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Aug. 24, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 24, 2015, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, America's Anchorman is away, and this is your EIB anchor baby, Mark Stein, sitting in.
No supporting paperwork whatsoever coming to you direct from far northern New Hampshire, hard by the Canadian border.
That's where we need the border wall.
I don't know why there isn't a whole great big impenetrable wall along the 49th parallel already.
These Canadians are sneaking.
There's a Canadian actress called, what was her name again, Mr. Snerdley?
What's the name of this Canadian somebody Page?
Ellen Page, Ellen Page.
And she's world famous all over Canada, as they used to say.
I don't actually even know if that's true.
She's in movies down here.
She snuck across, she snuck across the unguarded northern frontier and she working down here in motion pictures and she accosted Ted Cruz, another Canadian who snuck across that northern border.
They're all doing it now.
And she had a big argument with him at the Iowa State Fair about gays and he cleaned her clock.
It was a thing of beauty.
It was a fig of beauty.
Don't take it from these people.
Push back as hard as you can.
Punch back twice as hard, as the blogger Instapundit likes to say.
And Ted Cruz did.
And they had a little bit of a big ding-dong while he was grilling pork at the Iowa State Fair.
And she came and accosted him this household name, Ellen Page.
And he pushed back.
We'll get into that because it's actually what more of these candidates should be doing.
Rush is away for a couple of days, taking a bit of well-deserved personal time, but he'll return on Wednesday for authentic full-strength all-American excellence in broadcasting.
1-800-282-2882 is the number to call as we begin another dramatic week in the fortunes of the Republic.
As I speak, markets around the world are reacting to the news that Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren have hammered out an agreement to run as a presidential dream ticket.
The Dow opened a thousand points down on the news.
London, 5% down, Shanghai, 8% down.
And that's just before they've officially launched the campaign.
So we should be in complete, total economic collapse by the time they absolutely run.
This is the genius of Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Four months ago, Joe Biden was a laughing stock.
After four months of the Hillary campaign, he's now the calm, steady, dignified elder statesman everyone's been pining for all along.
Wesley Pruden in the Washington Times writes, quote, the lady has been saying for weeks that nothing on her email server was classified.
Recently, she revised and extended that to, quote, nothing was classified at the time it was put on the server.
Now she revises and extends still further, arguing that the security classifications are confusing and subject to interpretation.
Quote, she was at worst a passive recipient of unwitting information that subsequently became classified, a spokesman explains.
This may be the first time in her life that Hillary, who has been called many things, has been called passive.
Yes, usually in the Clinton life, it's Bill's other women who are just the passive recipients.
Actually, her husband's argument during all that business with Monica, when he claimed to have not reciprocated, as the Star Report said, he said he never had sex with Monica.
And essentially, his position was he was at worst a passive recipient of unwitting sex from Monica.
And Monica's dress was just a passive recipient of unwitting DNA material.
Hillary says she was at worst a passive recipient of unwitting information that subsequently became classified.
Just as when Monica brought Bill a pizza that first time, Bill was merely a passive recipient of unwitting pizza that subsequently became sexified.
This is how it is with the Clintons now and forever, now and forever.
On the Republican side, a new poll from Reuters and via Ipsos, the polling organ.
I think they're a Canadian polling organization.
Canadian actresses, Canadian presidential candidates, Canadian pollsters, the whole thing.
You don't you get the feeling sometimes this whole presidential election is just some kind of Canadian racket being played out south of the border.
Trump is at 32% in this poll.
Bush, 16%.
Carson, 8%, Huckabee, 7%, and Walker 5%.
And this poll, I assume, taken at the end of last week.
And we heard all this stuff that the winners, the big winners in the debate, people said, were Marco Rubio.
He had performed terrifically in that debate.
He gave a marvelous debate performance, absolutely magnificent debate performance, didn't put a foot wrong.
And what that gets you in this latest Reuters Ipsos poll is that Marco Rubio is 4%.
John Kasich.
John Kasich, he was another man who was said to have had a brilliant performance.
He gave this answer on gay marriage.
Everybody liked it, everybody loved it, to magnificent performance.
John Kasich is now at 2%, according to this poll.
In a three-way match of the three frontrunners in the Republican primary, Trump beats Bush and Carson.
Trump, 44%, Bush, 29%, Carson, 25%.
Every time I switch on the television, you've got these Republican consultants saying that Bush has a ceiling.
This ceiling is actually rising higher than the lobby of Trump Tower now.
The ceiling was originally supposed to be 20%.
Then the ceiling was 25%.
Then the ceiling was 30%.
Now, in a three-way matchup, Trump, 44%, Bush, 29%, Carson, 25%.
That's the current highest bid on Trump ceiling.
And this is like Sotheby's on acid.
Where do you bet it's going to be once we're a couple more polls down the road?
The Trump ceiling keeps getting higher and higher.
I saw some, Meet the Press had this guy, Charlie Black.
Do you know Charlie Black, Mr. Snowdley?
He's like, oh, Mr. Snerdley professes not to know Charlie Black.
He's a fantastic expert.
He was an advisor to the McCain and Romney campaigns.
And he says that's the qualification, expertise, experience, the track record he brings to the table.
Yes, he's a great expert at losing, which is what the Republican establishment likes.
And so he was an expert consultant to the McCain and Romney campaigns, which is why he probably has a beach house in Malibu and a place in the Bahamas by now and ski place up in Colorado.
It's worked out great for him.
Didn't work out so well for McCain and Romney, but he showed great insight in picking the guys who give the best concession speech.
And that's really what we're looking for in a Republican primary process.
And he said, Jeb is the frontrunner.
He actually said this.
He said, Jeb is the frontrunner.
And then he realized it might sound a bit odd.
So he said, well, no, not the frontrunner in terms of actually leading in the polls or anything like this.
He's got, you know, but Jeb basically is the dream candidate.
He's got everything he needs except votes.
But he's perfect, this guy.
I mean, this is how the Republican consultant class talk.
And this is why they lose.
It's a world unto itself.
Is there like an alternative bizarro universe, Mount Rushmore?
And this guy, Charlie Black, and Rick Wilson and all these other genius Republican consultants, they live at the foot of this alternate bizarro Mount Rushmore.
And up on top of it, you've got Mitt and you've got John McCain and you've got Wendell Willkie.
I mean, did this guy Charlie Black work on the Wilkie campaign?
Was he a consultant to the 1932 Herbert Hoover campaign?
That's really a model of how to run a perfect presidential campaign.
And these are the people that these guys turn to for insight into why Donald Trump is a disaster to the Republican Party.
Jeb is in some ways the frontrunner, said Charlie Black on Meet the Press.
And then he realized people might think he's like holding the graph upside down.
So he says, although not really in the polls right now.
No, he's not.
In this latest poll, Trump beats Bush 44% to Jeb Bush's 29%.
Things are moving and changing fast in the Republican Party.
But this idea that, and again, this is a classic, by the way, this is a classic Republican establishment position.
It's why they fail to roll anything back.
It's like they were going to, you remember they were going to destroy Obamacare And then they decided that they couldn't destroy Obamacare, but they were going to leave it to the Supreme Court because the Supreme Court was bound to strike down Obamacare as unconstitutional.
And of course they didn't.
So Obamacare is there.
And they've applied the same argument to Trump.
Oh, Trump is going to implode.
Trump's got a ceiling.
Trump's not going to make it.
Everything they said about Trump, essentially, they said about Obamacare and amnesty, promising to defund amnesty.
And it's the same lesson, whether you're talking about Obamacare, the same lesson for the Republican establishment.
Whether you're talking about Obamacare, whether you're talking about amnesty, whether you're talking about Donald Trump, you can't just sit around on talk shows saying the thing's going to implode.
You have to destroy it.
If you want Trump not to be there, you're going to have to take that guy out.
Just as if you don't want Obamacare to be there, you're going to have to take it out.
And if you don't want amnesty to be there, you're going to have to take it out.
And the Republican Party, the do-nothing Republican Party establishment that hasn't taken Obamacare out and hasn't taken amnesty out is now saying, oh, don't worry about Trump.
We don't need to take him out.
He's just going to implode anyway.
This is about the Republican establishment.
This is about the genius expert.
There was a poll.
What was it?
That Politico story.
Seven in 10 Republicans say they've heard more than enough about Trump's plan.
You think, what's that?
Seven in ten Republicans, they don't want to hear any more about Trump yaking on about immigration and ending birthright citizenship.
This is a politico story.
Seven in ten Republicans say they've heard more than enough about Trump's plans.
Time for him to shut up.
Headline, Geo, and then and then you look at it.
Look at it.
And it turns out to be seven out of ten Republican insiders in early states say they want him to shut up.
You know, the guys who pick the losing candidate, the guys who pick the fellas who give the fabulous concession speeches, the guys who give you John McCain and Mitt Romney and Bob Dole.
Nobody makes a concession speech on a Tuesday night in November like a mainstream Republican establishment candidate.
And these guys are the ones who are now telling us Trump's hit is ceiling.
Ah, 20%, that's his ceiling.
25%, that's his ceiling.
32%, that's his ceiling.
Or in this poll, 44%.
That's his ceiling.
And he's peaked too early.
That's the other lie they say.
He's peaked too early.
I love that lie.
You know, say what you like about Mitt Romney, John McCain, Bob Dole.
They didn't peak too early.
They left it instead of peaking on whatever it is the first second Tuesday and first Tuesday after the third, first Tuesday after the second Sunday in November or whatever it is, they left it to Inauguration Day, a day after inauguration to peak.
Mitt Romney didn't peak too early.
Bob Dole didn't peak too early.
John McCain didn't peak too early, but Trump's peaked too early.
Nonsense from Republican establishment.
We'll talk about that.
We'll talk about Hillary and we'll talk about the rest of the week's news as stock markets around the world plummet in expectation of Joe Biden's entry into the presidential race.
Mark Stein in for Rush, more straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for rush on the EIB network from the Associated Press.
Topless protesters marched through Manhattan in call for equality.
They took to the streets of Midtown.
They're actually parading down the Great Whiteway itself, a great parade of topless women demanding equality.
I thought at first it was the swimsuit round for Donald Trump's vice presidential selection, but it turns out it's about equality.
I think these naked women want there to be federal regulation so that all breasts are the same size or something like that.
But they were marching down the streets of Broadway through Midtown Manhattan yesterday.
The week says, sorry, Donald Trump.
America needs birthright citizenship.
Which ones?
CNN says, sorry, Jeb, anchor babies is a slur.
If you remember, Jeb used the term anchor babies.
And this is, you should always listen very carefully when the media are telling you what they don't want you to talk about.
And that's what's going on since Trump brought up birthright citizenship.
By the way, this is what candidates are meant to do.
You know, candidates are not meant to react to subjects and discuss them within the left's framework.
That's another reason why the right always lose, even when they win, because they never win on a right-wing platform.
They never win on a conservative platform.
They equivocate and say, well, we won't be going, oh, don't worry, we won't do anything about abortion, and we won't do anything about that.
And we'll just keep everything within the left's framing of the issues.
And now all of a sudden, presidential candidates, Scott Walker has had three positions on anchor babies, birthright citizenship, in the last seven days, according to CNN, because it's entered the political discussion.
And that's something else you should be looking for in a candidate, guys who get issues in there.
And I don't want to get into the Constitution thing on, if you want to talk about birthright citizenship, I'm happy to talk about it with you.
I don't really want to get into the Constitution thing, and I'll tell you why, because the United States Constitution has been tortured into complete meaninglessness.
The United States Constitution, whatever the 14th Amendment meant, according to the senator who drafted it, it's been tortured into a whole other set of words by various judges over the years.
And the United States Constitution means whatever Anthony Kennedy wants it to mean when he wakes up in the morning.
So it didn't mean that a man, the 14th Amendment didn't mean that a man could marry a man or a woman could marry a woman until a week ago last Tuesday.
And then one morning, Anthony Kennedy woke up and wrote that Hallmark greeting card to the profound mystical effusions of gay love and how it would commit a lonely gay man to live in the well of loneliness if he couldn't make it.
And that's none of that's in the 14th Amendment.
But Anthony Kennedy just woke up in the morning, looked at himself in the shaving mirror and decided to read it into the 14th Amendment.
And why don't useless conservatives and useless Republicans learn from big gay?
Big gay in Nothing Flat, which barely existed 20 years ago, has gotten everything it wants because they fight for it, they mean it and they want it.
And Anthony Kennedy's effusions on the profound fluffiness of gay love, there's nothing jurisprudential about that.
As I said, it's a Hallmark greeting card.
But he wrote it because they had sufficiently changed the culture that he brought the Constitution into alignment with it.
So don't give me this stuff about how the 14th Amendment means anchor babies are U.S. citizens.
What do you want?
What do you want for your country?
As Rush was talking about last week, there's hardly anywhere else on the planet in any country you'd actually want to live in that has birthright citizenship.
Because if you have birthright citizenship, eventually it becomes a country you don't want to live in.
Not a single European country has birthright citizenship.
In Australia, one parent has to be an Australian citizen or a legal resident for a baby there to be Australian.
Same thing in New Zealand.
In France, one parent has to be born in France.
In Ireland, your parent has to be either an Irish or UK citizen, or you have to be a permanent legal resident.
Basically, only Canada and the United States have unqualified birthright citizenship.
And Canada, frankly, only has it because you guys have it.
Otherwise, they wouldn't bother with it, too.
And the fact is, it's imposing far less strain on Canada than it is on the United States.
So start from that basis.
Do you really want to be at odds with Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, Italy?
In other words, if this position is too left-wing, even for left-wing Scandinavian social democracies, too left-wing even for the French, too left-wing for the Irish, why is the United States so determined?
There's nothing exceptional about American exceptionalism if it just means you're exceptionally suicidal.
And that's ultimately what birthright citizenship means.
And Donald Trump put that into the political conversation.
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Whenever you say anything about Donald Trump since this whole thing started, people accuse you of being a Trump supporter.
So I might as well just lay out where I am at the moment.
I'm enjoying the show.
And I don't mind that he's not playing by the rules.
I like the way he's blowing up the rules because the rules don't work for the Republican Party.
Basically, you have a political system in the United States that is institutionally frozen.
So there's only two parties.
There's a Canadian general election going on right now.
It's twice as long as it usually is for some reason.
It's an 11-week campaign.
Normally, it's a six-week campaign.
That's it.
Soup to nuts.
Six weeks, over, boom, done.
There's four national parties and one Quebec Separatist Party.
So if you're like in Montreal, there's five parties on the ticket.
And the chances are that one of them roughly aligns where you are.
Here, there are two parties institutionally frozen since the Civil War.
There's no equivalent to that anywhere else in the developed world where parties come and go.
They have their time.
They outlive their usefulness.
They're replaced by something else.
Here, there are two parties.
It's a two-party, one-party state, basically.
Washington is a two-party, one-party state.
And actually, if you think about it, the Soviets might have lasted longer if they'd had a sort of Communist Party and the mildly less Communist Party, and you had a choice between them.
It would have had the simulacrum of a genuine give-and-take, rough and tough electoral politics.
So we have this frozen two-party one-party state, which works beautifully in terms of delivering big government and big bureaucracy to one-party supporters.
When they say this line, Rand Paul, who should know better, because Rand Paul is a smart guy, and he uses this line, Washington is broken.
Excuse me?
If you're a liberal, Washington works great.
Just this one guy, this fellow who's been in for the last eight years and for six of those years with a supposedly hostile Congress, has managed to give you Obamacare.
He's managed to give you suspend the immigration laws and give you amnesty and the DREAMer Act.
He's managed to give you gay marriage.
He's managed to end Bush's wars.
He's managed to massively expand food stamps to 50 million people, EPA regulations up the wazoo.
Washington isn't broken if you're a liberal.
It's actually a very effective vehicle for delivering the world you want to live in.
And for a conservative, unfortunately, the two-party one-party state has not been as effective at delivering the world you want to live in.
The difference I often say is that Democrats are in power and Republicans are in office.
When Democrats are in power, on day one, they start figuring out how to bring about amnesty and gay marriage and Obamacare and all the rest of it.
Day one.
Don't care.
Scott Brown gets elected and in the 20 minutes before he takes his seat, Obama takes a great big wooden mallet and hammers Obamacare down the throats of an America that didn't want it.
Because Obama made a bet.
He bet on the mainstream Republicans that they would not, even if they won the next electoral cycle, that they would not repeal Obamacare.
He bet on that.
In December 2010, he bet the Republicans would not have the guts to do any, in the end, to do anything about Obamacare.
Now, here we are five years later, and I'll leave it to, I'll leave it to you guys to decide whether that was a good bet.
If you're a Democrat, betting on the inertia of the Republican Party, whether that's a good way to bet.
And so what we have now is a situation where one guy who may or may not be a conservative or a Republican or anything, he's basically a Trumpian.
You know, he has, like a lot of people, he's got a set of not terribly coherent political views, some of which are in tune with a Republican way of looking at things, some of which are not.
But what he is is a businessman, and he's figured that the Republican Party is ripe for a hostile takeover.
And so far, he's not wrong on that.
So Trump Enterprises Worldwide Inc.
is making a hostile takeover bid for the Republican Party.
And to beat him, to beat him, you've got to come up with something better.
It's not enough just to say, oh, he's going too far.
He's going to implode.
It's ridiculous.
He's just going to collapse.
It's not serious.
Pay no attention to it as he wafts higher and higher up to 44%.
Why is Hillary in trouble?
It's the same thing on Hillary.
I'll say one more thing on Trump.
As I said, I'm not endorsing Trump, not supporting Trump, and I entirely agree that he is not a philosophical conservative in the way that George Will is.
But you watched the split screen they had when they were both in New Hampshire a couple of days ago.
And there's Trump at some venue.
I think was it a high school or was it a sports stadium?
He's at some place in southern New Hampshire, absolutely packed.
At the same time, Jeb is speaking to some audience at some other high school somewhere else in southern New Hampshire at the same time.
And Trump is going on about how Jeb is inert.
He's got no energy.
He's a low energy kind of guy.
Do you really think this guy is going to do anything?
And the news, the cable news teams are showing Trump talking.
They're showing the split screen.
And on the other side of the screen, they're actually showing the Jeb Bush event live as it's happening.
And everyone's, Jeb is like all slouched and hunched and low energy.
And people behind him are kind of starting to doze off, looking bored, staring glassy-eyed.
Trump did this live.
He didn't know it was going to be like that.
It's the sort of amusing Jon Stewart visual joke that he and his 67 gag writers would have required three weeks to edit into that sharp shape.
And Donald Trump just got up on TV and did it live.
And you're not going to beat you.
You know, Jeb is going to have to, Jeb is going to have to show that he wants this thing.
You know, instead of running as the crown prince and the heir presumptive, he's going to have to stop being the low energy guy.
He's going to have to stop playing to Donald Trump's caricago.
It's the same thing on the Democrat side.
Hillary, Hillary Clinton.
You know, everyone says that this email scandal, the Democrats who are kind of working their way up to criticizing her in public say that it's unfortunate.
It's unfortunate that this email scandal is getting in the way of her message.
It's not getting in the way of her message.
She hasn't got a message.
That's why the emails are the only thing to talk about.
If Hillary Clinton had proposed ending birthright citizenship, people might not be asking her just about the email server.
But she's running on nothing too.
She's running on nothing.
And that gets to the heart of the Trump message.
The Trump surge and the frontrunners are part of the same story.
Because Trump is appealing to people who think that America just doesn't work anymore.
That America is admitting millions and millions of unskilled immigrants that are competing for the kind of jobs that they used to be able to do.
But these guys come in and depress wages and all the rest of it.
And they're right.
America has less social mobility now than almost any other advanced nation.
If you're born in the bottom 20% of the country, bottom 20% of the population, your chances of being stuck there, stuck there for the rest of your life, are better than in almost any other major Western nation.
Your chances of getting out of the bottom 20% and advancing up are less and less with every year and every survey.
And that's who Trump appeals to.
And what's the best proof of that?
When you've got an hereditary political class, when the wife of the previous president is running for president against the son and brother of the previous president.
What does that tell you about?
That's classic banana republic stuff.
That's like something out of tribal politics in Pakistan, where the Bhutto dynasty is running against the Sharif dynasty all the time or the Gandhis in India.
That's what that's about.
That's tribal politics.
And it makes Donald Trump's point that it's an ever more class stratified society in which if you're born in the bottom 20%, you don't get a fair shake anymore.
And that's why he's riding high.
Mark Stein in for Rush.
We'll take your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
Let us go to Donna, who's first up today on America's number one radio show, Donna from Frederick, Maryland.
Great to have you with us on the show, Donna.
Thank you so much.
It's a pleasure to be with you.
You mentioned that the elect and the establishment Republican Party seem to think that Donald Trump will implode.
The reality, or the elephant in the room, so to speak, is that the established Republicans are going to implode.
Conservatives are no longer crash test dummies for this party.
And Donald Trump has set the stage for a four-hour true Republican Party.
Donna, so you're with Trump.
What about people who say, well, look, there are lots of real conservatives actually on the ticket.
That Ted Cruz is a conservative, but he's also a senator.
Rand Paul is more of a libertarian, but He's strong and that kind of stuff, and he's a senator.
Scott Walker has a strong conservative record, and he's a governor.
Why is it that Trump's your man as opposed to these fellows?
Well, to be honest with you, I do support people like Ben Carson and Ted Cruz.
I wish they would maybe dovetail their message to be as specific as Donald Trump has been.
The reason why Donald Trump has garnered so much attention is, number one, he's telling the truth.
Number two, he truly is a patriot.
He loves our country.
He believes in capitalism.
He is, if nothing else, mowing down the opposition.
And if I could give that message to all our fellow Republicans who are running, take it and run with it.
He's stepping out.
You know, we'd like to hear more from the other party members as to specific points that will work against this overwhelming government that we've been saddled with.
And is immigration the big thing for you, Donna?
Because that's what he's mainly been talking about.
Along with what we like to call Comic Corps.
It's all of it's a nightmare.
There's nothing good that's going to come out of it.
And finally, I hope that our patriots on the Democrat side have gotten enough of this dose of reality that, you know, common sense will prevail.
Okay, Donna, that's one side of the coin.
Let's go to Sam in O'Brien, Oregon.
Sam, how do you feel about what Donna has to say?
Well, I am a Cruz Tea Party type guy, and I feel like Donald Trump is doing a service by making all this noise, but I don't trust him one speck.
I don't believe he's a patriot.
I don't believe he gives a damn about America.
I believe he gives a damn about Donald Trump.
And this election that's coming up is going to pretty much tell it for us.
And if people don't choose carefully and wisely and give us another president like the one we currently have that, you know, is all over the TV and doing stuff just because he thinks he can do it, this country ain't going to make it.
So you would.
I would like people to think a little bit about what's going on in the world and in our country.
So you would like a president who is because like Obama is everywhere because he's like a celebrity president.
So you try to get away from politics and you switch on the tonight show or you switch on the view and he's gassing away with the comedians and the fluffy celebrities.
You want you he's everywhere and you think the next Republican president needs to be that omnipresent, do you?
No, I don't.
I don't care about the media one spec.
I don't own a television.
I don't watch it.
I don't believe anything that they put on it.
I listen to you guys because you talk the truth.
But this country is in big trouble, big trouble.
And people think that talking heads on the TV and, you know, these disingenuous flyby nighters like Donald Trump and the entire Democrat Party are going to do anything for this country.
They're insane.
Well, the problem here, Sam, when you look at it, is you've got to be very careful about who is going to do something for this.
Oh, that's correct.
I agree.
America is, you know, Trump talks a lot about the debt.
It's like $18 trillion.
It's going to be $20 trillion by the time Obama leaves office.
So he'll have run up more debt than the 43 presidents before him combined.
He spent more money than anybody else in history.
We are the most broke-astically brokey, broke, brokey-brokeiest basket case in history.
We have to pay back $20 trillion just to get back to having nothing in our wallets, just to get back to having zip zero nadder.
We've got to pay back $20 trillion.
And when you look, when you ask anybody in Washington about that, Democrats or Republicans, you can see in their eyes that they have no serious intention of not only paying down the debt, but even of not ramping it up.
And again, other countries do.
The Canadian Liberal Party paid off the national debt in Canada, paid it down during the 1990s.
The Canadian, that's right, the Canadian Liberal Party paid off the national debt.
But you can't get American conservatives to be as fiscally conservative as Canadian Liberals.
New Zealand right now is going to be paying off, is on schedule to pay off all its crown debt, as they call it, government debt, down there in a few years.
Real countries pay, if they can't pay off the debt entirely, at least pay it down.
We'll have run up $10 trillion of debt since 2008.
And how many of these guys even want to talk about it?
How many times, even people like Paul Ryan, say, well, I've got a problem to, I've got a plan to reduce the rate of increase in federal spending by the year 2030 or whatever.
At some point, this whole that's why this election, by the way, may well come down to Trump versus Bernie Sanders.
Because that's how extreme things have gotten.
That's how out of whack the American political process and American political life has come.
Thank you very much for your call, Sam, and thank you too, Don.
We'll take lots more of your calls straight ahead on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Whose fault is it?
Whose fault is it that Hillary Clinton was driven to keep the confidential business of the United States government on a private server in the toilet in some guy's apartment in Colorado?
Whose fault was it?
When you get right down to it, The New Yorker, Steve Collins The New Yorker, tells us who is to blame.
Quote, Hillary Clinton recounts her struggle to defend her privacy while residing in the White House.
After Bill Clinton's first inauguration, Harry and Linda Thomason, friends from Hollywood, found a jocular note under a pillow in the Lincoln bedroom.
It was from Rush Limbaugh, the conservative radio host.
How did the note get there?
Quote, I don't believe in ghosts, but we did sometimes feel that the White House was haunted by more temporal entities, unquote, says Hillary.
It was Rush who put that note under the pillow in the Lincoln bedroom.
When they ever get that server out of that guy's toilet in Colorado, they will find pinned underneath it a note from Rush Limbaugh.
Rush made Hillary do it.
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