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Dec. 31, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 31, 2012, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away.
And this is your undocumented anchor man, Mark Stein sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever.
Tomorrow, uh it's uh it's a best of rush.
Is that right, HR?
Best of rush tomorrow.
And then who's gonna be who's gonna be here Wednesday?
Uh Doug Arbanski comes in on Wednesday.
I'm fully ready for the show, as you can tell.
Got all the information at my fingertips.
Doug Arbanski will be here on Wednesday, and then Rush returns Thursday to launch another year of excellence in broadcasting.
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The big day is here, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh New Year's Eve, not only the eve of a new year, but the eve of America's first year at the bottom of the fiscal cliff.
Congress is in session at this hour, working tirelessly for the American people, unto the final chime of midnight, when to the strains of old Lang sign, America slides off the fiscal cliff and into the fiscal abyss.
Should old acquaintance with fiscal reality be forgot and never brought to mind.
That is the question.
Confronting Congress this very day.
This is it, folks.
Midnight.
Gripping stuff.
It's gripping stuff.
Harry Reid has convened the Senate.
They're covering it live.
Pat Lahey has given a speech.
This is history in the making, folks.
And they're gonna stay there for as long as it takes, or at least until last orders for lunch at the Senate cafeteria.
This is this is breaking news about brokering a deal.
And uh and we will we will cover any breaking brokering live as it happens.
That's I came here this morning ready to do the job of keeping you fully up to speed on any breaking brokering.
But uh but nobody cares.
Nobody cares.
Instead, the streets are thronged with a joyous populace cheering deliriously.
The news that Kim Kardashian is with child.
She's anticipating a blessed event, a a little bundle from the stalk.
She's in a delicate condition.
She's wearing her apron high, as we say in this part of the country.
Uh, she's in the family way, uh, except for the bit about the family, of course.
So nobody cares.
Nobody cares about the fiscal cliff.
The fiscal cliff is Deadsville, Yawnsville, over.
America is ringing out the old, all that downer stuff about fiscal cliffs, sequestration, alternative minimum tax adjustments.
Uh, the expiry of the deferment of the Medicare sustainable growth rate.
To hell with it all.
America is ringing out the old and ringing in the new.
Kim Kardashian's bundle of joy.
Kim's baby has single-handedly saved America from all this downer talk about debt and spending.
And people are dancing in the streets.
Ding dong, the cliff is dead, which old cliff, the fiscal cliff.
Nobody cares anymore because Kim Kardashian is having a baby.
Uh her her husband, uh what's the name?
What's his name?
Whoever he is, he's not the father.
Uh that much we do know.
So we'll try to narrow it down a bit in the course of the show.
It's not Mitt Romney.
He's been through his binders full of women, and he says there are no Kardashians in there.
So we'll try and narrow it down a bit more.
But uh, if you are the father of Kim Kardashian's baby, do give us a call.
1-800-282-2882, and we will bring you breaking news on what Kim Kardashian's baby's father thinks of the fiscal cliff.
The Senate Committee on Homeland Security has released a damning report on the State Department's role in the Benghazi fiasco.
Good luck getting anybody to pay attention to that, because they released the report on the day Kim Kardashian's blessed event was announced.
I'm not a big believer in uh in conspiracy theories, but when when when you have a big document dump on Benghazi On the day that uh Kim Kardashian uh uh's baby is announced.
You're not trying to tell me that that is coincidental.
Uh anyway, we will have a look at that.
The the big Benghazi report from the uh the uh Senate uh committee, the uh the stalk delivered a little bundle of Benghazi reports to the State Department, and uh Hillary Clinton shoved them up the front of her dress and announced she's expecting Kanye West's love child.
So that's going nowhere.
But we will nevertheless, we will be the only everyone else will have wall-to-wall Kim Kardashian baby coverage, but we will be the only ones to go to for in-depth coverage of the Benghazi reports shoved up the front of Hillary Clinton's uh dress.
Uh Hillary is the most admired woman of 2012, according to Gallup, the most admired woman in America.
They polled Americans.
They don't prompt them on this.
They just say who is the woman you most admire.
And Hillary Ronham Clinton is number one.
Michelle Obama is number two.
I can't help feeling Michelle isn't going to be too happy about that one.
But Michelle and Hillary.
Uh Hillary is number one.
Michelle Obama is number two, and then there's various losers like uh Sarah Palin, Her Majesty the Queen, Mrs. Thatcher.
My God, there's there's a big shortage of Americans on this list.
This is incredible.
There's no half the um women that Americans most admire are non-American women.
There's Malala Yusafzai, that's the uh young Pakistani girl who was attacked and is now recovering in a British hospital.
She's in there.
No, I think you you didn't have to write the name down, Hussein.
Good luck with that.
Malala Yousafzai.
Malala Yusafsai.
She uh is they didn't have to write it down.
Uh but she uh but they knew, apparently they knew it.
I mean, apparently she came in there big hit position number six.
Uh so she's just outside the top five.
She's uh just uh breaking outside the top five.
Uh Malala Yo Safsai.
Uh Queen Elizabeth is at big hit position number seven.
Mrs. Thatcher is at number eight.
Mrs. Thatcher's been out of office for twenty-two years and uh still cracks the top ten.
Aung Sang Su Ki, the uh Burmese dissident, whose name was mispronounced by Barack Obama, uh is in there at Big Hit Position number nine.
And uh and at number ten, it is the lovely Kate Middleton, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge.
So half basically half the uh half the top ten are uh uh uh four yeah, half the top ten are foreigners, and in fact they're all from uh current or former realms of uh her Britannic Majesty.
So I don't know why you don't know why you guys bother.
It appears uh Piers uh Morgan has got a point here.
I mean, why you guys bothered throwing off the British crown if half the women uh in your most admired uh woman list for 2012 are uh British subjects is beyond me.
The most admired man, number one, Barack Obama.
Uh Mitt Romney came in at uh third, which is almost as well as he did in the presidential competition, so that's pretty good.
And he didn't campaign he didn't campaign for this one.
He spent a billion dollars to come in in second place uh in uh in that presidential thing, if you can remember back that far.
He didn't spend a dime for this one, and he came in in big hit position number three, right behind Nelson Mandela.
Uh Reverend Billy Graham at number four, George W. Bush at uh number five, and uh Pope Ben, then Pope Benedict, Bill Clinton, the Dalai Lama, George H. W. Bush, Ron Paul, and John McCain are all tied in final place.
Um coincidentally, I think all these people are also the basically top uh ten rumored fathers of Kim Kardashian's baby.
So we'll we'll keep you up to speed uh on on that if we can narrow it down a bit more.
But this is the this is the most uh these are the people Americans most admire in the year 2012.
Uh and in the women's list, it's uh Hillary Clinton number one, Michelle Obama number two, Kim Kardashian number three, Courtney Kardashian number four, Chloe Kardashian number five, and uh yeah, I can't read any further down the list.
It's too depressing.
Uh but we will see that it's It's uh surprising uh Sarah Palin, uh Mrs. Thatcher, the uh the conservative, and Mitt Romney coming in with an impressive third place in the most admired man of the year.
So if if this is the way to think about it, uh Republican Party spent a billion dollars on the election and had absolutely nothing to show for it.
They could have saved the billion dollars, and on the evidence of this poll, Mitt Romney would still have come in third.
So uh that might have been uh that might have been just as good.
So we will talk about that and all the other end of the year news as we ring in the old and ring in the new.
The whole I I always say this, you know, in a sense, when we talk about the fiscal cliff, I said this when I was here on Boxing Day, it's like completely ridiculous.
It's like the the fiscal cliff is no more real uh than the Mayan apocalypse.
Uh it is slightly more real in that you guys are just gonna be drowning in new taxes and all the rest of it.
That's true, but it it is essentially an entirely contrived date uh and an artificial piece of drama.
And all this stuff, uh Pat, even though Pat Leahy is speaking and Harry Reed has convened the Senate and is gripping and mesmerizing as that is.
Uh there's oh look, I think uh Joe Biden was seen, people got their hopes up that there was a deal because Joe Biden was seen uh w is this right, H.R. He was whispering in uh Mitch McConnell's ear, is that right?
People getting very excited about but it turns out he was uh just uh asking Mitch if Mitch was the father of Kim Kardashian's baby.
So we're no nearer a deal than we were before.
Uh but this is an entirely artificial piece of theatre.
It does nothing for uh what is really going on with the crisis of debt and entitlements, and you would be just as well investing your time in discussing Kim Kardashian's baby.
Nevertheless, we will follow every gripping twisting, dramatic, exciting twist as America's car careens along the bends to the edge of the fiscal cliff.
We will stay there live in the out of control Honda Civic that the brakes have been removed from.
Someone cut the brakes, and we are careening in the Honda Civic toward the Fiscal Cliff.
If we were careening in a Chevy Vault, it would be okay because it would just run out of power two hundred yards before the fiscal cliff, and we would come to a a nice soft stop on the shoulder.
That's why we need more sustainable green energy.
But instead, we're in the Honda Civic, careening toward the fiscal cliff, and we are live in the vehicle with you as we cover every dramatic twist as midnight looms on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
More straight ahead.
Mark Stein live for Rush on the Rush Limbaugh show.
New Year's Eve on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Don't forget that Rush returns live for the start of another year of Excellence in Broadcasting this Thursday on the EIB Network.
Talking about Kim Kardashian's baby.
It's the exciting breaking news of the day.
We don't know who the uh don't know who the uh father is.
Uh it's uh apparently some pop star.
Okay, I'm I'm just getting up to speed on this story.
Apparently some pop stars.
I don't know.
Is it Ricky Martin?
My money's on Ricky Martin.
Anyway, um we'll uh we'll find out about that.
1 800 282 2882.
If you are Ricky Martin and your father's Kim Kardashian's baby, do do call in.
It's a lot of changing things, you know, in the in the American family.
A Craigslist sperm donor has been forced to pay child support to a lesbian couple, uh, despite signing an agreement with them that he would have no parental rights and no parental obligations before he handed over the sperm.
Um Angela Bower, 40, and her partner Jennifer Schreiner, 34, placed an ad on Craigslist for 2009.
Uh William Morotta uh gave them the sperm for free.
No, he didn't charge them for the sperm.
And uh now he's uh being ordered by the state of Kansas uh to pay child support because the lesbian couple have split, and uh the the one who's taking care of the baby uh needs child support, and the other one uh i has been left unable to work due to ill health.
So they're looking for someone to stick with the cost of the kid.
And this guy who made a one time free, he was just doing it as an act of neighborliness.
He's from Topeka, uh, Kansas, and he just uh gave them a beaker of sperm, and he's now being told that he has to has to, by the state of Kansas, that he has to pay, uh, that he is the father of this child, and so although he's got a legal agreement, they say the legal agreement is not valid because the sperm was not administered through an official uh sperm donor clinic.
So that is the that is the uh that is the the that this guy that is do you know I'm old enough to remember that when we when I was uh I was an adolescent, they used to tell you to cut it out because it would make you blind.
But in Kansas it makes you broke.
Uh this guy, one sperm donation, it's uh it's gonna be uh he's been ordered to pay child support.
He's got six thousand dollars of medical bills to pay uh for this lesbian couple's child uh that uh the state of Kansas is demanding he pay.
Millionaires.
Don't you hate millionaires?
Uh Barack Obama, he says all we want in our society is for millionaires and billionaires to pay their share.
Because those rich guys, the there's some fella tweeting on the did a big tweet on the internet, the guy who directed that movie Anchorman with Will Ferrell a couple of years ago.
He says all the all that conservatives care about is they want rich white guys to be able to uh urinate in diamond encrusted toilets.
Because we all hate rich white guys, these millionaires and billionaires.
All we want is for them to pay their fair share.
Uh a millionaire, there's a terrific piece by Randall Hovind on American Thinker Today.
Uh a millionaire is someone whose net worth is one million dollars.
That's what it means to be a millionaire.
That's the definition of millionaire.
A century ago was a very rare event, and that's why being a millionaire was impressive.
And it all sounds great now, just talking about million millionaires, million this, million that.
But it's a person whose net worth is million dollars, a million dollars or more.
If you've got a million dollars socked away, Randall Hovind writes in the American Thinker, that would be equal to about $40,000 income every year.
Now think about that.
Think about that.
If you're a retired teacher or a public sector worker in your early 50s, and you've got a $40,000 pension that is going to go on until the day you die.
In terms of net worth, you are a millionaire.
That's what it means to be a millionaire.
If you've got a million dollars in the bank, you're getting the interest you're getting on that, the income you'd have to live off would be $40,000 a year.
Uh so if you're a public sector worker, if you're a public sector retiree, if you're a retired teacher and you've got a pension of $40,000 a year, you are as wealthy in terms of income as a millionaire, and you and it's time for you to pay your fair share too.
This is a fascinating piece.
Fascinating piece, uh by Randall Hoven.
Uh, if you have an annual pension of $40,000 a year, you're effectively a millionaire, especially if that pension is adjusted for the cost of living.
And he points out, he lives in Illinois, and he says the Illinois State Board of Education puts out a report on teacher's salaries.
Uh by the time a teacher retires, she could be making uh fifty-five to a hundred and twenty thousand dollars a year.
Uh and when that teacher does retire, uh what are what is her pension?
And he points out, in other words, that uh uh huge numbers of retired Illinois school teachers are millionaires.
Uh teachers who retired from the Chicago school district get 60% of their health insurance premiums.
They're millionaires, too.
Uh and it's and so it's a question of how you think about things.
People use this term millionaire and Obama banders it around talking about people having to pay their fair share in everything.
But in fact, if you've got like a $40,000 pension, if you're lucky enough to have a $40,000 pension, that's the equivalent of a net worth of one million dollars.
A great piece by Randall Hoven in uh American Thinker this morning.
And this is why uh the Fiscal Cliff discussion is entirely absurd, because there are never gonna be enough real rich people, even if you take the wealth of the one percent and everything.
Uh they're never even if you raise money on uh all the richest one percent to close the gap.
It's a spending gap.
It's a spending gap.
And and spending isn't even part of the discussion here.
Uh the Republicans are caving, caving, caving on all the taxes.
Oh, yeah, okay.
We'll we'll agree to let people over a million dollars a year be taxed.
We'll agree to let people over six hundred thousand be taxed.
We'll agree to let people over four hundred thousand dollars be taxed.
You can never raise enough money that way.
At some point, uh, if you want big government, if you if if you want European style spending, you're gonna have to have European style taxation.
And there is no discussion of this anywhere in the fiscal cliff negotiations.
Music.
Yes, it's New Year's Eve on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Tomorrow, best of rush, Doug Urbansky will be here live on Wednesday.
Rush returns Thursday.
We are hours away from that big moment when we all the clock chimes midnight and we all clasp hands and pop champagne corks and go over the fiscal cliff live.
Because of the way the time zones work, uh, Australia and New Zealand have already gone over the fiscal cliff, because it's 2013 there, so they've already slid off the cliff.
Uh so anyone uh who's listening via the internet in Australia and New Zealand and wants to call in and tell us what it's like at the bottom of the fiscal cliff.
Now you've gone over and just give us a hint of what what we can expect when we slide off the fiscal cliff.
Uh call us at 1800-282-28.
Oh, wait a minute, you don't have.
You don't have a fiscal cliff in New Zealand and Australia.
That's uh just uh unique to America.
Uh that's uh that's that's terrific, isn't it?
So no point, don't bother calling in if you're Australian News.
You've got to be an American to go.
Only Americans go over the fiscal cliff.
And uh and some of us immigrants, but we're not gonna let Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan, he's uh he's out of here.
We want him deported before he can go slide off the fiscal cliff with the rest of us.
Because that guy shouldn't be here.
He shouldn't have the right to go over the fiscal cliff.
All of us are gonna be over we're gonna be landing there.
We're gonna be sliding off the fiscal cliff and landing in Kim Kardashian's brand new bassinet.
She's bought the world's biggest bassinet for her newborn baby, and when we slide off the fiscal cliff, it will be there to break our fall.
There are rumors.
Now, rumors.
Is this right?
That the a deal here's a surprise.
Who thought this would happen?
What are we?
Oh, it's uh it's half past midday Eastern time.
Half past midday Eastern time.
AP sources, Associated Pred, breaking news, breaking news.
Fiscal Cliff deal emerging.
This is breaking news.
AP, Fiscal Cliff deal emerging.
The contours of a deal.
Washington, I'll make it Washington.
Dig Line Washington, the contours of a deal to avoid the fiscal cliff were emerging that would raise tax rates on couples making over four hundred and fifty thousand a year, raise the estate tax rate and extend unemployment benefits for one year.
That's according to officials familiar with the negotiations.
Uh it's not a done deal yet.
They're probably gonna drag it out for a few more hours, uh you know, till I don't know, maybe uh half past nine Eastern tonight, so it's it's all a bit m a bit more dramatic.
But by the 11th hour, by the 11th hour, they will have a fiscal deal.
A fiscal cliff deal uh is emerging.
Uh the deal in the works would return tax rates on families making over four hundred and fifty thousand dollars to thirty-nine point six percent.
And the tax on estates worth more than five million dollars would increase to forty percent.
And unemployment benefits would continue for one year.
But they're at an impasse.
The White House and Republicans were at an impasse over what to do about the automatic across the board spending cuts set to begin taking effect on January the first.
These are these nothing little cuts that all sound very dramatic.
But in fact, I think uh by the year 2020 would would make America's debt about 200 billion dollars lower uh than it would be anyway.
In other words, they make no more by by the end of this next Obama term, we'll have a twenty trillion dollar national debt.
Uh and this would be equivalent these savings over a decade would be equivalent to less than one percent of that.
But the Democrats, nevertheless, it's still to cut anything is just not in the spirit of New Year, when we're all popping those champagne corks.
So Democrats want to put off the cuts for another year.
That is the sticking point.
Uh it but otherwise AP sources say fiscal cliff deal emerging.
There is uh no truth uh to the deal, to to the rumor uh that uh that uh John Boehner had agreed to increase taxes on persons making more than two hundred thousand dollars a year in exchange for Mitch McConnell fathering Kim Kardashian's baby.
That is that is that turns out to be an unfounded rumor.
Uh but we are following this closely.
Surprise, surprise, a fiscal cliff deal emerging.
The the American maiden tied to the railroad tracks while John Boehner twirls his mustaches.
At the last moment, a bipartisan posse is galloping up to untie the American maiden from the railroad tracks before the high speed Joe Biden Memorial Rail Link comes and ploughs her into the ground.
So that's the terrific news.
A fiscal cliff deal is emerging even as we speak.
Uh let's go to uh Alan in Rockford, Illinois.
Alan, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show this New Year's Eve.
Great to have you with us.
Happy New Year, Mark, how are you today?
Happy New Year to you.
Happy 2013.
Thank you.
I uh wanted to comment on the teachers' uh public tensions, etc.
all the time.
In the area I live in Rightford, Illinois, you can look up teachers' salaries.
Uh the state of Illinois publishes that information.
And as long as teachers have their master's degrees, which took them approximately one year at night school to get, you know, you're seeing kindergarten first grade, second grade teachers in the 70 to 85,000 year range currently.
Uh their health insurance is uh four percent uh as compared to twenty-four percent for the private sector, and uh the taxpayer is funding their retirements.
At age fifty-five, when they retire, they can buy additional years of tenure, which are step increases.
And so you start seeing uh down the road here, uh 40-year-old uh in our school district who's making let's say 73,000, 74,000 a year will be making uh upper eighties.
When you discount that debt, and those continue to grow, you're talking about teachers that are worth three point four to four million dollars a year.
So really to call a teacher a millionaire is an understatement.
They're more like multimillionaires, wouldn't you agree?
Yeah, that's that's right.
And you're to as you say, they can basically they they retire.
Uh you can you can have uh two people living side by side at twenty-three and uh and twenty-five Maple Street in Rockford, Illinois, and uh they'll have gone to the same uh grade school together, they'll have known each other all their lives, and one of them has become a unionized teacher in the Illinois education system and can retire at fifty-five on a multi,
as you said, a multi-millionaire's income, uh, while the other one has to work in the hardware store till the day drops dead uh in order to provide his neighbor with that multi-millionaire's income.
And that's why that can't stand, by the way.
Those two people ultimately cannot coexist in in the same street.
So unless uh at some point, unless uh a uh the unionized uh work the the the lavishly remunerized remunerated unionized republic union retirees are gonna all move to some one big gated community.
That it is not gonna get very pleasant when uh w when these things start to cause real tensions.
Wouldn't you agree, Alan?
Is Alan gone?
Oh Alan disappeared.
He did make a good he he made a great he made a terrific point there, and it's w and it's one worth uh that we should it's one that he w we should take seriously.
I mean, these the the discrepancy between uh between a public sector the benefits accorded to a public sector.
By the way, this again has a massive distorting effect on the economy.
Uh just leaving aside whether you actually really people say, well, we want to invest in education, we want to invest in education.
Um There's a piece in the uh New Republic uh this week by John Judas, and he says he's talking about how it's absurd.
It's absolutely absurd to think you can ever shrink government.
Because in all peep the public demands affordable health care, quality public education, retirement insurance.
So government at all levels will need to grow and take up a larger percentage of the nation's GDP.
Now it's grown dramatically.
A century ago, uh the federal government spent 2.4% of GDP.
Uh under Barack Obama, that's gone up to a 24-25%.
So in other words, uh I mean it went up uh under FDR and under LBJ and all the rest of it.
It goes up, basically it goes up, up, up, but it's gone from 2.4% in 1913.
In other words, uh a century ago, the the federal government paid little part in your life and spent very little of your money uh to 25% today.
Total federal state and local spending has gone from about 8% a century ago to uh 41% or so today.
And and uh John Judas in the New Republic says it's got to go up even more because people want, quote, affordable health care and quote quality public education.
And by quality public education, what that boils down to is uh uh teachers, not just teachers, but all kinds of uh other uh uh administrative personnel who are remunerated at ways that uh that ex the the uh of an ever growing discrepancy between them and the communities they supposedly serve and they live among.
And that's that's it that situation can't endure.
It's a distorting factor in the economy.
I notice in uh my part of New Hampshire, for example, uh a lot of people take jobs they don't want to do for the so-called for the so-called benefits.
In other words, you're you're you're starting out, you're uh it usually it'll be uh the the wife, but it's sometimes uh the husband too.
The wife will take a job, say a dull uh administrative job in a school district where she has to basically keep an eye on one of the special ed children for a few hours a day, just because it accesses benefits for her, while her husband, uh being a uh uh uh doing a bit of snow plowing or a bit of contracting or whatever, doesn't uh doesn't have those, doesn't enjoy those benefits.
So people, and I think that's a kind of tragedy in a way.
That's uh that's worse than just big government socialism style, is where people are making decisions about uh their careers based on and the jobs they take, uh based on the level of uh benefits.
And those government jobs, the benefits of those jobs, which get better and better as you get older and older.
And if and if you prioritize security, as many people do, uh then those jobs uh basically are uh are the thing to get.
So people take jobs, uh it's arguable about whether these jobs are even necessary, it's well arguable about whether uh the massive explosion in administrative jobs and in the education system uh in the last four years, uh 40 years, it's arguable whether over those 40 years you need all those extra administrative jobs, but people want them.
People want jobs like that because they believe that in difficult times uh they provide security.
So dark days could be ahead in in uh in the year 2013, but don't forget the great news, the great news is that AP is reporting that a fiscal cliff deal is emerging, even as we speak.
We'll keep you up to date on that and all the other exciting, breaking fiscal cliff news on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Lots more still to come.
Barack Obama is giving a press conference at 1.30.
Did you expect this last-minute development in the exciting fiscal cliff final day of the fiscal cliff, where we're all looking forward to going over the fiscal cliff at midnight at the stroke of midnight.
But Barack Obama has now scheduled a press conference at 1.30, in which he will be accompanied by this is this is the bit this is the what the detail to watch, selected members of the American middle class.
We don't know who they are.
This is select yeah, it is exciting, HR.
I mean, I don't know who these may be the final five or six contestants in the competition to identify Kim Kardashian's baby's father, or they may be beneficiaries of the fiscal cliff deal that is said to be emerging.
I don't know.
Could be Kim Kardashian, potential Kim Kardashian baby fathers, or they could be beneficiaries of the fiscal cliff deal that has apparently been negotiated by Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell.
And uh we'll see how we'll s we'll we'll we'll keep an eye on uh how that uh on how that works out.
But that is happening live, 1 30 p.m. Eastern time today.
Uh this un un totally unexpected last minute fiscal cliff deal that is now said to be emerging.
It all came about.
Uh Joe Biden was seen earlier in the in the Senate.
Uh I don't know whether it was on the floor of the Senate, in the well of the Senate, in the men's room of the Senate.
I've been in the men's room of the Senate.
I was standing next to I accidentally used the uh uh the Senate uh uh bathroom you're not meant to use unless you're uh unless you're a big time senator, I think, or at the very least a senior aide.
So um uh I've been I've been there.
I use the Senator's elevator improperly, too, uh, with uh Strom Thurmond and uh a lot of the guy that's going back uh that's going back away.
But I know what it's like in there.
I know the the high drama that attends the world's greatest deliberative body.
And uh Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden were seen whispering, whispering this uh this morning.
And nobody knew, but apparently it is the contours of a deal.
Chuck Todd, Chuck Todd from NBC and uh MSNBC and all the other NBC, Chuck Todd Chuck Todd says, uh, has now treated the more folks on both sides in House and Sen learn about this McConnell Biden deal, the more they don't like.
Oh, come on, guys, you're just extras.
That's all you have to do.
It's like uh Joe Biden whispered to Mitch McConnell, said, okay, do you think we've strung it out long enough now?
Uh can we announce it?
We what about if we announce it at 1.30?
We don't want to be l leaving it too late until everybody's left for the New Year's Eve party.
And Mitch Connell Mitch McConnell said, You're right, uh it's dead.
It Washington is Deadsville.
We want to get out of town, so let's not leave it until after lunch.
So the Fiscal Cliff deal has been negotiated by Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell.
And there will be in there, in the Fiscal Cliff deal, uh breaking news, 1.30 p.m., Barack Obama will be uh uh selected with uh will be appearing with selected members of the American middle class.
Here we are, here we go.
Obama, quote, will quote, deliver remarks about the fiscal cliff at a White House event with middle class Americans who claim to have fathered Kim Kardashian's baby.
That's live, one thirty Eastern time.
Now, here's the thing.
Where how how do you rustle up, you know, half a dozen members of the middle class at 1.30 at short notice on New Year's Eve.
Aren't they all doing stuff?
And they say, Oh, I'm sorry.
Wait a h how do you rustle up half a dozen members of the middle class uh who have uh so-called stories to tell at short notice?
Do you get the feeling these these selected members uh of the middle class have been uh were uh uh were selected in advance?
Do you know to get into the White House?
By the way, if you're just an ordinary American now, you have to undergo a Secret Service background check to get anywhere near the president, unless you're like uh some gun nut like David Gregory.
David Gregory is the only guy in the country who's wanted on firearms offenses who gets within three feet of the president.
But unless you're for that exclusive interview on Sunday, anyone else, any regular gun nut can't get won't pass the background check.
If he's if it turns out if if you think if you think of the situation David Gregory said, um, you know, you're being investigated by DC police on firearms offenses.
Uh anybody else tried to get near the president wouldn't work.
But David Gregory does.
But everybody else, to get near the president, you've got to undergo a background check.
And yet, amazingly, at short notice, even before the deal has been agreed, uh, they have found selected middle class Americans to appear with the president at the White House, where he will deliver remarks about the fiscal cliff deal.
What a stunning and unexpected development.
Just in the nick of time to save America from going over the fiscal cliff.
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