Rush In A Hurry -- Obama to America: Hello, Suckers!

Obama to America: Hello, Suckers!
February 16, 2009

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RUSH: What was the refrain all weekend long? “Obama won. Obama won.” This so-called stimulus bill, of course, has little to do with stimulating the economy and everything to do with stimulating the Obama presidency. What did this thing cost, $789 billion that’s projected to run out to over three trillion? Doesn’t matter what it cost, could have cost two trillion, could have cost five trillion, even ten trillion, the cost would have made no difference. The story line was not about cost, the story line was not about results. It was about President Obama’s first test, would he get his way, how many Republicans would support him? Analysis of the contents, forget it. Synthesis of the comments, forget it, no way. And it gets even worse. Nobody read it before they voted for it, not one Senator, not one representative, not one journalist, no one read it before they voted for it. The very people who said the housing crisis was because borrowers didn’t read their mortgage terms, “What do you mean, you don’t understand ARM? What is it about ARM you didn’t understand?” “Well, you never pointed out to me that it was in the mortgage.” “Well, we did tell you about it, we told you to read it, adjustable rate mortgage. Means the rate could adjust.” “Well, nobody ever told me that. You’re just a predatory lending bunch, that’s all.”

The same people, very people who said the housing crisis was because borrowers didn’t read their mortgage terms now tell us they didn’t read the Porkulus bill before they voted for it. By the way, Rasmussen with a survey out, 38% of the people support the Porkulus bill. The polling on this is so all over the ballpark, 38%. I saw, before it was passed, something like 62 to 69% were for it. I don’t remember what poll. Now Rasmussen, 38% say it will work. That means 58% don’t think it will. There are some undecideds in there. These people even came up with the phrase “predatory lenders,” but I’ll tell you the more accurate term is “predatory spenders.” Predatory spenders. I was watching MSNBC just a moment ago and they had a discussion on the following topic: Can Obama save your home? Wait ‘til you hear the sound bites coming up on this. There’s already friction between the White House and the Banking Queen, Barney Frank, over the amount of money that’s going to be spent to help people pay their mortgages. The administration is saying, “Well, wait a minute, now, some of the restrictions that came out of this bill, we’re going to have to change those after the fact,” and Barney Frank said, “Over my dead body you’re gonna change this stuff.” Those sound bites are coming up. Sit tight. Hang tough.

Lots of stuff to do today, folks. It’s an amazingly active news day, despite the fact the president’s on the third day of a vacation. This guy’s taken more vacations than I have. By the way, you know it’s gonna work. He went to Chicago for a Valentine’s Day date and dinner at Table Fifty-Two, some big restaurant, with his wife. It means that Michelle Obama calls the shots here. That’s the one thing it means. We know she gets angry, we know she gets enraged, she called the shots here. He had to go home no matter what was going on. The stimulus bill still hadn’t been signed. It was going to be a catastrophe. What day did it pass? Friday, right? Government was going to end on Saturday, remember? And Pelosi had to get to Rome by Friday night. It was going to be a catastrophe, had to be signed, had to be done, still hasn’t been signed, and Obama is headed back to Washington today from Chicago, then he’s flying to Denver tomorrow. I’d just think he’d stay in Chicago and go to Denver from there and save a lot of fuel and save a lot of carbon footprints. He’s flying back to Washington. He’s going to fly to Denver, sign the stimulus bill in Denver. He’s going to head to Phoenix and save people’s homes. It’s a beautiful thing, folks. It’s just absolutely wonderful.

They’re arguing over $50 billion or $100 billion to pay your mortgage. Well, not yours. You’re probably paying yours. You don’t count, you don’t qualify. You can’t sue members of Congress, but a dereliction of duty lawsuit would be cool. Every congressman has to swear under oath that he did or did not read the bill before voting for it. I mean we are talking trillions of dollars here and a total reordering of the American culture, politically and socially. Trillion dollars. You know, during the Roaring Twenties, I wasn’t alive then, but I know a lot of people who were, and during the Roaring Twenties there was a notorious nightclub hostess called Texas Guinan, and when people showed up at a nightclub that she hosted she greeted them by saying, “Hello, suckers.” Well, let me update it to “Hello, suckers.” We were told that we were so near economic collapse, Congress had to approve the bill before they read it, Friday, or there might not even be a Saturday, Congress passed it on Friday, Obama signed it Friday night? No. Did he save the economy from collapse on Saturday? No. We’re talking collapse here for heaven’s sake! Did he sign it on Sunday and save America on Sunday? No. How about today? President, no.

Do you realize presidents can sign bills anywhere at any time? It’s not as though the bill has to be FedExed to Denver and there might be weather delays from over the weekend. We’re talking collapse here; we’re talking catastrophe, and the bill’s still not signed. You see, “crisis” and “collapse” were words, just words. The stimulus scheme that had to be voted on Friday will not be signed until tomorrow, so, “Hello, suckers.” (laughing) Even after the passage the story line remains: “Obama won, the Republicans didn’t support him.” Nobody’s asking, did America win? Because the Drive-Bys are equating Obama’s success with America’s success. The reason nobody’s asking, did America win, is because they know the answer. America did not win. Americans will be paying the price for years, if not decades to come. In fact, ladies and gentlemen, from Reuters: “President Barack Obama’s aides warned Americans on Sunday not to expect instant miracles from the stimulus bill that he will sign tomorrow.” They said it will help eventually. By the way, Obama has said that things are going to get worse even after he has signed this.

He said even if he gets the bill, which he’s going to sign Tuesday, that it’s going to get worse. “There will be signs of activity very quickly,” David Axelrod said on Fox News Sunday, “but it’s going to take time for that to show up in the statistics. The president said it’s likely to get worse before it gets better.” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, the brightest and most intelligent, most articulate, best press spokesman in the history of the White House, used similar language on Slay the Nation on CBS. “I don’t think there’s any doubt that we’ve seen this economy has gotten worse just in the last few months.” Yeah, Dow Jones down 2,000 points since your guy was elected, Bob. The acceleration in job loss probably means this economy is going to get worse before it gets better. I think I’ve got the explanation for all of this. A little known story out there, the UK Daily Mail, I found it: “Alien Life May Be All Around Us (Or Even In Us), Says Professor.” This explains it all. Do you remember the movie Men in Black? In fact, one of the things I regret most — nah, don’t regret it most, but I do regret this. The producers of that movie called the office and said, “Could we use five seconds of videotape from you on TV monitors showing you as one of the aliens that have come from outer space?” They used Newt, and they had Clinton up there, and for some reason, I don’t remember why, we said no.

So this guy is saying essentially that’s what’s happened, there are billions of earths in our galaxy, meaning billions of places life could exist similar to us, or entirely different. This scientist, this professor, a cosmologist, Paul Davies, “said it was ‘entirely reasonable’ to believe that we share the planet with a form of life different to anything we know of. This ‘life, but not as we know it’ might be lurking in poisonous lakes or deep under the sea or could even be inside our bodies. Professor Davies said: ‘It could be right under our noses, or even in our noses. It could even be that “weird life” and real life are intermingled.’” If you think an alien is in your nose, try Zicam. (laughing) If it stops the common cold, it’ll kill an alien lurking in your nose. This is a dead serious story. “Calling on scientists to launch a ‘mission to Earth’, he said it was possible that life had evolved more than once, meaning we are not alone on our planet.”

A letter to the editor of the Reading Eagle newspaper, headline: “’Limbaugh Likened to Cult Leaders.’ Dear editor: There was a time when Rush Limbaugh was interesting and informative, and I got some good information and different views to think about in the news. Those days are gone. I compare Limbaugh of today to some of the cult leaders in our society: Jim Jones, David Koresh and Warren Jeffs. Limbaugh is acting like an absolute ruler who used manipulative methods to control the minds of their followers.” Man, if that were only true. That has been my objective, by the way. This woman is Susan Miller. Susan, you’re on to something here. I have sought absolute ruler status. I’m not retiring ‘til every American agrees with me. That would be absolute power, and I’m still on track for that, but if it were true, Susan, Obama would never have been elected, much less nominated because, of course, I ran Operation Chaos in order to create chaos and prolong the Democrat primary system. Ms. Miller continues in the letter, “The information he spewed has great power and influence on the minds of those who are unable to think for themselves.”

I don’t know if she’s talking about me or Obama. I think she’s given an accurate description of your typical Obama voter, those who are unable to think for themselves. “I am a registered Republican, but I’m sick and tired of listening to his ranting and raving about the new president. He stoops pretty low many times and thinks nothing of insulting people, calling them pet names and making fun of people — tactics of the classroom bully.” Yes, this is so true, Susan, that the entire federal government is gearing up to put me out of business. Henry Waxman is looking into it now, Mr. Snerdley, and as I have predicted, they’re going to go about this at the FCC, and they’re going to go about this with regulatory restrictions on local ownership, station ownership, programming, not gonna call it the Fairness Doctrine. So you got Clinton, you got Hinchey, every day there’s somebody new weighing in on it. Harkin, and now Gibbs, or maybe it was Axelrod, one of the two in the Obama administration, was asked about this recently, they backed off. Obama previously said, “I’m not interested in the Fairness Doctrine.” They backed off of that now, because Ed Morrissey over at HotAir.com, said, “You know, every Obama statement has an expiration date.” That’s a great line.

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The Banking Queen Leads the Liberal Assault on Capitalism
February 16, 2009

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RUSH: Now get into the dead-serious news stories having to do with the overall attack and assault on capitalism in the United States of America, led in part about this man, Barney Frank, the Banking Queen.

(playing of Banking Queen)

RUSH: EIB Network and El Rushbo.

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RUSH: (bumper music) She’s About a Mover. Interesting bumper rotation selection following the Banking Queen, Barney Frank. Heh-heh-heh. All right, we’ve got our first real public skirmish between the White House and Congress involving Barney Frank. Barney Frank is basically telling Obama, in this story, to shove it. The New York Times headline is: “White House Wants to Revise Compensation Part of Stimulus — “Facing a stricter approach to limiting executive bonuses than it had favored, the Obama administration wants to revise that part of the stimulus package even after it becomes law, White House officials said Sunday. President Obama plans to sign the...” We’ve been through that. “Under the administration’s proposal, compensation restrictions would apply only to banks that received ‘exceptional assistance’ from the government.”

Barney Frank wants compensation restrictions on every business his committee oversees. In fact Chris Dodd — let me find this — has supported or proposed something. These two guys ought to be the ones before a committee answering questions. Chris Dodd has proposed... I want to get the form. It’s a very short story. I thought... Ah! Yeah, here it is. This from the Wall Street Journal and this is in the Porkulus bill. “Companies that...” and this is what Obama wants to change. “Companies that have received federal bailout funds can’t pay top earners a bonus equal to more than one-third of their total annual pay. For example: An employee with $1 million pay could receive a bonus of no more than $500,000. That figure equals one third of the $1.5 million total pay.” So they’re gonna limit compensation; they’re going to limit bonuses. It’s very strict in the Porkulus bill, and Bob Gibbs was on the Face the Nation, Slay the Nation show with Bob Schieffer yesterday and basically said: Look, we’re going to have to change that.

GIBBS: We’re looking forward to working with Congress to institute some of these regulations will ensure that, uh, taxpayer money isn’t wasted. We also have to make sure that it doesn’t, uh, hurt regional — smaller and regional banks that want to participate in this program.

SCHIEFFER: Let me just make sure I understand what you’re saying here. You’re not going to try to modify this, are you? Or are you?

GIBBS: The president’s going to sign this bill in Denver and those provisions are in this bill.

SCHIEFFER: So he’s going to enforce this? He’s — he’s satisfied with this as it is now?

GIBBS: We will sign this bill into law on Tuesday.

RUSH: Now, that’s not quite what’s in the newspapers today, and I don’t know who to believe, the newspapers or Obama’s spokesman, because Obama’s statements have expiration dates on them. But the administration is going to propose that compensation restrictions apply only to banks that receive “exceptional assistance” from the government. Now, here’s what Barney Frank had to say. Barney Frank was on same show, Slay the Nation, same host. This is after Senator Shelby says he agrees with limiting the pay of executives that get government money. Barney says that doesn’t go far enough.

FRANK: Let me be very clear. Uh, Mr. Gibbs may, ahh, not like it but it’s going to be enforced. I differ with Senator Shelby in one — in one sense. He said, “Well, only when they’re getting the government money.” I think we need to try to prevent the situation where people come to us. The way the compensation is structured for a lot of these companies, if they take a gamble and it pays off, the top people get a lot of money. But if they take a gamble and it backfires, they don’t lose any money. We have got to make it illegal for them to have these one-way streets which I think add to the incentive to take unnecessary risk.

RUSH: So Barney Frank wants this: If company loses money the executives lose money, they get paid less. He wants to make that a federal regulation. This is something that the White House doesn’t want to do. They want to change this, and listen to what Barney Frank actually said, ‘cause he said, “Mr. Gibbs may not like it but it’s going to be enforced,” and then he said, “This is not an option. This is not, frankly, the Bush administration where they’re going to issue a signing statement and refuse to enforce it.” So we have a skirmish here. Now, I don’t want to get caught up in the skirmish here between liberals. Instead, I want to point out just how totally this restructures the whole system of American capitalism — and this is just one element of it. In the stimulus bill, the Porkulus bill, gone is welfare reform. There’s also a provision in this bill...

I have a friend. I’m not going to say who. I have a friend whose very high up in a city, a local city government in this country. This guy got an e-mail from the town grand pooh-bah, not the mayor but the person who actually does all the work that said, “Okay, here are the details we’ve got on the Porkulus bill, and we’ve never seen anything like this, we don’t know really what we’re going to have to do.” What this basically does, is cities, states, municipalities are all going to have to go to Washington to get their money now. They’re all going to have to pass muster in Washington. There is a provision in the Porkulus bill. It’s called Provision 2 of some section of some subsection of some subsection.

And it says that governors after tomorrow when Obama signs this, governors will have 45 days to request the funds. Now, there’s a governor, South Carolina, Mark Sanford, who doesn’t want the money. He doesn’t want to be obligated by it, he’s going to be forced to take it, because item number two allows essentially for unconstitutionality by the federal government to go to the legislature and take it on their own whether the governor requested it or not. Now, one of the reasons they want this money is they’re getting rid of welfare. Why do they want to be in charge of the money? Welfare reform, the work requirement is now gone. I’ve read it. It’s right in the bill. States will be eligible for even more money based on the number of new welfare cases they sign up.

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RUSH: We got more Barney Frank news. I’m sorry. I just found a Barney Frank story in there so here’s the theme song, Banking Queen.

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Ladies and gentlemen, ahem-m-m-m. (continue playing Banking Queen) Would you turn it down just a little bit? No, I guess not. All right. Folks, do you realize how courageous it is of your host to play this song, Barney Frank is the Banking Queen, when his party is, even as we speak, conniving, not behind the scenes, but on the scene to shut down this program and others marginally like it? “Boy, Rush, why are you taunting?” I’m not taunting anybody. I’m exercising my free press rights to free speech, while they last. I want to get as much out of the First Amendment as I can before it gets shredded, ladies and gentlemen. All right. Get rid of the music. Here’s the story. “Barney Frank said Sunday he doesn’t think the $50 billion in tax dollars that the Obama administration intends to use to help people pay their mortgages will be enough.” Obama’s going to Phoenix on Tuesday or Wednesday and he’s going to announce a program to save people’s homes. In fact, MSNBC has a whole discussion topic: Can Obama save your home? Barney Frank said, “I don’t think it will be enough, but in fairness, we won’t know for a while. But we can’t kick people out of their houses. If $50 billion’s not enough, we’re coming back for more.” David Axelrod on Fox News suggested the $50 billion mortgage bailout could double to $100 billion to bail out people who are unable to pay their mortgages. That’s a beautiful thing.

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RUSH: All right, what an insult. I just got an e-mail from somebody who cannot stand the song Banking Queen. Most of you like it. One naysayer out there said, “Rush, you’ve got to stop singing along with it.” I wasn’t singing along with it. I uttered not one musical note singing along with the Banking Queen, Barney Frank.

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Bill Clinton Denies Blame — Again
February 16, 2009

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RUSH: All right, audio sound bite time. Bill Clinton says that our very civilization is teetering on the brink here because of global warming. He was on the Today Show this morning. The cohostette, Ann Curry, interviewed Clinton, she said, “This week you’ve been reading this article in TIME Magazine, lists you as number 13 on the list of who is to blame for our current economic crisis. Should you be 13 on that list?”

CLINTON: Hell, no, let me ask you this. My question to them is do any of them seriously believe that if I had been president and my economic team has been in place the last eight years that this would be happening today? And I think they know the answer to that’s no.

RUSH: Well, that’s a hell of a defense, “I think everybody knows if my economic team had been in place.” He had his own trouble. Look it, the guy that let Osama Bin Laden run around half free without doing a thing about it, come on, Mr. President. The dirty little secret is Clinton is part of the problem with the Community Redevelopment Act. His economic team was threatening the banks if they didn’t make these worthless loans. The Bush administration tried, what is it, 11 times to tighten regulation on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and was beat down by the Democrats in Congress at every turn. The only way, folks, I have to be honest with you here, I always am, the only way that Bill Clinton could say, and be truthful, (doing Clinton impression) “Hell, no, let me ask you this. My question to them is, did anybody seriously believe if I had been president and my economic team had been in place the last eight years that this would be happening today? I think they know the answer.” That’s right, Mr. President, because you would have cooked the books, just like you did with the commerce department’s closing numbers when you left office. The Clinton administration would have cooked the books.

Here’s what he should have finished this up with, (doing Clinton impression)”and let me tell you how we’d have done it, too, I mean everybody knows this. We’d have cooked the books and idiots like you, you’d never know how bad it was until the next administration, you’d blame them. That’s exactly what happened. You think my body is going to take the blame for something like this? You think this is ever going to happen? No way, babe. No way. What are you doing later, by the way? He-he-he. Clinton Global Initiative in town here. What are you doing?”

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My little home town made Rush’s show today, too. HUH!

“Sex-Changed Wife Exercises Husband to Death

RUSH: How many times on this program, ladies and gentlemen, have I lectured accurately about exercise, as related to weight loss? And how many times have people argued with me? Not just my own staff, but several of you have sent me caustic e-mails, have called me on the EIB Network phone and discussed my stubbornness about this? Yet I keep producing data that indicates without exception, that exercise as a means of losing weight, is irrelevant. Now, a doctor said to me, “Rush, you’re right about this. You’re really right about it. However, if you start an exercise regimen and if you just do it every day — for example, if you just force yourself to get on the treadmill. Start out 15 minutes a day, then move it up to 30. Once you do it, once you got a week or with it under your belt you’ll have such guilt over having that piece of pie you won’t do it because it will make all the stuff on the treadmill worthless.”

He said, “This is how exercise can help you eat less.”

I said, “Doc, exercising increases my appetite. The first two or three days of strenuous exercise, it doesn’t. After that the appetite becomes voracious, and it’s a never-ending cycle.”

I have spoken often of the pitfalls of exercise, based on the false premise. In light of that I’d like to add to my repertoire with this story from Chardon, Ohio: “A woman has pleaded guilty to reckless homicide for exercising her 73-year-old husband to death in a swimming pool, repeatedly refusing to let him leave the water. Surveillance video showed Christine Newton-John, 41, pulling James Mason around the pool by his arms and legs, said Middlefield Police Chief Joseph Stehlik. The chief said he counted 43 times in which [the 41-year-old wife] prevented her husband from leaving the water, and Mason rested his head on the side of the pool several times while gasping for breath.” “’The video is bone-chilling. The whole case is very sinister,’ said police chief Joseph Stehlik.” Mason, the 73-year-old husband of the 41-year-old Newton-John “had a heart attack on June 2 after the extended swim session in Middlefield, Ohio. A police officer who had investigated previous complaints that Mr Mason was being abused pursued the case because he suspected there was more to the death,” and there was. I’ll give you the rest of it after the break. But don’t talk to me about exercise, especially when women push it. Remember what Delilah did to Samson.

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RUSH: Okay. When we last were together, ladies and gentlemen, three-and-a-half minutes ago, I was telling you about the story involving 41-year-old Christine Newton-John, who exercised her 73-year-old husband, James Mason, to death — literal death — in their swimming pool. She was dragging him around. There’s a video of this. The cops have seen it. She was dragging him around there by his arms and legs, not letting him out of the pool until he assumed room temperature. Now, I know a lot of you are thinking, “Okay, what’s the story? A 73-year-old guy, 41-year-old woman.” Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.

“The deceased,” James Mason, 73, was “a longtime friend of his wife’s family.” James Mason knew his wife “as John Vallandingham before” John Vallandingham had a chopadickoffamy operation and became a woman. This happened in 1993, and John Vallandingham after the chopadickoffamy... This not an adadictomy; this is a chopadickoffamy. He (she)”changed her name in honour of Olivia Newton-John, the singer and star of the hit movie Grease. The couple were wed in 2006 in Kentucky, where people can change their gender on their birth certificate.” Did you know that about Kentucky, that you could change your gender on a birth certificate? I did not know that about Kentucky.”

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