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Oct. 19, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 19, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Yes, America's anchorman is away today.
And this is the worst Mark Davis impression you've heard in a long time.
No, it's your undocumented anchor man sitting in.
Mark Stein, honored, honored to be here.
We don't get our own personal eye dents until uh the Obama amnesty bill goes through.
Uh but once we do, you're not gonna have to put up with that again.
I don't know I don't know what uh what happened.
Mark Davis will probably object to my using uh his eye dent.
I don't I don't know why that happened.
Someone should be fired.
What's this country coming to?
Uh I am not Mark Davis.
I'm uh I am uh an sinister foreign interloper, no supporting paperwork whatsoever.
I was uh just doing a little light w lawn work at uh Mitt Romney's place, but Mitt said I'm running for office for beat's sake, I can't have a legal, so uh so here I am.
Look at it as uh as Occupy EIB.
I'm uh I'm not leaving until those corporate fat cats agree to pay the outstanding two hundred and sixty-seven thousand dollar tuition debt for my master's in transgender and colonialism studies.
Hey, we're live at Ice Station EIB today in Northern New Hampshire.
The uh the revolution is spreading.
I drove through the demonstrations uh on my way here at uh Occupy Dead Moose Lake and Occupy Deer Tick Notch, and uh and I was impressed at how this this unstoppable movement uh just started on one tiny little block in Wall Street and it's rolling across uh the country.
So uh even here in uh New Hampshire we're being occupied.
They're calling for tariffs on uh imported plaid from uh no, they're not they're not they're not stealing computer are they stealing teleprompters down there?
Uh because uh uh I I don't think there is any teleprompter in New Hampshire, though that guy who stole Obama's prompter may well be in New Hampshire by now, so I shall certainly keep a lookout for that.
Uh because uh if I see a guy standing uh, you know, I I believe we've got a description of the uh suspect uh HR, what it w what's the guy?
He's a male suspect approximately five foot eleven, hundred and ninety pounds, thirty to forty years of age.
So if I see somebody like that uh BA in philosophy, so if I see a guy like that standing in an empty field with a glassy stare saying, Pass this jobs bill now over and over and over, I will definitely call it into the New Hampshire State Police.
What's the country come into when Obama's prompter gets uh gets stolen as he's on this non campaign non tour across the country.
Uh last time I was here a couple of weeks ago was the morning after the Republican presidential debate the night before, and here I am again on the morning after the Republican presidential debate the night before.
So I'm beginning to sense a pattern here.
You'd almost think you'd almost think that the mere whiff of a presidential debate and uh and and uh and rush uh abandons abandons us for for Mark Davis and Mark Belling and me.
But uh I don't know.
Yeah, we're the mo we're morning, I'm the morning after pill.
And uh and we're here, so we'll talk about the Republican presidential debate.
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This was the Vegas the Vegas debate.
Um what's that guy's name?
Huntsman.
Huntsman uh declined to participate in the debate uh because Nevada has moved up its primary ahead of New Hampshire's, and so in order to show solidarity with the people of New Hampshire, he declined to join the other candidates on stage in uh Las Vegas and had his best debate performance yet, I thought.
Um uh I uh I believe his poll numbers have uh gone up now from uh totally undetectable to barely detectable.
So that's uh that's exciting.
No John Huntsman on stage.
All the other guys were there.
Wayne Newton was there.
Wayne Newton was there, Mr. Vegas.
Uh Wayne Newton uh came out after the debate and endorsed uh Mitt Romney.
He said he came in hoping to support Rick Perry, but the impeccably tanned crooner said he thought the Texas governor's attacks on Mitt Romney were mean spirited and that Romney was a gentleman and now he'll back Romney.
Uh but uh twenty minutes later, he appeared on TV uh and said he was endorsing Representative Michelle Backman.
So th this seems to be it's like it's like uh it's uh you know, it's it's like these college uh valedictorians, uh the sk high school valedictorians where they have twelve of them now.
I d I don't see why you can't endorse twelve different candidates and uh and so uh Wayne Newton is doing that.
Wayne Newton has endorsed both Mitt Romney and Michelle Backman.
So that that endorsement is certainly worth something.
Mitt Romney I I think of him uh I I would say I see Wayne Newton as more of a Romney guy myself, because uh in this picture uh they look alarmingly Mitt uh Wayne Newton looks alarmingly like uh like Mitt's uh I would slightly maybe slightly older, or slightly uh not necessarily older brother, but a brother who's had a bit more work done.
Uh Mitt Romney is kind of the Wayne Newton of candidates, uh I I sometimes feel.
But anyway, Dan Cashane, Dan Cashane, thank you for all the joy and pain.
That is gonna be either Mitt Romney's or Michelle Bachman's campaign theme uh from the night.
Who did you think won the night?
1800, 282, 2882.
We know Wayne Newton uh is now endorsed both Romney and Bachman.
Who would you endorse after that performance?
It wasn't a great performance from uh from Rick Perry, I didn't think uh the there there has to be there has to be some historian, some scholar somewhere who can find us an example uh of a uh candidate who's come in and has imploded more totally than Rick Perry has uh in his uh six weeks in the public spotlight, but I cannot think of one.
He he has this line that I like uh that he uses all the time that he's the son of a tenant farmer.
I like the way by the way he gives the impression he's got like five or six lines and he just sort of assembles them in random order uh when he's asked about something.
But the one he keeps going about is he's proud to be the son of a tenant farmer, which was uh wasn't that a Dusty Springfield hit in the uh 1960s, uh Mike?
The uh the only man who could ever reach me was the son of a tenant farmer.
Uh I love that song.
Maybe we can we can dig that out later.
And I thought one of the more slightly surreal aspects of the debate was in the question of f on foreign aid.
Foreign aid, uh, when Mitt Romney uh essentially said he was in favour of outsourcing foreign aid to the Chinese.
He did make the point that we borrow money from the People's Republic of China uh then to give it to Uganda and uh to Rwanda and to Chad and wherever, and he thought uh there was something to be said for simply eliminating the middleman and letting the Chinese pick up the tab for America's foreign aid budget direct and give it straight from uh Beijing to the Rwandans and uh uh the Sudanese and and the rest of them.
So th that was the kind of uh policy innovation of Mitt Romney.
Uh I forget what the direct quote was.
I think he said, I think we ought to outsource foreign aid to the Chinese, which seems a bit reasonable.
They're foreigners, so they'd be much better at it.
They've got an advantage on us.
Uh so that was the big development on the Mitt Romney policy front.
I must say, oh, but one of the by the way, it's the little things in this.
It's the little things in this.
You know, Rick Perry was asked about the border fence, the border fence in Texas.
And uh I found this uh I found this fascinating because it's a it's a perfect insight into what's wrong both with the United States uh in the in its present condition and with the level at which uh this debate is being conducted.
Uh Mitt uh Rick Perry was asked about the border fence, and he said, sure you can build a fence, but it takes anywhere between ten and fifteen years and thirty billion dollars, he said uh during the bait.
He said there's a better way to do it.
Why does it take fifteen years to build a border fence in the twenty-first century?
Why?
Why does it take fifteen years to build a border fence?
What's the reason for that?
You know, uh I don't want to outsource everything to the Chinese, but the Great Wall of China was built between two hundred and twenty BC before Christ, or whatever they what do they say now?
Before before the common era, or whatever you meant to say, the politically correct term.
The Great Wall of China was built between two hundred and twenty BC and two hundred and six BC.
In other words, fourteen years.
It took fourteen years to build the Great Wall of China.
And it's it's well Yeah, what No, they didn't.
It was pre-cat it was pre-caterbillar, you're right, uh you're right there, HR.
They didn't outsource it.
It wasn't to, you know, you didn't have to apply for stimulus funding or whatever.
So they got it done in nothing flat.
220 BC, boom, uh they're cutting the opening ribbon, 206 BC, fourteen years, start to finish.
Why does it take uh Rick Perry, why why does it take the United States fifteen years, longer than it took to build the Great Wall of China?
Why does it take longer than that to build a border fence uh in the United States of America on the so on the southern border, which uh speaking from uh my corner and northern New Hampshire, that's the short border, by the way.
And uh and they're uh and and and and you can't get it done in less time.
That's the problem.
Why do we accept that?
Why can't the superpower put up a wall, put up a fence in less time than it took to build the Great Wall of China?
Well, yeah, there's obviously it's got to go through uh the environmental impact study, yes, that's true.
There's uh there's there's the there's all that that they didn't have.
I don't think they had an environmental impact study back when they put the Great Wall of China up.
But maybe that's something else.
Maybe uh maybe they could all build a great wall of uh Texas along the Rio Grande, uh and uh instead of just outsourcing foreign aid to the People's Republic, uh we could outsource the uh the US border fence to it.
Rick Perry's other great idea was that we should have unmanned predator drones on the southern border.
It's not just for Waziristan anymore.
It's he wants unmanned predator drones on the southern border.
You know where they've already got unmanned predator drones.
Did you know this, HR?
They've got unmanned predator drones on the northern border, right?
They've got unmanned, this was uh the Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Incompatano, she announced that uh last year that they were having unmanned drones, unmanned drones patrolling the northern border.
The same guys who sort of fly over and zap entire Waziristani villages uh so that Obama doesn't have any any embarrassing problems with capturing people and figuring whether he's going to detain them at Gitmo or try them uh in uh a courtroom in Manhattan.
Uh they get their way round that problem by obliterating entire communities uh in remote parts of Waziristan with unmanned drones.
Well, that's the thing.
I Janet Incompetano thinks the threat is from the northern border, so they got these uh they got these unmanned drones patrolling the 49th parallel now.
Not far from where I am right now, by the way.
Derby Line, Vermont, the border runs through the middle of the town library.
It's I forget which uh order it is, it's uh but something like uh fiction is in the United States and non fiction is in Canada.
So if you're in the i if you're in the town library at Derby Line, Vermont, and you look up over the fiction shelves, you may just see an unmanned predator drone hovering, hovering over fiction A to D, uh ensuring the uh the national security of the United States.
Uh why does it take this this th I'm not a Ron Paul fan, and I'm not a Newt Gingrich fan.
I don't think these um candidacies are going anywhere in any meaningful sense.
But they were the only guys there uh who actually got to discussing these issues in primal terms.
Uh Ron Paul was the only one who used the word broke.
He's rightly pointing out that why why are we uh in effect subsidizing uh German social programs sixty six years after the Second World War?
We're broke.
We're broke.
He uh he's the only one who used the B word broke, broke, broke.
We have to, we've got fifteen trillion dollars of debt.
We have to pay back fifteen trillion dollars just to get back to being broke.
That's that's that's what it would we would be if we paid back fifteen trillion dollars, we would still be broke, but we'd be we we'd be only seventeen cents broke.
Uh Ron Paul is right.
There's something faintly unreal about the complacency uh of both the questions and some of the answers in this debate.
So I'm not a I'm not a Ron Paul fan, he's an isolationist, I'm not an isolationist.
I'm not a Newt Gingrich fan.
I can't see any rationale for his candidacy other than that he's doing it to uh bump up his uh public speaking fees and all the rest of it.
But these are the only guys who are actually talking about uh the uh the issues in primal terms, and it's something's very wrong when only Ron Paul was prepared to use the B word, broke word.
We're broke, broke, broke, broke, broke, broke.
And uh there's something faintly surreal about seeing a uh uh as complacent a debate, aside from all the little snippy snippy snippy stuff between Rick Perry and Mitt Romney.
Uh th the the meter on the public conversation needs to be a lot further along in some of these debates.
We'll talk about that and we'll talk about lots of other uh aspects of today's news.
Mark Stein in Farush, one eight hundred two eight two eight eight two.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network, one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two.
Meanwhile, meanwhile, as the Republican candidates snipe at each other uh on stage in Las Vegas, horrifying, horrifying Wayne Newton with their mean spiritedness.
Uh the president continues his non campaign non tour on his Canadian bus, his armored Canadian bus.
Uh the Canadian uh bus was in Boone, now North Carolina.
And uh the president, uh, as it's reported here, cooed over a baby at a general store.
Was that the baby he picked?
I haven't seen any guy pick up a baby like that since Michael Jackson dangled his over the hotel balcony and uh whatever it was at the Dorchester Hotel in London a couple of years ago.
Uh and then and then uh the uh the president stopped at Reed's House restaurant near the North Carolina Virginia border to shake hands with the lunchtime crowd.
It's good to know they've still got a lunchtime crowd at Reed's House restaurant.
Uh one man told the president he was in the funeral business.
That's important work, Obama told him.
Yes, indeed.
Uh the uh they're both in the same line of work, really.
Uh Obama is uh the uh undertaker in chief, uh carrying out America by the handles.
Uh so it's good to it's good to know the uh that the that he's uh he recognizes a man who does fellow important work as he does.
So the President's tour is continuing.
He's warned, he's warned uh that uh the opponents of his half trillion dollar jobs bill.
By by the way, this is another half trillion dollars that we haven't got, because we're broke.
As I said, we have to pay back fifteen trillion dollars just to get back to being flat busted broke uh in in the in the affordable range of broke.
Just to get back to having no money, we have to pay back fifteen trillion dollars.
But uh President wants to add another half trillion dollars to that, and he warns that opponents of his half trillion dollar spendaholic bill will risk a public backlash if they reject proposals that would stave off teacher layoffs and boost hiring to fix aging public infrastructure.
Um are you concerned?
Uh did you uh d is there much of a public backlash against uh against teacher layoffs?
He keeps promising he's got this line here where he says uh uh the Republicans don't want to put teachers back in the classroom.
I don't even know why why aren't they in the classroom now?
Are they all down at the Occupy Wall Street demonstration?
Like the uh California teacher uh who got uh who got fired for saying that it was uh all the fault of the Zionists.
Um I don't know why there aren't any teachers in the classroom, but uh when they get all get back from the Occupy Wall Street demonstration, they'll be heartened to hear that when this jobs bill goes through they'll get another raise and uh they'll be able to retire at forty-eight.
The good news is that uh Harry Reid says, even if states aren't laying off teachers, they are gonna receive the money for not laying off teachers anyway.
In other words, so if your state, if you're in one of these spendaholic states that hasn't laid off any teachers or public sector union workers, you're still gonna get your share of the half trillion dollar uh of federal uh money that doesn't exist for not uh to to compensate for laying off those uh laid off teachers, even if you haven't laid off any laid off teachers, you'll still be getting the money for laying off the teachers.
That's how it works.
So uh states could uh states are all around the nation can uh can pledge not to lay off anybody, and Washington will still give them their share of the half trillion dollars for laying off workers.
That's how it works.
It's that easy, folks.
Another half trillion dollars uh that we haven't got.
By the way, by the way, do you do you really think it's actually uh in the interests of a vast continental power of three hundred million people for something such as teacher layoffs in fifteen thousand school districts, uh, for the precise degree of teacher employment necessary in those districts now to be regulated and subsidized uh from a central authority in Washington.
Do you think that's going to do anything uh to get us out of the multi-trillion dollar hole this nation is in?
Or is that just more the same?
Uh Barack Obama warning that uh Republicans are gonna face a backlash if uh if they stand in the way of his plan to put teachers back in the classroom, because that's what we need.
More teachers back in the classroom, fewer teachers out at the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, fewer teachers like that school district in uh Atlanta, where they were all spending time at each other's homes uh taking the eraser to various incorrect answers and writing in the correct answer in order to get their no child left behind funding.
He's gonna put an end to all that and we will have more teachers in the classroom.
Uh and uh Jolton Joe Lieberman, Jolt and Joe Lieberman, uh says the President's plan to pass his jobs act in bite-sized pieces is not going to work.
When you look at the President's Jobs Act, even if you break it into bite-sized pieces, it's spending money we don't have, and you've got to raise taxes to pay for it.
And to me, all that just makes the job of the debt reduction committee.
Is that still around, by the way?
The Superfriends Super Congress Super Committee.
Is that still is that still uh working?
Is that are they still in are they still in business?
They've got a report back by the year 2040 on raising the age of Medicare eligibility from 65 to 67 or whatever.
So uh so good luck with that.
But Jolton Joe Lieberman says we don't need bite-sized pieces.
We need one great big bill that is gonna re give a real jolt to job creation.
In the meantime, as Barack Obama says, uh funeral business is important work.
If you're in the undertaking business, this is a great place to be.
More straight ahead.
Yes, great to be with you, and Rush will be.
Sorry about that, somebody stole my teleprompter.
Uh great to be with you.
Rush returns tomorrow.
Uh and uh I'm taking your calls.
Uh if you've uh got a candidate uh you think emerged best from the Republican debate in Las Vegas last night.
Maybe two.
Maybe you're like Wayne Newton and you decide to endorse both uh uh Governor Romney and Congresswoman Buckman.
Maybe you've got two.
We'll we'll go with that.
That's how easy it is.
You should be able to write in two candidates when you vote uh in November, I think.
Uh if you if you've got a favorite candidate, one th you think emerged best from last night's debate, give us a call.
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Let's go to Steve in Lawrence, Kentucky.
Steve, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey, love the show today, Mark.
It's fantastic.
Great to hear you're always on the show on Russia Show.
I really appreciate it.
Well, that's uh that's great.
That's great to hear, Steve.
It's an honor to be here.
I could as I said, I could be doing lawn work for Mitt Romney, but it's uh it's great to have this opportunity.
I'm uh I really enjoying it.
I did have uh two words for you, though, on building that fence.
Uh it would take fifteen years because of union labor.
That's that's right, the Ming Dynasty in China didn't have to worry about that.
People were just jumping at the chance to build a wall.
Um, really jumping at a chance down here in union labor, you know, with Barack Obama anything over so many millions of dollars has to be union labor.
And you got the union people saying, Well, let's not work so fast, guys.
We've got to make this last.
We've got to hire on your children and your grandchildren to help build this fence.
That sort of thing.
That would be the problem, Mark.
Yeah, that's that's true, but it's actually it's fascinating to think of it in those terms, because um i I'm just going off the top of my head here, but my uh my memory is that the Great Wall of China is about five thousand uh it's either five thousand uh kilometers or or five thousand w uh miles long.
So it's uh it's actually uh no, I think it's five thousand miles.
It's five thousand miles long the Great Wall of China, so it's longer than the Canadian border.
Uh but you but we but yet we still, even with Union Labor, you would have thought or or would but basically would it take them that long now to uh build a uh uh a great wall of Massachusetts along the Rhode Island border?
Basically that you'd be looking at three decades for that too, wouldn't you, basically, Steve?
That's just how it is.
Exactly.
Oh marvelous, marvelous.
So that's the problem right there, by the way.
Rick Perry, if Rick Perry was a conservative, he'd want to know why it takes fifteen years uh to put up a wall on that southern border.
And and you shouldn't it And you fifty well how long is the southern border, HR?
Yeah, fifty, five hundred miles for the Great Wall of China.
That's five and a half thousand miles.
That's longer than the Canadian border.
That's the Canadian border and halfway over to the Irish coast.
And the Chinese could put that up in uh in uh two hundred and twenty BC in less time, in two hundred and twenty BC in less time than it takes the Obama administration to do it with Union Labor on the Great to put the Great Wall of Texas up on the Rio Grande.
That's that's your problem right there.
Uh and we need to start taking that stuff seriously, by the way.
Uh because if you take fifteen, if you can't put up a fence, we're talking about a fence, we're not talking about a great wall here.
And even if you electrify the fence like Herman Cain wants, uh, how long do how long does that take?
I mean, there's like that's like these things they uh have.
Yeah, they could you could have a wind powered electric fence, couldn't you couldn't you, uh H.O. I think that might be the answer.
So he'd have wind turbines.
So if they place the ladder on the fence too high, they just get it sliced up like those they do in those Condor cuisine nuts out in the California desert.
Those great rusting, uh rusting, unused wind turbines you see when you drive out from Los Angeles to Palm Springs that aren't good for anything except for slicing up uh all uh all California's ornithor ornithological life.
And uh that's that's the problem right there, that you c it takes fifty when when Rick Perry uh Michelle Malkin had a great piece uh on her website uh a couple of days ago about the the unconservative inclinations of the candidates on stage in these Republican debates.
And we know some of the obvious ones like uh uh Mitt Romney with his Romney care plan and all the rest of it.
But when a candidate stands up and and says it takes fifteen years to put up a fence, he shouldn't ex ex accept that.
It doesn't take fifteen years to put up a fence.
Uh the the when the Chinese put up the Great Wall of China, they had pressing needs to put up that wall in a hurry, and uh the United States government has a pressing need to secure its southern border.
Why should it take fifteen years?
Why do we accept that it takes fifteen years?
Uh that's that's uh the soft bigotry of low expectations, as uh a previous Texas governor uh once remarked.
Let's go to Lisa in Chesterfield, uh Virginia.
Lisa in Chesterfield, Virginia, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Haig, uh good afternoon, a pleasure.
Uh wanna crack open a pine again as when I hear you.
So uh I just wanted to call we are um we're in Chesterfield, Virginia, where uh uh President Obama is today, and didn't get a whole lot of um national press.
Um but the event here, uh like the other two in Virginia for today, they're all close to the public.
So you cannot go uh go to Obama's uh uh presentation at a firehouse today.
But the um a county or two older, Louisa County, where they had the earthquake uh the end of August, um they actually wrote a letter to the White House.
Governor McDonald wrote a letter to the White House and asked Obama on his uh coach tour uh to stop in Louisa County where they were turned down for FEMA uh assistance because of the earthquake damage.
And the president said no.
So he is not going by the county.
What they were very specific.
They said uh it wasn't for political purposes, they wanted uh disaster relief and to re for FEMA to revisit the area.
Um and he said no.
And his event today is close to the public.
So it it makes absolutely no sense uh besides an absolute marketing campaign to uh to push his uh re-election.
So so he takes this armored Canadian bus and the 40 car motorcade, which is apparently necessary now when the citizen executive of a republic, a small government visits towns in his own country.
Uh he takes his armored Canadian bus and the 40 car motorcade to visit a small town and then no citizens of the small town are allowed to go to the event.
Is that is that how it works, Lisa?
Correct.
Correct.
So well, I certainly hope that uh that he's he's hired uh union uh members of uh equity uh or other uh acting unions to to appear at these events with him because I certainly I think it would look terrible if he would just to uh just to leave it to random White House staffers.
So I hope he's at least providing work for unemployed actors who can play uh local townsfolk uh when he uh appears at the firehouse in uh Chesterfield.
He's not uh is he gonna be picking up any more babies while he's there, Lisa?
I tell you what, we uh um we're an army family with five and well well we're near my five, how's that?
So uh I I don't think so.
But you know the sad thing is is who is his audience?
If it's close to the public, uh who is his audience for an event like that?
It's it's it's it's it's just such uh rubbish, frankly.
It really is just a marketing campaign.
Uh and and frankly, you should go back to the Oval Office and and and actually try to be a leader and do something, get something done, accomplish something in in his term.
He is accomplishing something.
It's the Barack Obama show, and uh and you and everybody else are just extras in the Barack Obama show.
And if you and and if you apply to go through the the the rigorous background checks, they might let you in there to stand behind him with a glassy look on your face, uh droning hope he changy and and four more years, four more years, these people are saying they were suckered once in two thousand eight, but that's no reason not to get suckered again.
Lisa thanks thanks for your call from Chesterfield, Virginia.
She's got five kids, but she doesn't want uh to let uh Barack Obama dangle any of them.
He was doing he was doing the old Michael Jackson dangle over the hootel balcony thing with that kid yesterday.
I thought I'm not an expert in in child care, by the way, I just play one on the radio, so if you are an expert in in uh in baby holding, do feel free to call me up and correct me.
But it looked a very strange way to to hold a baby.
I mean, you know, I uh I normally just uh when when mine were that age, I normally just strapped them to the roof of the pickup truck, and uh that normally kept them quiet until you had to remember to take them off there if you went through the drive-thru lane and McDonald's, because otherwise they tend to get a bit bruised.
But they didn't mind otherwise.
Uh Mark Stein in Farush, one eight hundred uh two eight two eight eight two.
We're talking about last night's Republican debate.
Um and I I thought I thought most candidates uh had had actually a pretty good night apart from uh apart from Rick Perry.
And I thought the crowd were terrific.
I love the way they cheered and they bo they cheered stuff they like and they booed stuff they didn't like.
And uh and I thought that was uh I thought that they were much better than the uh the taciturn Yankees or uh or or effete Dartmouth College professors or whatever they were who were at the last New Hampshire debate who just sat on their hands all night uh for for Charlie Rose.
Charlie Rose moderated that one.
Uh oh but Anderson Cooper uh moderated this one.
Uh and I don't know whether you've seen do you know who Anderson Cooper is?
He's he's on uh he's got one of these unwatched shows on CNN, and he's now got an unwatched daytime show as well.
He he had um he he his unwatched daytime show had a fascinating feature.
I think it was yesterday or the day before, on whether the cell phone you're using has uh the f has fecal strep germs on it.
Uh and he went and uh Anderson Cooper had his own cell phone tested by Sanjay Gupta, and it turned out to have fecal strep jams on it.
So uh you're thinking, my God, how low can a man go?
He's so desperate for work, he'll do this lame fecal strep cell phone feature on daytime TV, the pitiful things people are reduced to to making a living in the Obama economy.
And then you see he plunges further into the abyss by uh by having to host the Republican debate.
I you gotta feel sorry for Anderson Cooper's debate, uh for Anderson Cooper's career.
But I thought I thought most of the candidates apart from Rick Perry had a good night.
If you still think Perry is the guy, uh they'd be interested to hear from you because he's gotta do something.
He's he's had hi his whole approach to his disastrous uh c debate performances in previous weeks was to go negative this time.
And the tone he pitched it, he pitched it wrong.
They were booing him last night.
This is the guy who was who who was the great white hope of the Republican Party only a month ago, and they were booing him last night.
Uh if you're still a Perry fan, uh call me up.
1800-282-2882, because I'd love to know why.
Mark Stein in Forush, lots more to come.
I think I said the um I think I said the Ming Dynasty had uh had had built the Great Wall of China, uh which uh sh sh shows uh shows what I know.
I think it's the Kin, the Kin Dynasty.
I get my Chinese dynasties or dynasties.
Yeah, Chinese vases.
I get my dynasties mixed up.
It's always that way with uh with dinner.
You have one dynasty and you want another one ten minutes later.
But uh I think it was the uh Kin Dynasty, not the not the not the Ming uh not the Ming Dynasty.
Um we we were just talking H.R. I was just talking about uh Hermann Cain's nine nine nine plan.
And uh which I always like the name of actually because nine nine nine is what they use for nine one one in uh in the United Kingdom.
If you if you want to call for an ambulance, you'd hell nine nine nine rather than nine one one.
And America could certainly do with calling for an ambulance uh right now on our present numbers, and he's come up with a plan for that.
I think it would be better actually as a nine one one plan with lower rates.
And I'm not uh I'm I'm uh wary, although I generally believe in uh in uh consumption taxes.
Uh I'm wary about a national sales tax or a national value added tax, because if you give, as Michelle Bachman pointed out in the debate, once you give uh a new tax, introduce a new tax.
They always say with taxes, okay, uh we've got tax A and it's uh forty per cent, so if we introduce tax B, it'll enable tax A to come down to twenty per cent, and tax B will be introduced at five percent and will never go higher.
And then the next thing you know, once they've got two taxes they can raise, oddly enough, both of them manage to go up.
And I think the idea that you would introduce you can't bind uh you can't bind government now and forever into the future.
So Herman Cain can talk about his nine percent uh VAT rate, but if he were to introduce that tax, uh you can bet it wouldn't stay at nine percent for long and it would start uh start going up pretty quickly.
But but Herman Cain is right uh to attack the tax code in this country because uh because it is disgusting.
It's absolutely disgraceful in a free society uh that people on relatively low salaries need professional help in order to complete their tax rule.
Nobody knows what the tax code nobody there is no correct answer.
You can say uh I earned uh forty thousand dollars a year, what do I owe in taxes?
I earned a hundred thousand dollars a year, what do I owe in taxes?
I you could and there is no correct answer to that.
You can take it to twelve uh different accountants and they will give you a different answer.
More than that, you could take it to twelve different IRS agents and they would give you twelve different answers.
Because when a tax code is that big and that unwieldy, uh there is no correct answer.
And that's disgusting, by the way.
They always say ignorance of the law is no excuse.
When the tax code is as big as the United States tax code is, you can't but be ignorant of the law.
And that that that's why uh fundamental structural reform is critical if this nation is to survive.
Uh it's not it's not uh it's not difficult.
Uh but Herman Cain on that front is the only one who's actually proposing something uh that gets gets in gets to fundamental reform.
As he says, the uh the the present tax code needs to be blown up, needs to be bombed into confetti uh and to and to fall like confetti across the fruited plane, because it's an abomination uh when a tax code is that big, it you are no longer a free society.
And the IRS, by the way, has far more powers than equivalent revenue agencies in uh in other Western countries, because they don't just freeze your if they decide out of the blue, one of those uh IRS agents decides that you you paid uh seven thousand eight hundred and thirty-three dollars, but in fact they they they ran the numbers and figure it should be eight thousand and twelve dollars.
They can freeze not just your bank account, they can freeze your wife's uh bank account, they can uh freeze your uh kids' pocket money.
They can basically they basically have huge powers, and you have no means of knowing what uh what you owe uh without professional help.
Uh and that's I think that's uh I think that's simply inappropriate in a in a free society.
The other thing I think I would like to see more of on that stage is uh it is a correct attitude uh to uh to to the money uh that's that's being spent.
The spending, getting getting rid of the massive wasteful spending that confronts you at every level.
There's a story uh from the Washington Times.
A man living as an adult baby is cleared of social security fraud.
This guy kept was in the news because Senator Tom Coburn called for a benefit review uh because this man uh likes uh living as a baby.
Uh he likes lying around uh going to sleep in a crib, wearing a diaper, uh and being spoon fed by a woman who play acts as his mother.
Now I remember this from uh I think it was about twenty years ago in London, and it turned out there was some club that specialized in this, and that various uh I think it was members of Parliament and other prominent persons like to go there for a lunchtime and uh and and climb into a diaper and uh a onesie and uh be spoon-fed uh applesauce by their play acting mother and lie in a crib, and then they'd get up an hour later, put on their pinstripe suit and go back to parliament and uh vote in some new spending measures.
And say what you like about that, but those guys were at least picking up their own tab for that.
This is th that's not a disability, it's a fetish.
But under under the under the government, the present government of the United States, this guy gets Paid.
He gets paid by you.
He gets paid by taxpayers under the Americans with Disabilities Act, which is which isn't called the Americans with Kinky Fetishes Act.
But that's what it is.
The Americans with Kinky Fetishes Act now covers, now pays this guy.
He receives taxpayer-funded supplementary security income payments because he likes to play act as being a baby and wearing a diaper.
That's the state of the nation, the waste of the nation.
More ahead.
The University of North Dakota looks like it's going to retire its Fighting Sioux nickname in an age of political correctness.
I don't know what happened.
The Sioux maybe the Sioux decided to sue.
I don't know.
But at any rate, the Fighting Sioux decided not to fight back after the Sioux decided to sue.
Mark Stein in for rush.
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