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Aug. 25, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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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, uh back tomorrow.
President Obama, his wife, his daughters, his dogs, his Secret Service detail, his jets, his helicopters, his 40 car motorcade, also back from their small family vacation at uh 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 uh to give a speech on climate change, or as somebody uh somewhere on the internet I I saw a guy said he uh he burned twenty-five thousand gallons of jet fuel uh to give a speech on the environment.
Uh by the way, I've got a brand new book out on this very subject about how the uh the kind of cartoon climatology uh that the president's peddling has perverted science and entirely corrupted uh government policy.
That makes it sound a bit heavy, but don't worry, it's full of it's full of laughs.
Anchor baby, anchor baby.
It's the it's it's the phrase of the hour.
Uh 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 uh Trump's always going on about Mexican anchor babies and Chinese trade negotiators, but Trump is has been entirely silent on Chinese anchor babies.
I mean, what a gutless coward.
When is he gonna speak up against Chinese anchor babies who are just killing us in these trade negotiations?
Um but so Jeb Bush is now saying he's got nothing against Mexican anchor babies.
Bring them in, the more the merrier.
Uh but Chinese anchor babies, that's that's the real problem here.
So s yeah.
Yeah, well, the Ch that's right, the Chinese anchor babies.
The Chin 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.
It's but so we'll talk about anchor babies just because I like saying anchor babies, and uh uh eventually uh 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 l well loved um uh Christmas favorite uh anchor baby slipper passport under the tree for me.
I love that one.
What a what are we now?
Late August?
Yeah, we can we can start with the Christmas playlist.
1800-282-2882.
We have a new poll from New Hampshire.
Uh and the the state polls at this uh 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 gonna try to read the highlights of this one, even though it uh is in uh like six-point type.
The 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.
Uh and it's from public policy polling.
PPP, it's like Planned Parenthood, but without the decapitated baby heads, PPP, not PP, uh public policy polling.
Uh, 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 lapsed the Republican field with thirty-five percent.
Thirty-five percent.
In second place, twenty-four points below him, with eleven percent is John Kasich, the uh the son of the famous son of a mailman I was talking in uh about yesterday.
Uh John Kasich has eleven percent.
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 forty minutes in the late afternoon.
So the he's secured he short up the son of a mailman vote uh and he's in second place at eleven percent.
That's twenty-four points.
Twenty-four points behind Donald Trump.
In in third place, ten percent Carly Fiorina, seven percent Jeb Bush, seven percent Scott Walker, six percent Ben Carson, four percent each for Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, three percent for Rand Paul, and then uh Rick Perry at two percent, Lindsey Graham, George Pataki, and Rick Santorum at one percent, and Jim Gilmore, Mike Huckabee, and Bobby Gindle, all at less than one per cent.
To get into this poll, public policy polling said, uh, every candidate has to have at least one supporter.
So all these people have at l that's not in percentage terms, that's one as in you know, one guy who's supporting them.
Um so that's that's how it stands in New Hampshire.
Trump It is yes, there Mr. Mr. Surly has just queried whether there are enough New Hampshire people in New Hampshire to make a poll.
Yes, there are, not in this part of New Hampshire, uh, 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.
Uh and 35% Trump, second place, 11% uh son of a mailman, John Kasich, ten percent Carly Fiorina, seven percent Jeb Bush, Scott Walker.
Jeb Bush, uh he had the we were talking about yesterday, he's got running these uh touching soft focus ads where he says he had this hard scrabble uh dirt pour 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 had he really had it tough growing up.
Um so that's uh that's how it that's how it stands uh right at this moment, the shape of the Republican race.
We will talk about that uh as the show proceeds.
Uh 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 uh for.
So the veteran Democratic Strat by the way, speaking of veteran strategists, uh last yesterday I I mentioned en passant, Rick Wilson, uh this uh big top ho Republican strategist, he he he worked on the Wendell Wilkie campaign, I believe, and he was also on Herbert Hoover's incredibly successful 1932 campaign.
And uh and uh he then started tweeting about oh can I I g I how dare you come on the shire, you don't have the guts to take me on, and his and his supporters started saying, you know, come on, Stein, you gutless pansy fairy loser, you you don't have the guts to man up and talk to Rick Wilson.
Well, our our uh deputy head of uh Republican Hotshot Consultant Outreach has uh DM'd uh this guy, Rick Wilson, to say uh 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 twenty-first century.
So we certainly want to hear what he has to say.
But but this hill this story in the hill is about how uh 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 I think the entire uh uh Western economy could uh go over the cliff, and Hillary would still be up there doing her prescripted uh email jokes.
Uh a few weeks ago I was interviewed um 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 twenty twelve, how it was that uh these guys knew so much about the movements of the US 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 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 a f an apartment in Colorado were a 2011 message from Clinton's top aids that contains military intelligence from the United States Africa Command,
along with uh 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's who was subsequently tossed in jail, and uh and uh and the authorities sent more uh more firepower to arrest the no-name Schlub video maker and toss him in the county jail uh than they had guarding Ambassador Stevens in Benghazi that night.
And we now know uh 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 uh on these insecure emails.
We also know we also know that Amer it's not just that uh 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, uh, who was then uh 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's the uh he he was the British Foreign Secretary.
So he could have passed it to her directly, but instead he sent it to Huma Aberdeen on a State Department email address because he said, quote, it was classified 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 pri private server, and they didn't want to use it because they knew it was insecure.
And we now learn uh that among the uh many classi uh many things that were sent uh through this insecure server uh 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 daisies.
He's gone.
We can't ask him.
He's dead.
And that's why this isn't this stuff uh isn't isn't small potatoes.
It ought to disqualify her from public office.
We are talking about the most top secret confidential uh 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 s there's like interesting stories now.
Some Hillary supporters are saying that perhaps she could temporarily suspend her campaign uh until all this is sorted out.
There's like there's that kind of talk going on now, and people are beginning to understand the implications of this.
Uh If she is part of the reason, i i if her uh cavalier careless attitude to the secrets of the United States government actually helped lead to the death of Americans in Benghazi that night, uh then that's a story that even most the most hardcore partisan Democrat court eunuchs at the New York Times and the other papers are going to have to deal with.
Mark Stein in for Rush, 1800-282882.
Hey Mark Stein in for rush, the great man is back tomorrow.
I don't want to make it sound now I've been talking about anchor babies.
I don't want to make it sound that I am uh opposed to all illegal immigrants.
Uh 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 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 frauds and they find an illegal immigrant in the guitar case.
If this were the film Spinal Tap, they would take it to the next level.
the band would actually wind up on stage and the guy would start to do go into his 20 minute new nil new new new new nil new wailing electric guitar solo and realizing that he's actually just playing a wiry little Mexican in his hands.
But that's that's my that's my favorite illegal immigrant of the day he's like he showed a bit of uh he didn't just come walk across the Rio Grande didn't just take his flat bottom skiff uh into into southern Texas and start demanding all the welfare benefits no he he showed some spunk and initiative and he climbed into some rock guy's uh guitar case I think that's good I think there's all kinds of rockers on on tour at the moment I mean who's Carlos Santana got in his guitar case?
Does anyone check?
I think this is I think this is the kind of initiative uh that people mean when they show their that immigrants are hard working people who d uh just uh 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 uh family unification policies you smuggle all your kids and grandparents and aunts and uncles in uh 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 fellow 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-note 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 businessman.
banker 29 year old French banker but also another American uh an English professor in his fifties To join in this guy actually took a took a bullet in the neck.
Um and courage is contagious.
And by the same by the same token, cowardice is demoralizing.
Uh this the story we see on the French train, where basically these passengers, these five six six passengers now, uh 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.
Uh, 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 uh for the French government.
Courage is contagious.
Six free-born citizens accomplished what the state was not able to do and managed to protect the passengers on this on this train.
And as we'll talk after the break in the same way that courage is contagious, cowardice is demoralizing.
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Uh the the guy I was talking about who rushed uh that gunman on the train, he's uh American professor called uh Mark Mugalian, uh and he wound up getting shot in the neck.
And the fellow who saved his life is this young US airman, uh Spencer Stone, uh twenty-three-year-old, uh who basically put his finger on uh Professor Mugalian's neck wound to stop the hemorrhaging uh of blood and held it in position during the rest of the uh voyage until they came into the next station.
And uh presumably uh uh uh th the train stopped and someone was able to attend to him.
Uh but basically uh these uh three Americans, uh this British businessman, they removed the AK-47, the pistol, the blade, and uh the ammunition uh from this twenty-six-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.
He's th 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, very uh living a very luxurious life being monitored by all these agencies.
This is the im this is the immigration issue.
It's basically just uh uh 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 but basically, i 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 uh the 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 gonna kill the GOP's chances.
Uh I don't buy that, by the way, because the polling suggests that uh the public, the pub 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, uh who uh a caller brought up yesterday and uh made a rather disparaging remark about George Will hosting a dinner party for Obama a few years ago.
And uh 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, uh, 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 had the I was on the table way at the back next to the toilet and Hillary server right at the back of the room.
And uh that's as it should be.
George Will has done far more for American conservatism over the last forty years than 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 uh the 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.
Uh the p the police measures that George Will says uh are necessary to get rid of eleven million legal immigrants.
I don't think it is eleven million.
Uh some people say it's thirty million.
I would bet it's a lot closer to thirty million than eleven million.
Now, uh George Will gives some numbers here.
Eighty-eight percent have been here at least five years.
Of the sixty-two percent who have been here at least ten years, about forty-five percent own their own homes.
Now, 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 if you're a r a uh a woman of average fertility and you've been living illegally in a country ten years, chances are you will have given birth to somebody.
Uh Dara Lind of Vox reports that at least four point five 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 uh 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 fourteen years.
Do you know how ridiculous it makes that sound?
This is moving around America now is like moving around uh Eastern Europe in the nineteen seventies.
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 uh of being a free born citizen exercising his right to freedom of movement.
You're treated like cattle.
But amazingly, this super code orange system has admitted uh millions and millions of people who manage to just stroll in to 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 ten percent of California's workers and thirteen percent of that state's K-12 students.
Again, think of that.
George Will is telling us that this plan is unworkable because thirteen percent of the children in California schools are uh illegal immigrants or the children of illegal immigrants.
Okay.
What do you think that number's gonna be in five years' time, ten years' time, twenty years' time?
How did it get to the situation where the that uh beleaguered band of people who still pay taxes in California are having to pay for a school system in which thirteen percent of the people shouldn't be there.
Anybody who has a small business knows what a thirteen percent overspend or thirteen per cent overmanning does to your profit margin.
And George Will is telling us here that thirteen percent 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 i 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 four trillion dollar federal budget and you've got twenty trillion dollars 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 uh American sovereignty and asserting uh 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 this for the for the sake of argument that all these numbers are right.
I mean, we talk about anchor babies uh on some measures eight per cent 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.
Eight per cent 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 thirteen per cent.
And what would you bet that the uh that that percentage gets higher as you go back down through middle school uh 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 the the the the party that says okay terrorists tried to kill everybody on nine eleven so you have to shuffle shoeless like a like a herd of cattle uh through an airport till the end of time.
Your grandmother uh in in the wheelchair has to uh lift up her shirt uh and show her colostomy bag to the TSA until the end of time.
Uh your uh grandfather who got blown up selling his country in a war and has a leg brace he has to be degraded uh and show that uh to officialdom at the airport until the end of time but millions and millions of people can just walk into the self-same 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 Trump is a symptom but the disease is a do nothing Republican party.
When it's thirteen percent of the the reason that that Republicans will never be elected statewide in California ever again is uh because ten percent of California's workers are according to this number, I I would reckon it's higher now, are illegal immigrants, thirteen percent of the state's children are the children uh 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 your calls straight ahead.
Mark Stein in for Rush on the EIB network um I'm always I I since yesterday's show I'm I I get I get attacked by people who say I'm supporting Trump.
I'm not I'm not supporting Trump.
There's 17 candidates there and I take the classic New Hampshire position uh that I'm not prepared to consider supporting any candidate I haven't danced with and uh right now the only one uh the only one who's shown up in my neck of the woods has been uh Lindsay Graham.
My my daughter was at the county fair at the uh the North Haver fair not a county fair at North Havel Fair and uh Lindsay Graham came up to her and it's not an when you when you're the father of a teenage daughter it's a stressful time and but you would think uh if you're the father of teenage daughter that having your daughter hit on by Lindsay Graham was one of the things you didn't really have to worry about that much.
And uh Lindsay Graham uh came up to my daughter, introduced himself uh and uh said uh I'm running for president and my my daughter thought she meant running for president of the local 4 H, so was affable to him.
And then emailed me this uh photograph of her and Lindsay Graham.
I'm worried he's gonna remember when I was here in June at Lindsey Grabbard outside this plan to have rotating first ladies, because he's a bachelor, and I'm worried now that my uh my daughter is on the list to be his first rotating first lady.
Anyway, uh so I haven't I'm not supporting Trump, I'm not supporting Lindsey Graham.
I haven't uh said I haven't said anybody.
But uh a guy who's been a longtime reader of mine called Charles has been is furious that I'm giving Trump the time of day because he's not conservative.
Uh and that's true, he's not conservative.
He's a businessman, he's in it for himself, he wants what works.
Businessmen uh businessmen operate generally speaking, businessmen operate uh within the the framework of what works for them.
You go to what 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 Bathis Party, like Total Fina Elf did the French oil company, because uh the Bathis Party are the only people you can work with to get things done in Iraq.
But that's true uh 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 end a go to get things done.
So let's take it as red 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 uh pro-life.
Uh it doesn't but at the same time you wind up after forty 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.
Uh, you know, I I don't even have to read this.
I can pull the one I here's one I made earlier, and I can reach down and pull out of the oven uh the government shutdown story from two years ago, or 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.
With the clock ticking.
No, Republicans have yet to settle on a doonaloo strategy to resolve a doonal 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 dead if it was a thriller, if it was Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 17, the dead baby heads being mailed around the country would be at issue.
But now here it's the federal funding for the baby heads.
That's not the issue.
The issue is that how John Boehner can neutralize the crazy right-wing Republicans who don't like the idea of uh taxpayer dollars being uh going toward funding planned parenthood, uh, because he doesn't want to pass a bill that defunds planned parenthood because it doesn't stand any chance in the Senate, and it would even if it did pass in the Senate, it would be vetoed by the president.
But i if this bill house bill were to go through, then funding would run dry on September the 30th, and we would have a government shutdown.
And as usual in the government shutdown, eighty-eight per cent of the government carries on as usual, and the twelve percent of no so-called non-essential workers who are at home get when the the government shutdown ends, they get all the back pay they were due for just sitting around at home all day.
So nothing 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, twenty-seven-year-old heroin addict Fred Schlubb, uh wanted to buy a new house.
He had uh no money, he is no work, and he has a six hundred dollar a week heroin uh habit, but under the federal heroin addict outreach uh affordable housing program, he would have been eligible for a federal housing uh 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 uh top GOB consultant Rick Wilson, who uh who handled uh Thomas Dewey's advertising account, I believe, uh, and was sniveling at me for not having the guts to take him on and go mano a mano with him.
We we asked him if he could send us a phone number or an email address we could contact uh so we could have him on the show, but he now says he's in the meeting.
But we're we're trying to get him on because we want to know the success behind his award-winning Thomas Dewey Wendell Wilkie strategy, renowned Republican consultant Rick Wilson.
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