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July 19, 2013 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 19, 2013, Friday, Hour #3
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Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your undocumented Anchorman sitting in.
Honored to be here.
Rush returns live for a full week of authentic all American excellence in broadcasting on Monday.
We we ended uh the previous hour with the with the news that the Iranian foreign ministry and the President of the United States are on the same page uh when it comes to the iniquity of the of the uh George Zimmerman verdict,
uh which is uh which is is pretty remarkable considering all the differences that uh there there are with Iran right now, Iran's uh going nuclear and all the rest of it, but at least they agree on the George Zimmerman verdict, according to the President's latest remarkable appearance.
Uh and uh it he's he's now said uh not just if I had a son he'd look like Travan, but I am Traven.
I could have been Traven.
Um this is a guy who's vacationing, by the way, at Martha's Vineyard for the umpteenth year.
Martha's Vineyard, where you don't see a lot of guys like Travan walking around.
And if you did see any guys that wore uh like Travan walking around, they'd be picked up and put on the ferry back to the mainland instantly.
Um the the Prince of Wales, this be about, I would guess, about fifteen years ago.
The the uh the Prince of Wales uh was meeting with uh some uh British soldiers.
He was reviewing some British soldiers, and he stops uh by a black soldier and asks him whether he's ever suffered any discrimination, and uh the the black soldier goes, Well, you know, a little bit, nothing to write home about.
You know how it goes.
And uh and the Prince of Wales said to him, Well, I understand discrimination because I was bullied at boarding school.
That is So the Prince of Wales tells this black guy that he knows what it's like to feel discrimination because he was bullied at boarding school, because they mocked him because he was a prince, because he was the heir to the throne of Britain and Canada and Australia and Jamaica and Belize and what have you,
and they m uh and so they'd pants him or whatever for it, and they'd mock him, and he would be there sobbing into his his uh his his his uh his sleep as he tried to because he was bullied for being a prince and being heir to the throne and he was sobbing and he was saying, you know, singing the ancient spirituals of his people, you know, swing swing by sweet limousine, coming for to carry me home and all that kind of thing.
He had a had a terrible time.
Terrible time.
That's what Obama sounds like when he says I could have been Travan.
He's had a life of privilege.
Uh Columbia, uh Harvard.
Uh Martha's Vineyard.
Martha's he's the Martha's Vineyard President.
He's the royal president.
He takes a hundred million dollars uh to to make a week-long visit to Africa.
Do you know how many African countries you could buy for a hundred million dollars?
But just to send him anywhere.
Even on Martha's Vineyard, where there's nobody, nobody on the island except people who think exactly the same as he does.
He needs a 40-car motorcade to to pretend to visit an ice cream parlor.
And he says, I could have been Travon because I uh people looked at me funny in uh in department stores.
The the th what we're seeing in America, to go back to the Robert Wright point, is is essentially where liberals isolate themselves in psychological gated communities.
Uh they ensure they're never on these streets.
They're never on these streets where you have to make a snap decision about people or whatever.
Uh they're not they're not in the neighborhoods that were kind of nice okay thirty years ago, and and now there's more and more break-ins and you have to start a neighborhood watch and people have laser alarms on their houses and you can't and you can't leave uh stuff on your porch anymore because it gets stolen.
They're not in those they're not in those neighborhoods uh that were kind of nice, so they're kind of they weren't great, they weren't lavish, they weren't luxurious uh forty years ago, twenty years ago, but now they're worse.
Now they're worse.
Obama is insulated from that and has been insulated from it all his life and has chosen to live his life uh entirely insulated from it.
His wife uh w was a three hundred and fifty thousand dollar diversity outreach coordinator for the University of Chicago hospitals.
There's no more worthless job in America than a diversity outreach coordinator.
It was so essential to the University of Chicago hospitals that when she quit to become first lady, they didn't even bother replacing her.
It's great it's great to be the people who do the three hundred and fifty thousand dollar a year gigs uh peddling all that pap.
It's much it's very, very different to be living uh on the uh uh on the sharp edge of it.
On the sharp edge of it.
Now, as I said, these are fractious times in America.
I mentioned that the actress Ray Dawn Chong, who starred with Oprah Winfrey in the color purple, has now used the N-word.
The, or as I like to think of it, the Paula Dean word.
The Paula Dean word.
Ray Dawn Chong, uh Chong is a dead giveaway for, you know, Q Klux clan members.
In in Mississippi, all the all the big Kleagels in the clan are called Chong.
Ray Dorn Chong called uh called Oprah the N-word and called her a total beach.
She she's she's a great brown noser.
She's that fat chick who was a cheerleader or the wannabe cheerleader in school that w that was the s she was the fat chick in school that did everything.
So she's a c she's opened up on Oprah, and uh I can barely even remember the colour purple, which was Oprah's big movie, but the colour purple, it must mean the craziest movie set in the world, the author of the colour purple, Alice Walker, African American feminist author, uh Alice Walker this week compared George Zimmerman to the killer of Che Guevara.
Uh and I read through this story, and it's actually rather worse than that.
Because in fact, she compares uh she compares George Zimmerman to the reptilian space lizards.
Uh that uh that some people do you know this conspiracy theory?
There was a guy I used to work with at the BBC who went a bit funny and uh turned up and had a press conference uh to announce that these were the guys behind everything.
These people who believe that the world is run by uh paedophile Satanist Illuminati uh controlled by the uh Queen and the Bush family, who he says they the people who believe this say are actually reptilian humanoids descended from the blood-drinking space lizards of the star system Alpha Draconis.
Uh and and that uh and uh that these uh and don't worry, you can say to yourself, well, you know, I'm not gonna go anywhere near the Bush family or the Queen or the Royal Family.
It's worse than that.
There's apparently all 44 American presidents have apparently been space lizards from the star system Alpha Draconis, as was Bob Hope.
Bob Hope was a space lizard, Lady Gagger and the country singers Chris Christopherson and Boxcar Willie are also apparently space lizards uh from the uh uh Satanist Illuminati space lizards from Alpha Draconis.
I would never have thought that Chris Christopherson of all people Lady Gag I can see.
But I can't I can't I I can't see Chris Chris Hoffson being a space lizard from Absorb.
Now, Alice Walker now r Alice Walker now basically saying that uh that uh uh uh uh George Zimmerman is uh is also one of these uh people.
She she shares, she says that Zimmerman uh uh shares the cold-blooded reptilian ancestry of some humans, uh, and compares him to Credo Mutwa, the South African shaman who claimed to be abducted by reptile-like alien creatures when he was looking for herbs in Zimbabwe.
I hate that, you know.
You think it's like a three-day weekend and you think you'll go looking for herbs in Zimbabwe and then you get uh abducted by reptile-like space aliens.
So Alice Walker is now saying that it's not just the Bush family who are reptilian uh space alien uh pedophile, Satanist Illuminati, but George Zimmerman is part of the conspiracy too.
Bra the the entire anybody who's been on the involved in the color purple has gone completely insane.
Uh the question now is to think now that Alice Walker has said that George Ziberbutt is part of this reptilian space lizard conspiracy, uh whether Barack Obama will uh get on board with that one, or whether he's just going to restrict it to taking away your gun rights and having a uh uh a uh a federal prosecution.
If I was George Zimmerman, by the way, when Edward Snowden uh gets given his uh asylum in Russia and vacates whatever corner of the Moscow airport he's sleeping in, if I were George Zimmerman, I'd say, can I have that corner of the airport after you?
Uh the he has no future in the United States, no matter how many not guilty verdicts come along.
We're going to be talking oh, by the way, you know what it is, it's the end of the week and you know what that means.
Live from Ice Station EIB.
It's open line Friday.
Yes, one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two.
It is open line Friday.
And uh that means that you get to talk about anything you want to talk about.
So if you want to talk about the bankruptcy of Detroit, or you want to talk about the conspiracy of pedophile Satanist Illuminati space lizards, feel free.
Anything goes.
One eight hundred if you can pin the bankruptcy of Detroit on pedophile Satanist Illuminati Space Lizards, feel free to give it a go.
But we're going to be talking in uh just a moment to Jimmy Carter.
Uh no, not that no, not that Jimmy Carter.
Uh th that Jimmy Carter, James L. Carter, has said that uh functioning democ there's no such thing as functioning democracy in America anymore.
So he's enjoying the Obama years immensely.
Uh but this uh James Carter has written a piece in the Wall Street Journal uh on uh on high America's high corporate taxes.
And we're going to be talking to him about that in uh just a moment.
Uh one eight hundred two eight two two eight eight two do call.
Did you know that the United States has the highest corporate tax rate in the world?
That goes back to what I was saying earlier about the importance of borders.
You're free to move out of Detroit.
If you don't like what Detroit's doing to you, you can move to a suburb.
You can move to another part of Michigan.
And it's the same thing with businesses.
In the global economy, uh businesses are uh free to set up shop anywhere around the planet, and almost anywhere in the developed world is more is a more favorable place to open a corporation than the United States is right now.
We'll talk to James Carter about that up next on the EIB network.
James Carter uh worked for both the uh Bush administration at the uh Treasury Department and for the Obama administration at the Labour Department, and he has a piece in uh the Wall Street Journal called America Goes It Alone on High Corporate Taxes.
Uh welcome to the show, James.
Good to have you with us.
Thank you.
Well, you your piece has some uh terrific uh numbers in it.
The US last cut its corporate tax rate in nineteen eighty six.
Uh back at that time, two hundred and eighteen of the world's five hundred largest corporations uh were in the United States.
Today uh that number is down to one hundred and thirty-seven.
Uh and that is connected to our corporate tax rates.
Oh, definitely.
As uh former Secretary of State Dean Rusk used to say, he would say, you know, one third of the world is asleep at at any given time, and the other two thirds is up to something.
That's true.
Much of the world is up to something.
Because they're aggressively reworking their tax codes to boost their competitiveness, boost their economies.
And sadly, while the United States does this, uh we here in the United States just dither.
Um in fact, Japan is in a similar situation, which is why uh I wrote this uh uh article with my co-author uh uh who who is a former member of of the uh Japanese House of Representatives.
Yeah, and now and when when people talk about low corporate tax rates, they always talk about it as a kind of uh right wing thing.
But in fact, uh countries that are by any definition left wing European social democracies all have lower corporate tax rates than the United States.
The Scandinavians uh do.
Uh Ireland's is about a third of the United States.
Well, last year when Japan cut its corporate rate, uh that gave the United States the uninvitable distinction of having the highest corporate tax rate in in the industrialized world.
It was pretty much uh as if we traded gold and silver medals for having the least attractive corporate tax regimes in the world.
Right, right.
Um in fact, since uh nineteen uh uh ninety-three, w when we actually increase our tax rate, nineteen ninety-three, uh th the world has seen a hundred and thirty-three different corporate rate reductions around the world since uh uh uh two thousand and six alone.
Yeah, the United States is flying behind by standing still.
We have the highest rate uh and we're suffering uh as a result of that.
And and of and and what what's a m uh 'cause I I understood that.
When I moved to this country, I'd had I'd had uh businesses, small corporations, in uh countries that I thought of as socialist basket cases, and I was staggered to find that when I set my corporation up here in New Hampshire, th th the United States i is higher.
And there seems to be and and again I uh it's it's it's worth exploring what's happened since the the turned out.
Canada has cut its corporate tax rates.
I mean, you don't have to go far away to find a more favorable business environment than the United States right now.
No.
Exactly.
Not at all.
Uh in fact it's even worse than that because not only do we do the highest rate, uh we also have an antiquated system when it comes to the treatment of international income.
You know, because the United States, you know, uh uh earns and sells a lot of goods overseas.
After all, ninety-five percent of our customers, uh at least potential customers, are outside the borders of the United States.
Right.
Um but because we have an antiquated system that taxes uh this income differently than virtually every other country in the world, that there's a handful, uh that uh uh puts us at at a severe disadvantage uh vis-a-vis our competitors.
And by that you mean this claim to global jurisdiction, which is basically uh if you have a subsidiary, if you're an American company with a subsidiary in Europe and you pay taxes in Europe, if you try to p bring any of that m money back to the United States, you'll then doubly taxed your taxed again.
And no other no other developed nation does that.
Well, there aren't many anyway.
Uh there are a few, but but generally speaking, I mean all companies everywhere will pay tax to the government in the country where that income was earned.
And in fact, U.S. multinationals paid more than a hundred billion dollars each year uh on on that foreign income to foreign governments.
And most countries allow that income to be to be brought back to the home country, you know w where the where the company is headquartered, uh virtually tax free or at a very, very low rate.
For instance, Germany excludes ninety-five percent of that income that that a German company would bring back to Germany from sell, say in you know, France or elsewhere.
But the US is just the opposite.
As you as you say, we we we uh uh um uh uh uh impose an additional layer of taxation uh on that income once it's brought back to the United States.
Um it only has uh some very negative effects.
You know, first of all, uh as I mentioned the in the in the piece, there's the lockout effect.
Because the second layer of tax only kicks in when the company brings back the money t to the United States, companies say, well, let's get the money abroad.
What we won't bring it back.
Um so today we have a situation where we we have about two trillion dollars of deferred uh foreign income uh held abroad.
Um in fact you have US headquartered companies borrowing money here, even though they have billions overseas because it's it's it's it's it's it's cheaper for them to borrow money and leave that money overseas.
So that's three trillion dollars of of income that that we could be using here at home.
And you you mentioned that new New Zealand a few years ago went over to an American system and wised up and then reined it back in to a a uh a territorial instead of this global jurisdiction thing that uh that the United States can uh the uh but New Zealand,
uh as I recall it from the the time, uh uh figured out that if you make if you force incentivize people to keep their money overseas, there's actually no point to having a New Zealand company as such because it never brings the money back to New Zealand to invest it in the New Zealand economy.
And that's exactly what's happening with American companies right now.
It's all everything is just stays uh stays abroad.
And of course the other effect which I mention uh which is uh uh uh very damaging is the move out effect.
Because of our antiquated corporate tax system, many companies, especially those with you know large sales outside the United States, are actually worth more in foreign hands than in U.S. hands.
So it shouldn't be surprising then that US companies either decide willingly to locate overseas to cut their their tax bill, or they're taking over by foreign entities.
Uh and and that really is one of the more shocking things when I was doing the research for this.
The fact that uh since you know the start of this year alone, we've had you know four hundred and eighty-four US companies acquired by foreign entities.
That that averages out to nearly two point five companies each and every day being taken over.
Yeah, they which which is which is incredible to me.
I mean, uh I remember when uh I think this was about three or four years ago when Tim Hortons, the donut company that has uh places on uh north and south of the U.S. Canadian board.
It was a Delaware company, and it announced it was relocating to Canada to quote take advantage of Canadian tax rates, unquote.
And Americans uh uh th that phrase makes no sense to Americans because they think still think of this as a low tax society, even as the rest of the world is has changed.
And the UK, for instance, has been very explicit about what it's been doing.
It it actually abandoned the worldwide system that we have back in 2009 and it has uh several times reduced its corporate rates with explicit uh uh uh uh um objective of becoming the most competitive uh uh in the world right which is which is yeah the the which is which is the where the we're the last ones to get the message on this.
Uh thanks uh thanks for that uh James that piece is in the Wall Street Journal America Goes It Alone on high corporate taxes.
Lots more still to come on the Rush Slimbore Show.
Yes, Rush returns live Monday for the real deal behind the golden my uh golden EIB microphone on America's number one radio show this is Mark Son I I should have I made I made so many mistakes this show I got the I got the name wrong of the Royal Newfoundland uh fencibles but this is the biggest mistake of all I uh I said uh the James Carter who we just spoke to had worked in both the uh Bush and Obama administrations.
I had one of these things where uh I was forwarded a a uh uh a kind of curriculum vitae and it all as is the way on the internet the the rich text format all disintegrated between uh its point of origin and getting to me and so I read the uh particular dates upside down.
But in fact he did all his service for the government of the United States under the Bush administration uh deputy assistant secretary at the Treasury and deputy under secretary uh at the Department of of Labor.
He he did you said he was a Clinton appointee okay well I w I withdraw my apology then but I I said he uh I don't know uh I don't know about yeah I I said uh I said he'd worked at the Obama administration I can understand why a guy would demand he's gonna be he's gonna be suing me for defamation.
Um the uh it's it's Oberlight Friday 1800 28282 uh Detroit there is a proposal to uh build a fence around the city of Detroit.
Uh I made I made a joke about this the uh uh border fence thing that if they ever build that border fence it it will be to stop you getting out uh rather than to stop Mexicans getting in.
And in fact that is true with this this fence they're proposing now.
Uh should Hamtrak ham tramp ham tramp, which is a suburb of Detroit but that borders Detroit wants to build a twelve or fourteen foot wall around the city to keep Detroiters uh out of their city and they want state issued ID to get in.
They've they've got so in other words they're looking at it uh like uh people look on the uh US Mexican border that it's a border between the first world and the third world.
By the way if you drive through the tunnel from Windsor, Ontario I've always thought Windsor, Ontario is like the most boring town on the planet uh but when you when you drive uh through the tunnel and you emerge on the American side you do think you have gone from the first world to the third world.
So so the uh Ham tramp which uh borders Detroit wants to build a fourteen foot wall to keep it's a Detroit wall.
They you'll be able to have prisoner exchanges.
If there's anyone who's stuck there behind the wall in Detroit who shouldn't be there and feels they've got a legitimate excuse to get out then dip d well I don't I Detroit I don't know about Amnesty.
They could probably apply for refugee status uh I would say Mr. Slurley because they'd be in the same uh situation as like the Sarnaev family from Dagastan.
They could apply to be admitted to the uh Detroit suburbs and uh because I'm sure this wall, this fourteen foot wall around the city will have the occasional uh gate or door in it.
Uh but you would re need state issued ID to get in or out.
Uh and uh that is the proposal of one city council candidate uh in this this this place Ham tramp by the way is entirely surrounded by the city of Detroit except for a little small portion on the west side uh that borders Highland Park and uh and this guy Fabishak Fabishak,
Richard Fabishek, says that the wall would repel outsiders from Detroit who are coming into d into his little shishi bug and uh committing crimes and vandalizing their city.
So that's the way there'll be a border fence in Detroit.
Uh that's that's where we're going with that.
Let's go to Richard.
Speaking of the great state of Michigan, Richard is calling us from Farmington.
Great to have you with us on the show, Richard.
Well, good afternoon, Mr. Stein.
Thank you for checking my college.
To inject a bit of humor into an otherwise grim day.
The reason that Detroit fell without a shock to the uh newfies was that at that time Detroit was still largely a French city.
Hey, hang hang on a minute.
Hang on, I'm not going to let you get away with that.
Because you know something.
Go go through the tunnel to Windsor uh and and uh the Dominion of Canada, God bless Canada, is having a s massive celebrations for the bicentennial of the war of eighteen twelve, you know, because like uh we kicked Yankee butt.
It's like huge up there.
And they've uh and they've and they and they've got whatever it was, HMS uh whatever it was that sank the Chesapeake.
They've got on a new stamp up in Canada.
They're going big time on the burning the White House will be on the next stamp.
They're going big time on it.
And so I happen to know, I happen to know that the uh the the general who surrendered Detroit to the British in the war of eighteen twelve was General Hull, which no Quebec will tell you is a French name.
You own that defeat.
You own that defeat, Richard.
I am half French myself, so I'm just making it a little joke.
But okay.
You have stated well the most of the root causes of uh of what's happened to Detroit by making maybe you're a little bit unfair on the pension side.
The reason I say that is because by and large the pensioners are just ordinary people, the most of whom just took a job that was offered to them, and they worked their job for twenty or twenty five years and and and you know they're expecting to get what they were promised now.
Uh having said that, the union leadership of these people, all of whom were present in those smoky rooms while they were making all these snakey deals with the leadership of the city are the ones that you know were possible.
They you know, if we could still exhume them and hang them, I mean that probably would be a good idea.
Uh uh, you know, and and this is the mess that we have.
It's a failure of of style over substance.
It is a complete and utter and perfect example of liberal government and what happens that despite of a hundred years of failure, people are still trying it.
Well, you it's sad.
You know you you're uh you're right about the the corruption there, and you don't have to exhume a lot of these guys.
I mean a lot of them are like flesh and blood and still walking around like uh uh Kwame Kilpatrick, who's uh I'd uh I think he's just about he's uh he's about to take up uh long-term residence in uh in in one of the state uh penitentiaries uh uh as I understand it.
So th so it's it's something that is actually cons and as you say, you know, when you take a job with government, one of the things people do well, the reasons they take jobs with government is because of the security and the benefits.
And it's not their and you're right in the sense that it's not their responsibility when you take a job in nineteen eighty to worry about whether in twenty thirteen the job you've the pensions you you you've uh expected all those decades uh are actually affordable or not.
And uh and and so many of these people uh many of the people took these jobs, thought the benefits were attractive, and it never occurred to them that in fact the money wasn't there for them.
The political class uh in in Detroit is absolutely corrupt.
I mean, I don't even I can't even follow all the details of Kwame Kilpatrick.
Uh some uh uh exotic dancer who turned up dead uh and his wife had been uh uh has his wife had caught her canoodling with uh with the mayor or something.
I don't even I I can't even it's like it sounds like some uh f absurd daytime soap opera.
But these people th the the political class have done very well because they tell people don't worry about it.
Don't worry that it's unaffordable.
We'll we'll as you said we'll tell you the same old cliches, the same old lines, and people will still vote for us and and we will never ever get out of office.
And that's that's what happened uh by the way, I've driven through Farmington, Richard.
How far are you from from actually the border of Detroit?
My house is uh something less than five miles from the actual northern northwest uh city limit of uh of Detroit.
It's just a few miles down the road.
But but but Farmington doesn't actually border it, does it?
It doesn't actually border the city, does it?
No, sir no no it does not.
There's actually uh um a town or two that uh interposes itself there between us and Detroit.
But it it's close enough.
And and uh you know I'm I'm old enough to remember an entirely different Detroit.
I'm a little older than Russia actually and and uh you know a an awful lot of things have changed but you know sadly Quami is only the most recent you know of a long list of of mendacious cretons that that have you know learned well the old art of of uh of manipulating the factions and and that's what they do and and this is what has happened and this has been coming for a long time.
A long time to riots really the man who did the most damage individually was Coleman Young who uh who used to call himself the MFIC by which I c I can't say the full thing on the radio, but he the instead of being referred to as his honor or the mayor, he liked to be called the MFIC by which he meant the mayor in char the mother in charge.
And uh you can you can work out for yourself the word I've left out there.
But he basically did more damage to Detroit than anybody else Richard.
Yes he did.
Sadly enough but it's not the end of the world here.
Uh there are a lot of actually a lot of good things going on in Detroit surprisingly and and and uh I think that you know with proper leadership with people that are bound to determine to tell the truth and nothing but the truth that you know Detroit will come back.
It just it's just it's and the people in the city of Detroit are going to have to wake up and understand you know that the uh the lovely dream they've been in all these years is uh is not a dream at all.
It's a nightmare and that's how they have to face up to the real world and I think they'll rise to it.
I think it'll happen.
You know we still have all the good things that we always had and and we just have to exploit them properly.
Oh okay Richard th that's a that's an optimistic note.
Thank you thank you for your call.
I must say by the way I love uh just uh skipping through the d Detroit news stories.
This was one um uh this is one from CBS Detroit yesterday uh family finds marijuana and pipe in Burger King kids meal.
Uh it actually in fairness in fairness of the city of Detroit it's from um some town uh half an hour outside the city limits uh but it does it does show you how uh life can and it does actually illustrate in a very practical sense why people can be so deluded when you've got the marijuana and the pipe the coming with the Burger King kids meal you can understand why people are growing up in utter delusion, you know have it your way.
Have it our way with the marijuana uh and the pipe that's uh that's Burger King in Michigan.
Mark Stein in for Rush we'll take more of your calls straight ahead I'm getting everything wrong today.
Uh I've apparently just offended uh Polish Americans across the lab by uh mispronouncing uh the uh Detroit suburb of ham tramic uh I I called it ham tram tramp like uh Amtrak but it's apparently it's ham tramic.
I don't I I don't know whether you can take Amtrak to ham tramic or whether you can take Amtramic to ham tramic.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Let's go to Paula in Virginia.
Paula you're live on the Rushly Moore show.
Thank you for waiting.
Oh thanks I appreciate it.
I just wanted to talk about something a little more lighthearted while I watch Obama shoot himself in both seats and uh that would be our friends across the pond.
My twenty something great great grand grandfather, I think twenty sixth great great grandfather was Edward the fourth.
What really?
Yeah.
So you are the rightful queen of the United States.
You better believe it Well I mean I tell you something.
I never thought I'd say this, but after looking at what this republic, this experimental republic has dwindled down to after uh two and a half centuries.
I th I think we need to uh restore the monarchy, and I'm in favor of you becoming Empress Paula.
Uh I think we should uh we should march on Washington starting tomorrow.
Yeah.
Great.
So you uh just say about it is uh I've always liked Edward's nickname Ned.
Right.
So if the royal couple are listening, and I can't imagine they're not.
I'd like to suggest if it's a boy, the Edward William Charles Phillip.
We call him Ned.
Right.
And a girl to be Victoria, Diana Elizabeth Mary.
Call her Tory.
Oh, Tory.
I love that.
High high class Brit chicks uh called uh Tory.
But Ned is a very uh in inter Th there is actually a society for Neds.
There's a society of Neds somewhere in America, and I know this because I had a a friend called Ned who uh was on uh television in Britain for many years, and and uh he w he used to keep getting asked to join the Society of Neds in America.
I can't remember who was in it except for the a guy called Ned Washington who wrote The Nearness of You.
It's not the power moon.
That excites me.
That thrills out me.
That guy.
He was the only Ned I know who was in this society of Neds.
But I think Prince Ned is uh is a pretty good name, Paula.
By the way, how how do you feel about Prince Rush?
Oh, she's listening to I I think I think Prince Rush has a kind of ring to it.
Don't you think, Mr. Snerdley?
I like it.
It does have a ring.
Prince Rush.
I don't want to suggest it.
I'm not formally suggesting it, because the next thing you know is Obama's gonna go out and give a press conference where he calls on uh her Royal Highness to name the baby Prince Travon.
So I don't I don't want to politicize it.
So I'll I'll back off on the Prince Rush thing and we'll go with Paula's suggestion that they uh that they go for Prince Ned or Princess Tory.
So there we are.
Don't forget Rush will be here.
We're still waiting.
We're on Royal Baby Watch round the clock here, and Rush will have all the Royal Baby news.
I don't know whether he's flown over in EIB one smoking seven cigars uh on the way to Heathrow to cover the Royal Baby News, but he will have Royal Baby Watch live uh on the EIB network starting uh starting Monday.
So we'll find out whether it's going to be Prince Ned or Prince Rush.
Mark Stein on the EIB network, more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Did you know the Obama administration has spent some uh four hundred thousand dollars on paintings of cabinet members?
There's what uh how many cabinet secretaries are there?
About twenty, that's about twenty thousand dollars per painting uh for per portrait of these cabinet members.
There's a a little notice provision in a bill that has just uh cleared the house that would end the government paying for official portraits of uh House Committee chairs and cabinet secretaries.
Uh again, this is like government.
This is who who normally with a painting, it's like if you get a painting by a decent artist, it's a pretty good investment.
Not when you pay twenty thousand dollars for a pain a portrait of Janet Napolitano.
Uh that is not that painting is not gonna be worth twenty thousand dollars in ten years' time or fifty years' time.
There is uh but there's no limit.
There's no limit.
By the way, they don't um they did commission uh paintings of the Detroit City Council, uh, I believe.
Oil paintings that are about 40,000 apiece for every member of the Detroit City Council, and um you can see them now uh because uh they're actually on the FBI most wanted uh list.
So it's like better than the usual artist's impression he gets.
Very uh very good.
But that's that's that's uh uh now been ended.
Apparently a bill has passed the House to end the practice of obscure committee chairs having these uh the these oil paintings done of themselves as if they're uh Roman emperors.
This has been the Rush Limbaugh Show.
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