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Feb. 6, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 6, 2012, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away today, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in, Mark Stein.
Honoured to be here.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever, but thanks to Mitt Romney, I am eligible for self-deportation.
I'm from the Foreign Exchange student wing of the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
It's a great program.
Guys like me get to study here, and in return, the New England Patriots go on to play Pakistan in the Cricket World Cup.
So it all works out.
Rush is away today, like 6% of Americans.
He mysteriously is absent from work the day after the Super Bowl.
But he will be here tomorrow, your Tuesday morning quarterback, to explain everything that happened last night.
Because you don't want a foreigner trying to analyze American sports for you.
I mean, I enjoyed the game until Madonna came on in the seventh inning stretch, and then the whole thing went to pieces.
But if you haven't heard, if you haven't heard, the New England Vulture Capitalist beat the Georgia self-proclaimed giant.
Oh, no, wait, that was Saturday night.
I'm here live in far northern New Hampshire at Ice Station EIB, but Mr. Snurdley is in New York City keeping me on the straight and narrow.
So he's very – I nearly came on and said that the Super Bowl is obviously the big football game.
And then Mr. Snerdley caught me in my headphones and explained to me that in fact it's a basketball game.
So he's here to keep me from making a fool of myself on the issue of American sports before the great listening public.
We will talk about some of the halftime business.
Did you see that ad?
Mayor Menino of Boston with Mayor Bloomberg of New York.
The super nannies, the two great super nannies, sitting there doing a gun control ad because like Super Bowl fans, that's a real gun control demographic that you want to hit.
So they did a pitch for gun control sitting there in their respective team jerseys.
It always looks good.
They had their mayoral suit and tie underneath the football jerseys.
That's always a good look.
We'll talk about that.
Somebody, what's this rapper's name?
M-I-A?
M-I-A, who is a lady rapper, a rapper of the, a rapette, a rapette of the Distaff persuasion.
And she said she apparently gave America the finger.
Did you see this, Mr. Snerdley?
She apparently gave America the finger during the you Mr. Snerdley had already given the halftime show the finger by that stage, but apparently during the song Give Me All Your Lovin', the rappette MIA not only gave us all her love in, but she also gave America the finger.
There was Clint Eastwood turned up.
Clint, he looks fabulous these days.
He's like 112 years old, but he just looks great.
The more grizzled he gets, the better he looks.
But he was there doing this ad for Chrysler called It's Halftime in America.
He comes on.
It's like this bleak post-industrial wasteland.
And then you see Clint sort of loping in the shadows.
And then he growls, it's halftime in America.
He means everything's gone to hell.
We're in kiboshed, we've been clobbered.
But, as Clint says, this country can't be knocked out with one punch.
We get right back up again.
And when we do, the world is going to hear the roar of our engines.
Yes, it's half-time in America, and our second half is about to begin.
And then the logos of Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, and Ram, and the various other marks of the automobile company.
what's the present state of that Chrysler company?
Is it half owned by, I thought it was half owned by Fiat and half owned by the United States government and the unions.
Yeah, so it's half.
As Ron Paul would say, it's federal fiat.
Federal fiat own Chrysler.
So that's the model.
That's the model that Clint says is going to kick things off for the great second half of America coming up.
Lots of other big news.
It's February the 6th today, by the way.
60 years ago, Princess Elizabeth became Queen Elizabeth II.
She was in colonial Kenya at the time she acceded to the throne.
She was out at treetops in colonial Kenya visiting Mrs. Obama in the maternity ward.
No, no, I'm just kidding.
Harry S. Truman was president of the United States at the time, and the Queen is still going strong in the age of Obama.
Obama himself, President Obama, he was on the Today show today, and he said, I'm getting better as time goes on.
And he says, what's frustrated people is that I've not been able to implement every aspect of what I said in 2008.
Well, it turns out our founders designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change than I would like sometimes.
Listen to this, by the way.
This is Barack Obama.
Our founders designed a system that makes it more difficult to bring about change than I would like sometimes.
Yes, that pesky U.S. Constitution.
We really ought to do something about that.
But Obama says, not to worry, one of the things about being president is you get better as time goes on.
So by the time he's been in office 60 years, like Her Majesty the Queen, he'll be pretty much on top of the job.
We've been able to get a lot done, not as fast as we want.
Sometimes it's messy.
The process is frustrating.
That's the key Obama word.
He's always frustrated by his inability to impose as much change on the nation as he would like, because those pesky founding fathers designed a system that makes it difficult for a changemaker like Obama to bring about as much change as we would like.
And lots of other breaking foreign news, really.
The United States is pulling all its diplomats out of Syria.
The Syrian embassy is being closed and all the diplomats are getting out of there.
Obama says, headline from the Associated Press, Obama, Syria can be solved without military action.
Tell it to Bashar Assad, who, since the Russians and Chinese obligingly vetoed any UN action on Syria, now thinks he's got carte blanche, has been killing people, slaughtering huge numbers of people in the town of Homs.
The Greeks are inching closer to default.
Could happen this week.
The squid war.
The squid war in the Falkland Islands between Argentina and Britain, between huge supplies of rich halls of squid, is the squid dispute is hotting up.
The squid are spawned along the Argentine coast and then move off into British waters off the Falklands.
And the president of Argentina is furious that basically the Falklands are taking all these, the squid.
The entire squid market is being the Argentine squid market is being annexed by Britain in the Falkland Islands.
Here's a headline for the Times.
This is from the Associated Press too.
China, quote, China says it does not intend to buy Europe, unquote.
There we are.
Amazing.
If you were wondering, China says it does not intend to buy Europe.
That's the headline of the day, courtesy of the Associated Press.
And Mr. Snurley adds the word yet.
They're not going to buy China says it does not intend to buy Europe this year, but they'll review the situation.
Yeah, basically, as soon as America has repaid the next stage of the multi-trillion dollar debt, they may consider buying Europe.
They're just going to buy, they may just buy part of Europe.
They may start by buying Western Europe.
They don't need to buy Central and Eastern Europe just yet.
They may just become minority stakeholders and buy 40% of it.
But China says it does not intend to buy Europe yet.
By the way, this is interesting to me because it's a good example of how fast the world moves.
Can you imagine how ridiculous that headline would have seemed to anybody from 30 years ago when the whole opening up of China started?
So you go back to, say, the dawn of the Reagan era in 1981, January 1981, and you imagine how bewildering that headline would have seemed.
Instead, China is in effect bailing out Europe.
It's pledged its cooperation in helping Europe fight its debt crisis in a meeting between Wen Zhao Bao, the Premier of China, and Ankela Merkel, the German Chancellor.
And the Chinese are saying, don't worry, we're just being good neighbors and helping out Europe fight its debt crisis.
We've got no intention whatsoever of actually buying Europe and ending up owning Europe.
By the way, you ought to worry very much about Europe actually solving its debt crisis because right now, just about the only thing holding the United States up is that Europe is worse.
Because of the European debt crisis, the dollar is being propped up by the so-called safe haven money.
Because if the choice is the Euro and the dollar, the money goes to the dollar because that's regarded as safer.
Instead, if they were to solve their so-called debt crisis, the dollar would weaken, interest rates would go up, and the cost of servicing U.S. debt would balloon.
So it's in the interest of the United States for the European debt crisis to stagger on, slowly dragging down one European nation after another.
But I don't know about what President Obama's view on that is.
He's preoccupied with Syria at the moment, and Hillary Clinton is, for some reason, I think she's in Bulgaria and is threatening to rain all kinds of doom and gloom down on Bashar Assad, who seems to be laughing it off.
As well he might, because Hillary Clinton only a year ago was hailing Bashar Assad as a reformer.
And the lesson, this is at the time that the United States was trying to push Mubarak out of office.
And the lesson of this, of course, is that if you listen to the United States and you step down peacefully, like Hosni Mubarak, you wind up like he is in jail right now and on trial and perhaps facing a death penalty.
And the lesson that that taught Bashar Assad up the road in Syria is that you're better off just killing large numbers of people and not paying any attention to what Hillary Clinton and the State Department tell you.
So we'll talk about that as the show goes on today.
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Is it all over?
In the Republican primary.
Mitt won big in Nevada, something like 55% of the vote, over 50% of the vote, and with Newt way behind at 21%, Ron Paul at 19%.
That's the real shocker, by the way.
Ron Paul spent very big in Nevada and doesn't really have much to show for it.
We'll also get into the Ron Paul scandal.
He apparently was double billing for some airplane flights, whether accidentally or not, we don't know.
But it's the big scandal that Congress has discovered that Congress reimbursed Ron Paul for some flights that other people had already reimbursed him for.
So we'll investigate the big Ron Paul scandal.
But is the Republican primary now all but over?
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We'll talk about that and all the rest of the day's news.
Is Obama getting better at his job as time goes on?
Or is he like the Queen?
How many times would that be?
Four and two.
That would be in the middle of his 15th term.
It would be.
He'll be really powering along at it.
Obama, I'm getting better as time goes on.
That's what he told the Today Show this morning.
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Mark Stein, in for rush.
Mark Stein, in for rush on the EIB network.
You know, my favorite news story of the day is the return to life of the famous Zulu singer, Umgukemeni.
Umgukumeni.
I apologize to any Zulus out there if I've mispronounced it.
But the singer, the traditional Zulu folk singer, Umgukumeni, supposedly died in 2009 after drinking something he got from a traditional healer.
And he died in his brother's arms, and he was buried by his family in the Kwagzogbanyawo Cemetery early in 2010.
And he turned up a couple of days ago at his wife's house and said that, in fact, he hadn't died.
And he said, quote, I was kept with zombies.
He was kept in a cave with zombies and forced to eat mud and sing to the zombies 24 hours a day.
This is from the, I believe, the Sunday Times in Johannesburg, which is a very respectable newspaper.
I've appeared in it myself several times.
But the Zulu singer, Umgukumeni, his wife, and now he's come back from the dead after being kept in a cave with zombies and forced to sing for them 24 hours a day.
His wife says, yes, it is him, but his brother is denying it is him.
And KwaZulu Natal police have now taken him into custody and are performing DNA tests on him to determine whether in fact it is the real Umgukumeni who was supposedly buried in the Kwagzogbanyawo Cemetery in early 2010.
So it's a big in South Africa, the breaking news out of South Africa, it's a big Zulu versus zombie showdown.
That beats, that's got to beat the Patriots versus Giants.
I mean, Zulus versus zombies.
That is something.
That's the big, that's the real big Super Bowl.
It's not just a cable series.
It ought to be a cable channel.
Zulus versus zombies.
That's what it'll come down to, by the way, in the end, once the debt crisis really explodes and the planet collapses.
It's going to be Zulus versus zombies.
So pick your side now, because that's how it's all going to end up.
But anyway, this.
That's right.
And by the way, during that half-time show, this poor guy, this Zulu folk singer, he's been kidnapped by zombies and forced to live in a cave, singing to the zombies 24-7, halfway through that Super Bowl halftime show with Madonna and MIA.
I would have loved it if a bunch of zombies had kidnapped them and taken them off to a cave and made them sing to them 24 hours a day.
Although I don't think the zombies could have taken it.
I don't think the zombies could have taken MIA flipping the finger at them all that time.
The zombies don't like that kind of stuff.
Anyway, this so we'll keep on.
If we get a result from the DNA test being performed on this Zulu singer Back from the Dead, we will, of course, bring that to you.
Also, speaking back Back from the Dead, Nancy Pelosi, the 2010 election made no difference.
She's still around and looks like she's had some work done because she's looking better than she did six months ago.
I wonder if she discreetly went in for a bit of a tune-up because she's looking pretty good.
And Nancy Pelosi has said now that she is vowing to stand with Barack Obama against the Catholic Church.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi vowed today that she will join with the Obama administration in standing up against the Catholic Church in defending a new regulation that will require Catholic individuals to buy and Catholic institutions to provide health insurance plans that cover sterilizations and artificial contraceptions, including those that induce abortions.
Basically, Catholic institutions are going to be turned into a giant condom dispenser for the Obama administration.
Even though the Catholic Church teaches that sterilization, artificial contraception, and abortion are morally wrong, and the Catholic bishops of the United States have argued that forcing a Catholic individual to purchase a health insurance plan that covers these things is forcing them to act against their conscience.
Nancy Pelosi is on board with it.
Nancy Pelosi says, First of all, I'm going to stick with my fellow Catholics in supporting the administration on this.
I think it was a very courageous decision that they made, and I support it, unquote.
There's no backing down from the administration on this business of contraception.
And they figure out, and then they may not necessarily be wrong on this.
The response by the Catholic bishops, who mostly agree with the Obama administration on everything except contraception and abortion, is not actually terribly encouraging.
The Obama administration, Nancy Pelosi, and the Democrats figure that they can win this one.
And that's the point.
The stage that comes after the separation of church and state is the state as church, where in effect the state imposes its secularist orthodoxy and delegitimizes any other sources of moral authority in the United States.
And the Obama administration figures it can win that one.
And that's why Nancy Pelosi says she supports forcing Catholics to buy contraception.
Hey, great to be with you.
Rush returns tomorrow, your Tuesday morning quarterback.
He will fill you in on his take on the Super Bowl.
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Nancy Pelosi supports the administration's position on contraceptives.
For some reason, I find myself thinking of Russia's, what's that little thing that Rush has, with Nancy Pelosi demonstrating how to put on the?
Apply the condom, just super glue the condom to the cucumber.
I always like the latex, I always like the latex.
The, the stretched latex noises in in that little, in that little parody there, Nancy Pelosi.
Anyway, it's true, Nancy Pelosi is forcing you, forcing.
Cath is happy to force Catholic institutions to basically supply free condoms.
And the point of this the point of this, by the way is that big government makes everything else smaller.
Big government makes everything else smaller, and many Western nations are already much further along down that path.
In Sweden, for example, they passed a constitutional amendment making it illegal to enter any moral objections to homosexuality.
So if a, if a preacher in a church pulpit reads from the more robust passages of Leviticus, he's liable for four years in jail.
In in Canada, courts have ruled that Catholic schools have to allow some gay student to take his same-sex date to the prom.
The point of the point of all this is that big government eventually becomes the, a kind of national church in and of itself, and it is interested in imposing it's increasingly intolerant of dissent.
It punishes apostates and it insists on a one-size-fits-all moral philosophy for for the entire nation.
And it doesn't affect, by the way, it doesn't just affect public institutions in this case, this is Kathleen Sebelius, the health and human services commissar.
It's not just commissar Sibelius forcing Catholic institutions to do this, but you also see, for example, in the little dispute between Planned Parenthood and the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, the same thing.
The Susan G. Komen Foundation tried to wander off the abortion reservation and basically Planned Parenthood beat them down and clubbed them into submission until they recanted about it.
It's about.
It's about not permitting dissent from the state religion.
Nancy Pelosi went to see the Pope a couple of years ago.
Nancy Pelosi is supposedly a Catholic.
That's why she says she stands.
She stands with her fellow Catholics in supporting the Obama administration on this.
Nancy Pelosi went to see the Pope a couple of years ago in Rome and interestingly, the Pope did not receive her as a fellow Catholic he was.
The Vatican was very careful to make plain that he was only receiving Nancy Pelosi in her official government capacity as second in line to the President of the United States.
In other words, after the vice president, the speaker is the next in line to succeed.
And the Vatican was at pains to emphasize that they were not granting an audience on the basis that Nancy Pelosi is a Catholic, but only on the basis of the office which Nancy Pelosi holds.
So we'll talk about that.
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Hey, let's go to Vinny in Manhattan.
Vinny, it's great to have you on the Rush Limbo show.
Hey, Vinny, did you see your mayor, Nanny Bloomberg, doing his big thing on the Super Bowl last night?
You know, I missed that commercial, unfortunately, and he certainly is on Nanny.
He got that right.
Last time I spoke to you, Mark, Mitt Romney had just won New Hampshire, and everyone was wondering why Newt was still in the game.
I'm here to tell you, no, it's not time for him to go, nor should he.
And I think Newt had one of the greatest lines in the debate that I've ever heard, and that's that the American people don't want to send someone to Washington to manage the decay.
And quite frankly, a lot of us out here think that that's exactly what Mitt Romney would do.
He would manage the decay.
He would go along to get along.
And if anything, Newt can at least drag Mitt Romney kicking and screaming to the right, although I don't think that's going to help in the long run when it comes to things like Obamacare, which he doesn't have a moral leg to stand on.
Because as everyone knows, Obamacare, okay, was modeled after Romney Care.
And Rick Santorum exposed that.
And, you know, it was probably one of the greatest dressing downs I've ever seen of a single issue regarding a candidate.
And no, I think Newt's going to come away by the time Super Tuesday comes around with quite a few delegates, and there's going to be quite a bit of horse trading over at the convention.
And that's how I see it.
Well, you're absolutely right that the danger is decline is a psychological condition.
Charles Krauthammer said this in a speech a couple of years ago.
And once that takes hold among the political class, both parties tend to think that that's their job to manage a essentially to manage the United States into a shrunken and diminished state.
And it's easy to see why someone like Mitt Romney would actually be quite comfortable about that, with that.
He didn't leave any trace in Massachusetts apart from Romney Care, which is, as you say, nothing any conservative should be impressed by.
But here's the thing.
Here's the thing, Vinny.
You've just said that the best case against Romney Care was made by Rick Santorum in that debate.
Why then is it necessary for Newt to stay in?
If Rick Santorum did the most effective demolition job on Romney Care, why wouldn't it be good if Newt pulled out and Rick Santorum was left as the principal opposition to?
I'll tell you, quite simply, Rick Santorum does not inspire or excite.
A lot of people perceive, this is my theory, by the way, a lot of people perceive Santorum as almost a one-issue candidate in the sense that everyone knows he's extremely, extremely pro-life, which is fine.
But nevertheless, if you talk to a lot of people, that's what Rick Santorum is known for.
So that may turn off a few voters.
I mean, I love Rick Sanforum, but he doesn't excite me like Newt Gingrich excites me or inspires me.
I've never seen anyone debate like Newt Gingrich, and I've also never seen the American public in general react so viscerously one way or the other when it comes to a debate performance by any of these candidates.
I'm not in South Carolina and let's explore that a bit, though, Vinny, because on Saturday night after the caucus, Newt did one of his thinking outside the box type things and didn't just give a speech in front of a crowd of supporters where he announced his concession and said that he'd called Mitt Romney and congratulated him on a victory.
That's the standard thing you do after a caucus or a primary.
Instead, he held a press conference, and it was widely agreed that that was a big mistake for him, that instead of talking about his grand vision and his big ideas, he spent the whole time talking about process type stuff and complaining about attack ads and moaning about all Mitt's money, and he came across as small and petulant and whiny.
So in other words, didn't he actually damage himself with his press conference thing on Saturday night?
Well, I'm not going to sit here and claim that everything Newt does is right and just and smart.
It's certainly not.
As far as the attack ads are concerned, I just find it incredibly amusing how the Republican elite in Washington can get together 24 hours before every voting cycle happens and the amount of hit pieces and money spent against Newt Gingrich.
And I directly blame Romney for this because as you know, maybe you don't, it was Newt that wanted to run a positive campaign from the get-go.
And it was the one who broke, who was Romney who broke that piece.
Yeah, and he said, Newt said the other night, he said he stayed relentlessly positive in Iowa and he lost 22 points.
And he says he's not going to make that mistake again.
Wait a minute.
He lost 22 points, not because he stayed positive.
You can't say that.
He lost 22 points because Mitt Romney spent $6.5 million on negative campaign ads.
And that's why he lost 22 points.
Because everybody knows, up until that point, Newt was well ahead.
Well ahead.
Yep, that's right.
And you know that too.
No, no, no.
That's what angers me.
But that's the game, Vinny.
There's nothing new about this.
People understand that negative ads work.
And the question here for Newt as well, apart from anything else, is organization.
Being able to determine, there's no perfect system for determining who should be eligible to be president of the United States.
But basically, in the modern era, the contours of what you need to do have been pretty clearly set.
And knowing when you need to spend advertising money, knowing when you need to have a good ground game, knowing when you need to go negative, these are all the skills it requires to stagger through from Iowa to New Hampshire to South Carolina to Florida.
These things are known.
And Newt was not very nimble in reacting to them.
And in his present situation, he was not very nimble on Saturday night.
You've got to be disciplined.
If you're going to hold a press conference, if you're not going to give a speech, if you're not going to call Governor Romney and congratulate him, and if you're not going to do any of the traditional stuff, you've got to be sufficiently in control to know the tone of the message you're setting.
And that was not a good performance from Newton on Saturday night.
But he's standing there, and you're right.
You're taking the Sarah Palin view.
In fact, there's no need to just end this thing now and crown Mitt Romney the nominee.
It's better to, particularly if you're interested in conservative ideas and you don't trust Mitt Romney, it's better to have other guys in there tugging him, tugging him to the right, and at least forcing him onto what for conservatives is the turf we ought to be fighting this election on.
Thank you for your call, Vinny.
We'll take more of your calls.
Straight ahead, Mark Stein, in for Rush on the EIB network.
Mark Stein for Rush on the EIB network.
Rush returns tomorrow.
Reverend Al Sharpton supports the Nancy Pelosi line on the Obama administration, forcing the Catholic institutions to be condom dispensers.
Reverend Al says, I think you have to have the reverse argument, and that is, if I want to seek employment and have employment in a church, but that I disagree with the dogma and theology of the church, do I have the right to be protected by law?
And I think that what the Obama administration is saying is that you do not have to follow the tenets of a church organization to be an employee of a church, unquote.
And so they're saying that, you know, if you might want to work for a church organization, if you want to get an abortion, the church organization should have to pay for that.
The Catholic institutions should have to pay for your contraceptives.
The Catholic institutions should have to pay for your sterilization.
It tends to go one way, this.
If you were to have, say, a very uptight fundamentalist Christian applying for a job at a gay bathhouse, and suddenly that kind of thing doesn't seem to quite work the same way.
Let us go to Tom in Salinas, California.
Tom, you're live on the Rush Limboscho, and it's great to have you with us.
Thank you very much, Mark.
You know, this whole situation with Catholic charities and their hospitals, you know, as long as they're getting federal dollars, isn't really a situation where whoever pays the Piper calls the tune.
You know, they're accepting government money, and this is the price they pay.
You know, the Catholic bishops, they want it both ways.
You know, they want to have universal health care out of taxpayer dollars, and yet they want to be paid according to their rules.
Now, can that really be?
Well, you make a good point there.
And the Catholic bishops, for the most part, sign on to the Obama agenda, except contraception and abortion.
They're all hot for social justice and government health care and all the rest of it.
If you have universal health care, if you have a government health care system, who determines the character of a government health care system?
The government does.
In this case, Commissar.
Now, when you get to the business of federal money, this is a subtler point than people think, because the Catholic Church hospitals, for example, do get money from the government, but specifically for, as I understand it, it's for caring for the indigent.
And so they don't get money in order to provide abortions or sterilizations.
It's specifically for caring for the indigent.
And what happens, generally speaking, is that, as has happened in parts of this country and the rest of the Western world, once it becomes clear that you impose certain rules on Catholic institutions, that in order to keep getting the money for doing this, they've got to do stuff in a whole bunch of other areas.
And then they tend to get out of that business.
They get out of the, when they're told that they have, you know, you can only offer children to for you've got to offer children for adoption to gay couples or whatever, and that breaks their faith.
out of the adoption business entirely, which again suits the state because it means the government gets bigger and alternative sources of authority and legitimacy in society get smaller.
But if you're right, Tom, that taking federal money, then you may – what you're saying, Tom, is that an institution, whether it's a Catholic institution or anything else, may get 5% of its money from the federal government, but that gives the federal government the right to determine 100% of everything the federal – of everything that institution does.
And that's why people shouldn't.
And they can't afford to lose that money.
That's why they're in a bind.
You know, this isn't a situation of adoption, you know, where they just give up, you know, adoptions.
I understand yesterday on the news, I heard that one out of six patients is treated at a Catholic institution hospital.
That's extraordinary, don't you think?
No, it's not.
That reflects the historical reality of the institutions in free societies that care for the poor.
And when one looks at the inheritance of the United States, it would not be surprising that the Catholic Church would be a major player in that.
But this isn't just, by the way, your point, Tom, doesn't just apply to Catholic institutions.
It applies to colleges and universities as well.
One reason why I'm proud to be affiliated with Hillsdale College in Michigan, as Rush is too.
Rush is a big supporter of Hillsdale.
And Hillsdale is a unique institution in that it's the only college that refuses federal and state funding.
Because as Hillsdale understands, when the government, whether it's a federal government or a state government, gives you 1% of your revenue, they can have a veto over 100% of what you do.
So it's not worth it.
For serious people, it's not worth it.
It's the same thing.
That's why the expansion of government is so critical to the left.
That's why the expansion of entitlements is critical to the left.
That's why the expansion of government college tuition is so important to the left.
Because if the government is paying for you to go to college, the government has a right to determine what it is you're exposed to in that college.
That's absolutely the critical distinction, Tom.
Thanks for your call.
We've got to take an EIB profit center because we are not funded by the federal government.
More in just a moment.
By the way, does Nancy Pelosi own a condom factory?
Because only a couple of years ago, she wanted hundreds of millions of dollars in the stimulus bill to go to handing out free condoms.
I think we ought to look into that.
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