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"I hope I didn't shock you, folks, by telling you that Iran may be working on a bomb,
but the UN just announced that that's what they think might be going on."
"The annual projection for inflation this year is now 16.8%.
We haven't seen anything like that in I don't know how long."
"Do you think it's maybe time for these schlubs at AP and Reuters to go out and find some new economists, like maybe call me?"
"I've been doing this show for 20 and a half years, and I don't think in the last ten we've had an economic story on
labor, jobs, energy, overall economic growth or not, that has not featured the word 'unexpected' or 'surprised' or 'shocking.'"
"Who spent us into this state of ruin in one year? Barack Hussein Obama."
"There's only one guy Obama should be talking to, and that's himself.
We need to send him into a carnival booth surrounded by a thousand mirrors so that whenever he talks,
all he sees is himself, because he's the problem!"
"I bet you I can predict what the outcome of this blue-ribbon panel is going to be.
These people are going to fix it so that there is going to be a quiet revolution in November
and virtually anybody that reminds the voters of this country of anybody in the past
year and a half is gone, never to get back to Washington ever again."
"I love the sound of stuck pigs. You know, I've been on my share of farms,
and I love the sound of stuck pigs, particularly union pigs! I love hearing it."
"The people who are destroying the country in front of our eyes are asking a bunch of retreads to come up
with basically an idea that can't be pinned on the administration to raise our taxes through the roof."
"We have a willing, purposeful sabotage of the United States of America, or the biggest bunch of bumbling, naive idiots we've ever seen.
And I don't think it's the latter. Nobody is this dumb, bumbling, or naive.
If they really wanted to fix this, they could see the destruction their policies have done and do a 180 for the sole purpose of getting reelected."
"The Obama administration is more intent on destroying what has led to
you being able to earn money to even complain about the tax rate.
They want to be able to redistribute as much of what everybody earns as possible to create
as many serfs and dependents on them as they can and destroy the US private sector."
"Congress is a bunch of cowards, yellow-bellied sapsucker cowards."
"I got an idea on how to fix this unfunded pension liability problem, the pension shortfall.
We just turn liberalism around on them. Use the liberal argument.
'Ladies and gentlemen, do we really want to overpay retirees who
haven't earned any of this or do we want to educate our children?'
Make it all about the children, just like the libs do, just for the freaking fun of it."
"I think Obama thinks the United States is unfair.
He thinks capitalism is criminal because not everybody ends up with the same amount of things.
I think he abhors capitalism, and he's damn certain he's going to change it."
"Look, there's only one of two things going on here.
Either he is a bumbling, inept, uneducated little idiot, or this is all on purpose.
And if it's on purpose, the 'why' really doesn't matter, it just has to be stopped."
"This blue-ribbon panel, there's not going to be a recommendation to cut spending.
There's going to be a recommendation to raise taxes, except it ain't going to be Obama's.
But nobody, I'm telling you nobody, is gonna get fooled, because I'm not going to allow it.
It ain't going to happen."
"Nothing in this country could go this wrong for this long unless somebody intended it to.
You can quote me."
"I love this Chris Christie guy. They're gonna try to take him out.
They are going to try to destroy this guy.
If you're in New Jersey, he's gonna need your support."
"I have worked and worked and worked my whole life, and I know you have, too.
We didn't do all of this to 'spread the wealth' for Obama so that he can change the makeup
and very foundation of this country which made all of this prosperity for so many of us possible."
"We don't have any money! We are the future Greece."
"CNN's numbers for 25-54, the big-time Democrat graphic in primetime,
the last two months are lower than at any time in their history.
They were beat out by a test pattern on a local station in Oshkosh -- after midnight."
"Where do you think the stimulus money comes from?
We don't have it, so we're either borrowing it or we're printing it.
In other words, it's money that's being taken out of the private sector and then put back in.
There's no net increase of money."
"There's no investment, there's no consuming, and there's no job creation happening in the private sector,
which is where it matters for the health and the future of all of us in the country."
"Just yesterday, we had the near criminals that run this administration, Biden and Obama,
up there telling us that all of this Porkulus spending, the slush fund, saved us from the Great Depression.
If that's true why do we have to stop now?"
"Evan Bayh quit because if he does want to run for office in the future, he's gotta keep the $13 million
and he's gotta distance himself from Obama because he's voted with Obama down the line."
"All of you Democrats -- I don't care whether you're Blue Dogs, if you're half-breeds,
whatever kind of dogs you want to describe yourselves as -- the way this $862 billion
stimulus is going to be paid back is in the form of votes kicking you outta town."
"The people who are going to repay the stimulus by getting rid of everybody who's responsible for it, love their country.
They love the founding principles and they have a borderline hate for the people who have caused this."
"These stuck pigs in the New Jersey Democrat Party, the stuck pigs in the Philadelphia and New York media,
cannot stand hearing the truth because it's an indictment of everything they believe."
"People love their country.
They are very, very proud of the hard work they've put in to have the home and the life that they have,
and they're watching a bunch of elitist politicians destroy it right in front of their eyes."
"Every dime of indebtedness is your money, your kids' money, your grandkids' money --
and it's being spent by these irresponsible destroyers of the United States of America and its private sector."
"You know, we don't have 'a lost decade.' You know, what we have?
We have a lost presidency. We have an absolute disastrous lost presidency."
"This that we're going through is worse than any horror movie I've ever seen because at least those are imaginary.
This is too damn real."
"To 'save' a public sector job -- which produces nothing at the state, county, and city level --
is to save a union vote for Democrats and to lose more taxpayer money.
We are in the midst of a lost presidency."
"I don't even want to go to the next story in the stack. It was enough to prep this show today.
What the hell's next? Let me lift the page. Oh jeez. Oh, God, it gets even worse. I can't go on."
"It used to be that corporations and businesses of all size attempted to promote themselves by
coming up with products and services that customers wanted and bought and earned a profit.
Now, businesses are forced to do business in a way to keep government happy so that they
don't come and try to put them out of business."
"I have a much greater fear for the future of this country and a much great animosity for the
Democrat Party which is ruining this country than I do for anybody in business, much more."
Continually repeat ...
It's not about me.
I'm the President.
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RUSH: The sad comedy and the Big Lie continue, ladies and gentlemen, unabated, and although it's not a laughing matter, it nevertheless is hilarious. Great to have you here, broadcast excellence, hosted by me, Rush Limbaugh, on the EIB Network, and this is the nation's most listened to radio talk show. Great to have you here. Our high-definition Dittocam is up and running, and looking good. Phone number if you want to be on the program, 800-282-2882. The e-mail address, ElRushbo@eibnet.com.
Remember, just yesterday Joe Biden told us how well the stimulus worked and that Obama had saved us from a depression. "The number of newly laid-off workers filing applications for unemployment benefits unexpectedly surged last week after having fallen sharply in the previous week. The gain dampened hopes about how quickly the labor..." this is a joke. The people in the media have become a recurring joke. Unexpectedly surged? Jobless claims unexpectedly surged? Who are these experts? I think they're doing this just to irritate me. They've gotta macro, they hit command-M and it just types this garbage. "The increase followed a drop of 41,000 in the previous week which had raised hopes..." Whose? "... that the labor market could be improving." The temporary boost appears to have worn off, from the Associated Press. I guess we should all be confused here 'cause Obama says that all this is a success. Maybe, folks, we are just too dumb to understand all this. Maybe Obama needs to be clearer. He says, "let me be clear" a lot. Maybe he's not being clear enough because: "Economy's Growth Rate May Be Ebbing -- Leading indicators rise for 10th straight month, but at slower pace."
There isn't a recovery and anybody who is marginally engaged in their life every day has full awareness there isn't any recovery. Nevertheless here's State-Controlled AP: "A forecast of future economic activity rose for a 10th straight month in January, but," but, but, but, but, but, but, but, "... the pace of growth is slowing. The index of leading economic indicators rose 0.3 percent last month, according to Thursday's report from the Conference Board, a private research group. That's weaker than a 1.2 percent rise in December and a 1.1 percent rise in November. Its also was short of the 0.5 percent gain that economists polled by Thomson Reuters expected. Some economists have been worrying that growth in the economy will stagnate this year, however, as government support programs wind down and unemployment remains high."
The next one, and this is from Associated Press: "Wholesale prices --" this is inflation, folks. This is what we've all been worried about. I mean it was inevitable, it was going to happen. "Wholesale prices shot up at double the expected pace in January, propelled higher by big increases in energy costs. The surprisingly large jump was viewed as a temporary blip and not the start of inflation problems, however." Really? The annual projection for inflation this year is now 16.8%. We haven't seen anything like that in I don't know how long. By land. "The Labor Department said Thursday that wholesale prices rose 1.4 percent last month, reflecting higher costs for gasoline and other energy products. Private economists had expected a 0.7 percent increase," half that. Do these people not realize -- look, folks, I'm doing my best here today to maintain an even keel. I could have started this show literally screaming and laughing. Do these people not realize how absurdly stupid they appear?
The Labor Department said today wholesale prices rose 1.4%. Private economists had expected a 0.7% -- do you think it's maybe time for these schlubs at AP and Reuters to go out and find some new economists, like maybe call me? Core inflation at the wholesale level, which excludes energy and food, rose 0.3% in January, faster than the 0.1% increase economists had predicted. I've been doing this show, ladies and gentlemen, well, for 20 and a half years, and I don't think in the last ten we've had an economic story on labor, jobs, energy, overall economic growth or not, that has not featured the word "unexpected" or "surprised" or "shocking." For ten years the increase is unexpectedly twice and even three times what the expert economists had predicted. The hell, you say! "The 12-month rise in core prices at the wholesale level was a more moderate 1 percent. Economists believe that inflation is not a problem at the moment and is not likely..." oh, God, folks, that means we're in deep trouble. Ten years and their economists have been wrong about everything and now they're telling us that economists believe inflation is not a problem? Book it. "... because of all the downward pressures on wages and prices as a result of the recession." No, no, no. We're in a recovery, I thought. I thought there was going to be upward pressure on wages and prices because we're in a recovery! We've been hearing that for the past year. If that's what the economists are saying, we are reassured there's nothing to worry about.
Okay. The next one, jobless claims. This is AP, a very robotic AP. AP seems to have automated their reporting on the unemployment rate. We ought to just make a loop that I play once a week when these labors statistics numbers come out, just make a loop. "The number of newly laid-off workers filing applications for unemployment benefits unexpectedly surged last week after having fallen sharply in the previous week. The gain dampened hopes about how quickly the labor market may improve this year. ... Claims at the beginning of this year had been affected by a holiday backlog. The easing of the backlog had elevated the numbers for the previous three weeks. That temporary boost appears to have worn off." There was no boost if it's temporary. All of us non-expert non-economists had predicted all of this. Lucky this news didn't come out yesterday, folks, it's damn good that this unexpected news didn't come out yesterday or we would have thrown cold water on all the claims about the amazing success of the slush fund. Isn't this strategically interesting, they had the slush fund meeting yesterday, things are great, we don't know how bad it would have been if it hadn't been for us. Then the news of the truth comes out.
Here's CNBC: "The number of U.S. workers filing new applications for unemployment insurance unexpectedly surged last week, while producer prices increased sharply in January, raising potential hurdles for the economic recovery." When has it ever shown a strong recovery? If you combine this with the coming state, county, and city layoffs, I don't know if the media experts are tuned into that, but we are here at the EIB Network, so Obama has set the table for future pain. Thanks to a slush fund bill designed to primarily stimulate public service unions, unemployment across the fruited plain continues to deteriorate, and that means tax revenues and the deficit will remain in free fall. And you combine that with Obama's never ending spending binge -- Oh. Let's go to the audio sound bites. The comedy continues. I'm watching this morning, there's Obama, he's got "Plugs" Biden with the carbon no longer on his forehead today, and he's got "Irksome" Bowles up there from the University of North Carolina and Alan Simpson, and we're going to have a blue ribbon deficit commission. What is the liberals' answer to out of control government spending? You create more government to study it! There's not a person who is engaged in this in the world who doesn't know why this has happened. It's called Barack Hussein Obama Barry Soetoro. Who spent us into this state of ruin in one year? Barack Hussein Obama. And now he's calling in these two retreads with 18 other people or 16 other people to study this? Here. Listen to it and laugh. This is Obama announcing all this.
OBAMA: Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles are taking on the impossible. They're going to try to restore reason to the fiscal debate and come up with answers as cochairs of the new National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform. I'm asking them to produce clear recommendations on how to cover the costs of all federal programs by 2015 and to meaningfully improve our long-term fiscal picture.
RUSH: Why are these guys even accepting the gig? What's in it for "Irksome" Bowles and Alan Simpson to accept the gig? Because if they're going to approach this honestly they can produce their report today, and it would say: "Mr. President, either resign or put somebody else in charge of spending because you are bankrupting and destroying the country. We've studied it here for the past year, and there's nothing that can be done to fix this if you don't change, and if you don't change then you're going to have to for the good of the country resign." We don't need study it. Nobody needs to study this! What we need to do is change it. Here's Obama, who is on track, if he hasn't already, he's on track to spend more than anyone since FDR, now tells us this.
OBAMA: Last week I signed into law the PAYGO bill.
RUSH: Stop the tape a minute. Recue it. When Nancy Pelosi and her cronies took over the House of Representatives in 2007, they announced PAYGO. This means you don't pay for anything until you got the money. You either cut spending to pay for it or create new revenue somehow. It's a sham, they haven't done it and now here's Obama signing into some executive order a PAYGO bill? If they're going to do that, why do they need "Irksome" Bowles and Alan Simpson up there? Oh, this wears me out. Here's the bite.
OBAMA: Last week I signed into law the PAYGO pill. It says very simply that the United States of America should pay as we go and live within our means again, just like responsible families and businesses do.
RUSH: I can't take it. Folks, I just can't take it. There's only one guy he should be talking to, and that's himself. We need to send him into a carnival booth surrounded by a thousand mirrors so that whenever he talks, all he sees is himself because -- (interruption) well, yeah, put the prompter in there, too. He's the problem!
OBAMA: After taking steps to cut taxes and increase access to credit for small businesses to jump-start job creation this year, I've called for a three-year freeze on discretionary spending starting next year.
RUSH: Stop the tape. That's a 1% freeze after he's already bumped it up 25%.
OBAMA: This freeze won't affect Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security spending.
RUSH: Which means there's going to be no end in sight to the spending no matter what "Irksome" Bowles and Alan Simpson and their 16 other worthless blue-ribbon panel people -- What in the world is the president for? What is Congress for? What are all these czars for? Why do they have to go out and get these two guys and 16 other people to absolve everybody of responsibility, everybody that is culpable in this is to be absolved of responsibility. I can't wait, I really can't wait 'cause I bet you I can predict what the outcome of this blue-ribbon panel is going to be. These people are going to fix it so that there is going to be a quiet revolution in November and virtually anybody that reminds the voters of this country of anybody in the past year and a half is gone, never to get back to Washington ever again.
OBAMA: And it won't affect national security spending, including veterans benefits. But all other discretionary spending will be subject to this freeze. These are tough times and we can't keep spending like they're not.
RUSH: We can't keep spending. Yeah, and let that be a lesson to all of you people. We can't keep spending like this. We just can't do it. You realize it's our fault and we can't keep spending and daddy Obama, he's going to put the foot down now, it's gotten out of hand. Oh, man.
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RUSH: I guess I ought to be honest with everybody in the audience because I always am. You people are used to me being in a great mood each and every day -- and as a highly trained professional, that's my instinct. But I am so irritable today, I am just that close to exploding over a whole bunch of stuff. I'm doing my best to rein it in, but I am. It has nothing to do with any of you people, nothing whatsoever to do with any of you people. I just want to warn you in case I have one of these eruptions today. It has nothing to do with you. Even if Snerdley gives me Obama-type thinking phone callers, I promise -- and now watch him try to do it just to get me to erupt because he gets entertained by it.
So we just listened to all of this BS, this total crap from the president of the United States with the appointment of two total retreads who represent exactly what got us into this mess in the first place. Does this mean that Obama is now going to retract his budget which has a $1.6 trillion deficit in it? Hmm. Is that going to happen? All of this is nothing more than a Big Lie, and I do not retract that this is being done on purpose. There is nobody -- nobody -- who is this stupid. There's no collection of people this naive and ignorant. I don't care how well-intentioned they are. This is purposeful -- and I, for one... I am 59 years old. I have worked and worked and worked, and I know you have, too, your whole life. I didn't do all of this to spread the wealth for this guy so that he can change the makeup and very foundation of this country which made all of this prosperity for so many of us possible.
I'm not suggesting do this by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm just going to tell you: If Obama needs some help in reducing his spending, what if we just all stopped paying taxes? The IRS doesn't have enough people come get it. I'm not suggesting it. I'm just pointing out here. This stimulus? There's no such thing. The government does not have an endless stash of money sitting back somewhere that's not being used. We don't have any money! We are the future Greece. We don't have any money! We don't have -- what was it? -- $8 billion to guarantee loans for a nuclear plant. And, by the way, we don't want the federal government involved in the nuclear power business anyway. That's just a trick to advance his cap-and-trade idea. This guy is a destroyer -- and, for some reason, he's doing it purposefully. He's not fooling a majority of people.
By the way, did you see, CNN...? I gotta get this number right. CNN's numbers for 25-54, the big-time Democrat graphic in primetime, the last two months are lower than at any time in their history. They were beat out by a test pattern on a local station in Oshkosh, after midnight. Nobody's watching CNN. Yet they're coming out with this poll: "The vast majority of Americans believe Congress is not tackling the nation's problems." This is CNN/Opinion Research Corporation. "Eighty-four percent of Americans think Congress has not done enough to create jobs, and only 14% said that they're satisfied with the efforts so far." Congress cannot "create jobs." Where do you think the stimulus money comes from? We don't have it, so we're either borrowing it or we're printing it.
In other words, it's money that's being taken out of the private sector and then put back in. There's no net increase of money. They're just redistributing it, reallocating to their political cronies in the public employee union, pure and simple. They're trying to shore up states, making sure they don't go bankrupt. But that's just a little finger-in-the-dike business. That's not permanent, either. None of this is permanent. It's all stopgap, while Obama tries to come up with a way to pass the buck. Now, here's this from the Associated Press: "A forecast of future economic activity rose for a tenth straight month but the pace of growth is slowing. Some economists have been worrying the growth in the economy will stagnate this year as government support programs wind down and unemployment remains high." You know, folks, I'm fairly smart guy here, but I'm so confused now. Obama yesterday said it's a huge success, so did Biden. (sigh) All of this is phony -- and there isn't any of it, anyway. There is no growth, economic growth. There's zilch, zero, nada. There's government growth, but there's no investment, there's no consuming, and there's no job creation happening in the private sector, which is where it matters for the health and the future of all of us in the country.
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RUSH: Now, back to this irritable Porkulus, Pickulus slush fund. I have two observations about this. Just yesterday, just yesterday we had the near criminals that run this administration, Biden and Obama, up there telling us that all of this Porkulus spending, the slush fund, saved us from the Great Depression. If that's true why do we have to stop now? If that spending staved off a second Great Depression, why in the name of Sam Hill are we stopping? One other observation about this: Despite what Obama said yesterday, the stimulus was not ever supposed to protect us from a depression. Do you know what was? TARP! TARP was supposed to save us from a depression. TARP was supposed to save the world financial system. TARP was supposed to make sure that this disaster that we faced -- and if we didn't fix it in 24 hours, we were all going to be essentially smoke and mirrors. If we didn't fix it in 24 hours, TARP was supposed to stave off the depression, and that was Bush.
Bush was TARP, Obama urged it. He was all for it, and apparently it did work, if we would accept -- which is hard to do -- what anybody in government tells us about that. But the stimulus, Obama's stimulus was supposed to keep unemployment from getting too high and lasting too long. Obama's stimulus is a disaster. It is an absolute failure. He has failed to do anything he said he was going to do, and the TARP program has been paid back -- with a profit! Apart from the automakers' part, which Obama and the Democrats tacked on. The stimulus has been a total failure. Meanwhile, the price for Obama's stimulus has been ratcheted up another $75 billion because of "unexpected" unemployment claims and compensation in payments. None -- None; zilch, zero, nada -- of the $862 billion taxpayer dollars will ever be paid back except in one way, and let me tell you how.
All of you Democrats -- I don't care whether you're Blue Dogs, if you're half-breeds, whatever kind of dogs you want to describe yourselves as -- the way this $862 billion "stimulus" is going to be paid back is in the form of votes kicking you outta town. I mean this from the bottom of my heart. The people of this country right now are bordering on hate for all of these establishment politicians -- and that hate, that borderline hate is ratcheted up each and every time Obama and Biden (whoever else, Pelosi and Reid) get on TV and insult their intelligence. The people who are going to repay the stimulus by getting rid of everybody who's responsible for it, love their country. They love the founding principles and they have a borderline hate for the people who have caused this. Mark my words. Do not doubt me.
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RUSH: Here's Sam in Saginaw, Michigan. Welcome to the program, Sam, great to have you here.
CALLER: Thanks, Mr. Limbaugh. I'm just trying to figure out why you're so much against the debt reduction task force. If we're trying to reduce debt and get out of the deficit, why against the task force?
RUSH: Okay, let me ask you a question, let me give you an analogy. You have a house, Sam, or an apartment building you live in?
CALLER: I have a home, yes.
RUSH: You have a home. Okay. Suppose I come to your home tonight and fly an airplane into it after I bail out, I destroy your home, and then I call for a commission to examine how it happened? The people who are destroying the country in front of our eyes, Sam, are asking a bunch of retreads to come up with basically an idea that can't be pinned on the administration to raise our taxes through the roof. That's why this is being done. They're absolving themselves of any blame, these two retreads and their 16 members are going to come up with one plan and one plan only and that's massive across the board tax increases because they're responsible for it and they're trying to shovel it off to a bunch of people that have nothing to do with it and those people then get to prescribe the fix which shields Obama from the accusation he's raising taxes because when it happens, (imitating Obama) "I'm just listening to suggestions from the blue ribbon committee that I appointed, I'm agnostic about this but I think I gotta do it." Raise taxes, that's the next stage.
CALLER: But if we get these guys in there and they say let's raise taxes and so forth and so on, isn't that just another reason for us to really get behind some change and some things? Because folks are fed up with taxes. I mean I pay my fair share, and I'm sure you pay your fair share.
RUSH: Well, now, wait. What I'm hearing you say is let's go ahead and let Obama destroy the country so we can show everybody else what Democrats do, and then let's fix it. Everybody has all the evidence they need that this guy is a walking, talking disaster. We're interested in fixing this, not trying to show a bunch of dummkopfs, about 6% who still don't get it, because the people that still don't get it are never going to get it because they're just nothing more than pure partisans who are brain-dead, they're flatlined out there while still breathing and spending everybody's money. I'm glad you called. I appreciated my analogy.
Josh in Kansas City, you're next on the EIB Network. Hello, sir.
CALLER: Hello, Mr. Limbaugh. I have gotta say, it is such an honor to be talking to you. I am the truest form of a Rush Baby. You started broadcasting in '88, my dad started listening to you in '88 and I was born in '88.
RUSH: Thank you, sir. Well, it's great to have you on the program today.
CALLER: I really want to thank you for the impact that you've had on my life, and if you're ever in Kansas City I would love to buy you a beer or a hamburger or something to show you my appreciation.
RUSH: Stroud's.
CALLER: Stroud's, oh, yeah.
RUSH: Yeah, Stroud's, screw the burger.
CALLER: Okay, no, I'll buy you a chicken dinner at Stroud's.
RUSH: And gravy.
CALLER: And gravy, of course. And the nice little cinnamon rolls that they got there.
RUSH: I was just going to say, cinnamon rolls next, and then gotta have some cottage fries in there, too.
CALLER: Oh yeah, oh yeah.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: Oh, yeah. But no, I'm 100% serious. I would love to buy you dinner there.
RUSH: Thank you. Thanks very much.
CALLER: But, anyway, I wanted to say that I have never been a supporter of Obama. I've never liked Obama. I've always seen him as a disaster for this country.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: But I've gotta say, with him talking about opening up these new nuclear power plants, nuclear power is the way of the future, I see it so much more efficient than the solar panels, than the wind power, and I'm actually going to be signing my contract to go into the Navy on Saturday, and I'll be going there, I'll be working on the nuclear reactors in the aircraft carriers. So knowing that there's going to be more nuclear power plants out there providing power for our country and knowing that that provides me a future job opportunity after I leave the Navy, I'm actually kind of tempted to be a little bit proud of Obama.
RUSH: I need to put you to the real test here of being a Rush Baby. You've got a lot of experience listening to this program. Would you explain to me why it is in this case you have fallen for an absolute lie and a trick played by the president of the United States, designed to coerce people just like you into thinking he's doing a good thing. Don't you realize that this is nothing more than in a roundabout way of getting cap-and-trade legislation and get the Republicans to sign on to it? This is nothing more than a trick. There aren't going to be any new nuclear power plants. The government's going to be loaning money. The government doesn't know how to build anything. It's going to take years and years and years for regulatory approval. Obama's own base is gonna stop 'em. Obama's own base is gonna oppose it. It ain't ever going to happen. But he's going to get a lot of praise: "He's coming around, no more windmills, no more solar panels, Obama is going nuclear." It's a lie. Everything they say is a lie. (kissing sound)
CALLER: I have to agree that most everything that comes out of his mouth --
RUSH: So why do you believe this?
CALLER: I don't 100% believe it.
RUSH: Good.
CALLER: I don't. I can't say that I 100% believe it, but I do think that by him introducing the prospects, especially with this coming election, the Democrats are going to be out of office. When 2011 starts up and we get all the new people in office, Democrats are going to be a minority then and I believe that the Republicans are going to try to hold him to his word on this. I believe that they're going to say, "Yes, nuclear power is the way, we're going to drive it home."
RUSH: I don't disagree that nuclear power is the way, but Obama is genuinely not interested in it. Please don't doubt me, please.
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RUSH: Tom in San Antonio, Texas, thank you for calling, sir. Great to have you here.
CALLER: Rush, an honor to speak with you.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: I'm calling in response to your first caller, Sam, you talked about it a little while ago where you gave the analogy of the plane flying into his house when he was talking about this debt panel. I think I might have a better analogy for him.
RUSH: Wait a minute, now. Was Sam the guy who didn't understand why I was opposing the blue-ribbon panel?
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: I said burn down his house. I wouldn't fly an airplane because that means I would die.
CALLER: That's true. And we wouldn't want that.
RUSH: No.
CALLER: But something simpler for Sam. Imagine if Sam were to walk into his boss tomorrow morning and say, "Boss, you know, I really like my job, I like how much you're paying me, I like the perks, I like the benefits but, you know, parts of this job are really, really hard and I think you need to hire someone else to do the hard parts for me. I'd like you to keep paying me, I'd like to give myself a raise while we're at it, but I don't really want to do the hard parts of my job anymore." His boss would rightfully look at him like he was insane and throw him out of the room, and that's in effect what this debt panel is, it's an admission by the legislative branch of government and the executive that they're not going to do their job.
RUSH: That is actually --
CALLER: They should be doing their job.
RUSH: That is actually --
CALLER: It just frosts me.
RUSH: That is actually a pretty good analogy as it relates to me personally. I can't tell you how many times that happens to me. I'm not kidding you. You go out and hire some people to do something, and they want two other people to help 'em do it. I can't tell you how often that happens. But the analogy for the sake of Obama is not quite there, and I'll tell you why. It's because there is an ulterior motive. The ulterior motive is to have somebody besides himself recommend these tax cuts that nobody can afford in order to fix this. He wants to at the end of this blue ribbon commission say the respectable "Irksome" Bowles and the longtime Washington Senator immensely respected Alan Simpson have looked at all of this, and they conclude only one thing: We must raise taxes. So to complete your analogy, what I would have to do is come to you and say, "Boss, you know, I appreciate what you're paying me, and I think I need a raise. But I got some really hard stuff in this job that I don't want to do. I think you need to go hire some other people to do the hard part so that I can come back to you and say that they're the ones who say this is what needs to be done, because I don't want to be held responsible for what it is they're going to say. I don't want it, but I do want a raise."
CALLER: And that is why you are the great Maha Rushie.
RUSH: Well, no, it's a great analogy. And I'm sure that your analogy resonates with all kinds of people who own businesses.
CALLER: I'm sure, yeah, and frankly, at the base of it that's why, when that panel was recommended, it just frosted me, like why do we elect you? Why do we elect these guys to do this exact thing --
RUSH: Look, it's no different. Congress is a bunch of cowards, yellow-bellied sapsucker cowards. This is no different than the base closure commissions when it came time to close military bases. Guess what? Our lily-livered, linguini-spined, chicken, coward members of Congress and the Senate wouldn't have the audacity to do the job themselves. So they came up with a bunch of blue ribbon ex-Senators and congressmen, brought 'em back for who knows how much money in perks, to make the recommendations of which bases get closed, thereby insulating them from any local criticism in their own state or their own district. In this case there's not going to be a recommendation to cut spending. There's going to be a recommendation to raise taxes, except it ain't going to be Obama's. But nobody, I'm telling you, nobody is gonna get fooled, because I'm not going to allow it. It ain't going to happen.
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RUSH: Fayetteville, North Carolina, Jack, great to have you here, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Howdy. Mega dittos from the home of the 82nd Airborne, sir.
RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much. A place I have toured, by the way.
CALLER: Right on, right on. Well, I am, as my boss says, a conservative in a liberal world, and I gotta say, it kind of ticks me off. I am in the entertainment industry, have been for about 16 years, and the last election year my company got a portion of the, was it $630 million that Obama spent on media and everything else. And now, all of a sudden I've seen my taxes skyrocket, my paychecks are going down the drain trying to pay for everything that I can just to live. I mean what can we do, what is there that can be done other than getting this guy out of office?
RUSH: That's it. Getting this guy and his party out of office.
CALLER: I mean, this is coming from somebody that, I saw his wife refuse to come on stage in front of probably 200 people because the American flags that were on stage were not presidential enough. The flags were from the Color Guard at the 82nd Airborne, and this is who we have making decisions for us?
RUSH: Frankly, let me tell you something out there, Jack. If all they were concerned about was the size of the flag, I can live with that. But these people, I'm telling you, there's one or two choices going on here. We have a willing, purposeful sabotage of the United States of America, or the biggest bunch of bumbling, naive idiots we've ever seen. And I don't think it's the latter. Nobody is this dumb, nobody is this bumbling, and nobody is this naive. If they really wanted to fix this, they could see the destruction their policies have done and do a 180 for the sole purpose of getting reelected. They're more intent on destroying what has led to you being able to earn money to even complain about the tax rate. They want to be able to redistribute as much of what everybody earns as possible to create as many serfs and dependents on them as they can and destroy the US private sector.
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RUSH: York, Pennsylvania, Rick, great to have you on the program. I'm glad you waited, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Flawlessly is correct, Rush. I'm sorry you're having a bad day, but welcome to the club because there's so many listeners out here having a bad day, some of them unfortunately are having a bad life, thanks to this incompetent president and the bunch of High Schoolers that he's got working for him. It's an honor to speak to you. I've been listening to you since 1988, and I gotta tell you, I think as I get older, I get dumber. I really do. You said earlier today that this guy's trying to deliberately ruin this country, and I agree with you, but I just don't understand what the alternative is. Why is he trying to do this? My question to you is what is his ultimate goal here? It can only be two things. He wants complete control of every aspect of our life, or some kind of monetary gain. And I just don't understand. I need some wisdom from you, Rush. What is the ultimate goal of these liberal Democrats? What's going on?
RUSH: Well, I'm going to focus on Obama and his team.
CALLER: Okay.
RUSH: You have to look at who Obama was educated by, people who hated the country. He was educated by a bunch of Marxists and communists, those were his mentors, including his father. When he went off to school, wherever it was, it was people that hated the country. When he chose a pastor, it was a pastor that hated the country. I think Obama looks at this country as immoral and unjust. He thinks that the poor and lower middle class have had the wealth that is rightfully theirs stolen by other people. It is his intention to return the nation's wealth, quote, unquote, to its rightful owners. I think Obama thinks the United States is unfair. He thinks capitalism is criminal because not everybody ends up with the same amount of things, and I think he's had a great animosity for the achievers of this country, a great animosity for the people who have made it work. I think he abhors capitalism, and he's damn certain he's going to change it. Now, whether there's financial remuneration in this for him, who knows. Most presidents end up doing pretty well after the fact.
CALLER: Sure.
RUSH: But I think his motivation is totally ideological.
CALLER: Yeah.
RUSH: I think he's been educated and raised to believe that this country is a joke, that it has been a horrible thing perpetrated on the world, that the US military is the focus of evil in the modern world. He believes all the cliches that we use to make fun of liberals, and I think he's the real deal. Look, there's only one of two things going on here. Either he is a bumbling, inept, uneducated little idiot, or this is all on purpose. And if it's on purpose, the "why" really doesn't matter, it just has to be stopped.
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"And it explains how the Tea Party movement can exert so much political leverage without nominating its own candidates or even without formally choosing its own leaders. Most of the time, we Americans don't pay much attention to politics. We focus all of our energy on our jobs, our families, and our faith. We work hard, play by the rules, and wish only to be left alone. We love our country, consider ourselves blessed to be living here, and ask little from the men and women we elect except to keep from screwing things up. But in just the last decade, Americans were shocked by two catastrophes we hadn't imagined our political establishment would allow to happen. The first was 9-11, when nineteen terrorists successfully attacked our homeland, and by doing so revealed that for years, al-Qaeda and its allies had been waging holy war against us.
"The second was the 2008 financial crash, which revealed that our economy is a house of cards built on a pile of debt so high we cannot possibly repay it. Republicans blame Democrats, and Democrats blame Republicans. To ordinary, non-political Americans -- who grasp intuitively, and correctly, that both parties share responsibility for these two catastrophes -- these politicians seem like children who've turned a party into a food fight. And what do parents do when a children's party gets out of control? They turn off the music, turn out the lights, and send everyone home, including those few who weren't behaving badly and just got caught up in the melee. Americans don't like getting tangled in the details of politics. We prefer to stand back and see the big picture. (This, by the way, helps explain the extraordinary appeal of Ronald Reagan and Sarah Palin. That's what they do, too.)
"What the big picture is showing now is that our entire political establishment has failed. These were the men and women, both Republicans and Democrats, we relied upon to focus on the details, and by doing so, to keep us safe from terrorists and to keep the world's most powerful economy from imploding. And they blew it. So we'll replace them with a wholly new establishment -- some of whom will be Republicans, others Democrats, and a few Independents here and there -- and hope our next political establishment will get it right. In the looming political battles, persona will matter more than policy. As we move toward the 2010 elections, of course we'll ask candidates to outline their plans for how to improve our health care system, what to do about illegal immigration, how to bring down the unemployment rate, how to fight the war, and all the rest.
"But what will determine who gets elected this year won't be a set of specific policies, but something simpler, and in a way much deeper: a recognition among grassroots voters across the political spectrum that character is more important than personality, that education isn't the same thing as judgment, and that expertise without common sense is dangerous. Stand back from politics and you'll see the same re-establishment trend unfolding in other public arenas. Americans have decided that the mainstream media has failed, and so we are replacing The New York Times, the television network news departments, and all the rest with an entirely new media, including FOX News and websites like American Thinker and Lucianne.com. Americans have decided that our country's education establishment has failed -- our kids are barely learning to read and write, let alone taught our country's history -- so we're seeing the rise of private schools, charter schools, and home-schooling.
"Would anyone like to bet that within just a few years, we'll have a wholly new financial establishment on Wall Street to replace the greedy idiots who run it now? The re-establishment of America won't be easy, and we'll make mistakes along the way. Some of the new people will prove just as worthless as they ones they replaced. And some very good people who now hold key positions in politics, the media, education, and finance will be swept away by the avalanche. That's too bad, but collateral damage is unavoidable. No other country in history has ever attempted to replace its establishments so smoothly and so peacefully -- and so cheerfully -- as we are doing right now. And it isn't likely that any other country ever will attempt something like this. How exhilarating to realize that 234 years after our revolution, the United States is still the most dynamic, forward-looking, optimistic place on Earth," and he concludes with, "Boy, what an exciting time to be an American."
I would disagree with elements of this. I do think the Democrats are going to be held much more to account this, particularly this financial mess than the Republicans are. The Republicans have already been held to account. The Republicans already voted their guilty out. The Republicans have already said, "You guys failed us," and they gave control of the House to Pelosi. So the big bloodletting, political bloodletting will be on the Democrat side. I have no doubt about it. But nevertheless, I wanted to share this with you because Herb Meyer is writing this from a positive perspective, that all this is good and we still have the freedom to affect these changes in a peaceful way. Now, that's his assessment of all this. We'll see how it shapes out, but I do think there's a revolution coming: Huge and big time. And it's going to be directed at Barack Obama and the Democrats. I haven't seen a Democrat get elected in Massachusetts to replace Kennedy, I didn't see a Democrat get elected to replace Corzine in New Jersey, and I didn't see a Democrat elected to be the new governor of Virginia -- and I don't see a whole lot of Republicans quitting. I see Democrats dropping like flies, some of them changing parties, but I don't see one Republican becoming a Democrat. I don't see one Republican afraid of his own political future to the extent that all of the Democrats are.
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RUSH: Back to the phones. Steven in Idaho Falls, it's great to have you on the EIB Network. Hello.
CALLER: Hey. Good to talk to you, Rush.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: Good to talk to you. It's an honor.
RUSH: Thanks very much. I appreciate that.
CALLER: My question. Evan Bayh comes out with his big "I'm not running for reelection" speech and all this. Well, then all of a sudden it comes out that he's got $13 million in campaign funds. What happens to that money?
RUSH: He gets to keep it for a future campaign.
CALLER: A future campaign.
RUSH: Yeah. He can't convert it to funds to pay the light bill --
CALLER: (laughs)
RUSH: -- and he can't go out and buy a single-engine airplane. He can't go out and use that money to fly into an IRS office somewhere.
CALLER: (laughs)
RUSH: But he can use it. He can save it. That's one of the reasons why it's getting out. I'll tell you, there are a lot of people that are writing things about this today and a whole bunch of other things. They're just echoing me, things I've said earlier, and people are sending them to me, "Hey, Rush, did you ever think about this?" Yeah, I wonder if the people who stole it from me thought about that? The reason Evan Bayh quit is because if he does want to run for office in the future, he's gotta keep the $13 million and he's gotta distance himself from Obama, because he's voted with Obama down the line. Obama is driving Democrats into the graveyard! Obama is causing Democrats to drop like flies. This guy has got to get himself out of the circumstance where he's voting with Obama if he wants to run for future office.
Because, believe me: Invoking Obama and his policies in a campaign and a reason to elect you isn't gonna work. There's no question in my mind he wants to seek office down the road. None whatsoever. But he's gotta get out of there in order to distance himself from Obama and hold onto that $13 million. By the way, he's also really hurting in the polls. He's at 50% in some and below 50% in others which would mean he'd have to use a lot of that $13 million to run again, and he wants to save it. This is another one of these rules that members of Congress have enacted for themselves. If you quit you get to take your unspent campaign war chest with you. By law you're not allowed to use it personally, for personal things -- like cosmetic surgery, or a new house, a new gardener, or anything like that. I don't know that some of them don't do it, but you're not by law allowed to. But you are allowed to keep it and roll it over and allow it to keep growing. You can invest it to keep growing and use it in your next campaign.
Stephen in Ogden, Utah, you're next with Rush Limbaugh. Hello, sir.
CALLER: Yes. It's a pleasure to talk to you from the place that I call "the Rodney Dangerfield of towns." But we're fast becoming an emerging Mecca for all outdoor activities here.
RUSH: Thank you, sir, very much. (laughing) I know what he means by that, and it's not that I can't keep my tie straight.
CALLER: I called about I think you're way too easy on Wall Street, but the overriding factor I think is that there's no accountability in the nation from the top from all aspects, government or whatever. But I called in about I think Wall Street gets off way too easy.
RUSH: Why am I not hard enough on them or too easy on them, as you say?
CALLER: Okay. Well, I guess it's from -- as an example from the housing debacle. You know, it was basically government, I believe, as you said, that caused it. But it wasn't for the fraud that was committed on Wall Street, these bonds would have never been able to get sold throughout the world. And so the ones who --
RUSH: Well, now, help me understand that. What fraud did they commit?
CALLER: They basically bundled up your loan with the most despicable person's loan and called it a AAA loan because Rush Limbaugh is AAA, and they sold it to the world as AAA and so the world bought it because it was sold as that.
RUSH: Now, I admit that's not cool, I admit that's not cool, but why do you think they did it?
CALLER: They did it for greed. What else? They sold --
RUSH: Let me present another possibility to you. I mean, just consider this. Here you have Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, who are in charge of mortgages. And you have Chris Dodd and Barney Frank who authored, via the Community Redevelopment Act, the whole notion of the subprime loan program. And its purpose, was to extend loans to people that never, ever would ever have a chance of paying them back. I remember Janet Reno threatened a whole bunch of Wall Street banks, "If you don't follow through on this program we're going to investigate you."
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: I'm not defending them. Look, you don't want to be misunderstood here. These guys are not innocent little kids that got caught up in a scandal, but they were forced to do something that left to themselves they wouldn't do.
CALLER: Yes, sir, they coulda stepped down. That's what I'm saying. There's no accountability in our nation from the top. The little guy, there's accountability all over the place. He'll get fired okay?
RUSH: I understand what you're saying.
CALLER: But there's no mechanism.
RUSH: No, I understand that. And I have ripped into just this week and last week the whole notion of "crony capitalism." What has happened here is because of the oppressive, big foot and the threat of total ruination that started with Bill Clinton and Janet Reno and continued with Barney Frank and Chris Dodd that if these people didn't do this... They couldn't just walk away or they would be punished. They would be investigated. These people, because of government's getting more and more and more powerful, wanted to be on the good side with them. That's what's happening now. It used to be that corporations and businesses of all size attempted to promote themselves by coming up with products and services that customers wanted and bought and earned a profit. Now, businesses are forced to do business in a way to keep government happy so that they don't come and try to put them out of business. So when they have these horrible loans that they know they're not going to get paid back on, rather than quit, what they thought was, "My God, how do we stay afloat here?" So they would package the AAA people with these worthless things and then sell 'em. They came up with all of these new financial products and convinced AIG to create an insurance policy to back all this garbage up.
CALLER: Right, right.
RUSH: Now, if you want to... Look, I'm not exonerating these guys but I'm telling you: The blame for this is the Democrat Party.
CALLER: Okay, but there's no accountability there, either. Okay?
RUSH: Yeah, exactly. But there's going to be in November.
CALLER: Right. But, you know, in a way I find it hard to hold the government accountable. There's no mechanism there. But how about say with the Great Society or something? If they would have linked that or, say, the health care bill with the Democrats and with them personally and say, "Listen, if this goes over budget you're going to have to pay, your family's going to have to pay, and you're going to have to step down from office. If it goes over budget within X-amount," and if they're out of office at the time then they have to pay into the system that they created that was an abomination in the first place.
RUSH: I understand.
CALLER: We have to come up with some type of mechanism to hold these guys accountable. If it's not going to go over budget, prove it to me. Put your money with your mouth is.
RUSH: I understand all of this that you're saying. I come at this from a different perspective, though. I have an entirely different prism I look at this through. It is this: The Democrat Party for all of my life and since the days of FDR has been playing class envy in order to buy votes from unsuspecting people who the Democrats convince, "Vote for us and we're going to make your lives better, and we're going to attack these fat cats and we're going to make sure they don't get away with all these shenanigans and we're going to make sure you don't get cheated," and what happens? They become partners with them while they sit there and rip them. Class envy is horrible. I hate the notion that a vast majority of American people were persuaded to despise the business community. You look at the Democrat Party's enemies list.
It is Big Oil. It is Big Pharmaceutical. It is Big Retail. It is anything. Businesses large and small are targeted by these people for the express purpose of making people like you hate them intuitively. And I despise that. I hate it, this whole notion of, "I'll tell you what we're going to do! We're going to punish these rich people. We're going to raise their taxes and you're supposed to feel better about it! We're not going to give you another dime. You're not going to get your taxes cut. But boy we're going to screw these people," and you're supposed to sit there and say, "Good! Good! I'm happy because they're getting shafted." I hate that. I resent it all to hell. Besides, all these securities agencies all these Wall Street things? It was Congress that had oversight of all this supposedly, and there were a number of people who tried to stop all these shenanigans going on, and Barney Frank and Chris Dodd shut 'em down.
There's no accountability at Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac. There's no accountability at government for any of this stuff, although there will be in November. I'm not... All I'm telling you is I have a much greater fear for the future of this country and a much great animosity for the Democrat Party which is ruining this country than I do for anybody in business, much more. And if we can't get past this notion of blaming business for what's happening to us, when we have a neophyte socialist little Marxist incompetent destroying the country then we're in big trouble. We need to refocus our anger at the right place, and it's this government that has power over all of these people. So much power that they can coerce these Wall Street people or anybody else to go along with what they want to do or they face ruination. We have to get rid of the Democrat Party being in a majority anywhere. That's the answer to this, not to string up a bunch of Wall Street bankers or have ACORN protesting on their front yards in Connecticut. That may make you feel better, but it ain't going to save your country.
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RUSH: Okay. We played for you excerpts and we read portions of Governor Chris Christie's speech to the legislature in New Jersey where he said (paraphrased), "We're going to cut programs, 375 programs. We can't go on. We're bankrupt. We're cutting back. We're cutting back. We're cutting back. We're cutting back, and we are not raising taxes. As predicted, the New York-Philadelphia media has unloaded." They are attacking Chris Christie with all their might. The same thing happened when Rudy took office in New York City. It happened when Reagan took over California. Here's a montage of New York and Philadelphia media.
REPORTER: New Jersey citizens railed about Governor Chris Christie's proposed budget cuts.
REPORTER: ...criticizing the Christie cuts as unfair and unwise.
REPORTER: Governor Christie is not budging on his plan to cut the agency's funds, and officials say that means riders are going to have pay the price.
REPORTER: Rail and bus commuters today voiced their anger.
REPORTER: Chris Christie unveiled his painful budget for the Garden State.
REPORTER: Governor Chris Christie gets ready to slash state funding.
REPORTER: I heard one key word in a board meeting today. It was "painful."
RUSH: So the media, predictably, is outraged. "Nobody wants these cuts!" It's only why he was elected. I just looked at the roster of calls. Are you really...? Snerdley, are you wanting me to explode today? Okay, so that's the media. Now let's go to the Democrats in New Jersey, going back to the same old page in the same old playbook: A parade of victims to blast Chris Christie's budget cuts. Here we have at the statehouse in Trenton an assembly budget committee meeting, a 13-year-old blind student, Rocco Fiorentino, testified. Here's what the 13-year-old blind student said.
FIORENTINO: These budget cuts would directly affect the education of each and every child who deals with a visual challenge. Cutting costs, at all costs, is not going to solve the long-term budget challenges in this great state.
RUSH: So who wrote this guy's statement? Same old page, same old playbook: Bring out a blind 13-year-old! This is no different than the '95 budget battle where they brought all these students saying, "The Republicans want us to starve! They want us to starve no school lunch! (sobbing)" It's just same old playbook. I'm telling you, people are fed up with this.
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RUSH: Now back to Chris Christie, responding to the stuck pigs and weasels in the New Jersey-Philadelphia media and the New Jersey Democrat Party, all bent outta shape about his attempt to save their little state from utter bankruptcy.
CHRISTIE: No, I think they could be better. I think that the contracts they've given out have been too rich. They have been, at times, a patronage pit for political hiring. That's why they're called hard choices, Christine. If there were easy choices left we'd make them. I got hired for this job to come in and clean up this mess. That's what I'm going to do.
RUSH: That's Chris Christie. He was on where we CBS TV's News at Five, Eyeball News at Five, in New York City last night with the correspondent Christine Sloan asking the questions. This is last night on WNYW-TV's Eyeball News at Six, the correspondent Giovanna Drpic interviewed Christie and said, "What will be affected here?"
CHRISTIE: This will not affect classroom instruction, teachers, kids. They pay nothing, zero, most teachers for their health benefits. Is there anybody out there in New Jersey and New York, who's watching this, who pays nothing for their health benefits? It's just not sustainable.
RUSH: Pow! Pow! He just said, "These people are not paying a damn thing for their health benefits. Are any of you not paying anything for yours? We can't sustain this!" I love this guy. They're gonna try to take him out. They are going to try to destroy this guy. He is going to need support. If you're in New Jersey, he's gonna need your support. Then yesterday in Berkeley heights, New Jersey, Columbia middle school, Governor Christie held a budget roundtable. Here's a portion of what he said.
CHRISTIE: You will hear that this means that property taxes are going to go up, what we're doing. When you hear, "This means instruction is going to have to be cut. Teachers are going to have to be laid off," take a deep breath. That's the folks down in Trenton who are trying desperately to hold onto their feeding spot at the trough. We are in an awful circumstance right now of people at 10.1% unemployment; declining property tax revenues, declining sales tax, income tax, business tax revenues. That's all because of the awful national recession we're in and because of the awful job we've done in New Jersey in terms of overspending, overtaxing, and over-borrowing.
RUSH: Every word is the truth, and these stuck pigs in the New Jersey Democrat Party -- the stuck pigs in the Philadelphia and New York media -- cannot stand hearing the truth because it's an indictment of everything they believe. And it properly focuses the blame for this destruction on them, their beliefs, their policies, and their mandates. This morning on Squawk Box on CNBC, the cohost Melissa Lee says to Governor Chris Christie, "Manage the expectations of New Jersey. How difficult will things be getting? I mean, there are reports in terms of the municipal bond downgrades. New Jersey has the fastest downgrade out there, debt obligations below investment grade. How do you keep up basic services when you're trying to stopgap that budget and keep the state going?"
CHRISTIE: We know that we've taxed too much.
LEE: Yes.
CHRISTIE: We've spend too much, and we borrow too much. The only way to fix that is to stop spending so much. It's the only way to do it.
LEE: Well, there are other peoples would say, "Raise taxes, too." Bring in higher revenue and cutting spending. Are you going to have to do both?
CHRISTIE: No. We're not raising taxes. That's it. Our income tax when it was established in 1977, at 2.5% top rate, under Governor Corzine was an 11% top rate on income tax. We --
LEE: What about property taxes?
CHRISTIE: Where we're going --
LEE: There's no way you're rising -- raising those either?
CHRISTIE: No. We can't! You know, we had, in the last four years of the Governor Corzine -- a study just came out -- $70 billion in wealth left the state of New Jersey. And it left it because we are the most overtaxed people in America. We've done enough of that already. It is time to get tough and to say "no."
RUSH: You hear now the questions from the media people. I don't care where they are, CNBC, Eyeball News 5, Eyeball News 6, they're all right out of the playbook. "Well, you're gonna raise taxes, right?" He just got through explaining that high taxes have caused $70 billion of wealth to flee the state! High taxes have led to declining revenues in the state of New Jersey. So back to CNBC's Squawk Box, guest panelist Darden Restaurant CEO Clarence Otis said, "Well, what are the big things that went wrong to get you to this point?"
CHRISTIE: An absolute addiction to spending. You know, at the state, county, and municipal level. We spend more on school aid than any state in America per student. We spend more on providing services. We have more government per square mile. We've 566 municipalities, all of them are taxing. You just have had an abundance of taxation and everybody always having that same attitude: "Well, just raise taxes this time." Well, people are now fed up and what's happening is you're seeing an enormous flight from our state. So even if you raise tax rates, revenue continues to go down. Governor Corzine raised tax rates last year. Revenue was down by $2 billion.
RUSH: New Jersey is a microcosm of what's happening in the United States, a microcosm of what's happened in the California. Well, not microcosm. It's the exact thing. So Clarence Otis, the CEO of Darden restaurants, "Are people ready to see shared services?"
CHRISTIE: The worst thing that we have that we really need to tackle is pension and benefit reform. I gave an example in my speech last week which you all understand. A 49-year-old man who retires, state worker, $24,000 he contributed to his pension, and his health benefits over the course of his career. What does he get? $3.3 million of pension payments and $500,000 in health care costs -- $3.8 million on $24,000 investment. Those numbers don't add up.
RUSH: Now, I should tell you: On CNBC they were gunning for him. They came after this guy with both barrels and he stuck to his guns and gave them what-for. Finally, back to CNBC's Squawk Box, cohost Becky Quick finally says, "You know, when you look back at what's been happening in the state, happening around the country, though, this big swing where voters have registered the displeasure with how things are going -- they've done it in Massachusetts, New Jersey, Virginia, across the board on these things -- do you think that continues into the 2010 national elections for Congress? Do you think this is something that swings one direction and then comes back towards another? I mean politics tends to bounce back and forth."
RUSH: This is a philosophical swing and not a partisan swing. I think that's what we saw in my election in New Jersey. Let's face it: We have 700,000 more Democrats than Republicans in New Jersey. A Republican hasn't been elected in 12 years statewide. They were listening to the message. People are saying, "I've lost my job, my home is being foreclosed on, and you want more taxes from me? Are you kidding?" That's what people are saying.
RUSH: And everybody better learn that. Everybody that's elected and wants to hold onto their seat, wherever it is, had better learn that. There is a genuine contempt for these politicians out there. These people love their country. They are very, very proud of the hard work they've put in to have the home and the life that they have, and they're watching a bunch of elitist politicians destroy it right in front of their eyes. They don't want any part of this. There is a real, real contempt for these elected officials -- and if they don't understand it now, they will understand it in November.
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RUSH: Here is Linda somewhere in New Jersey. She doesn't want anybody to know where because she's going to be disagreeing with a bunch of Democrats there. Great to have you on the program, Linda. Hi.
CALLER: Hi, Rush. Greetings from New Jersey, mmm, mmm, mmm.
RUSH: (laughing)
CALLER: (laughing) Listen, I am a teacher of the visually impaired, blind, and also an orientation and mobility specialist in New Jersey.
RUSH: Wait a second, now, I know what the visually impaired are. And I know what the blind are, I mean those are Democrats. What is orientation and mobility specialist?
CALLER: That is a person who is trained to work with kids who are blind or visually impaired on their travel skills.
RUSH: Oh.
CALLER: So using a cane, crossing streets, that kind of thing.
RUSH: Gotcha. Okay. Thank you.
CALLER: Okay. So I'm a freelancer, and there are not very many of us in New Jersey. New Jersey educates its blind kids a little bit differently than other states do. In New Jersey, there is a state agency called the Commission for the Blind and Visually Impaired out of Trenton that sends out teachers to different school districts to provide Braille instruction and O&M, orientation and mobility instruction, to blind students.
RUSH: Because the other teachers can't do it?
CALLER: Right. It's a different certification. It's a completely different training --
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: -- college experience.
RUSH: Right.
CALLER: Other states, school districts will hire their own teachers or O&M people, so they're a member of the school staff and they're paid by the school and they're accountable --
RUSH: Okay, I had to do that when I was in grade school, they had a speech -- what was it? What did you call them? It was not speech defect, it was --
CALLER: Therapist?
RUSH: Speech impediment. I had a lisp.
CALLER: Ahhh.
RUSH: When I was a kid, people said, "You sound like you need a drain in your mouth." My parents sent me off to this speech impediment person, so I know what you're talking about.
CALLER: So actually O&M is a related service just like speech or occupational therapy or physical therapy.
RUSH: Let me step in here and tell people why you're calling. The reason she's calling is because we played an audio sound bite, Democrats in New Jersey opposing budget cuts brought in a 13-year-old blind student to wail against the new governor's budget cuts saying it's just not fair, it's not right, and Republicans don't care about kids with impairments.
CALLER: I am so outraged at the parents of this student. I may even know them. I didn't get to hear the clip, I don't know the student's name, but --
RUSH: Well, hang on a minute. Let's find the clip. Hang on just a second. Here's the clip, and this is from earlier in the program.
FIORENTINO: These budget cuts would directly affect the education of each and every child who deals with a visual challenge. Cutting costs, at all costs, is not going to solve the long-term budget challenges in this great state.
RUSH: That's the 13-year-old blind child they brought out, the Democrats, the same page of the same playbook that they've been using for as long as I've been alive.
CALLER: Absolutely. Now, what this student probably doesn't understand but his parents should if they're this involved with their child's education is that cutting the budget, Governor Christie cutting the budget and therefore probably cutting funds from the Commission for the Blind or not increasing funds results in less free services to school districts or very minimal, minimal fee, like a couple thousand dollars a year for services.
RUSH: Right. So you don't like them using the kids this way, exploiting them basically?
CALLER: They're exploiting the kid, and the kid doesn't understand -- what the kid is asking for is quality services so that he can be an independent and competent adult, and I agree with him a hundred percent. What I disagree with is that this entitlement that these services should be free or a couple thousand dollars a year. Now, if the parents --
RUSH: Wait a minute, now. Welcome to the people that vote for Democrats. Who do you think created this sense of entitlement the last 50 years? Let's go back to FDR, shall we? Who created it and guess who's afraid of tackling it up until now? Republicans, elected Republicans. Well, some of them have been afraid, not all. Linda, thanks very much for the call.
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ACEVEDO: I can tell you, categorically, that there is no cause for concern from a law enforcement OR a terrorism perspective. Uh, this incident is contained. It's under control. The one point I need to point out is that this is an isolated incident here, that there is no cause for alarm, and that people should continue their lives as they would any other day of the week.
RUSH: I wish I were there. I would love to ask Mr. Acevedo a question. "Chief Acevedo, we were told after 9/11 that we had to take time to understand why there was so much rage against us from the militant Islamists. And even now, our own president has said that we must have policies that show the Muslim world that we mean them no ill will. We're willing to try their terrorists, the masterminds of 9/11 in our own civil courts, to show that we mean no ill will. Will there be a similar request on the part of government officials to make sure we show no ill intent toward this pilot and maybe find out what it is that had him so ticked off?" I mean, if we're gonna spend now, what, ten years, 12 years trying to figure out what happened at 9/11, why they hated us so much, should we not spend some time to figure out why this guy hated Bush, hated his wife, hated the IRS, hated his accountant, and hated the Catholic church? The guy hated the Catholic Church, hatred Bush, hated the IRS, hated his accountant, and hated his wife. Now, should we endeavor to understand why? I would love to ask that question. An unidentified reporter did say, "Chief, how do you know it's an isolated incident?"
ACEVEDO: You know, what? You have to take me at my word now, don't you? That's all I'm going to tell you. The second piece that I think is really important is we're starting to get news reports that -- that this aircraft was stolen. There is a lot of speculation. I can tell you right now that your reports are inaccurate and it is irresponsible journalism to put out information that is not confirmed from law enforcement. Please do not put out speculation. Uh, because this aircraft, I can tell you right now, it was not a stolen aircraft.
RUSH: Whoa. So the media got something wrong. Who woulda thought. The hell, you say! The hell, you say! The media got something wrong? No! Can't possibly be. (laughing) I'm shocked, folks, I don't know if I can deal with this in my fragile state of near arrange and irritability today. After all of this I had to put up today, I now find out the media gets things wrong? What are they going to call 'em now, "the fly-by media," along with the Drive-By Media, along with the State-Controlled Media? So, let's see. An unidentified reporter then says, "Look, we've been seeing on blogs and all that the connection between a house fire in north Austin and a man who put out a suicide note regarding the IRS, his CPA, the Catholic Church, George W. Bush, and his wife."
ACEVEDO: In terms of the investigation, the investigation is fluid. It is ongoing.
RUSH: Well, there we have it,. There we have it.
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RUSH: By the way, do you remember the New York Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle flying around with his flight instructor and they flew into a building at the Bel Air Condominiums, 524 East 72nd Street near the East River, back on October 11th, 2006? I remember Charlie Rangel was on Neil Cavuto that day. This is the sound bite that we had of Charlie Rangel "I thank God that it was not a terrorist attack. Having been in New York, uh, on that Tuesday, September the 9th, uh, I thought that was an accident -- and of course it broke my heart, and there's less aching in my heart now, um, that it was a terrorist attack. But I get no comfort at all in believing that we are prepared for a terrorist attack. The jets went up after the fact. I still wonder how a plane could fly up the Hudson and be able to do this type of damage." So he had to take the obligatory shot at Bush. So if we turn this around: How could so locoweed who hated Bush get in this little, single engine Piper or whatever it was, and fly all around?
How could he leave a bunch of suicides notes on a website, plow into the first floor of a building to house the IRS, leave a full-fledged manifesto (I've read it now) on a website in which he rails against Bush, his accountant, the Catholic Church, his wife, and the IRS? Now, if we wanted to play Rangel's game: "How in the world would this possibly happen? Are we not prepared for terrorism?" They did put a couple F-16s up there after the fact. NORAD launched them. But that's what these guys do. Everything is political to them. In all of this, it never even occurred to me to attach this to Obama. I mean, even after I learned this guy hated Bush. I could have been sitting here saying, "Hey, it's a Democrat that did this! A Democrat that crashed into that building!" I wasn't going to say that. I've said it now since I reminded myself what Rangel had said after crash. That, by the way -- airplanes flying up the Hudson River -- is constant. This guy had an accident. He was flying a plane with a flight instructor, something happened, a wind gust or something. It pulled the wings up. He didn't do it on purpose. This guy did it on purpose.
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KID ROCK: I have nightmares sometimes that, you know, I'm going to wake up -- I actually have a nightmare that I'm going to wake up -- and everyone is driving, like, a Prius or living in a condo. We're all getting health insurance. Detroit was such... We had so much style, you know? The cars that we built -- and not only the cars, the tanks, the airplanes from World War II, the things we did with such ingenuity. But cool stuff. You know, a '57 Chevy. It came in 17 colors, every one of them red, white, and blue. It was so cool. And now it's like they're just trying to... It just reminds me of Europe, like everybody is going to be driving a Smart Car and living in a condo and that's not the American dream. And you see it kind of starting to die, or at least it has left for a little from Detroit there with everything that's going on. Everyone still wants it to come back and be present again.
RUSH: Kid Rock on with Megyn Kelly yesterday afternoon on the Fox News Channel.
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RUSH: A little surprise just happened at CPAC. Here's Liz Cheney.
LIZ: For my whole life he has taught me to stand up for what I believe in and to fight for what's right. And often before big speeches like this one, I ask his opinion, I seek his advice. Well, today, instead, I brought him with me. (cheers and applause.)
RUSH: The place went nuts. CPAC convention in Washington, the place went nuts. And here's what Cheney said, in part.
CHENEY: A welcome like that is almost enough to want to make me run for office again. (cheers and applause) But I'm not-a-gonna do it. (laughter) I think the developments that we've seen over the last several months are enormously encouraging. I think when we can achieve the kind of results that we've achieved in places like Virginia and New Jersey and Massachusetts -- (cheers and applause) -- the sky's the limit here. I think 2010 is going to be a phenomenal year for the conservative cause. And I think Barack Obama is a one-term president. (cheers and applause).
RUSH: Place erupted. We cut the applause short in the essence of brevity, but the place just went nuts. Now, earlier this morning Marco Rubio, the Florida Senate candidate, spoke. How many bites do we have here? One, two, three, four. He pretty much brought the house down, too.
RUBIO: There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government. (cheers and applause) Principles that recognize that because all of us are equal in the eyes of our Creator, all life is sacred, at every stage of life. (applause) These principles embody a commitment to individual liberty which has made us the freest people in history. There's nothing like America in all the world. And even today with the problems that we face, who would you rather be, which country would you trade places with? Just remember and ask yourself, when was the last time that you heard news accounts about a boatload of American refugees arriving on the shores of another country?
RUSH: Marco Rubio, Florida Senate candidate then described how the political class of this country doesn't get what's going on here.
RUBIO: Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy, and our country. Now, people, as I said, all across America figured this out over a year ago. They didn't wait for their senator or for their congressman to do something about it. They did it themselves. They have taken matters into their own hands, from tea parties, to the election in Massachusetts, we are witnessing the single greatest political push-back in American history. (cheers and applause) Never has the political class or the mainstream media that covers them been more out of touch with the American people than they are today. 2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats, it's not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation.
RUSH: Now, we edited again the applause. The applause here was profound for Marco Rubio, Florida Senate candidate. He says here we don't need two Democrat parties.
RUBIO: People want our leaders that will come here to Washington, DC, and stand up to this big government agenda, not be co-opted by it. (applause). After all, the US Senate already has one Arlen Specter too many. (laughter and applause) And after all, America already has a Democrat Party. It doesn't need two Democrat parties.
RUSH: Right. Right on, right on, right on. I like this guy using the word "Democrat" instead of "Democratic." That really ticks 'em off out there, folks, it just ticks 'em off like you can't believe. Last sound bite here.
RUBIO: Let's reform the tax code and reduce tax rates across the board. (applause) Let's eliminate double taxation by abolishing the taxes on capital gains, on dividends, on interest, and while we're at it, let's eliminate the one on death, too. (applause) Let's significantly lower the corporate tax rate so it once again is competitive with the rest of the world. (applause) Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap and trade and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent. Let's make a series of simple changes that puts the consumer in charge of health care spending in America. (applause) And while we're at it let's pass some lawsuit abuse reform as well.
RUSH: That's this morning at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. And that is Marco Rubio, the Florida Senate candidate.
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I was as mad as Rush today and I’m still mad!
Stupid Alan Simpson. NEVER let the democrats off the hook for their spending!
You just love the “Stop the Tape!” stuff, don’t you? :-)
Oh no. I fear you’ve been posting about ‘someone’ again.
I dread to take a look.
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