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December 23, 2011, Friday, Hour #2

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	Yes, tis the rush before Christmas and America's Anchorman is away.
	This is your undocumented anchorman sitting in.
	No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
	Monday, December 26th, day after Christmas, we will have a best of rush and then Mark Belling picks it up again live on Tuesday.
	And I will be back, I think, Thursday, Thursday next week.
	New Paul just out, New Paul just out, Ron Paul, 21%.
	He's just nudged into the lead in Iowa.
	Mitt Romney, 20%.
	Newt Gingrich, 19%.
	It's all about the organization in Iowa, this caucus business of you've got to go to places and you've got to stand in the corners of the room with your candidate and all the rest of it.
	Organization counts.
	Ron Paul has got a very good ground organization in Iowa.
	Mitt Romney has, certainly compared to four years ago.
	There's a question here whether Newt, whether Newt has got a good ground game in Iowa.
	But basically, Newt 19%.
	Mitt 20%.
	Ron Paul 21%.
	If Ron Paul wins Iowa, if Ron Paul wins Iowa, what is that going to do to Republican primary season?
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	will talk about all that because it's the end of the week and you know what that means.
	That's what I call a tentative round of applaud, I think.
	There wasn't exactly.
	Didn't seem to be a lot of enthusiasm for that.
	This may well be, by the way, this may well be the last Open Line Friday on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network of the year because Walter Williams is going to be here next Friday and Walter may not do Open Line Friday.
	So if you have any issue, you want to get off your chest, now is the time to seize the moment.
	1-800-282-2882.
	One thing, you know, everyone's gone on about these Ron Paul newsletters where he said he signed off.
	It appeared in whatever it's called, the Ron Paul newsletter, that Martin Luther King had sex with underage boys and underage girls and all the rest of it.
	But what I find more interesting about that, Ron Paul has said, you know, the buck doesn't stop here.
	All kinds of things are published under my name.
	I can't be expected to keep track of it.
	Good heavens.
	That's the kind of hands-off guy I'll be as president.
	It may well be that, you know, something happens in this or that department.
	Don't come to me and complain about it.
	But what I found more interesting about that was one of these newsletters was called the Ron Paul Investment Newsletter.
	The Ron Paul Investment Newsletter.
	Were you a subscriber to the Ron Paul investment newsletter?
	And what was Ron Paul advising you to invest in?
	And did it work?
	Because Ron Paul's big, the sane side of Ron Paul is that he's a constitutional candidate.
	He wants to get back to the limited government and the self-reliant citizenry that the founders of this country foresaw and attempted to provide for in the Constitution and which the various barnacles that have been encrusted to the Constitution by FDR and LBJ and now Barack Obama have obliterated.
	And the thinking of Ron Paul is that if we just get back to that, we wouldn't be in this fiscal hole.
	Things would be a lot better.
	We'd have a lot more liberty.
	So I'm interested to know the Ron Paul investment newsletter.
	You subscribed to the Ron Paul investment newsletter and you followed the advice of the Ron Paul Investment Newsletter.
	What did he advise you to invest in and did it work?
	Are you richer now than you would have been if you did not subscribe to the Ron Paul investment newsletter?
	Just interested, just one I'd like to throw that out there: 1-800-282-2882.
	It's Christmas, and I'm doing the show from New York.
	The last few times I've been here, I've been doing it from up in far northern New Hampshire, but it's kind of exciting for a guy like me who lives in Hicksville, comes down from the mountains and gets to spend Christmas in New York because I love New York at Christmas time.
	City looks beautiful.
	On the way into work today, I came past, I came down 44th Street, past the famous Algonquin Hotel, and approaching it from a distance, it looked like there was a giant mouse in front of the hotel.
	A huge giant mouse, two stories high in front of the hotel.
	And I thought this was beautiful.
	I thought it was like one of those oversized mice you see if you go and see the nutcracker at the ballet.
	It was like one of those great, fluffy, plump, cute mice.
	I get up to it, and on the belly of the giant mouse, it turns out he's not a mouse, he's a rat.
	And this is the union protesting various health code violations at the Algonquin.
	I don't know if a rat that size has actually been seen in the Algonquin.
	But if the Algonquin years ago was famous for this cat, it had this huge fat cat that used to lounge around in the lobby.
	But evidently, the cat has died, and now they've got this giant-sized rat there.
	So nothing says Christmas like a giant rat squatting outside the Algonquin Hotel for alleged health code violations.
	Better than that, better than that.
	These guys, by the way, it's well, there's an even better thing than the giant rat, Mr. Snerdley, was this fantastic giant cockroach.
	They had like the world's greatest.
	I mean, this is what I love about New York.
	They had, I've never seen, I mean, admittedly, I don't think there's a big demand for it.
	If you go to Disney, I don't think they have giant cockroaches walking around.
	But they have this fantastic giant cockroach outside the Algonquin.
	Now, if you know, outside, where we are on 6th Avenue, Mr. Snurdley, and you leave this building, you're basically mugged by Elmo and Elmo and Mickey and Minnie and the fellow Woody and what's he called, Buzz Lightyear, and all these guys basically up in big cuddly suits.
	And you say, oh, that's cute.
	There's Elmo.
	And then Elmo wants to hit you up for 20 bucks.
	It's why I can't stand that.
	It's like even, it's like these are, it's like at least non-animated stars.
	Like if you bump into Alec Baldwin, he doesn't say, oh, great, give me 10 bucks.
	You bump into Elmo and Buzz Lightyear.
	They're just trying to hit you up for money on 6th Avenue.
	So this fantastic giant cockroach, if you come into New York over the holiday season, by the way, don't give money to Elmo.
	Elmo's got all the money he's in.
	He's funded by PBS.
	He's funded by your tax dollars.
	He's funded by all the stupid pledge weeks.
	Elmo has got a beach house in Malibu.
	He doesn't need your money.
	Forget Elmo.
	Go around the corner.
	They've got this giant cockroach that this union, whatever union it is, it's the union of amalgamated cockroach exterminators or whatever, is going around New York at places that have got health code violations and has got the world's most beautiful giant cockroach.
	This thing is big.
	I take it back.
	When I compared the giant rats to the big mice in Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, I'm not a big ballet guy.
	I don't want to, you know, harm myself with core members of the audience here.
	But I used to like the giant mice in The Nutcracker.
	When I saw this giant cockroach, I thought, wow, Tchaikovsky just totally blew it there.
	Where is the dance of the sugar plum cockroach in the nutcracker?
	That's actually what you that's actually what that show desperately needs.
	That's what it's been lacking all these years.
	But it was, but it was a fact.
	It's fascinating to me because you start to get the glimpse of big government here.
	I mean, everybody knows, you know, when you eat in a restaurant, you don't want to go into the kitchen and see how the sausage is made and all the rest of it.
	And it's fascinating to me that for all the places with health code violations, we had a story on this, that all the places that got five-star ratings from Mayor Bloomberg for health code for having the best health code record, they went in.
	I think it was Fox went in and did these swabs and discovered all kinds of things.
	It was basically as filthy as Anderson Cooper's cell phone, if you saw that test he performed on his own cell phone.
	There's all kinds of problems in these health code violations that a big government doesn't solve.
	I'll give you another example of how stupid big government is.
	I went for a stroll in Central Park.
	I only go for a stroll in Central Park once every decade or two.
	So I won't be going back until like 2035 or something.
	But I'm going for a stroll in Central Park.
	This was yesterday.
	It was about whatever it was, 58 degrees.
	There's a sign at Central Park Lake, a big city of New York sign put up by Mayor Bloomberg saying warning thin ice.
	Now it's 58 degrees.
	It's water.
	The ice is so thin, it's water.
	And what I'd like to know, if you're like a New York City municipal worker, is that just last year's thin ice sign from March that nobody bothered to take down?
	Or is Nanny Bloomberg now so concerned for your safety that when you see deep, dank, dark cockroach-infested water, that you are, he's so worried that you cannot distinguish that?
	Or maybe he's worried that Jesus is going to show up and think that, or some guy who thinks he's Jesus is going to try walking on Central Park Lake and not so he puts up the thin ice sign even when it's solid water.
	Is that just Nanny Bloomberg taking things a bit too far?
	But I thought, no, there was not salt, there was no salt in the water.
	It's not, there's no trans fats in the water.
	You would be safe.
	There's nothing, by the way, if you want to drink the water at Central Park Lake, Nanny Bloomberg hasn't put up a side saying it would be dangerous to drink.
	So feel free to drink it.
	I think the cockroaches from the Algogwood Hotel go off and sunbathe in there on the banks of Central Park Lake.
	But that's like thin ice.
	It's water.
	It's 58 degrees.
	Now, I would bet you that thin ice sign will still be there in July and August.
	That's big government.
	They don't want to take any chances.
	You know, you might just be stupid enough to take your skates down to Central Park Lake in August and try skating there.
	So they want to put up that thin ice sign.
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	The Republican Party was going to call Obama's bluff on the Canadian pipeline.
	In the end, the Democrats wound up calling the Republicans' bluff on the payroll tax cut.
	I like what one Republican representative said about it.
	This is Representative Tim Hulskamp, Wellskamp, Republican of Kansas, said, We were sent here with a clear set of instructions from the American people to put an end to business as usual in Washington.
	Yet here we are being asked to sign off on yet another gimmick.
	That is the best word for this.
	This is not legislation.
	This is not legislation.
	This is a gimmick.
	It's a 60-day gimmick.
	If one party wants to go along with gimmicks, if the President of the United States and the party that controls the Senate wants to go along and legislate gimmicks, the other party should not be playing that game.
	Two-month legislation, 60-day extension.
	That is not a law.
	That is a gimmick.
	Say what you like about George III, but the T Act was not for 60 days.
	This idea that a serious head of government, a serious chief executive, a serious legislature, the idea that somehow we are supposed to put politics aside, as Obama says, and legislate bills that expire after 60 days.
	It's a waste of time.
	And if the Republicans were doing their job, everybody would understand that agreeing a bipartisan compromise on something that expires after 60 days is not a sign of a new post-political, post-partisan approach to government,
	but a sign of how corrupt and disgusting the process is that both parties in a two-party system agree to a pathetic, shameful gimmick that no sentient being more advanced than that giant cockroach on 44th Street in New York, no sentient being more advanced than that should possibly be fooled by this.
	Mark Stein, InfraRush, 1-800-282-2882.
	Mark Stein, InfraRush, on the EIB network.
	The United Nations, the United Nations General Assembly has just held a moment of silence for the late Kim Jong-il.
	Very dignified.
	The UN holding a moment of silence for the mass murderer, nuclear madman, Kim Jong-il.
	A very touching, heartwarming ceremony.
	Maybe we can get the UN General Assembly to hold a moment of silence for the Republican House leadership.
	Let's go to Ed in St. Augustine, Florida.
	Ed, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Well, thank you, Mark.
	It's nice to be with you.
	I'm going to say Merry Christmas.
	Happy holidays, everybody.
	And I just want to comment.
	I always was an independent voter.
	And I converted over to Republican a few years ago to back the party up.
	But ever since then, all they've been doing is letting me down.
	We have candidates that like Mitt Romney.
	He reminds me of a car salesman trying to sell me a car that I don't want to buy.
	Well, I'd like to know what turns me off about Newt a little bit is the fact that he wanted us to vote for that rhino up in New York State, and no matter what she was like.
	Yeah, D De Scosa Favour up in New York 23.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	You know, we have, I like Texas, but he's got to get off the stick and do something.
	Rob Paul scared me.
	I don't want to go from one end to the other end of the extremes within.
	Yeah, but here's the thing.
	Here's the thing, Ed.
	You're a, like a lot of people, a lot of us are conservatives first and Republicans are very distant second.
	And as I said, in 2010, the Tea Party chose, instead of going third party, to work within the zombie husk of the 2006 Republican Party and basically figured maybe this time these guys mean it and the leopards will change their spots.
	It's very difficult under this system, under the two-party system in the United States, it's very difficult for third parties, new parties to break through.
	It basically hasn't happened in 150 years.
	And the question is whether what this nation is now facing, enough people think it's serious enough for it to be one of those third-party shake-up-the-hole system-type moments.
	I mean, if you're not going to vote Republican, what are you going to do?
	You're going to vote for the Libertarian Party or whatever, whatever third party you happen to be discovering, or whatever independent candidate, and that'll mean that a Democrat will get elected and that'll be then.
	Well, I don't see I don't want a third party, but the way they're pushing me, you know, and I'm saying this because I think a lot of people feel the same way I do.
	But they, you know, that's why the polls are saying 20, 22, 21, 19, 18.
	Nobody is really convinced that any one of these clowns up there can really do us justice.
	They're afraid of them.
	Well, you know, you know what's wrong?
	These guys are somebody else in there.
	Yeah, Sarah Allen or somebody who's strong and who is truthful.
	Like Sarah Callan, I think, you know, I can't understand why the women are so against her and why the Republican Party.
	The reason I think is because they can't control her.
	Well, here's the problem: is that when you're dealing with guys like John Boehner, you're dealing with parliamentarians.
	You're dealing with people who are there to wrangle votes and get them to go into the right booth and vote for a particular bill.
	But what the Republican House leadership is doing is framing these issues in the wrong terms.
	We've just spent, we've just engaged in the most pathetic bit of theater arguing about $20 a week, giving a payroll tax cut extension of $20 a week to certain people that's going to be offset by a $17 a week increase in certain people's mortgages, those who got their mortgages through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and that kind of thing.
	So it's an artificial, stupid bit of bookkeeping.
	The only significant news of the week, by the way, is not the stupid two-month extension in the payroll tax cut, but the fact that I believe it was yesterday or Wednesday, Solstice Day or whatever the solstice worshipers call it, the United States, these are the official government figures.
	U.S. public debt at the national level is reached, according to the official government statistics, $15,182,000,264,288.80.
	And at the same time, GDP reached $15,180,900,000.
	In other words, our debt is our total federal debt is now bigger than our GDP.
	In other words, we are broke.
	We've spent it.
	We're done.
	And the idea of the political class, the national legislature, sitting around for weeks in a showdown over a two-month payroll tax extension, it's not serious.
	Good heavens, if this country is a rendezvous with history to slide off the cliff and join the Roman Empire and all the other people in the trash can of history, it should at least be able to do it in a more dignified way than this bit of pathetic two-month gimmickry.
	That's me and my pal Jessica Martin from our new Christmas CD covering that song that Mariah Carey did.
	You know, Mariah Carey sang that song originally back in the 90s.
	All I want.
	Mr. Snurdy says it.
	Mr. Snurdy says he doesn't remember her version.
	Nobody remembers her version now.
	I've obliterated that.
	People think it's my song.
	Maybe it's like Whitney Houston doing the greatest love of all.
	Nobody remembers Whitney Houston doing I Will Always Love You.
	Nobody remembers that Dolly Parton did it.
	Whitney Houston obliterated Dolly.
	I've just obliterated Mariah Carey's version.
	And say what you like, you know, but I sing All I Want for Christmas is You, and I guest host the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Mariah Carey sings All I Want for Christmas is You.
	But when has she ever hosted the Rush Limbaugh show?
	I'd like to see her do that, you know.
	I believe, isn't it?
	Is that true?
	Is this like the rumor over Chris Matthews, Mr. Serdley, that Mariah Carey guest hosted once back in the mid-90s?
	Guest hosted the show?
	Oh, no, it was Chris Matthews who guest-hosted back in the mid-yeah, they both are really good when they hit those big high notes.
	Mark Stein in for Rush.
	Speaking of Christmas, peace on earth, goodwill to men.
	Police use pepper spray to break up fights among pushing and shoving customers waiting outside a Seattle area mall to buy the first Nike retro Air Jordan basketball shoes that went on sale early Friday.
	Nothing says Christmas like getting pepper sprayed while you're stampeding to get a pair of retro Air Jordans from Nike in Seattle.
	About 20 people were sprayed with pepper.
	That's actually a very, that's actually a great thing.
	If conversation is beginning to flag this Christmas, by the way, one thing to do is to come out with the pepper spray and look as if you're about to put it on the turkey or whatever your roast is.
	And then instead of spraying the bird, just turn it on your family and you'll have hours of endless fun as they all fall back clutching their eyes.
	If you've gone the full Martha Stewart, by the way, and you've done like the cranberry vinaigrette or whatever, that's also good fun.
	Don't just use the pepper spray.
	Hurl the cranberry vinaigrette over them.
	And that's a great way to make Christmas go with a swing.
	More than 1,000 people lined up to buy retro Air Jordans at this Seattle mall at 4 a.m.
	It's basically like midnight bass now, isn't it?
	And they got pepper sprayed for their cares.
	At least four people, by the way, were arrested on the other side of the country in Atlanta.
	They broke down the door to steal.
	I think they were stealing the retro Air Jordans.
	You know, Jesus wouldn't have wound up in that manger if Joseph and Mary had just kicked down the door of the inn and said, we're taking the presidential suite.
	I don't care where you say there's no room at the inn.
	We're going in there and we're taking it.
	These guys with the taking the, just kicking the door down and going for the retro Air Jordans, they got the right idea.
	Peace on earth, goodwill to men.
	Let's go to Tom in Gillette, Wyoming.
	Is that how you pronounce it, Tom?
	Is it Gillette as in the razor or Gillette?
	It's Gillettis and the Razor.
	Greetings from the Boondocks, Mark.
	Hey, great to have you with us.
	Love your state, Tom.
	Well, thank you very much.
	I call them concerned that we're going to regulate ourselves out of an economic recovery.
	And I sit here in a state that provides pretty close to 10% of the nation's energy.
	And electricity is a key component of any money-making venture.
	Well, electricity is actually the transport of the energy.
	The energy comes from somewhere.
	Right.
	And right now, we're going to shut off through EPA transport rules about 8% of our electricity at a time when we were at capacity before we had our recession.
	So now, if people want to turn on factories and computers or data centers or anything that requires electricity, it's not going to be there.
	And to replace electric sources is a 10-year permitting process to build a power plant.
	And so if we want to recover, I'm afraid that we've created a situation where we're not going to be able to do it.
	And I'm not the only one who hears that.
	And a lot of folks who are a lot smarter than me tell me that from the energy industry.
	Well, you know, you're absolutely right, Tom.
	And the idea is that liberalism these days is a war on progress.
	It's an active war on progress.
	There's not a secret about it.
	Liberals are opposed to dams, which spurred the growth of California.
	This country is now a country that doesn't build dams.
	It, in fact, demolishes them.
	It closes them.
	Well, as a matter of fact, one of the reasons we won World War II was because we had all of that excess electrical generation in the Northwest.
	And we could smelt electricity and build airplanes, which is why Boeing is in the Northwest.
	Absolutely.
	And it's the same thing with air conditioning.
	Without air conditioning, you wouldn't have had the development of the Southwest.
	And liberals are opposed to that.
	Liberals are opposed to Edison's light bulb, which represents the conquest by man overnight.
	Before Edison's light bulb, you had just like your flickering candle or your gaslight.
	Basically, your days were determined by the setting of the sun.
	And what Edison's light bulb symbolized was man's conquest of night.
	Liberals are opposed to that.
	Liberals, as we see with this XM pipeline, everywhere in this country is crisscrossed by pipelines.
	When you look at the map, there's a map out there on the internet that shows all the pipelines crisscrossing the country here, there, and everywhere.
	And you think, wow, you look at it, the big tangle of spaghetti, and you're amazed the center of the United States doesn't just cave in from all the pipelines underneath it.
	But they don't.
	Yet suddenly this big XM, whatever it's called, the Keystone pipeline coming down from Alberta down to Texas, that suddenly is a pipeline too far, and we cannot have that pipeline.
	You would think, would you not, that if they were opposed to all this electricity and everything, that liberals might want to go back to wood-fired trains.
	But you can't even do that because they're opposed to clear-cutting.
	They're basically at war with progress when it comes to energy, Tom.
	Well, I think it's a fundamental misunderstanding that electricity doesn't come from the switch on the wall.
	It has to come from somewhere.
	And if you look at the EPA regulations, one of the things that they talk about is they'll save 21,000 cases of bronchitis a year by shutting down 8% of our coal-fired power.
	It's pretty hard scientifically how you draw that link.
	But what you forget about is the lives that you save because of the refrigeration, the light, the heat, the air conditioning, and the machines that make people's jobs possible.
	Yeah, and you know, when you talk about whether you can have a genuine economic recovery is once you haul all that back.
	If you imagine, just take a basic, any basic unit that runs on electricity, as you mentioned, the refrigerator.
	mentioned something like a washing machine or a dishwasher.
	You think of the time it would take if you did not have.
	There's a Swedish professor who gave a talk at one of these big innovation conferences a couple of years ago, and his talk's out on the internet.
	I think 10 million people or something have seen it.
	And he actually has a washer on stage.
	And he describes how when his Swedish mother got her first washing machine, she invited her grandmother, who'd had to wash clothes for seven children around.
	And they all stood around there and watched the whole cycle as if they were sitting around watching a television show because they were so amazed by that and because they understood what it did.
	It gave them their time.
	It gave them their time.
	And time is life.
	That's all life is.
	It's time.
	And the more time you spend doing your washing, taking your garments down to the river to beat them dry on the rocks with all the native women while you're doing the authentic native tribal chants, the more time you spend doing that, rather than just sticking them in the washer, the less life you have.
	That's why the liberal war on progress that they think they will always be insulated from actually gets to the heart of their worldview, Tom.
	You're exactly right.
	There's a marvelous photograph from space of North Korea and South Korea at night.
	And what it shows is just the electrical penetration, the ambient light from South Korea and North Korea.
	And North Korea, except for Pyongyang, is dark.
	And South Korea is lit all over.
	And then you look at the statistics for births and child and infant mortality.
	And what you find is that the use of electricity is good.
	And that lifespan increases and that productivity increases and that the quality of people's lives increase.
	And that picture is a very famous picture.
	I remember the first guy who showed it to me was actually Don Rumsfeld at the Pentagon a few years ago.
	He called some aid and produced it and showed it to me.
	And it's a fascinating picture because, as you say, one half of the peninsula is lit up like a Christmas tree.
	South Koreans are living.
	North Korea and the other, North Korea, the other half of the peninsula is dark, except for one little, itsy bitsy little light in Pyongyang at the presidential palace because Kim Jong-il has the bulb.
	He had the bulb.
	Nobody else had a light bulb.
	The whole place is in darkness.
	And that's what it is.
	When you wage war on progress, in the name of this, mostly in the name of poser environmentalism, you are actively making people's lives worse.
	You are burdening them with more regulation, more time-consuming, more form-filling, and you're slowing up the opportunity to live.
	You're at war with life.
	And in their objections to air conditioning, in their objections to dams, in their objections to pipelines, in their objections to Edison's great iconic light bulb, liberals are at war, not just with progress, but at war with life.
	Thanks for your call, Tom.
	Got a break for an EIB profit center, even in this moment before Christmas, if they can break down the doors of the store to get to the retro Air Jordan Nike basketball shoes, we are certainly going to be sufficiently commercial to take our EIB profit center.
	What's more straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show?
	Ah, yes.
	Silver bells, silver bells.
	It's Christmas time in the city.
	Heartwarming scenes of the giant cockroach protesting the health code violations on 44th Street.
	Nothing like it.
	Christmas in the city on the EIB network.
	Let's go to Michael in Detroit.
	Michael, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Thanks for waiting.
	Great to have you with us.
	Merry Christmas, Mark.
	Merry Christmas to you too.
	What's frustrating me today, and I hope that maybe this phone call will make a difference.
	I'm tired of seeing conservatives and Republicans, but let's talk about conservatives.
	Tired of seeing us being incapable of getting our message across clearly.
	This whole payroll tax cut fiasco.
	You know, more and more Americans, more and more people, are getting their news and information on important stories like this from what their friends are posting on Facebook from either a YouTube video or having done a Google search on the story.
	And it seems to me 100 to 1 liberal sources of information.
	And then the one time we get our information available, when I go on a YouTube, try it.
	Go on, do a YouTube search and put in the words payroll tax cut, and you will find 100 sources from MSNBC and Russia Today, which is pure propaganda, left-wing, socialist propaganda.
	And then the one story that's on our side is a guy in his underwear who actually gets the story right.
	But I can't use that to try to refute all these other sources.
	So my challenge to you and my challenge to Rush and everybody who is trying to articulate, since Congress can't, since the House Republicans in this case can't seem to articulate why we did what we did, why they did what they did with this whole story.
	And this is not the only story.
	This is consistent.
	Whenever there's whether it was the debt limits or whatever, this is a consistent problem we have.
	Our side of the facts, our information is nowhere to be found.
	So I issue you a challenge and Rush and everybody else on our side, put your arguments, once you get the arguments together, put them up there on your website where we fans, where we thinkers, you know, right thinkers can find it and post it on YouTube so it's available in a concise, simple manner.
	Well, you can go to rushlimbore.com and that is open 24-7.
	And we do have stuff like that up there.
	But, you know, at heart here, these are all, these stories are all part of the same story.
	The debt ceiling is part of the same story as the stimulus is part of the same story as the payroll tax cut, which is that this country is broke, that this country has to pay back $15 trillion just to get back to having nothing.
	Nobody else, no society in human history has ever had to do that before.
	And you make an interesting point there, Michael, that tens of millions of Americans have no idea that we're in this situation, that we have all this thing.
	I think this came up the last time I was here.
	I was here the day after something called Diaper Awareness Day in Connecticut.
	And I said, why don't we have looming fiscal bankruptcy Armageddon Awareness Day?
	Because that's what's happening to us.
	We have a political class that keeps kicking the can down the road, unaware that there is no road.
	The road ends in about seven inches.
	And they're just kicking these cans over the cliff.
	There's no road left to kick the can down.
	And yet tens of millions, when you say this to tens of millions of Americans, they say, oh, no, no, no.
	Obama ended the war in Iraq.
	So we're going to have trillions of dollars of savings from the war in Iraq that we can spend on community organizers.
	And then the community organizers will give money to people so they can go and pay off what they owe on their foreclosed homes and they'll get their homes back and that will stimulate.
	No, there's no money.
	We've spent the money.
	The money's gone.
	We're broke.
	We're busted.
	We're broker than anybody has ever been ever.
	And yet tens of millions of Americans aren't unaware of that.
	And at a certain point, I agree with you on the YouTube and the Facebook and all the rest of it, but at a certain point, you have to conclude that people just want to live.
	One reason why people are spending a ton of time on Facebook and YouTube and the rest of it is because they want to retreat from the harsh reality.
	If you're going to go over the cliff, you might as well go over the cliff while you're tweeting pictures of Anthony Wiener's crotch to your best friend on Facebook or whatever.
	Why not?
	Why not?
	Twitpic as you go.
	But that is the heart of the issue is whether tens of millions of Americans would simply rather choose not to know this stuff.
	Because at a certain point, as I said earlier, if you're not aware of this, you don't have the same excuse as the giant cockroach outside the hotel with the health code violations on 44th Street.
	You are supposed to be a sentient, functioning human being.
	You don't just have to sit there waggling your big twisty bits and scaring the little children on 44th Street.
	You're supposed to be a sentient being.
	And if you choose not to know about this multi-trillion dollar debt fiasco, you should be aware that that is a choice as your country goes off the cliff.
	More to come.
	Walking in a winter wasteland.
	No, no, no, hang on.
	That's not that's all right.
	That's that's just the way I feel after this payroll tax cut extension.
	Did you see this headline from the Washington Post today?
	U.S. deal with Taliban breaks down.
	U.S. deal with Taliban breaks down.
	You know, something you like about the Taliban, but they don't like the Republican House leadership.
	The Republican House leadership cave.
	The Taliban don't cave.
	They may live in caves, but they don't cave.
	U.S. deal with Taliban breaks down.
	I would like our leaders in the Republican House leadership to be able to negotiate at least as effectively as illiterate goatherds from Waziristan.

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