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The Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Thread - Friday, March 20, 2009
The EIB Network ^ | 03/20/09 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 03/20/2009 8:19:10 AM PDT by IMissPresidentReagan

AND NOW . . . amidst billowing clouds of fragrant, aromatic first- and second-hand premium cigar smoke. . . it is time for . . . that harmless, lovable little fuzz ball, the highly-trained broadcast specialist, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, from behind the golden EIB microphone, firmly ensconced in the prestigious Attila-the-Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies, serving humanity simply by showing up, and he’s not retiring until every American agrees with him, do NOT doubt him, with shrieks of joy at the mere mention of his name (that’s Rush, for those in Rio Linda),the Mandarin of Talk Radio, with talent on loan from G-d, at the cutting-edge of societal evolution, with half his brain tied behind his back — just to make it fair, the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned Maha-Rushie! America’s anchorman, truth detector, and doctor of democracy. A Real Man, a living legend, a way of life. Commander in Chief of U.S. Operation Chaos. Chief Waga-Waga El Rushbo of the El Conservo Tribe. Chief of the Patriotism Police. Leader of the Conservative Movement. A Weapon of Mass Instruction. El Rushbo (a little Spanish lingo, there). He is the man who is running America (you know it and I know it). He knows the Democrats like every square inch of his glorious naked body. He is ready to do what he was born to do—that’s host. Get ready to what you were born to do—that’s listen (and post your comments on the Rush Limbaugh LIVE Radio Thread).

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TOPICS: Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: radioshowhosts; rush; rushlimbaugh; talkradio
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To: Current Occupant

I don’t understand why rush or anyone else is making the following point:

What Congress did yesterday is a specific dis-incentive to the very professionals who have been charged with pulling AIG up from its bootstraps and making it solvent again.

The Dims have no intention of allowing any corporation the free market tools to heal their companies to a point where they can re-pay the government for their bailouts.

Democrats were the ones who put a choke hold on their better practices to put them in a position to fail in the first place—now they won’t let them fix their own problems.

Their agenda is the total destruction of corporate America, and thereby our Capitalist system.


201 posted on 03/20/2009 10:08:45 AM PDT by TruthHound (“He who does not punish evil commands it to be done.” —Leonardo da Vinci)
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Mao's Cultural Revolution, “Uh”bama style...
202 posted on 03/20/2009 10:09:41 AM PDT by LRS (Just contracts; just laws; just a constitution...)
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To: WorkerbeeCitizen

If this is indeed true, the demoRATs have been planning this for some time.. and they will stop at nothing until they are defeated.


203 posted on 03/20/2009 10:09:45 AM PDT by A. Morgan (Every night I pray that Rezko and Blago roll over on Obama!)
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To: rodguy911

Thanks, I’ll have to read that one later today. Looks interesting.


204 posted on 03/20/2009 10:09:51 AM PDT by PogySailor (We're so screwed.....welcome to the American Oligarchy)
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To: TruthHound

I have been making that point.

Its like they want to crash AIG


205 posted on 03/20/2009 10:10:31 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Current Occupant
The sucking sound he is speaking of is "THWUP".... which is what follows a klong.
206 posted on 03/20/2009 10:10:38 AM PDT by Roccus (The Capitol, the White House, the Court house.....................America's Axis of Evil!)
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Giant RED A

RED AIG


207 posted on 03/20/2009 10:11:49 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: TruthHound

Spot on, well said.


208 posted on 03/20/2009 10:12:12 AM PDT by Current Occupant (The FIVE branches of Gov't: Executive, Judicial, Legislative, Indoctrination and Propaganda.)
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To: PogySailor
I wonder if when the AIG Execs forget to pay the Taxes on their Bonuses they will automatically get a cabinet post in the Obama Administration?
209 posted on 03/20/2009 10:12:27 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (will work for Bailout Bonus.... Twitter: maddawggmorgan)
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Can we put a Giant Red FUBO on Øbama?


210 posted on 03/20/2009 10:12:37 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

The Scarlet Letter


211 posted on 03/20/2009 10:12:42 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Where do I sign up for jewelry stamps?)
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To: Enterprise
Leno said something that is being ignored:

paraphrasing:

"Somebody should be in jail. It feels good to see Madoff in jail."

Of course Zero didn't address the comment.
Wish Rush would pick up on it.

212 posted on 03/20/2009 10:12:46 AM PDT by AGreatPer (Obama is not my president until we see his birth certificate. A real one.)
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To: IMissPresidentReagan

Boy, is Rush mad! Good for him.


213 posted on 03/20/2009 10:13:16 AM PDT by calex59
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To: A. Morgan

Right you are - they have been working on the destroying for over 30 years that I know of and the assault on the culture began more that 30 years before that.

Even IF we can get good conservative leaders in congress and WH, it will take decades to get our country back.


214 posted on 03/20/2009 10:13:19 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (The only time I want a Republican reaching across the aisle is to smack a liberal.)
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The ‘RATS own this mess from start to finish.

The AIG Diversion (Why don’t we train our ire on the politicians who got us into this mess ?)
Frontpage Magazine ^ | March 19,2009 | Dr. Mark Hendrickson
http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=FA3D4412-9FD8-42CA-8C91-9D7AA76EDDF0
Posted on Friday, March 20, 2009 12:56:28 PM by SeekAndFind
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2210826/posts

A raw nerve was struck this week. Reports that employees of the insurance giant AIG­the recipient of four federal bailouts totaling more than $170 billion­were now receiving $165 million in bonuses, caused an explosion of public anger, even bloodthirsty rage. The death threats sent to AIG employees included lurid fulminations, such as recommendations that bonus recipients be “executed with piano wire around their necks,” and “I’m looking for all the [executives’] names, kids, where they live, etc.” Politicians vied to see who could feign the most apoplectic indignation, with Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) getting swept up in the bloodlust by recommending that AIG employees consider suicide.

Let’s take a deep breath, calm down, and analyze this startling turn of events.

Point number one: AIG, as a company, deserves no sympathy. Its overinvestment in toxic derivatives is central to the global economic contraction that so far has vaporized $50 trillion of assets worldwide. AIG may be Enron on steroids, possibly the perpetrator of massive fraud. This is for a court of law to decide, one way or the other, and the sooner the better­so that justice may be served and uncertainty dispelled. At the same time, some AIG employees deserve respect, if not gratitude. CEO Edward Liddy, for example, came on board six months ago to help clean up AIG’s mess for a $1 per year salary and no bonuses. A number of AIG’s recent bonus recipients have voluntarily returned the entire bonus that they are contractually entitled to receive. To characterize everyone at AIG as a greedy crook is ugly and unfair.

Point number two: Big Business in general and AIG, in particular, have alienated themselves from the American sense of fairness by paying generous bonuses to executives even when the company loses money. Most Americans accept bonuses as a well-deserved reward for success. What Americans find unfathomable is when executives think they deserve to be rewarded when the company goes into the tank on their watch. This latter-day version of golden parachutes is obscene to hard-working Americans of modest incomes who are footing the astronomical bill for the AIG bailout, and especially to citizens who have lost jobs and/or houses. Corporate America’s boards of directors should voluntarily rectify this grotesque insult to middle America’s values before the government presumes to dictate executive compensation.

Point number three: News flash! President Obama made an economic statement that I wish to endorse. This may be a rare occasion, since I believe in free markets and Obama often prefers government intervention, but I think the president deserves credit for stating, “The business models that created a lot of paper wealth but not real wealth in the country and have now resulted in crisis can’t be the model for economic growth going forward.” Amen. Less than 24 hours before I read those words, I had made the same point to an audience of Christian college students. Capital needs to be valued and respected as a tool for lessening poverty, uplifting standards of living, and creating goods and services that bless one’s fellow man. But if capital becomes a plaything to be packaged into exotic instruments of dubious security, and then sold to unsuspecting investors to generate commissions and fees­an elaborate scheme to create “a lot of paper wealth”­then something good and worthy has been corrupted into something ignoble and pernicious.

Point number four: As important as the previous points have been, by far the most significant aspect of this uproar is that it serves as a diversion from larger problems­a convenient diversion for many politicians. How dare congressmen piously denounce the scandalous waste of $165 million in AIG bonuses after having wasted billions of taxpayer dollars in recent pork-laden spending bills? How dare the choleric Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) try to lord guilt over all AIG bonus recipients (even those that returned the bonuses) when he himself thwarted needed reform at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, resulting in taxpayers being saddled with $5 trillion of liabilities. (Speaking of Fannie­which, like AIG, was generous in contributing to Obama’s political career­why doesn’t the president demand that his friend, former CEO Franklin Raines, return the tens of millions in bonuses that Raines received by cooking the books at Fannie?) How dare Sen. Chris Dodds (D-CT)­dubbed by one wit “the senator from AIG”­act indignant about AIG bonuses when he apparently undid congressional attempts to curtail such bonuses by slipping into the “stimulus” bill the provision that “There is an exception for contractually obligated bonuses agreed on before Feb. 11, 2009.”

Without a doubt, AIG deserves criticism, blame, yes, even anger, for its role in bringing our economy to its knees. But let’s not allow slick politicians to use AIG as a scapegoat that diverts our attention from the fact that many of our country’s most powerful elected officials have done as much, if not more, than AIG in bringing about our present precarious predicament, and that those same politicians now threaten to drown us all in a deluge of ill-advised government spending.

Dr. Mark W. Hendrickson is a faculty member, economist, and contributing scholar with the Center for Vision and Values at Grove City College.


215 posted on 03/20/2009 10:13:37 AM PDT by Matchett-PI (The brush fire's lit - the revolution has begun! Lead, follow, or get the hell outta the way!)
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To: mylife

It’s more than that Obama is a Marxist.


216 posted on 03/20/2009 10:14:18 AM PDT by A. Morgan (Every night I pray that Rezko and Blago roll over on Obama!)
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To: PogySailor
IT blew me away its so well done! Worth book marking and printing out, courtesy of LucyT.
217 posted on 03/20/2009 10:15:12 AM PDT by rodguy911 (HOME OF THE FREE BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE--GO SARAHCUDA !!)
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To: PogySailor

AIG has become the poster child for filthy capitalistic pigs.


218 posted on 03/20/2009 10:15:14 AM PDT by Canedawg (Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech, or of the preah, he's fiddlin' alright..)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

219 posted on 03/20/2009 10:15:24 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: calex59

O M G...funny!


220 posted on 03/20/2009 10:15:24 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 (Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
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