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Oct. 24, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 24, 2011, Monday, Hour #2
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Look forward to talking to you.
We'll get your calls in in this hour.
Relatively quick.
The number is 800-282-2882, the email address lrushbow at eibnet.com with his jobs plan purposely stymied in Congress because Democrats in the Senate will not vote for it.
Of course, that's not how this story is actually written.
In the New York Times, it says, with his jobs plan stymied in Congress by Republican opposition.
And that's the purpose.
It is supposed to be stymied.
It is not supposed to be signed into law.
They'll take it if they can get it.
Don't misunderstand.
But the whole point of this is to portray the Republicans as obstructionist.
So with the jobs plan stymied, President Obama said today that he's going to begin a series of executive branch actions to confront housing, education, and other economic problems over the coming months, heralded by a new mantra.
We can't wait for lawmakers to act.
By the way, I have a question.
We've got, I meant to ask this in the first hour.
We've got Sharia law now that's going to be imposed in Libya.
What does that mean for rapes?
Will there be fewer rapes or more rapes?
Are going to be fewer or more cops on the street in Libya?
Well, I was just thinking, you know, if you're a teacher, if you're a rape victim, if you're a rapist, if you're a murderer-purse snatcher, and you're listening to Obama and Biden run around and try to sell this jobs bill, don't you ask yourself, well, wait a minute now.
I thought we stopped all the rapes and purse snatchings and muggings with the first stimulus.
We should have wiped out rape.
That was $787 billion worth of spending, and we got that.
Now, we're talking $35 billion to eliminate rape.
Still haven't any calls from rape.
We did last week on Friday.
We got a call from a hitman.
A friend of a hitman, a friend of a hitman, who said that he was the hitman eagerly following the vote and was facing the possibility of outsourcing his work to Europe if the law passed.
So we're going to lose jobs.
We're going to lose some jobs in America.
The hitman didn't work alone.
He's got a support staff.
I mean, hitmen, you just don't know.
You don't look up hitmen in the yellow pages or on the web and say, get and find me.
I could ask my phone, find me the nearest hitman.
That's the fact.
See what happens.
Let's just see what happens here.
Find me the nearest hitman in the state of Florida.
I don't know what you mean by find me the nearest hitman in the state of Florida.
Okay, see, they're not valued.
You can't find them.
That's the whole point.
So they have to have support people that you get hold of.
If you want to use a hitman, you got to know who to call to get hold of a hitman because a hitman even fools the iPhone 4S.
So, well, but if you, okay, let's try that.
Let's just see.
Did this.
Hi, give me a list of exterminators within 10 miles of my current location.
See what it does here.
Checking your location.
I found a number of pest control services within 10 miles of here.
Well, pest control.
See, that's not what we're looking.
We're looking for hitmen.
Nice try HR, but that's how hard they are to get hold of.
But even so, this one guy said that he was going to be leaving if the bill passed.
So now here's Obama.
You're probably thinking I lost my place.
I haven't.
Here's Obama.
Frustrated Congress won't pass it.
Now he's looking for executive branch ways just to get this done without needing to go through Congress at all because the plan is stymied there.
And they've got a new mantra: we can't wait for lawmakers to act.
And according to an administration official, Obama will kick off his new offensive in Las Vegas, ground zero for the housing bust, by proposing, promoting new rules for federally guaranteed mortgages so that more homeowners, those with little or no equity in their homes, can refinance and avert foreclosure.
Now, we have an audio soundbite here.
What this is, is an ad.
The Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee put together an ad.
It's on their website.
It's a video montage featuring an unidentified woman, several unidentified news reporters.
Pelosi's part of it.
Obama's part of it.
Dingy Harry.
Representative Shelley Berkeley, Democrat from Nevada, and the mayor of Las Vegas, Oscar Goodman, talking.
And it's a series of photos of abandoned homes and general squalor on the screen.
So as you listen to this, imagine that you are seeing abandoned homes and general squalor.
And this is the Republicans running the ad.
It was a tragedy, unlike anything I'd ever seen.
It's $830 billion stimulus.
$9.5 billion in new regulations just last month.
We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.
President Obama will be in Las Vegas.
Nevada's unemployment rate is the highest for the 16th straight month at 13.4%.
And the home foreclosure rate is also the worst in the nation.
We've begun to see progress all across the country.
Private sector jobs are legally just fine.
Nevada has gotten more help than any other state.
You can't go take a trip to Las Vegas.
Don't blow up a bunch of cash on Vegas.
He owes us an apology.
He owes us that they retraction.
Congresswoman Shelly Berkeley is named in this year's list of most corrupt politicians.
So this is a Republican ad that's actually pretty good because the picture is squandered, abandoned homes, and all-around general squalor pass you by on the screen, and you get a direct hit on Obama, Pelosi, Reed, Shelly Berkeley.
I think this is what the Republicans ought to be doing, going right after the Democrats, not pussyfooting around, but going right after them.
What this ad does is accuse these Democrats of this problem in Las Vegas.
And Obama did say the days of getting on your plane and going to Las Vegas are over.
He said that within the first, what, month of his administration?
And he told us, by the way, he was going to do this.
Let's go back, October 11th.
He was in Pittsburgh, and this was in a crowd of 200 people versus a crowd of 10,000 to 12,000 in 2008.
200 people, mainly teachers and union people.
American Jobs Act that I'm putting forward obviously contains many ideas like infrastructure investment that should be pretty straightforward.
And our hope is that we're able to get those passed in the next couple of months.
So my instruction to Jeff and Gene and Valerie and all the advisors who are sitting around the table is scour this report, identify all those areas in which we can act administratively without additional congressional authorization and just get it done.
Anything that's within our authority to do as an administration, we start doing immediately and we don't wait for Congress.
We don't wait for Congress.
So on October 11th, this is what he said he was going to do.
So I have a piece here from the Business Insider revealed.
Here is Obama's new housing plan.
Federal Housing Finance Agency has just announced its changes to the Home Affordable Refinance Program called HARP, which serves as the backbone to Obama's new housing plan.
HARP programs have helped 894,000 borrowers through August, which is a far cry from the $3 million to $4 million Obama promised in 2009.
None of these plans have worked.
This is just the latest one.
The changes are designed to allow more underwater homeowners with loans backed by the government to take advantage of lower interest rates.
This time, the Federal Housing Finance Agency is not providing a specific estimate for the number of homeowners it believes it can help under the new program.
It just says by the end of 2013, HARP refinances may roughly double or more from the current amount.
So get what we have here is the impression of some help taking place.
The impression, the optics of the regime moving in to help people in foreclosure who are underwater on their mortgages.
They don't tell us how many they're going to help.
They predicted 3 to 4 million.
800 some odd thousand have been assisted, but in truth, the programs have all been failures.
There are still foreclosures taking place.
There are still abandoned houses.
In some neighborhoods, abandoned houses are being bulldozed.
The federal government cannot fix this problem.
Obama doesn't care if it gets fixed.
All Obama wants is for you to think it's being addressed.
So a new program.
Well, how many homes, how many homeowners are going to be?
We don't know here.
It'd be probably double, triple the current number.
The principal change says here is the elimination of the 125% loan to value ceiling for refinances, allowing all homeowners to refinance if they meet other eligibility criteria, no matter how far their home value has fallen.
So basically, they are going to tell anybody that no matter what your circumstance, you qualify to refinance at practically zero interest rates.
And they're going to make the participation in the program voluntary, which is why so few people are participating in the programs up to this point.
Now, this, we can't wait business cuts two ways, folks.
Obama is trying to get the aggrieved, the downtrodden, the underwater, the foreclosed upon to agree with him, to just go around Congress, forget the Constitution, forget the Republic, forget the Democratic process.
We can't wait.
It's too important.
We got to do it ourselves.
So we can't wait either.
We can't wait to repeal Obamacare.
We can't wait to repeal Dodd-Frank.
We can't wait to cut spending to balance the budget.
We can't wait to end all these Democrat Party money laundering schemes.
We can't wait to get all the facts on Fax and Furious.
We can't wait to get rid of Eric Holder, to rein in the EPA.
We can't wait to cut taxes on job creators.
We can't wait to make this radical, leftist, divisive failed president a one-termer.
We can't wait to have voter ID laws in all 57 states.
We can't wait for Joe Biden to make his next speech.
We really look forward to that.
We can't wait for Muchel Maybell Obama to mind her own business when it comes to what we eat.
And we really can't wait for these Occupy Wall Street protesters to bathe and get the stench of urine off of themselves.
We're going to start Melrose Park, Pennsylvania on the phones.
This is Mark, and it's great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Hello.
Thanks for taking my call this afternoon, Rush.
I appreciate that, sir.
Thank you.
All this weekend, and I've been thinking about this, and when I heard your opening monologue about this monumentally bad plan to pull the U.S. troops, the remaining U.S. troops out of Iraq, one of the things that I have not heard mentioned, but I think is a really significant issue to consider, is the U.S. embassy that we have built in Iraq.
The Iraqi embassy right now, as far as I know, is our largest.
And if we have a huge embassy in an unstable part of the world with no troops nearby, we are courting disaster.
Well, you know what?
I actually don't know what we're going to do with that embassy.
I don't know.
I'm just assuming we're going to keep diplomatic staff there, and I'm assuming that there will be Marine Guards like there are at all the other embassies.
Beyond that, I don't know.
Yeah, without having a footprint nearby, though, I just really have a bad feeling that this could really be kind of a low-hanging fruit for someone to give the United States a black eye.
And we have to really be careful.
What do you mean?
By overrunning the embassy with defenseless, innocent U.S. State Department people in there?
Yes, that's exactly it.
Islamic, you know, Islamic terrorists or militias could see that as a real opportunity to kick the United States where it hurts the worst.
Well, you know, that's a good point.
Maybe Obama will close the embassy so that that won't happen.
Well, that would be a great way of making use of our investment that we've put there.
Well, it is our largest.
It's the largest, most expensive.
Our embassy in Iraq costs a billion.
Yeah.
So there would be a good use of taxpayer money to let just disappear if he chose to do that.
But, you know, our presence in Iraq.
Do you really think the al-Qaeda guys would attack our embassy?
You don't think they would respect the whole notion of diplomatic immunity and leave it alone?
Right, right, right.
Well, If the Iranian government, which is a sovereign government, can't quite figure that out, I have even less hope for anybody else that is not a Saudi Arabia.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
If the Iranian government can't figure what out.
Well, they tried to assassinate the Saudi ambassador in Washington, D.C., did they not?
Well, that's what the regime tells us.
Okay, well, I'm going on that being true.
But if it's not, it's still a dangerous roll of the dice for the United States to leave our embassy in such a weakened environment over there without having a footprint nearby to protect ourselves.
We're going to have some kind of a footprint.
I just don't think it's going to be combat troops.
All right.
But the Marines traditionally guard the embassies.
And I don't know what the numbers are, and I don't know if it's sufficient to oppose a massive attack from Al-Qaeda.
I'm going to find out.
We're dealing here now.
Don't forget with a story that I don't think we have all the details.
The thrust of the story is that Obama is keeping a campaign promise and withdrawing troops from Iraq at the end of the year.
And that's it.
And so, all right, Barry coming through right on red on bases.
Happy, hunky-dory, goody-goody.
But are we really doing that?
Are we really?
How many support troops will be left at the embassy?
Are we keeping the embassy open or are we closing it?
Seriously, don't know.
Are we keeping wet?
At one point, I do know that we were hoping to turn a couple of aviation outposts over there into bases for the express purpose of having launch capability for any action that might take place in the region, should we have to be able to deploy quickly.
Right now, we're just dealing with the surface aspects of the announcement.
And I don't really know about the support, military support staff that would remain.
It could well be that we're going to hire Blackwater types.
We're going to outsource the security, which is that's being done in Afghanistan, is being done in Iraq.
So a number of ways you could do that without having to say you've got military personnel there.
I don't.
Well, no, I don't have doubts about the Iran.
I just think the timing of it's pretty strange that all of a sudden this mild-mannered Abdul Al-Jaber, I know this guy, seen this guy.
He's about, why wipe this guy out?
I mean, take out Bandar bin Sultan or something.
Take out somebody big.
But no, I don't have any doubts about it.
I just don't think there are any coincidences in politics.
That's all.
Pure and simple.
Appreciate the call out there very much.
Where are we going?
Jonathan in Austin, Texas.
Hello, sir.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi, Arush, longtime listener.
Thank you.
So, listen, I'm in Austin, Texas.
Real estate is doing great here, and I'm hearing all these things coming out from the administration about all these bailouts that they're doing to these underwater homeowners.
And it occurs to me, what about all of us middle-class people that are here that are actually paying our mortgages on time that could actually qualify for the mortgages to start with?
I mean, interest rates are at all-time lows, and most of us that actually own a small business can't even qualify to refinance because we don't fit within the box of what the banks are going to be.
That's exactly right.
I'm not trying to be flippant or funny.
That's exactly right.
If you are playing by the rules, if you're making your payments and times are tough for you, no sympathy whatsoever.
The people that are being rewarded by design and on purpose are those who are contributing nothing.
Absolutely.
And what you see is that the banks will tell you when you go to refinance, I'm sorry, you're not at least 90 or 120 days late on your payments.
So by definition, you're already in default.
Your credit is.
Exactly right.
Exactly right.
Welcome to the new America.
Hi, welcome back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity simply by showing up.
800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, Luke in Savannah, Georgia, great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
How are you doing?
Very good, sir.
Thank you.
Well, I think I feel like I should preface this by saying that I do believe President Obama is a very dangerous man.
Yeah.
And I believe that another four years would be detrimental to the country's health.
But I also think that we forget a lot of times just how politically savvy he is and the entire Democratic Party.
And you notice that right after Muamar Gaddafi, who, you know, his death is considered one of Obama's victories, we find a small opening and an opportunity to pull troops out of Iraq, and we do it kind of as an afterthought.
And earlier in your segment, you said that he's willing just to get his base back or support from his base back.
He's willing to associate defeat in Iraq with the Democrats.
But I don't think that's the case.
I think that what he's doing is people will say he started Libya.
He ended it successfully.
Obviously, it's more complicated than that.
And Bush is responsible for Iraq.
And if there's any defeat there, it's on him.
But the ultimate victory is, you know, we got our precious troops back.
Right.
No, I don't disagree with that.
What I'm saying is, what I'm saying is that the absence of U.S. troops is going to make it easier for Iran or any outside insurgents to recapture the country, which would equal a defeat.
Yeah, but here's what I got, right?
Like, okay.
Also, you know, I deployed DIRAC twice, and I was with the special operations community both times.
So I wasn't over there in an office.
We were participating in direct action raids.
We were killing plenty of people that needed to be killed.
But even I recognize, you know, yes, 4,500 troops, that's a tragedy.
But you also said that Obama's pandering to this fringe group that is sadistic and wants to pull everybody out of Iraq and accept defeat.
I'm as far right as you can get.
And I believe that the founding fathers envision neutrality for the nation and preservation of our nation.
And I don't give Obama any credit.
I want him to get defeated, but I'm having a problem seeing anything negative about bringing troops back.
Coming from, I did serve, because I'm telling you right now, we're not, you know, it's corrupt over there.
Any government that we in place is going to be corrupt.
Hey, so your thought is, even if Iraq is toppled, and even if Iran takes it over, or al-Qaeda, if it becomes a new outpost, the American people aren't going to care.
There's no way anybody will chalk whatever happens in Iraq up as to a defeat because nobody cares.
They already think it's...
No, no. I'm not saying that.
What I'm saying is based upon principle, if we are leaning as far right as possible, we agree with neutrality as a nation, not policing up every country.
Because I understand strategically why Iraq is beneficial.
Well, no, wait, it's too late for that, though.
I mean, we're there.
We went there.
We conducted operations.
We liberated a place.
We toppled the leader.
It's moot now to discuss whether or not we as conservatives believe in neutrality.
We went there.
We took care of it.
We had an amazing victory in two to three days.
We got rid of Saddam Hussein.
Now, the theory is that we're trying to make sure that Iraq stays what it is because al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations, organizations, love to take root in stateless territories.
That's what the Taliban did in Afghanistan.
It's one of the reasons we're still in Afghanistan, by the way, is to make sure.
Apart from the aggressiveness that we showed at the beginning, though, I do believe that they've already kind of emasculated our forces.
I mean, I got guys that are still going over there, and they complain that they can't do anything now.
And somehow, political correctness has managed to make its way into the troops.
So I don't know.
One last thing before I leave.
You said, what would Sharia law do to rape?
And I think I got your answer here.
I'm looking at this one article, and apparently there is no rape in Sharia law.
It's actually the girls' fault for that's exactly right.
I mean, they can be beheaded.
They can be stoned or what have you.
It is the.
No such thing is right.
No such thing as rape under Sharia law.
Right.
Okay.
Biden should be pleased.
And yeah, it's even worse than that.
Those are all true statements that you've made.
I'm glad you called Luke.
Thanks much.
This is Todd in Decatur, Texas.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush, for taking my call.
And I am a Rush member.
Just some headlines for today that I haven't heard yet.
Romney Care helps illegal immigrants.
L.A. Times reports, political.
Romney health care law helps illegal immigrants.
USA Today and LA Times is saying medical help for illegal immigrants could haunt Mitt Romney.
Yeah, I've got the story here in the stack.
I've got it got it in two different stacks here.
The whole, and you're reading the headlines basically correctly.
So what do you think the USA Today and LA Times are trying to do here?
Good question.
You know, I guess my plug-in prediction is I think Perry has the best, you know, living in Texas, and we've been here 15 years, and under his leadership, I think he's got the best story.
I think he's got the best experience for social and physical conservatives.
And I think his people need to get this message built on a national level.
And I think America is going to see what we've seen here in Texas.
But my prediction is if Romney gets the nomination, I think he's got experience.
I think he's got some things he could bring to the White House beyond what this president is.
But my fear is we're going to have a rhino in the White House, and he's going to set the conservatives back again.
And we're probably going to end up losing ground both in the Senate and the Hollywood Zone.
Wait a minute now.
What about Herman Cain?
I mean, you're throwing Herman Cain to the wind.
He happens to be leading the polls out there.
Yeah.
I'm just basing it on what it looks like the two big guns long term are probably going to be.
I don't know.
I like certain things with Herman Cain.
I just know what we've had underneath Perry here.
I've been very cognizant four years ago on a couple things, but in the last three years, he's really put up the conservative bills and here in Texas.
I've met Rick Perry a couple of times.
I have no doubt in my mind that he's a conservative.
None whatsoever.
I don't have any doubt that Herman Cain is conservative.
Romney is, well, George Will said it.
George Williams, well, George Will's, the Republican Party is looking at Romney as a technocrat.
The Republican Party is not seeing Romney as a conservative, and that's very true, and that's what the Republican Party wants.
They do not want an ideological conservative as the nominee.
Here's the L.A. Times story that Todd talked about.
This is by Norm Levy.
The headline, medical help for illegal immigrants could haunt Mitt Romney.
On the Republican campaign trail, he derides any such public aid, but the health care law he signed as Massachusetts governor allows it.
Massachusetts health care law that Governor Romney signed in 2006 includes a program known as the Health Safety Net, which allows undocumented immigrants to get needed medical care along with others who lack insurance.
Uninsured poor immigrants can walk into a health clinic or hospital in the state in Massachusetts and get publicly subsidized care at virtually no cost to them, regardless of their immigration status.
Now, this story talks about, wait a minute, wait a minute, we thought this was only going to be for people in Massachusetts.
Romney campaign referred questions to Tim Murphy, who served as Romney's state health human services secretary.
Murphy said the governor never intended the health safety net to serve undocumented immigrants.
Yeah, our view when we signed the law was that all benefits would be for people in the Commonwealth who were here legally, Murphy said, noting that the regulations implementing the program were written after Romney left office in 2007.
But Massachusetts officials involved in crafting the health care law said that there was broad understanding when Romney signed it that at least some people who would benefit would be in the country illegally.
And that's supported by the language of the law, it says here in the LA Times story.
Although it explicitly bars undocumented immigrants from getting certain health benefits, it does not prohibit them from receiving aid through the health safety net.
What a tangled web this is.
What an absolutely undecipherable web.
If you are a Massachusetts resident trying to translate this, let me try it again here.
Our view, this is Murphy, Tim Murphy, who served as Romney's state health and human services secretary.
Our view is that when we signed the law, was that all benefits would be for people in the Commonwealth who were here legally.
The Massachusetts officials involved in crafting Romney care said that there was broad understanding when Romney signed it that at least some people who would benefit would be in the country illegally.
And that's supported by the language in the law.
Although it explicitly bars undocumented immigrants from getting certain health benefits, it doesn't prohibit them from receiving aid through the health safety net.
And again, the health care law, RomneyCare, signed in 2006, includes a program known as the Health Safety Net.
It's separate and apart from the May and Romney care, but it's still tied to it.
So while they can, on the technicality, say, no, no, no, no, our health care plan does not service illegals, the health safety net over here does.
And people are now scratching their heads.
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
We thought this was just for people in Massachusetts.
So here you have a Republican establishment wants Romney.
It is our firm belief the White House wants Romney.
We think the White House wants to run against Romney because of Romneycare.
They think that Romney...
See, Obama knows nobody wants Obamacare, but he doesn't care.
Obama knows a majority of Americans don't want it.
So if he can tie Romney to it, fine and dandy.
He doesn't intend to ever get rid of Obamacare, but he wants to tie Romney care around Romney's neck.
So in that case, why would the L.A. Times, state-controlled media, be out with a story that's harmful to Romney rather than a story that would build Romney up?
Because everybody, the Republican establishment and the White House, as best we can tell, want Romney to be the nominee.
This L.A. Times story, time it circulates around, is going to provide a little bit more ammo for the Herman Keynes, the Michelle Bachmans, the Newts, the others, the Santorums and the Republican in these debates, to take another shot at chipping away at Romney and his credibility.
And you just heard the call.
So we don't want a rhino here.
And you add that to George Will saying that the Republican Party looks at Romney as a great technocrat, meaning good, that's what they want.
So the long knives are out from Romney or for Romney from people that you would not expect to be trying to take him out.
I.e. the media, supporters of Obama.
The audience is not happy with El Rushbo.
A sample email.
Dear Rush, when it comes to Mitt Romney, at first, this is from Pamela.
When it comes to Mitt Romney, at first, I thought possibly you were the dumb one.
But then I realized it's not that you're dumb at all.
It's just that you think we are dumb.
You know Obama doesn't want to run against Romney.
But you're telling us, your audience, that he does.
You know that Romney's the only one that can beat Obama.
And you're doing the same crap you did last election.
In my conservative head, Romney is a conservative.
I'm so tired of you spending so much time trying to ruin Romney and paint him as if he isn't.
I used to listen to you daily.
Lately, I only turn you on now about once a week.
And as soon as I hear you bashing Romney and trying to paint him as a liberal, I turn you off like I already have done today.
You got turned off at my house and several of my friends and family too.
They always throw that in.
And my friends and family don't listen to you anymore either.
People who are your loyal listeners have had it with you with how you lie about Romney.
You and Hannity caused us to have McCain last time.
At least Hannity's not acting like that this time, thank goodness.
But you're doing it again.
You're on a power trip.
You're trying to alter who conservatives vote for.
I'm voting for Romney because he's the only one that can beat Obama.
I can get that beltway crap from Sean.
I get the real deal from other people.
So if you don't stop your crap with Romney, a lot of people won't need to listen to three talk shows every day anymore.
Two will give them all they need, which leaves you out.
But don't think you're fooling us, Rush.
Obviously, you hate Romney for some reason.
And when you bash him, we know it's because you hate him, not because you actually think Obama can beat him.
It's just because you hate Romney.
I know a lot of friends and family who, the only occasion, tune into Rush because they too had it with Romney's lies and bad.
You're losing your audience with it.
Stop being so hateful and power hungry.
From a one-time daily listener, Pamela.
I don't know how anybody could say I'm responsible for McCain.
And I don't know how anybody could say that I hate Romney.
How could I, how could I do like Romney?
Romney came to my 20th anniversary bash.
He was there along with Fred Thompson.
And he didn't crash it.
We invited him.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do I sound power hungry?
If, let me tell you something.
If I were power hungry, I'd have chosen somebody and I would have been out there trying to use my power and get you people to support whoever my nominee is.
Anyway, I just thought I'd share the email with you.
I hate Romney.
I think the audience is stupid.
And I better stop because they don't need to listen to me anymore.
And every time I bring Romney up, I get three or four of these.
This is the one at the top of the inbox.
This was at ilrushbo at eibnet.com.
So you see, we do read that email.
Anyway, I got to take a break here, folks.
We're at it again, the top of the hour break, which really doesn't float much.
Sit tight.
We'll be right back and continue in a moment.
Two teachers union lobbyists teach for a day in Chicago to qualify for lifetime pensions.
The state legislature in Illinois opened a small window that they climbed through in 2007.
Two lobbyists with no prior teaching experience were allowed to count their years as union employees toward a state teacher pension once they served a single day of substituting in 2007.
This from a Tribune WGN-TV investigation.
And this is one of the reasons, folks, why states are going bankrupt.
Public sector union parasites.
The Democrats' most loyal voters and donors are corrupt, greedy, loophole-loving thieves working one day as a substitute teacher to get a lifetime pension from the state of Illinois.
More coming up.
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