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December 26, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3

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	Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in live at Ice Station E. I.B. in the frosty wastes of uh northern New Hampshire.
	Just uh just an old bootlegging route away from the Canadian borders.
	If you're fleeing, do swing by and say hello.
	Mark Belling is going to be in tomorrow and on Friday, and Rush will be back to start another year of excellence in broadcasting uh uh live next week.
	Uh Greg Walkins uh just did this tweet, which is a uh is a terrific tweet.
	We've been talking about this uh David Gregory business, whose uh David Gregory held up his high capacity magazine on Meet the Press and as an example of these out outrageous weapons that should be banned.
	And he confronted, he taunted Wayne Lapierre from the NRA with this high capacity magazine.
	Uh in defiance.
	Uh unfortunately for David Gregory, it turns out that having a high capacity magazine on the set of Meet the Press is actually illegal.
	Uh and now he's being investigated by the District of Columbia Police.
	And I like this tweet from Greg Walkins uh if you outlaw high capacity magazines, only David Gregory will have high capacity magazines.
	That's it, that's what it boils down to.
	Uh the outlaw guns, uh he'll still have his kids in the special secure school.
	Uh Bloomberg will still have his personal security detail.
	The ruling class will still be uh protected by their various security forces and their gated communities and all the rest of it, and you, you the poor schlub loser, you'll just have to take your chances out there without anything to protect you.
	That's that's what the whole thing is about.
	I mentioned earlier something else, just another bit of unfinished business from last hour.
	That the so-called Benghazi firings were where four people were induced to fall on their swords to basically take the fall for Hillary Clinton.
	Hillary Clinton was actually the one who fell, but these four guys were prevailed upon to take the fall in the bureaucratic sense.
	She she literally fell, uh which is why she's now resting up for a year or two before she'll be able to testify.
	She'll be able to testify uh about midway through Joe Biden's second term, I believe, on present plans.
	Uh but uh so she's she's um instead four subordinates were prevailed upon to quote so-called resign, unquote, and it now turns out that they haven't in fact resigned, they've just been moved sideways.
	And this is again, there's no accountability in US government.
	None whatsoever.
	When does anybody do anything for which they actually have to clear out the desk and leave the building, never to return.
	Uh do you remember I mentioned before nine eleven.
	Nobody had resigned, but it was worse than that.
	Six months to the day after nine eleven.
	Uh Mohammed Atta had his visa approved by the immigration and naturalization service.
	Now he was dead then.
	He was he was in particles in a big hole in the ground in Lower Manhattan.
	But his flight school in Florida uh received a letter from the INS that Mohammed Atta and Mawan Al Shahi, uh one of his comrades, had had their student visas approved.
	Six months after they're dead.
	By the way, that gives you an insight into the efficiency of the I don't want to sound personally bitter or anything, but that gives you an insight into the general efficiency of US uh bureaucracy and all the rest of it.
	So six months after he's dead.
	Now what happened there?
	Bush President Bush was furious, and he said somebody uh he he wanted the INS to take decisive action against those responsible.
	So they did.
	They moved a lady called Janice Sposato, uh, quote, sideways, to the post of assistant deputy executive associate commissioner for immigration services.
	I was mocking US bureaucratic titles in the last hour, but this is a real one.
	Assistant deputy executive, associate commissioner for immigration services.
	She had issued a vis she bore ultimate responsibility for issuing a visa to Mohammed Atta six months after he died.
	And by the way, they not only did they issue the visa to a guy who had been dead for six months, they sent it to the wrong address because they sent it to his flight school in Florida instead of addressing it to Big Hole in the ground, Lower Manhattan, New York, New York.
	So she got the address wrong too.
	It wasn't just the fact that he was deceased for six months.
	They moved they moved Janice Sposato sideways to the post of assistant deputy executive associate commissioner for immigration services.
	That's a real job.
	I don't know what post she was moved sideways from.
	It was probably uh associate executive deputy assistant commissioner for immigration services.
	Whatever it was, she was moved sideways.
	Now they've done the same thing over Benghazi.
	There's no accountability, no accountability at uh at that level of uh uh level of government.
	But don't worry, President Obama is flying back.
	He's a take charge guy.
	When the going gets tough, the tough cut short their vacations in Hawaii.
	So he's flying back in tonight.
	Uh as the fiscal cliff looms.
	We're only five days away from the fiscal cliff.
	That means there are another five days of fabulous preemptive concessions you can ring with very little effort out of the Republican leadership.
	Uh so President Obama is flying back in to Washington to attend to to no I think well that's the question, whether in taking a two-day break, Mr. Snadley, for for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, he he cut out two valuable days that would have uh enabled Republican leaders to precapitulate even more.
	Anyway, he has uh he's flying back in.
	He on Friday he gave this um he gave this uh eulogy for the late Senator Daniel Inoue.
	Um amazing, very moving, uh incredible.
	What a what a beautiful eulogy.
	The way he taught uh he talked about that person really brought him uh vividly uh poignantly to life.
	Um the only problem was the person he was talking about was Barack Obama and he didn't have anything to say about Daniel Inway.
	Uh he talked about uh the fact that uh when Daniel uh uh Inuway became senator, Barack Obama was two years old.
	And then he talked he went off and he did this long riff uh about uh uh uh uh uh uh about the vacations he took on the mainland, his first vacation on the mainland when he was eleven years old.
	This is Obama, by the way, not Senator Daniel Inoue.
	It's i when uh when Obama gives a eulogy, it's we are gathered here to remember insert name here.
	It's it's terrific.
	I'm hoping he'll give uh I'm hoping he'll give my funeral eulogy, because it uh it certainly isn't gonna uh distract him into writing a new speech or anything.
	So he talked he talked about how he gave this long riff on uh talking about his summer vacation when he was eleven years old and it was the first time he'd been to motels and he was fascinated by the Coke dispenser in the motel and all the rest of the thing.
	And like there's guys there, they go, Well, wait a minute, uh this is Inuai's funeral, isn't it?
	It's not over.
	Obama was basically stood up and gave a eulogy to himself.
	Uh in the same way that he did, if you remember on the twentieth anniversary of the uh fall of the Berlin Wall, he went uh he he he did this video message to the people of Germany uh saying who would have thought that twenty a mere twenty years after the Berlin Wall came down that an African American would be elected as President of the United States.
	So you talk about that when he was doing the Berlin Wall too.
	It's like uh if he'd been doing the speech that Reagan gave, it would have been tear down this wall so they can get a better look at me.
	Uh and that's basically what he was doing at the Idaway funeral.
	So he's he's he's done his he's flying back in now, though.
	He's take charge guy, he's flying back in to prevent America falling off the fiscal cliff.
	The numbers the numbers uh that uh uh uh uh uh of the American economy uh g are actually quite unbelievable.
	Uh in the nineteen seventies, one out of every fifty Americans was on food stamps.
	Today, one out of every six point five Americans are on food stamps.
	Uh the percentage of working age Americans with a job it has been under fifty-nine percent uh for uh over three years now.
	Uh when you total up all working age Americans who do not have a job in America today, it comes to more than one hundred million.
	These numbers, by the way, come from a terrific roundup at the website ZeroHedge dot com called seventy-five economic numbers from twenty twelve that are almost too crazy to believe, too crazy to believe.
	Uh and that that is the world that Obama has made and it requires a particular genius for the Republican Party who are out of power.
	Uh uh they control one house uh in uh Congress.
	That's all basically everything that happens has to be done with the approval of Harry Reed and the President of the United States.
	And yet somehow all this is the fault of uh John Boehner.
	I always get asked when when I'm sitting in 'cause I mentioned uh when I was here a couple of years ago there's a story about the four Uyghurs who were sprung from Gitmo and Obama uh gave them as a gift to the people of Bermuda and I happen to run into them in Bermuda uh crossing the uh the the the the crossing at St George's in Bermuda like uh like the famous uh cover of the Abbey Road album.
	I can't remember whether one of the Uyghurs wasn't wearing shoes.
	But they were in Gitmo and he sprung them to Bermuda.
	Uh so people always ask me if I'm on on a Wednesday, is it gonna be Uyghur Wednesday and we're gonna have any Uyghur news and yes, four Uygh men have been sentenced in China to death for plane hijacking.
	The world Uyghur Congress the World Uyghur Congress has said the trial was unfair uh and that it was not an attempted plane hijacking but it was actually a dispute over seating.
	You know how that can happen.
	If you if you've been on US Airways or United and uh you you you thought you had a business class seat and they moved you back to the back of coach and you asked the stewardess about it and all gets out of hand.
	Well happened to four Uyghur guys on this plane in China and they've now been sentenced to death.
	So they won't be joining the only four Uyghurs uh that Obama for well it depends the Chinese Mrs. Sarley can't believe this now the Chinese say they were attempting to hijack the play.
	The World Uyghur Congress says it was a dispute over seating.
	So I I don't know you could you could go either way on on that one.
	But basically this is they're in the same position, these Uyghurs that Piers Morgan is uh it was the same thing.
	When when uh Obama sprung the Uyghurs from Gitmo, he said America doesn't want them, you gotta get out of America but they were Chinese citizens and the Chinese said well we don't want them either so they wound up at Bermuda.
	Now Piers Morgan, uh he's uh they've got up a petition to deport him from America for for trashing the Constitution and the second amendment.
	But uh in the United Kingdom the uh there's a counter petition saying we don't want Piers Morgan back in Britain.
	You you you let him in America, you can keep him so they got to find a third country that Piers Morgan can now be deported to.
	So we don't know where it's going to be.
	I think North Korea has offered to give uh Piers Morgan asylum so he'll be doing Piers Morgan tonight uh every night on North Korean uh TV and you don't have a lot of celebrity guests there.
	You've just basically got Kim Jong un to interview every night.
	But Piers will adjust to it.
	Don't worry about it.
	Anyway that's that's that's so far looking the best bet that North Korea may have offered Piers Morgan asylum.
	Mark sign in for Rush 1 eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two more of your calls straight ahead.
	Mark Stein for Rush, gun craze David Gregory now being investigated by the District of Columbia Police will not host this Sunday's edition of Meet the Press according to according to NBC.
	Yes he's no he doesn't Mr Snowdley is so cynical he says does he have a concussion?
	No, he he doesn't have a concussion.
	When Hillary Clinton fell off the wall she landed on David Gregory.
	That's why he's out.
	She's she got the concussion but uh he cushioned the fall but he's like he's got a little pain in his stomach.
	So he's not going to be on Meet the Press.
	Either that or it's like uh NBC have taken him outside and administered uh Comrade Starlin's seven grams of lead uh or whatever for embarrassing uh them on the gun issue.
	Anyway he's uh uh David Gregory.
	Yeah Hillary Humpty Humpty Clinton sat on the wall Humpty Clinton had a great fall and landed on David Gregory.
	So neither of them are available at the moment.
	Let's go to Chris in Houston, Texas.
	Chris, it is great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Yes, I just wanted to make a comment that earlier you were talking about having law enforcement in schools and how it would end up having to be some kind of government run program because some schools couldn't afford it and others could actually here in Texas almost every school district either has its own police department or sets up a contract with whatever local agencies out there and they have at least one officer in every school.
	It's not some kind of police state estapo thing.
	There's an office they have if there's incidents they get called and they just patrol the halls normally like they'd patrol, you know, if they're in a car.
	They just walk around, make sure everything's all right.
	There's no checkpoints or anything like that.
	There are some schools that because of the area they're in or you know the people that they have there they have the metal detectors, things like that, but still it's not that you know it's not like it's infringing upon you know anybody's rights in the way the TSA does.
	It's nowhere even remotely close to TSA.
	No, but you know the reason it will be federalized.
	And in fact as I understand it from Wayne Lapierre, this is actually what the NRA uh the the NRA suggestion is is for a national program in which it will be local police officers will be hired under some kind of national program.
	The reason it will become bureaucratic though, Chris, is because for example in in uh my state where where uh poor towns actually vote down school budgets putting in the money for a police program in either the police budget or the school budget at a t in a poor town uh it would be a contentious issue and you would have a situation where the the uh the fancy town uh ten miles down the road would have an officer in the school and they would be willing to
	fund it uh as Mr. Snerdley would say or as Cornell West would say uh the vanilla towns will have the security and then the poor old chocolate town ten miles down the road they won't have the money for it.
	And so because and so then you would have like a disparate impact situation uh so you would you would start to have uh some kind of uh government uh you you would have government involvement to the the the degree that the federal government would be underwriting the security program in every school Chris.
	Well they actually do have things like that wouldn't normally be a problem but they actually have grant programs to help smaller departments that don't have the money state grants, federal grants to do that, but they don't come in there and tell you what you have to do.
	No, but under the you don't have enough officers or you don't have enough equipment or you don't have the equipment to do your job they actually provide grants that you can get like and get a student loan or you know grants to do research things like that.
	You can get that and they provide the money to get equipment, officers, things like that and that all small departments do that.
	No no that's that's true, Chris.
	But what we're talking about here for example is at the moment schools determine their own level of security, right?
	A school as so for example you're at a school in in Houston, Texas at at my local grade school there is no security because nobody's ever gone in there and tried to shoot the place up they don't have a lot of drug gang problems all the rest of it so there's no security there.
	There's no there's a police officer who uh stands watch as the uh as the kids cross the street to go into school in the morning and that's it.
	And then he goes away after twenty minutes.
	Uh so if you had a what we're talking about here is exactly like Sandy Hook Elementary School.
	If the s the Sandy Hook School Board, the Newtown School Board had no need for a police officer until the guy showed up when all hell broke loose.
	In other words there was no rational basis at Sandy Hook for saying we need to have police security or whatever there.
	So they took the decision they they that they didn't need one.
	What we're talking about now is that all those Sandy Hook type schools that figure they didn't need police officers, that they don't need police officers because they haven't yet had the crazy guy showing up out of nowhere and blowing twenty of their kids away all those so-called safe schools, the vanilla schools as Cornell West would say, in the nice uh no crime, low crime uh towns and suburbs are gonna be looking for police uh some kind of form of police security now.
	So even if you don't have any need for it, uh what Wayne LePier is talking about is in effect a kind of federal program, a standardized program, a one size fits all program uh from Maine to Hawaii uh in which in which a bureaucracy would would uh in effect administer it for all three hundred million people in the United States and all their school districts wouldn't need to have anything like that.
	There like HIST for example Houston Independent School District has its own police department and they've got plenty of low income area schools.
	I mean, most of their stuff is like that, and they've got their own department and they don't have issues with that.
	Well, that we'll see how you'll allocate the money, you know.
	It comes down to, you know, knowing what you need to spend the money on and being able to allocate the money properly enough to complete.
	Yeah, that's my point, Chris.
	Than thanks for thanks for your call, by the way.
	That that that is the central point.
	It comes down to knowing the issues, uh, knowing what money you've got to spend and knowing what your needs are.
	And the best people to do that are the school districts doing it at town level themselves, uh, doing the people who are closest to the situation.
	And my great wor fear of all this is if we take up the Wayne LePierre suggestion that we will have just another federal bureaucracy, which is the last thing this country needs right now is another federal bureaucracy.
	Uh letting local people determine their local needs is the way to do it.
	Thanks for your call, Chris.
	More to come.
	Hey, great to be with you.
	Rush returns next week to kick off another year of excellence in broadcasting.
	Tragic, tragic news.
	Ben Affleck has taken his name off the list of possible candidates for John Kerry's Senate seat, which will be happening once the Senator from Massachusetts is confirmed as Secretary of State.
	Why couldn't he have a fall like Hillary Clinton?
	John Kerry is going to be Secretary of State.
	Ben Affleck has taken his name off the list of possible candidates to succeed him.
	So has Ted Kennedy Jr.
	Uh who is president of a fa financial services company in New York and lives in Connecticut.
	Uh but that's apparently no obstacle to being eligible for a Massachusetts Senate Senate seat.
	So he has announced that he will not be running either.
	So they have no celebrities and they have no Kennedys.
	So the Democratic Party is l in a very bad situation here, because you got no s uh you got no celebrities who won the seat and they got no Kennedys who won the seat.
	So uh the a celebrity Kennedy would be the would be the all-time great solution, or maybe one of those uh fake Indians like uh Elizabeth Warren, one of that uh what it was the Foca Huntus uh crocodile uh lady who's now in the Senate.
	So uh it's exciting news.
	We're watching this, but the tragedy is that Ben Affleck has announced that he will not uh run for Ted Kenneth uh for uh John Kerry's Senate seat, and nor will Ted Kennedy Jr., which is a pity.
	Uh great pity, I think, because I like this House of Lords aspect to Senate seats where they just bequeathed to the next generation on and on.
	Let us go to Jim in Bucks County, beautiful Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
	Jim, you're live on the Rush Limbo Show.
	Merry Christmas.
	Thanks for taking my call.
	Oh, yeah, Merry Christmas to you.
	Happy happy boxing.
	I have a question about your own home state.
	And my wife and I go up to the Connecticut Lakes for a vacation every year.
	And I listen to Rush on WNTK, and I'm taken with New Hampshire, the beauty of it, the live free or die, the no taxes.
	But the thing I don't understand is is what is happening politically.
	I mean is is the New Hampshire that I always admired going away?
	Uh I don't know, I don't really I mean, this is very painful subject for me to address, Jim.
	Uh in the right person.
	Uh two years ago, we were all excited because uh under the leadership of uh former Governor John Senunu, the Republican Party had a terrific year in the midterms.
	They swept the elections.
	Uh whatever it is, three hundred three quarters of the uh uh of the State House went Republican.
	Uh uh something like uh six-sevenths of the Senate went Republican.
	Uh the entire executive council, which is like the cabinet of New Hampshire more or less, uh the whole thing went Republican.
	It was a Republican sweep, and we thought that was great, great, great.
	Then the and and the party was uh the the state was back on the on the red state side of the ledger.
	And then tragedy struck on November the fifth, and everything that could be lost was lost, and it was a humiliation.
	And states that had never gone states, uh towns that had never gone Republican suddenly got the Obama fever, uh and they voted for Obama and uh and and even more spectacularly for down uh ticket democrats.
	And it's interesting.
	I it's a fascinating thing is that when you lose a state, when you lose a state, it becomes harder and harder to turn it around and get it back.
	Uh and I love that live free or die motto.
	And people made by the way, Jim, just just to put this in perspective, since we've been talking about vanilla chocolate uh thanks to Cornell West and all the rest of it, uh just to put a vanilla chocolate uh uh mélange spin on this.
	When the Republicans when the Republicans lost I I was running out of ice cream flavors there.
	But when the Republicans lost uh nationally, when Romney lost, they said, Oh, the the Republicans haven't done enough to appeal to Hispanics, that they're they're the party of white people.
	Well, New Hampshire is a state that is ninety-nine point nine nine nine nine nine nine nine nine eight percent white.
	There are no Hispanics here.
	That well, okay, that's a lie.
	There are three Hispanics down south by the Massachusetts border.
	But it's basically a uh a white state, and uh it went it went crazy for the Democrats.
	No no minorities need to be involved.
	But why di why did it go crazy?
	I'm I'm uh I I honestly don't know except that I think there's a f there's a fellow who does a show on d on your home station after you who does a lot of local New Hampshire politicians and uh the f the former representatives, and it sounded like things were so solid.
	Well, things are so things are solid to this degree.
	I will I d I when I say I don't know, I mean I'll have a shot at it, and I think it's this way.
	That there is that there are people who are there is a professional class who are doing well, who feel that they can for afford Obama.
	There are people who associated with government uh down in Concord, there are people associated with Dartmouth College, with uh with Hitchcock Hospital, which is a pr prestigious elite hospital.
	And if you have if you're associated with those uh institutes, uh you're doing very you're doing well, and you feel you can afford Obama.
	Then there's another kind of guy, the guy who isn't doing too well.
	Uh and in those parts, in the poorer parts of the state, they're basically clinging to Obama because he's the uh the party of extended unemployment benefits and uh and uh greater food stamps and all the and basically more welfare I mean in the the shorthand is more welfare checks to spend at the gun shop.
	So in other words, they're people who have the cultural habits of the sturdy self-reliant citizen.
	Uh they like the pickup, they like the gun rack.
	What they don't like is the sturdy and the self-reliant part.
	And I think there is an evidence.
	I think it I think it has been part of a gradual transformation that if you and this is why I'm fascinated by demographics, by the way.
	Because if again, if you look at Vermont, uh I'll give you an example of that.
	White Christmas, Bing Crosby, Danny Kay, 1952, Rosemary Clooney and Vera Allen, marvelous film.
	At one point uh they're Bing and Danny Kay wind up in Vermont and they're trying to put on a show at this broken down ski lodge.
	And uh they're trying to come up with an attraction that would bring people in and rescue this uh dying ski lodge from from bankruptcy.
	And they say, Well what c what what we what could we bring to Vermont that would be different that no one had ever seen before?
	And uh Danny Kay goes, I know a Democrat.
	Because at that time, Vermont, 1952, Vermont was as Republican as you can get.
	Uh the first uh the first Democrat to be elected statewide in Vermont was Pat Lahey, who's still there, the senator from Vermont, until uh uh uh an uh uh and until uh the uh what it who's the congressional guy?
	I forgot the name of the congressional guy in Vermont.
	But until he was elected, uh Pat Leahy was the only Democrat elected statewide in Vermont's history.
	Until this was a solid Vermont was a solidly republic we now we think of Vermont as barely American.
	I used to joke that it was uh that it was America's leading Canadian province, but I'm actually insulting Canadian provinces by saying that.
	And Vermont ought to be in the European Union.
	I mean I call it a people's republic.
	Yeah, and and and but that is nineteen fifty-two, Bing Crosby, Danny Kay, they say, Well, what could we bring to Vermont that nobody would ever have seen before?
	I know a Democrat, and everybody in the movie theater roars with laughter.
	And in sixty years the state was transformed.
	Now Vermont was consciously transformed.
	Uh I think it was Playboy Magazine, late sixties, somebody said, What about if all us draft dodgers moved to Vermont and we turned it into a hippie state?
	And so they all moved to Vermont, and you got your Ben and Jerry's ice cream and your peace uh peace pops and all the other stuff, and they transformed the nature of Vermont from from that Bing Crosby Danny Kay joke in nineteen fifty-two the state of Howard Dean and gay marriage and all the rest of it.
	Uh and people that's why that's why the Republicans underestimate uh the culture, the c the broader cultural issues.
	Uh in in in New Hampshire they ran very much on a narrow uh economic uh basis that uh there was no sales tax, no income tax.
	And the Democrats called their bluff on that.
	The Democrat, these are these are not Democrats like they are in California.
	They're not big spending Democrats.
	They're Democrats who who stick to the lingo of uh of no sales tax, no income tax, and all the rest of it.
	Uh but but uh are uh uh uh and and that reductive argument when you reduce uh when you reduce it to a uh a narrow economic argument, Democrats can easily swallow just enough of that to get themselves elected, and the Republican Party can wither and die.
	And I am very concerned about that.
	I'm tired of this narrow red state blue state uh divide where there's like f uh uh New Hampshire was one of five or six purple states.
	I think that's the way to put it, Jim.
	Five or six purple states that all the genius consultants that Mitt Romney gave a billion dollars to.
	All the genius consultants said, Well, if you just target uh th New Hampshire and you just target this part of Ohio and you just target Florida, and we need to get out of that.
	We we have got tunnel vision.
	And what the what the uh Democrats did to Vermont, they will eventually do to everywhere.
	You can transform the can big government transforms the character of a people.
	And you can do that.
	Uh and once you do that is very hard as they're discovering in Europe, as they discover in Canada, as they discover in California.
	Uh wherever you go, once big government has done that, it's very hard to persuade people uh to turn back.
	I miss the new I I don't look on myself as that old and I don't know that I've been in New Hampshire that long, but I miss the I miss the New Hampshire of twenty years ago.
	And I wish we could get back.
	I wish live free or die on the nobody seems to think that having live free or die on your license plate is an is an obstacle to parking it in front of the social security office and signing on for social security disability because uh you feel you've been uh uh you've been unemployed so long that it's not worth no chance of anything else coming on.
	So we gotta we gotta reconcile the difference between because there's nothing so pathetic as macho blood curdling rhetoric uh when you're just a a big government uh nanny state like everywhere else in the Western world.
	Because say what you like about the Greeks, but they don't drive around with live free or die on their license plates.
	Thanks for your call, Jim.
	I hope that's partly answered your question.
	I've depressed myself now.
	I love this state.
	I love this state.
	I I I moved to this state almost by accident.
	I fell in love with the land, uh the mountains and the lakes, and then uh after I'd been here a while, I fell in love with the system of government, the same way Tocville did, system of town government, the most beautiful thing in the world, uh New Hampshire town government.
	And I fell in love with I learned to love the way this state did government.
	And I'm very worried at what's happened to it, but I'll still love this state and I'm happy to sync with it uh even if it uh even if my neighbors all vote for the wrong party every time.
	Mark Stein in for us, lots more still to come.
	From Politico.
	Barney Frank says, I'm tired.
	More quality time with his husband is just one of the many things Representative Barney Frank is looking forward to in retirement.
	After serving in Congress for more than thirty years, the Massachusetts Democrat says he's ready to say goodbye to the grueling work schedule that comes with being a congressman.
	After forty-five years I'm tired, he said.
	Yeah.
	I'm I'm tired too, Barney.
	Uh I've had enough quality time with Barney Frag.
	I think we are, you know, the we'll be having quality time thanks to Dodd Frank Wool the Dodd Frank Wall Street bill with Barney Frag for years to come.
	Enjoy your enjoy your quality time.
	I've had if you if you'd only said you were that tired, maybe we could have brought in an early retirement thing for Congressman.
	They could all retire at thirty-four or something, and you would you need more quality time.
	Let's go to Ron in Sacramento, California.
	Ron, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Yes, hi, Mr. Stein.
	Uh it's uh a pleasure to uh talk with you.
	Uh a big fan of your demographics of Destiny Collins.
	Uh two things.
	One is a quick comment on the Second Amendment.
	Uh the militia is the reason for the right, but the right is reserved to the people, not to the militia.
	So the people is everybody, the militia is the militia.
	Uh but my main point is on the uh fiscal negotiations.
	Um the way it's going now is Obama wants to get the rate increases now, either for going over the cliff, which he's everything I've heard is he's not opposed to, or by negotiation to satisfy the liberal left people in Congress while fracturing the Republicans.
	Then, later on in two thousand thirteen, uh in future negotiations, he wants I think that he wants to end up getting the de the deductions to to get more quote unquote revenue, so that what we'll end up with by the end of two thousand thirteen is higher rates and the reduction of the deductions so that he gets both.
	And so that we get by the for the two thousand thirteen tax returns, we're gonna get like a double whammy.
	And so he would win with on every point.
	Stronger Democrats, weaker Republicans, higher rates, lower deductions, all with essentially no real budget cuts.
	No, the the budget cuts you you may be right on that, Ron.
	The the important thing to remember is that spending is not on the table.
	Because this dramatic increase in spending, which was originally done in two thousand eight because there was an emergency, supposedly, but which is he wants to establish as the permanent baseline.
	Uh so in other words, instead of going from around eighteen percent of GDP being spent by Washington to around twenty-four to twenty-five percent as a permanent fact of life.
	And the point is once people get used to the spending, uh he's happy for that.
	That's the important part for him.
	You can get used to figuring out a way to covering it.
	That will come next.
	So you're right, I think, is that initially he'll make the rich people pay more and the rates will go up, and then one by one all the deductions will go.
	Because re the re the the reality is that at some point, if you're gonna have uh European level spending, you've got to have European level revenue.
	And that's what that's the difference at the moment.
	We've got European level spending, but still American level revenue.
	And he figures if you get people used to the European level spending, uh then by the time you start to raise the rates and then you raise the uh you eliminate the deductions, it's basically a feta compli then, and they'll get used to the European level taxation.
	Uh thanks.
	Thanks for your call, Ron.
	I think that's right, uh by the way.
	That's why it doesn't matter.
	He wins.
	It's either of the above.
	He wins.
	You go off the fiscal cliff, he gets his rate increases, and all the rest of it.
	That's fine.
	Uh i or you negotiate an agreement.
	That works too.
	But either way, the spending, the spending stays at the current level, and the spending at the current level will absolutely uh destroy uh any possibility of an America that uh bears any resemblance to the United States as it existed for its first two centuries.
	Mark side for Russia.
	I shouldn't have finished on that, you know.
	Mark's side for Rush Boy at a moment.
	In Indianapolis, Montserrat Shirley, her boyfriend and his brother have pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, arson, and other counts.
	Prosecutors say they rigged Shirley's home to blow up by filling it with Nash natural gas.
	The blast destroyed Shirley's home and five others, killing two next door neighbors.
	Gas kills people.
	We need gas control.
	We need serious gas control now.
	Now I know what the uh gas association says, if you outlaw gas, only outlaws will have gas.
	But we will just have to take that chance because these uh Montserrat Shirley, her boyfriend and his brother, uh pleaded not guilty to charges of murder from blowing up a home by filling it with natural gas.
	I'm sure Mark Belling will address that.
	He's in Thursday and Friday.

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