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Oct. 8, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 8, 2015, Thursday, Hour #3
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Tomorrow for authentic full strength excellence in broadcasting on open line Friday, um I'm I'm gonna be on the TV Saturday on uh Fox News, I think it's uh eight o'clock Eastern on a John Stossel special about being censored in America.
It's about the state of free speech in the land of the First Amendment, which believe me is not in a uh uh a good condition, particularly on American campuses, and it's a big special.
Uh I'm gonna be in there and a lot w along with some other distinguished people, such as Ion Hersy Ali and uh Kirsten Powers is in there and it's censored in America with John Stossel, and that's uh on Fox News Channel, uh I think eight o'clock Eastern on Saturday night, but to check your local listings for any variations to that.
Uh speaking of which I uh I want to go back to what I said at the beginning about Ben Carson's thing.
One of the one of the things I can't stand is when somebody says anything that's slightly out of the norms of approved political discourse and people come down on them like a ton of bricks, and Ben Carson said something that is a practical benefit.
The what matters in situations like a gunman at an Oregon college is what you do in the first few seconds.
All of us know that.
That's demonstrated across the world.
That's why those gu that guy on the train didn't get to kill a bunch of people on the train.
Uh because a small number of people recognize what was going on and charged him and uh were able to prevent him taking control of the train and killing a large number of people.
Now, people didn't like it that I was defending Ben Carson.
I had all these emails from people saying uh it's an insult to the people who were there.
It's not insulting the people who were there.
It's telling the people who are gonna be there at the next mass shooting, whether that's four months, eight months, two years down the line, to be thinking about this.
Particularly if you're in a gun free zone, because oddly enough, these guys are targeting gun free zones.
And uh if you're in a gun free zone, your options are more limited than in if you're in a non-gun free zone.
Uh but this is a typical email from Bud Harton.
Bud Harton writes to me and he goes, How dare you?
Ben Carson would uh pee his pants.
I've cleaned that up slightly.
Ben Carson would pee his pants if someone pointed a loaded gun to his head.
So would you.
You have no idea what was going through the minds of those young people at the moment that lunatic was terrorizing them.
No idea at all.
Do you think they might have been scared?
You chump?
Yes, of course they're scared.
Of course they're scared.
It's a scary situation.
And as I said, I've been in scary situations.
I'm not a brave guy.
So let's take it as read that Ben Carson and I are both little girly boys who'd be urinating our little girly pants and be all trickling down our legs, like Bud Harton says.
Nevertheless, if you accept that as your default position, uh I've been through this.
I've been have had this conversation a long time over all the years since this massacre at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, which is a city I love and I know well.
Uh when everyone was scared and everyone was uh did what the gunman said, and everyone died.
Everyone died.
And what you do when you write stupid emails like this uh guy Bud has just written to me, is you is you make as Kathy Shadel, a great Canadian blogger says, y what you do is you make this horrible enervating corrosive passivity the default setting in these situations.
And that leads to double figure body counts.
The reason there was no double figure body count on that train is because bas I can gather, because some people didn't want their names brought forward and other bits and pieces.
But there were five people involved.
There were there were three young people, two of whom had had military training.
And the m I understand the military does uh give you a certain amount of training in what to do if you're unarmed, but in this situation.
But even if it doesn't, even if I'm wrong on that, the military does train you uh to calculate risk and calculate response when you're in high stress situations.
That's part of what being a soldier is all about.
The other people were just uh some middle aged uh sales guy, I think he was sixty-one or something from the United Kingdom, and then there was like a fifty-five year old professor from Paris or something, something like that.
Then they haven't had any special training.
They don't but they they get the message when they see the other guys charging that this is it, this is make or break.
The actions you take now are going to determine life or death.
Ben Carson understands that.
He's he he's n he's not uh whether or not he uh urinates down his trouser leg when someone puts a gun to his head, he's been in stressful situations where he's had to do things that most of us couldn't do in order to save a baby's life.
And so he understands how to make decisions in high stress situations.
But let us take Bud Harton's point right, that he and I are both little girly men, him because he's just some pansified little doctor boy who doesn't know anything about the real world, and me just 'cause I'm some dweeby weirdo foreigner and foreigners are by definition a bunch of pansies and uh we don't know anything anyway.
So let's take let's take all that as red.
The point is if you accept that people are just going to be terrified and paralyzed, you are saying there is no alternate you're saying the body count will be determined by the killer.
The body count will be determined by the killer.
You d that's no way to do it.
You change the odds.
You're like the the the guy who charged who charged the guy uh and took s took seven shots.
Uh we don't know how many deaths he he prevented, but he understood that in those splits split seconds we are called upon to act uh and the decisions we make uh determine it.
So I'm not saying I'm oh I'm uh I'm a big brave guy.
I can I I'm happy to take on three guys with guns, I'm happy to charge them and take 'em all out just through the sheer power of uh my mighty shoulders.
And Ben Carson isn't saying that either.
But he's saying it's time to give some practical advice.
The world is a lot more dangerous than it used to be.
Uh and our governments are making life more dangerous, as Donald Trump likes to say, uh, you know, America is importing all these rapists.
So we have Kate Steinley uh dead in uh in sa in San Francisco.
So there's be m uh we have uh uh all all these people that are being imported into the country to cause all kinds of trouble, according to Donald Trump.
In Germany, they're uh thanks to Angela Merkel, they're importing all these other people uh and there's all these rapes and things going on in all the camps.
It's a dangerous world out there.
We teach our children stupid things to to worry about the hypothetical situation of sea level in the Maldives in the year twenty one hundred.
But we don't teach them for and that's the the the global warming alarmists may be right on that.
Maybe right on that.
Uh so it may th the the it may not be hypothetical.
There may be a very tiny chance of it actually coming true.
But these things happen regularly in the United States, and it's best to understand what it is that's happening and what we can do uh to mitigate it.
And to and what I loathe, as I said, I've been uh I've had this discussion a long time since the Montreal shootings.
And I'm sick of being told by Bud Harton that all we can do i that if you speak on this you're just some swaggering blow hard when in fact you'd be wetting your little girly pants.
Let's so stipulate all that.
Let's say uh Ben Carson and me are the biggest fairies on the planet.
Uh it doesn't matter.
It's Ben Carson is still performing a public service by asking us seriously to think of what we can do if we find ourselves in that situation and to know instinctively your best chance of surviving that situation.
And he is doing us a great service uh by mention it by by saying that.
And that's one reason to keep him in the race.
He's uh he's a thoughtful guy and he thinks outside the box and he says things uh that are outside the box.
And uh uh and he's not insulting anybody, and he's not insulting the people who were there at the time.
Uh he's talking about uh the people who are gonna be there next time.
And that's maybe that's not unconnected with what John Stossel and I are talking about on Saturday night uh on Fox News, because we spend some time talking about college campuses, uh where people are worried about microaggressions.
And they give some thought.
They have structures created for microaggressions, so called microaggressions, where somebody uses the wrong word, somebody takes offense at the wrong word.
Uh somebody takes offense at uh some little thing that's posted on some website, and they have real structures to do that, but they don't have any real structures to do with these things that happen enough times and have enough similar qualities that we ought to actually have a practical approach to them.
And that's what Ben Carson was offering.
And uh I I would like it if uh at the very least uh people did not attack him for what he didn't say.
He's not putting down anything that hap th those kids did in that there was a lot of individual bravery uh at that college campus, uh and we should learn from that.
But what matters is not whether he's a little girly boy or I'm a little girly boy or any of the other stupid things this half wit is saying.
What matters is uh is that we try and actually inculcate in people uh some kind of response to it.
We could all uh the guys on Flight 93 could have wet their trousers.
But at some point they decided that, you know, they weren't gonna wet their trousers and they were going to act.
People curr that's the lesson of that French train.
The three young guys acted, and then the flabby old sixty-one year old businessman and the and the fifty-five year old French professor or whatever he is, then they joined in because as I said the day after, courage is contagious.
Courage is contagious.
And if you make non courage, if you make passivity the default lever of society, uh if you basically put the gun-free zone mentality uh everywhere, then basically you just uh you you just it's it's we're like deer waiting to be shooed into the headlights uh to be to to be run over.
Mark Stein in Farush will take your call straight ahead.
Hey, Mark Stein in Farush.
Uh Harry Reed and his wife uh are filing a lawsuit against the makers of the exercise ban that Harry Reid was using uh when it uh went crazy and attacked him uh a few months ago.
He's filed a lawsuit against the hygienic intangible property holding company.
That is a great name, by the way.
I've no idea what they do, but I know when I have intangible intangible property, I always like it to be hygienic.
Uh because even though you can't touch it, you still want it to be clean.
Um Harry Reid has filed a lawsuit against the hygienic intangible property holding company in Clark County District Court in Nevada uh for this exercise band that just suddenly went bananas and attacked him, and uh he's uh he's lost vision in his right eye.
He looks uh he looks he looks like um uh uh when you see him uh in the uh Senator, he looks like somebody for out of the sopranos he uh these days.
He's got the big sh black shades and everything on, but he's now I don't know that that goes far enough though.
Uh because this is this is like Hillary's thing to sue gunmakers, isn't it?
Uh you know, it's the same thing, suing the exercise band.
The exercise band attacked him.
But I do think we could do with exercise band control.
And I don't know why we don't actually have more exercise band control.
I mean, Harry Reed, people maybe need to have training, may need to have license.
You shouldn't be able to just go around with an exercise band in your pocket.
Um you should be able to have An exercise band free zone.
Um but at any rate, Harry Reed, uh who was attacked by this exercise band is now launching us uh a suit against the hygienic intangible property holding company uh for uh this exercise band of theirs going crazy and attacking him.
Let us go to is it Margine in uh Salt Lake City?
Is that correct, Margin?
Did I say that correctly?
You did.
Thank you.
Oh, what a lovely name.
How uh how good to have you with us.
I don't know where that rush Rush keeps a list of his ten favorite ladies' names.
I don't know whether Marjean is on it, but it it certainly ought to be just bubbling outside the top ten at number eleven or twelve, if it's not actually up there at position seven.
I would imagine.
I hope so.
I certainly hope so.
Great to have you with us on the show.
What's on your mind today, Marjean?
Well, you know, I've been thinking a lot about our government wanting to basically strip us of our weapons.
And what I've concluded is the number one reason why we should be allowed to keep our personal weapons is because we've never been attacked in this country.
We've had little pockets of attacking, you know.
Um but we've never been attacked I mean, recently on our own country ground, and I think one of the reasons why is because other countries know that most of us are packing.
And it in our hi early history, when things happened, our citizens took up arms, joined the armies, and and were ready to go because they knew what they were doing.
They didn't have to be trained.
We were armed and ready.
Right.
And I just you know, I think that's a point that people miss is if we lose our weapons in this United States, we're gonna be sitting ducks in a lot of ways.
So there's a there's uh there's a lot of truth in that.
But i what was interesting about Obama's statement, because normally he talks fairly generally about gun control.
And uh this time round he was specific.
He actually named uh the United Kingdom and Australia as uh quotes countries like us, unquote.
Uh and he he actually commend he was if you if you k understood what he was talking about there, he's talking about gun confiscation, Margin.
He's not talking about he's talking he's now commending the example of government gun confiscation.
Do you think that's what he's got uh the dem the the Democrats are moving to the next stage on this?
I think if we don't fix it, it's gonna happen in the next five or ten years.
And I think that it's gonna be a bloodbath if it does, because you know, there are people who are have the mindset of Ruby Ridge, and you're not gonna take what's mine, regardless.
And they'll fight to the death for it.
Right.
Right.
I mean, uh it simply as a practical proposition, I don't I don't understand I don't understand how they're gonna do that, because everyone reckons this whatever it is, three hundred and seven million guns is a low ball estimate that actually the number's probably uh significantly higher than that.
And I don't I don't even understand how you would how you would institute that.
I mean, why th that the question is, because Hillary Clinton's now on board with this.
The only way they could do it.
They couldn't do that.
But what they could do is they could somehow make it legal to sue gun manufacturers.
And because uh at that point they will drive gun manufacturers out of business or at any rate out of the country.
I mean, do you think that's the also something they're serious about or whether they're just posturing on this?
I don't think it'll ever happen.
That's like me choking on a piece of bazooka.
I can't go and sue the company for chewing on a piece of gum that I bought.
Right.
Right?
You know it's it's stupid to think and and these are gonna be throwaway cases.
No, well, yes, exact but uh but if if you're if they did pass that law, that's what it would have.
You would be able to say uh things uh like if a uh if I Honda Civic is involved in a bank hold up, then you s sue Honda for manufacturing the Honda Civic.
You're right.
That's what it would that's what it would uh that's that's that's what it would lead to.
You know, so does that mean that they're gonna sue the Lugs shoe company because that's what the perpetrator was wearing too?
Yeah, that's right.
When he when he uh held up the bank and he ran out of the bank, he was wearing Uggs, so we're gonna have to we're gonna have to uh sue and we're gonna have to mandate stickier shoes, so he can't run so fast.
You you've ac you've actually got to the nub of it, which is why it would affect almost every aspect of human existence, uh Jean.
You have a terrific wear words, by the way.
It was uh great to uh great to hear from you.
I like the I like that uh what was that little little pockets uh l little little pockets of invasioness.
We'll pick that up in a just a moment on the Rush Limbaugh show.
You know, uh when we were were t we're talking about with Margin, and she said America had never been invaded, and she said, Well, okay, we've had whatever it was, small pockets of invadedness, whatever it was she said.
Uh and I chuckle because I thought that was she was being a little connucophobic there and uh putting down the war of eighteen twelve, uh if you remember when the British Army uh did invade little pockets of uh America.
The uh Detroit, in fact, uh was under uh British occupation.
The g the the US governor of Detroit was drunk when the troops showed up and uh prematurely surrendered, and so uh the uh the the British Empire wound up uh administering uh uh uh Detroit for a couple of years.
And actually that that would probably be the best answer if they could persuade the Canadians to reoccupy Detroit.
But I thought she was I so I thought Margin was just uh getting in a little canuccaphobic pic dig there.
Uh I was I was up in Canada uh a couple of years ago with an American friend, and we were walking uh through across the concourse, and the Royal Canadian Mint had a st uh display stand of their commemorative coins marking the two hundredth anniversary of the war of eighteen twelve.
My American chum was absolutely horrified, couldn't believe that she didn't uh didn't understand how anyone could want to commemorate two hundred years of such a thing.
So I thought I thought Margine was just uh indulging in a little canucophobia there.
But if um if America can somehow persuade uh Canada to reoccupy Detroit, it would solve an awful lot of problems.
Uh Rush two days ago was talking about uh we're erasing Western civilization.
That's that's essentially what all this stuff has in common.
You take any it'sy bitsy little story in the news, and that's what modern progressivism is about.
Uh this week uh the uh th th the head of the Native American program at Dartmouth College, which was actually set up as a school for Indians, um, by the way, uh was uh uh so I believe Indians still go for free to Dartmouth College.
So actually qualifying as a Native American at Dartmouth is is actually something of some value.
But the head of the Native American program who was appointed a few weeks ago, called Susan Taff Reed, and uh she is a supposed Native American, and she belongs to the Eastern Delaware nations.
And she has just been forced out of her job.
She's not being fired or anything.
She's being reassigned to some department at Dartmouth College that is nothing to do with Native Americans.
Because a genuine Native American uh who is a Navajo uh uh discovered that this Native American uh has a bit of a uh same problem as Elizabeth Warren had, in that she was trading on being a Native American, but actually isn't a Native American.
She's not a Native American.
Susan Taff Reed of the Eastern Delaware Nations, uh and Dartmouth, whoever mans the uh Dartmouth College diversity outreach recruitment department, when they cause this is how you have to you can't just advertise the job now.
You've got to have certain people to fit certain jobs.
So they have a whole department at Dartmouth College that exists for just diversity recruitment.
You've got to go out and find we got we we're we're a bit lacking in lesbians, so can you go out and rustle up a couple more lesbians?
Uh we need a a couple of Hispanics here, we need a Native American here.
So they found this Native American, Susan Taff Reed of the Eastern Delaware Nations.
And then it turned out that actually she doesn't have a drop Of Indian blood in her.
Now I'm I'm going by the official diversity component thing of the new segregationism.
One drop is enough.
You know, Elizabeth Warren, when she got into trouble, uh, because she claimed uh to be uh uh uh uh the first she w she was publicly declared to be Harvard Law School's first woman of color.
And as I said on this show, she's the whitest white since Frosty the Snowman fell in a vat of whiteout.
And when she w and she claimed that she'd entered an authentic Native American recipe recipe to powwow chow.
And the authentic Native American recipe for the powwow chow cookbook turned out to come from Cole Porter and the Duke of Windsor's favorite restaurant in Midtown Manhattan.
And it was no uh it was some crab recipe.
Uh uh because we all know that the Native American tribes in Elizabeth Warren's Oklahoma like to spear the uh authentic Oklahoma crab as it comes across the plain.
You know, uh Oklahoma where the crab comes sweeping across the plain.
It's in the state song.
And uh and so Elizabeth Warren eventually uh said that she was actually one thirty-second.
I think she's one thirty-second Indian.
And that's enough to make you Harvard Law School's first woman of color.
I wanted her to run for president just because she would be our first woman of color as president.
How exciting.
She would be the first Native American president in the White House.
That would be that would be terrific.
But this woman isn't even one thirty-second.
And this is again, this is one of those stories that just exemplifies the the flight from our own civilizational inheritance.
There's no point being a white male, no point being a white European female.
Uh there's no point getting hung up on all that kind of stuff if you can be something else.
So she she claimed to be, and this was good enough for Dartmouth College, she claimed to be a member of the Eastern Delaware Nations.
Now, how many of you know your Indian tribes?
Are there any in fact if there's any members of the Eastern Nation Delaware nations out there listening, do call it.
The Eastern Delaware Nations was founded by her grandfather, Susan Taff Reed.
Uh Susan Taff's gr read's grandfather Taff.
These people are all genetically Irish.
They're their Indian nations come from Cork and Connemara and Donegal.
That's their Indian nation.
Uh but they set up, her grandfather set up this thing called Eastern Delaware Nations.
Uh he basically set up his own Indian tribe so his granddaughter wouldn't have to pay for college.
That's brilliant.
That's brilliant.
Have you got a teenage daughter?
She's in tenth, eleventh grade, you're thinking, oh my God, I got these fifty thousand dollar a year college bills coming up.
Well, there's a way around it.
There's a way around it.
Where where are you?
You're in Westchester County, are you?
Well, just set up something called the North Westchester County Nation and say it's an Indian tribe.
It's good enough for Dartmouth College.
They don't check nothing at the diversity outreach office.
That's fine for them.
And you can get and so on the basis of being a member of a tribe her Irish grandfather invented, she was hired to be head of the school's na Native American program.
Now, uh at one level, there's nothing wrong with this.
I mean, if if uh i if Caitlin Jenner is a woman, why shouldn't an Irishman from County Mayo be able to set up his own Indian tribe?
Why why not?
What's the problem with that?
You know, if we can define our own identity when it comes to uh putting on uh Grace Kelly's bathing suit and being photographed on the cover of Vanity Fair, then why can we not uh create our own identity when it comes to inventing our own Indian tribe?
It's just uh the Rachel Dolazel thing taken to uh to another level.
This this guy invented it uh effectively invented his own tribe.
And uh people people complain about it with uh w the about the transphobic.
They say, uh w what do they call it now?
cisgendered.
If you're if you're a genetic female or a genetic male, you're a cis person, you're a cis male or a cis female.
That's CIS.
That means you're a sort of biological, I suppose I don't want to be pejorative, a biological male or biological fair.
And a lot of cis women uh uh uh prejudiced against trans women like Caitlin Jenner uh because like she's only been a woman for twenty-four hours and then she's on the cover of Vanity Fair and she's having this fabulous photo shoot.
Uh so she's like the most uh glamorous woman in the world and and uh she's only had the gig for twenty-four hours.
And it's the same uh same thing here that the the authentic Indians like Sherry Sneezer, this Navajo, these cis engines, as it were, are objecting to the trans engine uh claiming to be from this tribe, the Eastern Delaware nations that actually isn't an Indian tribe.
And uh when it was all uncovered, she said, Well, uh uh she said, Well, I think this is an excellent opportunity for us all to it's a teachable moment about what we mean uh by uh identity and identification in America today.
That's what it means.
It means that no matter how you can invent your own Indian tribe, and it will be good enough to become head of the Native American program at Dartmouth College, an elite institution that people mortgage their homes to send their kids to.
That is identity in America today.
It's a flight uh from uh uh from what Rush was talking about from our actual inheritance to say that's too boring.
It's too boring to say my grandfather came from uh uh from Connemara in uh in Ireland.
That's too boring now.
I want I want to be I want to be Indian.
I want to be Native American, but I don't belong to any tribe, but uh but fortunately my grandpa created a tribe, invented a tribe for me to be a member of.
So go for it.
Go for it.
It's good enough for Dartmouth College.
Anyone will fall for it in today's America.
Mark sign in for Rush, we'll take your call straight ahead.
Mark Stein uh in for Rush.
Uh I've got uh I I I've had the complaint from uh somebody who said uh they they listened to me mentioned my new book and went to try and buy it at Amazon and said it was listed for four hundred and fifty dollars.
And they said, I know you're being sued uh by this uh big climate guy, uh Michael Mann, the hockey stick creator, but four hundred and fifty dollars for a paperback book is still a bit steep.
I think I think you've gone to the wrong I think you've gone to the wrong site there, unfortunately.
It's all four hundred and fifty dollars.
I think it's like it's discounted at Abbas, and so it's whatever it is, thirteen or fourteen bucks, something like that.
Uh but it's uh quote, a disgrace to the profession, unquote, by Mark Stein, and that's S T E Y, S T E Y N, S T E Y, as in Why Do I Have To Listen to some annoying foreigner guest host for the ultimate American radio show, S T E Y N. But it's not four hundred and fifty dollars.
If it was, I would have retired to the Bahamas.
Um it's just uh it's way less than that.
Let's go to Courtney, who is in the high mountains of southern Colorado and has probably already founded his own authentic Indian tribe up there.
Courtney, you're live on America's number one radio show.
What's on your mind today?
Hello, Mark.
I love your logic and love your intellect, and the accent too is awesome.
That's great.
Your accent is good too.
Where's that come from?
That's good at uh Native American, actual real American.
Excellent.
Um, people like Michelle is listening right now.
Um Listen, Mark, you you're back to this Boehner discussion.
Um I don't think that this idea of his that we stop at this point is necessarily a bad idea.
Let me tell you why.
Uh Mr. McCarthy was a poor choice.
He was a questionable conservative, but he was inarticulate.
He made George W sound like a toastmaster.
And what we need is a leader in the house, not a politician, but someone who can stop this fundamental transportation and uh transfer transformation, excuse me.
And do it articulately.
Uh we don't need a politician, we don't need uh someone who's gonna waffle and stick to their their talking points.
The house controls the budget or used to until Rainer, you know, rolled over.
So I've got the two remaining candidates, uh, you know, Chaffetz and Webster, uh I I listened to both of them this weekend on the news shows, and they both have a couple talking points, which I won't repeat here.
Uh, but they kept they stuck to those talking points like politicians.
That neither of them said, we're gonna stop the fundamental transformation.
Neither of them said, we're gonna do what the people sent us to Washington to do to defund Obamacare to stop the uh uh unconstitutional uh uh amnesty policy.
Neither of them would say that.
What they said was, you know, we're gonna bring the Republicans together, and uh he's a fresh face, you know, chain he is a fresh face, okay, that's great.
But what we need is somebody with some uh cajones to stand up and and actually say, I'm gonna stop Obama.
And that's what conservatives and I think most Americans would run there.
Someone like uh Tree Dowdy or Louis Gilbert, I mean I could give you half a dozen things that would be better than and than uh who than either of the candidates that remain, and certainly Mr. McCarthy.
Yeah, well you what you don't want is is a sort of uh guy like Boehner, who was a parliamentary operator, which meant he'd just explain why nothing could be done.
I mean, that's the thing.
You don't want a guy who's effectively uh the house equivalent of a DMV clerk um who says uh no, sorry, we can't do we can't give you a license because you've only uh brought three copies of the green form and you're supposed to have four copies of the blue form, but come back uh in uh two years' time with four copies of the blue form.
And that that's basically how Boehner uh uh uh ran it, and that's how McCarthy would have run it.
So you you like the idea of Trey Gowdy or Louis Gomot or someone who's actually willing to move the ball down into the Democrats half of the field, Courtney.
Right.
Someone who's not a politician, a politician blows whichever way the wind blow uh goes.
There's no difference, you know, between Sanders and and Clinton or uh, you know, as far as I'm concerned, Boehner or McCarthy, uh they've got their talking points and they stick with it.
But they're unwilling to have an intellectually honest discussion and say, Look, uh I'm gonna you know you elected me to defund um the you know the the illegal amnesty program.
So we're gonna do that.
And if the government shuts down, we'll you know we'll let the chips fall where they may.
I mean it's not you know, it it it it might be ugly, but you know what, uh people are behind us, and and then what they risk is when they go to Washington and like Mr. McConnell with his marble mouth uh lunacy about well, we're not gonna shut the government down.
Well that's not what we elected you for.
We elected you to pull out Obamacare by the roots like you said you would.
Yeah, I we we got we got we're coming up we're coming up against the hard break, Courtney.
Uh so I I gotta go.
But you you are right, and you want someone who just doesn't accept the opposition's terms.
I said, and it's a cruel line about uh uh about Boehner, you know, that he he he folds so well he should be the White House valet.
But it's true, there's no point uh in in asking people every two years to turn you in to to bring you to office because you're into gonna do great things, and then the day after the election, you start explaining why no great things can be done.
That has to stop, because the Republican Party is destroying its brand by doing that.
Mark sign for Rush, more to come.
Hey, thanks for all your good wishes to Rush.
He's on the men shaking off uh this cold, and I know you're itching, itching itching to hear him back at the microphone.
He will be here for three hours of open line Friday starting tomorrow, and uh it it's been an honor for me because we were talking about uh cis women and trans women and cis Indians and trans Indians like they have at Dartmouth.
And I regard I regard Russia's the ultimate cis American, and I'm really more of just a trans-American, sort of dilettanteing it around and trying to pull it off here for three hours.
But the real deal is gonna be returning with open line Friday, live tomorrow.
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