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"Jimmy Carter is such a disingenuous, old, doddering, incompetent boob that I have mixed emotions about him:
I wish he'd go away, but yet I'm glad he's here because he's doing nothing helpful to the Democrat Party."
"I have a question for Jimmy Carter; seriously, now. Remember the election of 1980?
An overwhelming portion of the country did not think Jimmy Carter was qualified to lead the country.
Were they racists?"
"We've never had a president like this. We've never had a president with this all-consuming need to be on television 24/7.
This guy is on TV more than Chavez is, and Chavez has his own five-hour show!"
"Jimmy Carter is the nation's hemorrhoid, folks, and we don't have a tube of Prep H big enough to deal with it."
"They've trotted out Jimmy Carter, ladies and gentlemen. This means it's over. I mean, now we have the worst president
in American history coming back to defend the man who will be an even worse president when it's all said and done."
"When any of these checks and balances are MIA -- whenever the scrutiny of a president does not take place --
our nation is headed for trouble, and we are in trouble."
"Trust me: they're going to produce a health care bill -- even if it says nothing more than, 'we must study this further' -- to save Obama's bacon."
Continually repeat ...
It's not about me.
I'm the President.
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RUSH: They've trotted out Jimmy Carter, ladies and gentlemen. They've trotted out Jimmy Carter. This means that it's over. I mean who is more closely associated with economic malaise and failure than Jimmy Carter? So they bring out Jimmy Carter to co-conspire with Barack Obama, they bring out Jimmy Carter who now says everything here is about race. I tell you, this is disgusting, of all people to bring out. It's an axiom. They bring Jimmy Carter out at the last moment to try to save the day. We have the worst president in American history coming back to defend the man who will be an even worse president when it's all said and done. Now that economic misery is once again engulfing America, Jimmy Carter back in the news with the same kind of ignorance and stupidity that marred and marked his own presidency.
Carter and Obama deserve each other, folks. Carter and Obama deserve each other. Misery loves company. Misery indexes love company and it's about time we come up with a misery index for the Obama administration, because it is it is running the same route as Jimmy Carter. The only difference between the two is that Jimmy Carter was doing everything he could to reform the system, to reform America within it. Obama's going outside. So what we have here is two failed presidencies and failed presidents in the spotlight. The Democrat Party has put a perfect match in political and economic hell for the American people to see. There is no way Jimmy Carter has the respect of a majority of the American people. No way possible. Obama, the latest health care numbers, 55% now disapprove of his health care plan. Yeah, opposition to health care reform reaches a new high at 55%. This is the latest Rasmussen Report, the daily tracking poll now shows that just 42% support the plan, matching the low first reached in August.
Now, about Jimmy Carter coming out and piling on with this racism stuff, and there's some outrageous examples of it from the State-Controlled Media. There's even a guy that was on MSNBC, I'm not going to play the sound bite for you. I am not going to dignify this by playing it, but it was this morning on MSNBC. This guy, Michael Eric Dyson claims that I have written that slavery was a good thing. Even Scarborough said, "What are you talking about?" "Oh, yeah, you can read it, you can read it." I have never said slavery was a good thing! These people are just over the edge now, and I'm going to tell you something, folks. I thought the election of Barack Obama was all about seeing to it that these days never happened again. I'm being serious here. I thought the election of Barack Obama -- and I'm not being cliched here, I'm just telling you what we were told. Now, I predicted exactly what's happening so I'm not surprised by it. But we were all told that we're going to have a post-racial America, we're going to have a post-partisan America, none of this was going to happen.
I warned everybody, folks, it's only going to get worse. I predicted every aspect of this, and I said it's going to center around criticism of Obama. Any criticism of him is going to be said to be racist. Once again I am right on the money, bull's-eye. But here's what I think about this. The president of the United States is sitting here and promoting this division. He is encouraging it. He has people in the White House, "Ah, we don't think it's so much race and so forth." But he could put a stop to this and should. If Barack Obama wants to be the president that he told everybody was going to be during the campaign, he needs to schedule a speech -- not five appearances on Sunday shows and Letterman -- he needs to schedule a speech to say, "Stop this stuff. This is not productive. This is not helping America. This is dividing America." He needs to say, "I know that there's criticism of me, and I know there's opposition to me. There has been criticism of every president. There's been opposition to every president." But I guess all of a sudden now we're not allowed to do that anymore. We can't criticize Obama. We can't do that because it's all racist.
But he needs to stand up and make a speech and he needs to say, "We are going to heal these racial divisions." If he were the real deal, folks, he would do this speech telling the American people and the media and everybody to knock this racial stuff off, that he can handle the criticism. He was supposed to be the end of all this. And instead what we have now is his party pushing the notion that all the opposition to Obama is rooted in racism. I mean how far have we come, how Orwellian the establishment has become, any criticism of Obama's political agenda is pronounced blatant racism. But a school bus full of black kids beating up a solitary white kid couldn't possibly be racism. How Orwellian has all this gotten? Then we add Jimmy Carter, the anti-Semite to the mix, and I've also got some transcripts of Jimmy Carter running campaign commercials in 1970 running for governor of Georgia.
He is such a disingenuous old doddering incompetent boob. I have mixed emotions. I wish he'd go away but then I'm glad he's there because he's doing nothing helpful to the Democrat Party.
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RUSH: When I think Jimmy Carter, I think of mediocrity -- and when I think of what that mediocrity did to this nation through his ineptitude and his utterly manic incompetence driven by a juvenile paranoia, driven by anti-Semitism.
His betrayal and conniving against our own country's interests in pursuing a Nobel Peace Prize is the hallmark of Jimmy Carter's post-presidency -- and for him to inject himself in this Wilson matter is beyond the pale. And to fan the racist flame is, to me, a mortal sin. And the president of the United States needs to get out there and stop it. He's the only one who can. He was elected on the premise that he was going to stop it. What about the racism against Clarence Thomas? What about the racism against any black who was a conservative and dares to seek high office? How about Pelosi calling half the American people Nazis? Is that still on the okay list? So I don't care, folks. I don't care. I don't care if Obama's from Mars. I don't care where he's born. I don't care about any of that. I care about what his intentions are toward this country -- and I'm not going to be silenced by any of these baseless accusations, 'cause now it's getting to be a joke if it weren't so serious.
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RUSH: Yesterday, to show you how utterly hilarious and ridiculous this is -- and you might even say there is... I don't want to offend people here, but we have a cliche, "Well, there is a God." Look what happened yesterday. Yesterday, Osama Bin Laden... By the way, whatever happened to our measure of success in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan by capturing Osama? Whatever happened to that? Remember all through the Bush presidency, "Well, Bush hasn't done anything. We haven't won anything. Osama is out there. We haven't captured Osama."
Are we trying to capture Osama bin Laden now? We're defining victory differently so much so that Obama said he doesn't like the term "victory" when it comes to Afghanistan. "Ah, victory, I think of poor old Japanese Hirohito (sic) walking out there and accepting the terms of surrender on the USS Missouri. Ah, I don't like the concept of victory." What is this man doing to the country with no scrutiny? So yesterday Osama Bin Laden moved in on Oprah country. Osama Bin Laden came out with book recommendations! Did you hear about this? He came out with book recommendations. Apparently Osama Bin Laden, the big guy, does read even by candlelight in the cave. And on his must-read list of three books, one of the three books is Jimmy Carter's. One of the three books that Osama Bin Laden recommends Americans read and people around the world read is written by former president James Earl Carter, the peanut farmer, the carpenter, the foreign policy hemorrhoid.
Jimmy Carter is the nation's hemorrhoid, folks, and we don't have a tube of Prep H big enough to deal with it. He's an anti-Semite -- anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian Jimmy Carter. The national hemorrhoid. But wait, there is more to this story. There was not one piece of book news yesterday. There were two. Osama Bin Laden recommended Jimmy Carter's book. And my friend Mark Levin's book Liberty and Tyranny hit the one million-seller list. It has yet to be reviewed by the New York Times or the Washington Post or TIME Magazine or Newsweek or any of that. Which story here do you think made the news pages of the New York Times? If you have to guess, shame on you. The New York Times featured Osama Bin Laden and his book recommendations -- one of which, again I remind you, was Jimmy Carter's.
The New York Times ignored Mark Levin breaking the one-million-copy-sold barrier. They ignored ACORN. They have continued to ignore the lies in Obamacare. They are ignoring the great ratings increase of your host. Brian Maloney at the Radio Equalizer ran through a bunch of numbers. We've linked to his story at RushLimbaugh.com. The LA Times writing a piece on the great performance in August at KFI, didn't mention me. I'm number one in the time slot out there. The New York Times and the State-Controlled Media hate our success. They despise it. They hate us probably more than they love Obama. So there you have it: There is a God. Our national hemorrhoid is on is on display and has his greatest work being recommended by Osama Bin Laden. What does that say?
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RUSH: I have a question about Jimmy Carter -- seriously, now. You remember election of 1980. An overwhelming portion of the country did not think Jimmy Carter was qualified to lead this country, either. Were they racists? I mean, Jimmy Carter was a white guy. I mean, I disagree with Carter for the same reasons I disagree with Obama but somehow when I disagree with Carter I'm not a racist. When I disagree with Obama I am, they say. Here's the national hemorrhoid. This is last night on NBC's Nightly News, Jimmy Carter.
CARTER: I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man. I live in the South and I've seen the South come a long way, and I've seen the rest of the country that shared the South's attitude toward minority groups at that time, particularly African-Americans. That racism in connection still exists and I think it's bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people -- not just in the South, but around the country -- that African-Americans are not qualified to lead this great country. It's an abominable circumstance and grieves me and concerns me very deeply.
OBAMA: He's a jackass.
RUSH: You know, if I were President Obama I'd shut this guy up. I know what Obama's trying to do. He's trying to distract here from 10% unemployment; "unacceptably high unemployment for years," they say. He's trying to distract from a $12 trillion debt ceiling. Trillions of dollars of debt for years to come. Not to mention nationalizing two car companies, giving $8 billion of taxpayer stimulus money to ACORN, lying to a joint session of Congress, and an attempt to jam socialized medicine through Congress before anybody read the bill. He's trying to distract from all of that so the race card cures all, in his view. He probably is so distorted about this he thinks it's helpful that the national hemorrhoid pops up on NBC Nightly News last night to utter that utterly inane statement that he gave.
Now, the tea party crowd, they've been accused of racism from day one. The race card's been played against the president's criticsfrom day one. It's a deliberate attempt to minimize the legitimate horror of Americans who understand Obamars War on Prosperity, who understand Obama's generational theft, who understand the insidious nature of high taxes and inflation on those with fixed incomes -- and have known for years about ACORN. This is the president who has an attorney general who said, "We're a nation of cowards on race discussions." He's the guy that went out and called the white cop stupid in the "Skip" Gates incident. Was Obama behaving like a racist when he accused the white cop of racial profiling without knowing the facts? Was he? All right, to the phones. People have patiently waited. I always appreciate that.
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RUSH: Let's go back to the Grooveyard of Forgotten Favorites, our audio sound bite archives, August 25th, 2008. This is a PBS special coverage of the Democrat National Convention. The guest is the national hemorrhoid, Jimmy Carter. Jim Lehrer of The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer then says to the national hemorrhoid, "And do you think that if it happens that he is elected or even just being nominated will send positive ripple effects throughout the country on the race issue?"
CARTER: It already has sent a wave of approbation and admiration in many countries around the world, just knowing that this black boy, who grew up with just a loving mother and a -- and grandparents and that was about all he had to start with, has now had the chance to become the nominee of Democratic Party for president.
OBAMA: He's a jackass.
RUSH: So there's Jimmy Carter back in August of 2008, "this black boy." Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. "Positive ripple effects already started around the world, all over the -- oh, yeah, just the election, the nomination of this black boy with just a loving mother and grandparents. It was about all he had to start with." That's the national hemorrhoid speaking on PBS in August of 2008.
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RUSH: This is not the first time that Barack Obama has played the race card. Remember they played it in the campaign against the Clintons. Good old boy Bill Clinton in South Carolina, they said something he said was racist, "It was a fairytale that Obama would become president," and of course Hillary criticized Obama all during the campaign. Does that make her a racist? It happened during the primary. I mean the Clinton campaign was disgusted. I remember Clinton said, (doing Clinton impression) "They threw the race card on me. I'm down there in South Carolina, I'm trying to help Hillary; trying to help myself; I'm trying to represent America. They threw the race card on me." Yeah, they were very worried about how the racist Democrats were going to vote in Pennsylvania. This is standard, it's page one of the Democrat Party playbook, folks.
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RUSH: In Houston, Leonard, welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Let me take you off speaker.
RUSH: Yeah. Okay, I'm glad to be off speaker. Yeah.
CALLER: Yes. Thank you for taking my call. I don't normally (unintelligible) I've been listening to you for a little more than five, I don't know, six, seven years, but I've been hearing people calling in talking about racism, and I don't think it's fair. You had one caller calling in denying Obama being a racist. And I'm seeing they're so far in the tank, they've gotten so emotional that some of his supporters aren't even American enough to just listen at some of the things he's said, saying his grandmother was a typical white person, just imagine -- and I'm asking some of your callers that are supporters, specifically my people, black people, just imagine if George Bush had made those statements, or how about Sarah Palin? They really hate Sarah Palin. What if she'd had a black man taking care of her kids and said, "Well, he's a typical black man," I mean just slip it in and think about it. She'd be the biggest racist, or if John McCain sat in Jeremiah Wright's church and Jeremiah Wright was preaching the hatred towards black people the way Jeremiah Wright was preaching hatred towards white people, he would be the biggest racist. And you have to be naive, slightly ignorant, to not look at things on that level.
RUSH: Yeah, it's not just that, you gotta have blinders on in addition to naive and ignorant. You don't want to hear this stuff. They're overreaching, folks, in everything they're doing, and they've gone to this well big time now with Jimmy Carter out there, the national hemorrhoid. Half the people of this country are not going to sit around idly and just take it, being called racists when they're not, this is not going to fly.
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OBAMA: I thought that was really inappropriate. You know? I mean it's like she's getting an award, what are you butting in? I -- I -- I hear you. I agree with you.
GIBBS: Does that count as the first question?
OBAMA: The young lady seems like a perfectly nice person, she's getting her award. What's he doing up there?
HARWOOD: Why would he do that?
OBAMA: He's a jackass. (laughter)
RUSH: So that's Obama calling Kanye West a jackass, obviously a racist comment, Kanye West being black. Terry Moran put this out, tweeted it, and all hell broke loose because this was supposedly off the record. You heard Gibson, "Is that the first question?" So now NBC tries to suppress the audio, but ABC has apologized to the White House. It's clear to me that ABC is racist, and Terry Moran obviously racist for daring to tweet about this in the first place that Obama called Kanye West a jackass. Here, play it again Sam. I want you to hear the president of the United States as he really is when he thinks the microphones are off.
OBAMA: I thought that was really inappropriate. You know? I mean it's like she's getting an award, what are you butting in? I -- I -- I hear you. I agree with you.
GIBBS: Does that count as the first question?
OBAMA: The young lady seems like a perfectly nice person, she's getting her award. What's he doing up there?
HARWOOD: Why would he do that?
OBAMA: He's a jackass. (laughter)
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| • Mediabistro: ABC Apologizes to White House, CNBC Over Off-the-Record Tweets • AFP: President Barack Obama's remark about Kanye West |
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RUSH: Now, if all of this racist stuff is not bad enough, yesterday "House Rules Committee Chairwoman Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) released a helpful, updated primer for members regarding their conduct on the floor and in committees." Now, this action they took against Congressman Joe Wilson yesterday, they say it's the smallest, the least stringent action that can be taken against a member.
And I'm told (and I happen to believe this) that most of the House leadership wanted no part of this because it opens up the doors to criticizing Charlie Rangel and Barney Frank and all these other things if you're gonna rebuke this guy -- and, by the way, he didn't call the president "a liar." He said "you lie." He accused the president of telling a lie. He didn't call him a liar. It may be a distinction without a difference.
But I'm told that the Congressional Black Caucus demanded this rebuke and so the House leadership just had to go along with it, because the Congressional Black Caucus demanded it. Now we've got this list of words or thoughts that you can and cannot express on the House floor. America is becoming a shadow of her former self! "[T]he section on how to properly insult the executive branch in the chamber. 'Disgrace' and 'nitwits'," it's okay to use those words. "Liar' or 'sexual misconduct,'" you cannot say those words. 'Under Section 370 of the House Rules and Manual, it has been held that a member could:
• refer to the government as 'something hated, something oppressive.'\• refer to the president as 'using legislative or judicial pork.'
• refer to a presidential message as a 'disgrace to the country.'
• refer to unnamed officials as 'our half-baked nitwits handling foreign affairs.'
"Likewise, it has been held that a member could not:
• call the president a 'liar.'
• call the president a 'hypocrite.'
• describe the president's veto of a bill as 'cowardly.'
• charge that the president has been 'intellectually dishonest.'
• refer to the president as 'giving aid and comfort to the enemy.'
• refer to alleged 'sexual misconduct on the president's part.''
So the House of Representatives and their rules committee has now put out a list of things that can and cannot be said on the floor of the House of Representatives in what was the greatest representative republic in the history of the world.
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RUSH: So the House of Representatives has formally banned truth-telling in its chamber, which makes sense, folks. At least the Democrats that run the joint are being honest in a dishonest way. Liars lie about everything they do, so they have banned free speech when it happens to be accurate speech. Look at how they name their bills. Every bill they pass has a name that misrepresents what's in the damn thing. For example: "the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009." That's the stimulus bill, otherwise known as the Porkulus bill. It drove up unemployment and bankrupted the country, and it's called "the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009." "The America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009" is actually a bill to destroy private sector medical care and insurance and seize control of one-sixth of our economy. "The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009" is a tax on energy. It's a cap-and-tax bill that will crush the US economy.
So it makes total sense that the Democrats that run the House of Representatives would now ban free speech when it happens to be accurate speech. Now, my question, and I ask it seriously: Can we really have an African-American president in this country when the constitutional body, the press rolls over and plays dead and becomes propagandists and stenographers? Can we really have an African-American president? If anybody objects to this rational question, which is based entirely upon facts about the media as they currently exist, then they are cowards when it comes to a discussion of race. Remember, our esteemed attorney general, Eric Holder -- who's doing everything he can to make peace with our enemies and prosecute those who keep us free -- said that we need to have a conversation about race in America because America has a lot of racial cowards.
Remember Holder saying this? We have a lot of cowards afraid to discuss race. I think the racial cowards are in the White House and all throughout media headquarters in Washington and New York. They run around tossing out this accusation of racism instead of having an honest examination of what is really happening. I mean, this ACORN meltdown is an amazing thing to watch. And, see, the Drive-Bys are now saying, "Well, you know, we don't cover noise," is what somebody in ABC said. Chuck Todd said Van Jones, "Well, we don't have time to cover somebody number 600 on the power list in the White House." Number 600 on the power list? He's hand picked by Valerie Jarrett! Look, it's no longer about bias. It's about incompetence, it's about political correctness, it's been boosterism. They have chosen sides.
Ever since their monopoly's been busted up, they haven't been the same. How about all these attacks on Michael Steele? Michael Steele is black. He's the chairman of the Republican National Committee. They rip this guy to shreds! They call him stupid, dumb, whatever, all over the place. Has Michael Steele ever run around saying, "You stop talking about me that way, that's racism!" He's never said it. These people are a bunch of cowards, folks. They are a bunch of literal cowards. From the White House on down, from Obama to Axelrod, to Gibbs, and everybody below them in the media, they are a bunch of cowards on matters of race. Now, I'm going to tell you, this racial BS is nothing other than an admission of defeat on the substance of the health care takeover in the process.
That is all this is. They cannot win on substance, and so if they cannot win on substance that means they have to turn to scorched earth politics and policies and that includes calling half the country Nazis, half of the country an angry, unruly mob -- and now over half the country are racists simply because they criticize Obama. And all this is -- and this is what you have to know. It's especially established now they bring Jimmy Carter out. There is no Democrat more highly associated, more profoundly associated with utter failure than Jimmy Carter -- and remember, failure is a resume enhancement in the Democrat Party. When they trot out Jimmy Carter and they start getting him to go along with all this mindless racial accusation stuff, it is a tantamount admission of defeat on the substance of the health care takeover that is taking place.
Obama is going on five Sunday shows (every one but Fox) and Letterman is a tantamount admission of defeat for his health care bill. It's going down in flames. Now, they're going to get something that's called health care but the bill he wanted, this House bill, it's going down in flames. Nobody wants any part of it.
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RUSH: You know, one of the things I love to say, I was at a marketing meeting when I worked for the Kansas City Royals back in, I guess this would have been 1981, we had our off season marketing meetings, all the marketing directors of various teams met out in Scottsdale, and for some reason the league, Major League Baseball, brought in a Harvard sociologist to tell us how the people of America interact with sports so that it might help us sell more tickets. The guy said something that has stuck with me forever, 'cause he nailed it. I'm going to give you his exact quote. There were no women in the room. At the time there weren't any female marketing directors there. The guy said, "The great thing about sports is that you can invest total passion without consequence. Try that with a woman." Now, what he meant was after your first big heartbreak, you always dial it back. You're always guarded; you don't want to get hurt again; you just try to hold a little of yourself back. It's a protective thing. But with your sports team, you don't care, because they can't hurt you, all they can do is lose.
They won't break your heart; they won't tell you you're worthless; they won't sue you for half of what you have and then leave. They won't do any of that. So you can invest total passion in sports without consequence. Now, I think the oldest sport in America has been politics, talking, arguing, fighting, cheering, you know, going to war on the fields of political debate within the arena of ideas. It's the oldest and the most ingrained sport of Americans. But unlike other sports, this is not a sport we can enjoy without consequences. There are dreadful, sometimes important consequences to taking a stand in the arena of ideas on matters of politics. But to try to shut this down, to try to shut down this time-honored tradition that defines America's greatness with stupid laws and rules about what can and can't be said on the floor of the House of Representatives is dangerous. To try to shut down the time-honored traditions of talking, arguing, fighting, cheering, going to war on the fields of political debate, by accusing half the country of being racist is dangerous. It's also indicative that the accusers know they're losing.
Those guidelines that I read, what can and can't be said on the floor of the House, is due in part to all the chicks in government. A lot of what's happening in the State-Controlled Media is due to the chickification of the news. That list I read to you of what can and can't be said on the floor of the House of Representatives sounds like a list a mother makes and puts on the refrigerator to teach kids how to say things and not say things they shouldn't and should say. They may as well have attached that list with a magnet to the House refrigerator, and we have a chick running the place. Women are messing up our sport. Ah, Dawn, don't shake your head in there. (interruption) You don't say everything on your mind. You might say everything on your mind but nobody else can. Nancy Pelosi can say whatever's on her mind, but let Joe Wilson try it and all hell breaks loose. It is true. It is true. This is not anti-woman. I'm giving you an analysis here. I know it's not gonna change. Don't misunderstand. I'm just trying to explain to you why some of this stuff is happening. That list is banal. That last is an embarrassment to the United States of America.
This country is becoming a shadow of its former self. Can you believe the pettiness of things you can and can't say on the House floor? Meanwhile, all of that and worse is uttered constantly by the Democrats and their stupid, insane fringe base multiple times a day.
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"The study, which examined the performance of House members between 1984 and 2004, found that women delivered roughly 9 percent more discretionary spending for their districts than men." Well, duh! Duh! Anybody want to argue that? Look, I know I'm getting knee-deep in it here, but anybody want to argue with the spending potential of women? And this is being labeled as a measure of success. This is why women legislators are better than men? By the way, the men are no slouches when it comes to spending up there. They're all spending money that they never have, they never have earned, it's all ours, and then what they don't have they print. And this is how we're judging the effectiveness? In the meantime they come up with this list of inane, childish little things that you can and can't say on the floor of the House of Representatives about other members and about the president. Here's an example. "Representative Judy Biggert’s first two-year term, Illinois’s 13th District received $382 million in federal funds, $70 million more than it received during the final term of her predecessor, Rep. Harris Fawell." "Study: Women Lawmakers Best Men." Yeah, we're upside down here, the way we measure success, the way we measure what's a good job. It's absolutely frigging absurd.
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| • Politico: Study: Women Lawmakers Outperform Men - Erika Lovley |
"The Baucus proposal would impose, starting in 2013, a 35 percent excise tax on insurance companies for 'high-cost plans' -- defined as those above $8,000 for individuals and $21,000 for family plans. Health economists believe a tax on high-priced benefits could help slow the growth of health costs by making consumers more sensitive to prices." Now, wait a second here. Costs can be controlled by making consumers more sensitive to prices? That's what we have been saying all along in this debate! Reconnect the consumer with the cost of services and you will see the cost of services go down, just like the lady who called here with the $20 X-ray. But liberals only connect these dots when it comes to the taxes. So Jay Rockefeller, "I'm not going to go for this. It raises taxes on the middle class." So here's this montage of Baucus, and when he says "we" here, he means me.
BAUCUS: It reflects months of work, of preparation by our committee. We need to hold the insurance industry accountable. We're presenting this package. Our mark ensures choice. Our package makes clear. Our reforms. Our package. We've done everything. All of us working for reform. All of our first choices. We all shared. And we will act. We will act to pass health reform.
OBAMA: He's a jackass.
RUSH: Nobody likes his plan. Nobody likes the plan.
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RUSH: Here is the Speaker of the House, CNN's Newsroom, she is not abandoning the public option.
PELOSI: If we're going to mandate health insurance for all Americans, if we're going to subsidize the health care for tens of millions of people, how can we give all of these new consumers to the health insurance industry with no accountability, no competition, and no real challenge for them to honor the reforms that we have in the bill? No, we're in pretty good shape on that.
OBAMA: He's a jackass.
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FRANK: I don't accept, uhh, Senator McConnell's characterization. I think what you're seeing is, uh, buh, you know, the one mistake President Obama made I think was to think that with the extreme conservative takeover of the Republican Party -- with the very vehement influence -- that he was going to by bipartisanship. Max Baucus tried his hardest it was humanly possible to do to pick up a Republican. I think there are Republicans in the Senate who would like to have been with them but they face such opposition from within their own party that they're not there.
OBAMA: He's a jackass.
RUSH: So here we have Barney Frank saying Obama's big mistake was trying to work with Republicans. (laughs) He hasn't met with Republicans since April, John Boehner says. Obama's big mistake has been working with Democrats! Here's Rick in Malibu. Great to have you on the program, sir. You're on the EIB Network. Hi.
CALLER: Hey. Hi, Rush. Thanks for taking my call.
RUSH: Yes, sir.
CALLER: Dittos from the far Left Coast.
RUSH: Yes, sir. (chuckles)
CALLER: I was listening to your comments about the limitation of speech that House members can make on the floor of the Kremlin. (sic) Do those rules apply to the president as well?
RUSH: No. Well, I say that instinctively. I don't know what the rules of decorum are for what the president can and can't say. But this is the point. With Obama, even if there were rules there wouldn't be any rules. He's not going to be held to account for anything, so we can come up there... Look, he repeatedly lied. He demeaned that chamber. He insulted the integrity-of-everybody in there. He repeatedly lied through his teeth about his health care plan all during that speech.
CALLER: Exactly. So if the rules apply to the members, then... I mean, I don't know. Do they specifically exempt him in those rules?
RUSH: The way you sum up the rules, the Democrats who -- and Louise Slaughter, by the way... Oh, by the way, do you know the story out of Wichita? The guy who wrote the story, his last name is Stan Finger. The Dumpster story, Stan Finger is the guy who wrote it. What the House of Representatives did was basically ban accurate free speech. That clears the decks for Obama to show up any time he wants.
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RUSH: I have a question I want to pose, and I fully expect this question to be taken out of context, I expect my comments to be taken out of context. This is a question that many people will think is too hot to ask. It's a toughie. But this question is a legitimate question, and it came to me just by the headlines and watching television and listening to the State-Controlled Media shout racism everywhere. I mean we've even got a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, Hank Johnson, listen to this, audio sound bite number five.
JOHNSON: If I were a betting man I would say that it instigated more racist sentiment feeling that it's okay, you don't have to bury it now, you can bring it out, talk about it fully. And so I guess we'll probably have folks putting on white hoods and white uniforms again and riding through the countryside intimidating people. And, you know, that's the logical conclusion if this kind of attitude is not rebuked and Congressman Wilson represents it, he's the face of it.
RUSH: So here you have Hank Johnson, he is a congressman, Democrat in Georgia, member of the Congressional Black Caucus saying the Klan will ride again. Republicans are Klansmen and Joe Wilson is the leader. Keep in mind that the only member of the Ku Klux Klan ever to serve in our government is a Democrat, Robert "Sheets" Byrd. He was a grand Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan. And in fact let's go back and listen, audio sound bite number six, March the 28, 1968, Robert Byrd talking about Martin Luther King.
BYRD: Martin Luther King fled the scene. He took to his heels and disappeared, leaving it to others to cope with the destructive forces he had helped to unleash. And I hope that well meaning Negro leaders and individuals in the Negro community in Washington will now take a new look at this man who gets other people into trouble and then takes off like a scared rabbit.
RUSH: That's Robert Byrd, Democrat senator, West Virginia, talking about Martin Luther King, and yet here's Hank Johnson saying that Joe Wilson of South Carolina represents the new Klan, people gonna put on their white hats and robes and be riding horses through the countryside. So here's my legitimate question. Our president is the leader of our country and before he gets that title, before he gets that position, you used to have to earn it. All presidents have had to earn their position with scrutiny of their resume, scrutiny of their background, scrutiny of their past performance, scrutiny of the way they campaign, scrutiny of what the candidate says and how he says it and how he performs under fire. And then even when he's elected to the office, the president of the United States of America, he is heard, he is watched, he is listened to, he is questioned, he is analyzed, he is scrutinized, he is given the media anal exam. That's the way it used to work. None of this scrutiny has occurred with President Obama.
There was no scrutiny of his resume. We still don't know some of the records, haven't seen some of the records from where he went to school, just like we didn't see Clinton's medical records. We have not seen scrutiny of his background. There was no scrutiny of his past performance. He's got five-minute career, essentially, 185 days working in the US Senate. There was very little scrutiny of his campaign. There is very little scrutiny of what he says. There was a lot of praise for how he says what he says, but there was never any scrutiny of what he said, and there isn't today. So when any of these checks and balances are MIA, whenever this scrutiny of a presidential candidate does not take place, our nation is headed for trouble. And we are in trouble. When all of these aspects are ignored, when none of this scrutiny takes place, we are in deep, deep trouble, and that's where we are.
I have no quarrel with a president of any race. Obama is not black to me. He's not half black, half white. He's president of the United States, and as such, given his agenda, he poses a grave danger to the American I believe in. And that's all that matters to me. I couldn't care if he's a hermaphrodite. I don't care who he sleeps with. I don't care where he eats. I don't care what he eats. I don't care how he drives. I don't care about any of that. I don't care about his haircut. I don't care whether he's getting gray. I don't care about his tie. I don't care about any of this. I care about his intent to remake this country into a country unlike any of us have ever seen. I have serious concerns about today's media and their new standard, which is this: Any criticism of an African-American president's policies or statements or misstatements is racist, and that's it.
Therefore the question: Can this nation really have an African-American president? Or will the fact that we have an African-American president so paralyze politically correct people in the media that the natural scrutiny and process through which all of our presidents are put through and vetted do not occur because of the fear in the State-Controlled Media of themselves being called racist and the desire to be able to call everyone else racist. In other words, we have a blank slate. We have a president here who is not scrutinized, who is not examined. There is no attempt to be suspicious of power anymore. So is it possible that we really have an African-American president? Or does having an African-American president paralyze the process by which people with that kind of power in our representative republic are kept, quote, unquote, honest? I have a brief timeout here at which time I'm either going to explode in rage or I'm going to fix this audio problem, because I already started out in rage. This racism stuff has got everybody boiling mad because it's such a lie; it's such a cheap shot; it's so dishonest.
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RUSH: This is Kelly in Fairfax, Virginia. Great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Thank you for taking my call.
RUSH: Yes, ma'am.
CALLER: I wanted to take a stab about answering that question whether we can have a black president and I think that the answer is: Yes, if they're conservative, because conservatives don't traffic in the politics of race. So you wouldn't see this happening, as Condoleezza Rice, for example, were president and coming under criticism, you would not need George W. Bush or George H. W. Bush going on TV and saying, "Oh, this is about race."
RUSH: Well, okay. Good point. However, if we had a conservative... You're talking about a black conservative --
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: -- African-American president?
CALLER: Yes.
RUSH: Well...
CALLER: I think you'd feel a lot less criticism from the left.
RUSH: Wait a minute. Any such candidate who might emerge will be destroyed by the Drive-By Media in the campaign process.
CALLER: Well, because that's the double standard of the left. If it's a conservative, like Michael Steele, he gets Oreos thrown at him. But if it's a liberal then they circle the wagons and say it's about race.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: They have it both ways.
RUSH: Right. Well, the point of all this is that the racism in this country exists primarily on the left.
CALLER: Exactly.
RUSH: Victimization of people, grouping people, condescension toward average Americans exists primarily on the left. They're projecting. You know, this is a great illustration of projection. They're accusing us of behaving exactly as they do. They are accusing us of thinking exactly as they think.
CALLER: Well, if I man, Rush, look at the way -- you know, Barbara Boxer I think got caught twice doing this. She spoke to the head of the Chamber of Commerce and brought in a study to the NAACP that wasn't relative to it; and I remember her talking to Condoleezza Rice and being very condescending to her to the point that Rice actually said I think you're impugning my integrity and she I think said that she couldn't understand the death of soldiers because she was a single, childless woman.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: That's -- that's --
RUSH: Not to mention the Aunt Jemima cartoon panels that the left's editorial cartoonists drew.
CALLER: They're brutal. They're so brutal when it's on the other side.
RUSH: I know, totally brutal. It's what we're up against -- and when they're losing, and when they're losing control, is when they get even more brutal, and that's what all this means.
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Inconceivable the damage identity politics has played in cooping America, AJ has a point.
Racism and the Race Card has been a profitable business, used by many individuals and groups for so many years to beat society over the head.
Although, the cause is less repairable because of Government Schools, Political Corruption and Machiavellian interests! Most of this confusion is orchestrated to keep the public off balance, drag down socio-economic wellbeing, keeping the focus off Government and “Friends of Government,” allowing variable latitude to manipulate each group as an instrument and privilege taker.
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RUSH: A.J. in Houston, A.J. thanks for waiting. You're next on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Big time Rush, man, I'm glad to talk to you, baby. I hadn't talked to you since January when we was trying to warn the people about Obama, and I'm appalled because at my age, race relations was beautiful as we got everything back going in America, and this president and his cronies that's around him has set us back 50 years. I'm going to say 50 --
RUSH: How so?
CALLER: -- because of the fact that this man has undermined what black people are trying to do. Of course, you know, there's a such --
RUSH: Wait a second, A.J., how has President Obama set back race relations 50 years? I want to hear your theory on this.
CALLER: Because, Rush, as a black man, I didn't vote for him, but I am proud to see that black folk finally got up there to the White House. But, Rush, when you get there, do something with it, don't just stand around and laugh and joke and loll it up. Get something done, man. Go in these neighborhoods and get these people together.
RUSH: Hey, A.J., he's destroying the private sector, he's doing quite a bit out there, my man.
CALLER: Exactly.
RUSH: He's just not standing around Joe cool smoking a cigarette having a cocktail.
CALLER: He's doing the opposite of what I would love to see. Don't he know if he did that and made the world better, get jobs, and I say that again, jobs for the so-called people.
RUSH: No, no, no, A.J., you missed the last story. It's good that people aren't hiring, I have it here in the New York Times.
CALLER: I know! I know! And I love your sarcasm. But, Rush, I am living it, of what this man is doing to our economy. He's taking America down! Is this treason or what? Him and these media people, it's treason what they doing to America. I'm just a common, everyday person, and I know it don't take what he doing to run this country. I can do better than that. He came in on Bush's one trillion. Why don't you doggone give a tax cut to the big man? I don't care about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. You mess with the big man, they going to move their businesses. You ever see a poor man giving anybody a job, Rush? Never! So why you messing with the big man? Calm down, give the big man, middleman, little man a tax cut, we'd have been out of that deal with Bush and (unintelligible), and it was a good trillion because Pelosi and them was with Bush two years and never signed nothing, and now they want to act like they signing everything.
You know what? And Bush may (unintelligible) get Pelosi for that and he didn't get the media, and the media, it's treason what they doing to this country. ABC, CBS, NBC, all them, why are they on the air? They doing us no service. They doing this country a disservice right now. Fox News is the only one giving you both sides of the story. What is wrong with these people in America? And black folk, you done lost your mind. Wake up and smell what this man giving you. It's not what it seems, people. If you don't wake up and go to work every morning you ain't going to get nothing. Don't stand around with your hand out waiting for somebody to give you something. Get these kids in school, get their pants on their butts, teach 'em something. If you don't like what school is doing, go somewhere else. But, Rush, this man can get on the air right now and tell everybody -- and Carter, he needs to go somewhere and sit down 'cause he just started this junk all over again --
RUSH: He can't sit down, he's a hemorrhoid.
CALLER: Well, Rush, he's hurting the black folks with this racial game. I'm so sorry. The good black folks at work every day and do things to make their kids be prosperous. My kid is in college. He's coming out, what the heck is he gonna come out, too? And then if I was a white man, if I see a black man come in my office, I wouldn't touch him because of the fact I don't know what his ideology is with what these people are doing right now. And that's just a bad thing to say, because I don't know what he's going to do. Rush, this man is killing the black folk, man. We had it going on. We had it going on, and now I don't know what to say, black folks running around think stuff don't stink cuz Obama's in office. Rush, I'm so sick of it. Black folk, wake up. The smart ones, wake up. Don't follow this man off the cliff.
RUSH: That is A.J. in Houston who is --
CALLER: Thank you, Rush.
RUSH: -- not a jackass.
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RUSH: Well, look here. This ought to be at least fairness and balance to A. J. in Houston. Here is Lorraine X from San Diego. Lorraine X, welcome back to the EIB Network.
CALLER: Well, thank you, Rush. It's been a while. You know, Rush, um, you conservative Republicans have spent months calling President Obama a Marxist, a socialist, a Nazi, soft tyranny --
RUSH: Ugh.
CALLER: -- for months now -- Just hold on.
RUSH: Wait just a second, now, Lorraine X.
CALLER: Uh huh?
RUSH: Marxist, socialist, fascist, yes. I never called him a Nazi. That's what his people are calling us.
CALLER: Oh, okay. Okay. Well, and -- and what you did for months now you've played the race card calling President Obama a racist. Remember all the discussion over Glenn Beck -- who, by the way, is an actual racist -- calling her President Obama a racist? So why don't you tell me: Who introduced racism into this thing first if it wasn't conservatives?
RUSH: Uhhh.
CALLER: Who?
RUSH: Wait, wait. Uhhhhhhm. Lorraine X, I'm trying to --
CALLER: (interrupting)
RUSH: I'm trying to remember. Wait just a minute.
CALLER: Glenn Beck called him a racist.
RUSH: Lorraine X, will you just chill?
CALLER: Sure.
RUSH: Okay. I know Glenn said he doesn't like white people.
CALLER: Uh-huh.
RUSH: I don't remember if I've called him a racist. I know I've said that he's got a racist chip on his shoulder. I think he's an angry guy. I think the Constitution ticks him off.
CALLER: You introduced race into this thing. You introduced it some time ago.
RUSH: The bottom line here, Lorraine X, is it's the truth. The things that we're saying here is the truth. This man and his agents are out there distorting the mind-set and the opinions of decent Americans, and they've been doing it. This is how this man is running against the American people.
CALLER: Wait a minute, hold on.
CALLER: Rush, okay you're saying that if the truth and he's a racist. Are you telling me that it is not the truth when Jimmy Carter said? Tell me what was a lie about what Jimmy Carter stated about racism in this country. What's the lie now?
RUSH: Very simple. Did you hear A. J. from Houston?
CALLER: I heard that Stepin Fetchit. By the way, he's a illegal joke!
RUSH: A. J. from Houston is somebody you need to listen to because race relations have been set back 50 years because of what this president is allowing to happen in his name with Jimmy Carter, the national hemorrhoid getting out there and entering this fray. The opposition to Obama is not based on race, Lorraine.
CALLER: He didn't say "all of it," Rush. That's the problem. That's a problem. He didn't say "all of it."
RUSH: Let me tell you something. I think Jimmy Carter is just as bad and just as incompetent as Obama is. Does it make me a racist?
CALLER: Incompetent?
RUSH: How can it be that I am racist when I say that about Obama but not racist when I say it about Carter? The disagreement that people have with Barack Obama is sub-stan-tive, Lorraine. It is based on real things that he is doing and destroying in the private sector. Race has nothing to do with this. People love their country! I predicted all of this. I predicted everything that's happening. I said, "It's going to get to the point..." Because people called me and said, "Rush, Rush, Rush? Don't you think electing a black president will end racism, get over the hump there?" I said, "No, no, no. You don't understand the race business. It's going to get worse. The race hustlers, the race industry is going to grow. Any criticism of Obama will eventually be said to be racist." It's happening right before our very eyes. It's not a racist country, Lorraine. It's not 1864; it's not 1964. It's time you woke up. We'll be back. Stay with us.
OBAMA: He's a jackass.
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MITCHELL: Rush Limbaugh was recently, just within the hour, reacting on his radio show to Jimmy Carter's comments to Brian Williams, and this is what Rush had to say.
RUSH ARCHIVE: I disagree with Carter for the same reasons I disagree with Obama, but somehow when I disagree with Carter I'm not a racist. When I disagree with Obama I am, they say.
MITCHELL: Congressman, does he have a point?
CUMMINGS: I don't know. My parents left South Carolina many, many years ago, back in the 1940s because they wanted a better life for themselves in Baltimore. Racism has been with me all my life, I think will continue to be. Was it racist here? I don't know. Maureen Dowd says it was, certainly Jimmy Carter. But I think we have to move on.
RUSH: Maureen Dowd? You know, I thought she'd be hanging around on that limb by herself. You lie, boy. Instead the whole DC amen chorus picked it up, and they got even stupider with it than she did. Now, I'm kind of stunned with everything I said about Jimmy Carter being the national hemorrhoid and stuff, that they pulled that quote. Next up is Bill Cosby. Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, talking to Bill Cosby, she says, "Rush Limbaugh and others just yesterday, again today --" talking about race, "-- said it's Obama's America, is it not? Obama's America, white kids getting beat up on school buses now. This is because of one instance where kids were arguing, white and black, over who sits where. Does the culture right now with this kind of talk radio and talk television, does this add to the volume, the velocity and the racial anger that we at least hear expressed?"
COSBY: It doesn't surprise me what Rush Limbaugh says. I said from the very day that people were hammering me because I was talking about our black children, some of them coming out of the schools yelling and cursing and their behavior, et cetera, et cetera. At an NAACP meeting at Howard University they were also concerned that people the likes of a Rush Limbaugh were going to find out these terrible things. Well, these people say this -- they say it anyway. And then I said, "What difference does it make? They've always thought about us in this manner anyway."
RUSH: Now, this is kind of convoluted because I have praised Cosby. Cosby has taken all kinds of hits because he has chided certain black parents for not doing a good job. So we cite him on this and he's taken a lot of hits. I mean the NAACP took some hits at him and so forth. Bill Cosby and I have more agreement on these things than he would probably know. But anyway, that's out there. Then they continued, and Cosby said this.
COSBY: Their foremothers and forefathers thought this, and these people, if they're not racists, then their behavior was that similar to the D. W. Griffiths movie. If that's not it, then they must be working for the insurance company or for the drug companies.
RUSH: Well, now we're getting into incoherence, and out of respect for Mr. Cosby I will cease playing any more. Now it's just descending into nonsensical stuff. I don't even know what he's talking about.
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CALLER: Dittos, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Thank you for all you do. You must know that for millions of us who listen to you every day you keep us centered, and you keep us sane. My point is the Boomers are almost up on Medicare. We keep talking about grannies being put out by what's about to happen to us, but --
RUSH: "Pull the plug on granny. Pull the plug on me."
CALLER: That's exactly right. But the Boomers are headed, and we all know they are a big chunk. And I just wonder how coincidental it is that this is about to happen as they're coming up on their Medicare. This world has been their oyster. They were raised, many of them, by permissive patients. They were told they would be forever young. They have done so much, they've invented so many things, and I think they've always kind of thought that they would be around forever and ever. They have knee replacements, hip replacements, face-lifts; anything they wanted has been available to them.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: And when is it going to dawn on them that this Obamacare is about to off 'em, and how will they react to this when it finally does dawn?
RUSH: I think they're starting to figure it out. I think it has dawned on them. You know, the Rasmussen poll shows 55% -- that's the highest number that Rasmussen's produced -- disapprove of the big plan.
RUSH: But, Rush, they can disapprove, but what are they going to do to stop this? Are they going to be become so ensnared when it finally happens that they realize it, that they can't get out of the trap? What's going to finally be the tipping point? I mean, I can't imagine they're going to go into the sunset willingly. So do you see something that is going to cause this if indeed Max Baucus and his ilk get this plan through, that --
RUSH: Max Baucus' plan isn't going to get through. Olympia Snowe bombed out of it. There's no Republican. The Democrats don't like the Baucus bill. They may lose. They may not have the votes in the House of Representatives right now for the House plan. I think the tipping point has been reached.
CALLER: Well, but he's going to get something, and it's going to continue to grow. They cannot afford to have him lose on this and then weaken him for all the other plans they have in store.
RUSH: I have made that point myself. Everything is wrapped up in this. They're gonna pass a bill. Even if they produce a bill that says nothing more than, "We must study this further," they're going to get a bill that says "the Health Care Recovery Act of 2009" or whatever. They're going to produce something to save the guy's bacon. But, look, the 2010 elections are crucial. What are the Baby Boomers going to do? We're doing everything we can to inform people, and I think it's working out there. You need a little bit more optimism out there, Sandra. We need a little bit more optimism out there. There's a huge conservative ascendancy taking place here, and it's well timed. When they trot out the national hemorrhoid to join this talk about half the country is racist, it's a tantamount admission that they're losing.
It's a tantamount admission that they're close to devote. When they throw the race card out like this, this blatantly, they're trying to distract from a whole bunch of stuff. Five appearances Sunday on the Sunday shows and every time he goes on TV the numbers go down for his health care, and he's going to go kiss ass on Letterman before he does the five Sunday shows. They're on the run up there. We've never had a president like this. We've never had a president with this all-consuming need to be on television 24/7. This is Castro-like. This is like Castro. This is like a banana republic where the leader is all over television all the time. Chavez. This guy is on TV more than Chavez is, and Chavez has his own five-hour television show! This guy's everywhere. You know, when he went on vacation up there in the "black enclave" of Martha's Vineyard, he wasn't on TV quite as much and his numbers started trickled up a little bit.
Then he did the big House speech where Joe Wilson said "you lie," and he got a little bit of a surge. But it's gone. It's gone. He shoulda just stopped right there, just shoulda stopped. Now, Baucus has come out with this thing and everybody's opposed to it. The Republicans can't stop this. The Democrat Party cannot unify themselves -- and now you got Charlie Rangel, Charlie Rangel saying Obama blew it by cutting the price $100 billion. Where is that story? I gotta find that. I printed it out. It's somewhere here quick. I put in the health care staff. Dibby, dibby, dibby -- Oh! Oh! Oh! This is what I was looking for when I was talking to you. This is a different story, too. This is from the Washington Post, but where is the Rangel story? It's in the New York Post today. Obama blew it by cutting a hundred billion dollars from the health care plan from a trillion down to $900 billion, and that's where he blew it. So you have the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, one of the largest tax cheats in the history of electoral Democrat politics. This guy, Rangel, he owns more homes than he can remember. He's getting rental income from them that he doesn't report. He's got people living in places that he is telling other people are his offices, in Harlem. He finds a million dollars of income a week and says, "Eh, you know, it's very complicated. I forgot to report it," and he's out there saying it's too cheap, the plan's too cheap, $900 billion. We can't do this without another hundred billion.
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Most of the people making these false accusations of racism don’t believe it. They grew up in the same America I did, where racism by the VAST majority of us was looked down on worse than any sin. Where every racist was maligned. I think they’re trying to tie us in this knot and distract us so they can push their agendas. They’ll sneak in amnesty piecemeal in every bill and be sure illegal aliens get the socialist ‘health care’, whether we know it or like it.
>> Jimmy Carter, the nation’s hemorrhoid, crawled out of his orifice to make the nation itch.
ROFLMAO!
Words are to Rush as JDAM’s are to an Air Force pilot.
I get the feeling he doesn’t like Jimmuh much.
Roadrunner marked today's “Rush In A Hurry” e-mail as spam.
The nerve!
:-)
That would be an affirmative!
I was laughing so hard while listening to Rush talking about Jimmy.
“Trust me: they’re going to produce a health care bill — even if it says nothing more than, ‘we must study this further’ — to save 0bama’s bacon.”
I wholeheartedly believe this will come true.
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