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Dec. 19, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 19, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
So now we're being told, ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure you've noticed it, by the way, that the news media telling us that Newt's bounce from the Hawkeye Korkeye is already over.
The bounce is already on.
They haven't even cast a vote yet.
And Newt's bounce from the Hawkeye Corkai is already over.
Good people of Iowa not voting.
What is it?
January 3rd, right?
It's a couple of weeks.
The news media, however, already know what's gonna happen.
Aren't they amazing?
What would we do without them?
Kim Jong il is now Kim Jong dead.
And the uh the news media making a big fuss over how the North Korean media and the people on the street have been weeping at the sad news.
Of course, they wept in the Soviet Union when Stalin died, too.
And they'll weep when Obama dies.
And even even the prisoners in the gulags uh weep when Stalin die.
Tear gas will do that to you.
North uh North Korea, nothing more than one giant Soviet gold.
The media it here, Grim.
I I I told Mike I was gonna start with something, but did I tell you number three?
To start with number, yeah, good.
Okay, so I'm not gonna get to change it.
We're starting with number three.
Listen to this media montage.
Smart and ruthless.
Diplomats who dealt with him described Kim as shrewd and calculating.
In a demented sort of way.
Brilliant.
Tactically brilliant.
Very cunning person and very smart person.
Was profoundly important around the world.
I actually met him when I traveled there with Madeline Albright.
Wow!
That was that was in Ring of Mitchell, NBC News in Washington.
I actually met Kim Jong il.
Wow!
I actually met him when I traveled.
Meanwhile, Rick Perry and Michelle Bachman are stupid.
Rick Perry, Michelle Bachman are dumb and stupid, but Kim Jong il Mercurial, Mercurial, Enigmatic.
That's how the AP described it.
His people are starving.
They're eating dog.
They wish they had dog.
Yeah, it's gotten worse.
Those that are still alive wish they had dog.
And we hear how smart Bush was the devil.
George W. Bush was stupid, and he was the devil.
He was the devil incarnated.
Kim Jong il.
Now Kim Jong dead.
Very cunning, very smart person.
Profoundly important around the world.
I actually met him when I traveled there with Madeline.
Speaking of Madeline Obreat, here she is.
A montage of her on Kim Jong il, now Kim Jong dead between 2003 and 2006.
He said that he would really have loved to have been a movie director.
He knew a lot about American movies and had suggestions for Oscar nominations.
I believe this.
You know, he also liked American sports.
He liked Michael Jordan.
It was possible to talk with him.
He's not a nut.
I think that's the main kind of point.
I think that it's important actually not to make fun of he wanted me to email with him.
I think the thing that's interesting, Larry, is I do not believe that he's crazy.
I know a lot of people have said that.
I don't think so.
The montage of former Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, talking about Kim Jong il.
Now Kim Jong dead.
He was a murdering tyrant.
His people are among the poorest in the world.
And he's spoken of here in reverent terms.
The best thing he had going for him as far as these people are concerned was he's not a Republican.
He wasn't a conservative.
You know, Hotler, uh, Hitler and Stalin both loved American movies too.
This guy loved Michael Jordan.
Wow, there's really a lot to recommend him.
Bachman and Perry are stupid.
Kim Jong il.
Not a nut.
It'd be a mistake to say that he's a nut.
By the way, I know folks, Tim Tebow lost yesterday.
Actually, Tim Tebow didn't lose the Denver defense lost yesterday.
The news media, though, seems to be delighted.
John Elway probably delighted that uh that Tim Tebow lost the media excited here because they think this proves there's no God.
Uh Also, uh, ladies and gentlemen, Joe Flacco and the Baltimore Ravens lost last night in San Diego.
They lost 14 to 34 against the Chargers.
Joe Flacco was sacked five times.
He threw a couple of picks, and I just wanted to give him equal time here with uh with Tebow, so he wouldn't complain about being eclipsed.
He's all upset that Tebow kept getting all the coverage last week, so I wanted to make sure that Flacco, the quarterback of the Ravens got his due coverage too for his performance last night, San Diego.
Now the Steelers get the Steelers play in San Francisco tonight against the Forders.
And by the way, for those of you new to the program, you might wonder why why do I pronounce the San Francisco team that was when I when I was in Sacramento 1984 through '87.
Actually, it was uh midway through 1988.
I listened to the 49ers radio broadcasts, and the play-by-play guy, I forget his name now, said the name of the team so fast, because he'd said it so often, he tried to get a jump on all the syllables.
It just came out foreigners.
Uh and sometimes he would not even go if he just said the Niners, but other times it'd be the Forders, and I just, you know, I'm I'm a mimic.
And I wonder if it was almost a signature.
Don Klein was the guy's name.
That's who it was.
That Don Klein, Forders.
Um anyway, they play the Steelers tonight.
Rothisberger, grade one high ankle sprain will play, according to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
He will be delivered by air ambulance.
So it's been hurt for the last game, 11 days ago.
Let's get uh high ankle sprain.
At any rate, no, I saw somebody write some parody be delivered by uh by into the huddle on a stretcher by an air ambulance.
And uh so the game counts.
If the Steelers win out, they have the Fordiners tonight, then they have the Rams and the Browns.
If they win out, they're the number one seed because they beat the Patriots.
Meanwhile, the uh the the Raven to quarterback, by the way, Joe Flacco, who um lost 14 to 34 last night, uh sacked five times a couple of picks to go along with Tebow's performance.
They beat the Steelers twice, and that was their Super Bowl.
If you're okay, now they were in line for the number one seed, and now they could end up number five because they're lost to the Chargers last night.
Yeah, they can have number five, number five seed.
Steelers could, if they win out, be the number one seed even over the Patriots.
Patriots have the inside.
If the Steelers lose one of these last three, the Patriots have the inside track and a favorable schedule.
The Patriots end with the with the uh the Dolphins and the Bills.
So it's it is what it is.
Anyway, um, the new Kim Jong in uh in in Korea, Kim Jong-un.
Kim Jong-il is going to be succeeded by his 20-something year old son, Kim Jong un.
Actually pronounced like Young'un.
Kim Jong-un.
On what?
Of course, uh, only question now is whether or not Obama will tie that try to take credit for Kim Jong-il's death to try to drive up his poll numbers.
Folks, I wouldn't put it past him.
He killed bin Laden, and uh before it's all said and done, it might well be that a poison tipped something like a maybe poison cognac.
We know that Kim Jong-il liked cognac and cigars.
Maybe the CIA planted poison on one of Cuban cigars, Kim Jong-il puffed on, and that was all she wrote.
It is said here that the people of North Korea really taking the news hard, the death of Kim Jong-il, who's now Kim Jong dead.
They say the people of North Korea are said to have gone on a hunger strike.
Except nobody can tell the difference.
They started their hunger strike several years ago, just to show their grief in advance.
That's how loyal they were to Kim Jong.
They've been starving for years in advance of his death, so it could be said that they went on a hunger strike in sadness.
Some reporters are saying that uh with North Korea state control media, Kim Jong-il probably never heard a single word of criticism in his entire life.
Because they got the state controlled media.
He never heard a single word.
Another thing he has in common with Obama.
At least in the uh in the media.
Speaking of Obama, as we are here, it's a shame Kim Jong il died before Obama ever got a chance to bow down to him or to even apologize to him.
It's the one guy that Obama didn't get to apologize to or bow down to.
How'd our State Department ever let that happen?
We had to know that Kim Jong il was soon to be Kim Jong dead.
How do we not?
How'd our State Department not finagle away for Obama to get over there and bow to Kim Jong il at least apologize?
Obama did promise.
I'm not making this up.
Obama did promise that he would meet with Kim Jong il during one of the 2008 debates.
Maybe Kim died holding his breath, waiting for that to happen.
Hope not.
Anyway, brief time out here, folks, as we kick off a partial week.
We'll be here through Wednesday, but remember most hosts are already on vacation, so count your lucky stars.
I have this piece here from the BBC on the death of Kim Jong-un.
I just want to read this to you.
Millions of North Koreans were engulfed in indescribable sadness, the state news agency said, as people wept openly in Pyongyang.
It's what every dictator dreams of, by the way.
Every dictator dreams of this kind of coverage.
The news agency described one of his sons, Kim Jong un as the great successor, whom North Koreans should unite behind.
Pyongyang's neighbors are on alert amid fears of instability in the poor and isolated nuclear armed nation.
Fears were compounded by unconfirmed reports from South Korean news agency Yan Hep that the North had test fired a missile off its eastern coast before the announcement of Kim Jong il's death was made.
Unnamed government officials in Seoul, South Korea were quoted as saying they did not believe the launch was linked to the announcement.
South Korean defense ministry has declined to comment following the news of Mr. Kim's death, the South Korea put its armed forces on high alert.
Mr. Kim's death was announced in an emotional statement on national television.
The announcer, wearing black, struggled to keep back to tears.
As she said that he had died of physical and mental overwork.
He thought too much and he worked too much.
State news agency later reported he had died of a severe myocardial infarction along with a heart attack.
The problem with that is that a severe myocardial infarction is a heart attack.
So he had two heart attacks because he was thinking too much, he is thinking too hard, he was working too hard.
Severe myocardial infarction along with a heart attack.
8 30 local time Saturday, he was on a train at the time for one of his field guidance tours.
The state news agency said that a funeral be held in Pyongyang on 28 December, that Kim Jong-un would lead the funeral committee.
A period of national mourning has been declared from now through December 29th.
Images from inside the secretive state showed people in the streets of Pyongyang weeping and banging on tables.
At news of the death of Kim Jong dead.
Every dictator dreams of this.
Every dictator dreams of this kind of stuff.
People in the streets weeping, banging on tables at the news of the death of the dear leader.
I remember how all the U.S. news anchors wore black to report Bush's defeat of John Kerry in 2004.
Remember that?
They all wore black on TV that night to report Bush's defeat of Kerry.
You know what they're gonna tell us?
Kim Jong il was so big hearted he needed two heart attacks to kill him.
He had a myocardial infarction and a heart attack.
That's how tough he was.
His hearts were so numerous and so big it take two heart attacks to get rid of Kim Jong il.
There was very little income disparity in North Korea.
The gap between starving and dead is next to nothing.
And that was the extent of the gap in uh in North Korea.
So all hail central planning, everybody's equal.
You knew it was bad when Fox News brings out the grim reaper.
It's audio soundbite number five.
Fox News brings out the Grim Reaper to announce the upsetting news.
This is the Fox News alert.
Kim Jong il, the North Korean dictator is dead.
We're fortunate that my colleague Greg Palcott was in North Korea and was how far away from the dictator.
I'd say about 50 yards last year.
Fifty yards away fifty yards away from the dictator last year.
Fifty yards away.
And that was the news on the Fox News.
Meanwhile, George Bush, Rick Perry, and Michelle Bachman are stupid.
Idiots.
They can't speak.
Kim Jong il, Mercurial, enigmatic.
Don't make fun of him.
He wasn't a nut.
North Korea mourns dead leader, son hailed as a great successor, this uh successor, this this Kim Jong-un, young, seems like a particularly apt name for the successor.
He's in his late twenties.
This article, this is Reuters' story.
They're heartbroken in this story at Roaders.
They point out how many in the North Korean media and people of street have been weeping at the sad news.
Banging on tables, terribly unhappy, upset, miserable.
This is the uh AP.
North Korean leader Kim Jong il, 69, has died.
North Korea's mercurial and enigmatic longtime leader has died of heart further.
Uh failure.
The communist country's dear leader, reputed to have had a taste for cigars, cognac and gourmet cuisine, was believed to have had diabetes and heart disease.
There's no mention of mass murder via tyrant, nothing about mass starvation of his own people, nothing about denying those under his thumb, the most basic necessities of life in the 20th century.
Nothing about concentration camps, nothing about forced abortions, nothing about racism, or that the madman who just assumed room temperature on his way to hell created nukes to sell to other men equally mad.
None of this.
In fact, George Bush was so stupid that he called North Korea part of the axis of evil.
Remember that?
Mr. Limbaugh, why are you making such a big deal over the...
I'm not gonna give big deal of the death.
I'm making a big deal out of the way it's being covered.
It's instructive.
Yeah, I mean, it's ridiculously funny, but it's also instructive.
This guy is being treated with an amount of respect there is in no way any he deserves.
And yet, all these Republican candidates for president, stupid, dumb, idiotic, dangerous.
It's important.
There's a there's a classic lack of proportion missing here, sense of proportion missing.
From Gawker.
Did Vladimir Putin lock his wife away in a loony bin?
Amid election discrepancies, and in the wake of rumored affairs and spousal abuse, the wife of despotic Russian leader Vladimir Putin has gone missing.
Where is she?
Ludmilla is her name.
Flash, the gossip column of the daily, reports that Putin's long-suffering wife hasn't been seen in public since a June trip to Scotland and England.
A new rumor spreading through his cabinet, she's locked away in a psych ward somewhere outside of Moscow.
One Russian society source said that blogs in Russia have claimed that uh Putin divorced her three years ago but keeps her around for twice a year.
Dog and pony shows, keeps her locked up in the loony bin, lets her out when he needs her.
Now he's being called a despotic Russian leader.
He's got his wife locked up.
Let's her out when he needs her on the dog and pony show arm.
Kim Jong il Mercurial, enigmatic, not a nut, would make be a big mistake to uh to make fun of him.
How about this headline?
This is from the uh Washington Examiner.
GOP will take off the gloves if Ron Paul wins Iowa.
The Republican presidential primary has become a bit feisty, but it'll get downright ugly if Ron Paul wins the Hawkeye Cawkeye.
The principled anti-war constitution obeying Fed-hating libertarian Republican congressman from Texas stands firmly outside the bounds of permissible dissent as drawn by either the Republican establishment or the mainstream media.
But in a crowded Republican field, currently led by a collapsing Newt Gingrich and an uninspiring Mitt Romney.
Ron Paul could carry the Hawkeye Cockeye where supporter enthusiasm has so much value.
If Paul wins, how will the media and the Republican Party react?
Much of the media will ignore him.
Expect headlines like Romney beats out Gingrich for second place in Iowa.
Some in the Republican establishment and the conservative media will panic, others will calmly move to crush him.
I don't know who wrote this.
It didn't print out, but whoever wrote it makes mention of the fact, disclosure, Paul wrote the forward to my 2009 book.
I must tell you the uh Apple has a I'm gonna run out of time to tell you, but the author did not print, so I don't know who wrote this.
Be back here in just a second.
This piece of the Washington Examiner is written by Timothy P. Carney, senior political columnist.
What I was going to explain to you is that Macintosh, the Mac OS 10 Lion, has in its Safari web browser a feature in the website address bar called reader.
You can click on the word reader, and nothing but the text of the story appears.
No ads, no nothing.
In fact, the website link doesn't print, and sometimes the author's name doesn't print.
And if you don't make a note of it when you print it out, and you have no idea if you don't remember what it is.
Thankfully, at the end of the piece, it says here, Timothy Carney, the examiner's senior political columnist can be contacted at.
So that's how I know who wrote this thing.
Now, this is a guy sympathetic to Ron Paul.
Uh he says in the in the second paragraph of his piece, disclosure Paul wrote the forward to my 2009 book.
Let's see if the name of the book is mentioned here at the tail end of the piece.
Nope.
At any rate, um what this is about, this this story's basically a piece sympathetic to Ron Paul, how unfortunate it's gonna be if Ron Paul wins the Hawkeye Kawkeye, how the mean spirited extremist Republicans are gonna come down on this guy and uh and try to whop him out, uh, wipe him out.
Paul wins, how will the media, the GOP react?
Much of the media will ignore him with phony headlines, some in the Republican establishment, the conservative media will panic, others will calmly move to crush him with the full cooperation of the liberal mainstream media.
I beg to differ.
The liberal mainstream media will try to build Ron Paul up.
For an historical analogy, study the aftermath of Pat Buchanan's 1996 victory in the New Hampshire primary was awful.
Buchanan told me this week when I asked him about his few days as the nominal GOP front runner.
They came down on me with both feet.
The GOP establishment that week rallied to squash Buchanan just after New Hampshire, Gingrich's handpicked group of GOP leaders known as the Speaker's Advisor Group met with one thing on their minds, how to deal with Buchanan.
So, Mr. Kearney, I'm assuming since he discloses that Ron Paul wrote the forward to his book in 2009 is a Ron Paul acolyte and is very much concerned Paul's going to win this thing and then the Republicans are going to come down on him and destroy him and uh and so forth.
And of course, folks never never count on the Republican Party to actually think about the consequences before something happens.
They just react after it happens, like I've always constantly defending things.
They are never moving things forward, constantly playing defense.
And this would not even be happening if the Republican Party weren't scared to death of nominating a real conservative.
If the Republican Party weren't so afraid of conservatism and having a conservative nominee, Ron Paul wouldn't be anywhere near winning the Hawkeye Cawkay.
It's just that simple.
But because the Republican Party insists on insider moderates, or at least gives the impression that's who they support, then it opens the door for all kinds of people to make headway.
Because the Republican primary base is not interested in who the establishment is interested in.
It's just that simple.
I'll tell you something.
I've been saying here for the last couple, three weeks, maybe even longer than that, that Mitt Romney can't get higher than 30% anywhere.
Other than New Hampshire gets 35.
But in truth, no other Republican does either.
When you get right down, no other Republican is either.
Now the reason for that is primarily this.
The Republican establishment is trying to split the conservative vote among all the other conservative candidates, the Gingriches, Bachman, Perry.
I mean to leave anybody a santorum.
I don't mean to leave anybody out here, but they're dividing that vote and in the hopes of securing the nomination for Romney.
The problem is that the Republican primary voter does not want a moderate.
They don't want somebody they perceive as being immoderate, and the Republicans might, hey, look, no, no, no.
We're trying to tell you Mitsus, strong conservative is the strongest conservative we got.
Well, the Republican primary voters don't believe that when they're told that.
So they're divvying up their votes elsewhere, and that is allowing creep on the part of Ron Paul.
It's um and that Ron Paul foreign policy is out there along with the conspiracy theories and everything else, it is out there, and it's guaranteed defeat.
It's guaranteed defeat.
The Republicans will take the gloves off if Ron Paul wins.
None of this need be happening.
But the Republican Party's insistent governing against the will of its own voters, at least in the primary.
That's how it appears to me.
What do you what?
Well, you know, I was talking with Sturdy Jib Jeb Bush.
Jeb Bush has a piece in the Wall Street Journal today.
And already, Steve Moore from the Wall Street Journal, which published Jeb's piece, was on Fox today doing an interview with Martha McCallum.
And um Steve Moore was saying, you know what?
Doesn't look like any Republican can actually take hold of this thing and run away with it.
I mean, boy, if Jeb Bush would announce, that's all that's what we need.
Jeb Bush to announce, and that would coalesce all these people.
Jeb's got this great piece of the Wall Street Journal today, and if that happened, oh, Katie Bardador, that'd be the Soore and some at the Wall Street Journal are now hoping that Jeb Bush gets in this.
And who knows, folks, I have this piece is brilliant.
This piece in the Wall Street Journal today is brilliant.
Let me give you three pull quotes from the piece.
We have to make it easier for people to do the things that allow them to rise.
We have to let them compete.
We need to let people fight for business.
We need to let people take risks.
We need to let people fail.
We need to let people suffer the consequences of bad decisions, and we need to let people enjoy the fruits of good decisions, even good luck.
Mayors, county chairs, governors, presidents never think their laws will harm the free market, but cumulatively they do, and we have now imperiled the right to rise.
We must choose between the straight line promised by the statists and the jagged line of economic freedom.
The straight line of gradual and controlled growth is what the statists promise but can never deliver.
The jagged line offers no guarantees but has a powerful record of delivering the most prosperity and the most opportunity to the most people.
We cannot possibly know in advance what freedom promises for three hundred and twelve million individuals.
But unless we're willing to explore the jagged line of freedom, we will be stuck with the straight line, and the straight line, it turns out is a flat line.
He is right on the money here.
He's exactly right on the money.
And this column is in direct response to Obama's osawatomy speech.
And when Jeb Bush talks about the statists, I never thought I'd see the day.
I never thought I would see the day when Jeb Bush is the Republican establishment.
I never thought I'd see the day where the Republican establishment uses that word.
I never thought I would see the day, and here it is, and he uses it over and over again.
And he gets it pretty much right.
Of course, Obama is promising all the statists, they all promise no risk, risk-free success, risk-free contentment, risk-free happiness.
Everybody the same, everybody equal, except the people at top, and we're going to cream them.
We're going to nail them, and we're going to cut them down to size.
And in the process of cutting everybody at the top down to size, look at what you're going to end up with.
But everybody's going to be the same.
There's not going to be any pain.
There isn't going to be any suffering.
Everybody's going to have health care.
Everybody's going to have a job.
Everybody's going to have this.
Everybody's going to have that.
Of course it never works.
Nobody has anything when that's the promise I give you North Korea.
I give you the Soviet Union.
I give you Cuba.
The Chicoms, wherever this no risk, security of the straight line is tried, you end up with misery.
That's what's equal.
Everybody is miserably equal.
The title of Jeb Bush's peace, Capitalism and the Right to Rise.
Congressman Paul Ryan, this is how Jeb opens the piece.
Congressman Paul Ryan recently coined a smart phrase to describe the core concept of economic freedom, the right to rise.
Think about it.
We talk about the right to free speech, the right to bear arms, the right to assembly.
The right to rise doesn't seem like something we should have to protect, but we do.
We have to make it easier for people to do the things that allow them to rise.
We have to let them compete.
We need to let people fight for bidness.
We need to let people take risks.
We need to let people fail.
We need to let people suffer the consequences of bad decisions.
See, this is what the statists think nobody wants.
There shouldn't be any failure.
There shouldn't be any risk.
And there should be no consequences of bad decisions.
The only people who should suffer consequences are the rich.
And we'll define that as $150,000 a year or more.
The only people who should suffer any consequences are the successful because they're cheaters.
It's unfair.
And they succeed at the expense of others.
That's what the statists say, people such as Obama.
So it's and it's very seductive to come along and imply, you don't use the language, but you come along and imply that there will be no consequences for bad decisions.
There'll just be compassion.
There will not be risks.
That's too dangerous.
That's that's too unsettling.
Risks lead to unhappiness.
We're not going to have people taking risks.
We're not going to permit it.
Everybody's going to Do fine.
And we'll have just a straight line of equality.
And writes Jeb Bush, we need to let people enjoy the fruits of good decisions, even good luck.
That's what economic freedom looks like, freedom to succeed as well as to fail, freedom to do something or nothing.
All you singin' my song.
Leave people alone.
Let them do what they want with what they've got.
Let them pursue excellence to the best of their ability according to their desires and their ability.
That's what we conservatives believe.
Because we conservatives believe it.
No two people or things are equal.
It's not possible.
We're all unique.
We cannot all be made the same.
Despite the best intentions.
All Jeb Bush is saying here.
But there's going to be blowback here, because we need to let people fail.
You're going to have the libs in the media.
Jeb Bush is okay with people failing.
Jeb Bush is okay with people in poverty.
Jeb Bush is fine with people suffering.
That's what they're going to say that means.
And of course, that's not what Jeb Bush or anybody else who professes all this actually means.
People understand this.
Freedom of speech, for example, means that we put up with a lot of verbal and visual garbage in order to make sure that individuals have the right to say what needs to be said even when it's inconvenient or unpopular.
No, no, the left's taking care of that too.
Political correctness.
Self-censorship.
We forgive the sacrifices of free speech because we value its blessings.
But when it comes to economic freedom, we're less forgiving of the cycles of growth and loss, of trial and error, and of failure and success that are part of the realities of the marketplace and life itself.
Increasingly, we've let our elected officials abridge our own economic freedoms through the annual passage of thousands of laws and their associated regulations.
We see human tragedy.
We demand a regulation to prevent it.
We see a criminal fraud.
We demand more laws.
We see an industry dying.
We demand to be saved each time we demand do something.
Anything.
Woe to the elected leader who fails to deliver a multi point plan for economic success driven by specific government action.
Gotta take a break.
There's more after this.
I have to tell you that Jeb Bush sounds like me.
Jeb Bush in his own words is taking half the message that I take out when I go to do a rush to excellence appearance.
And I know what you people want.
I look at I'm fully aware what you want a candidate who sounds like what you hear on this show.
Because you think, I mean, you've been here 23 years, you're not going anywhere, and I'm not.
This is sustained and grown for 25 years, and you think, well, why what's so hard about this?
What's so hard about it?
And the tough lesson to learn is you think, why don't these Republicans in Washington get it?
Why don't they look at what happens on this program and this audience, the strength, the support?
We're not on the same team, folks.
That's the hard lesson to learn here.
There is no conservative movement in Washington.
I hate to break it to you.
That's one of the things this election is about.
But let me get back to Jeb's piece here.
As Florida's governor for eight years, I was asked to do something almost every day.
Many times I resisted through vetoes, but many times I succumbed, and I wasn't alone.
Mayors, county chairs, governors, presidents never think their laws will harm the free market.
I I'm gonna dissent here, and I'm gonna accept Obama from that.
I think he's aware that his due.
And I think he is aware of it to the point that his or on purpose.
But we've been there and said that.
Let me continue here.
Cumulatively, all of these laws that mayors, county chairs, governors, and presidents pass do harm the free market, and we have now imperiled the right to rise.
In Washington, D.C., rules are going in the opposite direction.
They are exploding in reach and complexity.
They are created under a cloud of uncertainty, and years after their passage, nobody really knows how they're gonna work.
We either can go down the road we're on, a road where the individual is allowed to succeed only so much before being punished with ruinous taxation, where commerce ignores government action at its own peril, and where the state decides how a massive share of the economy's resources should be spent.
Or we can return to the road we once knew and which has served us well, a road where individuals acting freely and with little restraint, and that's another way of saying in their own self-interest, which is my mantra, are able to pursue fortune and prosperity as they see fit.
Folks, I swear I could have written this.
I swear I did write this.
The words have been changed to protect the innocent.
But this, from Jeb Bush...
Now, is it what are you gonna do?
Steve Moore doesn't go on Fox and throw out the possibility of Jeb Bush throwing his hat in a ring and point out that nobody's getting under over 30% in our primary without a lot of people thinking the same thing somewhere.
You know, Calvin Coolidge, an ex-president, said something that's pretty intriguing to me.
Four-fifths of all of our troubles would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still.
Just shut up.
Don't do anything.
Just let things work out, and four-fifths of them will.
But Jeb Bush is right.
Presidents, governors, do something!
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