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August 25, 2015, Tuesday, 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 official EIB anchor baby, Mark Stein, direct from Ice Station EIB in far northern New Hampshire in a town so statistically insignificant that the only presidential candidate who campaigns here is George Pataki.
	Rush is out today, back tomorrow.
	President Obama, his wife, his daughters, his dogs, his Secret Service detail, his jets, his helicopters, his 40-car motorcader, also back from their small family vacation at Martha's Vineyard.
	The president met with Joe Biden to give his blessing to the vice president's entry into the 2016 election.
	And then he flew to Vegas to give a speech on climate change.
	Or as somebody somewhere on the internet, I saw a guy said he burned 25,000 gallons of jet fuel to give a speech on the environment.
	By the way, I've got a brand new book out on this very subject about how the kind of cartoon climatology that the president's peddling has perverted science and entirely corrupted government policy.
	That makes it sound a bit heavy, but don't worry, it's full of laughs.
	Anchor baby, anchor baby.
	It's the phrase of the hour.
	Jeb Bush has been attacked for calling anchor babies anchor babies.
	So he's clarified that when he says anchor babies, he doesn't mean Mexican anchor babies.
	He means Chinese anchor babies.
	I thought this was a brilliant triangulating because Trump's always going on about Mexican anchor babies and Chinese trade negotiators.
	But Trump has been entirely silent on Chinese anchor babies.
	I mean, what a gutless coward.
	When is he going to speak up against Chinese anchor babies who are just killing us in these trade negotiations?
	But so Jeb Bush is now saying he's got nothing against Mexican anchor babies.
	Bring them in.
	The more the merrier.
	But Chinese anchor babies, that's the real problem here.
	So yeah.
	Yeah, well, that's right.
	The Chinese anchor babies.
	The Chinese, the collapse of the Shanghai Stock Exchange is due to everyone getting out of Shanghai and having their babies in the United States as anchor babies.
	So senior Washington consultants are now saying that these Republicans can't even decide which anchor babies they want to be totally racist about.
	It's pathetic.
	So we'll talk about anchor babies just because I like saying anchor babies and eventually the politically correct types will make it impossible to say the phrase.
	So we might as well say anchor baby as often as we're allowed to say anchor baby on the radio.
	It's by the way, it's never too early to play that well-loved Christmas favorite, Anchor Baby, slip a passport under the tree for me.
	I love that one.
	What are we now?
	Late August?
	Yeah, we can start with the Christmas playlist.
	1-800-282-2882, we have a new poll from New Hampshire.
	And the state polls at this phase of the presidential campaign, the national polls are just about name recognition.
	The state polls is where the action is.
	It's where the candidates are physically.
	It's where they got the ground game.
	It's where they got their staff in place.
	It's where they're running their campaign ads.
	So Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina polls more interesting than the national polls.
	I'm going to try to read the highlights of this one, even though it is in like six-point type.
	The type size on this printout is smaller than Jim Gilmore's numbers in New Hampshire.
	That's how small this type face is.
	And it's from public policy polling.
	PPP, it's like Planned Parenthood, but without the decapitated baby heads.
	PPP, not PP, public policy polling.
	Their new New Hampshire poll finds Donald Trump is in the strongest position of any poll we've done anywhere since he entered the race.
	Trump laps the Republican field with 35%.
	35%.
	In second place, 24 points below him with 11% is John Kasich, the famous son of a mailman I was talking about yesterday.
	John Kasich has 11%.
	I think that's actually just from New Hampshire postmasters who've been laid off in the last two years since they all switched to this thing where they're only open for 40 minutes in the early morning and 40 minutes in the late afternoon.
	So he's secured, he shored up the son of a mailman vote and he's in second place at 11%.
	That's 24 points.
	24 points behind Donald Trump.
	In third place, 10% Carly Fiorina.
	7% Jeb Bush.
	7% Scott Walker, 6% Ben Carson, 4% each for Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, 3% for Rand Paul, and then Rick Perry at 2%, Lindsey Graham, George Pataki, and Rick Santorum at 1%, and Jim Gilmore, Mike Huckabee, and Bobby Jindal all at less than 1%.
	To get into this poll, Public Policy Polling said, every candidate has to have at least one supporter.
	So all these people have at least, that's not in percentage terms, that's one, as in, you know, one guy who's supporting them.
	So that's how it stands in New Hampshire.
	Trump?
	It is, yes.
	Mr. Surley has just queried whether there are enough people in New Hampshire to make a poll.
	Yes, there are, not in this part of New Hampshire.
	But down in the southern part of the state, it's full of people who fled Massachusetts just for the privilege of participating in polls like this.
	And 35% Trump, second place, 11% son of a mailman, John Kasich, 10% Carly Fiorina, 7% Jeb Bush, Scott Walker.
	Jeb Bush, he had the, we were talking about yesterday, he's running these touching soft focus ads where he says he had this hard scrabble, a dirt poor upbringing where he was raised as the son of a president.
	But it was back in the days when they only had the 20-car motorcade.
	So he really had it tough growing up.
	So that's how it stands right at this moment, the shape of the Republican race.
	We will talk about that as the show proceeds.
	1-800-282-2882.
	Hilarious headline in The Hill.
	Democrats see bad news for Clinton in market plunge.
	Veteran Democratic strategist Joe Trippy sees the economy as a huge risk to a Clinton candidacy.
	You know, this is the kind of insight you need a veteran strategist for.
	So the veteran Democratic strategy.
	By the way, speaking of veteran strategists, yesterday I mentioned en passant Rick Wilson, this big top Republican strategist.
	He worked on the Wendell Willkie campaign, I believe, and he was also on Herbert Hoover's incredibly successful 1932 campaign.
	And he then started tweeting about, oh, can I, how dare you come on the show?
	You don't have the guts to take me on.
	And his supporters started saying, you know, come on, Stein, you gutless pansy fairy loser.
	You don't have the guts to man up and talk to Rick Wilson.
	Well, our deputy head of Republican Hotshot Consultant Outreach has DM'd this guy, Rick Wilson, to say, if he sends us a number, I'm certainly happy to talk to him.
	He represents the consultant industrial complex that's done such a terrific job for the Republican Party in the 21st century.
	So we certainly want to hear what he has to say.
	But this story in the Hill is about how the entire collapse of the economy could be bad news for Hillary Clinton.
	Really, you don't say, I don't think it'll get that far.
	I think the entire Western economy could go over the cliff, and Hillary would still be up there doing her pre-scripted email jokes.
	A few weeks ago, I was interviewed on the radio, and I said, I'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything, but it had always puzzled me since the Benghazi business came up in 2012, how it was that these guys knew so much about the movements of the U.S. ambassador in Libya.
	They knew that he was not going to be in the capital city in his embassy in Tripoli, but he was going to be in this ramshackle diplomatic compound in Benghazi.
	And they seemed very well informed.
	And if you recall at the time, there was a lot of people were storming U.S. embassies and seizing U.S. embassies.
	They also seemed very well informed.
	And it turns out that among the emails that Hillary Clinton sent on her unsecure server, a server that is almost totally almost, we are almost 100% certain that the emails going to this server were being read by America's enemies.
	Six paragraphs into a New York Post story, Paul Sperry writes that among the classified emails that were sent to Hillary's server in this guy's toilet in an apartment in Colorado were a 2011 message from Clinton's top aides that contains military intelligence from the United States Africa Command along with taken from satellite images of troop movements in Libya,
	along with the travel and protection plans for Ambassador Christopher Stevens, who died on the night of Benghazi.
	And Hillary lied over his coffin, lied over his coffin, and blamed it on this schlub video maker in Los Angeles, who was subsequently tossed in jail.
	And the authorities sent more firepower to arrest the no-name schlub video maker and toss him in the county jail than they had guarding Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi that night.
	And we now know from what intelligence officials have gone through in Hillary's emails on this insecure private server that the travel and protection plans for Ambassador Christopher Stevens were among the topics that Hillary Clinton talked about on these insecure emails.
	We also know, we also know that it's not just that whether or not America's enemies knew all about Hillary's insecure server, we don't know.
	But we do know that America's allies knew about this insecure server because they didn't want to use it.
	For example, David Miliband, who was then Britain's foreign secretary, in November 2009, he sent a, he had something classified that he wanted to send to Hillary Clinton.
	Now, he had her email address because he was the British Foreign Secretary.
	So he could have passed it to her directly.
	But instead, he sent it to Huma Aberdin on a State Department email address because he said, quote, it was classified information, quote, that he, quote, doesn't want to send through the system, unquote.
	It was for her eyes only.
	It was about Afghanistan.
	It was super top secret, and he, quote, didn't want to send it through the system, unquote.
	So we know that America's allies knew she had this private server, and they didn't want to use it because they knew it was insecure.
	And we now learn that among the many class, many things that were sent through this insecure server were the travel plans for Ambassador Christopher Stevens.
	And we could ask him what he thinks about her putting his travel plans on an insecure server.
	But the problem with trying to do that is he's dead.
	He was her friend and he's pushing up Daisy's.
	He's gone.
	We can't ask him.
	He's dead.
	And that's why this stuff isn't small potatoes.
	It ought to disqualify her from public office.
	We are talking about the most top-secret, confidential information about United States foreign policy, and it's sitting in this toilet in some guy's apartment in Colorado.
	And the fact that she is still in the race, and there's interesting, there's like interesting stories now.
	Some Hillary supporters are saying that perhaps she could temporarily suspend her campaign until all this is sorted out.
	There's that kind of talk going on now.
	And people are beginning to understand the implications of this.
	If she is part of the reason, if her cavalier, careless attitude to the secrets of the United States government actually helped lead to the death of Americans in Benghazi that night, then that's a story that even most the most hardcore partisan Democrat court eunuchs of the New York Times and the other papers are going to have to deal with.
	Mark Stein Inforush 1-800-282-2882.
	Hey, Mark Stein Inforush, the great man is back tomorrow.
	I don't want to make it sound, I've been talking about anchor babies.
	I don't want to make it sound that I am opposed to all illegal immigrants.
	This guy is my kind of illegal immigrant.
	This is from a story in Britain's Daily Telegraph.
	A rock band returning to Britain in their tour bus after performing in France found an illegal immigrant hidden in a guitar case.
	The members of Willie and the Bandits, a blues rock three-piece band, were filling up their vehicle just outside of Calais on Sunday when they discovered two illegal immigrants in the back.
	One of the pair had secreted himself inside a case for one of the band's instruments.
	So we have here an illegal immigrant secreted in a guitar case.
	It's like we've all seen this before.
	It's like if they were doing Al Capone now, you know, those 1930s Chicago mobsters who all walked around with the violin cases, instead of having guns in the violin cases, they'd just have some nice, wiry, little, undocumented American who'd secreted himself away in the violin case.
	So this rock band, they're returning after a successful tour of France, and they find an illegal immigrant in the guitar place, in the guitar case.
	If this were the film Spinal Tap, they would take it to the next level and the band would actually wind up on stage and the guy would start to go into his 20-minute wailing electric guitar solo and realizing that he's actually just playing a wiry little Mexican in his hands.
	But that's my favorite illegal immigrant of the day.
	He's like, he showed a bit of, he didn't just come walk across the Rio Grande.
	He didn't just take his flat bottom skiff into southern Texas and start demanding all the welfare benefits.
	No, he showed some spunk and initiative and he climbed into some rock guy's guitar case.
	I think that's good.
	I think there's all kinds of rockers on tour at the moment.
	I mean, who's Carlos Santana got in his guitar case?
	Does anyone check?
	I think this is the kind of initiative that people mean when they show that immigrants are hard-working people who just have great family values and everything.
	Because first you start by smuggling yourself in in the guitar case of a three-piece rock band, and then under family unification policies, you smuggle all your kids and grandparents and aunts and uncles in under the instrument cases of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
	That's how it works.
	That's how it works.
	We can admire that kind of initiative.
	So that's my favorite illegal immigrant story of the day.
	The other inspiring story I mentioned yesterday, I said that courage is contagious.
	And I was talking about these three Americans who started to stomp some guy who was causing trouble on the Amsterdam-Paris train, and they were joined in by a British businessman in their 60s.
	And we now know that there was another guy who took part too.
	There was a fella in his early 50s who was a professor who wound up actually getting shot in the neck.
	There was also a 29-year-old French guy who doesn't want any check-the-no publicity box, a 29-year-old French banker.
	So the point I was making, and I was making it off Glenn Reynolds' story in USA Today, was that courage is courageous.
	It's inspirational.
	And we now know that it inspired not just the British businessman in his 60s to join in, the French banker, 29-year-old French banker, but also another American, an English professor in his 50s to join in.
	This guy actually took a bullet in the neck.
	And courage is contagious.
	And by the same token, cowardice is demoralizing.
	The story we see on the French train, where basically these passengers, these five, six passengers now, not only saved people's lives, but they saved the French state from an enormous humiliation.
	After what happened at Charlie Ebdo, where those guys were under police protection and they all died, if it was now the case that a major international train some guy could just get on and kill all the passengers, that would have been a huge humiliation for the French government.
	Courage is contagious.
	Six freeborn citizens accomplished what the state was not able to do and managed to protect the passengers on this train.
	And as we'll talk after the break, in the same way that courage is contagious, cowardice is demoralizing.
	Hey, great to be with you.
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	The guy I was talking about who rushed that gunman on the train, he's an American professor called Mark Mugalian, and he wound up getting shot in the neck.
	And the fellow who saved his life is this young U.S. airman, Spencer Stone, a 23-year-old, who basically put his finger on Professor Mugalian's neck wound to stop the hemorrhaging of blood and held it in position during the rest of the voyage until they came into the next station.
	And presumably, the train stopped and someone was able to attend to him.
	But basically, these three Americans, this British businessman, they removed the AK-47, the pistol, the blade, and the ammunition from this 26-year-old Moroccan man.
	This guy is in the country, he's in Europe, he's in France perfectly legally, and he's moving around.
	They're all monitoring him.
	All the different police forces of Western Europe all monitoring him as he moves from Spain and then he goes over to Syria and then he comes back and he moves from France to Germany.
	He's moving all over the map.
	Very nice.
	First-class travel, living a very luxurious life, being monitored by all these agencies.
	This is the immigration issue.
	It's basically just the Kate Steinley murder with slightly more of an ideological bent in that he'd like to be part of the big global caliphate and chop people's heads off and all the rest of it, whereas the punk who killed Kate Steinley was just doing it for laughs.
	But basically, on neither side of the Atlantic does anyone in the developed world know who the hell it is they're letting into the country.
	And that's the only reason that Donald Trump's campaign has gained traction because he's talking about something that nobody else wants to talk about.
	And we're now being assured by everybody, by all the commentators, that talking about it is going to kill the GOP's chances.
	I don't buy that, by the way, because the polling suggests that the public, the broad public, not talking about Republicans or Democrats or Independents, but just everyone is actually to the right of both parties on this issue.
	George Will, who a caller brought up yesterday and made a rather disparaging remark about George Will hosting a dinner party for Obama a few years ago.
	And just to be clear on this, George Will is one of the great figures in American conservatism.
	When I was at the National Review 50th anniversary gala, I believe Rush and George Will were seated at the same table, which was up near the front with all the A-list guys.
	And I was on the table way at the back next to the toilet, and Hillary Server right at the back of the room.
	And that's as it should be.
	George Will has done far more for American conservatism over the last 40 years than I ever will.
	He's a consequential figure, and he's a figure who thinks about these things.
	But his column, his most recent column on the subject, was a council of despair.
	His syndicated column, which has the headline, Trump Defines Down the GOP.
	And he's demanding to know why the other presidential candidates, with the exception of Lindsey Graham, do not voice their disgust with Trump and what he's calling for.
	The police measures that George Will says are necessary to get rid of 11 million legal immigrants.
	I don't think it is 11 million.
	Some people say it's 30 million.
	I would bet it's a lot closer to 30 million than 11 million.
	Now, George Will gives some numbers here.
	88% have been here at least five years.
	Of the 62% who have been here at least 10 years, about 45% own their own homes.
	If you work out these numbers here, by the way, about half of these people have children who were born here and thus are citizens.
	Because actually, it's true.
	If you're a woman of average fertility and you've been living illegally in a country 10 years, chances are you will have given birth to somebody.
	Dara Lind of Vox reports that at least 4.5 million children who are citizens have at least one parent who is an illegal immigrant.
	You know what's interesting to me about this?
	According to most of the numbers, about half the people who are living here illegally have come here since 2001.
	That's to say they broke into a country that has been on code orange alert for the last 14 years.
	Do you know how ridiculous it makes that sound?
	This is moving around America now is like moving around Eastern Europe in the 1970s.
	You go and shuffle shoeless through these long, hellish lines at O'Hare and LAX and all these other airports.
	You no longer have the dignity of being a customer, the dignity of being a freeborn citizen exercising his right to freedom of movement.
	You're treated like cattle.
	But amazingly, this super code orange system has admitted millions and millions of people who managed to just stroll into a country on code orange alert.
	Now, here's the so that in itself is worth thinking about.
	That in itself is worth thinking about.
	George Will then says, quote, Trump evidently plans to deport almost 10% of California's workers and 13% of that state's K-12 students.
	Again, think of that.
	George Will is telling us that this plan is unworkable because 13% of the children in California schools are illegal immigrants or the children of illegal immigrants.
	Okay?
	What do you think that number's going to be in five years' time, 10 years' time, 20 years' time?
	How did it get to the situation where that beleaguered band of people who still pay taxes in California are having to pay for a school system in which 13% of the people shouldn't be there?
	Anybody listening who has a small business knows what a 13% overspend or 13% overmanning does to your profit margin.
	And George Will is telling us here that 13% of the children in California schools shouldn't be there.
	And he's saying we shouldn't do anything about it because it would be too expensive.
	George Will says it would take the big cost in dollars hundreds of billions.
	Now, once upon a time, that would sound like a lot of money.
	In fact, in most parts of the world, if you say hundreds of billions, if you say hundreds of billions, I'm not just talking about Greece or North Korea or Somalia, but if you say hundreds of billions in Australia or the United Kingdom or Germany, that's actually still a lot of money.
	But it's chicken feed.
	It's a rounding error when you've got a $4 trillion federal budget and you've got $20 trillion of debt.
	Nobody cares about hundreds of billions.
	That's not an answer.
	That's not an answer.
	It's a small price to pay.
	It would be a small price to pay for asserting American sovereignty and asserting the dignity and privilege of American citizenship and the right to live in this country.
	And the problem with George Will's column, accepting for the sake of argument that all these numbers are right.
	I mean, we talk about anchor babies.
	On some measures, 8% of the children born in this country are anchor babies.
	That's what you've done to your country.
	That's what you've done by dissolving the southern border and just telling anybody to walk in.
	8% of the people who are born here should not be born here.
	According to George Will, in the California school system right now, it's 13%.
	And what would you bet that that percentage gets higher as you go back down through middle school to elementary school to kindergarten?
	What percentage of kindergartners in the California school system are the children of illegal aliens?
	And George Will says it's too expensive.
	We can't do it.
	Nothing can be done.
	And that is the problem with the Republican Party today, that it's become the party of nothing can be done, the party of nothing can be done, the Council of Despair.
	The party that says, okay, terrorists tried to kill everybody on 9-11, so you have to shuffle shoeless like a herd of cattle through an airport till the end of time.
	Your grandmother in the wheelchair has to lift up her shirt and show her colostomy bag to the TSA until the end of time.
	Your grandfather who got blown up serving his country in a war and has a leg brace, he has to be degraded and show that to officialdom at the airport until the end of time.
	But millions and millions of people can just walk into the selfsame country.
	And we're supposed to accept that nothing can be done.
	The Republican Party has become the party of nothing can be done.
	And that is why Trump exists.
	Trump is a symptom.
	But the disease is a do-nothing Republican party.
	When it's 13% of the reason that Republicans will never be elected statewide in California ever again is because 10% of California's workers are, according to this number, I would reckon it's higher now, are illegal immigrants.
	13% of the state's children are the children of illegal immigrants.
	No Republican, no conservative will ever be elected there ever again.
	And the Council of Despair that says we can't do anything about it in California, so all we can do is let it happen to the rest of the country too.
	And that's not enough.
	Mark Stein in for Rush, more of your calls straight ahead.
	Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network.
	Since yesterday's show, I get attacked by people who say I'm supporting Trump.
	I'm not supporting Trump.
	There's 17 candidates there, and I take the classic New Hampshire position that I'm not prepared to consider supporting any candidate I haven't danced with.
	And right now, the only one who's shown up in my neck of the woods has been Lindsay Graham.
	My daughter was at the county fair at the North Havel Fair, not a county fair, at North Havel Fair, and Lindsey Graham came up to her.
	And it's not an, when you're the father of a teenage daughter, it's a stressful time.
	But you would think, if you're the father of a teenage daughter, that having your daughter hit on by Lindsey Graham was one of the things you didn't really have to worry about that much.
	And Lindsey Graham came up to my daughter, introduced himself and said, I'm running for president.
	And my daughter thought she meant running for president of the local 4-H, so was affable to him.
	And then he emailed me this photograph of her and Lindsey Graham.
	I'm worried he's going to...
	Remember when I was here in June and Lindsey Graham announced this plan to have rotating first ladies, because he's a bachelor.
	And I'm worried now that my daughter is on the list to be his first rotating first lady.
	Anyway, so I haven't, I'm not supporting Trump.
	I'm not supporting Lindsey Graham.
	I haven't said anybody.
	But a guy who's been a longtime reader of mine called Charles is furious that I'm giving Trump the time of day because he's not conservative.
	And that's true.
	He's not conservative.
	He's a businessman.
	He's in it for himself.
	He wants what works.
	Businessmen operate, generally speaking, businessmen operate within the framework of what works for them.
	You go to where you have to go to to get things done.
	So if you're in Saddam Hussein's Iraq, you work with the Baathist Party like Total Fina Elf did, the French oil company, because the Baathist Party are the only people you can work with to get things done in Iraq.
	But that's true for free societies too, that there are certain in Canada for many years you had to work with the Liberal Party of Canada.
	Even if you were a relatively right-wing businessman, that's where you went to go to get things done.
	So let's take it as read that Trump isn't a conservative.
	My problem, as I said yesterday, is that if being conservative just means striking attitudes, like saying, oh, I'm pro-life, it doesn't, but at the same time, you wind up after 40 years of you standing there with a petulant expression on your face and your hand on your hip saying, well, I'm 100% pro-life.
	The net result is that you have the most depraved and evil abortion regime in the world that's chopping off babies' heads.
	What the hell is the point of striking an attitude?
	And if conservatism under the stewardship of the Republican Party has degenerated into mere attitude striking, nobody needs the Republican Party.
	Nobody needs it.
	Here's a typical story from Politico.
	Here we go again.
	You know, I don't even have to read this.
	I can pull the one, here's one I made earlier, and I can reach down and pull out of the oven the government shutdown story from two years ago, whatever it was.
	House GOP leaders desperate to avoid shutdown.
	This is Politico.
	We've all seen this conspiracy thriller before.
	It's Mission Impossible 17 starring Tom Cruise.
	Doon, doon, doon doonle with the clock ticking.
	Noodle.
	Republicans have yet to settle on a doodle strategy to resolve a doodaloo showdown over planned parenthood funding.
	An explosive confrontation, explosive confrontation, fireballs over Washington.
	An explosive confrontation brewing between the House Republican leadership and conservatives over planned parenthood is threatening to shut down the government for the second time in three years.
	And House GOP leaders have yet to settle on a strategy to avert it.
	Now, do you get where we're going here?
	It's not the day.
	If it was a thriller, if it was Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 17, the dead babyheads being mailed around the country would be at issue.
	But now here, it's the federal funding for the babyheads.
	That's not the issue.
	The issue is how John Boehner can neutralize the crazy right-wing Republicans who don't like the idea of taxpayer dollars being going toward funding planned parenthood because he doesn't want to pass a bill that defunds planned parenthood because it doesn't stand any chance in the Senate.
	And even if it did pass in the Senate, it would be vetoed by the President.
	But if this House bill were to go through, then funding would run dry on September 30th and we would have a government shutdown.
	And as usual in a government shutdown, 88% of the government carries on as usual.
	And the 12% of so-called non-essential workers who are at home get, when the government shutdown ends, they get all the back pay they were due for just sitting around at home all day.
	So nothing matters.
	The only people who have to work harder during a government shutdown are the media, who have to find all those stories about, well, 27-year-old heroin addict Fred Schlubb wanted to buy a new house.
	He had no money, he has no work, and he has a $600 a week heroin habit.
	But under the federal heroin addict outreach affordable housing program, he would have been eligible for a federal housing loan.
	But that department has happened to be closed because of the Republican-imposed shutdown over Planned Parenthood.
	This is nonsense.
	Nonsense, nonsense.
	And it's not enough from the Republican Party.
	More in a moment.
	And top GOP consultant Rick Wilson, who handled Thomas Dewey's advertising account, I believe, and was sniveling at me for not having the guts to take him on and go mano-a mano with him.
	We asked him if he could send us a phone number or an email address we could contact us on so we could have him on the show.
	But he now says he's in the meeting.

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