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Oct. 5, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 5, 2012, Friday, Hour #2
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I have asked for a special supplemental study and update from the Sullivan Group, the opinion auditing firm in Sacramento.
I predicted, I don't know how many times, that by this time the regime would report an unemployment rate of under 8%, and today they did.
That alone should launch me up another tenth of a percentage point in terms of being almost always right.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And here is the telephone number if you want to be on the program.
800 282-2882.
The email address, Lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
Obama is in Fairfax, Virginia.
And I told you a couple things that he said during his speech or his campaign appearance out there.
We uh continue to tell the lie that Romney wants to cut taxes.
Five trillion dollars for the wealthy.
Five trillion dollar tax cut that has never been said by anybody at any time ever.
It's not possible.
Five trillion is the amount of debt that he has run up in terms of spending.
So he's continuing that lie.
Romney refuted it three times during the uh debate.
In addition, he is continuing this notion that the crisis is due to the policies that got us here, and that finally what he's doing is working.
Which of course I'm asking, what is he doing?
Somebody tell me what policies of Obama.
If you if you want to believe this drop in the unemployment rate, tell me what are the policies that made it happen.
How'd we go from 8.1 or 2, whatever it is, to 7.8?
How did it happen?
Policy-wise, you can't cite anything.
He doesn't have any job growth policy.
He doesn't have any economic growth policy.
All he's doing is growing government, pure and simple.
And then this.
We don't believe anybody is entitled to success in this country.
He said that today.
I just sent this uh up to Cookie, I'm waiting on the audio for it.
We don't believe anybody is entitled to success in this country.
Now let me put the comment in context.
Here's the whole thing.
This country does not just succeed when just a few are doing well at the top.
It succeeds when the middle class gets bigger.
Our economy does not grow from the top down.
It grows from the middle out.
We don't believe that anybody is entitled to success in this country, but we do believe in opportunity.
We believe in a country where hard work pays off and responsibilities are rewarded, and everybody is getting a fair shot, and everybody's doing their fair share.
And everybody's paying by the same rules.
That's a country I believe in.
And that's what we've been fighting for the last four years.
And that is what we're gonna put in place in the next four years if you re-elect me.
Oh, you haven't put that in place yet?
That's just what you believe in, but that's what you're gonna put in place the next four years.
Now, how would you interpret because this word entitlement's a tricky one?
When we talk about entitlements, we're talking about things that people think they are owed by virtue of being an American.
Like food stamps to a lot of people are an entitlement.
I I'm I'm entitled to that.
Meaning somebody owes me that.
Is that what Obama means when he's saying that we don't believe anybody's entitled to success?
In other words, is he I wouldn't say that success is an entitlement, it's something you have to earn.
Something you have to achieve.
But I don't think I know that Obama doesn't think the way I do.
And he doesn't use the language the way I do.
So I'm not sure what he means here.
I'm my tendency is to hear when Obama says we don't believe anybody's entitled to success in this country.
It sounds to me like he wants to be in charge of who is and who isn't.
I could be wrong.
He could be saying exactly what I think.
That if you're gonna be successful, you gotta work for it, and you have to earn it, and you have to achieve it.
But then if you do that in his world, you become a target.
If you do that, you become the enemy.
If you do that, then you're not paying your fair share.
So he's really conflicted.
I'm conflicted.
Somehow, when I hear Obama say, we don't believe anybody is entitled to success in this country, my antenna go up.
To me, it's a red flag.
It sounds to me like it's an attack on those who are successful or maybe who have a successful father or mother.
Just because your family had a lot of money, doesn't mean that you get keep it.
Nobody's entitled to success.
Knowing Obama the way I know Obama, and I know Obama because I know liberals, this is an attack on successful people.
I have no doubt about it.
And I didn't hear it, but I'll bet you it got among those idiots that show up at his rally.
I'll bet you it got thunderous applause.
And if it did, if it got thunderous applause, then it means exactly what I think is.
He's out there playing the class warfare and class envy cards as often as he can.
He's ginning up resentment for successful people.
He's ginning up uh uh, if not resentment, hatred for them.
He doesn't talk about successful people admirably.
He doesn't talk about successful people respectfully, he doesn't admire successful people.
They are a problem for him.
And they become his target.
I don't believe anybody's entitled to exist.
Yay.
Sounds like envy.
Sounds like jealousy.
To the audio sound bites.
I just, you know, I told you, I read from my uh my my my archives, previous programs, went back to the website, Rush Limbaugh.com and found them, but I want you to hear it for yourself.
May of this year, I predicted what happened today.
They're gonna have it below eight percent by election day.
Only way they can do that is force people out of the job market.
And that is exactly what is happening.
But only in the Orwellian world of government statistics could the fact that more people gave up looking for work make the unemployment rate go down.
That claim would embarrass if an advisor to Lenin or Stalin came in and said, Comrade, we want to kick people out of the job market.
No hope of getting a job.
That's how we'll lower the unemployment rate.
That person would have been sent to a gulag somewhere next to Sol Janitsin.
This is what Obama's doing.
I just wanted you hear that because anybody can come here and say, Yeah, I predicted this, but I wanted to remind you.
Let's go to the um the media now having their orgasm today over this.
Christine Romans this morning on CNN talking with Solidad O'Brien.
At a hundred and fourteen thousand jobs created in the month, a little bit better than expected.
The surprise is the jobless rate.
The jobless rate fell to seven point eight percent.
It fell to seven point eight percent.
And we have a couple of months that have been revised.
We have final numbers now for August and July, and those numbers are better than previously reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
I have to imagine that uh the Obama campaign will be trumpeting that 7.8 unemployment figure, certainly.
And next, Allie Velshi, who is the economics expert and reporter at CNN, and actually a random act of journalism partially here, just partially.
Because what Ali Velshi says is that the unemployment number is meaningless.
Now I'm gonna I'm gonna guarantee you something.
If there were a Republican president and the unemployment number was anything over five percent, it would not be meaningless.
It would be bad news, it would be devastating.
The unemployment number is only meaningless when a Democrat's in the White House.
So Solidadobr.
No, no, I'm sorry, it's Ashley Banfield, who is the info babe on CNN talking to Allie Velshe.
He says, So let's talk about the unemployment rate.
And I heard you say, don't look at the rate if you're looking for the State of the Union and the economy.
However, I want to ask you this.
Oftentimes when the unemployment rate drops, it's not great news because it means more people just stop looking.
This is why I don't like looking at it, because you assume that a higher unemployment rate is a bad thing and a lower unemployment rate is a good thing.
But we've seen the unemployment rate drop most recently, not today, but last month, uh or the month before, because fewer people were in the workforce, fewer people for were looking for jobs.
The unemployment rate is just a little bit of a red herring.
It's used as a political football, it's being used again as a political football today.
But then he went on, as I was watching.
He went on to say that look, in previous months, he basically just canceled out what he said there.
In previous months, it has happened because they've simply reduced the number of jobs.
But this hundred and fourteen thousand, Ashley, what isn't real today.
This hundred and fourteen thousand, this this this is real.
So while doing a random act of journalism the first half of the comment, the last half, he went on to say, but that doesn't matter on this number.
I don't look at the numbers, Ashley, because yeah, they jack around with the labor force participation rate and so forth, usually meaning, but this matters, he went on to say.
Carl Rowe was on Fox, America's Newsroom, and Martha McCallum today.
She said headline number is one that has to make them very happy at the White House, eh, Carl?
Obama on three measures has numbers that are worse than presidents who've lost re-election, Carter and Bush 41.
And unemployment is one of them.
7.8% today.
That's higher than the unemployment rate under George H.W. Bush of 7.6%, and he lost re-election.
The second quarter GDP number, 1.3%.
That's lower than the 4.3% that Bush 41 had.
And then the workforce participation rate of 63.6 matches the low under Jimmy Carter.
President Obama's numbers are below every president who's gotten re-elected and slightly above those of the presidents who got defeated.
So the question is, is he going to be the bottom of the guys who win or the top of the guys who lose?
Well, keep a sharp eye on the gasoline price, because it's skyrocketing out there.
Drive-by's are not telling you about it.
The drive-by's are not running around doing stories on people affected by it, but you can't escape it.
Somebody here the other day tell I'm spending six hundred bucks a month.
I'm thinking of getting a Prius, almost fired him.
Six hundred bucks a month.
Snerdley's complaining about gas everybody is talking about it.
It's big.
It's just as big an issue as it always has been, except it's not being reported.
But in terms of the impact the gasoline price is having on people, it's got them mad.
It has them ticked off, and they're not blaming Bush for it.
They're not going back and blaming previous presidents or policies.
All they know is it's high now, and they know they got a guy in the White House who is opposed to finding more domestic oil and natural gas to add to the quantity or the supply that would lower the price.
Now the 47% comment.
I'm gonna go back to the debate for a second because the brilliant take on it yesterday.
Everybody's now admitting that uh uh had a brilliant take.
After 18 hours of intense news cycle coverage, I. L. Rushbow nevertheless had the unique take on the debate, what it meant and uh the long-term ramifications of it.
What it really was all about.
What why Obama was so bad.
I had the answer.
And it was none of these fake excuses and his lapdogs are coming up with to explain it and justify it.
The answer is very simple.
It's out of his league.
He's got no answer when somebody confronts him truthfully and factually in the arena of ideas.
His ideas don't cut it.
His ideas can't compete with ours.
He can't be honest about what he's really going to do, so he has to sit there and lie about what Romney's plans are.
That's all they could do.
He had nothing nowhere to go.
Now they can say he's going to come out and get more aggressive in the next debate, and he's not going to take it anymore, and he's going to come out and he's going to confront Romney.
He might.
But he's still going to have nothing but lies in his arsenal.
He's not going to have a success track.
He's not going to have a good record.
He's not going to have highlights they can point to and say, You want more of this?
Romney's going to have the facts at his disposal.
Romney's going to have the solutions to our problems at his disposal.
And he'll be talking to a guy who's the architect of this current economic malaise, failure, misery, whatever you want to call it.
So whatever attitude Obama drops, adopts, he will have nowhere to go in the arena of ideas.
Because his don't cut it.
If he was stupefied, the latest liberal excuse is that Romney was telling so many lies and Obama had a brain freeze.
He couldn't keep up with it.
He didn't know which one to reply to because he kept forgetting them because there were so many.
That's BS.
It was the first time in his life, probably he'd been confronted with the truth.
About people who disagree with what he thinks.
They still don't know what hit them.
They manufacture lies and false premises and alternative universes, and they live in them.
And they end up in shock when they are confronted with reality.
Al Gore said the problem with Obama was too high.
Others said nope, he was too mellow.
Well, the altitude, too high.
I had people telling me he was on Valium.
I had people telling me Obama was on Valium because he's suffering anxiety.
And they rolled the dice.
They gave him some Valium.
Another headlights, a guy in the New York Times, is uh Charles Blow called him the Xanax president.
Xanax is is in the same family as Valium's, I guess it's added or whatever.
Actually, people who believe Obama was on Valium.
Because he's so wired, so anxious.
They had to tamp that down, and they just gave him too much.
Which takes us to the 47% that Libs, why didn't you go after Romney in the 47%?
He told lies, he told people he doesn't care about him.
He hopes they say fail and die at 47.
Why didn't you use it?
The media was really upset.
They set him up, they thought.
Well, I got the answer I told you yesterday, and they confirmed it.
I'll show you.
We get back after this.
Uh uh Holy Prophet timeout, don't go away.
47%.
I told you yesterday, the 47%, they're lying about it.
They don't want to confront Romney with it where he can refute it.
They've made up a lie about what Romney means about the 47%.
It's for ads only.
Really, here's Ben LeBolt.
He was on Wolf's Blitzer's situation room last night.
And uh, and Bletcher said, Look, Romney's 47% remark.
We didn't hear any of that from the president at the debate.
Why not?
The 47% remark was the remark heard uh across the country and around the world.
Uh and we've got advertisements up on the air right now.
I think that's most effective when you hear it from Mitt Romney in his own words, writing off half the population, saying that they're victims, saying that they won't take personal responsibility for their lives.
Yeah, we're gonna only put it in ads, Wolf.
See, that's the trick.
If we if we accuse Romney of it, then he'd come back and say that's not what he meant and blow Obama back out of the water again.
You see, ladies and gentlemen, Obama thinks that the fantasy creations of Romney that he and his campaign have made are real.
And that the guy he debated was unreal.
They believe this stuff.
They believe Romney hates 47% of people.
They believe Romney wants them to wither away and die.
They believe Romney doesn't care.
And that's nerds, you can't believe they really I damn well do mean it.
They believe these care the same thing of us, they believe that's who we are as conservatives.
And so what did Obama do?
The day after the debate, had his first rallies.
That wasn't a real Mitt Romney.
That wasn't Mitt Romney last night.
What an Amit Romney we all know.
So the real Mitt Romney is not real.
The one they make up is the real one.
The exit polls count, the real votes don't.
I'm sorry, it's a sick bunch of people.
But that's why they didn't use the 47%, because they don't want to give Romney a chance to rebut it.
Folks, it is absolutely true.
They create these caricatures and false images, notions of conservatives, Romney, but all of us.
They do.
The left does.
They don't take the time to understand us, get to know us ideologically.
It's beneath them.
We're just a small fringe bunch of kook freaks.
They actually believe what they Romney says 47%.
They actually believe what they say about Romney.
Hey, he doesn't care about 47%.
They doesn't care.
They just let them swivel up and die.
As far as Romney's concerned.
Then Romney shows up, is entirely different than their caricature, and they can't deal with it.
And the next day Obama goes out and says, That wasn't real Romney last night.
It wasn't a Mitt Romney we all know.
Let me tell you, the Obama in the debate is the real Barack Obama.
If you want to start talking real, you take the teleprompter away, you take the speech writers away, you take the aides and all kinds of assistants away, and you leave the guy naked with just himself and his brain, and that's the real Barack Obama.
It was also the real Mitt Romney, who is real every day.
Just as I and you are real every day.
We are not manufactured, we don't have PR people, we don't have manufactured images or anything of the sort.
Romney is who he is.
He's been in his way his whole life.
Obama is the creature of creation, the caricature of something that he's not, that was exposed as exactly the fraud that he is in that debate.
Obama thinks that his fantasies of Romney are real, and the guy he debated isn't.
By the way, Joe Trippi, who ran Howard Dean's ill-fated scream campaign in 2004.
Joe Trippie said that uh where is it?
Uh 20 minutes into the Republican debate, online voter registration doubled above normal.
Republican voter registration doubled.
Twenty minutes into the debate, Republican online voter registration doubled above normal.
And was still at that pace.
Don't believe they can't track that stuff.
That's that's that's a guy like Trippie's job is to know statistics like that.
But if you heard the latest from the left to explain Romney's victory, he cheated.
He had notes in his handkerchief.
No, no, I'm not kidding you.
Three different Democrat websites, BuzzFeed, Daily Cause, and one other, he had notes in his handkerchief, his suitcoat.
His jacket.
He had some way, when he was looking down, he notes and blow his nose or whatever, what he was doing, had notes in there.
That's exactly right.
Okay, to the phones we go since it's open line Friday and Chester in Irvine, California.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hey Rush, great show.
Thank you.
Seeing your listener, first time caller.
And you sound irate today.
I'm glad because you pale, pale, my friend, in comparison to me.
I just got off the phone with Snerdley.
I just paid four dollars and seventy-five cents, Russ, for a gallon of gasoline in Irvine, California, right off the 405.
Now let's just do the math.
And this is for the dolphs all over George Mason.
If you have two vehicles and you have an F-150, and you have a Mazda truck and a 17 gallon tank, Russ, that's $42 more per se.
Just a second.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Hold on just a minute, Chester.
Who do you think you are to have all those cars?
What right do you have to have all those cars and trucks?
You know who I am, Rush?
I'm a hard one.
You've got more than your share, Chester.
You are exactly what's wrong with this country.
I can't believe the greed and the selfish.
You look at all the people that don't have cars and trucks because how many you've got.
I'd be ashamed.
I can't believe it.
And now you have the guts to go here and complain about the price of gasoline it costs to put in them.
Rush, you don't even hear anything about it.
When Bush was president, every LA news channel had these uh hacks at the gas station complaining about $2 gas.
Now it's $475.
If you do the math, that's $2300 more per car, that's $4,600 more combined per year.
Now, I realize to a hack like uh that gentleman over at MSLSD, Chris Matthews, that's chump change.
But, you know, for regular taxpayers, that's a lot of money.
And that's after tax dollars.
After tax.
Now, Chris Matthews, who is so anti-white, and Chris Matthews, who is so pro-Mexican, I challenge Chris Matthews, and I hope he hears this rush on Media Matters.
Get your ass out of Lillywhite, Northern Virginia, and why don't you move to the barrios of Santa Ana?
Move to the barrios of San Antonio, El Centro, East LA, or if you're so pro black and anti-white, move to Cleveland, move to Kerry, East St. Louis, Compton.
That guy's got no credibility, Rush.
And to the people that are on uh I I guess you call it they have.
Why do you want him moving to those places?
What is your point?
My point is this, Rush.
Here's my point.
These undecided voters, look at this.
Mitt Romney could go tomorrow and run OPEC, Siemens Corporation, DuPont, Boeing, Airbus, Barack Obama, Rush, you know this.
He couldn't even work in the mailroom.
People, wake up.
This country's going to hell in a handbag.
Would it be we're gonna be paying six bucks a gas uh gallon for gas rush?
Come on now.
We're heading that way.
Rush, how is a family supposed to survive?
You got taxes.
I mean, if you're in construction, drywall, concrete, paint, lumber, power tools, they're all going through the road.
Chester.
You have people saying that they're doing better.
I mean, are you kidding me?
Chester.
Where are they getting their crack from?
Chester.
Chris Matthews lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland, and New Hampshire.
Lily White, huh, Rush?
Two places with the I think lowest minority population rates uh in the country.
Uh and yet your point is he seems to know all these minorities and what they think and how they live, but he wouldn't know one if he ran into one, is your point, right?
Rush didn't.
Number two, number two, you are supposed to suffer.
You ask, what's a family supposed to do under Obama?
You are supposed to suffer.
I was only half joking.
You've got more trucks than your fair share.
You got more, you don't need to be buying that much gasoline.
You're causing global warming.
That's who Obama is, Chester.
He's not there to make it possible for you to improve your lot in life so you can more easily afford that $6,500.
His job is to make you suffer because you're not supposed to have that much, and you're not supposed to be using that much.
You have more and are using more than your share.
Well, you're right about that, Russ.
Let me close by saying two things.
A, I love two of IT, so I hope you're making a lot of money.
I know you're donate a lot of money.
Secondly, you know what?
And you travel a lot.
I know you golf overseas and you golf all over the place.
I returned from a trip to Central America.
You know, there's a lot of Americans moving down to Costa Rica, to uh Ecuador that uses the U.S. dollar, Panama that uses the U.S. dollar.
And you know, if things continue to go south, Americans that still have a little bit left, Rush, you know what?
They can actually take their money with them.
You know, I have a it's an interesting point.
I went down to Puerto Vallata uh on a on a golf trip uh three years ago now, it was in November.
Ended up catching uh stomach bug uh delayed a month after I got back.
Anyway, I was stunned at the number of Americans who live there.
And they were telling you, oh, yeah, it doesn't cost anything here.
They're telling me how cheap their apartments were in their condos or whatever they live there.
Former California residents have moved to Puerto Vallarta.
And I was I was let me ask you what you uh do you live in Irvine?
Yes, I do.
You do Irvine, would you consider Irvine a suburb?
Irvine is 25 minutes south rush of Disneyland.
Then why don't you take see the the what you're supposed to do in Obamaville, Chester, and I'm not kidding.
All of this is supposed to make you get on a bus or a train.
Mass transit, Chester.
You see, Obama doesn't like the fact that you fled city.
He doesn't like you living in suburbia.
He doesn't like it.
You have taken your money away from the city.
You were able to flee the squalid conditions others can't.
So the fact that you're suffering some pain, that's the plan.
Rush, I take offense to the word.
That's a racial overtone.
And I never once heard the media say that.
And if Mitt Romney can't say the word apartment, then President Obama shouldn't be able to say the word.
Well, have you heard the lazy sununu get the sununnu was on Enriam Mitchell in meeting you're in Washington the day after the debate and called Obama lazy.
And the left wing machine went into gear.
That is racism.
You call our beloved black president lazy.
Why don't you add shiftless to it?
Why don't you just finish it?
They wanted to make it out that Sununu was being racist, calling Obama lazy because he's black.
And it's supposed to do that.
And so Andrea Mitchell said, Hey, you want to take that back?
Do you really want no take it back?
I mean, he's lazy.
And by the way, Andrew, he's admitted that he's lazy.
He's admitted it.
He's used the word himself to describe himself.
He called himself lazy with Barbara Walters last Christmas.
I've got the audio here if I want to send it up to Cookie.
I uh he's used the word himself to describe himself.
He said he didn't like debate prep.
He didn't use the word lazy in saying he didn't like debate prep, but he gave the impression that he is lazy, didn't want to put in the time.
It was a drag.
Anyway, this is this is the depths to which they have to sink in order to have anything, because they don't have one idea on their side.
They don't have one positive in Obama's four years on their side.
So that's all they have is an attempt to impugn discredit, smear what have you, Obama's opponents.
Chester, appreciate the call.
Brief time out.
We'll be back after this.
Don't go away.
By the way, uh Bob Woodward, I think it was Bob Woodward was on Fox uh this morning, Brian Kilmead and Friends, or maybe his Kill Meads radio show.
I don't know what it was.
Anyway, Bob Woodward said that he suspects in explaining Obama's dismal pathetic embarrassing debate performance.
Bob Woodward said that he suspects something happened in Obama's presidential or personal life that distracted him during the debate, like it could have been an intelligence report.
Bob, you know, are you trying to get back in good graces with people because how your book embarrasses Obama?
You really intelligence report.
That would presume Obama cares.
We've got a dead ambassador and three other Americans because of an entail intelligence failure Mingazi.
He doesn't seem like he cares about it.
So, but but but something very upsetting in uh Obama's presidential or personal life that distracted him during the debate.
Let me say something about that.
Now this is not the presidency here.
Don't misunderstand.
But we all have things that happen in our lives that can end up being distractions, and yet we have to show up.
It's called professionalism.
And for the if if he can't focus for an hour and a half in something that is as important to the job as debate and re-election, then something is really, really wrong here.
The mark of professionalism, you know, in this business, I'll just use analogies as often as I can to try to further understanding when you're young and just starting out or Or it used to be this way.
Now it's not because anybody can get on the radio these days.
But back back in the days when you needed talent, you had to go through a process where you climb the ladder.
And I don't say this was resentment.
Just the way it is.
One of the things that every young DJ or radio performer marveled at about the pros is that they never seemed to have a bad day.
They always seemed up.
You never could tell.
And the beginner, and as somebody who's not yet a professional, just doesn't have the experience or the knowledge or the ability to overcome the distractions and not let them become a factor.
It really was one of the questions, one of the most often asked questions of seasoned veterans.
How do you get up every day?
How do you how does it sound like everything is rosy and wonderful for you every day?
Because the beginner takes in all the distractions and all just the daily ebb and flow of life, and sometimes there's distracting.
You have an argument with a girlfriend or a wife or the phone companies bug you.
Whatever it was, there were always distractions.
And I'm just telling you, the mark of a true professional in any field is to overcome them, get past them, and not let anybody know that there are any.
And now for us to be told by one of the most seasoned people.
Journalists in history that the president of the United States might have been distracted by something presidential or personal for an hour and a half that led to that level of distraction and apathy and inattention is quite telling.
I don't know what it would be short of.
By the way, we just got a poll out, and the real truth is you're down 30.
Or death in the family didn't happen.
Maybe the brother that lives in a hut, he's waiting outside with a film crew.
What could it have been?
I'm serious.
What what from now we're hearing well he was Romney was telling so many lies.
You see the you you see the the the fake world these people live in, they have created this superhuman individual, Barack Obama, who is immune to all of these normal earthly things that you and I experience.
And now Romney was telling so many lies that he could keep up with them.
And he had to brain freeze.
He just couldn't write them all down, and he just you've had it, writer's block, he had brain block.
And now we're told that Romney was cheating.
He had notes in his handkerchief.
That's out today.
Now Bob Woodward.
It had to be something in his presidential or personal life that was so distracting that he simply simply wasn't able to focus.
If that's the case, that's telling Enough.
That's disqualifying enough as far as I'm concerned.
Hey, Cookie, I want you to try to find something.
I like to put pressure on her by doing it.
A public request.
Cookie, search the archives, see if you can find if we have Obama saying that he didn't mind fossil fuel prices rising because that would make alternative energy more uh palatable.
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