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Sept. 9, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 9, 2011, Friday, Hour #3
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If you just go to rushlimbore.com, we've been talking about President Pass This Jobs Bill and President Pass This Bill has said we need to pass this bill now and get America's economy going again.
FEMA may, by the way, be issuing an advisory because the president last night he announced this jobs bill.
As I said before on the first stimulus, he took a trillion dollars and he tossed it out the window into the Potomac and watched it float out to sea.
Now he's taking half a trillion dollars, a mere half a trillion, because this is a bipartisan compromise.
He's taken a mere half a trillion dollars and tossed it out the window and into the Potomac and watched it float out to sea.
So if you happen to be in the Bahamas lying on the beach this weekend and you're lying there getting a suntan and lots of big wasted American dollar bills wash up over you, it's nothing to worry about.
It's just a little byproduct from the President Pass This Bill's Pass This Bill speech.
Good news, Obama's uncle quietly released from jail.
Oh, quietly released, not like that old, he didn't have to do the old perp walk like Dominique Strauss-Kahn did when he was pulled off that Air France jet.
Officials released President Obama's uncle from Plymouth County Jail yesterday.
Sadly too late for him to join the president for a vacation in Martha's Vineyard.
Officials released President Obama's uncle from Plymouth County Jail yesterday after holding him for more than two weeks on an immigration detainer for violating an order to return to his native Kenya in 1992.
How many years ago is 1992?
That's 19 years.
19 years he's been living here illegally, but he's now done two weeks in detention, so he served his time.
He can live here illegally for another 19 years and then do another two weeks in the year 2030.
U.S. officials refuse to disclose any other information about Onyango Obama, who remained in the United States undetected until Framingham police arrested him August 24th on drunken driving and other charges.
So that's good news.
So right there in Massachusetts, the American Jobs Act of President Obama has created or saved another job because now Onyango Obama will be able to go back to that job at the liquor store that he had selling liquor to underage drinkers.
So that's great.
So we've created or saved another job for an illegal immigrant to sell liquor to underage drinkers.
The economy is really going gangbusters.
Market Stein in for Rush.
Rush returns Monday, but it is the end of the week and you know what that means.
Live from New York City, it's open wine Friday.
I don't know.
I gotta, I mean, how expensive would it be to create or save another job in the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and hire Renee as a voiceover artist to say, live from New Hampshire, it's open.
We don't even need to get Renee.
We could get Will from Amanda, Ohio, who also did the live from New Hampshire.
It's open line photo.
We could get Congressman Gomert.
Was interested in getting in on the act.
Live from New Hampshire, it's Open Line Friday.
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Mr. Snerdley is running the show direct from New York City today.
And Mr. Snerdley, are you going to be there for the 9-11 observances this weekend?
Well, Mr. Snerdley says he's returning to Florida for the 9-11 observances, and that's probably a good thing.
The official commemoration at Ground Zero, Mayor Bloomberg has explained that unfortunately there will be no room for firemen at the ground zero.
Yeah, no, no room for them.
There was room for them on September 11th, 2001, and people were plenty glad to see them on September 11th, 2001, but there's no room for them 10 years later.
And one of the reasons there's no room for them, by the way, is because the place is still a building site.
One of the things I love about the opportunities I get to sit in for Rush is that when you're a writer and you're sitting in a room and you're coming up with this and that, it's got to be self-generated.
And the thing I love about being on this show is that occasionally a listener will call in and start some little thread of something going in your head that takes you in a different direction and you wind up where you wouldn't have gone all on your own.
And when I was on this show, I think it was last year, maybe it was the year before, somebody called in.
I forget what we were talking about.
I don't think we were actually talking about 9-11.
But I wound up saying that actually one of the most disgraceful, disgraceful aspects of 9-11 and what it did to the United States is that hole in the ground that whatever it is, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, left there year in, year out.
And when I wrote my book that I was talking about with Mark Belling a week or two back, after I'd been talking about that on the show, about the embarrassment of this hole in the ground for a decade, a hole in the ground in lower Manhattan.
And I remember talking about the emails that you used to get in the wake of September 11th.
And you probably had those too.
They used to go around.
There was a joke email that used to say the proposed plans for the new World Trade Center replacement building.
And you used to basically show a collection of skyscrapers like a fist with the four knuckles, but the central finger sticking up, the central tower sticking up like a middle finger, flipping the bird to all those leftists and Muslim terrorists and Eurowweenies who rejoiced at seeing America get it pow smack right in the kisser on September 11th, 2001.
And people used to email this joke, this little cartoon around all the time.
The new World Trade Center design looking like the towers with the three knuckles and then the middle finger, the central tower standing up, flipping the finger to the rest of the planet.
It's not funny when you can't put up a building after 10 years.
The Empire State Building was put up in less than 18 months in the middle of a depression.
But we can't do that anymore.
And that gets back to what Congressman Gomez says.
Why can't you put up a building?
Why can't the superpower put up a building in a decade?
That's the question they should ask Nanny Bloomberg.
I'm not interested in Nanny Bloomberg's views on Islam or anything else.
He's not responsible for Islam.
I'm interested to know why, as mayor of that city, he can't get a building built in a decade.
It's pathetic.
And this came, yeah, well, that's right.
He can get the trans fat out of your pastry, he can get the trans fat out of your burger, but he can't get the lead out of his pants when it comes to putting up a building in New York City.
It's embarrassing, and it ought to shame every American that the 10th anniversary commemoration will be taking place at a building site.
And as I said, this came up, I think it was last year, sometime, might have been the year before.
And I started thinking about it, and after it had come up on the show, I wrote it up, and it's actually a little segment in my book, because I think it is telling us something about no, my next book, Mr. Snerdley is worried.
My next book is going to feature something from Rene.
Rene is doing the audio version of my book, Mr. Snerdley.
People said, I would do the audio version of my book myself, but I can't keep up this ridiculous accent for the whole book.
It's bad enough having to do it for three hours.
So we're getting Rene in to do the book.
This book is by Mark Stein.
He's making a fool of himself.
So Renee will be doing the audio version of my next book.
But I think this is the essence of 9-11, that taking down the towers is something our enemies did to us.
The 10-year hole in the ground is something we did to ourselves.
This should have been a priority.
This should have been one of those things where the mayor, supposedly the mayor is a can-do mayor, why didn't he get on the phone and say, we need to make this happen?
Why didn't the president get on the phone and say, we need to make this happen?
I mean, and the reality is you can't make anything happen.
These guys, when you look at that embarrassment of a building site 10 years later, that's what regulation does to you.
That's what government permits do to you.
That's what government licensing do to you.
You can't put up the Empire State Building in 18 months now.
It would take you the best part of 18 months to get approval for a wheelchair ramp up around the Empire State Building to the top floor.
And that kind of arthritis is a big problem with the economy today.
And so when a man gives a fraudulent speech saying he's looking into the possibility of rolling back dozens of regulations when he's actually regulating at a rate unknown to any previous presidency,
when Barack Obama says that he doesn't understand what that kind of seizing up of the limbs does to a society, when you look at that hole in the ground and the 9-11 observances on Sunday,
that hole in the ground, that building site, 10-year building site, a 10-year building site, says something profound and eloquent about the arthritis that is afflicting American energy and the American entrepreneurial spirit.
And as I said, 9-11 is something our enemies did for us.
The 10-year hole in the ground is what we did to ourselves, which is why all those emails of the first week saying, oh, look at this, the new design with us flipping the finger in the giant skyscraper shape to the rest of the planet.
Not funny anymore.
When you can't put up a building in 10 years, that cartoon is no longer funny.
I'll tell you something else to look out for, September 11th.
No fireman.
There's going to be no farming there.
He's got no room for farming.
Not going to be any clergy there either.
I'm slightly more sympathetic to that because I figure somewhere in some calculation, he knows, oh, well, this is going to be one of those things, isn't it?
We're going to have to have, if we have an Episcopalian and we have a Catholic and we have a rabbi, then we're probably going to have to have an imam.
If we book an imam, it'll be like that ground zero mosque imam where you spend your whole time touting him as Mr. Moderate, splendidly moderate guy, and then he flies off to Edinburgh in Scotland to attend some interfaith conference, and he calls for the introduction of Sharia in the United States.
So it's going to be the usual thing: we'll book an Episcopalian, a Catholic, a rabbi, and two moderate Imams, and the moderate Imams will turn out to have been giving a sermon demanding death for the Jews in Riyadh three weeks earlier, and it'll come up on the internet.
So it's best just to have no clergy there, no clergy whatsoever.
One thing you should demand when you go to a 9-11 commemoration is that they talk about it honestly.
It's not a quote tragic event, unquote.
It was an act of war.
And when they start talking about it as somehow an opportunity for multicultural handholding, for healing, for unity, for celebrating diversity, remember, remember Todd Beamer on that plane.
Flight 93.
I think at 9:28, it was 9:28 that the terrorists made their move and seized that fourth plane, the one that was heading for the Capitol.
We don't know whether it would have flown into Congress or whether it would have flown into the White House.
Had it not been for an accident of presidential scheduling and with George W. Bush out of town that day, you don't know where that could have wound up.
Robert C. Byrd, who was the Senate majority leader back then, could have wound up as president of the United States simply because Osama got lucky when the fourth plane slammed into the White House.
You don't know what could have happened as a result of that.
And I certainly don't want to live under a Robert C. Byrd presidency.
And that so what those guys did at 9:28 when the plane was hijacked, 9:58, half an hour later, half an hour later, Todd Beamer cried, Let's roll.
And they fought back against those terrorists.
We can't put up a memorial to them in 10 years either.
The stupid crescent of embrace that's supposed to be in that field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, still isn't ready.
There's something wrong.
There's something wrong not just in the sclerosis of the American bureaucracy, but there's something wrong in that we don't even agree on what it is those guys did.
You know, Todd Beamer is an all-but-forgotten man.
Let's roll.
It was the only good news of the day.
Every aspect of national government failed that day.
All the big, expensive, money-no-object federal alphabet soup, CIA, FBI, FAA, INS failed.
Floppo did nothing, useless.
The only government that worked was lowest-level metropolitan municipal government, the fire department, the firemen of New York, pounding into that building, pounding up with 100 pounds of equipment on their backs, pounding up into that burning building.
That was the only bit of government that worked.
So naturally, the only functioning bit of government is eliminated from Nanny Bloomberg's commemoration.
And the courage, the raw courage of Todd Beemer and his fellow passengers who got on an ordinary commuter flight.
And when they discovered that it wasn't an ordinary commuter flight, they didn't sit there following the stupid 1970s hijack procedures.
They acted as citizen volunteers in an ad hoc militia and provided the only good news of the day.
And we're going to commemorate that 10 years on with a lot of weepy, huggy, feely, touchy, weepy, multi-culti, mushy, wimpy, pansified drivel for the most part about quote tragic events, unquote.
It's not good.
It doesn't say a lot about us.
And if that's what it is like at your 9-11 commemoration, complain about it.
Make sure this event is addressed honestly and understood for what it is.
Mark Stein in for Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Let us go to Bill in Hardy.
Wait a minute.
Hardy VI.
I think I pride myself on knowing my two-letter postal abbreviations.
What's VI, Virgin Islands, Bill?
No, Virginia VA.
Oh, VA.
Okay, then it was a clerical error.
I was all excited.
I thought you were calling us direct from the beach at St. Thomas or something.
But Bill at Hardy, Virginia, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Thanks for waiting.
Well, in the memorable words of Mayor Michael Bloomberg at a Ramadan event, shaloma Lakum.
That's right.
Shalom Akbar to you, Bill.
Allahu Mazeltoff.
Talk about being insensitive to the prerogatives of others.
As Dana Milbank was saying, that the whole invitation to speak to the Congress was a breach of etiquette that everyone knows or should know that joint sessions of Congress are by invitation only.
It's like inviting your friends and relatives to a pool party at your neighbor's pool and not telling your neighbor that you've done this.
It's just a terrible thing, a terrible social faux pop.
But beyond that, his behavior yesterday was one step removed from telling the Congress that should vote itself out of existence.
It's just getting in the way.
It's not doing anything meaningful.
It's holding things up.
The only thing that really surprised me is that at the end, he didn't say, I've crossed the Rubicon and the die is cast.
You're right.
I mean, basically, he's saying, if you pass this jobs bill, I'll send you a free rubber stamp.
That's all he needs from them.
And it's a fascinating point, especially for us foreigners, because the first thing you learn about the United States is that these two branches of government are co-equal.
He is not the king, and this is not his parliament and his ministers.
They're co-equal branches of government.
But this seems to be news to President Obama, Bill.
I think he wants less to be king and more to be emperor.
I would keep in mind the saying about the Eyes of March, however.
Okay, no, no, no, no.
You'll get the Secret Service stampedeing round if you start talking like that.
Good thing we got your two-letter postal abbreviation wrong, and they'll all be heading off to the Virgin Islands, Bill.
Thanks a lot for your call.
And Bill is right there, that this idea just standing there.
I mean, this is where supporters of the president just don't get it.
You want Congress to pass a bill.
You send them something on writing.
If you can't even be bothered to get out the Dan Raver Smith-Corona typewriter and actually put it on paper, you haven't got a jobs bill.
There is no jobs bill.
Yeah, I'm going nowhere.
Somebody help me pass this bill now.
I haven't heard that song in ages, but I do believe that's how the lyric goes.
I'm going nowhere.
Somebody help me pass this bill now.
And remember, when you call 1-800, pass this bill, we won't just send you one jobs bill.
We won't send you two jobs bills.
We'll send you 12 jobs bills.
And when you call 1-800, Pass This Jobs, we will also send you entirely free of charge a Ronco Vegematic with a retail value of half a trillion dollars.
All you have to do is call 1-800-Pass This Jobs Bill now.
Let us go to Deb in Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
Deb, you are live on Open Line Friday.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Deb.
Are you there, Deb?
How are you?
Hey, I'm great.
And thank you.
Thank you for waiting.
Great to have you with us.
Thanks.
I'm happy to be on the show.
I was going to make my first comment about Renee.
I'd love to know what Rene, I would love to know what blissfully ignorant rock he's living under, because I'm sure it's not in this America.
Well, no, he wants this country.
He just feels that if we don't giggle, chortle, titter, and guffur at the president, then all this magic stuff will work.
And if we just sit there and keep a straight face as he's telling us about his jobs bill, then magically the 9% unemployment rate, official unemployment rate will wither away to 2 or 3 percent, and this country's economy will be booming again.
Just if we sit there, and when he reads the teleprompter, we pretend to take him seriously.
Surely you can do that, Deb.
That's why I call it blissfully ignorant.
Just walk away, Renee.
Okay.
And what else do you want to talk about, Deb?
Yeah.
Was the 53% vote that Obama got, you know, back in, what, 2008?
There were so many first-time voters that voted, and not because of politics or what America needed or what America didn't need.
It was a popularity contest.
And I can guarantee you that those people that made up a good percentage of the 53 percent are not going to vote again because they don't care.
So you think you can't do.
Yeah, I think that's right.
I think he appeared in 2008 as someone uncontaminated by politics.
So he was like a big, new, sudden, glamorous movie star who's just had one big hit opening and nobody knows too much about him.
And he wasn't a conventional political figure who'd been around forever, like Joe Biden or Bill Clinton or Hillary or any of those fellas.
And so it was enough for him then to just go wafting around the country talking about hope and change and yes, we can and we are the ones we've been waiting for.
But you can't sing that song second time around, can you, Deb?
No, and the people that, like I said, that voted for him for one specific reason.
Now, I'm a firm believer that we need to get away from saying things that, you know, don't offend others.
Let's tell it like it is.
You know, people don't need to be afraid to offend.
If they're offended, go away.
But he played that card, that one card.
And those first-time voters, whether they were 18 to their 20s, came out because here's a man.
We're going to elect the first black president of the United States, and I want to be part of this.
And they're not going to be out there next time.
No, I think that's a very good point.
There was a combination of factors.
And I think if you look at guilt-ridden white liberals in particular, the intoxicating frisson of voting for the first black president of the United States was they got a real kick out of that.
Now, they thought they could afford, they thought they could afford the consequences of their choice.
And what has happened is that we now have a flatline economy, and they realize there are real-world consequences to your choice.
Can you basically serve up the White House to a man who has been community organizer or whatever, he was community organizer, state senator, then a United States senator.
But basically, he had never been in a situation where he had to go into the office at 9 o'clock in the morning and make executive decisions.
When you decide to take a flyer on a guy like that, you've got to be pretty confident that America's structures are so fundamentally secure that you can afford the consequences of your choice.
We have a collapsed housing market, we have a collapsed jobs market, we have a dying dollar, and people are beginning to understand that actually the price of making yourself feel good for voting for Barack Obama is actually quite high.
Deb, thanks for your call.
Great to have you with us on the show.
Let us go to Tyler in Dubuque, Iowa.
Tyler, great to have you with us.
Hey, Mark, how are you doing?
I'm doing good.
I'm doing good.
Which part of Iowa is Dubuque in?
Right on the Mississippi River.
And let me just say that I am, contrary to Renee, I am a traitor to black people everywhere.
I'm a black conservative.
Well, then you're no longer black.
Yeah, well, you can't be a black conservative.
We all know this, Tyler.
When you become a conservative, you cease to be black.
It's one or the other.
It's like when you're Sarah Palin.
She can be a woman or she can be a conservative.
She can't be both.
Let's not get comfortable.
Yeah, well, and if you're like Condoleezza Rice and you're a black female Republican, you've got to decide what it's going to be.
Yeah, you just can't do that.
The whole identity group thing just won't work if people try being black and conservative.
There's a sort of identity crisis there.
Well, actually, what I wanted to talk about today was what you mentioned earlier about Mayor Bloomberg and not allowing the firemen to attend the 9-11 Memorial.
And the thing that strikes me is that we're having this lovey-dovey message in the name of political correctness.
And eventually what's going to happen, it's happening already, is that these kids are going to grow up not knowing about 9-11 and they're going to treat it like another day on the calendar, just like Pearl Harbor Day, something that happened a long time ago when it was really, you know, probably the darkest day in modern America's history.
Yeah, what's interesting is it's already that President Obama has declared it a day of service.
And I believe there's a website called, I think it's 9-11day.org, that you can go to and say what service you're going to do on that day.
So people have gone on there and they've said, I'm going to be spending the day cleaning up part of the beach.
And that's good.
If you want to clean up part of the beach, fine, clean up part of the beach, but don't pretend it's anything to do with 9-11, which was an act of war.
Right.
You can clean up the beach on the other 364 days of the year.
Exactly.
Yeah, this is, I mean, what's interesting, Tyler, about this is that it's the reluctance to confront the truth.
I mean, I wouldn't even mind, but these are the most tired and clapped-out banalities of the multicultural mindset, that there are no enemies.
There are just friends we haven't hugged quite hard enough yet.
And the idea that this is now almost every public commemoration of 9-11, whether you look at the peace quilt at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, when you look at the Ground Zero commemoration under Michael Bloomberg, there is a deep dishonesty about the nature of the event.
And it's asking a lot to ask 300 million people, in effect, to go along with an official lie about this event.
It's actually.
Like the previous caller said, it's all we're so afraid to offend anybody that we don't call anything like it is.
Yeah.
No, no, That's true.
And we don't, I mean, you mentioned Pearl Harbor.
Imagine if 10 years after Pearl Harbor, imagine if in 1951 we had observed the 10th anniversary of Pearl Harbor by learning all about the evils of Japanese internment during World War II.
That's how school districts across the country in the 9-11 study pacts they're being told that they should study things like, for example, how 9-11 made Americans more fearful of Muslim women in Muslim garb.
I mean, there's a place for that kind of discussion.
But as I said, if on the 10th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, every single mayor across the land decided he wanted to have a photo opportunity where he was seen to eat sushi with members of the Japanese community, people would have thought this country was psychologically deranged.
I mean, this is quite the weirdest anniversary observance in modern history, I would say, Tyler.
I would agree with that assessment for sure.
Thanks a lot for your call.
Open Line Friday, 1-800-282-2882-Mark Stein in for Rush.
More straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for rush and this 9-11 anniversary weekend.
Not sure I dare risk turning on the television over the next 72 hours or so.
I'm not sure I can face the tone of the official commemorations.
There are no enemies, just friends we haven't apologized to sufficiently.
It's not going to be encouraging for what it says about the state of the nation 10 years after an act of war.
Let us go to Steve in Daytona, Florida.
Steve, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Mark.
Hey.
What had a Democrat president in 1964 that said before this decade's out, we'll put a man on the moon, and we did, and we can't even fill a hole in New York City?
Yeah, that was President Kennedy.
It wasn't 1964, I think it was more like 61 or 62.
Okay.
I should know this, actually, because that's another thing that's in my brand new book, Steve.
And I wouldn't mention it, but you did.
So I'll take advantage of that and say if you want to actually read my thoughts on the specific challenge that President Kennedy issued and how America was able to fulfill it within a decade, that's also in my book, Steve.
But you're right.
Oh, Mr. Snerdley says I should give the title of the book.
I'm being too discreet here.
It's called After America, and it's available at all good bookstores.
If you go to Borders, Borders is closed, Borders is closed, but it's in the front window because even the looters didn't want it, Mr. Snerdley.
So you can get it.
It's at Amazon too.
Borders, yeah, Barnes and Noble, it's at Barnes Noble, too.
But Borders applied for chapter 11.
And unfortunately, my book's only got 10 chapters, so we weren't covered by the settlement.
Anyway, Steve, you're absolutely right there.
It was 10 years put a man on the moon.
And I actually say in the book that it's hard to imagine.
I think that was the supreme achievement.
That was the pinnacle of man's achievement in the 20th century.
The end of a great century of progress from about the mid-19th century all the way up to about the mid-20th century.
And if you think about it, Steve, don't you find it really kind of hard to imagine us going to the moon now.
If you remember that moment, don't you find it hard to actually think of a guy stepping out and planting the flag on the surface of the moon now?
That if we just to even try and conceive of us doing it in 2011, it kind of seems as if it's something from a sort of more glorious past that we couldn't quite muster the will to do now.
Anything, Steve?
Yeah, it's unbelievable how fast that they built everything down.
Like I said, I'm in Daytona and watching, you know, my father worked down at the cave as an electrician and watching how fast that thing went up and got going and they put a man on the moon that quickly.
And it's an utter disgrace that we can't do something in New York City to do something with that hole.
I mean, it just blows me away that that's where we're at through all the red tape that we've got to go through.
You know, I'm an electrician contractor in Daytona, and it's like the red tape that we got to go through just to do anything, you know, just to put up.
Yeah, and that's a good way.
So you do basically what a lot of your dad was doing at Cape Canaveral or Cape Kennedy.
And the difference is, is that just performing regular routine work now is regulated, regulated, regulated.
Federal regulation, yeah, just federal regulation sucks up about 10% of GDP, which is the equivalent of basically the Canadian economy.
We take the Canadian economy or the Indian economy and toss it down the toilet every single year in just complying with federal paperwork.
And that's why you can't put up a building in 10 years.
And I think it's, I mean, I don't want to keep quoting myself, but the line I use in the book is that it's when you think of what we were able to do in the last half of the 19th century, first half of the 20th century, culminating in this moment when man stepped on the moon, planted the flag on the moon.
It was a wonderful American moment, actually.
I love the way they took a cassette machine of Frank Sinatra and the Count Basie band doing Fly Me to the Moon.
Like any other country, if the Germans had got there first, they'd have had Beethoven, the Ode to Joy or something.
But our guys, they take a cassette of Frank Sinatra and the Count Basie band, see Fly Me to the Moon.
Now, I don't know what the equivalent of Frank and the Basie band now is, you know, Lady Gagger or Justin B.
But can you imagine?
Can you imagine?
It's hard to imagine anybody just actually stepping out of the module and firing up the iPod and blasting out Lady Gagger on the surface of the moon.
And I say in the book, it's a bit like a date farmer in Nazarea who knows in the middle of Iraq.
He knows that somewhere around here is the great ziggurat of Ur from the glory days, from the glory days.
But it's lost grandeur and it will never come again.
And I think that's the tragedy.
We should have shown the world when the World Trade Center was taken down, we should have put it up again in nothing flat.
We should have built it bigger and better.
And the message we would have sent to the world is, you cannot, you cannot, you think you took out the New York City skyline.
The New York City skyline is back.
It's bigger.
It's brighter.
It's in your face.
And when you stand on the top floor, you get a terrific view and you look through the telescope.
You get a terrific view of all the top al-Qaeda lieutenants sharing the executive latrine at the back of the cave back in Waziristan.
That's how big it is.
And that's how great America is.
And no matter what you throw at us, we come back bigger and better and scraping the sky bigger than ever.
And we didn't do that.
And when we didn't do that, we told the world something about American sclerosis in the early 21st century.
Mark Stein for Rush, more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
You know, it's easy to mock this president.
It's easy to mock this president.
But don't ever let them tell you that his American Jobs Act isn't already working.
Let me tell you, let me tell you, as one undocumented immigrant, the opportunity to get three hours of casual day labor right here on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, that is testament to the way this man's far-sighted vision, his ability to create or save jobs, is already working.
Take his advice, Republicans.
Pass this bill now.
Pass this bill now.
And when you pass this bill now, you'll get a free teleprompter enabling you to stand up and say, pass this bill now when you're in the comfort of your own home.
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