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March 23, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 23, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's anchor man is away and this is your undocumented anchorman sitting in.
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But he will return on Monday for a full week of all-American excellence in broadcasting.
Meantime, it's the end of the week and you know what that means.
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That's almost like summer, the global warming rampaging out of control.
Monday to Thursday, you know how this works.
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You can talk about Obamacare.
It's costing twice as much as Obama said it was going to cost.
It's only been two years.
And in fact, it hasn't really got going.
But it's already costing twice as much as it was supposed to cost.
Will the Republican president elected in November and the Republican House and a Republican Senate, let's assume all three fall into place, will they drive a stake through this thing?
Will they fire, what were we talking about in the last hour?
Silver bullets, magic bullets?
Whatever it is, will they pump this thing full of silver bullets and ensure that it does not rise from the dead to stagger around terrorizing the nation?
Will they have the guts to do that?
The Democrats have made a bet, you know.
The Democrats have made a bet that even if things don't go their way in November, that whatever arrangements prevail in Congress, a Republican Washington will not have the guts to kill this thing.
And by the way, this is the 2012 election.
None of the goodies, the way this accounting fraud was set up to bring in the official Obama figure for this thing at under a trillion dollars, was that none of the lollipops are handed out in the first four years.
The lollipops don't kick in until four years.
In other words, they're due to start midway through this next presidential term.
What that means then is that you will be in the situation at 2016 where any candidate from the Republican Party will be having to run against an entitlement whose goodies are already being handed out.
You know how difficult that is with Social Security, with Medicare, with Medicaid?
What are the odds if it isn't, if Obamacare isn't killed in this term, that Republican candidates will have the determination to kill it in the election in 2016?
Don't forget, by the way, this is a party that has pledged to abolish the Department of Education for 32 years now.
A third of a century.
Federal Department of Education and the Federal Department of Energy, they're not even associated with a successful president.
They're associated with the biggest floppo president of the modern era until recent years, and that's Jimmy Carter.
And yet, two little rinky-dink departments that the Republican Party has been officially pledged to abolish for a third of a century are still there.
The Department of Education has its own SWAT team.
They kicked down the door of some guy in California last year for improperly claiming a student loan or improperly putting in for a student loan or something.
Turned out, as usual, they got the wrong door, but they arrived there in the full RoboCop, kicked the door down, and dragged the guy out.
You know, there's wasteful education budgets all over the Western world, but the federal Secretary of Education in Washington is the only education minister in the Western world with his own SWAT team.
He doesn't employ any teachers, but he has a SWAT team.
And yet, he's still there.
And yet, Paul Ryan, as great as Paul Ryan is, still foresees a world in which it is entirely normal for the education minister to have his own personal SWAT team.
And that is why you want to think long and hard about this Obamacare business.
Because if it is not killed stone dead in this next term, it will never be dead.
And as I said in my book, this is the biggest dividing line.
You cross this Rubicon and you never get back.
Because government healthcare is the point at which the relationship between the citizen and the state changes for all time into something closer to junkie and pusher.
And yes, you still have right-of-center parties in countries with government healthcare.
And what are they doing?
They're basically claiming to be able to run, they're not claiming to roll back the liberal state.
Heaven forbid, they're not going to roll back the left-wing big government state, but they do claim to be able to run it better.
And if you look at France, where Chirac and Sarkozy are conservatives, Dominique de Villepin, remember him?
Rush used to have great sport with his name.
He was this fellow with Fabio.
He had hair like Fabio, and he wrote books of French poetry.
And he's what a conservative is in France.
You know, I'm not saying anything.
I'm partial to French poetry myself, and I may grow out my own locks.
But the point is, that's what right-of-center guys are in other countries.
They're people who can run the left-wing, who sell themselves to the public on being able to run the left-wing state more efficiently.
So if the guy elected in November and the House elected in November and the Senate elected in November is not going to kill Obamacare stone dead in this term, then you've got to be very doubtful that in the 2016 election, people are going to be eager to run on rolling back Obamacare.
And that, by the way, makes America's fate, which is not foreordained at the moment, but that will make it a fait accompli because basically this thing alone will be sucking up a quarter of a trillion dollars.
That's on the official CBO estimates right now, which we all know are mumbo-jumbo.
By the time we get to it, it'll be a lot more than that.
And what it will mean, what it will mean, by the way, is that a couple of decades down the line, you won't even be able to make the jokes about the socialist basket cases anymore because the United States, in combined federal, state, municipal government spending, the whole shebang, will actually be spending more than most of these European socialist utopias as a share of GDP.
So you've got to get rid of it this time around.
And you've got to have a guy who's willing to get rid of it.
Do you think, do you think Republican candidates, not just at the presidential level, are serious about killing this thing stone dead?
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We'll talk about other things too.
The Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity.
The purge goes on.
Do you remember this?
They got into a little bit of difficulty because they announced that they weren't going to give money to Planned Parenthood anymore because Planned Parenthood doesn't do breast referrals and mammograms, doesn't do mammograms.
And so they weren't, there was, you know, why would you fund Planned Parenthood?
So, but you disrespect, as somebody over at the reproductive rights correspondent at Mother Jones put it in a triumphalist tweet, you come at Cecile Richards, the president of Planned Parenthood.
You come at Cecile Richards, you best not miss.
So they were seen to be disrespecting Cecile Richards at Planned Parenthood.
They were seen to be disrespecting big abortion.
And so the Susan G. Komen Foundation had to be whipped into line.
They're the ones who gave us these awareness-raising ribbons.
You know, the pink ribbons now when you have the breast cancer awareness thing, and they give you these pink ribbons to show you've got your awareness raised of breast cancer.
I don't know who isn't aware of breast cancer.
It'd be nice to have a cure for some of these things.
But instead, most of the energy seems to go to the awareness-raising ribbons now.
I think my current favorite is they've run out of coloured.
They've got periwinkle for acid reflux and for amniotic fluid embolisms.
The official ribbon is a pink and blue ribbon.
So we've had tremendous breakthroughs in hues of awareness-raising ribbons, but we have not had any cure for these things that these ribbons are supposed to be raising the awareness of.
Anyway, so they were the guys who've done, they've raised this woman, the woman who ran the Susan G. Komen Foundation, she's raised $2 billion for breast cancer.
It doesn't matter.
She disrespected Planned Parenthood, so she had to have the old tire iron taken to her and be whipped back into line.
And so they certainly, Planned Parenthood certainly raised her awareness.
And I think that comes with a black and blue ribbon, actually.
But anyway, it goes on.
It goes on.
The whole thing isn't done yet.
Five executives of the Susan G. Komen Foundation have been purged.
Three officials from the Dallas headquarters, as well as the CEOs of affiliate groups in Oregon and New York City.
The chairman of the foundation has also stepped down from his post.
This is liberalism.
The big enforcers of liberalism.
They don't brook any dissent.
You know, Rick Santorum can get away with disrespecting Mitt Romney, and Newt can get away with this, and nothing happens to them.
But on the other side of the ledger, they're brutal.
You wander off the reservation, even for five minutes, and boom, they whip you back into line.
So massive purges going on in the wake of – Komen then, by the way, reversed their decision and said they were going to continue funding Planned Parenthood, having had their little pink ribbon beaten into a black and blue ribbon by the enforcers of big abortion.
But the turmoil goes on.
Five high-ranking executives from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Charity have been purged from its ranks.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Stein in for Rush.
We'll take your calls straight ahead.
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Let's go to Ron in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.
Ron, I've got the world's smallest call screen at the moment for some reason.
It's due to budgetary cutbacks.
And so it just says that Ron wants to talk about two things.
I have no idea what thing A or thing B is.
But Ron, go for it.
It's Open Line Friday.
Well, basically, I wanted to talk to you about gasoline.
By the way, it's a privilege to speak with you, sir.
And it's good to talk with you.
You mentioned, though, you were comparing, Rich Lowry was comparing the bolt with the Edsel.
Right.
I see one big difference between those two.
People nowadays actually want Edsels.
If you read the collector magazines.
Right, right.
I don't think that's going to be the case in 30 years with a pug-ugly bolt.
But the main thing I called about was gasoline.
I think that gasoline has been a racket for decades.
This is nothing new.
What else in your life do you buy by the fraction of a cent?
What else do you buy that, you know, do you buy a pack of gum for 79.9 cents?
No, you're referring to these things.
When you drive past the gas station, it says gas is now $3.89 and 9 tenths cents.
Right.
What else do you want to supply that they charge you 9 tenths of a cent for?
Just get rid of that stupid thing.
If it says $389.9, it's $390.
You've got to buy 10 gallons before you save a penny.
It's ridiculous.
That's 25 years when unleaded gas was coming out.
All cars had that little sticker by the fuel door that said unleaded fuel only.
That's right.
They said it costs more to remove the lead.
But no, no, that's not why unleaded gas costs more.
Leaded gas was leaded with tetraethyl lead, which was a manufactured product, had to be blended with the gasoline.
So therefore, there was more processes in the manufacturing.
The leaded gas should have cost more.
But no, they always charged a dime more per gallon for the unleaded gas back in the 70s.
And now the gas has got this.
What is it, 10% ethanol or something that they're putting in it now?
Yeah, well, I was going to come to that.
I was going to come to that.
Okay, go to the ethanol then.
Okay, well, just one other quick mention if I tell you, the Exxon Valdez, when it went aground, they said they had to charge five cents a gallon to clean it up.
Well, I could understand if that was Exxon, but then why did Sunoco and Shell and Amoco and all the others tack on a nickel too?
And why did that nickel never come off?
As far as ethanol, do you have any idea what ethanol and gasoline is doing to small engines like your lawnmower engine and hedge trimmers and weed whackers and so forth?
It is absolutely destroying small engines.
Not mention the loss of miles per gallon in your car because it's a lot of efficient fuel.
Yeah, my trusty assistant is shaky.
She's a devout gardener, and she's sighing with recognition that you've got a, in other words, your little weed whacker will expire and die a couple of years sooner than it would have, and you're going to have to buy a new one and get that.
And as you say, the mileage, by the way, on these things is worse.
We've taken, the other thing I find, and I've never been able to track this down or whether it's just my paranoia, is that the ethanol, the ethanol, when you put the ethanol in, it seems to make the actual gas pump run slower.
Do you know anything about that, Ron?
No, I don't know anything about that.
I've never noticed it.
I have several antique cars, and there's one station in Harrisburg that still sells ethanol-free gas, so that's all I run in those.
But the car I drive every day is a 1991 Imperial.
And it's got a 33 V6 in it.
But, you know, with the ethanol fuel, I get right around 20 miles a gallon with that thing.
But back when I lived in Ohio and I was still running ethanol-free fuel, I was getting 23.5, 24 miles per gallon in.
So you're having to fill up more by using the ethanol gas.
And we've done something which is almost unbelievably stupid is we have taken a basic food product and made it part of the energy supply.
So we have actually distorted the basic food chain in all kinds of the world.
You may remember all parts of the world.
You may remember a couple of years ago was leading to kind of strange food riots in Haiti and Africa and other places because people are instead of growing corn to feed the starving masses of the third world, they're now growing corn to stick in your environmentally friendly Chevy Liberal mobile.
So it's caused all kinds of, it's caused all kinds of artificial distortions.
And that's basically a Congress EU mandate.
I think both Congress and the EU have agreed, basically mandated that you got to have a percentage of ethanol in the fuel now, if I'm right.
Example of government messing about things that it has no knowledge of.
And I sure hope that the next president ends ethanol subsidies and puts an end to this doggone ethanol.
So I'm tired of rebuilding lawnmower engines.
Okay.
Look, Ron, you know, the president knows what's best for you.
Here's my suggestion.
Just put the algae in the lawnmower, right?
The president says algae, algae is the magic bullet, as he sees it.
Algae, stick the algae in your lawnmower, stick the algae in your weed whacker.
It'll be, they'll be calling it the algae whacker.
That's all you need, Ron.
Thanks for your call.
Great to talk with you.
That was Ron in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania.
I should have asked him.
He's gone now.
Who's Elizabethtown named after, Mike?
You got any clue on that?
Mike's baffled by both.
Yeah, Elizabeth.
I know it's somebody called Elizabeth.
I'm making the point.
Like, I'm a subject of Her Canadian Majesty.
So when you're, like, I mentioned the road between Buffalo and Toronto, if you come and see me being Dick Cheney, it's called the Queen Elizabeth Way.
That's named after Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, the present Queen's mother.
That's who Elizabeth, if you come across something called Elizabeth in Canada, it's named after the present Queen Elizabeth or her mom.
I just wondered what big shot Elizabeth was roaming around Pennsylvania.
Oh, Elizabeth Taylor.
Yeah, maybe you're right.
Maybe that's who Elizabethville is.
Well, I'm in favor of renaming Elizabethville, Pennsylvania, like the Little Rock Municipal Airport, which is now going to be renamed the Bill and Hillary Clinton International Mega Airport.
I am in favor of renaming Elizabethville, Pennsylvania as Bill and Hillaryville, Pennsylvania.
I think that's got a nice ring to it.
So maybe we could just rename, or maybe Robert C. Bird ought to start expanding beyond West Virginia.
Robert C. Birdville, Pennsylvania.
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Let us go to Sam in Oakland, California.
Sam, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Hey, Do, Mark.
How are you doing?
I'm doing good, and good to have you with us.
What's on your mind today?
Okay, I'm pretty upset at Obama because he's letting the Afghan president call American soldiers demons when he has a time of day to call that little Nancy and say, like, oh, sorry, Rush called you a flut, but he can't say, tell him to stop calling the people that are defending his country, you know, because of one individual he's telling us all in the mix.
But what about them when one of them blow themselves up or one of these soldiers kills Americans?
You know, you're absolutely right about this.
And you know why?
It was because it would take more guts to get on the phone and tell Hamid Karzai what you think.
Now, this is you're referring to Hamid Karzai's statement.
I think he did this, by the way, when he was meeting with Medvedev.
And he basically told, Karzai said that his country is plagued by, quote, two demons, the Taliban and American soldiers.
And that is hideous.
This guy, Karzai, by the way, is an American client.
He's only alive because he's protected by Western soldiers.
Hamid Karzai would be dead, like every other.
You know, since they deposed King Zahir back in the 70s, every single president of Afghanistan has concluded his term by being deceased.
His term ends when he ends.
They're all hung from lampposts, dragged through the bodies, their bodies dragged through the streets, all the rest of it.
That's how presidents of Afghanistan have wound up ever since King Zahir was toppled in the 70s.
And this revolting, corrupt, disgusting individual, Kazai, who was put on his throne in Kabul by the force of American arms and who has been kept alive this last decade by a phalanx of Western soldiers, now says his country is plagued by, quote, two demons, unquote, the Taliban and American soldiers.
And that, I think, it's interesting for Obama, the so-called reset button that David Cameron was talking about when he was over here a couple of days ago that Obama had pressed in the world.
This is a man who is so influential.
This tells you this really speaks very poorly for the state of the hyperpower in the second decade of the 21st century.
You accept that, okay, Ahmadinejad's not going to be too keen on you.
You accept that the Politburo in Beijing is going to have a few rough things to say about you.
You expect the Putin isn't going to be too keen on this or that.
We are talking here about a man who lives only because there are Americans protecting him.
And by the way, by the way, a man who, even after he's gotten rid of the demons, the demons, the American soldiers, he expects the West to fund his joke Afghan army at a cost of $4 billion a year.
And I know that doesn't sound a lot in American terms.
That's just a rounding error in the average Obama line item.
But $4 billion goes a long way in a rubble-strewn hellhole like Afghanistan.
And this is the Afghan army, by the way, that has been responsible for what they call green-on-blue violence.
This is where Afghan soldiers trained by NATO forces go berserk and start killing the men they know very well, the men who've trained them and paid for them.
They turn their guns on Americans.
They turn their guns on other NATO soldiers.
This happens routinely.
It happens so routinely that, as I said, the Pentagon's got a term for it, green on blue.
The guy who went berserk and killed 16 civilians the other day, he's a one-off.
He's an anomaly.
But these guys, these guys, the Afghan army violence against their minders, against their friends, against their trainers, against the people who pay them, is so routine, the Pentagon has a term for it, green-on-blue violence.
Karzai expects to be able to call Americans demons, yet still get the demon to pay up for his squalid, corrupt, disgusting regime.
You know, the best thing we can do, and it's probably the case that Afghanistan is lost.
It's just going to be yet another lost American war from the last two-thirds of the century, and yet another unwon, let me rephrase that, an unwon American war.
We'll put it more politely.
Korea, Vietnam, helicopters in the desert, Moggad issue, Gulf War I, now we got Afghanistan.
Yet another unwon war.
But the one thing we know about Afghanistan is that Hamid Karzai and everyone around him, the Taliban, whatever one feels about them, are popular.
Karzai's kleptocrat regime isn't.
And Karzai's plan is to steal as much money as he can and not end up like his predecessors as Afghan president hanging from a lamppost.
He wants to get out alive and enjoy his Swiss bank accounts.
This disgusting, loathsome slug is a horrible reflection on America's ability to get its way in the world.
Because if a client talks about the guys who pay him and protect him in the way that this guy does with total, utter contempt, it's no wonder.
How do you expect to be able to impress Ahmadinejad or Assad or the fellas taking over in Egypt?
This guy lives only because of U.S. blood and treasure, and he has nothing but contempt for the United States.
Hey, let's go to Adrian.
Adrian in Miami Beach.
You're live on the Russian Embro Show.
Hi, Mark.
It's a pleasure to talk to you.
Oh, great to talk to you.
So you're Adrienne E-N-N-E, are you?
E-N-N-E, correct the different version.
Yes, that's a good idea.
Yeah, love that.
One of my favorite names.
Oh, thank you, Mark.
I think my mother had great originality back in the 50s.
Oh, no, don't give anything away.
What's on your mind today, Adrian?
The reason I am calling, Mark, is the Jewish people's support for Obama has me so baffled and confused.
And the Cuban Jews support Obama.
I need an answer.
Why, Mark, I cannot have a conversation with anybody in my religion about Obama because they are all for him.
I thought after he spoke out against Israel and the 1966 war, I think it was, on how we should give back what was taken from the Palestinians, I thought that would have been enough to put them all on the right track.
But it didn't.
They support him full-heartedly.
And they seem to be throwing Netanyahu under the bus because now they're telling me that he is making all the Orthodox women sit in the back of the bus and the Jewish men, the Orthodox Jewish men, sit in the front.
No, you know, this is fascinating, Adrian.
You know, a lot of the problem is, it's a simple one.
I don't know.
I won't presume to speak for Cuban Jews, but I think it's true of a lot of American Jews that Jewish liberals are liberals first and Jews second.
And that's why you see it's even more advanced in some ways, I think, in Canada and Britain and Europe in places where a lot of European Jews are explicitly post-Zionist.
You will find people on Holocaust Memorial Day in Europe saying that the creation of the State of Israel was a tragic mistake and it should never – they've moved to the next stage.
Jewish liberals are in a slightly more ambivalent position.
But you see it, I think, in their hopelessly confused reaction to what's going on over there.
On this business, by the way, of women sitting at the back of the bus, I think this is a reference to some private bus lines catering to the ultra-Orthodox who believe they take pretty much the same view as Muslims on these things, that the men sit at the front and the women sit at the back.
And it's funny your Jewish friends are kind of exercised about this, about private bus companies for the ultra-Orthodox doing this kind of thing.
And I gather, by the way, that some airlines are thinking about doing this gender segregation because of the way they're now dependent on ultra-Orthodox thing.
But it's an interesting difference.
There's a school up in Toronto where they have Muslim prayers every Friday where the boys enter at the front.
The girls have to enter by a separate door at the back.
And girls who are going through their period, their time of the month, have to sit way at the back because they're regarded as unclean.
So they have to go right at the very back.
And this happens in a public school, public school in Toronto, in the public school cafeteria when they hold Muslim prayers.
And it's interesting that the Jewish liberals don't get concerned about something like that.
But somehow, when a private bus company in Israel wants to cater to the Orthodox and wants to have women at the back of the bus and men at the back of the bus for Orthodox Jews, that's suddenly completely unacceptable.
Now, for what it's worth, I'm clear on all this.
I think if you're offering a public accommodation, whether in Israel or the United States or anywhere else, you can't tell women to sit at the back and men to sit at the front.
When the Minneapolis airport, their Muslim cab drivers didn't want to take dogs, they didn't want to take passengers carrying guide dogs for the blind.
They didn't want to take passengers carrying alcohol.
And they didn't want to take women dressed in revealing clothing because they look like infidel whores.
And that's fine.
That's fine.
I've got no problem with you like that.
But don't be a cab driver at Minneapolis Airport licensed by the Minneapolis Taxi Licensing Authority.
That then is official segregation.
In other words, we've gone in a generation from separate drinking fountains in the south to segregated taxi cabs in the north.
That's a public accommodation issue.
But it's fascinating that Jewish liberals in America get far more exercised over something Netanyahu's up to in Israel than they ever do about any of these issues closer to home.
And that's because for most of them, their liberalism trumps their Judaism.
Mark Stein Farush, more ahead.
Let's go to Dave in Salt Lake City.
Dave, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark, pleasure to speak with you.
My pleasure too, Dave.
What's on your mind?
Well, hey, I've got a question.
I'm wondering what the worldview that you've got, what your thoughts are on.
And I think you've talked about this before, too.
The Chinese building up their Navy to such an amount that they've been working on lately.
And what do you think?
Are they building that up to protect their nation against some foreign threat that they view?
Or do you think they're viewing that or building that up in anticipation of some future preemptive strike against another nation potentially in the world?
Well, I mean, the reality is this, that they don't see the Pacific as an American lake any longer, which is what it's been since the Second World War.
And a lot of other countries are beginning to share that view just because of China's dominance.
The Pentagon issued a report on this, the massive military buildup going on in China.
They put everything in there except the central factor, this, about who's paying for it.
And basically, Dave, you're paying for it.
Taxpayers in Salt Lake City are paying for the Chinese military buildup just in the interest payments on U.S. debt.
So we don't have to worry about China attacking us with their military.
They don't need to do that.
I mean, one could foresee a situation, for example, where we're militarily committed to support Taiwan if China attacks Taiwan.
Now, so if China decided to seize Taiwan, we'd send our guys in and we'd be at war with China.
We'd be funding both sides of that war.
I mean, basically, in fiscal terms, that would be the U.S. civil war transferred to the Straits of Taiwan.
We'd be funding both parties in the war.
And because that is absurd, China knows that it will never have to do that.
China is taking advantage of American indebtedness in order to build up its military, in part to protect its sort of trade superhighway to Africa, resource-rich Africa, and the Middle East.
But I think they're more likely to actually drive us into bankruptcy than ever have to fire a shot in anger at a U.S. aircraft carrier.
So I think the real danger is not that they're building up their military, but they're building up their military and we're paying for it.
We're already covering about 80% of the cost of the People's Liberation Army just in interest payments on the debt, Dave.
Federal administration who's aiding and abetting all along the way.
Well, there's absolutely no, you know, when you go back to the decline of the Roman Empire, the geniuses running the Roman Senate didn't say, well, we think Roman taxpayers should bankroll the Visigoth military until the end of time.
And if they had done, basically, as those guys were just running around with a bit of woad and a bit of animal pelt, a couple of clubs, it would have been a hell of a bargain compared to funding the Chinese military.
Thanks for your call, Dave.
Gotta run Mark Stein in for Rush Bordercom.
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are being investigated by a U.S. government watchdog for an October convention on which they spent $600,000.
And the Inspector General of the Federal Housing Finance Agency now says about half of that was of questionable value.
The two Democrat hacks, Franklin Raine and Jamie Gorelic, who headed Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, they walked away with a combined taxpayer-funded payout of $116.4 million.
Would anyone like to say whether what part of that was, quote, of questionable value, unquote?
It's strange that that $600,000 is the only thing Fanny and Freddie are being questioned over.
This has been Mark Stein in for Rush.
Rush has been away today, boycotting himself.
He's so disgusted at himself.
But he will return live on Monday.
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