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Dec. 22, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 22, 2011, Thursday, Hour #2
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And a good Thursday afternoon to you in progress here in Texas and across the fruited plain, as Rush would sound.
We have the Rush Limbaugh vacation underway.
Mark Stein is in tomorrow, and then a smattering.
I believe that's the collective noun of fill-in hosts, none of whom will be me.
It was so nice.
It's always so nice to get the call.
I know my compadres will harmonize with me on this.
It's a joy and an honor to fill this seat when Rush is away.
I have a lot going on next week.
Almost all of it involves doing as little as possible at my house and some family stuff and this and that, just basically recharging the batteries and getting ready to go to Iowa.
Rush will be back on Iowa caucus day, Tuesday, January 3rd.
Gee, you think you'll have some material saved up by then?
It should be great.
And to pilot you through all of that material between now and then, those of us who are eternally pleased and proud to be the fill-in bench strength here on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Phone number remains 1-800-282-2882.
Website remains rushlimbaugh.com.
Mark Davis from WBAP in Dallas, Fort Worth with you, as I've been so pleased to be throughout this year and a few years going.
And as the year winds down and we hit the Christmas season and a reflective time to look back at 2011, just enormous gratitude to Rush and to James and HR and Ed and Mike and everybody whose magical voices I hear through the headphones here in Texas when I do this.
So guys, thanks for making it a joy and a pleasure.
All right, let's keep things rolling here topically.
Before we get back to calls, let me begin each hour sort of laying down another topical layer or two.
I mentioned I had an idea about how Iowa and New Hampshire might go.
In no way, in no way, does that involve something rising to the level of a prediction?
People, I just think that'd be crazy.
I mean, people can do it.
I mean, shoot, people predict football games again.
And that's probably kind of crazy.
But it changes so much week to week, day to day.
Just to work our way back through the calendar year.
Here in Texas, in particular, we took a look at the Romney frontrunner status, and many people said that the entry of Governor Perry into the race, that would create a Romney Perry two-person race, because there didn't really seem to be anybody else with enough money, enough track record, enough resume to make a difference.
I mean, Michelle Bachman has her requisite amount of fans here in Texas and elsewhere.
There's so much good to say about Rick Santorum, but already the stigma was starting to gather around Rick that at least nationally speaking, he could not buy a break in the polls, which is just horribly unjust to this wonderful man.
And maybe Iowa will reward him with a surprising finish.
I really hope they do.
But just to show you that everything that you think is happening, it is happening as you witness it, but it simply may not be happening for long.
Governor Perry got in and seemed to be a little adrift on the campaign trail.
I think he has found his voice now.
Is it too late?
Probably not.
Tell you about that in a minute.
Michelle Bachman did very well in the Ames, Iowa straw poll.
And so everybody, we went a little loopy about her for a while.
And that was great.
That was very energizing.
I love Michelle.
But then Perry got in and sort of ate up all of her oxygen.
And then Herman Kane starts to catch fire.
And we all know where that went.
So everybody's sort of had their time.
And this right now seems to be Newt Gingrich's time in the sort of, not the on-deck circle, that's flawed.
In the Romney alternative chair, the Romney alternative chair.
Because everybody believes, most everybody believes, that what we're going to come down to in some type of home stretch, and it may take till April to get there, but some type of home stretch is someone who is Romney and someone who is not.
Nothing gets by me.
This is some top-drawer analysis you're getting here.
One person will be Romney and the other one will not.
But what I mean by that is that the real race here appears to be who's going to be the other, I don't want to say the anti-Romney because that implies against.
Who's going to be the Romney alternative?
For a while there, it looked like it could be Michelle.
For a while, there looked like it could be Governor Perry, and it may yet be.
For a while, there, it looked like it was going to be Herman Kane.
Not so much.
Now, with his time in the sun in the Romney alternative chair, it's Newt Gingrich.
And so that means that Romney's going after him.
It means that Perry's going after him because he's trying to claw back to relevancy.
It means Ron Paul, Lord knows Ron Paul's going after him.
And so Newt is just getting bludgeoned in just about every commercial break that you can find on the TV sets of Iowa.
Is that having an effect?
Yeah, it is.
That Rasmussen poll that had Newt up on Mitt 32-19 a month ago now shows Mitt back on top of Newt, 23-20.
And yes, for you, Paul heads, there's Ron Paul at 18.
So it's all fluid.
The Iowa caucuses are a snapshot of what's going on on January 3rd.
Can you imagine if the Iowa caucuses had been last week, Newt Gingrich, two weeks ago, Newt Gingrich would have won.
He would have won going away.
But the Iowa caucuses were not two weeks ago.
They are a couple of weeks from now.
And so it's weird.
The horse race analogy works.
I mean, a horse can lag behind.
A horse can be in the lead at the first turn, the second turn, the clubhouse turn.
Doesn't mean squat.
What matters is who's ahead at the finish line.
The Iowa finish line will take place in barns and school gymnasiums and living rooms on the evening of January 3rd.
That's when we get what might be a photo finish, or it might be Secretariat nearly lapping the field.
It's impossible to know that now.
Because I tell you what, here's one thing that we know: Romney will finish strong.
Ah, that's some bold stuff, isn't it?
That Mark Davis, he's a bold son of a gun.
Romney will finish strong.
Will he win Iowa?
I don't know.
Newt might still beat him.
Ron Paul might do better than Romney in Iowa.
I don't know.
Perry might surprise living daylights out of people.
I know I'm killing you with this Perry stuff.
Here's the deal: here are a couple of ifs, a couple of ifs for you.
If it really is true that Republican America cannot get sufficiently excited about Mitt Romney, and if it is true that Republican America admires Newt and is energized by Newt, but the idea of an actual Newt campaign, an actual newt presidency might be a little unnerving.
If those are true of a lot of people, there's really only one thoroughly plausible, got the money, got the street cred guy to say, hi, I'm still here.
Remember me?
Yeah, I forgot that third cabinet department.
And yeah, every once in a while, I'll mess up how old you are to vote and even what the election day is.
But my head is true.
My heart is right.
You don't have to worry about whether I once favored man-made global warming as a theory.
You don't have to worry about finding old documents where I seem to think that an individual health care mandate was a good idea.
You don't have any of that BS with me.
I'm Rick Perry.
And as long as he does that, that's going to have some appeal.
How much?
I don't know.
That's yet to, as long as every story says, yet to be determined.
But it is.
It's totally yet to be determined.
So Iowa will anoint its winner on the evening of January 3rd.
Is that predictive?
Not so much.
Often the Iowa caucus winner gets waylaid the following week, the next few days in New Hampshire.
Remember 2008, Barack Obama won Iowa.
You know who else did?
Mike Huckabee.
Last I saw, Mike was writing books and hosting TV shows and doing a fine job at both and probably wondering, why didn't I run?
We love you, Mike.
Then you go to New Hampshire and John McCain won New Hampshire and so did Hillary.
So Iowa and New Hampshire are important, but they're not predictive.
They have value in winnowing down the field.
They sort of give heft to some candidacies, suck the air out of a few more, so that it becomes kind of clear, not just after Iowa and New Hampshire, but then South Carolina and Florida to follow.
We'll be having conversations.
I will on the local show that I host here in DFW.
And Rush will be having this conversation, and all of us in Fill Inland, we'll have it with you when we sit in for Rush.
I mean, if that happens a great deal during the primary stretch, it may not.
What America needs is Rush in this chair from January through at least Super Tuesday.
So I hope that golf weather is not that appealing.
Kidding.
And what ultimately is going to happen is the conversation will go like this.
It's already started sort of prematurely.
I love when people call me and go, yeah, Marca, isn't it time for Rick Santorum to get out?
What?
It's not time for anybody to do anything.
When Michelle Bachman went from really high in the polls and then wound up back down in mid-single digits, people would email me and go, yeah, Marca, Michelle Bachman, doesn't she need to kind of get out of the way?
No, no.
Real human beings need to cast real votes.
This is where genuine surprises can happen.
Will they?
I don't know.
And probably, probably the polls and the way the polls have been going are fairly reliable.
I mean, elections don't always go the way polls go, but more often than not, polls, I mean, the ones that are done that are actual random scientific samplings, none of this online poll nonsense, whether it elicits a result you like or it doesn't.
I mean, real polls.
I mean, Romney is strong.
Gingrich is strong right now.
Herman Cain was strong.
His appeal did build and then it did wane.
Rick Perry did enter strong and then boy, did that go away.
And he may be, you know, coming back somewhat.
Ron Paul is strong.
And God knows we're going to figure out what to do with that.
You know, et cetera, et cetera.
So the idea, and I listen, all I want for Brother Santorum, whom I think I've made clear I love, is maybe the interesting surprise of a, gosh, what do I dare dream?
Of a fourth place finish?
You know, if you finish, if you finish top four in Iowa, that's something.
I mean, fifth is like, you know, okay.
But fourth, you can argue for your relevancy.
And that's what everybody's going to be doing as these dates pass before us, arguing for their continued relevancy as the drama unfolds.
All right.
This year has unfolded.
And another way in which it's been quite the adventure is economically.
When we come back, we are going to take, of course, a bunch of your calls at 1-800-282-2882 on a variety of things.
But Paul Wiseman is the economics writer over at AP, and he has a very interesting opening to his sort of retroactive reminiscence about the 2011 economic year.
It might raise an eyebrow.
We'll talk about that next.
Mark Davis in for Rush on the EIB Network.
It is the Thursday Rush Limbaugh Show, the first day of Rush's vacation.
Mark Davis in today.
Mark Stein tomorrow.
Collection of folks next week.
Rushback Tuesday, January 3rd, Iowa Caucus Day.
Let's dance.
Toward the phones.
And metaphorically speaking, dance through some of the topics of the week gone by, the year gone by, or some of what your thoughts are about where you think everything is going in 2012.
I've got the AP economics writer story here, but let me go ahead and put some people on the air who've been waiting, and then I'll get to that.
Because what it's going to ask you to do, what it's going to ask you to do is answer the question, how do you think the economy is actually going?
Is it ending in a kind of a boom?
Is it, oh, let me do it right now.
I'll just take a second.
Paul Wiseman, AP economics writer.
The economy is ending 2011 on a roll.
Okay.
The job market is healthier.
Americans are spending lustily on holiday gifts.
A long-awaited turnaround for the depressed housing industry may be underway.
Gas is cheaper.
Factories are busier.
Stocks are higher.
Not bad for an economy faced with a debt crisis in Europe.
And as recently as last summer, scattered predictions of a second recession at home.
Instead, the economy has grown faster each quarter this year, and the last three months should be the best.
Well, holy cow.
Let's hold the election now and give us that Obama second term if things are that great.
You know, everything truly is relative.
Are things better now than they were, you know, eight or nine months ago?
Yeah, Smidge, sure.
I mean, how long can things stay in the toilet?
You know, the economy is going to get better.
Under the worst and most harmful presidents, there is still some vestige of market energy of people wanting to do something in their businesses, of people wanting to find work, even if, God forbid, they have to move to do it.
There are people who are going to have that survival instinct, and that will keep the engines of the economy going, even under the most socialist leaning of presidents.
Oof.
Mr. Wiseman continues.
Many economists still worry that the year-end surge isn't sustainable, in part because the average workers' pay is barely rising, and Europe may already be sliding into a recession that will infect the United States.
Yet, and I love this, yet for now, the economy is on an upswing that few had predicted.
What?
Can I share something with you?
I predicted it, and I ain't that special.
Okay, I'm sort of special.
No, you don't have to be some economic genius to say that the most recognizable phenomenon in all of economic life, the most recognizable metaphor is the pendulum.
Once things are a certain way, at some point, they swing back the other way.
The only thing that government can really do is provide the best way for the pendulum to swing more decidedly to the positive.
Ronald Reagan will tell you, would tell you if he were here, he didn't make the economy better in the 1980s.
He got government out of the way so that it could get better on its own.
Republicans of today will tell you that they're not seeking by some magical governmental wave of a magic wand to somehow by force of will make the economy better.
We're looking to get government out of the way so that it can get better.
Therein lies the basic difference between the way the left and right see the economy.
The economy to the left is something to be managed at a governmental level for the greater collective good.
The conservative view is to let market forces, free markets, free people determine the progress of an economy.
Because when that happens, government's not picking winners and losers.
Taxation is not confiscatory.
Success is not punished.
So, very different views of America, as we've discussed on a couple of issues today.
1-800-282-2882.
Let us head to Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Karen, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
How are you?
Hi, Mark.
Hey.
Listen, the reason that those of us that love Rush and all of his guest hosts, you, Mark Davis, Mark Stein, and Walter Williams, is because you guys not only are very intelligent, but you also, the huge thing to me is common sense.
And I think that that's what separates the Republican Party.
And I'm not talking about the establishment official Republican Party because I've lost faith in them.
But I'm talking about, you know, the conservatives, the conservatives out there, like me, who are now Tea Partiers.
And look at the Tea Party.
I mean, common sense would tell you they have a huge group.
They go out there.
They clean up after themselves.
That's common sense.
The Occupy people, Occupy everywhere, Wall Street, Portland, wherever, they have no common sense.
Therefore, they do every disgusting thing that you can think of all over the area, and they have to bulldoze the place after they've left.
And what did the liberals say?
Well, you know, they were just expressing their opinion.
But the Tea Partiers were just radical, you know, mad people.
Interesting relationship between common sense and hygiene there, Karen.
Keeping in mind that just in the very loosey-goosey dictionary, common sense is defined as anything you agree with.
I'm sure Barack Obama thought, common sense, I should own GM.
I mean, I'm sure he probably felt that way.
Yeah, you're probably right.
But intellect.
But here's the thing.
Go ahead.
I'm sorry.
Common sense.
That just means you can be smart at something, chemical engineer, but you don't have enough common sense to save enough money so you can survive.
We all know folks like that.
Karen, let me thank you greatly on that.
And ultimately, what Karen has given us, if common sense is a very nebulous term and very eye of the beholder kind of thing, the way we win in 2012 is making less government and stopping wasteful Washington spending and being serious about national security, making the things we Republicans, we conservatives want to do, making those things look like and seem like common sense to independent voters.
That's the key to success.
Mark Davison for Rush.
We can confirm it for you.
Santa Claus is indeed coming to town in three, count them, three shopping days.
Shopping, man, the phenomenon of shopping.
How's that working out for you?
That's very generic talk show guy stuff.
I'm perhaps asking that rhetorically.
But just coming off the gentleman's article for AP about the economy.
And yes, listen, Black Friday was great.
Cyber Monday was a butt kicker.
It worked out nicely.
Adverbs, everybody.
Adverbs.
Yes, I mean, there are people who seem willing.
And I know this looks very much like seen through my political lenses.
But so I'll lay it out this way.
Here are the possibilities.
The economy is slowly beginning to awaken, far more slowly than our gentleman writing that last story would seem to portray for one of two reasons.
Either all of these Obama policies are, after an excruciating delay, finally starting to take hold.
America is realizing all along that the Anointed One has been right.
He's been right.
The stimulus, that's right.
It was a good idea.
Obamacare, well, it was a good idea.
So I guess it's okay to loosen the purse strings a little bit and maybe grow my business or maybe get off the couch and get a job and do all those cool things.
All right, there's possibility number one.
I kind of like possibility number two, that some people are participating or are living by something Rush has mentioned.
It's probably from some motivational book somewhere.
Along the lines of if there is a recession, simply refuse to participate.
Through the sweat of your own brow and through commitment to your own excellence, carve out for yourself some level of success in the toughest of times.
And maybe people have just had it with the funk of the end of 08 and 09 and 10 and now most of 11 and have said, doggone it, man.
Whatever I got to do, I got to do.
My family's got to eat.
I'm not going to sit there and lollygag in the suspended animation of unemployment checks for 99 stinking weeks.
I'm not going to do it.
So there are people doing that.
And then here's another phenomenon that comes into the alternative explanation of why the economy might be doing a little better.
And this is one Republicans ought to pay some attention to because we may need it come the summer and the early fall.
Well, just the summer.
Well, yeah, summer and early fall of next year.
If the economy really is doing better and President Obama has the gall to claim credit for it, maybe America senses that the grown-ups are waiting in the wings and ready to take over.
The House Republicans is unpied.
I see it all day.
Poll numbers for Congress enters negative numbers.
It's like, okay, most Americans feel Congress will rot in the lake of fire.
Okay, I get it.
I get it.
I get it.
Congress has low approval ratings.
I know.
But no matter what people think of Congress institutionally, if you ask them, between Republicans and Democrats, who seems to have their eye on the prize?
Who seems to have their nose to the grindstone of bringing spending under control, of reducing the size of out-of-control government?
I know Democrats will always score high on who cares about you, who loves you, who wants to make sure that you never want for anything.
Yeah, that'll be the Democratic Party.
But the Republican Party needs to be your dad.
You remember when your dad would tell you things that were unpleasant, but they were necessary truths, listened in single-parent families, maybe it was a mom who had to do that.
It was a parent who came in and said, look, you might not like hearing this, but here's the reality of the world.
Live by it.
That's conservatism.
And it is always a tougher message to deliver because we are the politicians who always say we want to do less for you.
The politicians of the left will promise you the moon and the stars and then make you pay for them so that they can deliver as much of them as possible.
Conservatives will say, look, we will do less for you.
But the good news is you get to do these things for yourself.
And in so doing, you get to keep more of your stuff.
You're going to keep more of your money.
You're going to keep more of your liberty.
You're left to be a grown-up under our rule, rule, under our, okay.
When we own, it's word selection Thursday on the Rush Livbaugh show.
When we have the reins of the House and we have the reins of the Senate and when there's a Republican in the White House, yes, these are politicians who are going to swear to do less for you.
And the good news that lies therein is that you get to do more for yourself.
The pride is yours.
The success is yours.
You're not punished for that success.
And there is no ceiling on that success placed by government that dares to step in and talk about how much of your money that you should be able to keep.
That should not be a harder message to deliver.
But in an America where half of the country does not pay taxes and receives free stuff from the half that does, it's a challenge.
All righty, we are in Canton, Ohio.
Brian, hey, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
How are you?
Yeah, Merry Christmas, Mark.
Same to you.
Thanks.
He told me to get quick.
So number one, with the theory of how to do these tax cuts, maybe we ought to just give the Democrats all the rope they need to hang themselves.
Go ahead and put it through and let this deficit just keep climbing and then just swipe them out when the election comes in 2012.
Well, it's funny.
One could argue that's a little of what's happened.
I mean, we had one party rule for a while.
The economy went to hell.
Things became terrible.
Republicans won the House in the 2010 elections.
And now we've got to sort of navigate these waters and say, look, there are things we've tried to do.
Some of them we've succeeded.
Some of them we haven't.
But our instincts seem noble.
So if you like our instincts of smaller government, of less spending, and less punitive taxes, then give us colleagues in the Senate and a colleague in the White House we can work with.
That needs to be the pitch.
Yeah.
I'm the holder with the racism when Kevin called swear to go.
These people, I mean, they don't look at the numbers.
You know, the unemployment rate was 5.9% when Barack Obama was elected, and it went to 10.2%.
And because we criticize or disagree, you're racist.
When look through history, real racism's been on the side of the Democratic Party forever.
And these people that are just basically indentured slaves to the Democratic Party for whatever they want to give them in handout.
And they don't see it.
This is what Herman Kaine meant by brainwashing.
I mean, there was the gentleman also from Ohio, I think, from Columbus, right?
And he said that, you know, I'm sure you white people like Herman Kaine, he thinks black folk are brainwashed.
Well, you know, if the definition of brainwashing in a bit of a hyperbolic sense is to sort of march in lockstep and do stuff without really thinking about it very much, then, yeah, because as I told him, if black America was 60, 40 liberal, 70, 30 liberal, shoot, 80, 20 liberal, whatever.
90, 10?
Listen, I hear this a lot, and I hear it from black conservatives.
I hear it from black conservatives.
They say from the barbershops to the family reunions, they catch holy, you know, what.
But then when they get into conversations with people, they find that the reasons they vote Democrat, is because Republicans remained the white devil.
Republicans remained the white devil in their minds, blocking any ability to take a look on an issue-by-issue basis.
So, Brian, listen, thank you.
If there is a, I appreciate it.
If there is a, listen, did we, I think we found one last time I filled in.
And of course, I've promptly lost it.
Welcome to me.
There is a like Google something like this, like a candidate selector, a candidate quiz, where you just answer a bunch of questions.
Listen, some of them may be good, some of them may not be.
But one of the fun exercises is it asks you questions on various issues, abortion, gun control, taxes, spending, healthcare.
And it chronicles your answers and then tells you what candidate is closest to you without the stigma of the R or the D or the stigma of personality.
Somebody goes, well, I don't like Newt.
You know, guess what?
Maybe if it turns out you agree with him on most everything, you got to put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Many is the time, many is the time.
It's a phenomenon called black folks learning they're more Republican than they thought they were.
And it's not limited to black folks.
You'll find a lot of white folks who've been voting Democrat all the time, just family reasons or whatever reasons, or just the inherent biases they've had infused into them that Republicans are racist.
Listen, popular culture tells them.
The news media tells them.
Academia tells them.
Hollywood tells them that to be conservative is to be racist.
To be conservative is to hate the planet.
To be conservative is to be misogynist, a hater of women.
To be conservative is to be all manner of evil things.
If you hear that day in and day out, funny thing, you start to believe it.
So, how sad that before we even get to talking about day-to-day policies that we want to enact, we have to go around undoing the reputational damage done by so much of our popular culture.
Hi, I'm Mark Davis.
I'm conservative, and I don't hate black people.
I don't hate gay people.
I don't hate the planet.
It's a necessary chore.
We better be up for it because that's the task at hand when you have an entire culture tilted against you.
But we are in no ways tired, as the saying goes.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in, 1-800-282-2882.
We'll continue in just a moment on the EIB Network.
It is the Rush Limbaugh Show for Thursday.
Mark Davis filling in from Texas.
Back to your calls here in a moment.
You know, this Twitter thing may just work out someday.
Cheer.
Follow me if you like at Mark Davis, M-A-R-K-D-A-V-I-S, M-A-R-K-D-A-V-I-S at Mark Davis.
And I told all y'all at the beginning of today's show: if there's something you want to throw me, I'll draw attention to it.
You can call us, of course, at 1-800-282-2882.
I want to thank Paul of Florida.
As I said, there are a lot of those candidate selector things, and he sent me one, and I, in turn, grabbed it and put it up.
Seems to be something from ABC News.
This one's a little different.
This one, every time I'm on, there's a new candidate selector.
Is that just what I'm known by?
Yeah, that's the fill-in guy who always gives us a candidate selector website.
Doesn't do much else, but he gives us a candidate selector website.
We love that.
Rather than give you positions like on abortion, or do you think it's between a woman and her doctor, or it's murder, or on taxes, do you think they're too high, too low, or about right?
This one gives you actual candidate statements and asks you to find the one that you align yourself with most closely, which is fine.
I'll let y'all be the judge of it.
And in fact, I will do it myself and see what candidate I wind up with.
But for example, the first one it has is the economy and jobs.
How can the U.S. create more jobs?
Options are repeal the Affordable Care Act or Obamacare, repeal the financial services reforms, make more trade deals, invest in infrastructure, eliminate the EPA and create new jobs in energy development, eliminate capital gains tax and the estate tax and reduce corporate income tax.
There are six options.
I love four of them.
I guess I got to find the one that I love the best.
Love the most?
Prefer.
1-800-282-2882.
We are in Nevada, Texas.
Jim.
Hey, Mark Davis, how are you?
Doing fine, Mark.
Thank you for taking my call.
My pleasure.
I was watching the news a little earlier, and a White House spokesman came on.
I can't remember the guy's name, but he was saying.
Jay Carney.
He was saying that the White House numbers show that if the Republicans don't extend this tax cut, it costs the average family $1,000 a month.
I believe he may have said almost $1,000, I mean a year, almost $1,000 a year.
And he stressed that the White House figures showed that that was $40 a month.
And the last time that I multiplied $40 times $480, almost $1,000.
You're getting $40 a week, you're getting $40 a month.
Yeah, it's a little chunk of change.
There's no doubt about it.
And the merits of this are going to roll on whether or not Republicans can nuance the fact that, yes, they are the ones suggesting that a tax cut should not be extended.
And the reason they're for it is because the most rare thing in all of Washington.
Money that actually goes where government says it's going to go, in this case, into a Social Security fund that is strapped for cash.
And if we're going to have a way to maintain that tax cut, which the House conferees are ready to talk about right now, if the Senate will only come back, then it is something that has to be paid for with cuts elsewhere.
I want this Congress, I want every Republican in Congress to be willing to go along with all kinds of things if, in fact, if in fact they are paid for by cuts.
If you're looking for something, we're going to strike some kind of balance.
Okay, fine.
Let's pay for it by cutting something we don't need.
Jim, thanks.
We are next in doing a little Arizona action.
Steve.
Hi, Mark Davis, in for Rush.
How are you?
Thank you for taking my call.
And certainly, thank you for putting my call through.
If you'll allow me, Mark, I want to take a moment.
And on behalf of all Romanian Americans, I want to send a big salute to the Supreme Commander of Patriot Forces and Conservative Forces, Rush Limbaugh.
From Bucharest to Russia's ears.
He appreciates it, and so do I. You bet.
Appreciate him.
Real quick, Mark, you always hear about racism.
You always hear how we should be more like Europe.
But words are empty.
Actions are everything, Mark.
Let's take a look at Europe, Mr. Obama, Mr. Holder.
Let's take a look at Italy, Germany, England, Switzerland.
How many ATs, how many attorney generals do they have, Mr. Holder?
How many, how racist is America in comparison to all the presidents that Italy, Germany, Switzerland, France, England has?
This is a good question.
Go ahead, I'm sorry.
We have to get past the smokescreen and the lies.
You said earlier that the Republicans are the evil white people.
The white devil, in the mind of many black folks, Republicans are the white devil.
Well, I challenge all African Americans to refer to the speeches and writings and to the actions of Martin Luther King, if I'm not mistaken.
Dr. Martin Luther King was a registered Republican, wasn't he?
Well, listen, from the 50s to the 60s, and I love when people throw down Lincoln.
Lincoln was a Republican.
Listen, that's all fine.
That's all true.
What matters most is right now, right now in 2012, as 2012 prepares to dawn.
And Steve, let me thank you enormously.
Appreciate it.
And Rush appreciates it.
And thank you.
A challenge born of the last couple of years instead of maybe the last 50.
And that is find a Republican saying an actually racist thing.
What you will find is Republicans talking about less government, lower taxes, more personal liberty for people.
There's some who will try to spin that into racism.
That needs to fail and fail horribly and loudly because there is no more caring thing that a politician can do for you than to let you live your life on your terms, unfettered by government.
Back in a moment.
All right, I'm going to play with a candidate selector that I just put up on Twitter, at Mark Davis, M-A-R-K-D-A-V-I-S, at Mark Davis.
Some of them are flawed, some of them are great.
Which one's this?
We'll find out.
We'll take a bunch more of your calls, talk about some of the other news of the week, talk about things for 2012 that loom ahead.
It's the Rush Limbaugh Vacation Day one.
Mark Davis filling in.
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