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Dec. 26, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 26, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Yes, America's anchor man is away, and this is your undocumented anchor man sitting in, no supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Mark Belling will be here tomorrow, take you through the end of the week, and uh Rush returns uh next week uh to start a brand new year of excellence in broadcasting.
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Uh we've been talking about uh this uh bizarre turn of events in which uh David Gregory was waving a weapon that is illegal in the District of Columbia on his television show Meet the Press.
Uh he was explicitly warned beforehand that it would be illegal even for him to demonstrate that this is the kind of big scary weapon that is out there in America.
Even for him to show it on TV is illegal, uh the District of Columbia Police warned him.
They're now investigating the event, so David Gregory may be the the m the second amendment martyr, the bitter clinging gun nut, uh who even when the police had told him you can't do that, decided in the contrarian spirit to go ahead and do it anyway.
I was I was talking, we were Frank in Tennessee was talking to me, and he was saying uh people are uh playing fast and loose with the terms that they use uh about uh th the weapons that were actually used in Connecticut.
And he's right.
Uh it's extraordinary level of uh of ignorance.
I I I pointed out to him that people just use all these all these terms uh semi automatic, uh assault weapon, assault rifle, automatic, they just use them interchangeably.
As long as it's basically all it means it try it doesn't mean they're they're referring to anything specific about the weapon, it just translates to big scary gun.
That's all they're that's all they they're concerned about.
And I made uh I d I regret to say that in mocking uh liberal journalists, I made the I made a mistake myself.
I think I said at one point uh 'cause I got uh uh uh some emails complaining about this that I'd r uh r referred to uh David uh Gregory uh uh brandishing a high magazine clip or high clip magazine.
A magazine clip high, by the way.
That's what uh struggling writers have when the first time they see their name in print.
Uh so it is it it gets it gets technically very difficult, but the level of conversation on this is not impressive.
Uh and uh uh and uh it's not and the idea that somehow this is some you know, guys uh d uh decide to turn themselves into one man Robocop, and this is state of the art technology that the Founding Fathers would not have approved of.
Uh both the semi-automatic and the automatic uh go back to their nineteenth century technology.
The semi automatic uh is uh was invented by some guy in Germany in uh whatever it was, eighteen eighty, I believe.
Uh so in other words, uh half a century after the guy who wrote the Second Amendment died, much nearer to his age than ours.
The w the the technology is nineteenth century.
Uh the sensibility in which in which uh people now go and gun down schoolhouses.
That's the twenty first century contribution to it.
The technology is nineteenth century.
Um w not unrelated to this, by the way.
Uh there is breaking news th that uh story in the New York Post that the Benghazi penalties are totally bogus.
Now you recall that that um that uh Hillary Clinton uh she she fell down, and so she's unable to testify.
I forget what I forget what I forget I forget what the problem is.
She she fell down and she got a concussion and she's unable to uh apologize.
Yeah, she's got Benghazi flu.
That's right, Mr. Surly.
That's Benghazi flu.
So she won't be able to testify this week, and she can't testify next week because she's washing her hair.
So uh so in the absence of that, the official report named four high ranking officials who are not Hill Hillary Clinton.
They were assistant deputy, assistant deputy, assistant deputy secretaries of State who were removed, supposedly removed from their posts.
Now I'm always interested in this, because nobody resigns in the United States.
No matter how badly you screw up, nobody resigns.
And we now learn that the so called sacrificial lambs, according to a story in the New York Post, the four sacrificial lambs, uh were in fact not removed from their posts.
The highest ranking official, Assistant Secretary of State Eric Boswell, has not resigned as officials were reported last week.
He's just switching desks.
That's all that's happening.
The four people who are being held to account for the Benghazi debacle and international humiliation for the United States have not resigned.
They're just being shuffled sideways.
So the assistant deputy secretary of state will be moved sideways to become deputy assistant secretary of state.
And in severe circumstances, the assistant deputy secretary of state will be downgraded to assistant deputy assistant secretary of state.
So she'll have to get a much longer business card.
But that's the only thing that is going on.
real person is resigning, their pensions aren't affected, their salaries aren't affected.
It's just a bit of desk shuffling.
They're taking the nameplate off one desk and moving it to another desk on the other side of the room.
And and that's the way this is not unrelated to the discussion on the Second Amendment.
As I said, the first the Second Amendment is not about firearms, uh just firearms.
It's about a view of state power, and it's a view of the state.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state.
A militia isn't an army.
A militia is uh are citizen volunteers uh exercising their responsibilities as citizens.
Uh and uh b uh and uh the founding fathers, and James Madison who wrote the Second Amendment, understood uh that uh the citizen does not mortgage his security to the state.
Now, Madison uh believed in that as a philosophical matter, but what you see in Benghazi, like on the previous nine eleven, what you saw in nine eleven two on Benghazi, is that the state is incompetent.
America spends uh forty four percent of the planet's military budget, and it can't rescue a bunch of guys in a rinky dink town uh being s uh being attacked by a mob, uh admittedly a well armed mob, but not a well armed mob compared to the the government of the United States when they have uh special forces and planes an hour away in southern Italy.
Now, do you know how many countries normally if you if you're if your guys get into trouble on the other side of the planet, you don't have people an hour away.
Most countries, even wealthy Western nations don't have that.
But the United States does.
And yet uh nobody was there for them.
And in the end, those two guys, two brave men, died on a roof, uh saving how uh who knows how many lives, calling in, calling in repeatedly to Washington, calling in help that never came.
That's the same story on nine eleven, by the way.
Nine eleven, uh the the airport, the airline cabin was the most secure facility in American life on September the eleventh, two thousand and one.
And what did that security get you?
All that all it mattered was that when something terribly bad and unexpected happened, everyone went like robots through the nineteen seventies uh skyjacking procedures, thinking that some crazy guys were gonna fly them to Cuba or whatever.
Uh and uh and all the big fancy pants, money no object, government acronyms, all your FAA, FBI, CIA, INS, all of them failed, failed, failed.
They weren't there.
You look at the joke visas that those nine eleven terrorists fa filled in.
Uh address in the United States of America, hotel America.
Right?
That's all they gave for address.
A uh uh an octogenarian snowbird from Toronto who's been going to Florida every winter for fifty years, can't get away with filling in that kind of rubbish.
But the nine eleven hijackers did.
Nobody resigned.
Did you do do you can you name uh one head of an agency who resigned after nine eleven?
Uh can you name a uh uh the the FBI guy, the CIA guy, the FAA guy, the INS guy?
None of them.
None of them.
Nobody resigned after 9 11.
They weren't there.
The only good news on that day was those fellows on Flight 93, the the men we have now forgotten, Todd Beamer, who said let's roll, who understood, who got the message that in the most government secure facility in American life on that day, the airline cabin, in the end, when you're up there in the sky, the government isn't up there with you, and you have to act as free born men.
You have to act as freeborn men and women as citizens and act in your own defense.
And that is what connects Todd Beamer with uh Vicky Soto, the school teacher in Connecticut, with Professor Librescu at the Virginia Tech shooting.
The only good news of the day comes from self-reliant citizens acting in their own defense and in the defense of the most vulnerable among them and sacrifice and ultimately being prepared to sacrifice their lives.
And bureaucrats, a big distant government bureaucracy.
You look at you think about that, a government bureaucracy that will make all the rules about what's going to happen in uh for schoolhouse security.
That's going to be as effective as the big government bureaucracy that failed on 911 and the big government bureaucracy that couldn't get anybody that has special forces and planes an hour away when Ben when when when trouble happens in Benghazi and can't get anyone to them.
In the end, the lessons of Benghazi of 9-11, of Newtown, Connecticut, and of Virginia Tech are that this the uh are the lessons of the s second amendment, uh that it's the self-reliant citizen uh who has who is called upon to act in those situations.
Mark Stein in for Rush will take more of your calls in just a moment.
Boxing Day on the EIB network, Mark Stein in for Rush.
Great to be with you.
Uh Fitchburg State University.
Uh Andrew Depre, uh I think that's how you pronounce it, Depre depress.
He looks pretty depressed, but uh that's just that's just the look of the young people favor these days.
Uh he's in jail and bail has been set on fifty thousand doll uh fifty thousand dollars.
Fifty thousand dollars because he came to Fitchburg State University, came to school wearing a military style ammunition belt, uh a so-called military style ammunition belt.
Friends say the belt was a fashion statement, and Deprey's mother told WBZ that her son purchased the belt for twenty dollars off a punk website and had been wearing it to class every day for two years.
Uh he didn't have any weapons capable, he is exactly like David Gregory.
He didn't have any weapons on him capable of firing those bullets.
He just had his ooh, scary word, scary word, alert, scary word, alert, a quote, military-style ammunition belt, unquote.
Uh uh and uh for that reason, he uh is now up on an uh ammo charge, uh alleged possession of uh uh uh what is it, uh facing charges of trespassing and carrying ammunition without a firearms license, uh, and he's being held on fifty thousand dollars cash bail.
This is some schlub, some no account loser who buys a ammo belt for twenty dollars off a punk website, wears it to class every day for two years, and then now suddenly at Fitchburg State University's been arrested.
Uh he's in uh he's looking at uh he's in jail, got to find fifty thousand dollars bear, hasn't got fifty thousand dollars bear.
The only difference between him and David Gregory is that David Gregory belongs to the ruling class, and this loser belongs to the ruled class.
So uh David Gregory committed exactly the same crime as this Schlub uh in at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts.
Let us go to Bart in Farndale, Washington.
Bart, you are live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Great to have you with us.
Good morning, sir.
Thank you for taking my call.
Um you you got into a topic that's you know really close to my heart, and I'd like to get back to that, but I I started the call with the intention of speaking to you about how the show opened.
Basically, the show opened, telling the listeners that basically America's in the garbage can, and that is just so far from the truth, and no facts support that truth.
Um I mean, the facts are the unemployment rate Is coming down.
Real estate market is going up.
Housing sales are going up.
Housing starts are going up.
Retail sales set a record.
The uh the stock market is more than doubled.
So I'm just wondering where where does where does all this uh rhetoric about America basically being on its ear come from?
Where does it stem from?
Well, do you not do you need to deny this that the official federal debt of the United States is sixteen trillion dollars?
I oh I don't deny that at all.
Well, tell me that, then answer ask ask me another question.
Name another country in the history of the planet that has owed sixteen trillion dollars.
Name another country in the history of the planet that's been as wealthy as as America.
And that's another thing that's treasury bonds are still the best selling deal on the planet.
Well, okay, okay, which which country.
Hey, Bart, Bart, Bart, here, here's a question for you.
Your federal treasury bonds.
Which which is the who is the biggest purchaser of United States Treasury bonds on the planet.
I believe it was probably China.
No, it's not.
Seventy percent, the Chinese have all the US Treasury debt they need.
Seventy percent of United States Treasury bonds are bought by the Federal Reserve because nobody out there wants them.
So that's the left hand of the United States buying the debt of the right hand of the United States.
You should try that in Fundale, Washington, see where it gets you.
Then then explain to me why so many things have have improved, like the housing market and the unemployment rate and uh real estate starts, real estate sales, uh I mean this well on the rebound from from the uh destruction.
Right.
We've got we've got illustration.
We've got uh we've got forty seven point seven million Americans on food stamps.
That's the population of the United States when Barack Obama was uh mocking Rutherford B. Hayes.
That's the entire population of President Hayes' America.
If Rutherford B. Hayes came back now, he wouldn't be impressed by the iPod or any of that.
He'd be impressed that the entire population of the United States from his day is now on food stamps.
What what state are you in, by the way?
You're in Washington State.
Okay.
Did you know the number of Americans on food stamps now exceeds the combined populations of Alaska, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
What do you say to that?
50 million on food stamps.
I'm not going to deny that America needs to deal with welfare reform.
That's that's all that's I agree with that.
But I'm also not going to accept the fact that uh you're saying that America's basically in the trash can, because it's not.
I mean the biggest welfare reform we need to address is corporate welfare.
These big oil subsidies, things like that, these companies that are reporting record profits.
Why don't these people love Barack Obama?
They've never been richer.
Yeah, well, why don't you tell that why don't you wh why don't you tell before you go on about scary oil?
What about big oil, big oil, and all those guys, the bad guys?
What about big Google?
Big Google, the Google guy, uh, as Rush was talking about the uh other day, uh keeps all his profits in the Cayman Island in the Bahamas via a uh an Irish subsidiary.
This is neat.
You could do you could do this, Bart.
It'd be great.
And then you don't pay any tax and you can do this.
And Obama offered the Google guy the job of Treasury Secretary.
So that way we'll all be able to keep our money in the Bahamas, and we'll be rolling in it.
Let me tell you something.
Let me ask you something else, uh, Bart.
How big's your family?
How m there's you, how many family members you've got?
My wife and myself and five kids.
Well, that's great.
So you've got you've got a big family.
You've got seven people.
Do you know what your share of the total national debt uh of the United States is?
I would imagine you're gonna say around three quarters of a million times five.
No, no, what you've got is one point four million dollars.
That's your family's share of the debt.
That's what your family that's what your five kids between them have been saddled with a million dollars of debt.
What do you mean it's just talk?
And I asked.
Yeah, that's like your MasterCard statement at the end of the month is just talk.
No, it's not just saying that that so many things are improved in America or last year.
You're improving you're improving yourself right into the abyss.
There's no precedent.
Nobody has ever been this broke ever.
And you're in denial.
If you look around you, if you look around you, Bart, and you think that this is what it means uh th that the sun has already come out tomorrow, and this is the happy ending, you are in serious denial, Bart.
I've given you the numbers, and if you don't want to address those numbers, that's f that's fine.
But when you've got the when you say all housing starts, ninety percent.
The United States government has a hand now in ninety percent.
There's a story this morning.
In ninety per cent of the mortgages in this country.
It it it was fifty percent, they're now trying to get debt relief uh back for the uh beyond the Fanny and Freddie thing.
We'll talk about that in just a moment.
Lots more still to come, the Rush Limbaugh Show, Mark Stein on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Yes, Rush returns next week to start another year of excellence in broadcasting.
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It's as if rush has never gone away.
I I love this line in the Washington Post from the first paragraph of a story by Lisa Ryan.
Federal workers feel unease over potential layoffs, furloughs unleashed by fiscal cliff.
By the way, this is why newspapers are dying.
Uh it's it's this is this this uh it's it's this kind of a feat lingo that uh the J School guys from Columbia teach you to to use.
Federal workers feel unease over potential layoffs.
Federal employees have been skeptical.
I mean, if you're gonna if you're potentially going to be laid off, you're not gonna feel uneasy about that.
That's that's that's not what unease means.
Uh federal employees have been skeptical for months that the biggest cuts to government spending in history could really happen.
But with the fiscal cliff a week away, workers are now growing increasingly alarmed.
This is the bit I like.
This is the bit I like.
Workers are now growing increasingly alarmed that their jobs and their missions could be on the line.
Their missions.
So being a government bureaucrat now is like a mission.
Your mission, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to ramp up the number of disabled workers in America to a new record in December, eight uh million eight hundred and twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and ninety-five.
That's an that's an all-time record, one of many records.
I mentioned to Bart, Bart in Ferndale, Washington, who loves that.
He thinks this is great.
We got record numbers of disabled, we've got record numbers on uh on uh food stamps.
Who's better than us?
USA, USA.
We have got like fifty million people on food stamps.
Do you realize there are only twenty million Australians?
So they couldn't have fifty million uh people on food stamps.
That's how lousy they are.
But the United States, it's got the population of what it's got the entire you take every Australian and every Canada, every Canadian, every Australian and every Canadian, and you put them on food stamps.
That's Obama's America.
Here's and I mentioned to him this, I'd seen this story this morning that uh the government now has a hand in nine out of ten mortgages.
This is from Reuters.
Uh US may expand mortgage refinance program.
The US government this is from the Wall Street Journal, I believe.
The un the United States government is considering expanding its mortgage refinancing program to include borrowers whose mortgages are not backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack.
Uh as you know, since the uh housing market uh fell off the cliff in two thousand and eight.
Uh people who got their mortgages through Fanny and Freddie, uh they've been refinanced on uh very favorable terms by the government.
The re but the they're now planning on that.
So they're taking care of the Fanny and Freddie guys.
But you might be one of these old-fashioned people who didn't go to Fanny and Freddie.
You might have gone to the you know, first national bank at Dead Moose Junction for your mortgage, and now you find your house is underwater and it's not worth as because in the good times you went and you bought your house, you paid, you got a half a million dollar mortgage, and it's now worth seventeen thousand.
You're rusting double white.
But it looked pretty good back in the day.
You took out a half million dollar mortgage on it, it looks well.
But now it's just seventeen grand.
Uh And uh so the refinancing program is now going to be expanded to include, quote, underwater borrowers.
Remember in Nevada at one point, two thirds of uh homeowners, so called heavy on the quote marks there.
Uh yeah.
Exactly.
This is you're absolutely right, Mr. Snarley, this is a government monopoly on home ownership.
This is government housing now, in effect.
Combined with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which buy loans and repackage them as securities for investors, Washington's footprint, and this is the sentence that's astonished me.
Washington's footprint in the market has grown to account for nearly nine out of every ten mortgages.
How the govern so in other words, the government has a hand in nine out of ten mortgages.
Now that's that's basically the same level as the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union had uh did not have private home ownership.
They didn't have mortgages, but they uh basically the Soviet Union said you can live here and you can live there, and we're gonna put you down, you you've got a family of seven living in a one room apartment, and we're gonna okay, put you down and see if we can get you a two-room apartment or whatever.
But basically, we are now in a in a uh in in a in a covert bureaucratized form, uh have dramatically weakened uh prop uh uh uh property rights in this country.
You cannot even buy if you walk into a realtor's and you've got uh two hundred thousand dollars uh in cash and you want to buy a house, it doesn't and you say I don't want a mortgage, I don't want to need to go to Fanny or Freddie or the first national bank of this or whatever.
Here's the two hundred grand, uh here's here's the money, give me the house, I want to move into it.
The they still have to file a statement with uh HUD, HUD, uh what's it, housing and urban development, uh one of those cabinet agencies that shouldn't exist.
Uh and you don't have to be anywhere near any urban development.
You can be buying a cabin in the woods, uh you can be buying a plot of land for nothing, and by law, uh even if you buy it, you don't want a mortgage, you don't want financing, you don't want anything, you just want to buy it, move into it, live there.
You th the you can't do that now without having to uh file a statement with HUD and all the rest of it.
So we have w what this is one reason, by the way, just to go back to what Bart was talking about, why the United States is in big trouble.
The Canadian house market didn't know uh nosedive in two thousand eight, because they don't have subprime mortgages.
They there's no Canadian Fanny or Freddie.
There is no such thing.
You go up the you go across the board and say, Well, I'd like to buy a house, uh I'd like to buy a six hundred thousand dollar home, and I don't have any means of support, but I thought there'd be like a Fanny or Freddie kind of thing up here in Winnipeg, uh and maybe you could make it work for me.
I've I get uh you know, I get a couple of hundred dollars in uh welfare check every month, but I thought I'd like to live in a three-quarter million dollar home.
You can't do that in Winnipeg, you can't do that in Moose Jaw, you can't do that in Swift Current Saskatchewan.
And that's why the Canadian housing housing market uh is not in the same situation as the American This this is an incre this sentence.
Washington's footprint in the market has grown to account for nearly nine out of every ten mortgages.
Well, is this a is this some bizarro America?
The the f the federal government is is in nine out of every well what what's up with that?
And that and Bart, that's Bart's recipe for the big happy ending.
For the way the world uh everything is uh as he said, housing starts are up, uh housing prices are up, housing this, housing that is up.
What we are actually seeing is uh a weakening of property rights through the bureaucratic governmentalization of property ownership.
It's the same thing uh that happened when the government took over all student loans, it's the same thing that the govern when the government has taken over health care.
And that's why in the end, uh when you do when you uh uh uh uh housing, property, safe as houses.
Oh, buy invest in property, you can't go wrong.
Yes, you can, when the government so distorts the market.
Get an education, you can't go wrong, get an education, you always have something to fall back on.
You won't have anything to fall back on if you take out a six-figure loan uh because the government is so jiggered the price of an education that it bears no resemblance to reality now.
Uh so you take out a six-figure loan to do four years of naval gazing studies at complacency university, and you're never gonna be able to pay that off.
And uh then with the health care, oh take care of your healthy conqueror.
You can Take care of your health, but if if you don't make arrangements uh for your bladder and for your uh uh liver that meet the approval of the State Commissar of Health, uh then you will be fine.
You you basically all the three things that uh that that that uh that are the the secu that provide real security for people as they go through life have been weakened by uh by this government.
Uh Mark Stein in for Rush uh on the EIB network.
We've been and that's again that's a second amendment issue.
We were talking about the uh the the second amendment, and I said it's not just about firearms, it's about a view of the state.
And Madison's view of the state is that you cannot, even if it was a good even if you thought it was a good idea, you cannot mortgage your security to the state.
The state will not be there for you, and it doesn't matter.
That's what ties, as we've been talking about, that's what ties uh Newtown, Connecticut to Virginia Tech, uh to what happened in b even in Benghazi, even if your government employees, when you're out there at the far end of the chain in Benghazi and something bad happens, and and and you got all the high-tech devices and they've got unmanned drones and they can see what's happening to you in real time, they still can't do anything for you.
And same thing at Newtown, Connecticut.
Twenty minutes.
I don't even understand that.
I don't even and I understand uh that uh the left was rightly berated for uh being opportunistic about uh this uh appalling act of mass slaughter in the days afterwards when they wanted to have the big gun control issue.
But at some point, if I lived in that town, I would wonder I would want to know why it took twenty minutes uh to get uh anybody to get to police and first responders to the school.
That seems a long t in in c we're not talking about remote isolated communities here, we're talking about suburban Connecticut.
Uh and and but it teaches the same lesson uh that uh and and it teaches the most important lesson, which is that individual self-reliant citizens, uh in the end uh have to have to be there.
You have to take charge of your destiny, uh as that uh uh uh as that uh uh as the the teacher did in Connecticut, as the professor did in Virginia Tech, as those two brave guys on the rooftop in Benghazi did, and as the passengers on Flight 93 did.
What what yokes them together is they acted as Americans in defense not only of themselves but of the most vulnerable people around them.
And that's what matters.
That's the American spirit, and that's the America that isn't going into the dumpster, to return to the point Brad was making.
Mark Stein and Farush, more straight ahead.
Mark Stein for Rush, let's go to Mike in Bay City, Michigan.
Mike, uh thanks for waiting.
Great to have you with us on the Rush Lynn Moore show.
Well, mayor, Merry Christmas to you, Mark.
I got changed subject a little bit.
Bon uh bainard is the worst speaker of the house this country ever had.
And he has to be replaced.
I mean, ninety p ninety-eight percent of this clizco cliff deal, Baynard got.
I I mean do you know the difference between Obama and and and Baynard?
What's the difference between Obama and Bayner?
This better have a good punch slide bike.
What is it?
Uh one kisses the ass and the other one gets his ass kissed.
Okay, I'll uh it's boxing day.
I'll be uh I'll be generous.
That's not the greatest joke in the world.
But you know what what Bader did that I think was a mistake is he made himself the issue.
He should have just said on the November the uh the November the sixth, he should have said, the people are spoken, uh now the uh if Obama wants to spend twenty-five percent of GDP at the federal level, he can figure out a way to pay for it.
Uh I'm going uh back to uh my state to work on my tan.
And he should have done I think any w any congressman that votes for him for speaker better have his uh better be looking over his back because there's gonna be a conservative representative to challenge him or her in the primary.
But Michelle Bachman or other conservatives, even Mike Cox or I think it's uh Peter King from New York would be a much better speaker of the house or hire Newt.
I mean anyone would be better than him.
So contr if necessary, contract it out to uh to to Newt, basically outsource it to uh yeah, you you might look his his th this is undeniable.
That the fact that uh the media has spent the last th six weeks, the six weeks between the election and Christmas, talking about John Boehner this, John Boehner that, what will Boehner do?
What will the Republicans concede on?
What will the it should all have been between Obama and Harry Reid.
They should be they're the ones who are spending it.
They should be made to own it.
They're spending it on programs that Republicans officially at any rate are not in favor of.
Uh they're they're spending at a rate that officially at a uh anyway, Republicans are not uh in favor of.
And the trick between the uh between the election and Christmas was just to sit back and say you've won, the playing field is yours, you dominate the landscape, you figure out a way to make this math may uh add up.
If ever there was a time to say it's not my problem uh in that great American formulation, or even better, you know, I don't need this in my life right now, which uh Boehner would have been within his rights to do, this would have been the time to do it.
Where did you think he really went wrong then, Mike?
Was it the uh the concession on million?
No, uh the budget deals, I mean, to to raise the debt limit.
Before you raise the debt limit, let's have a budget.
Okay?
No, no budget, no raising of debt.
We have to uh find out where the money is spent.
How about get Geithner in Congress to testify where he's spending the money?
What is this quasi easing all about?
quantitative easing.
Okay, how come GM and Chrysler and GE is not paying corporate taxes?
You could the thing about that is that conversation could go on for years.
Here's where Boehner but you're right.
At a sudden point, to to be real, you have to be talking about real money.
Boehner in the debt ceiling thing uh emerged and said he'd negotiated seven billion dollars of real savings.
And the Congressional Budget Office said no, it's only a billion.
Doesn't really matter which of these it is.
They're both ridiculous.
This this country uh the United States government spends 188 million dollars every single hour.
I I I gave this number last time because because the the y the newspapers and the network news shows are insane about this.
They come away with uh some b some big sounding number that actually is entirely irrelevant.
If you have saved, if the net result of your weeks and weeks of negotiations is that you've come up with a billion dollars worth of savings, as Boehner did in those debt ceiling talks, uh that works out to what the United States government borrows in five hours.
So if you've wasted six weeks negotiating five hours worth of savings, you're an idiot, and you should just have gone to the Bahamas uh and uh for the whole summer and left things to play out as they could.
And I think actually on November the sixth, it would the entire Republican leadership would have been better off going to the Bahamas.
Would things would the Republican Party uh be any uh be in any worse shape than if they on November the seventh they'd just booked a uh cheap ticket out to the Bahamas and said we'll uh see ya, we'll be back in the new year.
No, it would have made no difference whatsoever.
Thank you for your call, Mike.
At some point we gotta get real about these numbers, though.
If you're not talking about T the T word, trillions, trillions, and not over a decade, not over a decade, because nobody knows what's gonna be.
Who who knows the state of the world in uh in in twenty thirty and twenty twenty-three.
None of us do any more than we knew about uh the world in nineteen ninety eight, uh that we were gonna be waging uh war in uh Afghanistan and Iraq five years later.
You don't know.
So the idea of making spending plans for twenty twenty three is an idiot.
Uh it is an idiotic thing to do.
It's a complete waste of time.
You you want to save the money, you've got to start saving the money now.
Mark sign for Rush, lots more still to come.
David Gregory being investigated by police for breaching District of Columbia laws with a prop on his TV show.
Timothy Carney at the Washington Exameter has just tweeted that uh next week for his next trick, next week, David Gregory is going to appear on Meet the Press holding up a a one hundred watt incandescent light bulb.
Come and get me copper.
You'll never take me alive.
Next I think after that, by the way, if for two weeks' time, he should host Meet the Press sitting on a toilet with a an illegally sized tank, whatever it was, the what was it, the old four gallon uh flush tank that Al Gore managed to get rid of?
I think uh I think uh having having said now stood up for gun rights by uh by uh taunting the District of Columbia police, uh he should then go the whole way and stand up for the right uh to own a four-gallon flush toilet.
And uh he should sit he doesn't have to do anything, he just like sits there and hosts the show on that.
And he's already in trouble with the District of Columbia, so it doesn't really matter now if they pile up multiple offenses on him, because he's gone down for like five to fifteen years anyway.
Uh but David Gregory, David Gregory, the the f the the ultimate gunkook, the Second Amendment gun nut, uh who he was told by the uh by uh police he couldn't show this weapon on television and he took it on TV anyway.
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