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Dec. 7, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 7, 2012, Friday, Hour #2
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I tell these people CNN, last jobs report before country could go over fiscal cliff.
It's how they've got their Chiron Graphic.
Last jobs report before country could go over fiscal cliff.
Amazing.
These people, they're all still campaigning.
It's Friday, folks.
So it's all live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Last jobs report before country could go over Fiscal Cliff.
Even if we go over the fiscal cliff, you know, the sky's going to be blue.
The birds are going to be chirping.
The homeless are still going to be homeless and maybe a little bit angrier about it, but they're still going to be homeless.
The beggars are still going to be begging.
Low information voters are still not going to know anything.
We go over the cliff.
What do people expect?
Nuclear winter.
Great to have you back, folks.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, and I really promise I'm going to get the phones earlier in this hour.
I really intended to get to them last hour, but it just didn't work out.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
As many of you people know, I have had experience with electronic cigarettes.
I, El Rushbow have used them.
They're just jolts of nicotine.
They're no different than a nicotine patch.
Except the patch sort of has a controlled amount, and the electronic cigarette, you give yourself a hit any time you want.
But it's water vapor.
That's all it is.
It's water vapor flavored.
You get them cherry, uh, tobacco flavor, coconut, whatever.
It's uh different colors.
Uh they are in their own way.
There's no tar.
There's nothing carcinogen in them.
Uh nicotine is not a carcinogen.
It is an addictive.
In fact, nicotine, if you want to nicotine is the most addictive drug in the world.
Sassy Snerdley is frowning, and many of you probably, ah, come on, Rush, that's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard anybody say.
Well, here's the way and the reason why I say so.
Nobody has a pleasant first experience with it.
If you've ever seen somebody take their first drag on a cigarette, you have seen coughing, sputtering, red face sweating, perhaps even retching and vomiting.
And they can't wait to light the next one.
Other drugs, the experience is pleasant.
In some cases, amazingly so, but not nicotine.
Because it's delivered via tobacco.
For that reason, I say it's the most addictive substance on earth.
Now, but it's not carcinogenic.
So you would think that it would make everybody happy in the health community.
But no.
No, no, no.
They want to stamp out electric cigarettes.
Of course, big tobacco wants to stamp out electric cigarettes.
Uh electric cigarettes don't face the same kind of taxation yet.
Uh they're not controlled.
There aren't any regulations.
It's relatively new.
And for the most part, it's uh equivalent in price.
Maybe a little cheaper in certain states.
The only downside to nicotine, if you get too much of it, in some people, it can elevate your blood pressure.
I mean, I've I've I'm watching all these 60s retro shows, the hour on the BBC, madmen.
They're it's a popular genre, will be for a while.
Everybody smokes all the time.
It looks cool to a lot of people.
A cigarette in the mouth or in your hand held looks cool.
Not to everybody, but to some people it does.
And even in current movie making in Hollywood, people smoke all the time.
And they are, you know, nobody ever complains about that.
Look at all they get away with.
Isn't that corrupting the youths of America?
And I'll tell you what, the first tobacco company gets away with putting marijuana in their cigarettes is gonna be celebrated with The same people trying to shut them down.
You wait.
At any rate, and there's a story here from the BBC, a new TV spot for a brand of electronic cigarettes marks the first time in decades that cigarettes of any sort have been promoted on U.S. television.
Anti-smoking campaigners fear that the rapid growth of tobacco-free cigarettes could undermine years of successful anti-smoking efforts.
You know, when you anti-smoking zealots get serious about shutting down Hollywood and all these other television too, all these other places where kids are are the impressions are indelible that are made on kids in movies and TVs and music videos and so forth.
Until you go after some of that, all of these claims to care about health kind of fall on deaf ears to me.
But this ad has a handsome actor posing and strutting on a beach.
It's a black and white commercial, puts the cigarette to his lips, takes a puff, exhales a rich plume.
It's water vapor.
It doesn't even smell.
There's nothing about it that irritates.
I'll tell you a little story.
I was in Hawaii, one of my annual golf trips.
Didn't make it this year because of the election.
I think it was two years ago.
We're on the big island, and we just finished a round at the course at the four seasons.
And as always, we retired to the bar post-round to review how well we all played.
To compare scorecards and pay off on the bets.
And we always gather at the bar.
At the time, I'm puffing on an electronic cigarette.
A manager comes up.
And very, very nice, but you can tell he's a little nervous.
Mr. Limbaugh, I know I know you're aware we serve food.
There are laws in the state.
You can't smoke here at the bar.
Oh, it's just not a cigarette.
It's not.
No, no.
This is one of these new electronic jobs.
And I took it apart.
I showed him how it works.
I let him touch it.
No tobacco in here.
And I said, Do you mind if I blow a puff of this in your face?
No, go ahead.
So blew a puff of water vapor, cherry flavored, I think it was, uh, in his face.
He didn't smell anything.
Okay, no problem.
He was back in ten minutes.
Uh, Mr. Limbaugh, there's a there's a woman, and I knew who it was because I was getting daggers by a couple of women staring daggers at me.
Uh Mr. Limbaugh, one of our one of our customers is uh very, very upset and is asking me to ask you to kindly put that away, and that's it's really a bad it's a bad image.
It's if children shouldn't see it.
And I said there aren't any here.
This is a bar.
And he said, but she's just she's just asking, well, could you tell me who it is?
No, no, I really don't want any trouble.
She just she's and I said, see, this is what happens.
This is not offending anybody.
It's not a well, it's not affecting her.
It's not causing anybody any discomfort.
It's bringing me a little pleasure.
You've got one customer who is all heighty toity and high and mighty, somehow thinking that she's affected, impacted negatively, or others are by this.
And so one customer can cause all, you know, it does look like a cigarette.
I said, but it isn't.
There's no law against this.
And I didn't put it down.
And I looked around and I found a woman I thought it was, and I just stared at her with a smile and kept puffing.
That's just who I am.
And I I was I was welcomed back.
And by the way, nothing happened.
I just stood up for myself, is all I did.
I didn't didn't buckle to it.
Anyway, the pressure is being brought to bear.
Now there's a TV ad, and all the forces against these things are lining up.
And the only reason I'm mentioning this to you is Because the people that smoke these things are actually trying to quit smoking.
Tobacco products.
They are trying to improve their health.
And one of the guys is that that uh named Stephen Dorf, who is the heartthrob star of the TV show who smokes in this in this in this TV show, this commercial, said, This lets me enjoy smoking without it affecting the people around me because it's vapor, it's not tobacco smoke.
We're all adults here.
It's time we take our freedom back.
And that's why I wanted to tell you about this.
Now, this guy, I have never I haven't seen the ad.
The fact he's talking about freedom, he might be 75 or 80.
Since freedom is important to him as a concept since he understands it.
You know when people start talking about freedom, they have to be old.
They gotta be old fashioned and really, you know, out of it.
Really out of touch.
Freedom?
Well, what's that?
Who needs any of that?
The launch this autumn of the advertisement for the electronic cigarette marks a turning point in the fast growing U.S. market for eCigs, which you use an electronic mechanism to warm a liquid nicotine solution and release mist, water vapor into the lungs.
Most living Americans had never before seen a cigarette advertised on TV.
Cigarette advertising banned in 1971.
But the electronic cigarettes fall outside the law since they contain no tobacco.
They don't bother anybody.
Not really.
Now even when I would puff one up here, I could get looks of disdain because people have been made to think that it's dirty and rotten and filthy and deadly.
It was just water vapor.
And I I had Are you gonna quit those things?
Are you are you gonna quit now?
If I'd if I'd have been over at the Four Seasons Bar, and if I'd lit in a bong, that woman would have probably come over and hit on me.
What's snerdily?
What's the question?
I'll be happy to answer the question.
What's the right?
Exactly.
People are smoking joints in the open in Colorado, Washington State, California too.
And they're really inhaling deep.
Right?
I mean, not only do you smoke, you inhale and then you hold it in there, is that right?
Okay.
Cigarette smokers don't even do that.
In I know the marijuana smokers are doing it in, but you see, it's exactly the marijuana's cool.
Marijuana is okay, and it is also said to be harmless.
And it has medicinal characteristics, don't you know?
Yes, it does.
No, it's it's it's it's uh uh it's it's all back to political correctness.
So yeah, smoking a joint, there isn't a stigma to it.
Uh you don't have nearly the people expressing outrage over it because ask yourself, where are the PSAs anti-marijuana?
Where are all the TV people, all these smoking and health experts on television condemning marijuana?
It's just the exact opposite.
Marijuana has advocates.
Tobacco has big tobacco.
They're the rich.
They kill their customers.
They poison people.
They don't care either.
They really don't care.
The only the only business alive which seeks to kill its customers.
And so what chance do they have?
But the electronic cigarette doesn't do any of that.
Anyway, I just wanted to mention it because the people who are under assault are finally standing up and say, wait a minute.
It's time we take our freedom back.
We're adults here.
This is what ought to happen to Little Rock when some Nambi Pamby parent says, I don't want to chance doing Charlie Brown.
Somebody say, screw you, babe.
If you don't want to see Charlie Brown, don't show up.
I'm sorry, I don't mean to be threatening here.
I don't mean to be making 24-year-old girls nervous.
Jeez.
If you don't want to see Charlie Brown, then stay home.
But but leave everybody else alone who does want to watch Charlie Brown.
What right do you have to tell 30 other people what they can't see just because it might offend you?
You know, screw you, but uh uh just you know, try to see it our way.
By the way, you know what?
You know what has happened since listen to me.
Look at me.
You know what's happened since smoking rates have plummeted?
Obesity has skyrocketed.
If you I'm serious, if you want, if you're serious about explaining the obesity epidemic, in part, of course it would never be the entire full reason, in part it is the the the the smoking reductions that have taken place.
There is a correlation there.
And he's you tell you look, somebody quit smoking.
Look what happened to a balloon.
Uh and it's it's it's because of the constant need for oral gratification.
They've got to have something in their mouths.
And in public, there's only so many options.
Here's uh here's Sarah in Peoria.
Great.
Great to have you on the program, hi.
Hi, Russ.
How are you?
Uh great.
Thanks much.
I need I need some help here.
I'm I've tuned out since the election.
Absolutely tuned out.
I've told all my friends it was gonna be a landslide.
I stayed up with my husband watching with utter shock and disbelief as as the results came in.
I've tuned out, I own my own business, I'm just gonna push forward without paying attention.
I need you to tell me why I should still pay attention.
No, it's a great question.
Can I ask you some questions about this?
Sure.
I want to use you as a as a uh miniature marketing research survey for me.
Okay?
Okay, okay.
Because I know there are a lot of you out there.
I I've I've uh put myself in your shoes, and we go back through the the passion of the campaign.
Um people like me telling you this is ball game.
I mean this election's it.
Obamacare got to repeal it and so forth.
This is it.
And as it wore on, we got closer and closer to thinking we were going to to win this.
We got closer and closer to the body.
Well, no, it was it was never that certain, but it w a as it got closer, we you and I well, I should ask you, it's market research.
Did you think Obama was gonna lose as as we got closer to election day?
Yes.
Okay.
And am I right so far?
I mean, you're really involved in it, and it's it's this all the marbles and so forth.
I I couldn't wait to vote.
Okay, then couldn't wait.
Then the bottom fell out, and everything that you were engaged for, every reason you were involved seems now to have been defeated.
And you said to yourself after you let what is the point?
I don't I don't I don't want to watch I don't want to watch Fox anymore.
Why do I want to listen to Rush?
What's the point?
Is that right?
That's absolutely hitting the nail on the head.
So my question I listened to your parodies when I was on hold, and they're not funny anymore.
Okay, now my but okay, my question to you is why are you still here today?
Why am I talking to you or not?
No, why are you why are you s if if I've accurately described you, why are you still listening?
Because I'm an eternal optimist.
So it's not over yet.
You still think you want you're asking me to tell you if there is a reason to still care or should just punt and go on about your life and try to make the most of it you can anyway.
That's your question.
I'm gonna succeed in spite of this administration, not because of him.
Right.
And I can't stand listening to and and for me, it's doom and gloom.
It's it's depressing.
It's I don't I don't want to hear about my taxes going up.
I don't want to hear about Obamacare.
I want to be able to hire people and continue to grow without more oppressive regulation.
And I'm just gonna count on the fact that I'll be able to do it without having to pay attention to it because it's it's depressing.
I totally understand.
Is it also frustrating when you hear people continue to talk about it as if there's a chance to stop it?
Does that bother you?
Absolutely.
Why?
No wrong answer.
Just curious.
Why does it bother you?
You say you don't want to hear the news, it's all doom and gloom.
You don't want to hear about Boehner.
You hear about tax rates.
I'm I'm frustrated with Boehner.
Well I No, but I'm asking you a larger, a larger question.
You say you you you you don't you don't want to listen to the news.
You know my my question is specific.
Do you think there's no way now of rolling Obama back?
You there's no way of stopping the disaster.
Is that why you don't want to listen to anybody continue to talk about it?
No.
I I'm I believe that we can push forward and and roll.
I do.
But you just don't want to listen to the news.
You don't because the news is too depressing, filled with doom and gloom.
The debate is is nauseating.
I I don't need to debate.
I believe that eventually this is gonna turn around.
I wish I'd no, I think you've I think no.
I think you're being I think you've hit the you do think the debate when you turn on TV, you see two people arguing about Obama, you're fed up with it.
What's the point anymore, you're saying, right?
Exactly.
So you're asking me what should you do.
I just don't want to listen to it anymore.
Well then don't.
I'm not.
Your life, you I can't tell you.
I can't tell you how much your life will improve.
Well, you're making my point.
I just you have made your point.
I just it's just shocking to me still today.
But never, never go away from here.
Whatever you do.
Never.
That would be a horrible mistake.
I have a sixteen-year-old on hold here who is calling from his lunch break at school.
I want to get to him, but I'm gonna expand on our previous caller after I finish with Chris who's in St. Louis.
Hi, Chris.
I'm glad you took time for uh uh lunch break to call us.
How are you?
I'm great, Russ.
It's an honor to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
Very much great to have you here.
Yeah, well, I was just calling and uh was telling your call screener that one of the reasons I think I think one of the biggest reasons that the Republicans don't get younger voters, you know, I can't vote yet, but a lot of my friends are you know hitting that age, and I'll be eligible in 2014.
And uh I think they have a problem with explaining how the economy exactly works and why it like exactly what it is that conservatives are trying to fix.
And I think that's the big problem that they have with conservatives not getting the votes of the younger voters.
You know what I'm saying?
Yeah, I I know exactly what you're saying.
Basically what you're saying is uh there are two things.
Where I learned how the economy works in a number of different places.
I I got a a bit of a foundation of it in school, but not I mean, I really learned when I got out and started working.
But it wasn't until that I mean I really began to understand economics one-on-one and to be able to explain it to people.
It wasn't until I was 31, 32 years old, living in Sacramento, and I met became a good friend with a an agricultural economist who has now become an expert in telecommunications, uh, to whom the subject was as easy as two plus two equals four.
You know, economics is essentially n it's it's nothing more than basic common sense.
But you're right, there's never a foundation laid for it.
There's not exactly like growing up, you know, they grow up with all these generation has grown up with all the government regulations and government interference and they're being told that that's not the problem, so they don't understand how it works without all that.
They believe that's normal.
They they the the Washington is the center of the economy.
Washington's where the economy happens.
Uh and and that sadly, that has been taught.
And not just in economics.
That's that's been taught, you I'm sure you're having that taught to you at every level that you've been at in school so far.
You go to public school?
Um, I actually go to a private school.
Uh well, then you're a little ahead of the game.
Yeah.
And you know, I've grown up with my dad who's a big conservative, and he's always any time you know I hear something, I'd always I've always been politically interested, so I'll ask him questions, and he's always been real good about explaining to me, hey, you know, this is how it works, and this is examples of how or then I figure it out on my own, too, you know.
And uh I think that's what we need is people that will be able to explain it to this next generation of younger voters that and be able to show them that hey, this is this isn't normal to have this much government interference, and this is that's the real reason why we're having the problem.
No, it is not necessary.
You are really putting your finger on something because this is what they're growing up learning that all of these regulations and all of this taxation and all of this government involvement in everything is what is normal.
And they happen to be people your age happen to be growing up in an economic downturn, and the things that they are being told to fix it will not uh in the first place.
Exactly.
Exactly.
I uh it it's it's a f it's a fascinating thing to me.
A fascinating subject.
Economics what if you it really takes the right person to um to explain it to you.
I'll never forget Chris, thanks for the call.
I appreciate it.
I will never forget when I learned how lowering taxes raises revenue.
Now, when you first hear something like that, you don't think it's possible.
The two don't go together.
Cut and raise, how does that work?
And you are automatically predisposed to not accept it.
It doesn't make any sense.
You need somebody to explain it to you.
And once somebody can, it makes total sense.
It makes undeniable sense that it's all intertwined.
Lowering tax rates is not something that takes place in a vacuum.
There's economic activity going on all around you.
Uh but if you're if your in introduction to it is that Washington runs it all and should, you are behind so much in trying to f in ever learning what the truth of economics is that it's and this is by the way, why it is corrupted this way in education, because these people doing the teaching want government to be considered as the beginning and the end of all economic things.
And it's the government that assigns uh economic success.
It's the government that punishes economic abuse.
It's the government that does everything.
And then there's a political party that seemed to that.
And in the process, rugged individualism and entrepreneurialism and self-reliance are assaulted.
Successfully so, and they're attacked.
And therefore, the whole concept of wealth is not understood.
It's gotten to the point now, and this is a dire consequence, that the source of prosperity is not even understood by a majority of people.
Certainly low information voters, maybe not a majority yet, but uh certainly low information voters do not know where prosperity comes from.
Do not know how.
They suspect it, in fact.
Prosperity is something to be suspicious of when some people have it.
So it's a but you know, you can let me go back to this uh the caller before the break at the bottom of the hour.
And folks, I've been meaning to talk to you about this because since the election, I have known, I think, pretty much how you feel.
I know what everybody thought going in, and I know how much everybody invested in it.
Um you might have donated to various candidates, causes, institutions.
You might have spent lots of time getting involved.
You might have worked in a get out the vote effort.
You might have spent a lot of time watching television, Thinking you're going to learn something there.
You might have been watching television hoping that somebody would say something that would influence the country to agree with you.
What you were really doing was desperately seeking leadership.
And there wasn't any.
And so it was everybody for themselves, and you got totally invested in this.
And then you had people like me, and I'm going to not exclude myself from this equation.
You had people like me telling you, and I was being honest, that this election was crucially important to the kind of country we are going to be.
And I believe that even more than I did before it, the election.
Repealing Obamacare, stopping this kind of presidency politically, of course, in its tracks, was crucial to this country remaining the kind of country it was as founded.
We're all invested in this.
Now add to that, we got closer to the election day.
We all thought the polls were misreading turnout.
We all thought that all these polls with a plus Democrat advantage of nine or eleven were doctored or somehow incorrect, couldn't be.
There wasn't any Obama enthusiasm that we saw.
Obama wasn't drawing any crowds.
Romney was.
There were no signs of what was to happen.
There were no signs of what was to come.
Then the world stopped for me when I saw the exit polls at five o'clock, when I saw two things.
Agrees or understands or is concerned about people like me, Obama, 81 to 19.
I said, oh, geez.
And why do we even have why does that even matter?
That's what I started asking myself.
What the hell does that matter?
Understands people like me.
That's not what a president's for, in my opinion.
But nevertheless, we live in a world where it does matter.
So you've got to accept it.
And the second thing, 54% still blame Bush for the economy.
Oh my God, if this is true, we're finished.
And we were.
We were finished.
So then it's the days after the election.
And I know exactly how you feel then, too.
You're asking yourself, what's the point?
Oh, geez.
You gave every bit of emotion that you had.
You poured yourself into it.
You believed people who said this election's crucial.
You believed me and others who said the kind of country we're going to be is at stake.
You believed that.
So the election comes and goes, and you take stock.
You got me in conservative talk radio.
Conservative blazes, you got Fox.
It didn't matter.
You're saying none of it mattered.
None of it mattered.
And then you say, what's the point?
I don't need to listen to crap anymore.
I don't need to listen to people on TV arguing with each other, especially now when the election's over and it sounds like it's the same stuff before the election.
Why do I want to listen to that?
Why do I want to list the people argue about what Obama means and what is it comedy economy is going to be?
We already know what it's going to be.
Why?
Why do I know exactly where you're coming from?
I know exactly what that woman was talking about.
As far as the debt deal is concerned, you're watching this take place, and even though you're told and you become fully informed, you know everything about it.
In your head, you know Obama won the election.
Obama's gonna get what he wants.
You know that your taxes are going up.
You know Obamacare is gonna be implemented, and you're asking yourself, how in the world could it be stopped?
And then once you start asking those questions, you answer them to yourselves, and you say, What's the point of caring anymore?
You know, I'm gonna just uh refocus my life On me instead of all this stuff for the country and everything because I'm outnumbered, or however you explain it.
And what I think is at the root of all of this is that you all feel alone, even though you know that you make up a large percentage of the country.
But in terms of Washington, D.C., there isn't any leadership on what you believe anywhere in that town.
Instead, what you see are a bunch of people that don't have any real power trying to act like they do on television in debates and arguments with others who are simply trying to look as though they're the smartest person in the room, or make it sound like they do have influence or what have you when they when they really don't.
But you don't see any leadership, elected leadership in Washington that you think really understands what you're going through, or what you're up against.
And so that's another reason we said, Oh, the hell with it.
You know what?
When I just like the caller said, I am gonna just I'm not participating.
And that was music to my ears, by the way.
The hell with it.
If they're gonna have an economic downturn, let them go ahead.
I'm not participating.
I'm not going along with it.
I'm not gonna get sucked in to the usual diet tribe coming out of Washington.
I'm not gonna care anymore.
I'm not gonna sit there.
The debt deal doesn't matter to me.
The fiscal cliff doesn't matter to me.
I cared.
I gave it everything I had and it didn't matter.
But it does matter, and at some point, even if you tune out, and even if you do punt.
The fact of the matter is, and this you also know about yourself.
You'll be back.
Whatever that means, you will be re-engaged at some point because you care too much to just let it all go.
You care too much to move to New Zealand.
You care too much about what the future holds for your kids and your grandkids.
You're just too big a patriot.
You're not gonna chuck it.
You want to right now.
The hell with this Christmas.
What the hell do I want to get involved?
I don't I can't John Boehner and Bama, I'm sick of hearing them.
I'm sick of hearing about 'em, I'm sick of seeing them.
I'm sick of hearing the same old thing every day out of everybody's mouth, no matter what I turn on.
Believe me, I know where you are.
I know how you feel.
That's why I read tech blogs.
But at some point, that's going to vanish, and you're gonna get back to where you were because it matters too much to you.
In the end, it will matter.
You'll get it back.
I have to take a break here because I'm way long.
This next segment's gonna be short.
I apologize in advance for that.
Okay, this is Angus in Newburgh, New York.
As we head back to the phones, great to have you on the program, sir, and hello.
Hello, sir.
Why is Boehner purging conservatives?
And do you get the sense that House Republicans are dissatisfied enough with him that they would want to replace him with new leadership?
Um not sure about the latter yet.
But I tell you what, since you called, Mike Grab Soundbites nine and ten.
We have a couple of bites here from um uh a conservative who was punished by Boehner.
And he says he was booted because he voted against big government.
I mean, you can have the this guy can explain it himself.
He was on Soldad O'Brien's show this morning on CNN, and uh he his name is Justin uh uh Amish.
He is or Amish at it, he's a Republican from Michigan.
And she says, You learned you were kicked off.
Big deal of a committee.
You went to Facebook and posted why what happened?
He It's pretty clear they had a scorecard, and if you were in support of more government, you got a positive score, and if you were in support of less government, you got a negative score.
Seems completely contrary to what you'd expect for Republicans.
Right.
So he said I didn't vote enough for big government.
I didn't vote enough the way the leadership wanted me to.
So they kicked me off the committee.
She said, Well, that's one line we've heard that You guys lost your committee positions, were just too conservative or too Tea Party.
But others are saying because you guys went out of your way not only to vote against leadership, but seemed like you were trying to embarrass them.
What do you say to that?
That's totally ridiculous.
This is not a conservative versus liberal thing.
There are people like me in Congress who are out there representing the vast majority of Americans who want us to balance our budget.
It's not about who will work with Democrats or who will work with Republicans or who's too conservative.
It's about whether people are serious about getting things done to balance our budget.
And there are a few of us who are very serious about it.
And we were kicked off our committees because the current mode of thinking in the Republicans, look at they think and they have to agree with amnesty.
They think we got to relax social issues.
The Republican leadership thinks they gotta be for big government if they want to stay elected.
And anybody who's not is considered a threat to where the party thinks they ought to go, so they get kicked off.
Does that answer it for you?
It doesn't?
Well, I mean, I'm not saying you have to agree with it, but you wanted to know why the purge of conservatives was happening.
There's your answer.
It just seems like a prima facie that spending is the problem.
To you and me, yeah, but but that's what he's telling you.
It's not.
It's not anywhere in Washington.
It's not.
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