Department of Homeland Security decides that the one-room hut will no longer do, and they're going to build a $16 million border crossing facility.
This is the problem.
This is the problem with American government.
It has literally lost all sense of proportion.
Forest City, Maine, Forest City, New Brunswick, combined population, 15 people.
So a border crossing that serves, in essence, 15 people is going to have a $16 million facility built.
That's a million dollars per person.
And actually, given the fact that half those people are Canadian and shouldn't really be the responsibility of the United States government, that's actually about 2 million people per U.S. citizen involved in this.
This is a border crossing in the middle of nowhere, $16 million.
$16 million.
The lesson that we need to learn, and this was when I was here last time, Mark Belling was interviewing me about my new book.
My big point about this was the urgency.
Stop it with the $16 million.
Just stop it.
There's no need for it.
There is no justification for spending $16 million on a new facility for a border crossing in the middle of the woods that has six cars a day.
If you can't do that for less than $16 million, you shouldn't be in government.
You should be out of the government business.
You should be in Vegas with a bevy of hookers taking all the crack you can afford and doing that because you have lost all contact with reality.
All contact with reality.
And that is the problem with federal government today.
And the fact that we have just seen, we watched all through July these tense negotiations, people shuttling back and forth, all Wolf Blitzer standing there, solemnly crossing to people standing on the steps of the Capitol.
How are the negotiations going?
Have we had the smoke rings up to say that the College of Congressional Cardinals has managed to agree an increase in the debt?
They got $7 billion of savings in fiscal year 2012, and they all congratulate themselves.
And then the president passed this bill, stands up in the well of Congress and announces that he's just going to increase the budget for federal year 2012 by half a trillion dollars, just like that.
Hey, don't worry, we spend a month negotiating savings of $7 billion, but I've just off the top of my teleprompted head have just added half a trillion dollars to it.
There is no money for this.
It's not just that there's no bill, but there's no money.
And there's nobody who wants to lend us another half a trillion dollars.
70% of the debt that has been issued by the government of the United States this year has been bought by the Federal Reserve.
There's no money.
There's nobody anywhere on the planet who wants to continue bankrolling this level of government.
Maybe if you know a space alien out on planet Zongo, the Warren Buffett, if we can just find the Warren Buffett of Planet Zongo, eight galaxies away, who's ashamed because on Planet Zongo, the taxes are so low that he feels he'd really like to contribute more to big government.
But the taxes on planet Zongo in a distant galaxy are so low.
And if that space alien Warren Buffett is willing to write the check for this half trillion dollar jobs bill, then maybe, maybe, maybe there's someone else who'll still lend us the money.
But right now, there is no bill.
There is no money.
What we witnessed last night was a cynical and insulting and pathetic exercise in the most pointless kind of political theater.
And God bless the Republican Party for disrespecting it by giggling and tittering and chuckling and guffawing and all the other things that Dana Milbank complained about in the Washington Post today.
Because it isn't serious.
It wasn't serious.
And the fact that it was taking place in Congress was a huge joke, not on Barack Obama and not on the legislators, but on you, the American people.
There's no bill.
There's no money.
This was a charade.
Mark Steinin for Rush, we're going to talk about that with one of America's congressmen, Congressman Louis Gommet, will join us at the bottom of the hour.
Lots more of that.
Plus your calls.
1-800-282-2882 on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
That's fair.
What's that, Lou Rolls?
Hey, pass this jobs bill now.
That's music for Renee.
Pass this jobs bill now.
Yeah, he's been the kind of Lou Rolls of the show so far.
Mark Seiden for Rush, 1-800-282288.
I forgot the number there, getting so into the 1-800-282-2882.
Pass this jobs bill now.
If you call before the bottom of the hour, we will send you not just a free jobs bill, but also a complimentary sham wow with a retail value of half a trillion dollars.
If you call before the bottom of the hour and pass this jobs bill now, yeah, we will double your order.
We're not going to give you just Mr. Snadley makes a point.
We're not stingy here.
You call before the bottom of the hour, we will not only send you one jobs bill, we will send you two jobs bills.
The second jobs bill, you pay for shipping, you pay the additional shipping, but otherwise, the second jobs bill is absolutely free.
1-800, pass this jobs bill now.
Let us go to Will in Amanda, Ohio.
Will, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, thanks, Mark.
You've got to help me out here.
All over the national news, I'm hearing about an unit.
Get it out.
Spit it out.
It's an unconfirmed credible threat.
Right.
Well, isn't it either a credible threat or not?
What's an unconfirmed credible threat?
No, that's one stage up from an incredible threat.
An unconfirmed credible.
Yeah, it's an entirely separate bureaucracy.
So it's an entirely, if you've got an incredible threat, that's just dealt with by the Department of Paperwork in Guam and it's sloughed off nothing flat.
But if you've got an unconfirmed credible threat, it rises to the level of an unconfirmed credible threat.
That goes to the Department of Unconfirmed Credible Threats in Pocatello.
Yeah, something like that.
I could even accept confirmed credible threat, I guess.
No, no, no, no.
No, confirmed credible threat goes to the Department of Head for the Hills at that new $16 million border station up in Forest City, Maine.
But you're right about this.
I mean, Will, I don't know.
Are you changing your weekend plans because of this unconfirmed credible threat?
No, no, I think I'll just go about my business.
Well, more fool you, because as I believe the FBI said, this unconfirmed credible threat is about a possible terrorist attack either in New York City or Washington, D.C., or possibly somewhere else in the United States, or alternatively, some other part of the planet that may involve an explosion or a shooting or a plane or an automobile or some other means of terrorist attack.
So, if you can't act on that specific information, Will, that level of specific credible information, you need to change your weekend plans.
Oh, I think I'll just sit in the bathroom for a while then.
Hey, do you know something?
I really Will's got a great voice.
He's not as when Renee was doing that, pass this jobs bill now, you are making a fool of yourself.
I would love to have Renee, you are making a fool of yourself.
I would love to be able to introduce Renee to Will.
I will just sit in the bathroom.
You are making a fool of yourself.
You should, you should find you, you and Renee, and another guy should find, should tour as the three bases, okay, with the three tenors.
Nobody wants to hear those squeaky voiced guys.
You and Renee, and find some other fella.
I can't do it.
You're like a couple of octaves lower than me.
And find some guy, and you go, you'll never find another white man.
That's great.
Have a great weekend, Will, and don't let the unconfirmed incredible threat or whatever it is get to you too much.
The reality is of this 9-11 business, by the way.
I take terrorism seriously, Mr. Snerdley.
And whenever they have one of these pandy bombers comes along, we were doing the show, that was just, I think, just before Christmas, a couple of years back, when the pandy bomber came along and attempted to self-detonate over Detroit.
And what happened?
It was something like, it was ridiculous.
It was like he got on the plane because it was like this unconfirmed credible threat.
He wasn't on Janet Incompetano explained afterwards that he wasn't actually on the no-fly list.
He was like on the standby list for the no-fly list.
So he wasn't actually on the proper no-fly list.
And so he was allowed to get on the plane.
And the only reason he didn't self-detonate over Detroit is because I think it was some Dutch, what was it?
It was very bizarre, like a Dutch documentary maker who actually clobbered the guy to the ground.
So it was a flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, I believe.
So I was in favor of replacing federal marshals with Dutch documentary makers.
I mean, that would be, now, if he was thinking outside the box, that's the kind of jobs program that President Obama would be proposing.
He'd have Dutch documents, he'd say, we're going to increase the immigration fast-track Dutch documentary makers onto every plane.
And that is the way to guarantee American security.
But that guy, he wasn't formally on the no-fly list.
It was a bit like this incredible, unconfirmed, confirmed, uncredible threat.
He was on the standby list for the no-fly list.
And that is why Janet Incompetano was able to tell us with great assurance that the system worked.
Great to be with you.
America's anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in discussing the president's speech.
Pass this jobs bill now.
Pass this jobs bill now.
Call 1-800, pass this jobs bill now.
And when you buy two jobs bills, we will give you the third completely free because we can sell factory direct because we've eliminated the factory.
No, no, no, wait.
That's not right.
Anyway, 1-800, pass this jobs bill.
We have on the line Louis Gomeut, who is the congressman for the first district in Texas.
And how many congressional districts do you have in Texas?
32 now.
We're adding four.
That is pretty impressive.
I'm in a state that has just two, the state of New Hampshire.
So you're now currently in a state of confusion after the president's speech.
And I got to say, Mark, you'll never find a president like mine.
Anyway, you're going to be the third guy in the three bases, Will and Renee.
We've got our third guy.
I'm sorry.
Enjoying the show.
But, you know, he rode the Darth Vader buses in Middle America and did his impression of the evil emperor.
He's saying, you know, we need class warfare and could feel the hatred go through your veins.
Yes.
You know, covet, be jealous, hate people who have what you don't.
And now we're getting the use the force, pass the bill now.
You know, that's true.
May the bill be with you.
Too much light, but I'm telling you, Mark, it was so frustrating.
But this was the first time I've ever been in the direct line of sight of the president as he looked through his left teleprompter.
And so, you know, he's not looking at me because he reads the teleprompter.
And I've got to say, he's the most gifted reader I've ever seen in my life.
But he could be doing Shakespeare.
He could be doing a eulogy.
He could be doing the most whimsical limerick.
But he would still be doing the exact same style.
It's a head dance, three to five seconds on either side.
But when you look at what he said, and we were sitting there listening, apparently you were, but I prefer to just read it.
I would rather just had a plan that we could dive into, but there was no plan.
And let me tell you where I was coming from.
Two years ago, when he demanded to come speak to a joint session, even though he has to be invited, that's a little rude to demand to be invited.
But anyway, he kept saying this bill, my bill, this plan, my plan.
And if you misrepresent my bill, I'm going to call you out.
Well, two weeks later, Kathleen Sebelius was up on the hill, and I said, look, I don't want to be called out.
I don't want to misrepresent the president's plan.
But I would like to know where do I get a copy of the president's plan, the president's actual bill, so I don't misrepresent it.
Her exact words, Mark, were, I think he was talking about a set of principles.
The man didn't have a plan.
He didn't have a bill.
He just had rhetoric.
And that, once again, is what I felt like we got last night.
He doesn't have a plan.
He can't give us anything in writing, but pass this bill now, and teachers will go back to work immediately.
And then the worst atrocity was he said everything in this bill is paid for, everything.
And then he said, here's how we're going to pay for it.
You know, you guys are going to come up with a trillion and a half in cuts by Christmas.
Hey, just add another half trillion.
You know, there's our cuts.
There's the plan.
And he said, not only that, but a week from Monday, I'm going to give you a deficit plan.
And I can already tell you, I know what it's going to say.
Well, now you're going to do two trillion cuts by Christmas.
Just add another half trillion.
I mean, it's like cousin Eddie telling Clark Oswald, yeah, you got money.
Just get yourself something real nice from me, huh?
Yeah, yeah.
It's just absurd.
What's not really funny about this is when you think of the way the political conversation has gone over the last few months, it's been about spending.
It's been about the understanding that we're living beyond our means and that we're bursting not just we've gone beyond not just America's ability to fund this scale of government, but actually we're getting to the stage where we're going beyond the planet's ability to fund this scale of spending in Washington.
And yet he just airily comes along and after the charade of negotiating this highly minimal token cuts for fiscal year 2012, he just adds another half-cuts.
There were cuts.
Well, I think there were supposed to be $7 billion of cuts for 2012.
It was just too small.
I didn't see them.
Okay, thank you.
No, no, I think that's what you fellas at the Washington level call a rounding era, $7 billion.
Even in Greece, it goes somewhere, but in Washington, it's just a rounding era.
Yeah, it's a rounding era.
But if this weren't so serious, if we weren't talking about the future of generations to come having or not having the liberties and the opportunities we have, this would be a tremendous comedy routine.
But this is so serious, and it acts like it's just a political game.
Excuse me.
We're talking about uncontrolled spending.
And then he comes in, pass this right away, and all the teachers will go back to work.
You know what, Mark?
The teachers would only go back to work if we passed a bill that says all of the billions coming into Washington for the Department of Education.
The Department of Education is no more.
All the money goes to the school districts directly.
We won't take a cut out.
Now you've got money to pay all the teachers.
Just get rid of the Department of Education.
That's the kind of bill we should be passing.
Well, I hope you do because I think that's what we need to get serious about.
I mean, I think it's very easy when we talk about entitlements.
I think that's the advantage they have, is that every time you bring up entitlements, the conversation becomes, let's increase the age of eligibility from 65 to 67 in the year 2050.
Whereas when you're talking about the Department of Education, you could cut that budget now, and you could drive a stake through that department in nothing.
Well, and look at the Department of Energy.
You know, Carter created both of those departments.
The Department of Energy's stated goal is to reduce reliance on or dependence on foreign energy sources.
And every year they've existed, they have gotten farther away from that goal.
You know, in any other line of business, you'd have to eliminate that department.
They get further from their goal every year.
Get rid of them.
They're worthless.
And let's get serious about producing our own oil, our own gas, our own coal, make it clean.
We care about the air and water, but for heaven's sake, you don't find anybody caring about the environment enough, at least people to do anything, unless they are employed and the economy is moving forward.
That's what we've got to get back to.
And that means real jobs, not green jobs, where you have some crony who comes and visits you in the White House 20 times and you go and trumpet this fantastic business he's created and it turns out to basically be some environmentally friendly version of Enron or whatever.
It's not going anywhere.
I'll tell you, one of the maybe the scariest thing he said is, I want government working side by side with business.
That is not the government's role unless you're in a third world country or Venezuela or some dictatorship.
Because otherwise, business doesn't want the government as a partner.
It needs it as a referee.
Keep the level playing field.
Make sure everybody's playing fair and get out of the way.
And this president wants them to be your partners.
They don't need partners.
That's why money's sitting on the sidelines right now.
No, and you're absolutely right that that is actually the hallmark of Third World basket cases, that when they say government's your partner, that means you're in somewhere like Mozambique, where you've got to buy 500 permits and bribe 1,000 officials before you can go to work in them.
That's where we're headed.
Yeah, you're absolutely right on that.
Did you take him seriously when he talked about rolling back or considering or looking into rolling back 500 regulations?
He has added so many regulations in the last month, 500 just would be a drop in the bucket.
You know, I don't know if you're aware, but the EPA has declared war on Texas.
Texas has been cleaning up its air, maybe more than any other state every year for the last decade or so.
But this president decides, gee, Texas, with all these jobs that have been created, things going well, we've got to stop them.
So they've sicked the EPA on us.
Power plants are going to have to shut down in January because of brand new regulations they've imposed.
And it makes political sense because why would he want to run and have Texas next year and have Texas held up as an example of how you create jobs?
It would be far better to have rolling blackouts, thousands and thousands laid off because of what the EPA's done.
And then you say, look at Texas.
You know, they're in bad shape.
Well, yeah, the government declared war on the people of Texas and them maintaining jobs, having electricity.
And again, we don't need a partner with business.
We need a referee.
And for this guy to talk about, you know, being fair is really outrageous because it's nothing but crony capitalism.
You know, you got Inhoff up, not him, good senator, but you got GE's head up there in the box.
And I mean, the guy sending jobs around the world.
So you're paying taxes.
Yeah, and you weren't impressed by then, I take it, the umpteenth Warren Buffett reference, who seems to be the only businessman that the president knows, apart from his zoological case.
Well, and it's easier to make massive profits when you owe the government $4 billion and you don't pay it.
I tell you, this speech last night reminded me, and I don't know if you ever heard of Steve Martin back in his early days, but he had a scene where he said, hey, I'm going to write a book, How to Have $10 Million Dollars and Not Pay Taxes.
Well, okay, I'll go ahead and tell you what the book said.
Step one, first you get yourself a million dollars.
And then, step two, just don't pay taxes.
I mean, that's what this guy's saying last night.
It's hard to take a speech like this seriously when you know that there is no substance.
He has no plan really behind it to back it up.
No, thank you for your call, Congressman.
And I can't wait.
Love the show.
I can't wait to hear.
I think we need to get Steve Martin to deliver a joint address to Congress right now.
Here's how you need the teleprompters.
It'd be a lot more entertaining.
That's true.
Here's how we're going to create half a million new jobs and save you a trillion dollars in federal deficit.
First, you create half a million new jobs, and then step two, you save a trillion dollars.
There's the president's plan.
Louis Gumert of the 1st Congressional District in Texas, thanks for being on the show.
Mark Stein in Farush, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in Farush, pass this jobs bill now.
Pass this jobs bill now.
Call 1-800, pass this jobs bill.
And when you buy two jobs bills, we'll send you entirely free a complimentary Chevy Volt, retail value of $8.73.
That's completely free.
When you call 1-800, pass this jobs bill, we will send you not one, but two jobs bills entirely free.
You know, when Congressman Gomeut was talking about, it reminded him of Steve Martin, it reminded me of years ago, John Lennon and Paul McCartney were asked what they do when they sit down and write a song.
And they responded that there are always two things we do when we sit down and write a song.
First, we sit down, then we write a song.
And that's basically what Barack Obama's doing.
There are always two things he does when he sits down to pass a jobs bill.
First, he sits down and then he says, Pass this jobs bill.
It works every time.
Let us go.
Yeah, that's right.
And offer not valid in the People's Republic of China, by the way.
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Let us go to Dale in Ventura, California.
Dale, thank you for waiting.
You're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Hey, Mark, nice to talk to you again.
I got to correct you on Renee though.
The temer of his voice wasn't a monotone.
Sounded more like a drone.
All right.
An unmanned drone.
Yes.
What I called about is this morning there was a phone-in poll to Good Day LA, which L.A., heavily Democrat, heavily went for Obama, really big, lots of minorities.
And the question asked was: Do you think that Barack Obama's speech was effective?
65% said no.
Wow.
So I think he's in a little bit more trouble than he even thinks he is.
So in other words, not even, although the guy in the Washington Post, Dana Milbank, calls it one of the most impassioned speeches the president has ever given.
It left 65% of, what was this show, Good Day LA?
Good Day LA.
Good Day LA, 65% said the speech was entirely ineffective.
So even Angelino's, even a heavily Democratic voting bloc, has got no interest in listening to another teleprompted pile of sludge from the President of the United States.
Exactly.
Very heavily Democrat.
And it encompasses part of Maxine's waters areas.
So the people out there aren't buying it.
No, well, Maxine Waters isn't buying this stuff anymore.
And I think with good reason, too.
Thanks for your call, Dale.
There is no there in a speech like this.
The president has a plan.
Rush is right about this, by the way.
It's not that he's incompetent, but that he has a particular view of what it is that he wants to accomplish in his term of office.
And he wants to establish as the new baseline a level of federal spending of about 25% of GDP, which means this country is going to go from the brokest nation in history to the most bankrupt nation in history, because there's simply no way you're ever going to be able to pay for that.
And that's why what's important here is none of these stupid nickel and dime proposals.
What's important is the price tag, this big half-trillion dollar price tag.
Because what he's doing there is he's oomphing up the baseline.
He's saying, here we go, here we go.
You thought you thought the Republicans had won something.
You thought the Conservatives had clawed a little bit of a $7 billion in savings back in the course of the summer.
Now I just breeze in for 20 minutes and say, hey, congratulations with that $7 billion of savings.
I'm just going to come in and oomph it up by another half a trillion dollars just like that.
So it's seven steps forward and then whatever, what are we talking about?
5,000 steps back.
Seven steps forward, 5,000 steps back.
That's what's important to him, establishing 25% of GDP as the new baseline for federal spending, as the new size of Washington scale government.
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Lots more still to come.
Mark Steinen for Rush.
You know, about an hour ago, I asked rhetorically, what kind of company would hire an employee just because they're going to get a tax credit for hiring him?
And John emailed from California to say the answer to that question is Solendra.
And he's absolutely right.
Solendra hired people because he was getting a tax cut to do so to create all these green jobs.
And now they've just sent the FBI agents in to raid the Solendra factory.
So right there, that's even more green jobs.
We're not just creating green jobs.
We're creating green jobs for green FBI agencies raiding green jobs factories.
That's part of the exciting transformation of the economy that President Obama is bringing about by his investment in green jobs.
We're not just investing in green jobs, we're investing in green federal agents to raid green jobs factories.
This is stimulating the economy.
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