Rush Limbaugh Show - April 22, 1994

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BRIEF SUMMARY OF TOPICS: Americans are rejecting Clinton health care plan, but Senator Rockefeller doesn't care; EIB PSA to help Clinton out with his search for a new Supreme Court nominee; Stossel's show about scare crises proves Rush is right; Earth Day shows how some environmentalists have turned Earth and environment into their religion, even though humanity is not slave to nature but master of it; EPA report shows electric cars contribute to smog, and some states might have to ban other electric devices so as to such these cars to be used; global warming not proven to be true, and even if it were, only 4% of CO2 is man-made; Clinton's suggestion that businesses should raise prices to cover his health care plan's costs would be highly inflationary; Max Frankel claims NY Times is politically impartial; liberals refuse to admit their biases; love between political opposites such as Mary Matalin and James Carville is a mystery; tickets for Rush's TV show are hottest in town; Rush tells his sad story about how moving company lost his stuff for two weeks; James Blair claims he both won a bundle and lost #3 million in cattle futures market; Hillary's arrogant statement about undercapitalized businesses show how little she cares for American business; lower federal budget deficit due not to increased taxes but to lower interest rates and to administration's financing of debt with short-term bonds; Republicans should also be given credit for lower deficit because they killed Clinton's economic stimulus bill; Clinton's lower deficit still much higher than final three deficits of Reagan era; Sam Nunn warns that if U.S. bombs Bosnia, then it should level Serbian strongholds and do the job right; Clinton's approach to Bosnia just another term paper; "Three Strikes" initiatives will just turn criminals even more violent and more willing to kill because they will have nothing to lose; caller suggests Europeans are reluctant to help Bosnians because of their poor reputation; Joe Kennedy arrested at White House during protest over Haitian policy; Rostenkowski says broad taxes will be needed to finance Clinton health care plan; Mario Cuomo supports caning of Michael Fay because he believes that U.S. has no moral authority to tell another nation how to deal with its people; Whitewater took big bucks from investors without giving them anything in return; Clinton as governor and attorney general was willing to take clients' money without turning over land to them; Clintons' lies mean they've had their three strikes; Republicans should be supporting state's rights initiatives; Clinton doesn't seem to be able to remember his wife's $100,000 profit, but can remember being warned about dangerous park; some Clinton foes hope military will fail and so discredit him as President, but Rush says this is a shameful approach.

April 22, 1994 - It's now (allegedly) day 458 (day 477 for the rich and the dead) of "America Held Hostage" (aka the "Raw Deal") and 535 days after Bill Clinton's election, but Rush is still on the air with 640 radio affiliates (with more than 22 million listeners weekly world-wide), 234 TV affiliates (with a national rating of 3.7), and a newsletter with over 440,000 subscribers.

His first book was on the NY Times hardback non-fiction best- seller list for 54 consecutive weeks, with 2.6 million copies sold, but fell off the list after Simon and Schuster stopped printing it. The paperback version of "The Way Things Ought To Be" has been on the NY Times paperback non-fiction best-seller list for 31 weeks and is currently at number nine. Rush's second book, "See, I Told You So," was on the NY Times best-seller list for 16 weeks and has sold over 2 million copies.

o A CNN/USA Today Gallup poll showed that voters thought George Bush could help the economy more than Clinton, 43 to 36%, and this contradicted a poll done the previous month. Rush noted that this showed why polls taken so early before the election were really curiosities and not much else.

o The New York Times had a comprehensive story about Perot, with the headline "In Sharpest Attack Yet, Perot attacks Bush for Inaction," but it didn't mention the rumor Rush heard about how Perot has sworn a vendetta against George Bush. Some of Rush's friends who are in a position to know told him that Bush's oil dealings 30 years ago upset Perot and started their "feud." Rush thought it would be interesting to see how this theory held up during the presidential campaign.

o In honor of the homosexual-subject books which made their way into the first-grade curriculum in New York schools, Rush came up with his own set of books to help teach kids about another group in America that was widely discriminated against and which far outnumbers the homosexual population: smokers, who make up 30% of the American population.

Smokers were always being harassed about their life-style by "misguided smokaphobes." No matter where they went - restaurants, buses, trains, airplanes - smokers were attacked by smokaphobes who denied the legitimacy of this legal life-style. Rush, noted, though, that three of his staff were smokers, so he knew they were a "fine bunch" that worked hard and didn't break the law.

"It just isn't fair to discriminate against these fine, hard- working, patriotic Americans," Rush noted, so he ordered the Limbaugh Institute for Conservative Studies to put out a series of story-books for first graders so that they could understand and appreciate this life-style and those who choose it. One book would be "Why Jimmy's Daddy Lights Up"; another could be "Women Who Share Cigarettes With Other Women"; and "Smoking After Sex" would explain the importance of smoking to sex.

Finally, there should be a "Safe Smoking" program - free distribution of filtered cigarette holders throughout all of America's classrooms. Proper smoking role models would also have to be found to help children understand what safe smoking is all about - how to roll up your sleeves so that you can carry a pack of cigarettes, how to light a cigarette, and which brands to choose.

o A 30-year old member of the Missouri state legislature was charged with shooting a snapping turtle after he accidentally hit it with his car. Mark Holloway told police that he shot the turtle because he felt it was the humane thing to do, but for doing so he faced 90 days in jail for each of his two shots, plus a $1000 fine.

So while a man show shot a turtle could spend six months in jail, a New York City man who stabbed someone was let out of jail after only 28 days because it was his first offense. A Vernon, CT woman got probation for shooting her fiance after he cancelled their wedding; the judge thought the woman had a "plausible excuse."

o U.S. Department of Agriculture officials meanwhile planned to shoot thousands of sea gulls at New York's Kennedy Airport so as to reduce the number of collisions between them and airplanes. The Agriculture Department felt it had no choice but to shoot the birds since noise cannons and other devices failed to drive the gulls back to nearby Jamaica Bay.

Jack Hoyt of the Sierra Club, though, promised that activists would "storm the beaches" to prevent the shootings. Hoyt hoped to frighten the birds away before they could be shot. Rush asked what kind of good it would do to frighten the birds off the airport, only to have them sucked into the jet intake of an incoming plane.

This story reminded him of what happened during the filming of the Tom Cruise movie "Days of Thunder." The producers wanted to show Cruise racing his stock car down the beach, with a bunch of gulls flying out of the way at the last minute; the producers therefore spread some bird seed on the beach to attract the gulls.

However, when Cruise drove down the beach at 110 m.p.h., the birds were too busy eating the free bird seed to get out of the way. The result was, Rush noted, "smack-dab splat city, right over the birds." The environmentalist wackos, such as Hoyt and the Sierra Club, though, didn't make any protests about this "murder."

o Frank from Stormlake, IA was taking an ethics class in college, studying the novel "The Chalice and the Blade." The professor told the class that whenever a woman had a child, it was rape because not only was all sex within marriage rape, but childbirth was rape, too. The teacher then insisted that society could never improve as long as it was a patriarchal society.

Linda of Delmar, CA heard this call and sent Rush a fax asking "if childbirth is rape, then I suppose breast-feeding is molestation?" Rush refused to allow EIB, though, to continue "milking this situation."

Brian from Boston, MA, however, had another point to make: if childbirth were really rape, then men were "born rapists" and thus couldn't be faulted for any rapes they committed. It also meant, though, that because there were more women born than men, that there were more women rapists than men. Rush noted that absurdities such as this professor's claim trivialized the real crime of rape.

There's good news - the latest USA Today/CNN poll on the Clinton health care plan shows that only 43% of Americans support it, while 47% oppose it, and 64% think the plan will result in too much government. Also, 48% think that the Clinton plan will give them less choice in selecting their own doctor.

The best news, though, is that 63% of Americans reject the notion of universal health care, instead preferring to see a plan that allows, but not requires, Americans to buy health care at affordable rates. In other words, Americans want to hold onto their freedoms.

Unfortunately, what the people want doesn't count to Democrats such as Senator Jay Rockefeller who told the West Virginia Associated Press News Association, "We're going to push through health care reform, regardless of the views of the American people."

This is basic arrogance, contempt, and condescension, and it comes straight out of the Democratic party handbook, which proclaims that only Democrats know what's best for Americans. It's also part of the latest power grab on the part of the Democrats who want even more control over not only the U.S. economy, but also over every U.S. citizen.

o Rush's voice is cracking, thanks to a cold he's been fighting for two weeks and which has finally moved up into his head. "I will rely a lot on your people and your calls," he pleads.

o Bill Clinton is still looking for his next Supreme Court nominee, so EIB has agreed to help out by playing the following Public Service Announcement:

<> Hi, this is Bill Clinton. If you've needed a new lease on life and you're ready to trade up to a better career, then consider the new '94 Supreme Court! It's the perfect government job. With its lifetime tenure, you're sure to get the most mileage for your activism 'cause if you're not happy, you can just make it unconstitutional! <> What a deal! So, if you're a highly motivated decision maker, the Supreme Court could be for you! Call now for more information.

<> All nominees must be 18 years or over, U.S. citizen, member of far left-leaning, or communist front group, or oppressed minority. No judicial knowledge required. Lifetime security lease, including all powers to tax, rule on licenses and contracts. Offer not available to baby-sitter tax cheats, white males, or former S&L executives. Fifteen cents per mile business travel deduction. Nominee subject to approval by Hillary Rodham Clinton.

<> So, if you're a highly-motivated decision maker, the Supreme Court could be for you. Call now!

o Rush asks his staff how they liked "the tribute to Rush on ABC." As they look at him in stunned disbelief, Rush explains he's talking about John Stossel's hour-long show last night which was titled "Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death," but which really should have been titled "See, I Told You So." Stossel, a consumer activists who for the past 25 years has been the high priest of the "sky is falling" scare-you-to-death fanatics, but his program last night proved that Rush has been right to disbelieve all the crisis-mongering that's been going on.

Stossel, in fact, showed that the biggest risk to Americans' health is big government and big government regulation, which result in absurdly high costs for everything from food to the basic cost of running a business. Stossel basically concluded that prominent consumer activists such as Ralph Nader and nearly everyone in government, except for Vice President Algore, were the bad guys.

Rush is glad to see a major network finally expose this sort of crisis-mongering for what it is, but, he notes, he's been saying the same things for years.

o Speaking of crisis-mongering, today is Earth Day, when lots of people who are looking for something of value in their lives because they've abandoned any other religion, try to turn the Earth and the environment into their god. Rush tends to avoid theology since his show is not a pulpit and he is not a preacher, but on this day he would like to remind people of what is said in Genesis 1:28:

"God blessed them, saying to them, `Be fruitful, multiply, fill the Earth and conquer it. Have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the heaven, and all living animals on the Earth.' "

He notes that those who would turn the environment into their religion have moved the issue onto religious grounds already, so he doesn't mind reading this one sentence now. He also will be curious to see what kinds of messes these "true believers" will leave after their celebrations.

Algore released a statement saying that those who would minimize the risk of global warming (i.e. people such as Rush who point out there is no evidence for it) remind him of tobacco company executives who claim that the dangers of smoking remain unknown.

This is wrong, though - even the environmental militants who are promoting the global warming scare admit that there isn't enough evidence that such warming is occurring. However, these same people then insist that the world can't wait for 20 years to get the conclusive data and must act now.

Rush points out that he is not for dirty water or dirty air, nor does he want to destroy the Earth; however, mankind cannot destroy the Earth, and it is a tremendous vanity for someone to say humanity can. It's as if mankind is not part of nature, and therefore can only negatively affect the environment and Earth.

Humanity, though, is not only very much part of nature, but also superior to any other living organism. This basic precept, though, is rejected by those who insist mankind can only corrupt nature, and that of all humanity, Americans, with their western life-styles, are the most dangerous and destructive.

To these people, the American way of life is evil, but when one looks across the world, they see that it's the totalitarian governments who have the most dismal environmental records, even to the point of destroying entire ecosystems, cities, and towns. It is freedom and capitalism which have done a far better job of cleaning up the environment and mankind's messes, but the militant environmentalists want to destroy the western way of life.

For example, the electric car is being hailed as being the cure for America's air pollution problems. However, a preliminary EPA report has stated that electric cars do contribute to smog because their batteries are powered by electricity coming from coal and gas-powered electric power plants. Some environmentalists who are pushing for the electric car have reacted to this by saying that in certain states, electric cars should be used only if other electricity-using devices such as refrigerators and hair dryers are banned.

Algore, by the way, in his "best-selling" book, "Earth in the Balance," claims that the automobile is the single, greatest danger that humanity faces. This is why he has called for a slowdown of the introduction of cars to the Third World in particular, and for a slowdown of Third World development in general.

This drive to halt progress is one reason why Rush has long been saying that the modern radical environmental movement is the new home of socialism and communism in the world. It's no coincidence that Mikhail Gorbachev is now leading a group called the Green Cross, which is his new home for criticizing the west.

As to global warming, Rush notes that carbon dioxide (CO2) is supposedly the primary greenhouse gas, yet mankind produces only 4% of the world's supply of atmospheric CO2; the oceans and plants create the remaining 96%. This means that if CO2 is indeed causing global warming, mankind could stop all of its CO2- producing activities and reduce the problem by only 4%. In other words, mankind could stop everything, and it wouldn't help the problem, if such a problem even existed, which it doesn't.

This statistic also means that the world has been producing lots of CO2 for millions and millions of years, yet somehow this "fragile" planet has been able to keep its temperature from going out of control. It's not surprising, therefore, that all the temperature records show that there has been on indication of global warming for the past 100 years.

Thus, from all this one can conclude that the global warming scare is not about any real danger but yet another attack against America and prosperity.

o Mario Cuomo has come out in favor with the caning of Michael Fay, and Rush will talk more about his interesting statement later.

o Dan Rostenkowski has become a little more honest about taxes and the Clinton health care plan. Rush will give the details later.

Ed watched Clinton's town meeting in Wichita, and found his answer to the chairman of Godfather's Pizza to be interesting. Clinton told the CEO, who was worried about how the cost for Clinton's plan would bankrupt his business, that raising his prices only 2% would cover any increased costs.

Ed, though, notes that it won't be just Godfather's Pizza that will be raising its prices, but everyone along the supplier train - the pizza dough maker, the truckers, etc. will all be raising their prices, too, so it's obvious that any cost increases will be far more than just 2% by the time they get to the consumer. This means Clinton's plan would be highly inflationary.

Rush says this is exactly right - Herman Cain, the CEO of Godfather's Pizza, wrote a letter to Clinton noting that the 3,000 or so employees of Godfather's Pizza (which doesn't count the 10,000 people employed by the firm's independent franchisees) are costing the company $500,000 for insurance that covers 80% of health costs. Under Clinton's plan, though, the company would have to pay an additional $1.7 million a year, for a total of $2.2 million a year. A cost increase this large would mean the company would have to raise its pizza prices by 17 to 19%.

Thus, with every company facing such higher costs, it's obvious that when they all get passed on to the consumer at the end of the chain, that poor consumer will end up paying far more than the 2% that Clinton claimed they would.

Stephen watched Tuesday's Nightline special on Whitewater and was amazed to hear Max Frankel of the NY Times say that his paper was politically impartial. However, although there was a gasp from the audience about this, nobody on stage picked up on it.

Rush was not surprised to hear Frankel make this claim and asks Stephen to hold on through the break.

Rush was not surprised by Frankel's statement because the media will never admit that it's liberal. Stephen says that this fact is so obvious that his jaw dropped at Frankel's comment; it was all the more surprising because the Wall Street Journal's Robert Bartley admitted that his paper was conservative.

Rush says that conservatives are upfront and honest about their beliefs. Koppel even noted on Tuesday's show that Rush has never claimed to be an unbiased journalist, and Rush agrees wholeheartedly with that statement. In fact, Rush quite openly and proudly admits his conservative bias and point of view every chance he gets.

Liberals, though, with only a few exceptions, refuse to admit that they are liberal, even though their bias is as open and obvious as Rush's. While some publications, such as the New Republic, are very open with their liberal point of view, most, such as the Washington Post and NY Times, refuse to admit that they are anything but "unbiased journalists." In fact, Emily Rooney was axed from one of the major networks for daring to admit to its liberal bias and for saying that the network news organization should have a greater focus on the conservative side of the issues.

Stephen says he is also curious about Mary Matalin's marriage to James Carville. How can such a marriage work and allow the husband and wife to remain true to their principles? Rush replies "who can tell about personal relationships?"

He recalls how recently he told the story of how several years ago he didn't take his second wife to a political conference in Washington, DC. One colleague was aghast that Rush was married to a woman who didn't share his political views. This colleague couldn't conceive of marrying someone who didn't feel the same way he did. For Rush, though, this wasn't a big deal.

So, it's difficult for anyone to explain why someone comes to love someone else, or why they fall in love. Besides, it's really nobody's business why Mary Matalin and James Carville are in love with each other, although Rush notes that there might be something to the old saying "opposites attract."

Rush notes that he even had a caller on this week who said her husband was a good liberal who would start to twitch whenever she listened to Rush's show. Stephen admits love is a strange thing, and notes that Carville was as partisan and devoted to his principles as anyone could be Tuesday night. Yet he still proudly said, not once, but three times that his wife was a devoted listener to Rush's show.

Rush enjoyed hearing him say that, and notes he enjoys both Carville's and Matalin's friendship. He invited the two of them to his hotel room during his Superbowl visit and attended their wedding. They've had great times together, and don't talk about politics at all. The same thing happened during his visit to the "Hearts Afire" set, a place as infested with liberals as anywhere, but this didn't mean that Rush and the others couldn't get along.

Lots of people find the Matalin/Carville romance curious, but Rush bets that Matalin does respect just how good Carville is at what he does. Stephen adds that people with a proper upbringing do learn how to agree to disagree.

Rush also bets that when trouble does arise in the Matalin/Carville household, it'll be over the same old things that couples have always been fighting about, such as how the husband pays too little attention to the wife.

Stephen adds that he's been to Rush's TV show twice, and most recently was there on April 14th, when Rush did his "Tax Day" show. He thanks Rush and EIB for their hospitality, and was impressed to note that it's very true that Rush doesn't use teleprompters, applause signs, or the other clap-trap of TV shows. Rush instead just spoke off the cuff and extemporaneously.

Rush thanks Stephen for noticing such things, and Stephen says he just wanted to give testimony about this to those who insist that Rush uses the same old devices as everyone else. Rush, though, says most people really don't care about such things; when they show up, they want to be entertained by an excellent show and they tend not to care how that excellence is produced.

He adds that even liberals have begrudgingly admitted that he doesn't have any writers for his show, although the liberals came to this conclusion because "nobody is wacky enough to write Rush's stuff for him."

Stephen recommends the show to anyone who wants a great experience, and Rush thanks him for that, but notes that tickets for his show are the hottest in town. He has to laugh, though, at how his friend Tom Sullivan from Sacramento, who is a financial expert and talk show host at Rush's old station KFBK, recently visited New York. Before he and his wife came over to see Rush's show, they spent the afternoon walking about Rockefeller Center, near the NBC studios.

During their walk they were approached three separate times by someone offering them free tickets to see the Donahue show. Thus, while Donahue has to round up people for his show, Rush's is booked up through the rest of the season.

Rush notes, however, that his TV show is not a "great TV production," as is David Letterman's, but if this sort of thing is your cup of tea, it is a great experience and lots of fun.

Ed notes that he's been a faithful listener ever since the "missing moving van days," and Rush sarcastically thanks him for bringing up that "great experience" in his life. For the newer members of his audience, he explains that this was back in September, 1988 when he had just moved to New York. He had been living in a temporary place for a month, but finally found a permanent one, so he had all his earthly belongings shipped from Sacramento.

However, when the day came for the moving van to show up, no van appeared. Rush called the moving company which told him that the driver was running late and would show up the next day. Well, the driver didn't show up then either, and Rush spent the next couple of weeks trying to find out where his stuff was.

Eventually, the story came out - the driver of the truck had gotten fed up with the company and just ditched the truck at a truck stop in Ohio. By the time the company figured out what had happened, the FBI was involved, and they took their own sweet time searching the van when it was discovered for any possible contraband. Since the van contained three families' furnishings, this took a while.

To sum things up, Rush says the entire experience was an absolute fiasco, especially as the moving company was totally uncooperative. It didn't even seem concerned at all about their missing van, much less Rush's stuff.

Ed has a question about how James Blair, who did Hillary's cattle trading for her, last week said that he lost $3 million. Rush says that Blair filed suit against Revco, the brokerage firm that Hillary Clinton used, claiming that they manipulated the market, causing his losses.

This lawsuit generated a lot of interest because Blair was the one who originally got Hillary involved in the cattle futures market, and Hillary made $100,000 in profits. There are those who suspect that part of Blair's losses were financing Hillary's profits.

Ed says that when Blair earlier appeared on Good Morning America he told Charlie Gibson that he "made a bundle." Rush says this is not necessarily a contradiction - Blair could have made a net profit, while still losing $3 million on paper.

Rush notes that when Hillary's trades were first reported, the White House claimed that she made all her own trades. Later, though, documents that were released showed that this was not true - Blair made most, if not all, of her trades. Blair, though, then claimed that he didn't, so the question is whether the White House tried to hang Blair out to dry in all this.

Some are now saying that Clinton is not really President of the United States, but "Governor" because he's acting the same way he did when he was Arkansas' governor. For example, back in Arkansas he called out the National Guard and today he's "calling out" the United Nations. Speaking of this, there are also those who are wondering whether Clinton is really trying to use the United Nations as a scapegoat for Bosnia, which is why he's abdicated any responsibility for the situation there.

Rush notes that he will be in St. Louis two weeks from today, broadcasting at the studios of EIB's newest affiliate KMOX. Rush will be glad to get out of town because New York still feels like winter, with bitterly cold nights, even though the days are pretty. Rush sighs, though, because he never gets to see daylight anymore, so the nice days don't really matter.

Rich feels the same way Rush does about the winter, and wonders where the global warming was when he was out shoveling his driveway last winter. Rush notes that global warming really isn't mentioned much during the winter months.

Joe gives "ballistic dittos" but has a "little bone" to pick with Rush over how he let Hillary get away with her comment last year that "I can't be responsible for every undercapitalized business in America!" Joe admits that Rush did talk about her "Marie Antoinette" impression a little bit, but then forgot about it.

Rush says he didn't let Hillary get away with that arrogant statement at all. He talked about it a lot, especially as he himself was outraged at the arrogance of this woman who was not elected and not accountable to anyone, yet had taken it upon herself to decide which businesses should and should not survive.

Joe understands that but says that America would never have worked at all had it been started with such an attitude as Hillary's, and he still thinks Rush should have done more to put Hillary in her place. Rush notes that Hillary's comment does show one thing - if she doesn't care about whether small businesses can survive her health care plan, then it's obvious she doesn't care much about business in general.

o Rush is toying with the idea of setting aside the third hour of today's show for callers of a particular type. He's done this sort of thing before, such as how he has set aside hours for women callers, so as to show that not all women hate him, or as how during the 1992 campaign he talked only to Clinton supporters.

Thus, today he's wondering if he should set aside an hour for those who don't think Whitewater is that big a deal; of course, he'll have to make sure he doesn't get those sort of callers who will say "I don't think Whitewater is a big deal - I think it's a HUGE deal!" What Rush really doesn't know, though, is if there are enough people in his audience who don't care about Whitewater to get an hour's worth of calls.

The EIB staff point out that there was one guy during Tuesday's Nightline who could be such a caller. Rush agrees - this was the guy who stood up and said "No dittos from me, I think for myself, I'm a Democrat!" However, Rush is still not sure if EIB can find an hour's worth of such callers.

o Returning to Hillary's comment about how "she" cannot be personally responsible for undercapitalized businesses, Rush notes that this attitude is the epitome of those who think government should be in control of everything in life. Another example of this sort of paternalism is the saga of the Oddball Cabaret in Los Angeles, which was told by the good liberals of Los Angeles that it had to take down the shower for nude dancers because it didn't have any wheelchair access.

Rush laughed about this when he first mentioned it, but it really is a serious issue. Perhaps there are those who don't mind seeing a nude club get hassled like this, but the point is that if cities and governments can use such vague, broadly worded laws against one type of business, then it can use them to harass, intimidate, and interfere with any business.

This is yet another example of government interfering with the private sector, trying to take away more and more freedoms from the people. Senator Patrick Leahy has attacked Coca-Cola for putting its soda pop in school lunches; Leahy sees this as an insidious plot to "keep America's schoolchildren awash in soda pop." So while Leahy is worried about whether kids drink Coke or not, kids are being given condoms at school, not to mention a worthless education.

o There's more economic news and it's good news - the federal budget deficit is 17% lower for the first six months of fiscal year 1994 (October, 1993 to March, 1994) than it was during the same period last year. The "experts" are saying that the reason the deficit is "only" $151 billion is because of higher taxes, a stronger economy, and spending caps/cuts.

Rush says that he'll agree that the spending caps implemented by the 1990 Budget Deal are a good thing, and even Clinton has admitted these caps have tied his hands somewhat. (Of course, good Democrats such as Maxine Waters are quick to take advantage of how the caps can be defeated by declaring an "emergency"; this is how Waters managed to get $100 checks for her South Central residents by adding an amendment to the emergency bill for the recent LA quake.)

Buried deep in the stories about the lower deficit, though, is the real reason for its drop: lower interest rates have kept down financing costs, and the Clinton administration has capitalized on these lower rates by using short-term bonds, instead of long- term ones, to finance the debt.

The tax increases simply cannot have brought in enough revenues already to have any effect on the deficit, so they can't be credited with helping to bring the lower deficit about. The short-term bonds, though, do have an immediate effect, given that they are cheaper financing than the long-term bonds.

However, the problem with the short-term bonds is that they lock in the low rates for only 5 to 10 years. While the 30-year bonds would have slightly higher interest rates, they would have locked overall lower rates in for much longer, thereby saving the nation money over the long term.

The Clinton administration, though, went with the short bonds, even though it knew it was risking much larger deficits in the future, because the short-term effects of the short bonds would allow the President to claim his economic plan was working.

However, the Clinton economic plan had nothing to do with the lower deficit; rather, the combination of lower interest rates and short-term financing are responsible. This, though, is what caused New York's fiscal crisis in the mid-70s; New York City tried to use short-term bonds to finance its deficits, but when interest rates skyrocketed due to the rapid inflation of the 70s, the city couldn't afford the higher financing costs.

There's also another factor in all this - the current $151 billion deficit is just for the first six months of the year, and since the deficit was $183 billion the year before, this means it's had a $32 billion drop. However, Clinton's economic stimulus bill would have added $19 billion to the budget had it not been defeated by the Republicans.

Clinton last year stated that his economic stimulus bill was absolutely necessary to revive the "worst economy in 50 years" and to stop a ballooning deficit. Clinton claimed that his pork barrel-filled stimulus bill had to be passed so as to keep the deficit lower, and he complained that this action was needed more than ever because the Bush administration had lied about the true scope of the deficit. Meanwhile, George Mitchell and Benjamin Chavis warned of dire consequences to the nation should Clinton's stimulus bill not be passed.

The Republicans, though, ignored all this, and their filibuster prevented the bill from passing, even though the Democrats tried to placate their foes by reducing the size of the bill from $19 billion to $16 billion. For their successful opposition, the Republican party was vilified for its partisanship and Bob Dole was called "Darth Vader."

However, had Clinton gotten what he wanted, the deficit would have grown by at least $19 billion, which means that the drop from the previous year would have been only $13 billion instead of $32 billion. Thus, the Republicans were responsible for half of "Clinton's" lower deficit.

It should therefore be clear that the 17% lower deficit was reduced, not by higher taxes and economic growth, but by 1) the Republicans' stopping of Clinton's economic stimulus bill, and 2) lower interest rates and Clinton's short-term financing practices.

Rush clarifies that the $151 billion deficit figure is only for the first six months of the fiscal year; the yearly deficit is still expected to be $235 billion, down from earlier estimates of $282 billion. Thus, the good news is that the deficit is falling, but even this new deficit is still $100 billion more than the deficits of 1986, 1987, and 1988.

The last year of Reagan's administration had a deficit of $150 billion for the entire year, and the deficit had been steadily declining for three years, down from what had been the all-time high of $200 billion.

Reagan's deficits were falling because there was true economic growth, an expanding tax base, and the rich were paying more actual dollars under the lower rate than they did before. Thanks to Reagan's cut of the top marginal rate of 70% to 28%, federal revenues nearly doubled, from $515 billion in 1980 to $985 billion in 1988.

So, "Clinton's" lower deficits are still way higher than Reagan's final deficits.

Rush turns to Bosnia, and how Sam Nunn, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has dropped a major bombshell with his warnings about U.S. air strikes. Nunn basically told the President that if the U.S. does start bombing, it had best be prepared to bomb and bomb and bomb, so as to level the Serbian strongholds. If bombing is going to be done, it has to be done right.

Rush finds this interesting because it shows that there are still wide disagreements among the Democrats. He also finds it interesting that Clinton's Bosnian policy shows the truth of what Rush said during the 1992 campaign about how Clinton and his administration were full of theorists who never had any experience in the real world.

These guys wrote their papers, theses, and dissertations, and their theories always worked great on paper. Whether those theories were about economics, war, social issues, or whatever, they always worked and solved all the problems. Now, Clinton is busy writing another "term paper," although now they're called "press conferences."

Clinton sounds really good as he talks about the issues and the problems, and as he gives his suggestions and possible solutions. Clinton, for example, now wants a summit between the Europeans, Russians, and the United States.

This all sounds good, thoughtful, compassionate, and studied, but the problem is that the world's bad guys don't care much for term papers, even if those papers get A's. While Clinton is spewing forth his good intentions, these bad guys are slaughtering men, women, and children - anyone who gets in their way.

The point is that unlike position papers and dissertations, the real world doesn't offer any easy solutions for Bosnia. In fact, there aren't even any safe solutions, which means that Clinton has only tough choices facing him.

Clinton can continue bombing, lift the arms embargo against the Muslims, or he can punt and get out. However, Clinton can't decide this by using his polls and focus groups; he has to look into his soul and do what his conscience says. Clinton will have to dig into his conscience, but the question is whether Clinton has one. Or is his life made up of simply saying and doing things to show that he "cares"?

Richard is a correctional officer, and he hears the inmates at his prison say that the "Three Strikes You're Out" initiative won't matter to them at all. Once an inmate has two strikes against him, he won't hesitate to kill his third victim. After all, such a crook won't have anything left to lose, given that in either case, he's going to jail for life.

Rush says he hasn't heard this argument before, bur Richard says that the inmates he's talking to are telling him that the new law won't be any deterrent at all. Rush says that there are those saying that the country should have a "One Strike You're Out" policy. Why give criminals 3 chances?

If this means building more prisons, then so be it. Rush fears, though, that much of this tough talk on crime is campaign sloganeering by politicians who want to appear to be tough on crime.

The segment begins with "Pachelbel's Canon," but Bo Snerdley asks why Taco Bell has a cannon. Rush has to explain to his call screener that Johann Pachelbel was a 17th century composer and that a canon is a musical piece that's structured like a round such as "Row, Row, Row Your Boat."

Jeff has been a police officer for 22 years and has to agree with the last caller. If a crook is a two-timer and he's robbing you, he's not going to have anything to lose if he kills you. After all, if he lets you live, you'll identify him, so why not kill you? Even if he gets caught, he'll be going to prison for life anyway, so it will be either shoot or be shot.

Jeff knows that these crooks in their 20s and 30s will not hesitate to kill if they have nothing to lose. Rush says that a good liberal would say that this situation would never happen; the "Three Strikes You're Out" law will supposedly provide a deterrence that will keep criminals from attempting their third crime. After their second conviction, these citizens will start obeying the law.

Jeff doubts this, though, and is certain that the "Three Strikes" laws will create only more violence and encourage more crooks to carry guns. These guys won't give up; in fact, Jeff's got a broken finger right now because of a crook who wouldn't give up.

Rush facetiously suggests that punch cards be given to convicted felons, with punches for each conviction. That way they'd always know just how many more crimes they can commit. He adds that perhaps Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia should be given a "three strikes" ultimatum. Jeff replies that Milosevic has already had about 12 or 13 strikes against him, so why not put him away now?

Speaking of Bosnia, Jeff thinks that one reason Europeans won't help the Bosnians is because there are many gypsies, Croats, and other types in that area, and these people over the years have gotten a reputation as thieves, crooks, and such.

Jeff notes that Louisville used to have some problems with Croatian gypsies who along up the interstate stealing from stores, shops, and basically anyone they could find. A band of them would go into a store and while some of them distracted the shopkeepers, the others would steal them blind. He even had one 70-year-old Croat woman try to hide some stolen goodies under his desk as he talked to her.

Jeff doesn't want to tar an entire country or ethnic group with charges of being thieves, but he does think one reason Europeans are hesitant to help out in Bosnia is because of the reputation some of those in Bosnia have.

Rush says that there are also Muslims in Bosnia, and the Serbs really don't seem to care whom they kill. Rush also hasn't heard of Jeff's line of reasoning before, and he'd prefer not to concentrate on it since he'd undoubtedly be accused of being gypsy-phobic or anti-Croatian.

Plus, there are many other reasons for the Europeans' reluctance to get involved. The French, for example, don't want to fight any wars; they don't even want to give permission to the U.S. for fly-overs on their way to Libya. Plus, while Europeans might not like gypsies, they still have some strong memories of other wars, such as the two World Wars.

However, the point in all this is that there needs to be some real leadership with the Bosnian situation. If someone thinks what is going on there is wrong, they have to take a stand and remain firm to their principles. Leadership doesn't mean passing the buck, but taking action according to your principles; however, this leadership is missing right now.

o Joseph Kennedy was recently arrested outside the White House, protesting the U.S.'s Haitian policy.

o Rush has a suggestion for the Bosnian situation - in addition to ending the arms embargo, send in the Afghans. These guys are Muslims, know all about mountainous terrain, and they beat the Red Army of Mikhail Gorbachev, thanks in part to the help of Ronald Reagan and U.S. Stinger missiles.

o Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, has stated that "broad tax increases" will be needed to fund the Clinton health care plan. Clinton, of course, has been claiming that his plan won't need any new taxes, except a 75-cent per pack increase on cigarettes and a 1% levy on large, self-insured corporations.

The truth is coming out, though, and smart Americans should now be asking themselves all sorts of questions. For example, if the employer is supposed to be paying 80% of health care, why are any tax increases needed? If this plan will reduce the deficit, by virtue of how it will apply Medicare sayings to health care, why are any tax increases needed?

Fortunately, the polls are showing that Americans are asking these questions, as they now oppose the Clinton plan 47 to 43%, and 64% are against the idea of an employer mandate.

o Mario Cuomo yesterday said that the U.S. should mind its own business and let Singapore cane Michael Fay. Of course, Cuomo put a liberal slant on things by saying that America had no right to be the "world's ethical monitor." Cuomo stated that the U.S. should not be the "ethicist of the world" as the U.S. was the most violent country in the industrialized world, was drug driven, had children making children, and was where blacks were considered property for 100 years. Cuomo thus asked who America is to judge any other.

This is the typical liberal flip-flop - the liberal part of this is that America is a horrible country with an immoral past, and the conservative part is to let Singapore be tough on crime. Cuomo, of course, always takes both sides of an issue at election time.

For example, Cuomo says he is personally opposed to abortion, but since this is a religious decision for him, he can't force it on anyone else. The Catholic Church, of course, would say that its members should remain true to their principles. Besides, if Cuomo doesn't think he can impose his religious views about abortion on others, then why doesn't he feel the same way about taxes, the death penalty, etc.?

o The latest on Whitewater appeared in yesterday's Washington Post and today's NY Post, and basically the story is that Whitewater was not the money-losing proposition that the Clintons have claimed it was.

Also, while Clinton was portraying himself as a consumer advocate while acting as his state's Attorney General and Governor, he was also ripping people off. Whitewater sold its lots with what are called "purchaser agreements," which require no credit checks, don't give out deeds, and which allow the lender to repossess the property for only one missed payment.

Clyde Soaps, for example, was a grain elevator operator in Texas who paid $244 a month for his "slice of paradise." He bought a lot in Whitewater, intending to use it to build a fishing cottage for his retirement.

However, in 1987 Soaps became seriously ill with diabetes and stopped making his payments. By this point he had paid $3,000 down and $11,000 in payments, but McDougal and Clinton took back the property and resold it to another sap. That second purchaser also missed a payment, which means this property was sold again, for a grand total of three different times.

Rush notes that this information is contained in the documents that the Clintons recently gave James McDougal. However, the Clintons gave him only one-fifth of the documents he requested; the remaining four-fifths still haven't been released.

Rush notes that the risks of purchaser agreements are clearly spelled out, but even so, what does it say when the man who supposedly was the defender of the people in Arkansas was engaging in such activities? Lawyer Bruce May, chairman of the ABA's consumer protection committee, noted that not many states allow the use of such purchaser agreements.

May's home state of Arizona, along with most others, protects the consumer by refusing to allow such agreements. Rush notes, however, that Arkansas is an exception because it is an oligarchy, run by a very privileged elite.

The other interesting thing about this is that Whitewater took in $300,000 in payments from these agreements, yet everyone involved claims they lost money. It's unknown if any property actually changed hands or whether Special Counsel Robert Fiske will be investigating this peculiar aspect of Whitewater.

Meanwhile, Rep. Jim Leach recently told Rush that he has documents, which are available to others, showing that Clinton received at least $100,000 in profits from Whitewater, even though he supposedly took a $60,000 loss.

The bottom line is that Clyde Soaps paid $14,000 over three and a half years, with monthly payments of $244, and he got nothing for his money. This was quite a deal offered by the governor of Arkansas.

Rush sums up the sad saga of Clyde Soaps - the Clintons and McDougals, partners in Whitewater, took $14,000 of his money, and then when he got sick with diabetes, took his "slice of paradise" away from him. <>

And there were many deals like this with Whitewater, and curiously, they all happened during the 80s. Rush wonders if this is what Clinton would call "profiting unfairly during the 80s," because Rush sure would. In fact, Rush would call this "ripping people off," which is a strange thing for the Attorney General and Governor of Arkansas to be doing to his own people.

And if Clinton is willing to do this to Clyde Soaps, then just what is he willing to do to the rest of the country? Whitewater was about a holding company selling some saps their "slice of paradise," about taking these guys' money, transferring money to and from Madison Guaranty S&L, taking supposed losses and writing them off, and possibly illegal campaign contributions, even as poor saps such as Soaps were given nothing for their $14,000.

Perhaps all this was legal, and perhaps Soaps knew in advance what he could expect, but what kind of consumer advocate would be a party to such a thing in the first place?

Andrew gives "dittos from the home of Ruth's Cris," but Rush notes that this fine, fine eating establishing, known for its superior steaks, really originated in New Orleans, although there is one in San Francisco, too. He asks Andrew to hold on through the break.

Andrew thinks that the Clintons already have had their three strikes. First, Hillary lied about when she stopped trading, she lied about making her own trades, and she lied about making profits from her second trading account. Rush sighs because he only wishes these lies were indeed felonies.

Andrew adds that 60 Minutes and Leslie Stahl reported how Hillary and her broker broke all sorts of trading rules; in fact, "Red" Bones at the time he was servicing Hillary's accounts had the two highest fines at the time ever levied against a broker by the SEC. Plus, Hillary's account was undercapitalized, and she didn't get the required margin calls.

Rush asks what Andrew would say if told that all this happened 16 years ago. Andrew says that right and wrong don't care about the number of years, and a tiger doesn't change its spots after 16 years. Rush adds that if the passage of time doesn't matter with the Clintons, then why did it matter with Oliver North, Clarence Thomas, or John Tower?

Andrew's third point is that conservatives will apologize to the family of Vincent Foster when liberals apologize to Clarence Thomas, his wife and family. He also would like Rush's Compuserve number, so Rush gives it to him: 70277,2502.

Finally, Andrew thinks Rush should play more Ted Nugent on his show, especially since a number of tunes on the Ted Nugent/Ted Nugent album are very topical. There's "Stranglehold" (what the Clinton administration has on the country), "Stormtroopers" (for Janet Reno), and "Hey Baby" (for Troopergate).

Rush thanks Andrew for his suggestions and call, and then replays his PSA for the Clinton administration's search for a new Supreme Court Justice.

Rush asks Raisa if she has a Ruth's Cris in San Jose, and she replies that she doesn't know, but the best vegetables in the country can be found at Harry's in Roseville, GA. Raisa is a new listener, and she admits she wanted to wring Rush's neck recently for his negativism.

She doesn't like "Don Rickles" type humor, but Rush turned her around when he talked about shifting welfare from the government to the people and the churches. She also thinks that the country no longer has a chief executive in the White House, but a "chief legislator."

She thinks that this trend has been coming for quite a while, and it's about time that it is stopped. She thus praises Colorado for recently passing an amendment declaring its resolve for the Tenth Amendment and demanding that the federal government start respecting its state's rights.

Raisa thinks that local issues should be decided by local governments; the federal government should worry about national matters, while state and local governments should be responsible for local concerns. In other words, government should be decentralized, and other states should insist on their rights as did Colorado.

In fact, Raisa thinks that the Republican party should focus on this issue, both at the national and local levels, so that the country can go back to having a chief executive again. Rush says he is all in favor of this idea, and in fact Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin and John Engler of Michigan have already started. These two governors petitioned the federal government to grant waivers for federal welfare requirements so that they could try out their own versions of welfare, such as Workfare, Learnfare, etc. However, as to whether the GOP could rally people with this issue is unknown, especially given the poor quality of civics education in America.

Raisa's mentioning of Colorado reminded Rush that he received some goodies from EIB affiliate KOA in Denver - a signed helmet from John Ellway of the Denver Broncos and a team jacket from the Denver Nuggets. This helmet is now the fourth Rush has, joining his collection which includes helmets from the Steelers, Green Bay Packers, and Chargers.

Carl watched Tuesday's Nightline special, and found it interesting that James Carville said that Whitewater didn't matter because it was 16 years old. However, Clinton has been saying that he was the lowest paid governor ever, with only a $35,000 salary. However, Carl thinks that if his wife made $100,000 speculating on cattle futures, he would remember it. Carl asks why Rush didn't mention Clinton's forgetful memory.

Rush recalls that his point in this discussion was that while Whitewater was 16 years ago, the Clintons' lying about it is today; above all, these lies don't give anyone reason to trust anything else the Clintons are saying.

Rush adds that the Washington Post had a story by Linda Wheeler headlined "President Stops to Smell Flowers." The story reports on how the President walked into a 12-acre park in Washington, DC, and praised the residents who joined the DC Park Department in renovating the park and driving the drug dealers out.

Clinton said "I remember visiting Washington, DC in the early 80s as a tourist, and they told me the beautiful park I was looking at was too dangerous to visit." Thus, while President Clinton cannot remember a $20,000 loan to his mother, cannot remember whether he received a draft induction notice, forgot to include $6,000 in investment income on his taxes, he was able to remember a warning he got about visiting a park.

Joe has heard Rush mention those liberals who hate the military and are anxious to see it fail because these failures would discredit the military and its use. However, there are also those who want the military to fail because they hate Clinton, and a military debacle would make Clinton look bad.

Rush says that such people should be ashamed. When U.S. troops are sent, he doesn't care who the President is that sent them in, he'll support the troops and pray for a 100% victory. While he might or might not agree with why the troops are being sent or about how they are being sent, he will still support those troops and their victory.

An American should never hope for a failure of the U.S. military, and Rush hopes that there are few Americans in the category that Joe mentioned. As to his point about liberals' hoping for military failures, Rush notes that these liberals want to use those failures as ammunition for discrediting the military and use of force.

During the Gulf War, liberals tried to claim they supported the troops but not the policy. However, this was nonsense - to support the troops, you had to support the policy because the policy was about victory. If you didn't support the policy, you weren't supporting victory, and thus couldn't be supporting the troops.

This is why when U.S. troops are deployed, Rush will support them, no matter who sent them or for what reason. These are men and women putting their lives on the line, and they deserve that support at the very least.

Back in the early 1990's I was working in the Arabian Gulf region with very little American news available other than that on the boring BBC along Usenet and email listservs.

John Switzers daily summary of the Rush broadcast was the highlight of the day. I never was able to find that short wave radio station broadcasting from Louisiana that allegedly carried Rush daily. I found it depressing that Hillarycare was a topic then and remains so, 14 years later.

If you read the last part of the summary about Rush's support for the military you'll see that he has been totally consistent over the years.

2 posted on 04/21/2008 6:22:25 PM PDT by Matchett-PI (Proud member of "Operation Chaos" having the T-shirt , ball cap and bumpersticker to prove it.)

Since I wasn't able to get his broadcasts here in the old country, I used to read these summaries as well.

Weren't they ended because Rush was against them or was it something like John's resources at the time?

I'm amazed that they're back, in any case. :) Thanks for the tip!

Doh, I didn’t read the date or content so I didn’t notice that they’re not “back”. :) Oh well.

I'm amazed that they're back...

Actually they aren't back, That was just one I had from exactly 14 years ago today and I thought it might be interesting to post it.

Today you can sign up with Rush directly on his website at www.rushlimbaugh.com and get a short summary of the day's program via email each day.

5 posted on 04/22/2008 10:04:19 AM PDT by StopGlobalWhining (Only 3 1/2-5% of atmospheric CO2 is the result of human activities. 95-96.5% is from natural sources)

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