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You'll see the news that the American Hospital Association or whatever it's called has now aligned itself with Obama, that Walmart's lined itself up with Obama on his health care plan, and this is certainly him taking advantage of the fact that he knows that everybody is scared to death of him, and that everybody is scared to death of massive federal power being wielded against them. Remember they used to dump all over H.R. Haldeman as a "strongman" for Nixon doing this kind of stuff. Obama is treated as a visionary and a nice guy. You know what? What's missing here is courage and guts. These hospital people and the doctors and the CEOs, they need to challenge Obama. They need to challenge him, confront him, fight him, and expose him. These people can help beat Obama and his health care agenda. He's not invincible. But if you let a bully keep doing what he does, he's going to keep doing what he does. Otherwise you confront him and you take him down. And Obama is really using the power of the federal government much as a schoolyard bully terrorizes the playground.
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RUSH: David in Chicago. Nice to have on the program, sir. Hi.
CALLER: Hello, Rush. It's a pleasure. I'm a physician and a geriatrician, and I wanted to agree with you that President Obama's policies will eliminate competition from the health care marketplace and therefore eliminate motivation to innovate. Not just in technology, but in the health care systems and wide use of resources. Let me give you an example. Most of my patients have Medicare Advantage, which is a program that Obama has railed on and wants to eliminate. This works like an HMO, so my patients' Medicare benefits are reassigned to an insurance company which contracts with me. And if I can manage their health care within a certain amount, then I will actually do well. In other words, if I meet certain goals including patient satisfaction, I get a little bonus at the end of the year because I've managed their health care within that amount of money. President Obama has called this program wasteful spending and says that we're overpaying insurance companies.
RUSH: See, this is exactly what I mean. Here is a program relying on competition to keep costs down, which means it works. You have an incentive to keep your costs down, to keep your patients happy. You get a bonus. Medicare or Medicaid Plus is who pays you?
CALLER: Medicare pays the insurance company, which then contracts with me to manage the care well.
RUSH: Wouldn't you love it though if your patients could pay you?
CALLER: Well, those days are gone, I'm afraid.
RUSH: I refuse to believe that. See, I know what you're saying. I'm not arguing with you. I'm saying, in a philosophical sense, "those days are gone" is exactly why those days gone. We're headed that way. "Those days are gone where the patients pay. Those days are gone." No, they're not gone! There's no reason to give up on them being gone. Anyway, this guy, this doctor, says Obama is targeting his plan to shut it down. He says it's wasteful. It works! It proves you don't need Obama's plan. That's why this doctor's arrangement here is under assault. I know this is hard to hear, that we've elected a president that wants to do that. I don't know any other way to say it, folks. It is true.
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| • Politico: Hospitals Nearing a Deal With White House • Heritage Foundation: Sticker Shock: $1.5 Trillion • Business Insider: The Scariest Jobs Chart Ever |
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RUSH: We always try to go to the phones earlier than normal today. Normally we don't get to the phones 'til the second hour of this program, but on Friday -- since we're urging people, inviting them to call and telling them the show is theirs, the content's theirs when we go to the phones -- we try to go earlier, and I'm going to do that today. We're gonna start with Edgar in Atlanta. It's great to have you with us, Edgar. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Back in January, you said you were going to let us know when it's time to panic. And I don't want to wait 'til I hear you broadcasting from New Zealand. I feel...
RUSH: (laughing)
CALLER: I feel the time is here, and I'm wondering: At what point does secession become a real option? Because I feel like the left and the right in this country, we're just irreconcilable.
RUSH: Wait a second. Secession? Who seceding from where?
CALLER: I'm ready to go to whatever state wants to secede first, Rush.
RUSH: Well, that's Texas. They're the only one talking about it.
CALLER: Then let it be Texas.
RUSH: And, by the way, Texas is in the best economic shape of any state in the country in terms of job losses and budget deficits and so forth -- and there's no state income tax in Texas.
CALLER: Well, in my mind, Rush, we've separated into a country of a host organism and parasites, and we don't need them. We don't need the left, Rush, but they need us because without us they're broke. And I think if Texas seceded, us productive people and businesses would flock there, and eventually the blue states of America would collapse.
RUSH: Well, we've gotta face reality, Edgar. Nobody is going to secede from anything. I mean, Governor Perry in Texas talked about it and things blew up. I mean, there might be some people in Texas that wouldn't mind it but it isn't going to happen. I want to focus on something that you said that you just glanced over. You just sort of threw it away out there.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: You said that the left and right are "irreconcilable."
CALLER: I believe that.
RUSH: I do, too! I've always said that. That's why I'm against bipartisanship! That's why I'm against compromise. That's why the only thing that matters is beating them.
CALLER: Well, maybe what we need is a two-state solution. I think they'll collapse under their own weight eventually without us.
RUSH: Well, what he's saying here is that without the productive class in this country to tax, that the left has no money. Wrong. They're printing it now. We don't have the money now. Obama is purposely destroying the private sector by printing money. This year alone we're going to be over budget by $2.2 trillion. We don't have money that he's spending now. The money that he is spending technically hasn't even been earned yet. The money he's spending now will be earned by people's children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, but he's printing it now, spending it now. You know, every time I have a show like I had yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, where I unabashedly say that President Obama is seeking to destroy the US economy, I get lots of e-mail. "Rush, do you really believe that?" That's so hard for people to grasp. It's so difficult for people to put their arms around, a US president that wants to destroy the economy.
Look, what is the centerpiece of Barack Obama's agenda to accomplish what he wants? It is health care. Nationalized, single-payer, public-option health care. Because that, as Mona Charen said in a column, is ball game. If that happens, every aspect of life is subject to regulation by the federal government on the basis of saving money for health care costs. That will be what they say. The objective is just to simply exert power and the control over people. And once health care is the single responsibility of the government -- not you, but the single responsibility of the government -- they will have infinite power. We aren't even able to define it now, but infinite power to regulate the way individuals live and work and play.
There's no end to this. Now, if that's your centerpiece, and if you need that to accomplish your ultimate objective (which is the expansion of federal government, a totalitarian state, or however you want to characterize it) wouldn't you need as many people in economic pain as possible? Health care insurance, as we all know, is not "portable." If your health care insurance is provided by your employer and you happen to lose your job, you don't keep your health care insurance because you're not paying for it, he is. Now, when you lose your job, you keep your car insurance because you're paying for that, but you don't keep your health insurance. So this whole notion of portability has been a gigantic argument with the leftists demanding portability, meaning you don't ever lose your health insurance.
Well, okay. Who's going to pay it if you get canned or if you quit and your employer is paying your health care insurance or most of it? Who's going to pick up the tab? That's where Obama wants to step in, in one of just many areas. Now, if the central objective is health care -- because getting nationalized health care permits you this cradle-to-grave, Nanny State control over individuals and every aspect of their lives -- if you really want it, wouldn't it really be easier to make sure that more and more people have lost theirs? They know that they have drummed up in people's heads the importance of health care. People are more frightened of going a day without health care in this country than they are of getting on an airplane with one wing.
The psychology has succeeded. People are scared to death to go one day without health care. You get canned -- and right now, over two million people have lost her jobs since Obama was elected, and there's not one policy prescription he has proposed to reduce that, to reverse it. Everything he's doing is going to encourage more unemployment. Because he wants it, because the more people who are unemployed with the fear of health care, the more they're going to demand somebody "do something" to restore their health care. He's got all the retailers and the doctors joining up and the hospitals. That's what I mean.
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RUSH: It's not just health care that Obama seeks -- and that's the biggie, because that encompasses every aspect of our lives. Once the federal government is in charge of that there's no rolling that back. Well, not instantly. Too many people will have their lives personally intertwined, changed with government. It's gotta be stopped. But it's not just health care. If you look at the economy in general, we've been trying for nine months now the political solution: stimulate, Keynesian economics, spend, spend, spend, spend. Stimulate, stimulate, stimulate! In fact, if I may be so bold and so honest, the stimulus package is not even that. It was advertised and promoted as shovel-ready. "We're going to build schools, Mr. Limbaugh, and we're going to build roads and bridges and we're going to rebuild the infrastructure." None of that's happening. I think 6% of the stimulus has been spent, and now they're talking about a second one?
The purpose of that stimulus was not to create jobs. That's not what government does. The only way government does that is when they hire people, and that's not what this was about, as far as the people were told. The people were told that this is going to put them back at work. There's a chart I saw today, and I'm going to try to describe this. As you know, describing charts on radio is a challenge that very few broadcast professionals would ever take. I, my friends, will take it because I am a great chart reader -- and I also happen to tell a great story. This chart shows since I think World War II, maybe it's World War I, the beginning of every recession in terms of job losses. And each one of these recessions has a color-coded line so you can follow each year or each recession that happened. And the chart is one of these left-to-right charts and it's a giant V-chart except that the V is a different size for every recession. Some recessions lasted longer than others and some were deeper. But at every point in this chart there is an end to the falling unemployment and a dramatic uptick to complete the right side of the V as jobs are gained.
Now, you have to know history, 'cause the chart does not explain this. You have to know history to be able to determine, "Well, what's the magic?" What happened here that reversed the left side of the V, which is unemployment going down and all of a sudden it bottoms out (and peaks) and starts going up -- and it's dramatic. You look at the 1981-82 recession, and you can see when we came out of it, and you know why. You know what brought us out of it. And practically every other one of these recessions, if you just know history, you know what brought us out of it: incentives in the private sector led to people hiring more people to work and more tax revenues and all that. The recession that we are currently in is a red line, and there is no V yet. It is just almost a direct plunge. You ought to see this. It's a direct plunge, almost like that Air France plane took into the Atlantic, and there's no end in sight for this. All these other recessions you can see the V, the right-hand side of the V going up where employment starts to pick up, but there's no end in sight for this, and it's deeper. This V, the left side of this recession V... I ought to double-check. I think it's deeper than any of the others on the chart or very close to it.
Now, obviously because of the way this chart is, this chart charts every recovery from a recession in terms of employment. There is none yet in this recession. So that line is a stand alone. It's by itself. It's bright red. So you ask yourself, "What's going to be the magic that starts people back to work?" I'm telling you there isn't one Obama or Democrat Party policy that's going to cause that to happen. The Obama policies are going to keep that line plunging, keep the left side of the V down, keep employment going down. We're losing jobs. There's not one thing being proposed even! There's not one thing being proposed. The list of tax increases Obama is talking about will choke off any job creation. The unknown in the future is: "Are we actually gonna get this cap-and-trade fiasco? Are we actually going to get health care?" Those two great unknowns have paralyzed business. You can't make long-term plans unless you know what the game's going to be and what the rules are, and right now nobody knows the rules.
If you're smart and running a small business, your effort now is not to hire workers; it's to stay in business. And you're looking down the road and saying, "Okay, what happens to me and my business if cap-and-trade's passed? What happens to me if health care passes?" And, by evidence of what's happened the last nine months, you have to say things are going to get even worse because the government sector is going to get bigger, and to get bigger the government sector has to deplete the private sector. The government can't produce anything. It can print, but it can't produce anything. Not without the private sector working -- and that's being dwindled away. It's being attacked. It's under attack daily by this administration. There's no end in sight to it, and there's not one policy that they're prepared to enact that would bring it about. While they talk about bringing it about -- they talk a good game, they talk about restoring jobs and all that -- it's not happening. The talk is meaningless because it's deflective.
So businesses, they're not poised to start hiring anybody here. In the unemployment numbers, it's not just that they're worse in some cases than ever. It's not just that we're at 9.5% unemployment. It's not just that we've lost over two million jobs since January. We're also working fewer hours a week. The average work week now is 33 hours. The Drive-Bys are not reporting this. I mean, you have to dig deep to find it. The average work week is 40 hours and people are working 33. What does that mean? Well, it means that a lot more people have been laid off, fired, and hired back at part-timers, or they're being furloughed. But regardless the reason, when people are working fewer hours, there is, by definition, less productivity. Manufacturing is way down -- and, yes, we still do manufacture in this country.
I mentioned this website earlier. There's a story here by Richard Bernstein at BusinessInsider.com, Why is weak employment a surprise? He's asked the question here that we all ask. Every time the State-Run Media reports economic numbers they're always surprised. It was "unexpectedly high" or "unexpectedly low," but the experts are always just bamboozled by it. So he says: "Today's weaker-than-expected employment report sent the financial and commodities markets reeling. But why was this report such a significant surprise to anyone? I'm not particularly bearish or bullish with respect to stocks right now, but I am a pragmatist. The fact is that the leading indicators of employment have been weakening, yet the consensus has been ready to reap the fruits of the so-called 'green shoots.'" There aren't any green shoots! People are responding to Obama's words. "We're about to come back," and, you know, "We've bottomed out," or, "Our backs are no longer against the wall," but the job losses keep coming.
"First, let's set the record straight. Employment is NOT a lagging indicator. Some indicators of employment, like jobless claims and the length of the work week, are actually official leading indicators of the economy. Payroll employment is a coincident indicator. It is actually somewhat odd that investors are currently paying so much attention to true lagging indicators related to inflation. Wage pressures, and not commodity prices, are the true catalysts for inflation. Wage increases, abnormal credit creation, and excess demand relative to supply come first, and inflation comes second. There are no wage pressures, there's not a lot of credit being created, and output gaps abound, so why is everyone focused on lagging inflation indicators?"
Well, the answer is because everybody wants to try to convince the American people it's not as bad as it is, and it's going to get better real soon, but it's not 'cause there's nothing in place to get it better. The things that are in place are obstacles to economic improvement, and they've been purposely put there. "Second, the monthly payroll report, like the one issued today, is full of largely coincident data. However, it does have one piece of leading data: the length of the work week. This is generally considered a leading indicator because employers will tend to adjust the number of hours their employees work before hiring or firing them. For example, it would be normal for companies to begin to pay existing workers overtime before they hire additional workers because of the uncertainty related to the initial upturn in a production or service cycle." People may not believe the first indication of economic return, so rather go out and hire new people, you just take your existing staff and pay them overtime.
"However, commentators rarely highlight the length of the work week when discussing the monthly employment report. What has been happening to the length of the work week? It has hit all-time lows the last two months. That’s right. The only official leading indicator in the employment report has hit all-time lows the last two months. Who has reported that? No one. ... Could it be that momentum, rather than fundamentals, remains the defining aspect to most investment strategies? Prudent investors should be watching sound leading indicators, and not the markets’ short-term momentum for clues as to whether the 'green shoots' will sprout flowers or weeds."
Let me get something at the bottom of the stack. I put at the bottom of the stack. I was going to gloss over it but now I'm not. It's a CNBC.com post from yesterday. "The financial system is crashing and action must be taken by the US government to convert debt into equity to produce a more stable environment, Nassim Taleb, author of 'The Black Swan,' told CNBC Thursday. 'You may have green shoots, whatever you want to call them, you may have temporary relief, but you are still in a world that's breaking,' Taleb said on 'Squawk Box.' [sic] Anything that's fragile like the financial system will eventually crash, he said. 'We're in the middle of a crash,' Taleb said. 'So if I'm going to forecast something, it is that it's going to get worse, not better.' The government needs to deleverage debt and not try stimulus packages that will inflate assets, he said."
You know, when I read these guys say, "The governments needs to do this, and the government needs to do that," it's as though these people in government are making honest mistakes. Nobody's this stupid in government to make these honest mistakes! This has been tried countless times in the past, the world over. It doesn't work unless your objective is something else. If your objective is to wreck the economy -- to cause more chaos, more unemployment, create greater dependence on government -- then this is a championship policy. But it is not a championship policy to revive the US economy, and everybody involved in this knows it. This is why some of these people involved in this need to be seriously questioned about their intentions for this country. This is not merely an economic mistake. This is not a divergent opinion. This is not left economics versus right economics. Economics is economics. It's science. There are left-right disagreements in it obviously, but what Obama is doing here, there is nobody that can say, "This is an honest attempt at really doing what they think is best." Maybe so, but for them, not you and not us!
So when I read these guys, "The government needs to deleverage debt." The government's doing purposely what it intends to do! It intends stimulus packages that will inflate assets and not create jobs. This guy said, "What makes me very pessimistic in not seeing any leadership or awareness on parts of government on what has to be done," as though they're just ignorant and making mistakes. People don't have the guts to say what's really happening here -- and this is purposeful. His solution, this debt business of, "Look, we're not helping anybody when we foreclose on them. We've gotta deleverage some of this debt. Rather than foreclose on people, the banks," I'm summarizing what he says, "need to lower the monthly payment and take an equity stake in the house,"which, of course, they already have. The mortgage holder already has an equity stake. "But get rid of some of the debt and turn the debt into equity," that's what he's saying," and that will help stave off the financial crisis."
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RUSH: Here's the guy from CNBC's Squawk on the Street yesterday. It's Universa Investments principal and author of The Black Swan, Nassim Taleb. The co-host, Carl Quintanilla, is talking to him. Here, in his own words, is what I just quoted him as saying.
TALEB: Anything that's fragile eventually will crash. And the system is very fragile. It is crashing. We're in the middle of a crash. So if I was going to forecast something, I know it's going to get worse, not better. The monkey on our back is the debt. Okay, we have huge amount of debt. Instead of the government doing that, now they're trying to look at stimulus plans and things that may inflate assets. And that may run out of control. So instead of deflating debt, they're thinking of inflating assets or -- actually, they don't even know what they're doing --
RUSH: They do.
TALEB: -- because they're doing a lot of contradictory things. So this is what makes me very pessimistic, not to see any leadership or any awareness on the part of the government --
RUSH: Wait a second. This should have ended.
TALEB: -- of what needs to be done, which is to deleverage by, I don't know, somewhere between 40 and $70 trillion worldwide.
RUSH: They didn't give me a full transcript. I thought it was over 15 seconds. I'm sorry for talking over that, folks. Anyway, when he says they "don't even know what they're doing" and they're doing "a lot of contradictory things." They do know what they're doing. Obama knows what he's doing. Obama may not be a macroeconomist. I mean, he may not be up there plotting and planning every day's economic machinations, but he's got a vision. His vision is emperor. His vision is all-empowered leader for life. The government has got to take over and correct the injustices of this country. Wealth and profit are injustices. They are immoral, as far as Obama looks at it. The more wealth, the more prosperity he can wipe out, he thinks he's doing a morally good thing -- and I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt saying that.
He's grown up surrounded by people who despise prosperity and wealth because they believe it's the epitome of inequality, and they also believe that prosperity and wealth exist because of thievery or other means by which ill-gotten gains produce the wealth and the prosperity. It's always happening on the backs of Obama's type of people, and so he's got to make the world right. He's gotta make the country right and he's gotta cut it down to size. Now, he may not be sitting there every day plotting virtually every aspect of this, but there's an overall vision -- and it's happening. They know what they're doing. They're too stupid to not know what they're doing. That's what makes this scary. And rather than these CEOs bending over backwards and joining his team out of fear, they need to stand up and say, "Stop! You're not going to bully us anymore into doing things that are not helpful to the country."
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RUSH: I can't stop laughing here, folks, and you're going to hear it again very soon. Colin Powell is a guest again on CNN this coming Sunday. All of a sudden he can't believe the amount of debt and spending that's going on in America. Ha! (laughing)
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RUSH: Last hour I spoke of this chart -- this employment, unemployment chart -- of every recession since World War II to the present. Remember when I was talking about the V charts? They're not actually all V's. There are some U's. It's not a dramatic increase when the uptick in jobs happens. Anyway, I posted that chart at RushLimbaugh.com. You can see it now. It's from BusinessInsider.com, and the thing to look at is every recession has an end, and you can clearly see it on this chart, in terms of we're talking employment versus unemployment. When the unemployment uptick begins it's dramatic, and there's a reason that it happens in each case if you know history. Then you'll find the color of the line for this recession is bright red and it's still plunging. There's no hint of any kind of an uptick whatsoever. So it's there for one and all to see, even though you probably don't need to see it since I did superb job of describing it to you, but I'm sure that when you look at it, you'll say, "It's just exactly like Rush talked about," which is one of many elements of the magic part of the content of this program.
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This is during the Memorial Day weekend. Obama said to Americans, "We are out of money."
Steve Scully of C-SPAN broke from a week of having Washington press Corps's probing questions for the new president, and Scully said, "You know, the numbers, $1.7 trillion debt, a national deficit of $11 trillion. At what point do we run out of money?"
Obama: "Well, we're outta money now."
Not that that will stop him. I just want you to keep that in mind as Obama ratchets up this talk of perhaps a second stimulus package.
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RUSH: Our official climatologist here, Dr. Roy Spencer, university of Alabama at Huntsville sent me a question after hearing my last dissertation. "Equality of outcomes. How can a senator or congressman, for example, after working to achieve their station in life, how can a senator, congressman then argue that everybody else needs to be the same?" Now, Snerdley, you're acting in there like, "Yeah, right." What do you mean, yeah, right? Do you think it's a good question? It is a good question. You know the answer? The answer is relatively simple. You know the answer to it? That's true. That's why I'm the host. Members of Congress, senators, presidents, members of the House, consider themselves -- particularly the Democrat liberals -- as the elites. They always establish different sets of rules for themselves, like Obama can go anywhere he wants in his airplane, and he can put his wife on a second airplane to go shopping, and can take ten or 12 SUVs for her while she goes shopping in Paris with the daughters, while Obama has to get back.
They can throw a luau for 2,000 people in the White House while he tells us that the days where we can eat what we want and drive where we want and drive our SUVs and keep our thermostats at 72 degrees are over, I mean the rest of the world is not going to put up with that. The elites always -- and, by the way, have you seen, we haven't talked about it but there's a story out of all the travel members of Congress are taking during this recess, the Fourth of July. I mean, they're all over the place, all over the world on supposed business junkets. It's just vacation time where they meet with defense experts in some country or some company somewhere and they chalk it up to official business, it's all on the taxpayer dime. When liberals talk about equality of outcomes, it's for everybody else, not them. Now, I'm talking about liberal leaders and so forth, and even amongst rank-and-file liberals they still think if their leader accomplishes everything they want, somehow they're going to be better off as a result.
Look, folks, I have given up trying to rationally explain liberalism, because I don't think it can be. It's like I asked the question the other day, we need to start really delving into this. Is liberalism something that is chosen or is it something you're born with? Conservatism is not something you're born with. Conservatism is an active intellectual pursuit. Liberalism, there's nothing intellectual about it, it's all emotional, it's all feeling, it's all grievance and victimization. I can't answer if it's chosen or if you're born with it, but we need to find the answer. But trying to rationally explain it is a waste of time.
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RUSH: Ronnie in Lexington, Virginia, hi. You're next on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Thank you for taking my call, Rush.
RUSH: Yes.
CALLER: I don't think President Obama cares about anyone, and the reason I say that is because (unintelligible) aunt lived in Boston, how his half-brother lives in Kenya, just indicates that to me. Now, if you look at Congress, look at the American Indian government-run health care program that they administer and the veterans hospitals. Congress knows what kind of mess they're going to make of this thing. That's why they're being sure to keep their health coverage separate. It's not national health care that the president's after. It's controlling pay for doctors, hospital administrators, CEOs, and insurance agents of insurance companies, and that's what I think that the bottom line is.
RUSH: Well, I think you're right. I've said this in my own way for many years. Liberalism is a series of myths, and people believe these myths about liberals. And one of the big myths that people believe is that liberals have genuine compassion for people; that liberals are the ones that care about the downtrodden, the poor and so forth. When you examine it, though, liberals have contempt for people. They'll look at people and suffering and they'll blame everybody else for it. They won't do anything to solve it. Homelessness. Their solution is positive buy the homeless shopping carts. That's really compassionate, isn't it? We want to end homelessness. We don't think it's right that Americans should be homeless, not the way these people are. It's not what we want to support. The liberals will use their existence to advance their agenda. Compassion, understanding, these are the most hateful, angry, enraged people you can find.
Obama lives on the myth that he cares about people. While he is practicing all this compassion, 600,000 people a month are losing their jobs. Now, where's the compassion? "Well, Rush, he's giving them unemployment compensation." Oh, yeah, that's really cool. Yeah, that's a subsistence. Well, Obama's trying to make sure that they stay in their homes. Yeah, how's that working out? Liberalism is a series of myths. This notion of caring about people, they talk a good game, and it's fooled a lot of people. The genuine compassion in this society is held by conservatives who want the absolute best for everybody but understand that that's only achievable if people embark upon the quest themselves. And we realize there's going to be disparities, differences in outcome along the way. But it is the differences that provide the inspiration. It's the differences that provide the motivation for others to try to equal it and so forth. It all worked. It's worked marvelously and brilliantly better than anywhere else in the world. There's no need to remake it, and there's no need to tear it apart, no need to tear it down. It just needs to be promoted. The whole concept of America promoted needs to be defended, celebrated, whichever you wish to call it.
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CALLER: Fifteen-handicap, two-supporting dittos, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you very much, sir.
CALLER: Well, I represent an uncounted and visible member of the unemployed class: the small business owner that can no longer afford to take a paycheck.
RUSH: Well, that's the same thing as being unemployed. How many employees do you have?
CALLER: Well, I had about 15. I'm down to ten, and my wife has gone from ten to five in her business.
RUSH: So you're paying ten employees while you get zilch?
CALLER: That's pretty much it, and my work week's a lot longer than 33 hours.
RUSH: Now, people are asking an obvious question. This is what they don't understand. "How can you pay yourself nothing and eat?"
CALLER: Living off of my savings.
RUSH: A-ha. Why don't you fire another worker and pay yourself?
CALLER: Then I'd be working 90 hours a week. So I'm hoping for a turnaround. I'm hoping Obama's war on corporate travel will end soon and my business will bounce back, and I hope people get a little more confident and my wife's business will bounce back.
RUSH: I'm glad you said that. I have so many friends in the hospitality business, and they are hurting. The hospitality golf business is suffering. My golf trip next week features some of the premiere golf courses in the country. I had no trouble getting them. Everybody is scared to go! The hospitality business is in deep trouble because Obama's got everybody afraid to act prosperous or go out and have a good time, while he's living it up with luaus and trips to France and trips to Camp David and so forth. I know presidents get their own entertainment budget and food, and he's gotta have blown past it. It's not that much. He's going to have to qualify all this as official state business to pay for all of it, luaus and all of that sort of thing -- and the Iranians didn't even show up for the hot dogs, or they're not going to.
I guess they took my advice. They're going to use Hebrew national hot dogs and keep the Iranians away. At any rate, he's in the corporate travel business and nobody is traveling corporately. The hospitality business is in deep trouble -- by design. Remember, it was Obama who said (Obama impression), "Hey, these days of traveling around, taking a jet to Las Vegas? Those days are over." He gets these big business guys in and says, "I'm the only guy standing between you and the pitchforks." Remember that? And he says, "Look, the days are over. We can't just eat what we want to eat and keep our thermostats at 72 degrees and expect the rest of the world to accept that. Those days are over."
Except for him. Interesting.
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RUSH: Now, Colin Powell. I've been wondering during all of this job loss and all of this expansion of government:: Where are Colin Powell and Tom Ridge? You know Colin Powell and Tom Ridge have both said that I'm not any good for the Republican Party, and people are saying, "Yeah, we need Colin Powell. He's the ideal Republican!"
A guy who endorsed and voted for Obama!
I'm saying, "Where are these people?" I mean, I guess by their silence they support what's going on here. They support every job gained in the last nine years being lost. They support rampant inflation. They support government-run, single-payer health care. They want this cap-and-trade stuff. Because I haven't heard Powell or Tom Ridge voice any concerns about any of this. The only thing I hear them voicing concerns about is me. Well, Colin Powell has spoken out. They've got another interview at CNN and they're promoting it by releasing portions of it today. He's going to appear on State of the Union Sunday with the host John King. But to set this up, let's go back to the 1996 Republican convention in San Diego. Listen to Colin Powell back when he was a Republican.
POWELL 1996: I became a Republican because I believe, like you, that the federal government has become too large and too intrusive in our lives. We can no longer... (applause) We can no longer afford solutions to our problems that result in more entitlements, higher taxes to pay for them, more bureaucracy to run them, and fewer results to show for it. (applause)
RUSH: Yeah! Right on, right on, right on. Now, I happen to still believe that. Colin Powell said last fall that Americans want more government, and they want higher taxes -- and I'm accused of being the problem. He's the one who's changed, and he has abandoned Republicanism, conservatism. He's joined hip to hip with Obama -- and I am the problem. They gotta get me out of the Republican Party to save the Republican Party? They need to get him back in it to save it? 'Cause he's left it. Maybe not officially, but he's endorsing and voting for Obama. I mean, in '96 he got standing ovations for that great speech he gave. He defined Reaganism and conservatism pretty well. That's all gone. So let's now move forward to this coming Sunday. John King says to Colin Powell, "When it comes to spending and the reach and the role of government, has the president met the test laid out by Colin Powell in 1996?"
POWELL 2009: Well, first, let me say, that was a pretty good statement, I thought. And I believe in all those things. But I also believe that we should have a government that works. I don't like slogans anymore like "limited government." That's not the right answer. The right answer is, give me a government that works. Keep it as small as possible. Keep the tax burden on the American people as small as possible, but at the same time, have government that is solving the problems of the people. The people want their problems solved. And very often, it's government that has to do that. So let's have good government, effective government, whether you call it limited or not. Now, I think one of the challenges that President Obama has now is that he's got so many things on the table, and these are issues that the American people find important, health care and so many other issues. But I think one of the cautions that has to be given to the president -- and I've talked to some of his people about this -- is that you can't have so many things on the table that you can't absorb it all. And we can't pay for it all.
RUSH: Now, ladies and gentlemen, there's one word that describes that sound bite, one word that describes General Powell in that sound bite, and that is "incoherent." See, John King played for him that portion of the 1996 speech at the convention. We played it last month; we quoted it last month. John King plays it for General Powell to get his reaction. (imitating Powell) "Well, first let me say it's a pretty good statement, I thought, and I believe in all those things. But I also believe we should have a government that works." He's learned well from Obama. "I stand by my thing in '96. That was brilliant what I said in '96. That was a really great statement. But, but, but..." There's always the BUT. "On the other hand, we need a government that works."
Is this one working? Is this a government that is working? When you say in 1996 you don't want a government that's become too large and too intrusive in our lives, how do you go from that to people want a government to solve their problems? That's not what government does. Government doesn't solve people's problems. I mean, maybe in a broad context, but problem solving is up to you! It's up to family, church, community, what have you. Now, government can solve problems that it creates by removing the problems it's created, unusually by virtue of its size. So he says he's for limited government in the same bite and then he goes back. "I'm for limited government but I'm for a government that works." This is incoherent. It depends on where he is speaking as to what he's going to say. Here's the next bite. He continued with this.
POWELL: I never would have believed that we would have budgets that are running into the, you know, multi-trillions of dollars -- and we are amassing a huge, huge national debt that if we don't pay for in our lifetime, our kids and grandkids and great-grandchildren will have to pay for it. So I think the president, as he moves forward with these initiatives, has to start really taking a very, very hard look at what the cost of all this is and how much additional bureaucracy -- and will it be effective bureaucracy? -- be needed to make all this happen.
KING: So it's early but you're a little worried?
POWELL: Huh? Yes.
KING: That's a fair way to put it?
POWELL. Yeah. I'm a little concerned. "Concerned" would be a better word. I'm concerned at the number of programs that are being presented, the bills associated with these programs, and the additional government that will be needed to execute them.
RUSH: You told us this is what the American people wanted! You endorsed this! Everything Obama's doing he said he was going to do! We have played the sound bites on cap and trade; we've played the sound bites on health care; we've read the excerpts from his books where he forecasts the reality that is his administration. (imitating Powell) "The president needs to be told we can't pay for all this." Gosh! I'll tell you, folks, if it weren't so serious, it would be comical -- and it's both, actually. Well, I have to say this, too. Because, remember, the real reason, ladies and gentlemen, that General Powell is taking after me is because shortly after he endorsed Obama, I said, "There's really one reason for this, and that's race. There can't be any other reason. He just doesn't see how it's possible not to get on the bandwagon with the first black president's campaign in the history of the country," and, of course, that is and was an obvious truth. Only I, the courageous El Rushbo, dared say it -- and I caught grief for it, which is par for the course. But that's why he's really mad at me.
But I would now say, ladies and gentlemen, we go back and listen to General Powell in '96, then we listened to him affirm in a sound bite coming up Sunday that, "Yeah, that sound bite in '96 at the convention, I still agree with that," and then in the third sound bite we hear him express "concern" over the debt and the spending and the president must realize as he goes forth with his initiatives that -- isn't it obvious that policy had nothing to do with General Powell's endorsement of Obama? Isn't it obvious now, in his own words, because now he's deeply troubled by what's happened even though he damn well knew it was going to happen! Obama wasn't hiding any of this. He was hiding it with his rhetoric. But if you listened -- if you got the right sound bites, if you read the texts of the right speeches -- none of this is a surprise to any of us. This is why we're so outraged that so many people got fooled by it because it was all out there. So if it wasn't policy that inspired General Powell's endorsement of Obama, I ask, what could it be? What could the remaining reason be? And I still say: race.
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RUSH: One more thing before we go back to the phones. General Powell was on notice long ago as to where President Obama intended to take the country. I have a Reuters story right here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers. It is from November 17th of last year, "las'year," as athletes say. Here it's "last year," and the athlete will say las'year. "The United States government should not worry about deficits over the next two years while spending money to jumpstart the ailing economy, President-elect Barack Obama said in a television interview that aired on Sunday. Obama said consensus had emerged between economists in both major U.S. political parties that expensive measures were necessary to avoid a deep recession. 'The consensus is this, that we have to do whatever it takes to get this economy moving again, that we have to -- we're going to have to spend money now to stimulate the economy,' he told the CBS television network’s 60 Minutes news program. 'And (consensus is) that we shouldn’t worry about the deficit next year or even the year after.'"
So, General Powell, shut up and stop worrying about it. General Powell, you were told by Obama last November that a "consensus" of Republican and Democrat economists said don't worry about the deficits for two years. We have no other way out. We'd avoid the recession. We'd avoid the recession. Yeah, avoid the recession! We're only making it worse. But my point is, General Powell was on notice long ago that this was going to happen.
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RUSH: I have to think that the Democrat Party, before all this is said and done, is going to destroy itself. They're going to enact things here that the American people, most of whom are going to be blindsided by it, are just not going to understand and put up with. They have no idea it's coming. The question, the only question is: "Will this giant overreaching occur in time, or will it occur after Obama and these people are entrenched and there's nothing that can be done about it?" For example, this is from Reuters: "Los Angeles will eliminate the use of electricity made from coal by 2020, replacing it with power from cleaner renewable energy sources, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said." (interruption) What? That's my point. They can't. There's no way. This is not possible, but if he even tries this...
Let me keep reading the story here. "Consumers of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, the largest city-owned utility in the United States with 1.45 million electricity customers, will see higher power bills in the fight against climate change, he added in his inaugural speech for his second four-year term as mayor on Wednesday. California does not have any coal-fired power plants, a leading contributor to greenhouse gas pollution" which is a lie "but the LADWP now gets 40 percent of its electricity from coal plants outside the state. 'LADWP will deliver 40 percent renewable power, with the remainder coming from natural gas, nuclear, and large hydroelectric,' said Villaraigosa." Nuclear? Not as long as Tom Hayden is still alive; not as long as Jane Fonda still live. Hell, you don't even need those two.
"Villaraigosa said the LADWP will meet its goal of getting 20 percent of its power from renewables by 2010." Oh, it's 20% of its power now. Oh. There is nothing anywhere that supports that this can happen, folks. Do you understand this? The replacement for coal doesn't exist. That's what cap and trade is all about. Obama is telling people -- he's got dupes believing -- that this brilliant stroke of bold government action will lead to the creation of such technologies. The market leads to such creation, not government. You people in Los Angeles, I must address you head on here. You thought the Gray Davis era of rolling blackouts were bad? The only way Villaraigosa can pull this off is to black out certain sections of the city all the time, rotating which sections get blacked out, 'cause there is no replacement for coal. They're dead broke. I know they're dead broke. The whole state is dead broke. The cities are dead broke, and they're now going to invest in a technology that doesn't exist. And when he says that electricity customers will see higher power bills, that's not even the half of it. Try 90% increases, if they even pull this off.
If they were to be able to pull it off, 90% increases. You see, folks, that's your responsibility. Your waste and your profligacy and your irresponsibility as citizens has led to the planet being in peril because of global warming. It's because of the barbecue pits you have and the electricity you use and the cars that you drive and the airplanes that you fly in, and you've gotta pay. We've all gotta pay. That's what the Obama administration is all about. We've all gotta pay for something. The majority has to pay for its racism and bigotry. The wealthy and powerful have to pay for their wealth and power, the fact that they've stolen it. The only people that are not going to be paying... Well, everybody's going to be paying. The only people won't be paying are the people on the government dole, and that's going to be an increasing number.
Jim in South Bend, Indiana, welcome, sir. It's Open Line Friday, and it's your turn.
CALLER: Yeah. I got a question, something I couldn't figure out. Why before the cap-and-trade vote all the news places said "cap and trade," but after the vote, the very next morning, all the news sources started saying "climate bill." Why the change in language?
RUSH: Well, probably because of a directive from the White House. This is State-Run Media. "Climate bill" is less explanatory of what actually is at stake here. That's a good catch on your part. Speaking of which, ladies and gentlemen, some more cap-and-trade extras. People are now reading the bill and we have found other things. In addition to what we've already imparted to you, and that is that to sell your house, some ecoexaminer has gotta come in and mandate or approve that your house meets quota -- and if it doesn't, you gotta spend the money to make it ecofriendly to pass their test before you can sell it. On page 193 of the cap-and-trade bill, it adds a section to the Social Security Act on an energy refund program. Basically those making no more than 150% of the poverty line would get monthly cash payments from the government to offset the extra costs that are caused by the bill. That's in the bill. This is direct deposit into these people's bank accounts. Cash deposits, transfer payments, redistribution. If you make no more than 150% of the poverty line -- what is the poverty line, 14 or 20 grand? What is it right now? So, you know, 20 grand, you get direct deposits. And, by the way, there are going to be more and more of those people as Obama's economic policies result in more and more people being laid off.
The bill -- the climate trade bill, the cap-and-trade bill, the climate bill, global warming bill, the save-the-planet bill -- would also tinker with the earned income tax credit by doubling the EITC for those with no dependents and include an inflation adjustment. That's on page 1209. And then there's an interesting section right after the EITC language, Section 433, protection of Social Security and Medicare trust funds in the climate bill. From the way it's been read here by Jamie Dupree, who is a blogger, the administrators of Medicare and Social Security would be able to tap into general revenues of the US government if it's determined that the cap-and-trade bill has resulted in a reduction of revenues going into those two trust funds. Okay, the poverty line for a family of four is $22,050 for one person, a single family. For a single person poverty line is $10,000. That's a lot of people that are going to be having direct deposits. So the people that run Medicare and Medicaid are going to be able to rob the general fund as a result of the cap-and-trade bill if the costs of cap and trade deplete trust fund. The trust funds are empty anyway. It's another piece of legislation that has very little to do with what its title or claim is.
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RUSH: Here's something for you people in Los Angeles, Southern California, after listening to the inaugural address of the Mayor Villaraigosa. "June was especially gloomy in Southern California, with temperatures in Los Angeles below normal every day of the month." But we've gotta get rid of coal-fired power plants for global warming. "The National Weather Service says the region has gone through 'a fairly noteworthy stretch of cool weather.' June's average daily high in downtown Los Angeles was 74.5 degrees, five degrees below normal. … At Los Angeles International Airport, the highest temperature for the month was 71 degrees, the lowest maximum for a June since records began being kept in 1944. The airport's average high temperature last month was 69.3 degrees, the lowest since June 1982." Similar stories can be told about the Northeast and the Upper Midwest. We're into July, and some parts of this country haven't seen any evidence of summer yet other than the leaves are on the trees.
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CALLER: Good morning, Rush. How you doing this morning?
RUSH: Good, sir, thank you.
CALLER: May your next round be your best.
RUSH: You know what? It can't help but be. Well, that's not true. It can't help but be better.
CALLER: That's a good way to put it. I've been thinking about a question to ask you for years and there really isn't one. So I have to thank you. You keep saying that we always will remember the first time we ever listened to you. What I remember is the first time my brain started moving so much faster than my mouth could keep up with is when you said, "Listen, folks, if you want to keep up with the economy, look at cardboard. We use cardboard to make boxes. We use boxes to ship products." From that day, Rush, there is nothing you have said that I haven't been able to comprehend, and I want to thank you for that.
RUSH: So you not only pegged the day you first heard this program. You can peg to the day you first understood the program?
CALLER: Absolutely. Absolutely. And there's nothing you say that gets by me. It might take one second longer than normal, but it hits home.
RUSH: Way to go, sir. I'm glad that you feel that way and you're willing to admit how smart you are.
CALLER: Oh, you know what? That's not a problem, Rush -- and another thing I need to thank you for is being able to create opportunities rather than wait for them. One of my opportunities that I am creating is to play a round of golf with you, and it's slow but sure, but I found a way to create these opportunities that you speak of.
RUSH: Well, I'm sure you remember the show where I said, "This is the one country where, if you don't want to participate in a recession, don't."
CALLER: And I haven't.
RUSH: You can create your own job.
CALLER: I haven't participated in this recession, and I haven't been affected by it one iota yet. Yet. I'm waiting for it and I'm ready for it, but so far I haven't been affected.
RUSH: Really? You haven't been affected in any way by it?
CALLER: You know what, Rush?
RUSH: That's a pretty broad statement. I mean, you gotta know people who are affected by it.
CALLER: I certainly do, though, Rush, and I'm not proud of the fact that I'm not affected. But I'm not in the realm of having the assets and things in place that are normally affected by the people that do. I'm still creating that -- and luckily enough, maybe I haven't gotten there yet in order for it to be created to be affected.
RUSH: Okay. Well, then I understand what you're talking about. But we've all been affected by one way or the other, and I'm going to tell you something else: We all stand to be dramatically affected by what's coming if it happens: cap and trade and health care, even if you can pay for your own. For example, 85% of medical discoveries and advances happen in this country in the private sector. That's going to get wiped out. That's gonna affect us all.
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RUSH: Gulfport, Mississippi, this is Paul. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Thank you, Rush, for taking my call.
RUSH: Yes, sir.
CALLER: I just wanted to say that I'm 21 years old and I'm currently in school, and you have inspired me to -- instead of let the recession beat me down -- create my own job. So I did just that, and I work all across the United States through the internet, and it's working.
RUSH: Congratulations, sir. So you're another that's not all that greatly affected by the recession.
CALLER: That's correct. As a matter of fact I'm going to Washington DC next week just for fun. So thank you for being an inspiration to me and to many others.
RUSH: Oh, now, see? If I were a liberal what I would say to you is, "Go ahead and take your trip, but don't brag about it. That's going to hurt people's feelings. Do you realize how many people are hurting, and here you are calling here bragging about going to Washington to have fun? You ought to be ashamed."
CALLER: (laughing) Well, at least I'm not on TV every day.
RUSH: (laughing) Thank goodness.
CALLER: So thank you, sir, for all that you do, and the heart that you've given to other people.
RUSH: I appreciate that. I really do. Thank you very much, Paul.
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RUSH: Here's Jerry in Cookeville, Tennessee. Hi, Jerry. Thank you for calling. You're on Open Line Friday. You're next.
CALLER: Hi, Rush.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: First off, I'd just like to say to you and all your staff, a very happy Independence Day. Out of 233 years, this might be the last one as we know it to be a real Independence Day. I called to ask you: "What kind of golf clubs do you use?" I mean, are they Pings, or --
RUSH: No. My bag is full of different kinds. I have a Cleveland Launcher driver that's 8.5 degrees loft. It's about three or four years old, and nothing I've tried since is as good. I love the damn thing. My irons, 4-iron through wedge, are TaylorMade r7s, and I have a couple of Vokey 54- and 60-degree wedges. Utility clubs, 3- and 4-iron are TaylorMade. (interruption) What are you laughing at in there Dawn? Golf game -- well, he asked. It's Open Line Friday. And I use the Scotty Cameron custom-made for me putter.
CALLER: Have you ever used the foot wedge? Those are pretty handy sometimes when you're in tough shots.
RUSH: When nobody's looking, yes.
CALLER: Oh, absolutely. It's the club that's not in your bag.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: But if I could just change the subject real quickly: Our president -- then he was Senator Obama -- kept saying that he wanted to change the fundamental values of America. Those are "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." So nobody should be surprised by what he's doing.
RUSH: It's not just Obama. You know, you raise a good point. The American left -- Obama makes it plain. He looks at the Constitution as constraining him. He said the other day the Constitution prevents us from taking bold action real fast. If he could get rid of it to where he could wave his magic wand or do things by executive fiat, he would do them. But the whole left looks at the Declaration of Independence that way. You have to understand: the left in this country, for the longest time, despises the Declaration. This whole notion that we are all endowed by our Creator (they hate that; they don't believe in God) with certain inalienable rights? See, when you say that we're all "endowed with certain inalienable rights," that's final. There is no more. You can't add to it. "Certain inalienable rights" is final. "...among these are life, liberty, pursuit of happiness." Those are final. You can't build on them. All you can do is take away. The left doesn't like any of this and they certainly don't like the US Constitution. It's been this way for a long time.
The Constitution, the Declaration of Independence -- I have a great piece on it here from... Well, the Heritage Foundation has a good one, but there's also one here from the American Thinker that I'll have to find. It's brilliantly put together about how the Founding Fathers who wrote the Declaration of Independence didn't put it up to vote. They didn't poll it. They didn't do anything that politicians today do. It makes the point that if the Declaration had been put up for a vote in colonial times, it might have failed, because we had the same mix of people back then. They were scared to death of the King, scared to death of ruffling any feathers. "No, no, no! I don't want to go on my own. I don't want to fly alone." They didn't do that. They knew that they had... Well, it was a miracle. The whole thing in Philadelphia and the Declaration and later the Constitution, it's a miracle. There's no more perfect form of government that's been devised. I know Churchill's line is surviving, regardless.
But nevertheless, you can't go beyond certain inalienable rights endowed by our Creator. "Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness," these are final concepts. They're not things that have starting points that you build on. What they are are things that have to be torn down and broken apart, and there have been people trying to do this since the days of ratification. It just so happens that in our lifetimes, those forces have become powerful enough to get elected now. And that's the battle that we face. The battle really is over the founding of this country and what kind of country it's going to be. And when Obama talks about "remaking" America, the caller here is exactly right. "Remaking America" means destroying these traditions, institutions that have defined America and its greatness since the founding.
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CALLER: Thank you, Rush, for taking my call. I really appreciate it.
RUSH: You bet.
CALLER: I'm a proud aunt and godmother of an Army Airborne Ranger, Michael Behenna, first lieutenant, and my question is, how am I supposed to celebrate Independence Day when we send our troops oversea and then we persecute and then prosecute them for doing their job and we lock 'em up in Leavenworth. I have a nephew serving 25 years for defending himself in a war zone over in Iraq against a known Al-Qaeda member. So how do I celebrate independence when he fights for our freedom and justice and he doesn't get it himself?
RUSH: Well, I'd be celebrating it in anger.
CALLER: Yeah, it's been a battle. You know, my American freedoms, everything that I've taken for granted has just been shaken to the core, our entire family. I don't know how to celebrate Independence Day, knowing that he is serving time in Leavenworth. I visited last weekend and had to say good-bye to him. I don't understand how our government can turn on our troops and prosecute them, withhold evidence from their defense that shows they were defending themselves in a war zone in Iraq against known Al-Qaeda. Isn't that why we sent them there to fight for our freedom?
RUSH: I would love to be able to comment. I don't know the specifics of the case, but I understand the grief and the anger that you face. We all felt it when people like Jack Murtha falsely accused Marines of engaging in murder and rape in Haditha and John Kerry. In a general sense, our own State Department and in certain places our own military is going out of the way to show that we don't mean any harm or insult to Islamofascists. I have no idea when any of that is a factor in the case that you're describing without knowing any of the specifics of it. But it's just another one of the things that is 180 degrees out of phase that seems to be totally out of whack. And that's just one of many examples. If I were in your shoes, if what you say about it is accurate, I'd be frustrated as I can be. Anyway, thanks for the call. I appreciate it.
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Gracious Sakes! I have forgot to say THANK YOU for the thread for days now! SO HERE is a big THANK YOU GOPLADY!!!!!
God Bless America....we need it!
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Forget About Government Subsidies
We should put our shoulders behind FAGS.
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