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Dec. 29, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 29, 2011, Thursday, Hour #3
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Best of Rush Monday and over yet Tuesday, Rush returns live to uh bring you up to date on all the excitement out of the Hawkeye State as we get to the uh the first real votes that pick real delegates uh for the presidential candidates this November with the Iowa caucuses.
Twenty-five percent Romney, twenty-two percent Ron Paul, and sixteen percent for Rick Santorin.
The Santorum surge is underway.
That's the breaking news out of Iowa.
One eight hundred-two eight two eight eight two.
Uh Michelle Bachman has um uh lost her Iowa chair, a fellow called Kent Sorensen, who switched his support to Ron Paul.
Michelle Bachman has uh accused Kent Sorensen of being bribed.
Quote, Kent Sorensen personally told me he was offered a large sum of money to go to work for the Ron Paul campaign, Bachman said to reporters last night, according to Agence France Presse.
Kent said to me yesterday that everyone sells out in Iowa.
Why shouldn't I?
Then he told me he would stay with our campaign.
Three hours after appearing at a Bachman rally, he announced he was uh switching his support to uh Ron Paul.
Uh and uh I I think insofar I don't think he's gonna Michelle Bachman, if m if this has an impact on Michelle Bachman's support, I don't think that's gonna go to uh I don't think that's gonna go to Ron Paul.
Ron Paul is basically going for the uh the libertarian fact.
They run.
Well, b Mr. Snurdly is like a he's in horri he's reaction, what snakes these people are?
How who would do such a beastly and dishonorable thing?
Greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for uh his friends, but to but to do it for a b the offer of a prominent position in the Ron Paul campaign.
How pathetic is that?
Uh it's uh I know come on, you know what these uh mi Michelle Bachmann, Mr. Snerdley has this repu I love Michelle Bachmann, by the way.
I d I think she's a terrific candidate.
Uh she's been very good to my book.
She's been quoting my book uh all over the all over Iowa uh and which is one reason why her numbers may be uh uh uh nosediving, but I don't care.
She's she's been great, she's uh quoted me on television and all the rest of it, and I I love her for it.
Uh but she has this reputation uh that uh that she's she's kind of tough to to work with, um, and she's lost a lot of uh chiefs of staff in Congress and her New Hampshire campaign staff quit, and uh now her Iowa guy is quit.
I don't even care about any of that, you know.
Uh I'm not I'm not t I'm not that bothered about that.
Michelle Buckman has performed terrifically in the debates.
I love the way she's great at sticking it to Romney, sticking it to Newt, uh sticking it to uh Ron Paul, and it hasn't, and it for some whatever reason it doesn't seem to paid off for her.
But I hope she survives Iowa.
I'm disappointed she hasn't campaigned in in New Hampshire.
Well well, uh Mr. Surdley now is uh is now suggesting that she might be uh the Hillary Clinton of this campaign cycle, that uh that in fact this grotesquely sexist society of ours uh will not give a a woman a chance.
She has said that sh that America needs, as Britain did in 1979, that America needs an iron lady.
And if you're looking for an iron lady, she's there.
Ron Paul cannot be an iron lady uh because uh he has male genitalia.
So if you're looking for an iron lady, uh Michelle Bone B Michelle No, John now, Mr. Snurdley is suggesting that John Edwards uh could have been the Iron Lady.
John Edwards would be the Taffeta lady.
He would not be the Iron Lady.
Anyway, so and America doesn't need a Taffeta lady like John Edwards at the helm at this critical time, Mr. Snurdley.
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I d I don't disagree with I'm Michelle Backman has run a terrific campaign.
She gets the urgency of this stuff, by the way.
The uh As I said right at the beginning of the show, this election is critical in in several ways.
It's critical because uh China is on course, according to the IMF, to become the dominant economic power by 2016.
If you don't want a world, this is unprecedented, by the way, this is a half millennium shift.
If you don't want a world in which the leading economic power is a communist dictatorship with no freedom of speech, no genuine market, uh no genuine property rights.
If you think that doesn't have consequences for the world, as Ron Paul does, and you're in cloud cuckoo land.
Uh it's it's it matters, and if you don't want it to happen, you're gonna have to elect a president who's pledged to reverse it.
If you think Obamacare is wrong, not just because it's unaffordable, but uh because it redefines the relationship between the citizen and the state in malign ways, you're gonna have to elect a candidate uh specifically pledge to kill it.
Because if we get a second Obama term, uh the likelihood of America surviving in any reform that would be recognizable to the founding fathers uh grows grows very dim.
And I'm not I'm not like Newt, by the way.
Newt said he couldn't support Ron Paul.
I'm uh I'm anti-Ron Paul.
I don't uh make any bones about it, and the Ron Paul guys uh uh call me up and complain about it.
But uh if it was a choice between Barack Obama and Ron Paul, I'd be uh I'd be I'd rather see Ron Paul as president.
I'll tell you why, because they've got the same foreign policy anyway.
Both Obama and Ron Paul are uh anti-Israeli, they're relaxed about Iranian nukes, they're committed to the post-American world.
The only difference is that uh is uh is is that uh uh Ron Paul, at least on the domestic issues, is prepared to cut uh uh a trillion and whatever out of the federal budget immediately, and he only wants the United States government to do domestically what it is constitutional to do, and he's opposed to the Federal Reserve.
So simple on the dem on the on foreign policy, when it's Obama versus Ron Paul, it's a wash, and on domestic policy, uh Ron Paul is uh uh c committed to less insanity uh than Obama is.
And uh in the state of uh in the in the Commonwealth of Virginia, by the way, the Virginia loyalty oath, the Virginia Republican Party, uh is I asked who was Newt gonna because there's only gonna be two candidates on the ballot, Romney and Paul uh in the Republican primary, and uh Newt has said he won't vote for Ron Paul, so I assume Newt as a Virginia resident will be voting for Mitt Romney in the Virginia primary.
But the Virginia Republican Party has now said they're asking for a loyalty oath for Republican voters.
Uh the Richmond Times dispatch says that anyone who wants to vote must sign a form at the polling place pledging to support the eventual Republican nominee for president.
And anyone anyone who refuses to sign the pledge will be barred from voting.
So so Newt Gingrich, who is a resident of Virginia and has already said that he won't vote for Ron Paul, may in fact not even be allowed to vote in the Republican primary in Virginia.
This well uh uh Mr. Surdley wants to know how uh they're gonna enforce that.
Uh and and according to them, they say it's a Section 24 to hyphen 545 of the Code of Virginia.
You know that, Mr. Snerdley, you can probably quote it back at me.
It says it allows the political party holding a primary to determine requirements uh for voting in the primary.
So Newt, having given having gone on TV and said that he will not vote for Ron Paul if Ron Paul is the nominee, has just it's not only that he's ineligible to be on the ballot in Virginia, he's apparently ineligible to vote in Virginia.
This is what the Republican Party's come to.
I don't have these problems uh if it's Ron Paul versus Obama, as I said, on foreign policy, one is as crazy as the other, uh so you might as well go with uh with all the uh with the fiscal conservatism and the anti-Fed stuff on Ron Paul.
And if and if it's the others, I got no I've got no problem with any of them.
But I do know this uh the my what we were talking about with Congressman Gomert, where we where we now have the thing where Republicans spend in the House, spend ages, ages.
You know, they're locked In discussions, negotiations, trying to get trying to get a situation whereby they can roll back the provision that allows people who own a million dollars worth of property to be on food stamps.
And and and the Democrats, Harry Reed goes, you know, Harry Reed says, oh no, you know, if we end the federal subsidy for the cowboy poetry festival in Elko, Nevada, the streets will be full c cowboy cowboy poets, it'll be like the bad old days when the cowboy poets will have to go and hold a cowboy poetry festival in an unregulated back alley.
They'll ha they'll have to hang their their ten gallon hats on rusty coat hangers.
It'll be like the bad old days when there were just illegal cowboy poetry festivals, unregulated by the federal government, unfunded by the federal government.
And then they said, well, now now the millionaire property owners.
People who own a million dollars worth of property.
They're not if if you say they're not eligible for food stamp, the streets are gonna be full.
Park Avenue, Rodeo Drive.
They'll be full of of penniless people begging in hand-tailored suits uh for for handouts so they can go and get a poor crust of bread uh to take back to their eight-bedroom mansion with them.
This is this is what we'll not do in the next presidential term.
If we're just uh if we're just trying to roll back the food stamps for millionaires, if we're just trying to roll back the federal subsidies for the cowboy poetry festival in El Knives.
By the way, you don't need a federal subsidy for a cowboy poetry festival.
For a cowboy poetry festival, you need a cowboy, you need a piece of paper, and you need a pen for him to write the poem on it.
And that doesn't require what what a what exactly are we subsidizing there?
And it would it be is it even an efficient way to subsidize it for the guy in Elka Nevada to have to put in for a grant from the uh Federal Department of Cowboy uh poetry festival grant application somewhere in Washington, D.C. No, it's not.
The minute you have this kind of national bureaucracy, uh it becomes all but i it it becomes vastly more expensive than it would in any other conceivable scenario.
And by the way, uh that's what you're gonna have if you don't uh nail Obamacare in this term, because by then the bureaucracy will be in place, and there will be hundreds of thousands of bureaucrats from Maine to Hawaii whose job is to administer the various provisions of Obamacare.
And so you will have a huge lobby group for not rolling back Obamacare for expanding it, in fact, massively and unaffordably.
So this November they always say this every time.
Uh this n that each election is the most consequential election of our lifetimes.
But this is it.
This is it, because this is the final victory of big government statism.
If you look at uh FDR and Social Security in the 30s, if you look at LBJ and Great Society in the 60s, and we now have the third wave and the job will be done.
And you can walk around uh carrying your constitution and talking about your first amendment and your second amendment and they'll all and the Statue of Liberty uh will still exist, it'll still be there standing in the harbor and all the rest of it.
But in practical terms, we will be a big government status swamp uh and and digging ourselves out from that will prove as impossible as it's as it is in Greece.
So this is consequential, and I'm not like Newt.
I can live with Ron Paul as president if it comes to that.
I'd rather any almost anybody else on that ballot won, but almost anybody else in the Republic field would be better than uh Republican field would be better than Obama.
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Let's go to Jim in Chester, West Virginia.
Jim, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey, Mark, how are you doing?
Thanks for taking my call.
My pleasure.
Hey, anybody but Obama, you just uh pretty much answered the question I was gonna ask you.
Uh four years ago back when uh they were gearing up for the nominees, it seemed that the uh Democrat Party was uh split right down the middle between uh Obama and Hillary and uh You know, you you you kind of wonder which way you know everybody was going to vote once they determined who their their nominee was going to be, you know.
Myself, I thought John McCain would just fail on in there, but unfortunately he didn't.
But uh now we seem to be uh faced with a similar situation.
We've got all these uh Republican uh guys wanting to be nominee and uh you know, it seems like everybody's worried that this is going to be a uh straight shot for Obama to be re-elected.
Well, there's a there's a different dynamic in the the d the demo the Democrats are kind of novelty junkies.
And so when uh Hillary it was exciting when Hillary said she was gonna be the first, you know, female candidate for president, uh and then Obama came along and trumped her on that and made Hillary just seem like this tired old retread from the the nineteen nineties.
And the Republicans have the o opposite problem in that they have a tendency uh to fall in line behind the guy whose turn it is, whether it's Bob Dole in ninety-six or uh or or John McCain in two thousand and eight.
But the but the thing here, Jim, is what will determine the election is whether all these kind of moderate independent types uh uh seriously understand what's happened in the last three years, uh that huge sums of money have been wasted, just uh multi-trillion dollar waste uh on a scale unknown to man.
Uh and if they think they can afford another four years of that and they get scared, I don't mean Ron Paul scared.
I don't mean Michelle Bachman scared, uh I don't mean Rick Perry scared.
But by the time the media are through with Mitt Romney, uh he's gonna he's gonna be made to to sound way uh as cookie as Ron Paul that is cookieist.
Because they're just gonna do that to their guy.
They're gonna drag Obama across the they're gonna do what it takes to drag Obama across the finish line.
What determines the election is whether all these so-called uh independent, moderate centrist types in a handful of so called swing states understand the reality of the situation facing America.
I don't know what it's like in West Virginia, Jim, but do you have confidence in those in that so-called independent moderate centrist uh swingarooney type guys who determine the election?
You got confidence in them?
Because last time round they took a wild flyer on Obama, and the question is whether they know that didn't work out for them.
Oh, you know, I'm uh I'm still looking for our Republican uh nominee to see who pops up there.
And like you said, I mean it's there's some that are my favorite, you know, that I prefer more than others, but uh who you who you who are you leaning towards at the moment?
You know that there's a lot of pros and cons on all of them, and I and I really hate to, you know, put put a finger on any one of them, you know, and I mean you know the reasons why, but uh Yeah, but but let's say look the thing about Mitt Romney, they say is there's no enthusiasm for him.
There's no passion there for him.
He's got like twenty-five percent of the vote, uh, but that the b the people don't feel he's a fighter and they're not kind of passionate about him.
Would you be happy with the Mitt Romney uh candidate, Jim?
Well, they're saying that the Obamacare was patterned after Romney care, so if that's how he's thinking, you know, that's you know, that's that's not really appealing there.
Uh well he he has a rather convoluted explanation for that, which is that he's pledged to he's pledged to reverse uh uh Obamacare because he thinks uh he makes a states rights arguments that uh Massachusetts has the right to have a wacky health care plan, uh but if uh if uh New Hampshire wants to have a different health care plan and if West Virginia wants to have a different health care plan, he's in favor.
In in other words, he says let a let a thousand health care systems bloom.
And that's he's makes a states' rights objection uh to Obamacare, Jim.
So so presumably if you if you trust him on that, he'll repeal Obamacare and uh uh and and uh and and uh and cure that.
But how about if it was, say Newt, your neighbor in uh next door in Virginia?
You know, I I kinda like Newt Gingrich.
I my father's leaning towards him and he's kinda pushing me that way myself.
I listen a little bit and try to pick out some of the finer points.
But you know, you look back at some of his days, you know, a lot of the stuff with Nancy Pelosi and that, and I just that's just something that, you know, I'm not the most political person in the world, but there's a snag on just about everybody, and it's really hard to do that.
Yeah, but in the in the end, you know, uh it's a two-party system, and that's more so uh in in this country than in in other uh Western I mean up north of the border, they basically got four national parties uh at the at the moment.
One of one of them's a secessionist party but but but basically in English speaking Canada they've got three parties a three party system and in Quebec they've got a four party system and they got uh multi party systems here we've only got two so it's it's very simple it's A and B. And if A is better than B and B is better than A you you got to vote on that basis.
They don't have to be perfect but the qu th the we're facing the same situation uh that the uh United States faced in nineteen eighty.
If there'd been a second Jimmy Carter term the Soviet Union would have won the Cold War.
Uh and the Soviet Union was uh kaput but they would still have man contrived to win the Cold War.
And a second Obama term will be a disaster for the United States of America.
And that means the guy doesn't have to be perfect.
As I said, we're looking for a 70% you're looking for a 70% candidate and if he's right on the on the correct seventy percent that's more than good enough.
More straight ahead Stein for Rush uh Walter Williams here tomorrow but but if you are fed up being discombobulated by sinister foreign guest hosts Rush will be live well not live actually he will be non live he will be on tape if they still have tape I sh I should go back and start this all over again.
I've no idea Rush will be on Greta Van Suster's show on the record on uh Fox News tonight, 10 p.m eastern 7 p.m Pacific uh if you saw him a few days ago this is like the second part of that interview uh and it's uh uh uh uh and it should be great stuff.
That's uh Rush with Greta, 10 p.m Eastern, 7 p.m Pacific on uh Fox News tonight.
Uh breaking news, you may have heard uh a couple of days ago that Cheetah, the chimpanzee sidekick in the Tarzan movies, had died at the age of eighty.
But they're now calling into question this.
By the way some of you conspiracy types who think that uh nine eleven was an inside job and the grassy knoll with JFK or whatever, this could be bigger than anyone.
They're now claiming that the real Cheetah died uh back in nineteen thirty eight and this octagenarian chimp who uh they now cla who they claim was not in fact the real the real cheetah.
Cheetah starred with Maureen O'Sullivan as Jane and Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan in the movies in the 1930s.
And then he retired.
He really didn't really make the transition to the new Hollywood.
Like the kind of angry young men, the Marlon Brando types.
Marlon Brando, I gather he was up for the Rebel Without a Cause, but they gave it to James Dean instead.
Then the 60s, the new Hollywood, Bonnie and Clyde.
Clyde.
He was going in, he was up for the role of Clyde, but Faye Dunaway said no, she wanted Warren Beatty for it.
Then they got into the Jaws thing, and Cheetah, Steven Spielberg era, and Cheetah was up for the role of the shark, but he just looked ridiculous swimming up and down the pool with the fin on his back.
So his career really nosedived after the end of the Tarzan movies, and he was supposedly in retirement.
He was in a retirement for motion picture actors, and he supposedly died this week, but they're now saying that Cheetah the Chimp, in fact, this is a big phony fraud, and that the real Cheetah died in 938.
By the way, Maureen O'Sullivan, who played Jane in those movies, I saw her on TV a couple of years ago, and she claimed that the reason, if you look at the stills of Tarzan, Cheetah, and Jane, there's Johnny Weissmuller in loincloth, and if you look carefully at the stills, Cheetah always has his leg chained, and that's because apparently he had a thing for Johnny Weissmuller, and he would always like, he would always basically just leap up and
and rip off Johnny Weissmuller's loincloth and have a go at him.
He was basically if you think of Johnny Weissmuller as Paula Jones the whole scenario will become vividly spring vividly to mind.
Cheetah maybe that's what maybe the real cheat Yeah no he was he was a maybe maybe that's maybe that's the real story that Cheetah j he yeah yeah Cheetah dropped out of the uh cheetah dropped out of the m movie business and became governor of Arkansas.
Who knows?
Anyway, there is some apparently some doubt as to whether Cheetah is is dead or non non-dead.
Ms. Mr. Ms. I'm not I'm not gonna go there, Mr. Mr. Snurley.
Mr. Surley, by the way, before we went on air today, was mocking Mitt Romney's uh disparaging remark about Newt uh uh about Newt Gigrich.
You remember that Newt very modestly compared his setback in Virginia to FDR after Pearl Harbor, uh which is a modest, a modest comparison for Newt.
Normally he's comparing himself with Emperor Napoleon and Alexander the Great, but he very modestly compared himself with FDR and he compared the requirements of the Virginia ballot to to Pearl Harbor.
Uh I don't think by the way, I don't agree with this.
If you if you've ever seen uh you know what was it, Admiral Yamamoto's line that he supposedly didn't say after Pearl Harbor, I fear we have awakened a sleeping giant.
In Newt's case, the sleeping giant never woke up in time to get the signatures to to go on the Virginia ballot, and he then said uh we're gonna organize a writing campaign, uh which is apparently illegal in Virginia, so the sleeping giant fell straight back to sleep again.
Admiral Yabamoto would have had an easy time of it with this sleeping giant.
Anyway, so so and so and now it turns out that because of the loyalty oath, having got on TV and said he's not gonna vote for Rod Paul, uh Newt Gingrich is unable even to get into the polling booth to leave an illegal writing vote for himself in Virginia.
Anyway, Mitt comes out, and Mitt says uh I gather he's comparing himself to uh FDR and Pearl Harbor.
I think it's more like Lucille Ball at the chocolate factory.
And uh by the way, this is the cutting edge uh uh kind of pop cultural uh references that I think Republican Party really needs to cement itself with young voters.
Because you know the re the Democrats always have all the big celebrity endorsements and the uh and and the and uh if you've ever seen the uh I believe it's uh you can get it at Barnes and Noble, the Encyclopedia of Republican Celebrities.
It's a handsome leather-bound single sheet of paper with writing only on one side.
There's uh there's uh uh who who who are the Republican celebrities?
There's one of the one of the Oak Ridge boys voted for George W. Bush, I heard.
I I don't know which one it is.
But uh Chu Chuck Norris is on there and Pat Boone.
Pat Boone, you'll recall, had a top uh I think he got to number 37 in 1961 with a song called Moody River.
So that really brings in the youth vote.
And now Mitt has cemented that by by making this cutting edge pop culture reference to Lucille Ball of the Chocolate Factory.
And if you get one of those oldies ch do they still show Lucy on Nick at night anymore?
I don't uh anyway.
I love Lucy.
This was a famous 1954 episode.
I think it's great for Mitt.
Mitt looks like Fred McMurray and my three sons before they went into colour.
Uh he looks like uh what's his name?
And Father Knows Best.
He looks like he looks like the guy who lives next door in the Donna Reed show.
This is terrific.
Mitt has found his pop culture comfort zone.
And uh Newt Newt was mad about this.
Newt said uh when he was told on TV that uh that Mitt had compared him to Lucille Ball and the Chocolate Factory.
He didn't like that.
He said, I'd like to hear Newt say that to my face.
Because real men get into bar fights over the Lucille Ball jokes.
You know this.
You can be you can be out at some scuzzy roadhouse eight miles out of town on Route 173, uh, and you know, they've got it's not the uh they've they've they've got the girl, the all-girl mud wrestling night is over, and the guys are just sitting there, uh throwing back a few beers,
sitting there uh at the bar, and there's always some guy who says, Hey, you remind me a bit of Lucille Ball at that chocolate factory episode, and then it's the smash bottles on the bar counter, uh and they're all you know, the whole thing goes so Newt is uh Newt has basically said to Mitt, you want to step outside and say that?
So Newt and Mitt in the uh in the parking lot of the Virginia polling place where Newt is ineligible to vote or ineligible to be on the ballot.
He and Mitt are gonna be Mano Amano over the Lucille Ball cracks.
Because that's you know, you let a guy get away with that, and the next thing you know, he's gonna be comparing you to B. Arthur.
So you've got to draw a line, you know, otherwise it's gonna escalate.
Uh anyway, that is uh that is the that is the state of play in the uh uh Newt promised he wasn't gonna go negative, and that and he stuck to that until the Lucille Ball crack.
And that was just a stage too far.
That's a stage because next thing you know it's gonna be Carol Channing.
Okay, so just back off.
Okay, okay, so that's Newton Mitt.
Let's go to Mary in Elcart, Indiana.
Mary, it's great to have you on the Rush Libbore show.
My pleasure, and thank you for waiting.
Uh I'm a small business owner.
I'm also a single parent.
I've been a landlord too.
When I was working, I bought a few houses and stuff, and I lost my truck drive down a week.
Hey, Mary, we're gonna try and get back to you because uh whoever's responsible for your telephone service in Elkhart, Indiana has sabotaged the line.
Either that or the Department of Homeland Security is listening in.
Let's go to Anthony in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Anthony.
Mark, um Merry Christmas, happy New Year to you.
And the same to you.
Happy Christmas bank holiday Thursday, as they say in Europe on this day.
I love listening to you at the rush and uh welcome.
Hey, I'm from uh I'm from Philly, so I'm an anomaly being that I'm a a uh card-carrying conservative.
But here's here's my point.
First of all, no no disrespect to uh Barack Obama as a person, but being a uh son of of an immigrant, uh it it really uh is bothersome to me where we've gone under his uh leadership.
But I will tell you, I'm edified and I'm very um uh I have high hopes.
A lot of the my circle, family, friends, acquaintances, business associates that voted for Obama have uh have definitely changed their minds.
And here's where I'm going with this.
If if I can take the if you can take this as a as a microcosm as for things to come next November, I believe Pennsylvania is not only in play, but I think we're gonna beat Obama.
I'm looking at maybe at uh five to ten point differential, whoever, whoever the Republican nominee is.
Now, my now my uh person, my man would be Santorum, but I will tell you, Mark, Pennsylvania is definitely in play.
And uh a lot of people look at Ohio, but I'll tell you what, if we can uh if we if if the Republicans take this state, then Obama will become a one-term president.
And if I may add, if we want to take this country back and see what it means to be enterprising people again, just look into and dial up the jobface dot com, and you'll see what I'm talking about.
Okay, uh and and Anthony, you're you're just just uh just to stick with that point about Pennsylvania.
You're right.
We do not have a national election here.
We have basically uh fifty different constituencies, which means that uh it boils down to uh a handful of critical swing states.
And and right now, as things stand, Obama is uh way behind in states that he won in uh 2008.
That includes your state, that includes my state in New Hampshire, which he took in two thousand and eight.
And what this means is that he is gonna be defending, he he's playing defense.
He's gonna have to be defending uh Democrat turf uh that is no longer Democrat.
And and you're right, if Pennsylvania goes Republican, that's it.
It's over.
If he can't hold Pennsylvania, he isn't gonna be president uh in twenty in twenty thirteen.
Now you mentioned Rick Santorum, and what people say is, well, you know, Rick Santorum lost his own state by I think it's the biggest margin of s uh sitting senators ever lost by.
Are you are you confident that Pennsylvania has changed its mind about uh its its own son in Rick Santorum, Anthony?
Yeah, I'm very confident because of what's happened, Mark, in these last three years.
So I think uh I think it's water under the uh bridge at this point because if uh you see what happened during the midterms, I think there was a lot of for forgiveness relative to other Pennsylvania politicians, uh wasn't there?
Or at least at least uh the Democrats or the moderates were not in sympathy the way they were for uh liberal uh politicians.
You see what I'm saying?
Yeah, yeah, and I I know, and and uh Rick Santorum, it's a different it's a different climate.
And Pennsylvania is one of those states that is hurting.
It's stuck in uh it's i with this flat line economy uh with the uh with the unemployment, the unemployment rates in Philadelphia.
The uh the uh official unemployment rates in Philadelphia are staggering, but the real unemployment rates are uh are terrifying.
Thanks for your call, Anthony.
We got to take an EIB profit center.
be back with more of your calls in just a moment.
Montgomery County in Maryland is about to implement a five cent bag tax on both paper and plastic bags uh that will take effect on New Year's Day.
It's uh all to do with saving the planet.
Basically, Montgomery County in Maryland is like uh an honorary uh corner of California.
Well, what was the thing, Mr. Sully?
A couple of years ago, they wanted to turn all the lights off at night.
It was going to be curfew.
So it would like from the satellite picture, it would look like that famous picture of South Korea and North Korea, except that you you wouldn't be thinking, whoa, what is that uh that satellite picture of North Korea in total darkness?
Uh no, that's actually not North Korea, it's Montgomery County in Maryland.
It's hard.
It's getting hard to tell the uh hard to tell the difference.
Uh the Obamas, by the way, enjoyed a leisurely three-hour dinner at Alan Wong's restaurant.
It's an upscale eatery.
They ate off a special tasting menu.
Their hors d'oeuvres consisted of three different types of butter, apparently.
Let them eat butter.
It's an amazing thing.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I didn't know there were three different types of uh three different types of butter.
That's uh what an extraordinary but it was only a beer, you know, 173 dollars uh per entree.
And then he's already played golf for the third time.
He's played golf three times since he arrived at the islands on Friday.
It has one of the world's at the Koalao Coalau.
I'm always terrible with my Hawaiian pronunciation.
I ever since uh that first uh the first Christmas where he went to Hawaii and I was singing uh Barack Hussein Obama is the thing to say on a bride Hawaiian.
So that's the only phrase I know in Hawaiian, uh Barack Hussein is uh uh Obama.
But he was dining at the uh he was at the Koalau Golf Club, which is considered to be one of the world's most challenging courses from the back tees.
Is that it?
That's a golf expression, is it, Mr. Snurley back back back to when the first time he s well I heard the expression back tease, I thought it was what Bill Clinton was doing to Carly Simon's uh shoulder blades when uh he landed for his vacation at Martha's Vineyard.
So I got all kind of confused.
Uh uh I got I got all confused.
Was was Obama fleet footed?
Yeah, Ron Paul says the what what is it?
Ron Paul said in his newsletter that the Negro person is noted for his fleet footedness.
Uh oh, yeah, especially especially the criminal fraternity.
But don't worry, Mr. Snurdley, you're getting ridiculous.
Ron Paul didn't write that stuff.
It just because it appears with his name on it is no reason to hold him responsible for it.
He simply published it.
He uh he simply published it under his name.
There's no reason to think he should somehow be accountable for that.
Anyway, he's been uh President Obama has apparently been incredibly flat-footed on the back tees.
I don't know what that means, but it sounds disgusting.
So I suddenly hope it is.
Uh on uh Koalau Golf Club, he's played at least three times.
This is the third time since Friday, and he enjoyed a uh a leisurely three-hour dinner.
You know, I bet Kim what's he called?
Kim Jong Un is kicking himself by thinking thinking, why the hell did I get stuck with being supreme leader in Pyongyang when I could be uh when I could be out there in Hawaii.
We'll have more in just a moment.
We'll have more in just a moment.
That about does it for the cheap foreign outsourcing.
Don't forget the great Walter Williams will be here tomorrow live rushback on Tuesday for Iowa Caucus Day.
And do not forget that if you tune in to Fox News tonight at uh 10 p.m.
Eastern, 7 p.m.
Pacific, you can catch Rush uh with Greta Van Sustran.
Don't miss that.
Rush with Greta tonight, 10 p.m.
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This has been Mark Stein, and this has been is saying Happy New Year.
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