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Dec. 12, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 12, 2011, Monday, Hour #2
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Yeah, greetings to you and uh welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
You know, I never I never introduced the show in the first hour because everybody knows who I am.
And uh everybody knows the phone number to call.
We got a full boat, and I never even gave the phone number out last hour, but here it is 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program, great to have you as we uh kick off full week of broadcast access.
You gotta hear this.
Obama just just wrapped up a joint press conference with Nouri al-Maliki.
The guy who looks like he never shaves, even five minutes after he shaves, looks like he needs to shave again.
I'd hate to have that problem.
I hate shaving, period.
This guy's gonna do it ten times a day if he does it.
Anyway, listen to this.
Obama basically, remember now in 2002, Obama gave a speech in which he said invading Iraq would be a dumb war.
And throughout the Bush prosecution of the Iraq war, Obama was leading the Democrats and what a mistake it was, how bad it was, look at all the deaths there are, stupid move, crazy move, wouldn't have done it, blah, blah, blah.
Now listen to him take credit for a Democrat Iraq.
When I took office, nearly 150,000 American troops were deployed in Iraq.
And I pledge to end this war responsibly.
Today, only several thousand troops remain there.
This is a season of homecomings, and military families across America are being reunited for the holidays.
In the coming days, the last American soldiers will cross the border out of Iraq with honor and with their heads held high.
After nearly nine years, our war in Iraq ends this month.
I'm proud to welcome Prime Minister Maliki, the elected leader of a sovereign, self-reliant, and democratic Iraq.
That's exactly right, and it's all happening on the Bush timetable.
Now you can choose to believe me or not.
I I'm not interested in ever being wrong here.
It serves no purpose being wrong.
Those of you who listen to me in order to have hate validated.
I know I know you're out there.
You gotta hate every day, and I manage to make you hate, but I'm just telling you here that nothing in it for me to be wrong, and this is the Bush timetable that's been followed to the T, talking about the troop withdrawal.
None of this is Obama's, not his plan.
It's all happening according to Bush timetable.
And Obama just said at his press conference here with uh with Maliki that a democrat Iraq will be a model for the region.
Isn't that the reason Bush gave for going there?
That's one of the reasons Bush gave for going there was having a democracy in the region and letting that be a blooming flower, so to speak.
And there was even a reporter who may not get out of that room uninjured, who asked Obama about his statement 2002, somebody in the press corps had to be a foreigner, had the nerve to ask Obama about his 2002 speech in which he said that invading Iraq would be a dumb war.
Obama muttered something about how history will judge the decision to invade, but he has brought democracy to Iraq.
And you have to wonder, I mean, Maliki, he's got no choice, he's got to stand there and listen to this.
Maliki's one of these guys that had to flee Iraq to escape being killed by Saddam Hussein.
He only returned after Saddam was overthrown.
And he knows standing there that have been left to a guy like Obama, he'd still be in exile.
If if if I don't you see, now I just I was told by a lackey in my IFB, you make it a big deal.
Obama's gonna be forgotten about Iraq.
Fine, but he's not gonna be forgotten in a year.
They're still gonna run on this.
Obama's gonna run it, and and I've at the risk of infuriating his base, except for if I were Obama, I wouldn't talk about a Democrat Iraq.
I'd I just focus on I said I was gonna get troops out and I did.
His base is dumb and stupid enough to uh to fall for that.
I think ultimately Obama's not gonna be a remembered factor on this.
He's had nothing to do with it, but his memory is not gonna fade in a year.
And that's all I care about.
The lackey agrees, okay.
The lackey uh agrees with me on that.
Now here's what Obama said.
He said some anti-war rally, October 2nd, 2002.
And by the way, speaking of how smart and convincing Obama is, the AP is reporting that Obama just announced the U.S. has asked Iran to return the drone.
Ha!
AP says that Obama's asked Iran to give us give us back our drone.
There's a smart guy, folks.
There's somebody whose intelligence is so bright, we were blinded by it.
If we're in the same room, we have to wear sunglasses, perhaps not even look at him.
His intelligence is so blinding.
So he's asked the mullahs to give us our drone back.
Anyway, Obama was at a rally, uh, anti-war rally back October 2002.
He said, What I'm opposed to is a dumb war.
What I'm opposed to is a rash war.
What I'm opposed to is a cynical attempt by Richard Pearl and Paul Wolfowitz and other armchair weekend warriors in this administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the cost in lives lost and in hardships born.
What I'm opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Carl Rolf to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income to distract us from corporate scandals, and the stock market's just gone through the worst months since the Great Depression.
That's what I'm opposed to.
A dumb war, a rash war.
A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle, but on politics.
And so today, there's old Perry.
When I in the office, 150,000 up.
There go.
I brought freedom and liberty and democracy.
There he is.
Our gutless wonders smarter than everybody else in the room, President.
I'll tell you what he's going to be remembered for.
He's going to be remembered for his economic depression.
That's what he's going to be remembered for.
I could not believe this.
This is kind of here in first section, second hour.
I'm getting to the first item in my paper stack.
From the Washington Post, Ezra Klein.
We've talked about this guy before.
He's a chickafied guy.
Typical of the New Castrati libs out there today.
A wonder kind.
I mean, they think this guy is the liberal left bloggers.
They think this guy is the second coming.
I mean, he's just it.
He's got this blog post that the Washington Post.
And he's got a piece here.
So you know, the real unemployment rate's 11%.
And I'm saying, what the hell happened here?
This, I mean, I'm confused because this is not what Ezra Klein does.
Ezra Klein covers up the bad news for Obama.
He doesn't highlight it.
I'm wondering, did Tim Tebow call the guy?
Has he been T bowed?
Oh, by the way, folks, I don't know.
I'm sure you haven't noticed this, but I have.
It's almost a cascade now.
I'm not going to mention any names, because that's not the point here.
But an entire gaggle of far-left sports writers who were on the anti-Tebow bandwagon from the get-go over his mechanics, his lack of ability to play the pro game.
He wasn't smart enough.
Yeah, great college quarterback, but this guy can't do it.
He doesn't have what it takes.
His release is way too elongated.
He'll never be able to run an option, and he can't do that and win in the end.
All of these guys.
Well, not all of them, but a lot of prominent sports writers have done a 180.
Maybe.
And talking about the greatness of Tebow.
Oh, it's it's it's breathtaking to watch.
I don't know why.
I don't know.
It's too soon.
I haven't figured out why yet.
Especially the uh the game yesterday.
Yeah, I I know what Tebow does.
Tebow is a winner, and he does bring the best out of all the other players on his team because he inspires them.
They have a bigger belief in themselves individually and as a team.
He does that.
But the Bronco game yesterday was won by two 51, 59-yard field goals.
That's not insignificant.
Even in the lighter era of Denver, that's not insignificant.
Now, Tebow got him in position, but those are not chip shots.
That's not driving the team down the 25 or 30-yard line for a field goal.
Um I'm not trying to take anything away from Tebow here.
Because there's by no stretch am I trying to do that.
But I can't tell you why they're doing the 180.
I can't, I can't begin to tell they're giving this up faster than I've seen them give up any opinion they've ever had.
Uh no.
They've been called on all kinds of stuff, certainly that they never give up.
This is not the first time they've been called on something uh and and they gave it up.
Well, maybe.
It may be, maybe I uh I don't know.
I'm still trying to figure it out.
But I mean, big names in the sports writer community are now doing Maya Culpas.
They're doing it's it's almost like they've got the fear of God.
And I know that's not it.
I know that's not what it is.
All right.
Um anyway, Ezra Klein is writing what we reported three weeks ago on this program.
And the reason he now thinks it's credible is because the news appeared in a magazine article, Financial Times.
Here's uh here's what Ezra Klein writes.
Typically, I try to tie the beginning of Wonk Book to the new as his blog.
But today, the most important sentence isn't a report on something that just happened, but a fresh look at something that's been happening for the last three years, in particular.
In this instance, or sentence by the Financial Times Ed Luce, who writes, according to government statistics, if the same number of people were seeking work today as in 2007, the jobless rate would be 11%.
Now, you who are regular listeners to this program know that we quoted the person who first wrote that over a month ago, that'd be James Pethacoukas of Reuters.
James Pethacoukas wrote this very statistic a month ago, that if the same number of people were looking for jobs today as were when Obama assumed office, then the unemployment rate would be 11%.
And Klein goes on to say that's the real unemployment rate because this guy loose in the Financial Times now says it is.
So we don't really care how he arrives at it.
He does.
This is one of the biggest apologists for Obama.
You will find this is one of the biggest in the tank for Obama guys out there.
Writing that the real unemployment rate's 11%.
Obama's out there now saying, by the way, it's going to be 8% by the time I'm elected.
Or by the by next year, but by the time the election comes around, he said it's going to be 8%.
Of course it is.
He runs the numbers.
Of course it's going to be 8%, but it won't really be 8%.
We've been telling you for longer than a month, folks, that the universe of jobs has been shrinking, and this is the secret behind the unemployment rate dropping.
When it really, really isn't.
You know, we checked on this.
It goes back to July of this year when I had that stat that I just shared with you.
Ezra Klein just discovered.
Here's what I said, July 8th, 2011.
So the bottom line is the calculation has been done here.
Without the people who've dropped out, if you still counted the people no longer look for work, the U3 unemployment number would be over 11%.
So you take the people, if if if as many people were looking for work today as were in 2007 with an unemployment rate of 11%, and you knew that back in July of this year.
The Washington Post just discovered it over the weekend.
And that's the difference between them and us.
Okay, Tom in Rixville, Florida, as we head back to the phones.
I'm glad you called, sir.
You're on the EIB network.
Hi.
Good afternoon.
Second time caller, long time listener.
Thank you, sir.
Florida.
How are you?
Very well.
Thanks for inviting.
I was telling Snurdy ass want to talk about uh being in a Florida State Seminole and watching our arch nemesis that was with the Gators who are Arch rivals.
I was just curious, and you've already touched on it, some of it, of the way that the qualities that Tebow presents out there and how he just uses the talents that he has and his beliefs, he finds a way to win, and that's what he always did against us down here in Florida.
So it's it's hard to say that about a uh uh gator, especially Tebow, but he has just put things together, and I was wondering how your take, and you touched on some of it, if the people that we got trying to get our Republican nomination, I'm a longtime Republican, lifelong Republican, would just take some of that belief and power of how you think that they could take that in the world.
Well, you know, well, I'm gonna turn this back on you since you have extensive experience losing to Tebow.
Yes, we did.
What is it that Tebow has that you think the Republicans could learn?
I I think that Tebow, whenever he in him playing now and playing against his FET SEC rivals, and of course us, he always came off the field and you could just watch him, and you could tell that in his eyes and his mind, he was going back to his teammates, especially his mind saying, you know what?
I know how to win this.
And if you'll just believe in what I believe in and follow me, we will win.
And I I it's hard for me to say that, but you can't help but like the guy, and I was listening to you talk about the liberal critics because they are just ripping him.
Okay, let me let me take it from here, Tom, because I I'm sure.
See, I what one of the things that makes me a great host is that I have empathy.
Empathy.
Humility, yes, empathy and humility with and for the audience.
And by this I mean, okay, you're out there driving around on your home you're listening, and you hear this guy.
You hear this caller.
And I know exactly what you're thinking when you listen to this guy.
I know exactly what most of you are thinking.
I know what most of your reaction is.
Want me to tell you?
Oh, come on.
What do you mean?
You really mean to tell me that what Tebow's doing on football field has got practical application in a Republican primary process.
Are you is this guy for real?
Does this guy really think there's anything?
Tebow's doing what?
Belief in God?
They all believe in God.
What's Tebow got any of these people to learn from?
If you are skeptical of what Tom here in Rixville, Florida said, This is a story from way back five days ago.
Shortly after, well, a little while after, the Denver Broncos beat the Miami Dolphins in Miami.
One of the linebackers for the Dolphins is a guy named Carlos Dansby, who used to play for the Arizona Cardinals.
And according to Carlos Dansby, what happened when the Broncos played the Dolphins in week seven was this.
Dansby said that the Dolphins saw God working through Tebow.
And in the process, the Dolphins became closer to God, or Dansby became closer to God himself.
Carlos Dansby, linebacker for the Miami Dolphins, and us losing to Tim Tebow the way we did.
We've seen it firsthand.
Young man is blessed.
Young man has a special anointing on him.
And for God to show himself in that game the way he did through the guy he did it through, it opened a lot of guys' eyes on our team.
And it brought a lot of guys closer to God.
So like I said, everything happens for a reason.
My hat goes off to Tim Tebow, and God working through him like that, it opened up a lot of eyes.
He's a blessed young man, and I wish him much success the rest of his career.
Carlos Dansby said that on the Jim Rome show.
Now, what would your reaction be if you just if Carlos Dansby had said that on this show?
That Tim Tebow beating a Dolphins opened the Dolphins' eyes to God.
They became closer to God.
I cannot tell you what the Republicans can learn from Tebow.
So, I think it's being a little bit overanalyzed myself.
There's no question Tebow's a winner.
And I think what he does is make all those players on the team play their best.
I don't think it's any more complicated.
It's a leader.
He believes in himself, and so he makes it easier for people to believe in him and themselves.
I don't, it's really simple.
And there are people that have that ability.
There are people who are natural born leaders that inspire confidence and make you feel better about yourself.
It's they're rare, but there are people like that.
And Tebow is making a lot of people into believers in him, particularly his teammates.
Now, I don't, you can't bottle that kind of leadership.
You can't.
Tebow could spend the rest of his life making speeches about it, and he couldn't take somebody from scratch and turn them into him in that kind of thing.
He's a total package of a product of who he is.
But certainly there's no substitute for confidence.
And it's like I said Friday on this program, and I do think this is a profundity.
I think it, particularly in politics.
Nobody ever won anything, defending anything.
I mean, you just don't.
I know you're thinking you're trying to think of examples where I'm wrong or to that would contradict me.
Unbalanced, nobody wins anything when they're defending it.
The people that attack, the people that are run offense, they're the ones who win.
And that is an attitudinal thing.
And it would certainly help if our people had that, but I fear we're always defending.
We're back.
Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, America's real anchor man, America's truth detector, and the Doctor of Democracy.
State of Missouri is receiving a two million dollar federal grant to help feed needy children near Kansas City and St. Louis during the summer.
Two million dollars.
No, we don't have to feed needy children near Kansas City of St. Louis during the summer.
The state has operated a pilot project in Kansas City, plans to expand it with funds from the Department of Agriculture.
The funding will be divided between Kansas City and St. Louis.
State officials say they'll be able to help 10,000 children in St. Louis, Kansas City, Hickman Mills, and center school districts.
Now, what did I just say?
Nobody ever won anything defending it.
Well, here you go.
What are we trying to do?
We're trying to defend against this profligate spending, but we're not on offense.
We're just trying to stop it.
We're like at the Alamo.
We're just trying to stop.
We're constantly on defense everywhere, because we don't use government the way they do.
They're constantly on offense, constantly making a move, constantly trying to make it bigger.
We're just seeing stop, stop!
Damn it, stop.
We're not even trying to advance anything.
Very troubling.
And so this is how it works, you see.
If you feed them, if you feed the children three square meals a day during the school year.
How can you expect them to feed themselves in the summer?
So you start out with breakfast for the kids that can't afford debt, which happened when I was in junior high.
I remember when it started.
Remember the school making a big announcement over to PA.
And I'm not lying to you when I said, What the hell is this?
I eat breakfast.
Hold on, what is this?
Opening a cafeteria at 7 o'clock, and it was it was like uh continental.
It was nothing hot.
It was uh rolls and bread and butter and stuff like that.
And then of course it expanded, and we learn now it includes dinner in Memphis and other places during the school year.
Okay, then school ends.
And of course, how can we expect them to feed themselves in the summer when they haven't had to for nine months.
So this is how it works.
They demand to be fed during the summer.
Or their acolytes demand that they be fed during the summer.
Because after all, we've conditioned them to not feeding themselves.
Plus their parents don't have to take the responsibility of feeding them.
And their parents don't have to take the responsibility of paying, not directly for them to be fed.
So it's just natural.
Mr. Limbaugh, these children simply are ill-equipped to feed themselves in the summertime.
It's the only compassionate thing we can do.
Yeah, well, who made that possible?
You, Mr. Nucus Dradi, by trying to make people helpless.
Wanton little waifs and surfs dependent on the state.
Pure and simple.
Life style news.
Researchers of how many of you people, before I give you this news, how many of you people stopped eating eggs 30 years ago because of cholesterol and the belief they were going to kill you?
Eggs were horrible, rotten.
Last thing in the world.
You remember.
Oh, yet they are, in fact.
Researchers have found that eating eggs for breakfast can help slash the calories eaten at lunch and dinner.
Eggs keep you fuller for longer compared with other common breakfast foods, according to a Surrey University study, first of its kind in the U.K. They're also better for people who want to resist afternoon snacks on biscuits, cake, or chocolate.
This study tested three typical breakfasts with the same level of calories, eggs on toast, cornflakes with milk and toast, or a croissant and orange juice.
Adding to the growing body of evidence to support eggs as a key ingredient of weight loss diets.
The Surrey team found volunteers felt fuller for longer and had a lower desire to eat after the egg breakfast compared with the other ones.
See what you've been.
See what you have been missing for 30 years?
You have been thinking eggs are going to kill you.
I remember when I first did the Atkins diet, which was the low carb diet.
I was in Pittsburgh when I did that.
It was the early 70s.
And you could eat all the eggs you wanted.
And that just sent the food group Nazis into a tizzy.
Here's Atkins saying, eat all the eggs you want, they're great protein, but the food Nazis can't.
You're gonna die.
My God, that diet's gonna kill you.
Your cholesterol's gonna go up.
You're gonna have a heart attack in two days if you eat the kind of eggs Atkin says.
So everybody stopped eating eggs, or not everybody, but people started getting afraid of eating eggs.
I'm sure you remember this.
Now they're a key weight loss ingredient.
You know what gets me is how easy it was to convince people that eating eggs would actually harm them, that eating eggs would actually kill them.
It was so easy.
I have never subscribed to one.
I eat them all the time.
I love them.
And you know what else?
Biscuits and gravy.
And you know what else?
I don't have high cholesterol.
We've been through this.
Every time it's checked that doctors get mad.
I'm supposed to be the walking test case.
Or what?
Go ahead.
What's the line?
What is it?
Damn right it smells good in here because I eat a good old-fashioned American breakfast and piddle around here with cardboard tofu and all that rot gut.
That's designed to keep you from dying.
The companion story here out of Orlando, Florida.
Move over workouts.
Because some say this thing clears up, reduces and relieves it all.
Aches, pain, stiff joints, arthritis, asthma, and even helps you lose weight.
You know what it is?
Sweating.
No.
Well, it could be sex if you sweat profusely.
If you sweat profusely, clinical studies show that you can burn Up to 600 calories in an hour of being in there.
What they're talking about here is the infrared dry heat sauna, and you can thank NASA for the technology.
Back into early 80s, NASA discovered that infrared heat could give astronauts a cardiovascular workout without exercise.
The infrared sauna makes the same rays that come from the sun, but it filters out the UV radiation.
Now the traditional saunas of the past go a half inch into the tissues.
This goes an inch and a half into your body tissues.
So three times deeper.
Even the sweat produced for this is different.
And that's because the heat is different.
The infrared sauna reaches temperatures up to 140 degrees, breaks up the water molecules that hold toxins in your skin.
So when you sweat in there, you sweat the toxins out.
Mayo clinic studies found that the saunas can help with the treatment of high blood pressure and heart failure.
And all you have to do is sit on your butt in an infrared sauna, 140 degrees for an hour.
It's amazing.
Everything it can do from helping cancer patients, heart patients, says this guy.
And best of all, it doesn't feel like a hot, stuffy traditional sauna.
It's it's lighted.
There's music.
It's more enticing to stay in there, and of course, the longer you stay in, the more benefits.
Reports show that everyone from teenagers to the elderly can benefit from an infrared dry heat sauna, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Just sitting on your butt.
And you can have all the eggs that you want before you go in there.
Women will bear the brunt of climate change.
This from the Indian publication, The Hindu.
Women, particularly those living in the mountainous regions in developing countries, face disproportionately high risks to their livelihoods and health from global warming, says a UN report on climate change.
The United Nations Environment Program UNIP report titled Women at the Front Line of Climate Change, gender risks and hopes says that investing in low carbon and efficient green technologies, water harvesting, and fuel wood alternatives can strengthen the climate change adaption and improve women's livelihoods.
So once again, women hardest hit by global warming.
If we just go green, all the world's problems will disappear.
No more bad weather, no more human trafficking.
And by the way, what what is this?
Women, particularly those living in the mountainous regions of developing countries face disproportionately high risk to their livelihood.
What is their livelihood in the mountainous regions in developing countries?
What are they doing there?
Well, I don't know what it is.
I'm asking, what is a woman's livelihood in a mountainous region in developing countries?
And what about global warming will reduce it?
So you said goat herding, right?
Okay.
So we fix global warming, a hoax which is not even happening.
We fix it.
How does that change your average babe's interaction with goats while she's hurting them?
Do you have to herd them less because with global warming they're not as high on the mountain?
What happens?
Nobody knows.
That's why this is total BS.
And by the way, uh, it says here, women often play, look, folks, this is in the mainstream media.
I'm just telling you what's out there today.
Women often play a stronger role than men in the management of ecosystem services and food security.
Hence, sustainable adaptation must focus on gender and the role of women if it's to become successful.
So apparently what they're doing out there in the mountainous regions is uh uh ecosystem services and food security.
Now somebody want to tell me what that is.
It's a they do.
Liberals speak an entirely different language.
This now I'm sure that the Mr. New Castratis in the audience totally understand this.
I'm sure it makes total sense to them.
To you and me, this is gobbledygook.
This is this is this is insanity.
This is devoid of all reason.
And of course, we are right.
This is nothing more than a propaganda piece designed to promulgate a political point of view by gendering up or rendering up sympathy for women herding goats on the sides of mountains in Afghanistan.
I mean, who cares?
You know, I think all this is a bunch of poppycock folks.
It's very simple.
If the world gets warmer, nothing we can do about it.
So what women should do is just wear less clothes, whether they're on the side of a mountain in Afghanistan or anywhere else.
What a responsible intelligent woman would do.
Well, it's poppycock here, but worrying about what a ski instructors?
What are they doing there?
Anyway, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh here on the EIB network and back to the phones.
Rick in Malibu.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, nice to talk to you.
Rush Megadeth is from Malibu.
Thank you, sir.
So um I was listening with great interest at the beginning of your show today when as you were characterizing Mitt Romney as a moderate.
Yeah.
And so my question to you is, what is it in Mitt's background that would lead you to conclude that he was anything but a true conservative capitalist when it comes to jobs in the economy, which is the number one question for the country today.
Let me tell you there is a big one.
And it troubled me more than any of the others when he admitted that there is global warming and that man is causing it.
That opens the door to so much government restriction on freedom and liberty.
And then he was an advocate of cap and trade.
That's one.
Um the the whole individual mandate on health care.
I mean, that's that's but when the government can tell you what to buy, that's not a conservative position on anything.
And and and conservatives who have uh adopted that position in the past have renounced it.
And uh and and he hasn't.
But the global warming, I mean when he when he admitted this, he was in a he was, I guess, in New Hampshire or Mass Jesse it was a town hall, and when he he got a question from I'm sure some liberal plant in the audience, and he said got sucked in by it, and I whether he meant it or not, he said it, which meant that he will pander to me.
Um can I respond to that?
Sure.
Uh what he said was um he said while there may be evidence with respect to man-made global warming, he was also clear to say that there should be nothing the government needs to do about it.
So I mean, no, well, well, uh, I don't remember him saying that.
Oh, he did.
Everything he said, he talked about a lot of things about that there may be issues in the world that we need to deal with this was not a maybe.
This was not a maybe.
This wasn't a maybe.
The world I believe the world's getting warmer, and I believe man's responsible for it.
Okay.
And we're not gonna be able to do that.
And and I but he didn't I I don't think he well, I'm gonna have to grab the soundbite here from our uh from our archive.
Okay.
Uh, but his his position on immigration is uh um a little wobbly to me too.
Well, he but but he's all about I mean he's a capitalist.
With Bane Capital, he turned around companies.
He's against regulation that has been forever.
These these overburdenes and bank banking regulations.
He understands business.
He is a turnaround specialist.
He puts uh jobs together.
I mean, there's a big difference between a businessman and a politician like Newt.
And and I by the way, I love New.
I met him first time at the Reagan Library in 1995.
I I love Newt.
But when it comes to the the issues that we deal with today, a politician talks about cutting as how much less we're gonna spend next year than we were planning on spending, so it's an increase in spending.
And Newt talks about balancing the budget in the nineties by cutting.
He never cut anything.
Whereas a businessman looks at cutting is actually reducing spending next year from what you spent this year.
But he didn't do that in Massachusetts.
He can only do so much as a governor.
And they did reduce they they went from a what is it, three billion dollar deficit to a couple of hundred million dollar surplus when he left.
Right?
He talks about the cuts as real cuts.
That's what business is.
Here's what I'm doing.
Let me tell you something.
Comes down to Mitt and Obama, you know who I'm voting for.
You ask me, what is it that I'm troubled by?
I'm not Every answer that I'm giving you, you're giving me a yeah but the answers are longer.
He is a conservative.
Just because you believe something that's sounds and fits within the category of a liberal soundbite doesn't mean a federal government to keep it.
He puts strict regulations on coal plants.
I mean, you talk about being a capitalist and and uh doesn't think the government should do anything about his belief that the world's getting warmer and that people are responsible for it.
He does.
He does do he does use government for these things, or he has as as governor, but look at I'm not looking for the perfect.
I'm answering your question.
And I'm all I'm trying to do is people ask me about various candidates.
Uh I've also said, by the way, that it's possible to get to the right of Newt if Mitt wants to flip again, and it's possible to get to the right of Newt, which also tells you.
Uh but what he said was I don't speak for the scientific community, but I believe the world's getting warmer.
I can't prove it, but I believe based on what I read the world's getting warmer.
Number two, I believe the humans contribute to that.
It's important for us to reduce our emissions.
I mean, he would use government to do that.
That's that's a liberal position for Christmas as liberals you can get.
I've got the Romney soundbite from um well, it was in New Hampshire, um June the third in New Hampshire.
We've got some play that for you.
Again, we've played it recently.
I'll play it again before you we come back from the break here at the top of the hour, and we've got much more straight ahead, folks.
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