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RUSH: I wonder who's gonna break to the news to the guy that it's water vapor? Hi, folks. It's Friday. Let's get rolling. Oh, goody, goody gumdrops. We're wrapping up the week as the GDP numbers are being manipulated showing a 5.7% growth in the last quarter of 2009, but the real money doesn't seem to be believing this. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down ten points. It's been flirting between up 5 to 15. Now it's down ten. Oh, NASDAQ is down 11. Somehow I don't think people are buying that. The reason why, folks, is because most of the GDP reported growth is in inventories, and those are not a reliable thing. You can't stake a recovery (at least from what I'm reading) on inventories, because they can just as easily take a day or take a month off as well. If there are no customers to buy what their inventorying up, then you're not going to keep inventory -- and there aren't going to be new customers because there isn't any employment growth. So I think that's what the smart money knows. You've got record profits at Microsoft. You got Apple with that iTampon that they released that's going to be a big popular thing, and still stocks are not going through the roof -- and that's where the real money in the US economy is going right now. It's the only place real money is going.
Anyway, it's Open Line Friday. Great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh and the EIB Network.
We are in Las Vegas and we have one more day to go for the Miss America 2010 pageant. The finals are tomorrow at eight o'clock eastern on the TLC cable network. Us judges have a big day tomorrow. It's such a big day tomorrow that we have today off. We meet tomorrow morning to pare down to the final 15. But even we won't know who they are until the program starts. We don't know anything. We find out who wins when you do, and we're not allowed to speak with each other about what we've seen or how we're scoring. We're just as in the dark as you are. I mean, we're determining what happens but we're still as in the dark about the outcome as you are until the program airs and the new Miss America is crowned.
Open Line Friday again, 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program. This is the day where pretty much whatever you want to talk about is fair game. If I haven't talked about it and you want to talk about it, this is the day to go for it. (interruption) No, it's not really called the Apple iTampon, but it's the iPad. I made the remark when I first saw it named the iPad, "It sounds like a menstrual device," and then a bunch of bloggers actually gave it the name "iTampon" and they've even created a graphic with a retail package of tampons that says "iPad" on them with the Apple logo -- and it's too late to change the name. I mean, here they've got this really great, first-of-its-kind, innovative product, and people are making fun of the name. This just doesn't happen to Apple much. They didn't like iSlate. They didn't like iTablet. So they settled on iPad.
Anyway... I wonder how, ladies and gentlemen, former Vice President Algore felt today to awaken and find out that on his global warming team is none other than -- Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut! -- Osama Bin Laden. "Osama Bin Laden," on his own network, al-Jazeera, "Deplores Climate Change -- Osama bin Laden, the al-Qaeda leader, has condemned the US and other industrial economies, holding them responsible for the phenomenon of climate change." (laughing) I mean, we gotta give him a Nobel Prize! (interruption) Yeah, Israel's in there, too. We have to sign this guy up for a Nobel Peace Prize. He should be a joint recipient. I mean, he has the same view on this that Algore has and the United Nations' IPCC, whatever the hell that group is. The Interplanetary Alien Whatever, I don't know. It's the fraud bunch.
Now, you would think that Bin Laden would be grateful for a warmer world because he lives in a cave. He lives in a freezing cave somewhere on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. But every day, folks, I'm telling you... This is so rich. I love this. Every day it gets harder and harder to tell Bin Laden's complaints from those of the average, run-of-the-mill leftists like Obama or Harry Reid or Nancy Pelosi or the entire Democrat Party. I mean, every time Osama realizes a tape it's just Democrat talking points. Or maybe they're getting their talking points from him. "In an audio tape obtained by Al Jazeera," it was probably hand-delivered, "bin Laden criticized George Bush, the former US president, for rejecting the Kyoto pact and condemned global corporations."
(laughing) Okay: Blame Bush? Check. "'This is a message to the whole world about those responsible for climate change and its repercussions -- whether intentionally or unintentionally -- and about the action we must take,' bin Laden said." (laughing) We! Must! Take! (laughing) "Speaking about climate change..." This is a guy who lives in the seventh century! "'Speaking about climate change is not a matter of intellectual luxury -- the phenomenon is an actual fact.'" Okay: Global warming is settled science? Check. "In the new recording, bin Laden says 'all the industrial states' are to blame for climate change, 'yet the majority of those states have signed the Kyoto Protocol and agreed to curb the emission of harmful gases'.
"He continued: 'However, George Bush junior," (laughing) "preceded by (the US) [C]ongress, dismissed the agreement to placate giant corporations. And they are themselves standing behind speculation, monopoly and soaring living costs." (laughing) Does this not sound like an average Democrat? It sounds like this could easily be Russ Feingold, the Senator from Wisconsin. "'They are also behind 'globalization and its tragic implications'. And whenever the perpetrators are found guilty, the heads of state rush to rescue them using public money.'" Okay: Blame the US and greedy, evil corporations? Check. Check. This is right off the Democrat Party playbook. Bin Laden has become an environmentalist! "In the new recording, bin Laden said: 'Noam Chomsky (the US academic and political commentator) was correct when he compared the US policies to those of the Mafia."
Okay: Cites Noam Chomsky? Check. The only thing I'd ask is: Why didn't he cite Saul Alinsky? I mean, more people probably know who Saul Alinsky is now than Chomsky. Anyway, "They are the true terrorists and therefore we should refrain from dealing in the US dollar and should try to get rid of this currency as early as possible. 'I am certain that such actions will have grave repercussions and huge impact.'" So: Calls America "the true terrorists" and wants a boycott against the US dollar? Check. Check. It's right off the Democrat Party talking points. "While continuing to attack America, bin Laden's comments mark a shift from his earlier, more regionally focused commentary. In his previous tape, bin Laden warned that there would be further attacks on the US unless Barack Obama ... took steps to resolve the Palestinian conflict."
Oh, Palestinian conflict? Yes. Forget that. That's passe because Obama said: I can't fix it; that's too "hard." So: Now climate change is where it's at? Check. Maybe Osama wants a government grant. That's right. Why not, since we're about to put a chicken in every pot and a car bomb in every garage in Afghanistan? (chuckling) Don't you remember, folks, we told you the other day that the administration is studying very seriously an idea put forward by Hamid Karzai to float $100 million to the Taliban, under the theory that they're poor and if we just give 'em some money that they'll abandon their terrorist activities? And Gordon Brown, the prime minister of the UK, is already in line to do this. So if we join here, we have a new way to fight our enemy. So we'll put a chicken in every pot and a car bomb in every garage in Afghanistan, plus build the garages to put the cars and car bombs in. Then they've love us for sure, right?
Now, "The Obama administration dismissed bin Laden's comments on the earlier tape and said intelligence analysts had not confirmed that the voice was that of bin Laden." Wait a minute, now. This can't be. This is the piece de resistance! Is Obama actually now starting to throw doubts on whether bin Laden is alive? "The Obama..." (muttering) Obama "analysts had not confirmed the voice was that of bin Laden." What's that? What's that? Bin Laden may be dead? Is that going to be the lame excuse now for not finding him after more than a year? Do you realize, ladies and gentlemen, that every time we learn something -- every time something happens with global warming -- I just eat it up because it's a hoax? There's nothing better than the world's foremost terrorist citing almost verbatim the talking points of Algore, the UN climate change organization, that stupid bunch at the East Anglia University, and every liberal Democrat and activist in this country!
I say, I wonder how...? See, even Bin Laden realizes that global warming is about destroying the US economy -- and along with it, capitalism and Western civilization in general. So our #1 enemy is actually urging us to do the same thing the American left is doing, from the White House on down. So Bin Laden promotes "decapitate" and trade, which we conservatives also oppose. This is another reason that we think Obama -- Osama! Osama! If I have said "Obama" meaning "Osama," you know what I meant. How many times have I done that? (interruption) A lot? (interruption) Okay. Well, you know what I meant. It's one consonant in there that's confusing me a little bit. Now, along the lines here of this, there are two stories today. A bunch of scientists are panicked over why the temperature of the globe is cooling as much as 25%.
They have discovered it now: Up there at a certain level of the atmosphere, there's water vapor depreciation. There's not as much water vapor. Now, for those of you who are regular listeners to this program, you know that the number one contributor to the whole concept of global warming is not CO2. It is water vapor. Water vapor accounts for over 90% of that which keeps the planet warm. So there's a decrease of it up there in the atmosphere. But they said, "It doesn't matter! It just doesn't matter because it's still warming. But this explains it. It's not sunspots; it's water vapor." So somebody is going to have to wake up Bin Laden today. He's got a very, very slow Internet connection, I guess. I don't think he's heard about the hoax at East Anglia University.
I don't think he's heard about the hoax involving the Himalayan glaciers. I don't think he's heard about the hoax. So he's obviously working on a seventh century Internet connection as well. But somebody's going to have to wake him up and give him this bad news about water vapor; that it's not the US -- unless somebody can make the case that we are destroying the water vapor. I wouldn't want to be the guy to have to wake him up and tell him. And joyous Reuters today: "US Formally Embraces a Copenhagen Climate Deal." Again, I don't think Osama's getting the latest news updates before he puts his words to tape. Now, this is a toothless thing. "Washington said they're going to embrace the Copenhagen accord, setting nonbinding goals for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that was negotiated last month."
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RUSH: The KSM trial. You know, this is funny. When Holder first announced this, remember, now; he said (paraphrased), "I'm doing this. The president didn't know. It was my decision totally." Obama said, "It was his decision. I'm all for it. We want a show trial up there, 'cause what we really want to do is have some international tribunals charge Bush and Cheney officials with high crimes and misdemeanors in an international court for war crimes." Mayor Bloomberg said, "Yeah! Bring it on, baby," because they thought there'd be a great impact here. Then they discovered that there'd be $200 million a year security and businesses in the area and so forth had no desire for it, and then the big reason: The Kennedy seat was lost, and Chuck-U Schumer said, "I ain't losing my seat. Move the trial," and he had Bloomberg do it. So the White House is now looking for a new place to put their show trial.
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RUSH: The place for the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: Washington, DC. Put it in Washington, DC, ladies and gentlemen. New York City is out. Washington. That's the place. Eric Holder and Obama could drive by the circus show trial every day, take credit for their handiwork, and stimulate spending with $200 million a year in security costs for Washington, DC. (claps) Yeah, baby! That's where you put it.
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Now, the New York delegation in Congress, they got some good news today when they learned that Obama and Eric Holder are indeed looking at an alternative place to hold the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial. Again, Detroit or Washington are the two places I would go. Detroit would be much better chance for a jury of his peers. In Washington, Holder and Obama could drive by the trial every day and check out the $200 million a year in security. In Detroit, even if some terrorist blew some things up, depending on where they did it, you wouldn't know. So that's another reason for maybe considering Detroit for this. But the New York delegation got some bad news, and this is in the New York Daily News: "The Obama administration stunned New York's delegation Thursday, dropping the bombshell news that it does not support funding the 9/11 health bill.
"The state's two senators," that would be Chuck-U Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, "and 14 House members met with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius just hours before President Obama implored in his [State of Obama] speech to the nation for Congress to come together and deliver a government that delivers on its promises to the American people. 'So the legislators were floored to learn the Democratic administration does not want to deliver for the tens of thousands of people who sacrificed after 9/11, and the untold numbers now getting sick. I was stunned — and very disappointed,' said Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, who like most of the other legislators had expected more of a discussion on how to more forward. To say the least, I was flabbergasted,' said Staten Island Rep. Mike McMahon.'"
The story goes on to record how furious these people are. The administration is talking about improving and revamping health care, and they have stopped funding for the 9/11 health care bill. So look at this. This is "bombshell news" to the New York delegation. First Obama does an Air Force One flyby over New York City that scared the bejeezus out of people. Even the people at Goldman Sachs were scared. Probably the best theory going around is that was a donor flight, that some of the big donors were being shown a trip over the Statue of Liberty in New York in Air Force One at a low cruising attitude and they forgot to tell in New York for security reasons because they were afraid somebody might shoot it down. So they just didn't tell anybody Air Force One was going to be there. So you do it then you rub a lot salt in New Yorkers' wounds over 9/11. Then he tries to jam the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial down their throat, and now this. The article closes with a bang. In the last line of the story: "Health and Human Servicices officials and the White House did not have an immediate response" to demands from the New York delegation for an explanation.
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RUSH: Here's Matt, Grand Rapids, Michigan, you're first in this hour and it's great to have you with us.
CALLER: Hey mega dittos, Rush, from global warming, 18-degree Grand Rapids.
RUSH: Thank you very much.
CALLER: Freezing here. I could use some of that global warming. I'm calling because I don't know if you realize what a gift you've given to the administration and the Democrats in your recommendation to hold the KSM trial in DC.
RUSH: Or Detroit.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: What do you like about DC?
CALLER: Well, what I like about the DC area is politically it would be a gift to the Democrats especially going into the November election because they don't have any representation in Congress. There's no senators or congressman, so it would be truly be a neutral venue. It would be perfect.
RUSH: Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I've had a long week. I'm not getting much sleep because I'm up late but you say there are not any Democrats in Washington?
CALLER: No, no. The District isn't represented in Congress.
RUSH: Oh.
CALLER: So...
RUSH: Oh. Oh. Oh. So nobody can lose their job if Washington gets hit?
CALLER: Yes, and it's the only place the trial could possibly be. I think you've shown genuine outreach to the administration.
RUSH: Look, I'm always willing to help.
CALLER: (laughs)
RUSH You got that right. Well, but look: You've got a great idea here and I applaud your thought but there's one thing I don't have to point on you approximately they do have an advocate, a nonvoting delegate. It's Eleanor Holmes Norton. So they do have somebody in there but she doesn't get to vote. You're right. ... The reason for DC is that Obama and Holder... If you're going to dole out federal money, give it to DC. The place needs it and it's $200 million for security for the trial. They've got federal courthouses there. They have a big circuit there and Holder's right there. He could monitor the trial, go in there every day, make sure that the prosecutors are doing exactly what he wants: Prosecuting it in a way so that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed gets a big soapbox to really dump all over Bush and Cheney so that these wild idiots over in Europe at the international court could maybe bring war crimes charges against Bush and Cheney, which is what they want. The other place to do it is Detroit. This is my second idea. Because in our system, judicial system, folks, one of the requirements, one of the things that sets us apart from all the uncivilized countries is finding a jury of our peers when we are accused. You will not find a better place so possibly put together a jury of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's peers than in Detroit. I mean, Dearbornistan is right there. Here's a third place you could go: Los Angeles. Los Angeles, you could get a jury out there that could find you innocent after two years of incontrovertible evidence just 'cause they don't like the mayor and the police chief. So there are any number of places that Holder could do this since New York no longer wants the trial since Chuck-U Schumer does want to be reelected.
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RUSH: I was silly. I was silly getting my hopes up on the new trial location, Washington, Detroit, maybe LA. The Obama administration has already said they're going to keep it in New York but not in Manhattan. They want to move it to Governors Island. There's a tiny little island there. It's not populated. It used to have some sort of a military installation. The only reason I know that is because when I first moved to New York I had some friends that were real tightwads, and they came in for the weekend and they stayed out there. I didn't know anybody could stay there. I don't know if they have to pitch a tent or what. Governors Island is one place and there's some military installations nearby. Now, I don't know if this is going to please Chuck-U Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand and the New York congressional delegation, plus the mayor and all that, 'cause I mean Governors Island is just, you know, George Washington silver dollar toss from Manhattan. And you still gotta drive the guy back and forth to a prison every day, to the trial that's there, which is gonna keep the security going. It's still going to be disruptive. This is the Obama administration. Two things now. They're thumbing the nose at the New York delegation. They have defunded the 9/11 health care plan for New York and its people there, and now this. The mayor and Chuck-U Schumer and everybody says, "Please, we don't want this trial here. We want to get reelected." They saw what happened in Massachusetts. So Obama says, "Fine, we'll just move it about a couple feet over to Governors Island."
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RUSH: I have a friend, ladies and gentlemen, who just sent me a note backing up what I said about Governors Island as a place not suited to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. I described it as being "a George Washington silver dollar throwaway from Manhattan." The friend says to me, "Only somebody who has not been to Governors Island would propose having the KSM trials there. I go there several times a year to take the kids to Little League games. Governors Island is about a three minute ferry ride from lower Manhattan. It has a great view of the Statue of Liberty so Khalid Sheikh Mohammed could look at the target of one of his future attacks. There's barely enough functioning infrastructure on the island for a Little League game. Before each game is played there the kids' coaches send out warnings to bring water because the only drinkable water is about a half mile from the baseball field in makeshift bathrooms by the ferry terminal. The Coast Guard departed..." That's what it was! That's where my cheap friends stayed. It was a Coast Guard installation. "The Coast Guard departed years ago and all the quarters, officers, et cetera, have been deteriorating while the state and city have been fighting over what to do with the place. Food is available during summer weekends only on hot dog carts and ice cream trucks that come over from the mainland on the ferry." That is where Obama wants to put the Khalid Sheikh Mohammed trial: Governors Island. It is three-minute ferry ride. It's down in lower Manhattan, by the way.
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PELOSI: We go through the gate. If the gate's closed, we'll go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we'll pole vault in. If that doesn't work, we'll parachute in. But we're going to get health care reform passed for the American people.
RUSH: That's Nancy Pelosi. Now, every day there's a different story on this. The Washington Times today: "Democratic leaders on Thursday shelved plans to push through a major health care overhaul, casting aside President Obama's top legislative goal, which has bedeviled congressional Democrats for more than a year. Senate Democrats put a positive spin on it, arguing that they're sidelining it until later this year - possibly until the summer - so they could deal immediately with Mr. Obama's State of [Obama] Speech call to address the economy and job creation. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who said a comprehensive bill is still a priority, already has plans to pursue small, targeted health bills, such as a repeal of insurance companies' antitrust protection. Rank-and-file Democrats aren't optimistic about the fate of a comprehensive overhaul."
Then you go to the Washington Post's Ezra Klein: "David Axelrod: 'Reconciliation is a Tool That is There to be Used." This is very interesting to read. I think they're stunned more than I believed and more than maybe they know. "The Republicans have it both ways,' David Axelrod said in a conversation with a handful of journalists this afternoon. 'They have the ability to block, but they assign us the responsibility to govern.' But pressed for the White House's answer to that dilemma, Axelrod fell back on platitudes. 'They either work with us or they have to pay the price for working against us,' he replied. But what price? For the last year, Republicans have worked, assiduously and effectively, to derail the Democrats' legislative agenda."
I have a question: How can they say that? What did the Republicans do? The Democrats have voting majorities (or had until Massachusetts) in both houses. They got their 219 votes in the House. They had 60 votes in the Senate. The Republicans could not have stopped them! The Republicans didn't do anything. If anybody did anything, it was the American people: The tea party people, talk radio, everybody that does not want any part of this socialist takeover of the economy. The Republicans didn't do diddly-squat. They couldn't have even if they wanted to. If the Republicans had gone out and made massive preference appearances, it wouldn't have been covered much -- and had they done it, it would have been portrayed as gridlock, a party that said "no," which they are portrayed as anyway.
But this sentence: "For the last year, Republicans have worked, assiduously and effectively, to derail the Democrats' legislative agenda," how can they say that? And this, in fact, was a constant in Axelrod's remarks. So here they're trying to get the Republicans to join 'em, trying to get the Republicans to cross the aisle, bipartisanship. So this must be noted, as it is the new talking point against the Republicans -- and the Republicans ought to stand up against it and be proud. Absolutely! Because the Republican Party is doing what the voters have said they wanted, and that is oppose this. But the overall point is that there was nothing the Republicans could have done to stop any of this. It was their own wishy-washy Democrats they couldn't unify. Mr. Unifier could not bring his own people together.
And, by the way, I warned you about this: You notice all the people in Obama's orbit, how angry they are? Obama doesn't even unify his own staff. Reverend Wright is always angry at somebody. Bill Ayers trying to blow something up every other day. I mean, there's no unity out there anywhere. So it's not a surprise he can't unify his own party. The thing that killed the Obama agenda so far was sunshine. It was the light shining on everything he was doing. When we were able to find out the stuff they were pulling and able to tell people, the light showed the shadows of the Democrats' motivations. Axelrod says, "They made a decision they were going to sit it out and hope that we failed, that the country failed." Bang-o. I am in their head. Except: When they fail, the country breathes a sigh of relief. When they fail, the country is spared.
If they succeed, we are in heap big doo-doo. Ezra Klein writes: "It's been an inarguable success for the Republican Party. Health-care reform is on life support. Republicans just won a Senate seat in Massachusetts. Election experts are beginning to talk about a potential Republican takeover in November. There is no case to be made that the GOP is in a worse position than a year ago. Which made Axelrod's threats of consequences a bit tinny. 'If they want to block everything,' he said at another point, 'they will be held to account.'" Isn't that hilarious? We can't block anything! The Republicans in Congress cannot block anything, yet the bullying and the intimidation continues. "Later," Axelrod said, "'We are going to very visibly seek their support moving forward, and we will shine a bright light on them when they don't.'" Bring it on, baby. Bring it on.
Turn the bright lights on because then people will see you, too. Frankly, it'll take a load off of us. "But if it's hard to shine a light on minority obstructionism, it's entirely possible to launch an attack on the tools of obstructionism." This is in the Washington Post. This is the writer saying it: "[I]f it's hard to shine a light on minority obstructionism, it's entirely possible to launch an attack on the tools of obstructionism." So, anyway, "Asked about reconciliation," which is the point here, "Axelrod chose his words carefully. 'Reconciliation is a tool that is there to be used,' he said." The bottom line is they haven't given this up. They have not given up health care, despite all the stories that you see. It is their signature. It is the thing on which everything else they want to do depends -- and Pelosi, Reid, whoever, they'll find a way. And Obama wants it just as much as he always has. So keep a sharp eye, folks, as we will.
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CALLER: Mr. Rush, mega dittos from southern Illinois.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: It's a pleasure to talk with you. I don't know if you've talked about the Toyota issue very much, but I read an article in the Wall Street Journal of where the Obama administration had talked with Toyota and they had put the onus on Toyota to do something about this (quote, unquote) "problem" with the gas pedal sticking and all that good stuff that's going on. I sold Toyota for the last six years prior. I'm not selling anymore. I know several people in the business, including service managers that have worked on for years. I've never had one customer complain. I've never seen it. The service manager said that it's impossible for them to go in and recreate the situation that's causing the gas pedal to stick.
RUSH: Well, wait a minute, now. There is a recall, isn't there?
CALLER: Well, Toyota is recalling them to change them, and the only reason they're doing that is to preempt the government from doing more. Now, I know I'm not a Toyota executive, but I worked in Toyota and I know how they work, and they want to be aboveboard no matter what's going on. They want to have the best attitude and look the best they can to their customers by saying, "Okay, we don't even know if there's really a major problem but we're going to recall them."
RUSH: Well, I think Obama Motor Company's also exploiting this.
CALLER: Very much so.
RUSH: In the midst of this, they're offering potential customers a $1,000 rebate if they'd get rid of their Toyota and come buy an Obamamobile.
CALLER: That's exactly right. That goes to my main point: You know, this Government Motors that we own now still can't sell cars. They're still losing major money because they're bending over backwards for the unions. They're crying about jobs not being created, yet they're trying their best to cause Toyota to lose jobs in the United States, and then they just happened to have all these commercials ready to go for national television saying, "Well, you bring your Toyota in to us and we'll give you an extra thousand dollars for it." Don't tell me that this is not planned out and that Obama don't know. Ye knows exactly what he's doing, and this is just another nail in the coffin, hopefully, in 2012 when he runs again, and people have enough of this and they're just sick of it. It just infuriated me.
RUSH: I can tell. I can hear it. I can hear the infuriation in your voice. I can hear it. I'm trained that way and I can tell that you're angry. I can also see that Honda is going to recall 640,000 cars. I don't know what the reason for it is. I'll find out. But your theory is it would be to keep Obama off their back.
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RUSH: Here's the Honda story on the recall of 646,000 cars. It's the Honda Fit. There are 140,000 of them in the United States. "The Fit is Honda's best-selling model in Japan. Honda said the recall was to fix a defective master switch, which could cause water to enter the power window switch and in some cases cause a fire. There were three reported cases of fires due to the defect, two in the United States and one in South Africa..."
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KERRY: You know, if the tea party folks would go out there and get angry because they think their taxes are too high, for God's sake, a lot of citizens ought to get angry about the fact that they're being killed and our planet's being injured by what's happening on a daily basis by the way we provide our power and our fuel and the old practices that we have. That's something worth getting angry about.
RUSH: Did you hear that? Were you able to understand what he said? It's a typical cheap, Democrat microphone in a room that has worse acoustics than the one I'm in. Okay, I'll tell you what he said. "You know, if the tea party folks would go out there and get angry because they think their taxes are too high, for God's sake, a lot of citizens ought to get angry about the fact that they're being killed and our planet's being injured by what's happening on a daily basis by the way we provide our power and our fuel and the old practices that we have. That's something worth getting angry about." So he wants the environmentalist wackos to go get as angry as the tea party people. It's not anger; it's passion! The anger they already have. They are angry on general principles. They're angry 'cause they hate being alive!
They are self-loathing people, these leftists. I can't imagine what it would be like to get up and live their life every day. To have to be mad all the time, at everybody else, knowing full well you are a failure and having the inability to do anything about it because you will not look at yourself. You gotta blame George W. Bush or you gotta blame corporations, or you have to blame somebody. Blame talk radio. My gosh, tea party people are not terrorists. The environmental left, Senator Kerry, has actual terrorism -- and they get prosecuted for it! The Earth Liberation Front. Some guy tried to plant, at an automobile dealership, a bunch of car bombs, or one car bomb, actually a gasoline bomb, and it didn't go off. It was found and he had put the initials, he'd carved them right above where the thing was to be seen later and it was going to try to blow something up and these people get prosecuted, we had Earth First and all this.
Senator Kerry, what are you talking about? These people are enraged already. It's that they're wrong and that the passion that they have is not for anything positive. You can't compare them to the tea partiers. Here's Doris Kearns Goodwin, well-known as a plagiarist. But she, despite that, is one of the most respected voices in the Democrat Party and on the left. She is an "historian." She's married to Richard Goodwin, who is a funny guy. If I were a woman, I wouldn't want to be married to him, but women look at men differently, I suppose. She is always on TV, and she does speak very well. She's very articulate, very clean and well spoken, and there's no Boston dialect when she speaks unless she wants to have it. She's done bios on a lot of people. She did bios on LBJ and there were rumors about what went on there, how she was able to learn so much. One of her favorite networks is MSNBC. She's there all the time. She was on with Scarborough, and Scarborough asked her, "Is the first year of the Obama presidency going to be looked back on by historians as a health care failure?"
GOODWIN: The most important thing historians look at for the first year is: What did it reveal about the temperament of the guy who was there? For example JFK's first year was a disaster on the surface and yet he had learned so much from that year that when the Cuban Missile Crisis came along he had changed his decision making style. Obama is a man who even though he didn't have tons of experience before he came in (giggles), he's had experience this year, and the greatest hope is that he's learned from that experience.
RUSH: Wait a minute. You know what I love about this, folks, is that all during the campaign, we were told his experience didn't matter, 'cause he was "clean and articulate" and "didn't have a black dialect except when he wanted to," and he was so "fresh." He was unlike anything we had ever had before. Remember that? Post-partisan, post-racial, post-achievement. He was The Messiah! He was The One he had been waiting for. You know, all that rotgut. Now all of a sudden after this first disastrous year when he's got supermajority in the Senate, a clear majority in the House, and can't get most of what he wants done, after the first two to three weeks. Now all of a sudden, "Oh, well, he doesn't have any experience. Well, maybe he'll learn from it. I just love these elites and the way that they look at things. Barney Frank, our last sound bite before we go to the phones, this morning on CNBC's Squawk Box, the cohost Becky Quick was talking to Barney Frank -- and I usually have to translate these, anyway. The question was: "What is the message coming from the voters of Massachusetts after you lost the Kennedy seat?"
FRANK: People are angry, uhh, that we did a lot (garbled) to start the economy back up, and they haven't seen the end. I think there was that anger. There was uncertainty and concern about the health care bill. Clearly the fact is that the Obama recovery from the Bush recession has gone much more slowly than we had hoped. And, ahh, at some point people forget that there was a Bush recession and they focus on the slow Obama recovery.
RUSH: I don't think they forget there's a Bush recession. The frigging president reminds 'em 15 times a day. All told, it's probably 30 times a day given how many times you people in Congress talk about "the Bush recession." Hell, it's now being called "the lost decade," which in truth refers to the Japan economy of the eighties, but it's the lost decade. Maybe it was the Japan economy of the nineties. Whichever. However, ladies and gentlemen, Barney's got it all wrong. He's a smart guy. He's not dumb, but to blame Bush? To blame Bush and the anger at Bush for explaining why a majority of Democrats in the state elected a Republican? They're back on their heels more than I knew.
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RUSH: Well, there's Obama. He's at the Republican Congressional Retreat in Baltimore going on this weekend. Are our guys smart or what? It's the dead middle of the winter and they go to Baltimore for a weekend retreat -- and it's not even football season. Aw, gee. Anyway, Obama was requesting... They asked him to come there. Maybe he wanted to go there. He's lying to them again. "Hey, look, I'm even for tort reform. That's the Holy Grail to you guys, and I told you I'm for it." He just said that, and he said, "Republicans and Democrats have to work together. We just have to work together." Remember, this is a guy who told these very Republicans, "You can't listen to Rush Limbaugh. That's not how things get done in this town." They still have me on the brain. I am inside their craniums. Axelrod was again talking about this whole notion that I said that. I'm the one that put it out there. I was the one with the courage and the bravado to do it. I said, "I hope he fails."
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RUSH: So Obama went up there to have a chat with the Republicans, right? He's lecturing them. (laughing) Mike Pence asked him a question ten minutes ago and he's still answering it, and he's very defensive. I've been reading the closed-captioning. Our young president is saying, "I suppose, uh, uh, the 500,000 jobs we lost in January before I was inaugurated, I -- I -- suppose that's my policy, too, right? That's what you'd say, huh? And then in February? Well, 600,000 more jobs that were lost. You guys probably say that's my policy, right? That's before my policy had even gone in place but you're blaming my policy, right, right, right?" I mean, he's still lecturing, after telling them he wants to listen to their ideas! (laughing)
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RUSH: Let's quickly go to the audio sound bites to reference this. David Axelrod. This is Wednesday night in Washington, after the state of Obama. Cybercast News Service correspondent Joe Schoffstall interviewed Axelrod. He said, "Given this past year and spending habits, do you believe that Barack Obama... Well, Republicans have said that Barack Obama doesn't have the credibility to reduce the deficit. How would you counter that?"
AXELROD: This is the core issue: Is the Republican Party going to take the position that they simply are going to sit on the sidelines and hope, uh, that, uh -- that -- that -- that, uh, the president fails and the country fails and that they somehow will benefit from this politically, or are they going to join us in a bipartisan effort to deal with our problems? And that's what we're waiting to see.
RUSH: Yeah. Of course, he conveniently forgets Little Dick Gephardt back in 2002 after the dot-com bubble burst, gleefully saying, "Every ten-point drop in the stock market we pick up a House seat!" Mr. Axlerod, you know what's going down here. There's not one Republican who wants any fingerprints on the disaster that you and the Obama administration are making. They don't want their fingerprints on it at all. They want you to have total authorship of this. By the way, Obama is still speaking, still lecturing the Republicans at their weekend getaway in Baltimore. Here now is Robert Menendez. This is the guy running the Senate reelection committee that Chuck-U Schumer ran last time. He was on MSNBC and he got a question: "What are the other key issues on which you expect Senate candidates and incumbents to be saying, 'We're like this. Republicans aren't'?"
MENENDEZ: Start now getting the differences between, quote, unquote, "moderate Republicans" -- the ones that the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee wants -- and the tea parters (sic) in the extreme right wing of their party. Drive a wedge there. Ask them: "Do you believe Barack Obama is a citizen of the United States?" Ask them: "Do you believe the Tenth Amendment doesn't allow for health care for every, uhh, citizen in the country? Do you believe that Medicare and Social Security and Medicaid, uh, is socialism?" Let them choose on whose side are they on: Trying to get families back to work in America, or taking care of business? That's going to be an interesting choice.
RUSH: That's an interesting strategery. So it appears here that Bob Menendez is a birther, or he wants to have Republicans portrayed as birthers. That's his advice. Note the contradiction here? "Which side are they on? Trying to get families back to work in America or taking care of big business," meaning socking big business. How do families go back to work if you kill business, which is what these people are doing? Now, The Forehead, folks -- The Forehead, Paul Begala at CNN -- got something right. He said, "Voters do not want bipartisanship."
BEGALA: Here's the thing now. All the pundits say, "Voters want bipartisanship." In a pig's eye they do! Charlie Crist is a bipartisan Republican. He endorsed the president's economic stimulus plan. I know now he says he didn't. He did! He even did the "bromance" hug there, right? That's bipartisanship, and how is he being rewarded? He's getting beat by the more partisan Republican.
RUSH: Getting beat by the more conservative Republican. That's a reference to Marco Rubio down in Florida in the Senate race there. But The Forehead is right. This call for bipartisanship -- and Obama's doing it up there again -- is a strictly liberal trick. It's a trap. It's a trap that people like McCain fall for every time. (McCain impression) "That's right, Limbaugh! We cross the aisle and people will love us. They'll hate you; they'll love us," and it never results in victory. It just results in them, the moderate Republicans, accepting all the premises and all the policies of the Democrats. That's what "bipartisanship" means. Bipartisanship means: You forget everything you believe, you forget every core principle, and you join us on the Democrat side of the aisle.
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RUSH: We have a couple sound bites of things he said.
OBAMA: I want us to have a constructive debate. The only thing I don't want -- and here I am listening to the American people and I think they don't want either -- uh, is for Washington to continue being so Washington-like. I know, folks, uh, when we're in -- in town there, uh, spend a lot of time reading the polls and looking at focus groups and interpreting which party has the upper hand in November and in 2012 and so on and so on and so on. That's their obsession. And I'm not a pundit. Uh, I'm just a president. So take it for what it's worth.
RUSH: So that's how the lecture began: "I don't want." Just like he said in the state of Obama speech: "I don't want this attitude that if he loses, we win. I don't want this attitude!" So he says, "I don't want Washington to continue being Washington-like." Has anybody arrived at one of the most glaring contradictions Obama made in the State of Obama speech? He continually ran down Washington. He runs down Washington in this comment: "It's Washington-like. Nobody gets along, nothing gets done, we gotta stop," and yet he wants to turn every aspect of our lives over to it, a place where nothing gets done, a place he constantly besmirches -- and his State of Obama speech was filled, ladies and gentlemen, with contradictions like that. Here's our second sound bite that we have.
OBAMA: We've seen party-line votes that -- uh, I'm just going to be honest -- were disappointing. Let's start with our efforts to jump-start the economy last winter --
RUSH: Yeah.
OBAMA: -- when we were losing 700,000 jobs a month.
RUSH: Yeah, yeah.
OBAMA: Our financial system teetered on the brink of collapse --
RUSH: Yeah.
OBAMA: -- and the threat of a second Great Depression loomed large.
RUSH: Yeah.
OBAMA: I didn't understand then -- uh, and I still don't understand, uh -- why, uh, we got opposition in this caucus. As I recall, opposition was declared before we had a chance to actually meet and exchange ideas. The latest GDP numbers show that our economy is growing by almost 6%. That's the most since 2003. This turnaround is the biggest in nearly three decades, and it didn't happen by accident.
RUSH: "I don't understand why you opposed the stimulus." The stimulus has nothing to do with this. It's inventories -- and even Reuters, State-Controlled Media, says this may not have any legs to it. But he knows full well why they opposed the stimulus. He knows why everybody opposes the stimulus. It's because it is not a stimulus for anything other than the government. He's up there lecturing them in person rather than lecturing them from the House floor. Let's see. Yeah.
Jeff in Indianapolis. Let's get you in here real quickly before we have to go to the break. Hi.
CALLER: Hey. Rush Hudson Limbaugh! Mmm, mmm, mmm!
RUSH: Hey.
CALLER: I had the same reaction that you did. I listened to the beginning of the "speech," I'll call it, to the Republicans now. I had some hope that he was actually going to go up there and really listen to them, and then he started off his speech chastising the Republicans like little children. And my jaw hits the ground and I'm sitting here going, "What is his idea of listening?" I think it just must mean agreeing with him.
RUSH: The guy has diarrhea of the mouth. I've had it at various times. There's medicine for it but it doesn't taste good, and it's well on display today. Thanks for backing up the opinion of the host. It's the smart thing to do.
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RUSH: Okay. We have more sound bites from Obama and his meet-and-greet with the Republicans at their weekend retreat in Baltimore. Here's the first of three...
OBAMA: We have lost 650,000 jobs in December. Uh, I'm assuming, uh, you're not faulting my policies for that. We have lost, it turns out, 700,000 jobs in January, the month I was sworn in. I'm assuming it wasn't my administration's policies that accounted for that. We lost another 650,000 jobs the subsequent month, before any of my policies had gone into effect. So I'm assuming that wasn't as a consequence of our policies; that doesn't reflect the failures of the Recovery Act.
RUSH: It does. The rest of the year does. You didn't do anything to stop it. I don't know what the Republicans are saying to this guy, because this is on right now and I only have a chance to read the closed-captioning on during commercial breaks. But he goes up there and tries to deflect the blame all off of himself. "It's all Bush's fault! It's all Bush's fault!" even though he voted for every policy that led to all of this. Here's the second bite. We have three.
OBAMA: The notion that I would somehow resist doing something that caught -- costs half as much but would produce twice as many jobs, why would I resist that? I -- I wouldn't. I mean, that -- that -- that's my point. Is -- is -- is th-th-that... (stammering) I am not an ideologue! I'm not! It doesn't make sense if somebody could tell me, "You could do this cheaper and get increased results," that I wouldn't to say, "Great!" The problem is I couldn't find credible economists who would back up the claims that you just made!
RUSH: Well, now, that's just silly. I could find a zillion economists who could back up any claim that you could get twice the results by spending half as much money. He's talking about health care, here. There's any number of ways that you could spend much less than $2.5 trillion dollars to insure whatever number it is, 12, 30, 45 million people -- and there are any number of ways to start lowering costs, and there are all kinds of economists. At the Heritage Foundation there are any number of them. He is an ideologue. Precisely. He only goes out and talks to friendly economists, lib economists who are going to tell him what he wants to hear. Mike Pence follows up. He says, "Mr. President, would you consider across-the-board tax relief as President Kennedy did?"
OBAMA: What you may consider across-the-board tax cuts could be, for example, greater tax cuts for people (stumbling) who are making [a] billion dollars. I may not agree to a tax cut for Warren Buffett. You may be calling for a[n] across-the-board tax cut for the banking industry right now. I may not agree to that.
RUSH: And there you have President Barack Obama still playing the class envy card: Only the rich are getting away with banditry here and so forth. Across-the-board tax cuts like President Kennedy: He cut them for everybody as did Reagan, and it was key of pence to throw Kennedy's name in the whole mix there. But you see Obama? "I'm not! I'm not an ideologue!" But he is most definitely an ideologue. (sigh)
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RUSH: Santa Barbara, California. Ron, you're next. I'm glad you waited. It's great to have you on Open Line Friday.
CALLER: Rush, I'd like to say a lot more but I know today is a rich vein for you so I'll just say, "Mega dittos." Rush, I don't believe in litmus tests for Republican candidates. But I would love to see a revived, robust RNC, and I'd like to hear you talk about one possible pledge for RNC candidates going forward and that's forswearing earmarks. I had a chance to ask Michael Steele that question last Friday, and if you'd like to hear that story I'll give it to you, but I'd like to hear you talk about that possible pledge by Republican candidates.
RUSH: I saw a story about this the other day, not specifically about pledges on earmarks, but Steele was asked if there would be an "ideological test." Whoever asked the question... I think it was a Republican, I'm not sure. I think he was speaking to a Republican group. Maybe it was to the media in general. But it was a question that was oriented toward the fact that the Republican Party has this moderate-liberal wing, the old guard, which thinks they still in charge of things; and the conservative wing, which the old guard hates. They don't want any part of it. The old guard is embarrassed. They're just like the Democrat old guard: The elitists, the Ivy League Republicans. They're just as embarrassed with Sarah Palin as the Democrats are, and other conservatives: Talk radio, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
So Steele was asked about this and he said, "I don't think there should be an ideological test to be a Republican. I really don't think there should be." So I doubt that he would go along with a pledge on earmarks. What I think Republicans are working on is a new, revised Contract with America. You could certainly prepare a ten-point plan of objectives and be a contract. They'd all sign it, and they could put that in that, the earmark claim in that. I don't think anybody would oppose it. Republicans have made great hay in opposing it and trying to stop it, but it's such an ingrained thing that Congress does. Hell, that's how they got the stimulus bill passed. They said it was $787 billion, but it was really close to $1 trillion because it took over $150 billion of earmarks and pork to get a bunch of people on the Democrat side to go along with it who weren't really in favor of it.
I want to go back, too, to Obama and his lecture to the Republicans in Baltimore at their retreat today. In typical "me, me, me," immature and childlike fashion, Obama looked at the Republicans and said, "I'm sure you're not going to blame my policies. I'm sure my policies are not responsible for the jobs lost before I was inaugurated. I'm sure my policies weren't responsible for job losses the first month I was inaugurated," blah, blah. The thing about that is, folks -- and I know many of you out there would agree with this -- businesses look forward. I would say that any jobs lost after his election could be put on him. Remember: Elections matter. There were a lot of people who knew who Obama's policies were going to be. They knew we were gonna get to things like government growth and tax increases. It was in the campaign. People making 250 grand or more, that's a lot of small business people who were going to get their taxes raised. He was playing class envy all the way. I think a lot of people knew what was headed down the pike. So people began laying people off and preparing for the future under Obama. So I don't think... He can't just slough it off. I guarantee you this: If the economy had turned around in January and February, I guaran-damn-tee you he'd be taking credit for it because of his election. (impression) "That's right. Even before my policies are in place, people are so happy with me, look what happened," and the media would be echoing that as well.
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RUSH: Anyway, Marian in Pittsburgh, you're next on Open Line Friday. Great to have you here.
CALLER: Thank you. Good afternoon, Rush.
RUSH: Nice to have you with us.
CALLER: Thanks. You just made my point exactly just a few minutes ago. I just heard the audio of our president denying any responsibility for job loss in the early days of his administration. And I just wanted to point out how conveniently blind he is to the fact that the mere anticipation of the redistribution of wealth, the big government health care and the other promises he promised put a chill in the business community that affected the hiring and the business outlook as early as November 5, 2008. I'm married to the owner of a very small business, and I can tell you that this is true. It was a time to pull back, be cautious, batten down the hatches just not knowing what was coming out in terms of taxes, Big Health Care mandates, the economy, and so forth. So I guess just to back up your point then. It's true.
RUSH: Well, it is, and I arrived at it late. The brain neurons are not firing all cylinders simultaneously today. I arrived at it late. But it still is true, and I think we'd have to look this up. But wasn't either November or December 2008 the first real month for job loss? I'm going to have to look that up. Something tells me that it was in December, too, and the reason I think this is that's when Obama started to saying, "Oh, it's much worse than we were told. Bush didn't tell us how bad it was. We had no idea it was going to be this bad." (interruption) Was it November of '08? Okay. November '08 was the largest single month of job losses since November of 1974. I was right. That is the case. So Marian, I you're right on the money.
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RUSH: Also I went back. I keep an archived file here of various excerpts of Obama's books, his alleged autobiographies, and he just went up there and he just said to the Republicans that he's not an ideologue. "I'm not an ideologue. I'm not." He was only the most partisan Senator at the time he was in Congress, and this is from his second alleged autobiography, The Audacity of Hope: "Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream." He admits to being a product of the radical sixties. "I've always felt a curious relationship to the sixties. In a sense, I'm a pure product of that era: As the child of a mixed marriage, my life would have been impossible, my opportunities entirely foreclosed, without the social upheavals that were then taking place. But I was too young at the time to fully grasp the nature of those changes, too removed -- living as I did in Hawaii and Indonesia -- to see the fallout on America's psyche. Much of what I absorbed from the sixties was filtered through my mother, who to the end of her life would proudly proclaim herself an unreconstructed liberal. The civil rights movement, in particular, inspired her reverence; whenever the opportunity presented itself, she would drill into me the values that she saw there: tolerance, equality, standing up for the disadvantaged," blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So this business that he's not an ideologue is just a crock because you can go back to his books he's written -- well, allegedly has written. Let's see, I just got a couple more. Ba-da ba-da. Oh, we have a couple more bites? He's still there? The TV cameras have stopped rolling and he's still there lecturing the Republicans? I guess so. So he's lecturing them. Oh, this is good. Listen to this. We have first two of sound bites. It's 26 and 27. Let's hit 26 right now.
OBAMA: How some of you went after this bill, you'd think that this thing was some Bolshevik plot.
REPUBLICANS: (laughing)
OBAMA: No, I -- I -- I mean -- I mean that's how you guys -- that's how you guys presented it. The way these issues are being presented by the Republicans is that this is some wild-eyed plot to impose huge government in every aspect of our lives. What happens is you guys then don't have a lot of room to negotiate with me. If you voted with the administration on somethin', [you] are politically vulnerable in your own base. You've given yourselves very little room to work in a bipartisan fashion, because what you've been telling your constituents is, "This guy's doing all kinds of crazy stuff that's gonna destroy America."
RUSH: Yeah, exactly right! He's up there identifying exactly what they're doing, and I didn't exactly hear a denial. Did you? In this particular bite, I didn't actually hear a denial -- and nobody booed. In fact, there was some laughter when he got it right. "If you're going to have this strident position you have no room to negotiate with me. You have very little room to work in a bipartisan fashion." They don't want (so far, thank goodness) to "work in a bipartisan fashion." This next one's pretty rich, too. Here's the last of the two most recent bites we have.
OBAMA: I couldn't find credible economists who would back up the claims that you just made. ... If I get confirmation from health care experts, I've gotta be able to go to an independent health care expert. ... There's gotta be a mechanism in these plans that I can go to -- an independent health care expert -- and say, "Is this something that will actually work?" ... I am happy to have any independent fact checker take a look.
RUSH: Folks, this is so disingenuous I shouldn't even have to spend a whole lot of time commenting on this. The Heritage Foundation alone has hundreds of scholars that would tell him exactly why his plan won't work and could tell him exactly what plans would work. He doesn't want to hear those things. He doesn't want to have it on record that he has heard those things. Independent experts? Liberals don't like anybody independent. There's no such thing. They live and they practice among themselves.
Speaking of Heritage: In the afterglow of the uninspiring state of Obama speech, guess what the Democrats in Congress did? They voted another $1.9 trillion in debt. One bill at a time they are building a bridge that could lead to financial disaster, just like the CBO's guy is predicting for the next two years. Now, if yesterday's bill... It was passed yesterday with all 60 Democrats saying yes. It should be enough to get you to thinking about how our government has to get smaller. The Heritage Foundation is something you should introduce yourself to, where people think through and work on that premise every day: Smaller government. There's a tipping point for all of us and an increase in the government's debt limit by another 13%, the second such vote of a debt increase in 60 days. It might be yours, but everybody has tipping point where they finally realize: "This is getting too big. It's out of control." If this is your tipping point, if you've had enough, join like-minded people like me, members of the Heritage Foundation and start educating yourself on what to do. No other organization spends the time analyzing problems, offering solutions, and putting forth ideas like the Heritage Foundation does -- and they're just down the street from Obama. Just down the street! It's a lot closer to get to the Heritage Foundation than it is to get to Baltimore to talk to the Republicans.
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RUSH: I have gone back during the commercial breaks here and I've been doing some research on the premise here that the Obama election really intensified unemployment skyrocketing and so forth. It's even better than that, folks. If you look at the GDP and the jobless charts, the unemployment chart's an amazing thing. You see it trucking along at five, 4.7, 5.2, and then bam, in 2007 it starts inching up. 2007! And by the time you get to the end of 2008, it's almost going straight up on this chart to now 10%. With 2007 GDP, at the same time if you look at a chart of the gross domestic product, economic growth, you'll start to see it come down shortly after the start of 2007. That happens to coincide when the Democrats took control of Congress. See, people who invest real money know when to hold onto it. And the Democrats taking over Congress, they're in charge of all spending, they control the economy at that point, and then Obama's election in November of 2008.
They'd heard the campaign, they knew all of this government growth and redistribution and tax increases were coming, and they started making plans to deal with it by downsizing their labor force, and it's only continued as Obama then came in and implemented the policies that everybody predicted that he would implement. So now he's up there talking to the Republicans here about (impression), "You guys, you guys -- you can't come in and negotiate with me! You're making me out to be some Bolshevik! You can't -- you can't -- you can't -- I mean, you -- you got everybody believing I'm going to control everybody's life." Exactly right, and we heard Axelrod. Axelrod says that if Republicans are going to sit back and let the country fail and let Obama fail, if that's what they want to do we're going to hold 'em accountable.
And, lo and behold! I like Mike Allen at The Politico. I really do. But I'm noticing a trend here: Whenever the White House wants to get a new policy or talking point or whatever out, it seems it first shows up at The Politico. Lo and behold, right around nine o'clock this morning, "White House: GOP Accountability Coming." This is the Politico playbook. It's Mike Allen. " The White House plans to step up efforts to hold Republicans accountable for cooperation. Said communications director Dan Pfeiffer: 'There are 59 Democratic Senators now. They're at 41, the Republicans now have a responsibility to govern. In Year 1, they sat on the sidelines and were willing to leave governing in this challenging time to Democrats alone. They have a responsibility now to partner with the President, to try to get things done for the American people.
"With 59 Senators, it is mathematically impossible for Democrats to do everything on their own." So this is a new strategy: It's it is Republicans' fault now. It's all the Republicans' fault. Mean Republicans, they're to blame. They have to join us and govern. They're not going to. Not with the agenda that you've put forth.
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RUSH: Here's Casey in Casper, Wyoming, great to have you on Open Line Friday. Hello.
CALLER: Yeah, been-a-while dittos, Rush. Yeah, I just wanted to make a comment on the remarks President Obama made about being "a really good one-term president."
RUSH: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
CALLER: You know, he was really good in his one term and he assumes he wouldn't be reelected, who was he being good for besides the American people?
RUSH: (laughing) No, he'd be good for himself. That's an excellent point. Be "a really good one-term president," meaning people would reject him. Look, this guy knows what he's doing. He knows he's going to be governing against the will of the American people, and his definition of success is succeeding in defying the American people. That's why I say, "I want him to fail," and that comment about be "a really good one-term president or mediocre two-term president" can only mean: "If I lose in one term and I've done such a great job of implementing my statist vision, that I am sent packing." It's a great, great point.
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RUSH: Michael in Hampstead, North Carolina, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hi. Thank you, Rush. After President Bush won his second term and Vice President Cheney said he wasn't gonna run, why didn't Bush appoint a new vice president so we would have a good chance to win the next election and not be stuck with you-know-who.
RUSH: Senator McCain?
CALLER: I guess so.
RUSH: I don't know. I don't think he was ever going to replace Cheney. That would have been throwing the left red meat. There was no way, 'cause they were clamoring for Cheney in jail and Rove in jail. They were clamoring for Cheney to be locked up! So the only way it would happen is if Cheney decided to resign, and he wasn't going to resign. He took the job too seriously, and there was no way Bush was going to replace him, especially for a political purpose like that. That's my take on it anyway. I'm wild guessing here but my political instincts, like all of my instincts, are good. Don't doubt me.
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Look, we had some fun with this in the first hour but Osama has come out and started spouting every talking point on global warming from Algore and Nobel Peace Prize-winning United Nations to Barack Obama: Beating up on America, America is destroying the planet, America didn't sign Kyoto; Osama's signaling his desire to destroy USA, its economy, western civilization, capitalism. It's just what the Communist Party USA wants, just what Obama is doing. Here's another: CPUSA: Obama Will change USA Forever," and they're happy about it! August 7th, 2008: "Communist Party CPUSA Endorses Obama."
"Communist Party USA Hails Obama Victory." "'From the understandably elated editors of the Communist Party USA's people's weekly, formerly the Daily Worker, July 1st, 2009: 'Communist Party USA Eelebrates Obama's First Six Months.'" "Communist Party USA to Take the Streets for Obama," August 10th, 2009. This is to oppose the tea parties and the town hall meetings that were going on. "Communist Party USA Honors SEIU and the AFSCME Union Leaders." "CPUSA Speech Lays Out Obama Agenda." I mean, it's right there for people to see; and these are not, you know, play communists. They're not all that powerful here. Well, they are actually with Obama in office. But he says that he's not a Bolshevik. "I'm not. I'm not an ideologue," but he most definitely is.
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You’re right!
Can you imagine the outrage if I lost all my computer files?
THANK YOU, GOPLady!
You are very welcome, RoadTest! :-)
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