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March 10, 2014, Monday, Hour #2

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	Yes, America's Anchorman is away and this is your undocumented anchorman, Mark Stein sitting in, no supporting paperwork whatsoever.
	Fear not, it is just for one day only.
	It's not one of those things like, what was it last month when he had some hideous flu that clobbered clobbered Rush and it was just like initially for one day and then it went on to the next day and the day after that and I think whatever it was, the fifth, ninth day, affiliates were fleeing in terror.
	But you will only be discombobulated by a sinister foreign guest host for one day only because Rush is out at a late-breaking charity event today and he will return to take you through the rest of the week with full strength, authentic, all-American excellence in broadcasting.
	As American as apple pie and food stamps, Rush will return live at midday tomorrow.
	And I mentioned that the big news tonight is part of this misdirection campaign that the Democrats are going to be doing and will be driving you nuts over between now and November.
	A majority of Senate Democrats on Monday will launch an overnight talk-a-thon.
	By the way, the Senate is supposedly the world's greatest, what is it called?
	The world's greatest deliberative body.
	The world's greatest deliberative body.
	It doesn't deliberate anything.
	It never holds any debates on anything.
	It's part of the Potemkin theater of Washington politics.
	When you switch on the TV and you see a senator giving a speech to an empty room all by himself, there's nobody across on the other side of the aisle.
	There's nobody arguing with him and debating with him.
	So this will just be some...
	Now they've decided to extend it and to have an overnight talk-a-thon.
	They're going for the Guinness Book of Records, how many senators can talk to themselves overnight for this.
	And if it works, maybe they'll do it every year.
	A climate change talk-a-thon.
	It'll be like the Jerry Lewis thing.
	It'll be there every year.
	Some cable channel will carry it and there'll be a 1-800 number where you'll be able to call in and donate if Senator Barbara Boxer manages to talk for another six hours.
	The overnight effort, this is from Susan Davis in USA Today.
	A majority of Senate Democrats on Monday will launch an overnight talk-a-thon.
	They're not calling it a filibuster, apparently, because there's no legislation under debate.
	You have a filibuster.
	As you know, if you've seen Jimmy Stewart and Mr. Smith goes to Washington and all that, you've got to have a piece of legislation to filibuster.
	Otherwise, you're just talking for no point.
	You could be doing it at home.
	You could be doing it in your rec room.
	But as part of the degeneration, the degeneration of America's political institutions, even though there's no legislation, they're going to stage an Urzats pseudo-filibuster in which they just talk for no purpose, with no legislation, with nothing to talk about.
	They're just going to talk.
	The Senate chamber.
	They've just booked the Senate chamber like they booked it for a talk-a-thon.
	Maybe you could book it for a dance marathon.
	Maybe you can book it for a bar mitzvah.
	Maybe you can book it for whatever you want.
	Maybe you can book it for a trivia quiz.
	Because apparently it's not there as a legislative body anymore.
	So the senators have just booked it for this all-night talk-a-thon that will go on until 9 a.m. tomorrow morning.
	So if you would like to do as President Obama did and go off and play golf in Key Lago, today would be a very good time.
	Try and get back to 9 a.m. because when you switch on certain cable channels, they're going to be showing this talk-a-thon and taking it seriously.
	The overnight effort was organized by Senator Brian Schatz, Democrat of Hawaii, and it's part of the recently launched Senate Climate Action Task Force headed by Senators Barbara Boxer of California and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island.
	In a statement, Boxer said Democrats wanting to wake up Congress to the dangers of climate change.
	And there's nothing more likely to wake you up than a seven-hour speech from Barbara Boxer.
	So the Democrats will attempt to do what Senator Ted Cruz did, if you recall, in September.
	But Ted Cruz was at least trying to stop an actual bill.
	These senators are calling for action, but they're not opposing any specific legislation.
	And why would they?
	Because again, again, at some point, American citizens have to get a grip on their political institutions because these guys are laughing at you.
	They're staging a filibuster, right?
	Except it's not a filibuster because there's no legislation.
	A filibuster is when you talk all night to prevent some form of legislation, some bill going through.
	But there's no bill here.
	And if there was a bill, Barbara Boxer and Brian Schatz and Sheldon Whitehouse wouldn't need to filibuster it because they're in the majority.
	So the bill would pass because they control the chamber.
	What they're doing is hijacking the world's greatest deliberative body.
	By the way, I can't stand that phrase.
	And I'm in favor of the total abolition of the Senate after I spent, whatever it was, four weeks there during the six weeks, whatever it was, during the Monica Lewinsky, the Clinton impeachment trial.
	And after about three days' exposure to the United States Senate, I was in favor of its abolition.
	New Zealand did that.
	They abolished their Senate.
	Sometimes that's what it takes.
	But what they're basically doing here is hijacking the Senate to stage a sort of dinner theater version, some bus-and-truck summer stock version of an actual filibuster, a stage filibuster, a phony filibuster.
	Just like, and this is why it comes down to the misdirection thing, just like that fake congressional hearing they held that Sandra Fluke testified at.
	That wasn't actually a congressional hearing.
	It was basically they were acting one.
	They brought Sandra Fluke in to testify to a bunch of Democrats in a room, so it looked like a congressional hearing, but it wasn't actually a congressional hearing.
	They just dressed it, the set, to look like a congressional hearing.
	And this is what's going on, too.
	There's no actual filibuster, but if you switch on certain cable channels, you'll see Barbara Boxer yakking away in the small hours in the Senate, and you'll think she's filibustering for something.
	But she wouldn't need to filibuster because her lousy party controls the Senate.
	It's like, it's, and so we mock Kim Jong-un with his 100% vote to North Korea's joke legislative assembly.
	We, we...
	We think, oh, you know, why do they bother going through that?
	You know, we all know he's a big dictator who has all his enemies killed.
	What's the point of even pretending there's a legislative assembly?
	Never mind pretending to have elections to it.
	We're doing the same thing here.
	We're just a couple of stages behind.
	This is nothing to do with a legislative body legislating.
	This is nothing to do with the rules and procedures, the parliamentary procedures of a legislative body being used to effect or hobble a piece of legislation.
	This is just lousy TV.
	This is like watching some low-budget, some like low-budget version of what's that thing with Kevin Spacey, that remake of House of Cards.
	This is like some Lame-O lifestyle version of House of Cards, where they couldn't get Kevin Spacey, so they signed Sheldon Whitehouse because he did, you know, he did the music man in high school when he was 12 years old.
	They're laughing at you, these guys.
	They're doing exactly Kim Jong-un.
	You know, when the chief electoral returns officer of North Korea walks into the presidential palace and says, I've got the results of today's election, Supreme Leader.
	And he goes, okay, I've been chewing my fingernails to the bone, waiting for them all day.
	What are they?
	Let me know.
	Lay them on me.
	I can take it.
	I don't care how bad they are.
	I just want the unvarnished truth.
	Let me know.
	And the chief elections officer of North Korea says, okay, Kim Jong-un, Supreme Leader, 100% of the vote.
	What was the name of his opponent Atar?
	Kim now gone.
	Kim now gone.
	0% of the vote.
	And Kim Jong-un, I can't believe it.
	He's like, Sally Field, you like me.
	You really like me.
	He can't get over it.
	He can't get over it.
	He's stunned.
	And then after the chief elections officer leaves and he's thinking about it and he's kicking loose, he's kicked off his shoes and he's watching the news analysis or whatever the North Korean version of PMS NBC is.
	And he's kicked off his shoes and he's relaxing and he's watching the battle.
	He's laughing his head off.
	He's laughing his head off at the mockery he has just made of responsible government.
	And that's exactly what Barbara Boxer, Sheldon Whitehouse, Brian Schatz and the other members of the so-called Senate Climate Action TASK Force will be doing at nine o'clock tomorrow morning, after they have, in effect, just hijacked the United States Senate as a set for their lousy, low-budget version of actual,
	real legislative parliamentary Democratic, Republican government.
	What they've done is they're making a mockery of the United States Constitution, a mockery of the United States Senate, a mockery of their own rules and procedures.
	You know, it would be nice.
	They don't have to be the world's greatest deliberative body.
	At this stage, it would be kind of impressive if they were just the world's 108th greatest deliberative body.
	If they actually, instead of just being a Potemkin parliament, providing this rinky-ink, tacky cardboard theater of legislative action, where they actually did genuinely deliberate things.
	But no, instead, you'll switch on the TV and Barbara Boxer will be talking rubbish about climate change for three hours.
	What about what's the carbon footprint on that?
	What's the carbon footprint on keeping the Senate lights on all night, even if they're just full of those lousy Curly Fry light bulb things casting their sepulchral groom over Barbara Boxer's exquisitely made-up face?
	What is the point of this?
	What is the point of this?
	And this is what too much of it has come down to now.
	And Republicans are to blame for going along with all this, too.
	This shadow theater, this pointless charade.
	And in the end, somewhere in conference, they get together and whatever you thought you'd voted on in the House or in the Senate or agreed just gets ramped up to whatever they were going to do anyway.
	They're making fools of you.
	They're making it, then not as murderously as Kim Jong-un, but with exactly the same contempt for you.
	Mark Stein in for Rush, 1-800-282-2882.
	Mark Stein in for Rush on the Excellence in Broadcasting Network.
	Let's go to Robert in Clearwater, Florida, Florida, whence President Obama has just returned after a grueling weekend of coming.
	I'm a mixture of common sense and humor.
	It's always really nice to hear you.
	Thanks a lot, Robert.
	What's on your mind today?
	Well, I tell you, you know, all this talk of all the things happening overseas and all that talk, that doesn't really bother me, Mark.
	I'll tell you what, I've owned my company for 14 years now.
	It's a small carpet cleaning company, upholstery cleaning, ceramic talk cleaning company.
	Back in 07, I had five employees.
	I slowly had to start whittling away, and now I'm down to working just myself.
	Wait, wait, wait a minute.
	I'm sorry?
	Wait a minute.
	So you had five employees and now it's just you.
	Now it's just me.
	That's correct.
	I work 75 to 80 hours a week, six days a week.
	I take one day off to go to church with my family, who I love very much.
	And I'm tired of being told that I'm one of the people that are very wealthy and I can support all these people that are coming into the country illegally, giving food stamps and welfare and all this.
	And I'm tired of being told I'm one of the evil rich.
	Mark, I'm telling you what, I am just so fed up with this.
	It's just, I can't even see straight.
	Sometimes, let me tell you a little personal story.
	About a month ago, I ended up in the hospital and I thought I was having a heart attack, and it wasn't that.
	It was just due to stress.
	My blood pressure is going through the roof.
	And this president is physically wearing me out, and he's wearing my wife out and all the other people that I know.
	And I just, I'm to the point now, Mark, where I just don't even know what to do.
	I'm just so upset.
	Why have you downsized your workforce?
	What was the main reason for that?
	Well, because nobody wants to have things cleaned as often as they did before.
	The work is just my income has been cut in half.
	It has been cut in half.
	And you're talking about the last five years because you're in a cleaning business like carpet cleaning, upholstery, that kind of thing.
	Correct.
	Yeah.
	It started back in 07.
	And then things have just slowly progressed to the point that they're at right now.
	I hope to hire more people again in the future.
	But you know what?
	He's just taking the dream of owning a small business and just really degraded it to the point now where I don't even know what to do.
	Because one of the things, presumably, is that when the economy headed south in late 2008, 2009, something like keeping your carpet spick and span and looking at its best becomes a discretionary item for people.
	If the economy is buzzing along, you can afford to do things like that.
	But then if once it starts to head south, you decide maybe we'll wait a couple more months.
	Maybe instead of having the carpets cleaned every three months, we'll do it every six months.
	We'll do it every year or whatever.
	And Robert is typical of what it means to be a businessman in this country.
	Listen to what he said.
	He said he's working 75 to 80 hours a week.
	He's the people, he's the guy that this administration has been waging war on.
	By the way, there's less experience of what Robert does in this administration than in any U.S. administration going back a century.
	In other words, less private sector experience, unless you count John Kerry, who was the sleeping partner in a donut stand in Boston for one summer before he was elected to Washington.
	Other than that, these guys have never had to do what Robert did with his five employees, Me to Paywell.
	Once you do that, you realize actually how complicated it is, how bureaucratic it is to hire anyone to work for you in this country.
	I hired someone, actually, used to be an employee of EIB who came to work for me.
	She lived in New York State because she went into Rush's office in New York and worked there every day.
	I had heard work for me.
	I had no idea the paperwork you have to fill in and the taxes you have to pay for the privilege of hiring a New Yorker, even when you do it from whatever it is, three or four states away in New Hampshire.
	I would never hire anyone from New York again.
	I would rather hire somebody from the jungles of Papua New Guinea to work for me because there's less paperwork.
	Robert has a bit, I don't know whether he has a C corporation or an S corporation or whatever it is.
	America has the highest corporate tax rates in the developed world.
	All the places that America thinks of as socialist basket cases have significantly lower corporate taxes than the United States has.
	Or Scandinavia.
	Socialist Scandinavia has lower corporate taxes than the United States.
	Regulation, federal regulation alone consumes 10% of GDP.
	That's just federal regulation before you add in your state and municipal and all the rest of it.
	One in the 1950s, I think it was one in 20 jobs required some kind of government license or permit.
	Now it's down to something like one in three.
	In other words, you can't, you think of all this rubbish, we're coming up to tax time.
	So this is the time when everybody's juggling W-2s and 1099s and all the rest of things.
	What is the cutoff for 1099?
	What is it?
	Now, $600.
	One American cannot write a check to another American without having to fill in a government form.
	This is why the country is seizing up.
	It's turning into the Republic of Paperwork.
	And Robert, it's not the Koch brothers or the sinister people who are at the sharp end of it.
	It's guys like Robert working 75 to 80 hours a week trying to keep a small one-man business going.
	Yes, Rush is away today at a charity event, but he will return live at 12 noon Eastern tomorrow to take you through the rest of the week for authentic full-strength excellence in broadcasting.
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	I mentioned at the top of the hour when I was talking about this climate change talk-a-thon that Barbara Boxer Is going to be doing live from the Senate tonight.
	And actually, that's a good way of reducing America's carbon footprint because everyone will be turning the lights off and going to bed early and leaving her to yak away to herself in the Senate.
	So it may do some good in terms of saving the planet and preventing the rise of the oceans and all the other things.
	But somebody said, well, you mentioned this court case.
	What is this?
	It's against, somebody, a couple of people twerked me about it, twittered me of it, twerked, tweeted, I forget what it was.
	But it's accompanied to the District of Columbia Superior Court.
	The hockey stick guy is a guy called Michael Mann is suing me for mocking his hockey stick.
	And I'm counter-suing him for, I think it's $20 million now because you don't get taken seriously in the American system unless it's at least an eight-figure sum.
	So I'm pushing back hard against this.
	And I actually think this is quite important.
	I think for me, this is a free speech issue.
	This is about how the left increasingly doesn't want to win the argument.
	It would rather just not have the argument.
	And the easiest way to do that is to sue you into shutting up, as is happening to me in the District of Columbia, and or to get the government bureaucrats to tie you up in paperwork so that you effectively shut up,
	which is what the IRS did to a lot of the Tea Party groups, or basically just to get you banned outright, to declare that what you say is apostasy, which is what the Los Angeles Times has done with opponents of climate change.
	The Los Angeles Times won't print any commentary or letters from people who are climate change skeptics.
	This is a broke dying newspaper in one of America's major cities.
	Really, it's quite disgraceful that if you were to go to any city of comparable size and influence, it's an influential city in America.
	It's Hollywood.
	There's a lot to write about.
	It's a dull one newspaper town whose dull newspaper is institutionally committed to becoming even duller because it has announced that it won't run any contrary views to apostasy.
	So it's no different from the Yemeni Times.
	The Los Angeles Times is no different from the Yemeni Times or the Waziristani Times, where the mullahs say you can't put anything in that questions Sharia, that questions Islam or anything.
	And the climate mullers are exactly the same.
	They just want it, they want the conversation to go away.
	They don't want there to be a discussion.
	And the Los Angeles Times goes along with that and says we're not going to print any contradictory, contradictory letters.
	So for me, this is a free speech issue.
	And obviously, it's a long shot because I'll be coming up in front of a DC jury.
	I'll be the weird foreigner with the sinister accent and attempting to persuade 12 members of a DC jury.
	And it might not go well for me.
	And I'm entirely, I'm trying to fund it entirely by defense by sales of my Christmas disco CD.
	So if you want to swing by my website, buy a Christmas disco CD, we might be good for another 10 minutes worth of discovery and deposition.
	But we'll be going to trial, I hope.
	By the way, don't get me started on the US justice system because I'm like of all foreigners, like the 7 billion people on the planet and everyone except the 300 million Americans.
	The only thing they know about the US justice system is that it takes up decades of your life and it's ruthlessly expensive.
	As someone who loves America and lives here, I always vaguely felt there must be more to it than that.
	But actually, it turns out there isn't.
	So I'm on the receiving end of U.S. Justice at the moment.
	And if you would like to buy my Christmas disco CD, be it or some other fine product, and help support my defense, I'd be awfully grateful.
	Let's go to Patricia in Bristol, Indiana.
	Patricia, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Good afternoon, Mark.
	My intent for calling this afternoon was to share with other Rush listeners our experience that my husband and myself are going through at the moment.
	We've been following all along the happenings and shenanigans going on at the IRS and have been quite disturbed.
	But our level of disturbance has skyrocketed this weekend when we received a letter from the IRS that we are going to get audited for our 2013 taxes.
	And we get our taxes prepared by a professional, but we have yet to submit the taxes.
	Now, yeah, just back up a minute here, Patricia, because it's March the 10th, and you file your taxes.
	The law requires you to file your taxes on April the 15th.
	Is that right?
	I would assume so.
	My husband takes care of it.
	I sign the dotted lines and go over them with them.
	Okay.
	So we're now five weeks before you file your taxes, the IRS has announced that it's auditing you for them.
	Correct.
	We received an official letter.
	We had our preparer go and look up to make sure that it wasn't a hoax or somebody playing a prank on us.
	And it is, in fact, an official letter from the IRS that we will be getting audited for, in essence, taxes that we have yet to submit.
	So, and we are just, you know, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, not anything unusual about us.
	The only thing that we have done that may, and my husband is calling me being a little too suspicious, is that we contributed to Governor Romney's decision.
	Now it all makes sense.
	Now it all makes sense.
	Yes.
	So me being watching all the IRS goings on, I'm trying to tell my husband they're trying to scare people off from contributing to any of the midterm or future general elections.
	No, this is the funny part is we've yet to submit our taxes and we're going to get audited.
	Right.
	You're essentially being pre-audited for taxes you haven't filed, for taxes which are not yet due.
	So they don't know.
	They don't actually know what taxes you filed.
	You may be, it's between you and your accountant right now, and you may be sending them a check for $27 on April the 15th, or you may be sending them a check for $45,000.
	They have no idea.
	They don't know.
	They don't actually know what your 2013 tax return is, but they've decided to audit it.
	No, but my guess is that they know our political affiliation and what we have contributed and to whom we've contributed by their data mining, I would suppose.
	That's the only logical thing I can come up with until we speak with them in the future.
	But I thought it was very suspicious that we get an official letter that they've already picked us out to audit when they don't have our taxes yet.
	Well, Patricia, I would say a couple of things here.
	First, I think it's actually important to push back against this.
	And I know that's difficult.
	The temptation is they always want you because everybody who deals with the IRS, when you get a letter or a phone call, you know that if you don't respond within a certain amount of time, they can freeze your bank accounts.
	They can take out a lien on your house.
	They can take your savings.
	They can take your kids' savings.
	If your kids got a little bank account with 43 bucks in it, they can take that.
	They can do anything they want.
	So the temptation always is to come to some arrangement with them, to come to some, to be affable and friendly with them.
	But you have to, this is extraordinary to me, to be preemptively audited for a tax return you haven't yet filed is something that should not be going on in a respectable country.
	It should not be happening.
	And so you should push back on the legitimacy of this.
	The first thing that should be done, either by whoever is your tax preparer, or if necessary, by a lawyer, is to say, well, what basis, or actually by you, on what basis do you presume to do that?
	Where is the regulation?
	I mean, we accept that, as I said earlier, Magna Carta was torn up by the IRS.
	Basic rights such as due process and the right to be to a trial and to be convicted in a court of a crime before you're subjected to forfeiture and seizure, the IRS doesn't have to abide by.
	That in itself is disgraceful.
	When in fact, let's say they were to audit you for your 2013 taxes, which is absurd, because as you say, we're five weeks from the filing date.
	So let's say they did it super quickly and decided in two weeks that they had the right to seize your car or to seize your savings account or your 401k or whatever, three weeks before, in fact, the filing deadline.
	This is tyrannous.
	This is why the IRS cannot be reformed and why it needs to be replaced with a far more dramatically circumscribed agency that does not have these kinds of powers, Patricia.
	And I know it's tough because one of the things you learn when you land in America and you come for the first year, first time you file your tax return, is that Americans have a different attitude to the IRS than the way the Canadians or the Australians or the British do to Her Majesty's revenue and customs in London or Canberra or Ottawa or whatever,
	and that Americans are actually scared of their tax revenue agency in a way that is unbecoming to a free people.
	And it's tough because Patricia is just somebody, as she said, they're Mr. and Mrs. Smith in Bristol, Indiana, and they're up against a powerful government with unlimited powers.
	But this is not something that civilized societies do, preemptively auditing you for a tax return that has yet to be filed.
	And we are five weeks away from the official deadline for filing taxes.
	Mark, sign in for us.
	More straight ahead.
	Hey, let's go to John in Libertyville, Illinois.
	John, you're live on the Rush Limbaugh show.
	Great to have you with us.
	Hi, Mark.
	I was interested in the comment you made before the top of the hour.
	You said that the two party organizations that were picked on by the IRS might have changed the outcome of the election if they'd been left alone.
	I thought that was kind of interesting because it seems to me it confirms once and for all that even you believe that those organizations were political organizations trying to change the outcome of an election and not organizations that were engaged in social welfare as they were pretending to be for the purpose of applying for tax exempt status.
	I mean, because after all, they weren't engaged in social welfare.
	They were trying to change the outcome of the election, right?
	Well, let's put it this way.
	I said up front that I don't, in an ideal world, I wouldn't have all this 501c3, 501c4, all that nonsense.
	If we had a simplified tax code and a reasonable level of taxation, then there would be no need for it.
	But if we are going to have them, 501c4s are, when they engage in their social activities, changing explicitly political election activity cannot be their principal function.
	But they have all kinds of 501c4s who are there's a group called American Family Voices, which is some Democrat group headed by a former Clinton guy.
	They're big players.
	They were one of the biggest spenders, biggest players in the elections.
	Planned Parenthood has a 501c4 that actively intervenes in the electoral process in order to ensure that people whose interests are perceived to align with Planned Parenthood wind up in the question for you then is maybe instead of like you've identified some liberal organizations or not conservative organizations that you think are involved in influencing the outcome of elections.
	Maybe you could tell me what Tea Party organizations that you feel the IRS treated unfairly.
	Which one of them were primarily engaged in social welfare activities that didn't have to do with influence the outcome of an election?
	Because I can't think of any.
	All the Tea Party organizations I know of are about affecting the outcome of elections, and that's political activity.
	So you tell me what sort of thing is that.
	Well again, John, I would say, John, that actually, that depends on how you look at it.
	The reality is, though, the reality is, though, that American family voices exist principally for the purpose of changing elections.
	The thing is, you can't have two sets of rules.
	You can't have tax laws.
	If you're going to have 501c4s, they have to be licensed fairly according to different groups.
	When you have a situation where Tea Party groups, groups on one side of the spectrum, are held up for months, years on end, but other groups sail through the process, like the group in Maine or whatever it was, then that's not applying the tax laws equally.
	I mean, this is by the way, by the way, John.
	By the way, John, as I said, I agree with you that I don't think that in an ideal world, these groups wouldn't exist.
	Most of the U.S. tax code, which is a vile abomination, a vile abomination that no person can understand.
	So it destroys the principle that ignorance of the law is no excuse because nobody, no matter how expert they are, can be up to speed on the U.S. tax laws.
	So it's all about the opt-outs.
	It's all about the exemptions.
	It's all about which little group.
	And that in itself undermines equality before the law.
	But people have come to accept it.
	But what absolutely destroys the integrity and rots the heart of a nation is if those laws are applied selectively according to the political beliefs of particular groups of citizens.
	And that is the issue here, John.
	That is the issue here.
	It's not something you guys can win.
	You guys can win.
	There's no argument about this.
	It's a 50-50 nation at best.
	And you guys have got all these other groups.
	you've got the media, you've got all the...
	If you formally need to use the tax collection agency of the government to chastise and punish your political enemies, to punish ordinary citizens who made the mistake of making some itsy-bitsy donation to your political opponent, you can...
	you guys are doing it wrong.
	You're the geniuses.
	We've just pointed out you got 100% of the vote in 59 Philadelphia precincts, in nine Cleveland precincts.
	If you guys need to do this, you should take a good long look inside yourself because you ain't doing it right.
	Mark's time for us more to come.
	About 100 miles south of John in Libertyville, Illinois, is Champaign, Illinois.
	Their Tea Party group was approved by the IRS in February 2010.

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