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Feb. 4, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 4, 2014, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush twenty-four seven podcast.
Yes, Rush is a little under the weather today.
If uh if you were listening to him uh yesterday I I was uh cruising down the highway and uh Rush uh sounded great in the first hour, but if you were listening in like high definition, digitally remastered wall high speakers,
you might just have noticed uh a little something settling in in the third hour and uh uh later that afternoon he was uh came over with fever and chills and uh his voice sounded absolutely terrible.
Uh don't don't worry, I don't mean it sounded terrible like mine does.
He didn't uh he didn't suddenly wake up with a some wacky foreign accent or anything.
But he is uh his his voice is all uh croaky, so he's uh he went to bed about eight o'clock last night and he's resting up today, but he will return uh the vagaries of uh uh uh of the fever and chills permitting uh tomorrow for full strength, authentic all American excellence in broadcasting.
But for the moment this is Mark Stein sitting in on America's number one radio show and honored to be behind the golden EIB microphone once more.
We're not in such great sh shape today ourselves.
I I I volunteered to uh to cover for Rush uh and I forgot I had a medical appointment this morning, and then I woke up with a uh a sick kid myself, my youngest has got what Russia's got.
That's how bad it is, folks.
When they say, you know, you know what it is like at like at my kids' school uh they say things like, oh, this I think there's something going around.
Uh it's going around so bad that my kid, my youngest kid caught it just from having a dad who guess hosts for the guy who originally had it.
So you millions out there in Radio Land, you you could have second cousins who are coming down with this bug that Russia's got, because it's spreading uh it's spreading that fast.
Uh but as as I said, my uh my uh my kid's uh my kid was uh is off today, so he's he's here in the studio with me.
Don't worry, I'm not gonna put him on air.
He's he's past the age where he's cute, so you wouldn't enjoy it.
Um and uh and I myself uh woke up and suddenly remembered I had a medical appointment.
And I I drove to uh the uh I I drove to see the doctor, arrived in plenty of time knowing I had to get to the studio to do the fly by the seats of your pants edition of the Rush Limbaugh show.
And I had a great experience at the doctor's in terms of the paperwork, because I had all the 20 minutes of HIPAA forms and all that kind of stuff to fill in, and I aced that part of the encounter and uh the doctors uh were able to fully implement that.
I had a disastrous experience if you're the old fashioned type who thinks that going to the doctor uh in it means you'll eventually see a man in a white coat with a stethoscope, because I sat there in that lousy waiting room for an hour and I never saw I mean howling in pain.
I I've got I've got this uh I've got this ongoing uh problem with my ear.
Howling in howling in pain.
And uh I sat there for an hour and uh uh uh the doctor is still goodn't see me, so I eventually, despite my making this appointment weeks ago, then uh got in the car and uh and drove into the studio.
And all the time I was sitting there so I'm in a kind of cranky mood, to be honest.
So I may be doing the Yeah, get off my phone, you sick freak uh kind of thing instead of the usual genial bonhomous thing I do with callers.
But don't let that worry you.
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But I sat there.
I sat there in the waiting room, staring for an hour at this poster.
Uh a poster about hope, and it says Hope sees the invisible.
Hope feels the intangible.
Hope Achieves the impossible.
And I sat there looking at that uh for an hour, and uh hope doesn't achieve the impossible.
If someone if someone tells you that, punch his lights out, because it's rubbish.
Hope uh I I hoped I could get a timely medical appointment.
Uh but apparently that's that's impossible at this particular uh doctor's office, and uh and hope alone was not enough To achieve it.
Hope feels the intangible.
I was hoping the doctor would be feeling my tangibles.
But that's that's apparently too much to hope for.
And uh hope sees the invisible.
I I was hoping I was hoping to see the doctor.
I'd had enough of seeing the invisible, sitting there staring at this thing for an hour, seeing the invisible, feeling the intangible, achieving the impossible.
Rush, uh a year or a couple of I would say a year or so into the Obama regime.
So we're going back to whatever it was, 2009 now, uh, did a terrific bit on air about how uh I'm paraphrasing here, but his essential line.
I don't think I'm I don't think I'm getting anything wrong here, HI is that hope is for losers.
Hope is passive.
Hope is lying on the floor hoping something turns up.
Hope is pitiful.
Hope is like luck.
It might it might show up.
It might you might be walking down the street and a million dollars falls out of the twenty-eighth floor window and drops in and drops in your lap.
That might happen.
But it's unlikely to.
It's highly unlikely to.
Uh hope cannot achieve the impossible.
Uh hard work, uh ingenuity, inventiveness achieves the impossible.
But lying on the floor hoping something will turn up will not achieve the impossible.
So I'm looking at this this thing in the in the doctor's office.
Hope achieves the impossible.
Uh and and uh and thinking naturally, because I've got to do this show about the candidate who ran on hope.
And you guys fell for it.
The American people fell for a guy running on hope.
That's like running on luck.
You know, that's like running on the slogan, hey, you never know, something will turn up.
But you guys fell for it.
For hope hope is feeble, hope is passive, hope is for losers.
Uh and and it's not going to do anything for America.
And we have had a hope presidency now.
We have had President Hope for five years now.
And the and the and the stories just keep piling up.
We've got here today healthcare.gov can't handle the appeal of enrollment errors.
Uh because you know, when you, as I learned uh this morning when I spent 20 minutes filling in all the HIPAA paperwork, uh, that uh the paperwork is a big part of uh American healthcare now.
American healthcare has more paperwork than any other system in the world.
It's terrific.
If you judge a system by the amount of its paperwork, uh it's the number one system in the world.
And healthcare.gov has got a lot of paperwork.
And when you're filling in forms, uh things can go wrong.
Uh if you go to um Rushlinbaugh.com and you buy some of the club Gitmo gear, you can go, or if you go to my uh website, we got like uh similar setup too, and occasionally, I don't know, I can't speak for Rush, I would be surprised if it's any difference, but certainly the case of mine.
You know, there's a lot of pull-down menus, you've got to select and you've got to do this and you've got to do that.
And like you say you're filling in the address and uh uh you've got the pull-down menu for countries and you you've fingers a bit trigger happy and you click United Kingdom instead of United States, or or you go to the first country in the list, which is whatever it is, Afghanistan, and so you click that you live at 27 Elm Street, Cleveland in Afghanistan.
And so uh, you know, once in a while we get these things from people who've got a uh l little things gone glitchy, and they say, please don't send please don't send the book to Afghanistan.
Uh Cleveland is in the United States, and we say, sure, fine, we correct the thing.
You can't correct errors at healthcare.gov.
Tens of thousands of people who discovered that healthcare.gov made mistakes.
And by the way, these aren't just, you know, the wrong zip code or whatever these are where people uh then get a confirmation letter saying they've got the they've been uh charged too much.
In other words, you said you you sign up for a thing that's two hundred dollars a month, and then you get a confirmation letter saying you signed in for the one that's twelve hundred a month, or they've been steered into the wrong insurance program entirely, or they've been denied go uh coverage entirely.
And they and so they go back as they do when you put in your wrong zip code on Rush Limbaugh.com or Markstein.com or whatever, and uh they expect that to be di uh dealt with.
Instead, all these all these uh complaints from people asking for base Basic errors, like how much you pay per month or what plan you're in to be can can uh to be fixed, are sitting untouched inside a government computer because the government of the United States built with the with the with the best resources available it uh to it in the world,
and with the A-team, the greatest minds on the planet creating it, has not got a mechanism by which an incorrect enrollment can be corrected.
Uh healthcare.gov, this is in the Washington Post.
You don't have to worry that it's some right-wing madman telling you this stuff.
Healthcare.gov, Washington Post.
Healthcare.gov's computer system is not yet allowing federal workers to go into enrollment records and change them.
Okay, these are the people who signed up, and their plans start January the first, which is over a month ago now, and they've been signed up to the wrong plan.
Uh they've been signed up uh for plans that cost uh more than they were told they would cost, with deductibles that are higher than uh they were told they would have.
Uh and uh they're tet they have the story of Addie Wilson of Fairmont, West Virginia, who needed coverage right away because she needed gallbladder surgery in January.
Um so she was uh she's stuck with this uh erroneous the healthcare.gov has uh has failed to process her application correctly, uh and she has been told to go just go ahead, pay full price for the gallbladder surgery, and they will correct the record later.
But there is no mechanism for health care uh federal health care Obamacare navigators to get into the Obamacare records and actually correct things that are gone wrong.
That's what it is.
That's what happens when you vote for the government of hope.
That's what you get when you uh vote for the party of hope.
That's what you get when you vote for President Hope.
I I spent an hour I spent an hour staring at this one lousy poster this morning.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, achieves the impossible.
If you believe that, you're a sap uh as the people who believed Obama's pitch about hope was a sap.
Uh this country cannot pull itself out of this mess on Obamacare and other fronts until it ditches that kind of soft focused, deluded hallmark uh self uh uh world of illusion,
uh, and actually understands that competence uh and ingenuity and hard work are what are made uh what made America the preeminent power on the planet, and a lot of uh princess fuzzy pants bleating at you about hope is not gonna be an adequate substitute for that.
As these as as these thousands and thousands of people who've got false uh Obamacare plans, they're not the plans they ordered, they're more than they're they're they're told they have to pay more than they wanted for them, or they've been denied coverage,
and Obama, the president of hope, created such a hopeless computer system that nobody, none of those Obamacare navigators, you know, all these felons that they've hired to access your personal information, uh, none of these guys, none of these Obamacare navigators can get into the system to correct basic errors in these enrolments.
Um there is, quote, this is a great quote, no indication that infrastructure was created, unquote, uh, to enable anybody to do that.
So in other words, the Obamacare website has le healthcare.gov has less flexibility, less basic operating efficiency than Russia's uh online store to sell club Gitmo uh stuff to you.
Uh that's that's what it's come to.
Mark Stein in for an ailing rush today.
He will return tomorrow.
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Mark Stein in for Rush on the uh No Hope Radio Network.
No hope.
Erin emails to say uh hope is my state's motto.
She lives in Rhode Island, uh, and that certainly explains a lot.
Hope is the state motto of Rhode Uh Island.
Um the uh we're we're we're talking about uh a nation that is hoping to dig itself out through hope.
And that is that is not gonna happen.
Where we we got another looming debt ceiling uh in which the Republicans are gonna go along to get along.
And I I said that uh when when Obama ran on hope.
That's basically running on a slogan of, hey, you never know, something will turn up.
Uh, but we should be reminded that we live in a two-party system.
And John Boehner uh said today, according to roll call, uh, that just days away from the administration's deadline to extend the nation's borrowing authority.
Speaker Boehner told House Republicans, quote, there's no sense picking a fight we can't win, unquote.
Uh and I believe that.
I said that uh uh Obaba's hope slogan boiled down to, hey, you never know something will turn up.
I do believe that uh there's no sense picking a fight we can't win is the official slogan of the Republican Party.
Um Rush was talking yesterday uh in a sort of uh uh kind of uh conspiratorial mood that that Baida's the Republican establishment wants to only win narrowly in November this year.
In other words, it doesn't want a big Tea Party type victory that might oblige it to start picking a few fights, and who knows, maybe even winning them.
Because unless you pick the fight, you can't win them.
And that explains uh, by the way, just to return to what Speaker Boehner was saying, uh why this country's fiscal situation is so much worse than uh just off the top of my head, Canada, Australia, New Zealand.
New Zealand's actually paying down national debt.
Can you imagine that?
Paying actually, you know, saying not increasing the debt ceiling, but saying, but actually lowering it.
Fancy that.
They're lowering it, they're paying it back off so that eventually it'll be zero.
Uh so uh uh uh so we have a situation where uh the party that uh doesn't pick any fights is then surprised when it doesn't win any fights.
And in a two-party system, it doesn't work.
It's like the world's lousiest pay-per-view deal.
You know, you don't want to you don't want to uh pay per view for the big hot shot world championship, the world series, the Super Bowl between the Democrats and the Republicans, and then the uh and then the guy uh from the Republicans said, Well, there's no sense picking a fight, we can't win.
You can't win fights until you pick them.
Uh and that is uh and that's why uh America is here talking about raising the debt ceiling yet again, uh, and why other countries which are are starting from a far better uh from a far more fiscally sound situation anyway, are uh are uh are lowering their debts, lowering their debt, paying off their deficit uh ending their deficits, lowering their national debt, paying off their national debt, uh as in New Zealand, and John Boehner is saying there's no sense picking a fight, we can't win.
Uh and that's uh by the way, speaking of i b because he uh if you buy into Russia's theory that he doesn't want the big Tea Party victory in November.
Uh speaking of which, Al Qaeda of Tea Party types, Al Qaeda has severed ties.
Uh did you see this with the with the uh Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which was Al Qaeda's branch in Syria and Iraq, uh because it it it declares they're too extreme.
You know that euphemism they use for like Al Qaeda in the New York Times and stuff, uh Islamic extremists.
Well, these guys in Syria are too extreme for the extremists.
Uh and so Al Qaeda has severed all links with them.
Basically, if you're following, if you're trying to follow what's going on in Syria, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is uh the basically the Tea Party of Al-Qaeda.
And all the moderate uh Susan Collins types back in the cave in Waziristan at Al Qaeda headquarters, all your John Boehners and whatever, uh hold up in the caves in Waziristan, have said that they don't want to be associated now with these Tea Party crazies in the Islamic state uh of Iraq and Syria, ISIS, which is which was uh the which is their activist base, as it were, in Syria.
So they've uh they've decided that uh these extremists in Al Qaeda have decided that the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is too extreme even uh for them because they've got these like four-year-olds.
There's a video out there on the internet of a four-year-old uh firing off a machine gun.
So they've they've they're signing up.
That's uh the Republicans, by the way, just to extend the comparisons between America and the Syrian Civil War.
The Amer the Republicans have now come out in favor of uh g government funded pre-school.
And uh Syria also, the Syrian Civil War also has its terrific form of preschool where they're issuing machine guns to the four-year-old.
So Al Qaeda has now severed all connections uh with the Islamic state of Iraq and Syria, which uh they're damning as the basically the Tea Party, uh the Tea Party wing of Al Qaeda, far too extreme even for them.
Mark signed in for us.
We'll take lots of your calls straight ahead.
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Hey, great to be with you.
Rush is under the weather today, and uh he's uh his his we woke up this morning and his voice was uh absolutely terrible.
Uh even worse than mine.
Uh but he uh will be back uh tomorrow live for full strength authentic all American excellence in broadcasting uh to take you through the week.
And in the meantime, this is uh Mark Stein filling in uh and in a bit of a cranky mood, because uh I was on the receiving end of uh uh the uh decaying American health care system uh today.
There's a story, by the way, that I want to get to later uh about uh the the problems in the VA, which is the existing face of government health care, uh the Veterans Administration in the United States.
One thing by the way, before uh I forget about that uh split between the the uh Tea Party wing of Al Qaeda in Syria and the um John Boehner Beltway cocktail wing of Al Qaeda back in the caves in Raziristan.
They're they're on the outs.
The uh the John Boehner wing of Al Qaeda has expelled the Tea Party wing of Al Qaeda in Syria.
Uh be f before I before I move on from that, I wanna I w I want to talk about that because uh John Boehner has uh uh uh said there's no point picking fights you can't win.
You know, America actually won a hard fought fight on the Syrian Iraq border at great cost.
Uh do you remember back in the in one of the worst moments of the Iraq war when four American contractors uh were basically seized, executed, and their bodies hung out uh over a bridge in Fallujah uh uh to display to the world how impotent America was.
And American troops went in and fought hard and expelled uh those Al Qaeda fighters from the Sunni triangle.
And what has happened now?
The Al Qaeda flag is flying over Fallujah, over Ramadi, over all the towns in Western Iraq.
By the way, I don't I don't claim to be an expert on Iraq, but I know Western Iraq.
I know the Western Iraqi desert very well because a couple of weeks after the fall of Saddam, uh I happened to be bored uh and I landed at Amman, Jordan, and I rented a uh a rental car, and I didn't tell the guy at the Arman Airport rental car counter where I was taking it,
because you couldn't get insurance for it anyway, and I drove it across the Jordanian border into Iraq, and I uh visited Rutbar and Ramadi and Fallujah, all those towns in the Western Iraqi desert, and had a grand old time.
And I wasn't doing that thing, I wasn't dressed like Robocop or what any or or any of that.
I was walking around in a jaunty blazer and tie uh and slacks and a Western uh uh uh uh uh a citizen from the West, obviously a foreigner could walk around those towns then because America had just shown the world a little bit of shock and awe.
And I went back.
If if you ba there's basically one road running through the western desert of Iraq.
And on my way back to Jordan, because after uh after a while you have enough of the mixed grill in your average Ramadi restaurant, and I was pining for the uh the all you can eat buffet at the uh Grand Hyatt in Amman, so I wanted to get back to civilization again.
There's basically one road, one interstate running through the uh Western desert of Iraq, and it was in pretty good shape, except uh where uh where the United States Air Force had left huge craters in various bits of it, and there'd be a burnt-out tank uh blocking the road, and you'd have to drive across the median and uh and and uh drive on the other side of the road to get past the the burnt out tank.
Uh there's one road, and then just before, as you're heading back west, just before, there's a there's a place called Jordan Junction where where the road branches off to go to the Jordanian frontier, and then and the main road carries on up to the Syrian frontier.
And I went up to the Syrian frontier there, and it was being manned by uh by US Army uh officers.
Uh that border was being enforced.
Now that border uh has been wiped away and uh and hardcore terrorists uh are uh have got the run of the joint.
And that again gets to what John Boehner was saying, you know, about picking fights you can't about picking fights you can't win.
Uh the American way of war, at some point we have to start thinking about uh war not just as a question of leaving crater holes in the Western highway and then using Western aid money to patch those holes in the crater.
That's what happened.
That's a fabulous road.
All those terrorists running around Western Iraq right now, running the Al Qaeda flag, the same flag that they that was flown uh at those various embassies uh on September the eleventh, twenty twelve, uh in the days around that Benghazi business.
The same Al-Qaeda flag is flying over uh Fallujah Ramadi Rutbar, where American troops fought hard-won victories.
And those guys don't have to do as I do and drive through uh along a highway that's been pitted with craters from bombs, because you and I and US taxpayers and Canadian taxpayers and British taxpayers and European taxpayers, we all gave money to build to repair that road and make it a fabulous road.
Uh and so now the tour the terrorists who have the run of that joint, who have the run of Western Iraq and Eastern Syria uh have got fabulous infrastructure that we paid for.
Because in the end, war isn't about war is pointless if it's just about leaving a crater hole in the highway.
War isn't about uh destroying the enemy's bombs or di uh destroying the enemy's tanks or destroying the enemy's planes.
It's about destroying the enemy's will.
And that is what we failed to do in Iraq, and that is what we failed to do in Afghanistan, which is why Hamid Kazai is now talking to the Taliban and figuring he he's gonna break with America completely.
Uh and it's why in i in uh in Western Iraq, the flag of America's enemy, the Al-Qaeda flag, is flying over uh the municipal buildings of the towns that Americans shed blood and treasure for.
Twelve years.
Twelve years in Afghanistan, little less in Iraq.
Twelve years in Afghanistan.
We have to start rediscovering uh the way to win wars.
And war is about will.
War is about will, war is about knowing what victory looks like.
And war is about knowing uh that it's not just about, you know, blowing something up and then sending in humanitarian agencies to spend a fortune.
In it in Afghanistan, ninety-eight percent of GDP, ninety-eight percent of the economy is the Western military and aid presence.
That's it.
Once you take that away, uh as Hamid Kazai well knows, there's no economy uh except the all the poppy and the drug business.
And that's but but and that's what uh where Afghanistan's going.
We have spent a fortune in money.
We have spent even more in the lives of brave men who retook towns like that one in Fallujah, and yet we threw away victory.
We threw away victory because we never think uh in long term about strategy, about will, about the very purpose of war.
Uh Mark Stein in for Rush has said Russia's a little under the weather uh this morning, uh, but he will be back with you live on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network uh tomorrow.
Well, lots of other things uh we want to talk about uh today.
Uh Including I want to go back and talk about uh something that Rush was talking about yesterday when he was discussing the business with uh Nancy Pelosi appearing with John Stewart on the Daily Show.
And Rush made a uh got absolutely to the heart of the matter.
That these people uh do not think of uh uh uh of liberalism in uh in a terms of a coherent political philosophy.
Liberalism is a kind of class pose in America today.
These people assume they are smarter, and therefore liberalism is the natural state of affairs because it's natural in any society for the smartest and most gifted and most intelligent people to run the joint, and that's why they feel that uh America is being run by liberals, because liberals are smarter, and everybody knows that.
And so this showdown between uh John Stewart and Nancy Pelosi, when he lobs her a softball question, hey, what's up with healthcare.gov, and she just says, I don't know, it's not my responsibility, it's nothing to do with me.
She can't answer it.
She can't answer it.
And it gets to the phoniness of the uh Obama uh in his uh interview, whatever it was before the Super Bowl, where he he he said he didn't like the word liberal and that liberals are just sensible people.
If they're so sensible, why does healthcare.gov make no sense whatsoever.
And that's the flaw.
That's that's the lie at the heart of modern liberalism.
They sell themselves to us as a technocracy, as technocrats, as people who aren't ideological but just know all the great ideas about how to do things and make things happen, and in the end, they just wrecked everything.
Well, take care.
We'll talk about that and take your calls straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
Let's go to Jay in Stillwater, Maine, just uh across the border for me here in uh New Hampshire.
Jay, great to have you on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Hi, neighbor.
Yeah, howdy neighbor.
Hope you're feeling better, Mark.
I'm sorry to hear you're ailing, but in Rush as well.
Yeah, no, no, Rush is in worse shape.
I was listening to your open comments and uh considering what you were saying about hope.
And in my view, is is hope is in its essence, it's inspirational, but it it essentially is not sustainable.
Now, your countryman Francis Bacon once said hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.
Which is speaks to that.
Uh I I I my view is that it this goes to the flaw of liberal liberalism and explains the failure of every Obama domestic and foreign policy initiative failure, is that the idea of of hope comes first, but the the thought and the effort and the initiative behind the sustainability falls flat.
And what and what Francis Bacon means is that it's fine to start the day with hope.
Uh, but that if you're still chowing down on nothing but hope by the time you're having your supper uh twelve hours later, the day has not gone well.
And that's basically that's that's basically the stage we're at now.
We are we are approaching the supper hour of the Obama regime.
Uh and it was fine to be breakfasting on hope on January the 20th, 2009.
Uh but that that that that isn't enough now.
Uh they're they're bringing coffee and dessert at the at the end of the at the end of the whole thing.
And that's that's Bacon's point.
Uh that's what that's what he really means by uh by hope, Jay.
I I um I was hoping that you'd expand on that, and that's what uh just what I was hoping for, Mark.
I hope you have uh a great week and hope you're feeling better and rush as well.
Yeah, thanks.
Thanks uh a lot, Jay.
And we'll pass on your good wishes uh to Rush, all being well he will be here uh tomorrow for uh for the authentic real deal uh excellence in broadcasting.
Um but but you know, that's that's the point.
That's the point that hope hope is uh uh even, you know, and again thinking about bacon, yeah.
I'm not even so sure.
Hope is fine to start out with, but hope has to be rooted in something.
Um and if you and hope itself is never gonna do it.
Hope is basically uh do to go back to Boehner's thing of you don't pick fights you can't win.
Boehner could use, in that in that narrow sense of the word hope, Boehner could use a little more.
Actually, not hope, heart, heart.
You've got to have heart.
You gotta have heart for the fight.
Uh because uh a lot of people pick fights they can't win.
Imagine if John Boehner had been in George Washington's position, right?
Uh John Boehner as General Washington, uh whatever it is, two and a third centuries ago.
And he uh he wouldn't have picked that fight.
He wouldn't have taken on the greatest empire on the planet and said, hey, let's go for it.
He'd have said he'd he'd have uh he'd have said, no, this is no time to be picking fights we can't win.
But when you pick fights, uh and it this gets to the other thing that John Boehner and the Republicans aren't doing, uh which gets uh Mrs. Thatcher's great line.
First you win the argument, then you win the election.
And if they were to if they were to win the argument, if they were to make the argument, if they were to make the argument, maybe they'd win the argument, and if they won the argument, maybe they'd win the election.
Because the problem right now, uh if you look at immigration, for example, immigration is of no benefit uh to the uh the mired stagnant uh uh job prospects for the people who are already in the United States,
who are citizens of the United States, whose country, to use a quaint phrase, this is, and whose government owes a duty first and foremost to its own citizens, not to the citizens of Mexico, not to the citizens of Canada, not to the citizens of Papua New Guinea, but to American citizens.
That's who the government works for.
Thomas Sowell talks today about how uh immigration is the only issue in which in which uh the only uh law breaking issue, illegal immigration, uh, which is discussed purely in terms of the benefits to the lawbreakers, uh and looked at entirely from the perspective of the law breakers rather than the people whose laws they are breaking.
Uh immigration isn't gonna do anything.
The job market is stagnant.
The last thing you need is tens of millions more minimal skilled uh p bringing minimal skilled people into this country.
That's the last thing anybody needs.
But you know, because Republicans won't make the argument, they can't win the argument.
Uh because they won't pick the fight, they can't win the fight.
So they lose the fight.
And it's not enough.
It's not enough.
There are uh there was a picture at the uh uh the um uh at the Mandela funeral of the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand prime ministers, all sitting around uh some restaurant together uh in a uh some Italian restaurant somewhere in Johannesburg or whatever.
And there was a fourth chair at the table, just a little ordinary thing, you know, with a checkered tablecloth and one of those lampshades, uh, you know, candle in a bottle things where this candle wax all down the bottle.
Very simple Italian restaurant.
And uh and three conservative prime ministers, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and an empty chair.
And a lot of people emailed me and said is the empty chair Obama.
That's the trouble.
Uh that's the trouble.
In a two-party system, it's not enough for the Republicans not to be that's why they're not in power.
And when they are in power, they're not really in power.
As I said the last time I was here, there it's they're in office, but they're not in power in the sense that having uh a program of what they want to accomplish, what they want to effect, uh, and picking the right fights and winning those fights.
Boehner's Boehner's line gets to the heart of the problems with the uh modern Republican Party, and Rush's analysis uh of where that is taking us uh from yesterday is highly pertinent.
Mark Stein in for rush, lots more straight ahead.
The lash of that whip is John Boehner whipping extremists into light.
As reported the San Francisco Chronicle, uh that gay and bisexual boys are six times more likely to use steroids than heterosexual boys.
Twenty-one percent of gay and bisexual Uh schoolboys have apparently used steroids, according to a survey done in uh in Boston, I believe, in in uh in Massachusetts.
Uh and the reason advanced for why twenty s the the the steroid use in gay and bisexual boys is six times higher than in heterosexual boys, is apparently that gay and bisexual boys are so used to being bullied and uh have poor body image and take uh these anabolic androgen steroids to bulk themselves up.
Uh and I don't know, I'm not offering tips to the Republican Party or whatever, but if 21% of American gay and bisexual schoolboys are all pumped up on uh on these steroids because they're uh tired of being bullied, maybe John Boehner and the Republican Party in Congress uh need to try that.
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