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Dec. 29, 2014 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 29, 2014, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 podcast.
Well, who did you expect?
I mean, seriously now.
This is the week between Christmas and New Year's, all the otherwise known as the holiday season.
You knew it wasn't going to be rush.
First of all, I've been filling in for Rush for how long have I been filling in for Rush?
It's a long time.
I've survived as a fill-in longer than anybody else has survived as a fill-in on the Rush program.
He's never here this time of the year, and I always am here this time.
You know who rules the week between Christmas and New Year's?
Fill-ins and temp services.
That's all that works in America.
Everybody else takes the week off.
Even nonbelievers take the week off.
The way they look, well, New Year's is going to grab up two, three days.
I don't want to work New Year's Eve, and then the day after New Year's, that's no good.
And you know, we're traveling, and who wants to come in for the we'll take these days off as vacation.
American employers can't find anybody to work this week.
So the Rush Limbaugh people find me because I'm old, reliable.
I always work between Christmas and New Year's.
I am shocked, however, first of all, I can't get into the building.
I show up and I come up to the floor end.
There's nobody here.
I'm calling on the switchboard phone and I'm calling on this, and there's nobody here, and there's nobody here, and there's nobody here.
Of course there's nobody here.
Nobody works this week.
I finally do get into the building, though, and the first string is here.
Broadcast engineer Mike Bamone is working.
Bo Snerdley's here.
We even dragged you up from Florida.
Where I'm doing the show from Eastern Command, otherwise known as New York.
So I've got the first string here.
I'm not the first string, but the first string is working with me.
The first string, of course, would be rush.
Am I like the third string then or the second string or the I'm whatever it is that I'm here.
The good news about all of this, since it's been a few months since I've been able to sit behind.
Where did the golden microphone go?
This isn't golden anymore.
It's on tour, it's traveling.
There have been some changes here.
This is I don't even have the golden microphone, even it's on break.
The good news is is that if you're a guest host and you're only on every now and then, as I'm only on every now and then, you get to save really months worth of material.
It's not like, you know, I'm Rush where he's got to churn it out three hours every day, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, open line, Friday, and has all this stuff that he's got to make interesting to you, and he can't use the same stuff every single day.
I can pile all of this stuff up and then wait to fire it away when I get my one shot, and that's what we're going to do on today's program.
So anyway, I get to thinking.
I don't know why I got to thinking about this, but I got to thinking.
And now you're gonna think along with me.
This is not for you to actually call in and bother the call screening staff with.
Just think about it for a moment and answer to yourself.
Name an American liberal.
I mean an important one.
Just name one.
Now, name a Democrat.
I know Obama, everybody can name him.
Name another one.
I'm going somewhere with this and I'll soon get you there.
In the meantime, there's this big debate developing over the Republican race for president.
Every Republican in America apparently is running.
CNN's got a new poll out, it shows Jeb Bush leading.
He's leading because they didn't include Mitt Romney in the poll.
Bit Romney was in, they'd probably be fighting neck and neck.
And of course, Jeb Bush is leading because he's the best known of the Republicans that are on the list.
People make a big deal about these things.
This poll is irrelevant.
The campaign hasn't started, none of the debates have started, we're still a year away from Iowa.
Jeb Bush is merely the best known, but he is on the top of the list.
Think though about all the Republicans that are either running or likely to run.
I only have a partial list in front of me.
I scribbled the I've got Jeb, Romney, Chris Christie, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Maybe Paul Ryan,
Scott Walker, the governor of my state, Wisconsin, Dr. Ben Carson, Bobby Jindal, John Kasich, the governor of Ohio, Rick Perry.
There's others.
Who didn't I say?
Sam Brown, Sam Brownbeck, Kansas.
You could go on and then name the second and third tier of people that are considering running.
Now just name a few other Republicans who might not run for president.
But have gotten to develop a national profile that are interesting people.
Rick Snyder, he's the governor of Michigan, Susanna Martinez, New Mexico, Nikki Haley, other interesting Republicans, Congressman ISA.
Then you've got the usual standbys, the old goats of the Republican Party, the leadership, you know, McConnell, Boehner, Cornyn, Alexander, McCain, Lindsey Graham.
I'm not suggesting that I'm fans of all of them.
My point, though, is this.
There are a lot of really prominent Republicans They come from every possible spectrum of the Republican Party.
We're all arguing with one another right now.
Some of them are pro-amnesty Republicans, some are tough on foreign policy Republicans, some are confrontational Republicans, some are appeasing Republicans, some are aggressive reformers like Walker,
others are moderates like Christie, even on the establishment level, Jeb Bush, political giant in terms of his name recognition and the awareness, two term governor of Florida, part of a family dynasty.
Here's I'm going with this.
There are, if you're evaluating the American political scene right now, there are all sorts of Republicans out there.
Nobody can name a Democrat.
Seriously.
Go up to one of your friends who isn't all that politically active, but generally aware.
Ask him to name a Democrat, but tell them that they can't choose the president and vice president.
Throw out Obama and Biden.
They're gonna give you Hillary, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
And they will be flummoxed after that.
Now you try it.
Name a Democrat in this country.
It's hard to do.
I mean, if Hillary Hillary's gonna run for president, Elizabeth Warren's likely the most prominent challenger.
Senator from Massachusetts, the fake Cherokee Indian, the lefties lover.
Elizabeth Warren.
Elizabeth Warren is just Obama.
She's barely been in the Senate.
She's never done anything.
Nobody really knows who she is.
Outside of Massachusetts, no one knows who she is.
And the average American has no idea who she is.
They never hear her name in the news.
They never hear her say anything.
She never stands up.
She's not associated with any particular cause or issue.
Name the issue you associate with Elizabeth Warren.
She hates Wall Street.
Okay, that's pretty good.
You got that one.
Of course it's your job to be aware of these things.
Yeah, she cut she kind of hates Wall Street.
What has she done about that?
Nothing.
Now you list all these other Republicans that I went through, and for better or worse, and I'm not suggesting I'm fans of all of them.
You can associate one or two or three or four or five issues from all of them.
Marco Robbio, some people think that he's too pro-amnesty.
At least an issue comes to mind.
He's advocating advocated a position.
Marco Rubio, critical of softening relationships with Castro and Cuba.
You can think of something.
Ted Cruz, confrontational, wants to take a hard line, wants to try to use the process to defund Obama's initiatives.
Again, for better or worse, you associate it with something.
Rand Paul for 5,000 ideas.
Again, for better or worse, ideas that you can think about That you can relate to him.
Scott Walker from my own state of Wisconsin.
Union reforms, collective bargaining reforms in an attempt to put his state back on a good fiscal plane.
Something that you can associate with and think of.
Jeb Bush.
Pro education, governor.
Soft on immigration, moderate.
Again, there's a profile and there's an identity.
Rick Perry in Texas.
Jobs, pro-economy.
Hard lied.
Ran for president, wasn't all that eloquent, out there very persistent.
Now, again, a profile and an identity.
Dr. Ben Carson.
Brilliant doctor, pediatric neurosurgeon, critical of the direction of America under Obama.
Thoughts on just about any issue you want to throw at him.
You get the drift that I'm going.
Even that's even that leadership tier.
The Graham's and the McCain's.
You can associate ideas.
Tough on pore and policy, soft on social policy, McConnell, Boehner.
You kind of know where they're all coming from.
In the meantime, you don't have any Democrats that I think anybody can develop an image, a profile, or anything of.
Now let's take it to the next level.
Commentators, pundits, people who shoot their mouths off, analysts.
Name an influential, interesting, American liberal.
Think about it.
Who?
There's only one that comes to mind, sharpened.
And that's only because he goes and interjects himself into everything.
If there's three people holding a protest sign, L Sharpton's going to show up and he's going to drag the television cameras with him.
But he's the only liberal commentator, analyst, agitator, advocate on the left that has any type of profile in this country at all.
I was reading a piece in the New York Times today about one of the big challenges is for MSNBC to figure out what to do with itself in 2015.
MSNBC's viewership is lower right now than it has ever been, which is saying something.
It's like the Cubs having their worst season ever.
I mean, how low, literally, can you go?
Name somebody who's on MSNBC.
I think Matthews is still over there.
They still have racial matto, maybe.
Okay, I kind of know that because I'm in the media.
No viewer knows it.
No viewer could know it because no one watches it.
Who are the other influential leaders from the left?
In the meantime, on my side, obviously you have Rush, Sean, O'Reilly, the whole list of people on Fox News, many other prominent conservative talk show hosts, some of whom are carried here on stations that are carrying my program right now.
The columnists.
The lefties have who?
Well, Paul Krugman.
Who's the second prominent liberal columnist out there?
Again, there isn't one.
How did this happen?
How did we get to the point in which liberals dominate the popular culture?
They dominate the media.
They control the presidency, and therefore the executive branch of the United States.
Yet nobody can name any of them.
None of them say anything.
None of them have an idea that anything anybody can associate with.
Here's a good one.
Name somebody in Obama's cabinet.
Can't say Holder because he's leaving.
John Kerry, is he in there, or did he already retire?
You don't even know.
Something has got to be responsible for this in my theory.
I have theories on everything.
My theory is that it's Obama.
He has sucked the wind out of the Democratic Party.
He sucked the wind out of liberalism.
That he has been such a one-man wrecking crew for their entire ideology that they're all gone.
In terms of politicians, between the 2010 and the 2014 elections, so many Democrats were defeated that they not only don't have a bench anymore, they don't have a first team, they don't have starters.
We're in a this situation that I'm describing here where you can't name anyone.
Barack Obama is the Jay Cutler of American presidents.
He gets everybody fired.
By the way, the Bears fired their coach in GM again.
Jay brings everybody down, so has Obama.
I think it's fascinating what's happened to the Democratic Party, what's happened to liberalism, that you can't really think of any of them.
What would happen to the Democrats if Hillary somehow couldn't run for president?
They'd have to find a candidate.
Would it just be Elizabeth Warren?
Who else would it be?
My name is Mark Belling.
The phone number at EIB is 1-800-28282.
Mark Belling's sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
Yeah, I mean, you're a Democrat.
What do you have?
Admittedly, Obama got Obamacare.
He's been able to implement whatever this amnesty is.
He's softening relations with Cuba.
He is the president.
He's gotten some of his junk done.
But at what expense?
Nobody wants to hear anybody defend it.
If they did, there'd be liberal talk show hosts, there'd be prominent liberal pundits.
MSNBC would be thriving as opposed to the cable television version of an endangered species.
They all just kind of feel a need to go along with all of this.
When they ran, their congressional candidates ran for the Senate in 2014.
They ran against him, but no real issues, just this vague, well, I'm not Obama.
There's no debate in that party.
There's no ideology.
You want to find a debate.
Get five Republicans together.
We'll yell and argue about everything.
Amnesty.
That's terrible.
Well, you've got to do something to bring those people into the American mainstream.
Agree or disagree.
Foreign policy.
You've got Rand Paul who's moving away from his isolationism, to Ted Cruz who wants to stick his beak into every part of the world.
I'm closer to his point of view.
But again, there's a debate on this.
There's a debate over how to deal with the Obama initiative.
Should you choose the power of the purse and the Congress be confrontational?
Or should it try to reach out?
American education, America's role in the world, the increasing threat of cyber terrorism.
All the debate, all the dialogue, all the discussion, all the proposals on this are coming from the right.
In the meantime, you've got this entire new generation of Republican stars, again, from all imaginable perspectives and wings of the party that have come out and are either considering running for president, will put off running for president, or being speculated about running for president.
By the way, I did not include Rick Santorum on my list.
Ran last time, he's running again.
I think the old governor of New York Fatacy's planning to run.
They're all running.
They're all well known.
In pinning the blame on what's happened to the Democrats on Obama, I think this.
I think you had a lot of Democrats from swing states who lost their jobs in 10 and the ones that survived in 10 got wiped out in 14.
You also have a lot of Democrats who realize that while Obama himself was able to get himself not only elected but re-elected.
There's no real support among the American public for his agenda.
So therefore, a lot of Democrats have kind of hushed themselves.
They don't speak out on any find a Democrat defending Obamacare.
Other than Pelosi and Reed, whose job it is to carry the water for the president.
There's no one doing that.
But they don't want to take him on because that would alienate the base of the party.
So you don't have any Democrats critical of Obama.
You don't have any that are standing up and defending him.
As a result, what we end up with is no real Democrats at all.
Okay, you're gonna run Hillary.
That's it.
Where have all the flowers gone?
Where have all the flower children gone?
There's no Democrats left.
Mark Belling in for Rush.
We want to talk to callers though.
1-800-282-2882 is the EIB number.
Let's start in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Victor, you're on EIB with Mark Belling.
Am I speaking to the fill-in host for the all-knowing, all seeing, all saying Maha Rushdie?
Uh, you gotta correct.
That's exactly what you're doing.
I am willing to wager you, Mr. Belling, uh shiny nickel that Liz Warren will be the next president of the United States.
Why do you think this?
Every liberal I talk to is thrilled with her.
And if you look back to where Barack Obama was this time before he got elected, people knew as much about him, which was not much.
You are right about that, but that almost makes my point.
Barack Obama, when he ran for president, was a blank slate who had done very little.
No one was able to which to identify him with any particular issue other than that he gave a couple of speeches.
He had no background on anything that anybody could relate to.
He was a charismatic figure that people extrapolated their own hopes and dreams on.
When he ran he ran on a campaign of hope, change, we can do better, all of this vague fuzzy stuff.
But he wasn't known for anything.
You're pointing out that Elizabeth Warren is kind of the same thing.
That may all be true, but my point is is that you don't have right now any intellectual heft in the Democratic Party.
You don't have any Democrats that are associated with any issues.
You don't have a bench in that party.
The liberals that you mentioned love Elizabeth Warren, and she may be able to translate that into a national campaign.
But I'm telling you right now, you're in Massachusetts, so you know her because she's from your state.
99% of America doesn't know who she is.
They saw her on television, they couldn't associate her with anything.
You ask a d in fact, I'll ask you.
Name a Democratic governor, not counting your own state, and you're now even you guys are gonna get a Republican.
Name a Democratic governor in the United States.
They would.
You do this for me.
Name someone who knew who Barack Obama was two years before his presidential election.
I'm not saying she I'm not saying she can't win.
I know.
The point that I'm making isn't about who's gonna win the next election.
The point that I'm making is that the Democratic Party has almost been vanquished in terms of personalities, identity, ideas.
The only thing anyone can associate is Obama himself.
That doesn't mean they're not going to win any more elections.
Although I do have to note, the only time they've won anything the last several years is when Obama himself was on the ballot.
When he wasn't on the ballot, and these other Democrats had to run just as Democrats, there was carnage.
Your own state elected a Republican governor, and you're calling me from Massachusetts.
If Massachusetts can elect a Republican governor, something here happened to the Democratic Party.
With regard to Elizabeth Warren, if she wasn't around, whoever the next person in line is, they'd probably dredge up because somebody has to run against Hillary Clinton.
The point that I try to make though is that on the national scene, in the great debate that we have about the direction of our nation, you have Democrats almost as non-participants.
The air has been sucked out of that party, and it goes beyond the elected officials.
It goes beyond the Congress, rather.
It goes to the governors.
There's not a Democrat that Democratic governor in this country that people can even name, much less identify with the reforms or the issues that he or she has taken on, and even down to the level of the pundits.
It is never been worse for liberal talk show hosts than it is right now.
It has never been worse for MSNBC than it is right now.
There's gotta be a reason for that.
And I launch back to Obama that he has essentially ruined the careers of just about everyone on the left.
None of them are around anymore.
Thank you for the call, Victor.
Do appreciate it.
Let's go to uh is that Bert, Michigan?
Brenda, you're on EIB with Mark Belling.
Hi, Mr. Belling.
Thank you for speaking to me.
You're welcome.
Um thank you.
Um my thought on the issue of the Democrats and not having any leadership type faces is that they don't need one.
They've molded and marketed themselves into like the popular kids in school.
If you want to be cool, if you want to rule, you gotta be like us.
And I I think pretty much it's been a media media fantasy, and people don't bother knowing what someone stands for anymore.
They just go with, oh, she's so cool or he's so stupid, or she's she rocks, or she's just ignorant, and that's how they vote.
It's like they're voting for prom key.
I I think you're right about that, and it certainly explained a lot of Obama's appeal in eight, maybe not in twelve, but Obama doesn't get to run anymore.
And I think you'd have a real, real hard time establishing the he's neat, he's cool about, say, Joe Biden.
And then as for everything else, take a look at your own state.
Uh, you're calling me from Michigan.
Your governor Snyder, a Republican got re-elected after they passed right to work legislation in one of the most in one of the strongest union states in America, the state of Michigan.
The Democrats couldn't dredge up anyone there, so all the he's cool or he's trendy, or they're on the right side, that didn't help.
You take a look at the elections in 14, every swing state in the United States went Republican.
Some states that are blue went Republican with regard to their governors.
The Republicans now have more members of the House of Representatives than they've had in decades.
Something had to happen as a result of that.
And the whole thing about the he's cool, she's this, she's trendy.
You still need somebody to be able to do it.
Tell me the Democrat, once we're past Obama, that anybody's going to be able to say he's cool or is trendy or as interesting.
Maybe one will be invented sometime in the next couple of years, but there isn't one right now.
I'll ask you, Brenda, name an interesting or cool or trendy American Democrat, you don't get to say Obama.
Well, none of them are really trendy or cool to me because their viewpoints are too insipid and they're too like um what do you call it?
Ask, ask you, ask one of the kids who you say gravitates over to the Democrat side to name one.
Ask and ask one of your friends who isn't all that political to name an American Democrat, and they don't get to choose the leadership.
They can't choose Obama and Biden, and they can't choose Pelosi and uh Pelosi and Reed.
They really can't.
How did that really happen?
Now your point is is that they've established themselves as being on the so-called correct side of things.
They're pro-gay marriage, they're pro-tolerant, they're not judgmental, they want to get along with the world, etc.
etc.
etc.
But we've put all of those policies into place and they pretty much have not worked.
What's happened in response to this is that you've had an entire generation of Republicans kind of emerge from out of essentially the heartland, all those names that I mentioned before, they're all out there.
Now I don't know who's going to become the next president.
I don't even know even know who of them is going to be the Republican candidate.
But we got to admit they're all there, they're all saying things, they're all having attention paid to them, and the only real debate and dialogue right now is Republicans arguing with other Republicans.
Democrats aren't arguing with other Democrats because right now Democrats don't have anything to say.
And the other thing that Obama's done, now that we essentially have gay marriage in America, and if his amnesty holds, they've gotten like the one or two things that they most care about done.
What do they want to do now?
They don't have an answer to that.
Look at the problems that we face in the United States in urban America.
They've got no solutions.
I think one of the reasons that the Ferguson, Missouri thing resulted in all of these other protests, you finally found a thing that liberals could gripe about or take a stand on.
Because other than that, they don't have anything to offer really on much of anything.
To uh Ann and thank you for the call, Brenda, to Hemett California and Ann, and you're on EIB with Mark Belling.
This is an interesting conversation.
Um Thank you.
Since it's my conversation, I'll take that as a compliment.
Yeah, and you should.
There's two things.
First of all, with regards to uh liberal commentators, you did miss somebody.
The guy is a brilliant interviewer, uh, Chavez Smiley.
Yeah, I know who he is, right?
You know who I'm talking about?
Yes, I do.
Okay.
The man's a great interviewer.
I don't care for his politics, but he's right in there with the with the best of them.
As regards naming uh governors, how about government?
Let's go back to what you said though about uh and before you go any farther on Tavis Smiley.
What what network is he on?
I'm sorry.
What network is he on?
He is on uh God, I don't know, public TV.
Yeah, he's uh I I think he started on BET, he's on some channel out there.
You know, my point is is that he's not exactly prominent.
If he's uh if he had a talk show like Rush had, I doubt that I doubt that there'd be a lot of listeners.
I I just think that L. Sharpton is really the go-to guy that they have over there, and that's just because of his demagoguery and the fact that he interjects himself into everything.
L. Sharpton doesn't offer interesting solutions, he doesn't have policy ideas, he doesn't advocate or argue on specific approaches.
He just goes out there and demonize and says all the cops are bad or gripes about this, that, or the other thing.
All my life, the most prominent people out there, the glamour politicians have been Democrats.
All my life, the most prominent people that were out there given a platform to lecture the rest of us, were liberals.
Maybe a few talk radio hosts, that was it.
Suddenly, and it's such a recent phenomenon.
The Democratic Party has gotten to be the party in which, other than the old bull leaders, you can't even name a member that they have in the Congress.
There isn't an interesting Democratic governor in which you can say, boy, he's a rising star, she's a rising star.
In the cabinet, there's nobody that you can point to as having done a sterling job and carved out some sort of identity for him or herself, other than maybe Holder, and that was for worse.
Obama's just been such an overwhelming presence and such a polarizing figure that he's taken the entire stage away from the rest of his party.
And I also think he's made it almost impossible for Democrats, for liberals to argue amongst themselves about their approach on anything.
Dare you criticize Obama?
You're ostracized.
Now they all tried to in the 2014 election when they were running to save their jobs.
Mary Landrow was saying that she, you know, terrible president, and can't believe that he didn't prove the Keystone XL, so forth and so on.
But other than in that campaign, they couldn't take him on.
There's never been any kind of debate.
There's never any kind of dialogue that they offer, and even their own punditocracy, the pundit class, doesn't exist anymore.
Who really wants to tune in and listen to Chris Matthews?
Evidently, no one, even he's been drained.
There really isn't any active liberal movement in the United States with any personalities or figures that anybody can even name.
And that's brand new.
It's a totally new phenomenon.
Now, maybe it isn't because of Obama, but I can't come up with any other explanation for it.
I'm Mark Belling, and I'm sitting in for Rush Limbaugh.
Mark Belling in for Rush.
You want another quiz?
Name an American Democrat under 55 years old.
Name one.
That's a stumper, isn't it?
That's a real brain buster.
I didn't say 40.
I said 55.
Look at who their governors are.
Okay, they've got Cuomo in New York.
He seems to be adrift.
Now name a Democratic governor.
Jerry Brown.
He's 800 years old.
Jerry Brown emergency.
You know when Jerry Brown was cool?
The 70s.
I know because I was there.
I remember him emerging.
Jerry Brown's a guy from not the zeros, not the 90s, not the 80s.
California, which Is going to persist in electing Democrats to everything apparently forever.
Even there, the best they could find to run their state is a guy who was they called him Governor Moonbeam two generations ago.
Look at all these swing states that unfortunately keep going blue in the presidential election that the Republicans just can't figure out a way to be able to carry.
Who's the Democrat governor for many of them that anybody's ever heard of?
Everybody has heard of my governor, Walker, controversial guy, polarizing, adored by many on the right, despised by many on the left, but they at least have heard of him because he's done something.
Everybody knows who Rick Perry is.
A lot of people know who Gindal is.
You can go through the list.
Given the fact that most people under 35 still identify themselves as Democrats, you sure would think that you'd be able to name one of them.
The Democrats don't even have not only don't have any rising stars, what stars they have all belong in the old folks' home.
Combine the average ages of Pelosi, Reed, Biden, and Hillary.
In other words, take Obama out.
The average age there.
What, 81?
Let me take a call.
Palatine, Illinois, and Joe.
Joe, you're on the Rush Limbaugh program with Mark Belling.
Hi, um, Mark.
Hi, Joe, you're on.
Um, I'm an educator, and I was extremely upset with you saying that Jeb Bush is pro-educted.
He is not.
And this is critical that everyone in this world knows that he is against education.
He is with common core.
And common core treats everyone the same.
In other words, but I know and understand the learning process.
People learn differently.
Everyone's an individual, not a collective.
Common core is part of a collective, a way of socializing.
The Common Core opposition isn't going to go away.
That thing is out there.
When I when I said pro education, I merely identified that as the issue that he was associated with in Florida.
The point that I was making about all these Republicans is that a lot of us conservatives think many of these Republicans are wrong on a lot of issues, and a lot of people think that Jeb Bush's approach to education in Florida was way too governmentalized.
I wasn't suggesting this as an endorsement of any of them.
What I was saying is that for better or worse, and in your case for worse, you can identify him with something.
There are things that are known about him.
There's positions that he's taken that people can relate to.
He is a man of prominence.
The whole problem for the Republicans in determining who their president is going to be is it's going to be really hard for anybody to rally around any alternatives because there are so doggone many of them.
I don't know how they're going to do the debates this year.
You know, when they have the you know the year before they have all these debates, the county fair in Iowa and all that.
There's going to be 25 Republicans there.
The Democrats are going to what?
Have Hillary?
Elizabeth Warren might.
I I think the old socialist Bernie Sanders might run.
They can hold their debate in a phone booth.
The Republicans are going to need Madison Square Garden.
I'm Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
Mark Belling sitting in for Rush.
Most nerdly points out that the axe is falling on the football coaches.
The NFL regular season ended.
Tressman, the guy the Bears hired from Canada, he's fired.
Rex Ryan's been fired.
Well Rex.
Doesn't seem like he was fired three years ago.
Football coaches and Democrat politicians.
It's it's been a bad year for almost all of them.
I'm going to carry this theme on into the uh next hour of the program.
I've also got a really, really good guest back from my home area of Milwaukee that we're going to get onto the program sometime in the next hour as well.
You're going to like hearing from him.
I've been on this thing, though, about how Democrats have become endangered species.
There aren't any prominent Democrats left.
There's no prominent liberal commentators or pundits anymore.
And I relate it to Obama.
It's so much different than really just 10 or 20 years ago when the Republicans were bringing out fossils like McCain and Dole and had no new young blood.
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