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"I couldn't care less about the Republican Party, particularly when you look at the candidate they are supporting -- Dede Scozzafava --
up there in the 23rd District of New York. Frankly, folks, our focus is not on the Republican Party. Our focus is on trying to save the country."
"Story: 'One official told Fox News that Feinberg, from the start, had the independent authority to work with companies [to slash pay]…
Obama was never required to sign off before final decisions were made.' Whisky tango foxtrot, WTF, who the hell is going to believe this?"
"I want to ask you: How is your life better now that the pay czar is in control? Okay, so these Wall Street guys got 90% of their salaries cut. You want to live on vengeance?"
"When I speak out against a czar dictating the salaries and bonuses of executives who work at bailed-out firms,
I am not arguing for any particular person or salary or benefit -- I am coming out against unchecked tyranny.
I am speaking out against the taking of the fruits of one's labor by a government."
"Obama is now out there saying that Fox News is talk radio. Well, if that's true, then MSNBC is pornography, and Obama likes MSNBC."
"I love Dick Cheney, I love his family, and this is very courageous for him to do -- to speak out against the Obama administration.
Is there an elected Republican speaking up like this? I don't think so."
"Story: '"I'm here because of you," Obama wrote Kerry on the January day he was inaugurated.
The note is framed and hangs on Kerry's office wall.'
See, I should have given you a hurl alert. Sorry. Go grab a wastebasket for your puke."
"We have an administration in love with the teachings of Chairman Mao, so when Louie Farrakhan comes along and says that the swine flu
vaccine was developed to kill people, he seems perfectly within the realm of reality, given all the other news that's going on out there."
"Daily listeners to this show have developed the courage necessary to deal with the truth without going crazy.
Liberals, meanwhile, listen at their own risk."
"What is it about libs and the trauma of having to fly on luxury jets? Somehow they always get involved in sniper fire."
"You know, Obama is not the only one who has school kids singing songs to him. I do, too, but the only problem is I don't have a cow bell in my song.
We could easily add a cow bell, though, if we wanted."
"Would you people please stop and think about what you're saying? You pay taxes, so you think you can dictate pay for firms?
Folks, you have to wake up here! This is absurd!"
"I'm more frustrated than I have ever been. Each and every day brings more evidence that we have a purposeful destruction of the
private sector economy in the United States, and it's not just Obama -- it's the entire Democrat Party which has signed on to do so."
"It seems to me that Congress and the president ought to have their salaries cut by 90%. Well, look at their record!
Look at what they've done to the currency, to the deficit, and to all our money!"
"Forty-nine out of 50 states have reported job losses after the stimulus. Hope and change, folks. You remember what hope is:
hope is an excuse for doing nothing, for waiting around for Mr. Obama to make your life right."
"The fact is millions of people have gone from indifference (or even support) for Obama to outright opposition.
It is out there, it is effervescing, it is bubbling up, and the media is not covering it, but you and I know it is out there."
"We are the ones championing liberty and free markets. We are the ones trying to save this country and wake the American people up.
So of course it's natural that we would be attacked. It's natural that we would be targeted by the aiders and abettors of this presidency."
"Washington, DC Metro officials say that they've seen a 40% increase in robberies in the first eight months of this year.
How's that hope and change working out for you, folks?"
"The secret to presidential success, ladies and gentlemen, is deniability. T ake Bill Clinton: 'I didn't know that was going on.
Ha-ha, Waco invasion! Why, you better go talk to Janet Reno. I had no clue about that!'"
"Has there ever been a bigger bucket of crap poured on Americans and American businesses than this administration
has poured on with this so-called pay czar, who's acting unilaterally without old Barry's knowledge? I ask you."
"The people who are reporting the truth in this country are the targets of this administration:
Fox News, talk radio, and me in particular. That's what's going on here."
"Make no mistake: Obama is not an innocent bystander. He's not Mr. Perfect. T his guy has a chip on his shoulder, and he's going after
anybody who he thinks is responsible for this nation's immorality and unjustness -- and those people happen to be those who achieve."
"Every business in the country can now see what happens when you make a deal with the devil, when you get in bed with a snake,
when you end up selling your soul: you get screwed. This is fascism."
"We can't hope to accomplish anything by talking down our country and attacking those who do its hardest work, as Dick Cheney said.
It's not just the military that Obama's selling out; it's all of us."
"Guess what's going to happen eight minutes from now? President Obama is going to make a public statement on the
90% reduction in salaries and bonuses from these firms that he runs. It can only be to gloat about this."
"From the AP: 'A top White House economist says that spending from the $787 billion economic stimulus has already had its biggest
impact on economic growth and will likely not contribute to significant expansion next year.' Forty-nine out of 50 states have lost jobs, and this is it!"
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All right, this is from February of this year. That's all we know. It's an unknown school, here is a group of third great elementary school students singing a song about President Obama.
SCHOOLKIDS: Obama is the president, first African-American in history. The 44th president of the United States. The ground has shifted (clap) the world has changed. (cowbell) Oo-oo-oo! I'm a proud American. Oo-oo-oo! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes, we can! I'm gonna study real hard just like Barack! Learning never, ever stops! Gonna set my goals high and graduate. You might be looking at the president of 2048. (cowbell)
RUSH: That's a cowbell!
SCHOOLKIDS: Oo-oo-oo! I'm a proud American. Oo-oo-oo! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes, we can! We are a nation of a thousand colors. Look at me. Our strength is our diversity. Walking hand in hand we sing, each day a little closer to the Dream of Dr. King... Together we walk, me and you. So, so much work left to do.
RUSH: That was a cowbell in there. This is from February, we don't even know the school. You know, Obama's not the only one who has school kids singing songs to him.
SCHOOLKIDS PARODY: Rush Hudson Limbaugh. Mmm, mmm, mmm. Rush Hudson Limbaugh. Mmm, mmm, mmm. (Battle Hymn of the Republic tune) My ears have heard Rush Limbaugh on my parents' radio. He tells me that the left is wrong and stuff I need to know. We turn it off when he is done 'cause there is no other show. Rush, keep broadcasting on. Glory, glory hallelujah. Glory, Clinton couldn't fool ya. Barack Obama can't ignore ya. Rush, keep broadcasting on. In 1951 he was born in Missouri. Now he's on the radio conducting EIB. On the air to set us free from sea to shining sea, he keeps broadcasting on. Glory, glory hallelujah. Glory, Clinton couldn't fool ya. Barack Obama can't ignore ya. Rush, keep broadcasting on. Rush keep broadcasting on!
RUSH: The only problem is I don't have a cowbell in my song. My kids didn't bring a cowbell in there, but maybe we could easily add a cowbell if we wanted. Obama's kids got nothing on our kids, folks. That's the bottom line.
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RUSH: Get this, now. This is hot off the press. Just an hour ago from State-Controlled AP: "A top White House economist says spending from the $787 billion economic stimulus has already had its biggest impact on economic growth and will likely not contribute to significant expansion next year." This is it. This is it. Seven months after the stimulus, 49 of 50 states have lost jobs, the jobless claims are way up, denting recovery hopes, and now Christina Romer of the Obama administration -- and we wonder for how long she will be with the Obama administration -- now says this is it, the Porkulus has already had its biggest impact on economic growth. We only spent 14% of it, the bulk of it gets spent next year and what she's telling us is what we already know, that it's not about economic stimulus, it's to reelect Democrats. That's where most of the money is going to go. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi did not get the memo. Late yesterday afternoon on CNBC, Maria Bartiromo interviewed the speaker of the House, "Do we need a second stimulus? It seems that after $787 billion in stimulus and then the $700 billion from TARP, it's surprising we haven't seen a bigger impact here."
PELOSI: I don't think anybody's surprised that we haven't seen any job creation from TARP. The recovery package that we passed later in January under President Obama has had positive results. Economists told us this morning in our session that absent that recovery package, we'd be in much worse shape.
RUSH: Hard to see how.
PELOSI: It's no accident that right now that as the recession's coming to an end it does so where the recovery package is weighing in at its biggest impact in this third quarter, quarter of '09. But more must be done. It's not enough to say we saved jobs and we haven't created enough. And that's why we have to look at the tax code and other remedies that are there for us in the short term.
RUSH: Okay, so Christina Roemer says, this is it, folks, the biggest bang for the buck has already happened, ain't going to get any more. Pelosi said, stimulus is working, now it's time to raise taxes. So Bartiromo said, "On the tax issue, allowing the --" now, you gotta hear this. You got to hear this. "-- allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire would essentially be a tax increase."
PELOSI: It isn't a tax increase, it is eliminating a tax decrease that was there. It was controversial to begin with. It is a boon to those who have had it for now, but I think that you will see that happen, and that is -- that affects, what, the upper 2% of our population --
BARTIROMO: Given the fact that we are still in this fragile recovery, would you rethink allowing those tax cuts to expire given that we are still pretty vulnerable in terms of the economic recovery?
PELOSI: I don't think many people here see, nor do the American people see, those tax cuts at the high end as being job creating. They think that that's part of the reason we're in the fiscal, budgetary situation that we're in, because those tax cuts cost money. We can't afford those taxes, we never could, those tax cuts.
RUSH: All right. Did you figure all that out, ladies and gentlemen? We're dealing with genuine idiots here. Genuine economic illiterate idiots are running the show here. So the administration says, "We've already had our biggest bang for the buck in the stimulus," Pelosi said, oh, no, no, no, it's working, it's time to raise taxes. But it's not a tax increase to let a tax cut expire? No, no, no. It's eliminating a tax decrease that was there. It's eliminating a tax decrease that was there. Who is going to be sending more money to Washington? Do you realize -- well, yeah, you do realize it because the economy is you, and there isn't any growth out there. I'm more frustrated than I have been. Each and every day brings more evidence that we have a willful and purposeful destruction of the private sector economy in the United States, and it's not just Obama, it is the entire Democrat Party which has signed on to do so.
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RUSH: The economic news continues to be unbelievably horrible and bad. And, by the way, I think Christina Romer is saying this is it. We've had the Big Bang for the buck that we're going to get on the stimulus. Is she not saying, ladies and gentlemen, that Barack Obama's stimulus has failed? Forty-nine out of 50 states report job losses after the stimulus! So his own economic advisor, Christina Romer, is essentially saying Obama has failed. "Hope and change." You remember what hope is. Hope is an excuse for doing nothing, people sitting around waiting for Mr. Obama to make their lives right. "Labor Department statistics show that the District of Columbia leads the nation in the percentage of jobs lost in September relative to population. Figures released show that New York lost the most jobs last month but DC had the highest percentage of jobs lost relative to population. The DC unemployment rate shot up to 11.4%," right under Obama's nose.
Right under the administration's nose! "The Michigan unemployment rate is the highest in the nation at 15%." The media is not concerned. They keep saying, "Jobless Claims Dent Recovery Hopes." You go back to 2004, or 2008 and look at them reporting a loss of 20,000 jobs, and it was a calamity, it was disaster, it was a recession in the making. And, of course, that's when George W. Bush was in the office.
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"In Gallup daily tracking that spans Obama's third quarter in office, July 20th through October 19th, the president averaged a 53% job approval rating, which is down sharply from his prior quarterly averages which were both above 60%. In fact, the nine-point drop in the most recent quarter is the largest Gallup has ever measured for an elected president between the second and third quarters of his term dating back to 1953. One president who was not elected in his first term, Harry Truman, had a 13-point drop between his second and third quarters in office in 1945 and 1946. More generally, Obama's nine-point slide between the quarters ranks as one of the steepest for a president at any point in his first years in office." So his numbers are tanking. The media is doing everything it can to cover for him and his party.
The fact is millions of people have gone from indifference or even support for Obama to outright opposition. It is out there, it is effervescing, it is bubbling up. The media is not covering it but you know and I know it is out there. There used to be indifference. There used to be moderate support. It has given way to outright opposition. All over this country -- in every city, every demographic you want to talk about -- Obama's policies are very unpopular because they require the bankrupting of the country. They undermine the Constitution. And his staff is extremely radical. The staff reflects his own belief system. He is his staff, he is his czars. All this baloney about how far out of the mainstream traditional conservatives are?
The fact is we can see all around us that it is Obama and his administration and his party and his supporters in and out of the media who have lost the confidence of the public. The public doesn't trust the media. The public does not trust Obama. The public does not trust the czars. The public does not trust Congress. The public basically does not trust its government anymore. And yet, Politico is out with its second installment today (summarized): "Oh, yeah. It's conservatives causing the problems the Republican Party! The Republican Party is meeting in secret to find out what they can do about Limbaugh and Beck and Hannity and Levin. Oh, no!" The country's falling apart. We have nothing to do with it. We are the ones championing liberty and freedom, free markets.
We are the ones trying to save this country and wake the American people up, those who are still asleep at the switch here and alert them as to what is really happening. And of course it's natural that we would be attacked. It's natural that we would be targeted by the aiders and abettors in the media of the Obama presidency. So they're now meeting in secret. They've created an enemies list. They are using tax dollars and the law to destroy certain companies and industries all for the purpose of appointing their cronies to head them -- and Politico is concerned about us. The Drive-By Media is obsessed with us. We are said to be the greatest threat to the future of the Republican Party. At this point, folks, I couldn't care less about the Republican Party, particularly when you look at the candidate they are supporting, Dede Scozzafava up at the 23rd District of New York.
Frankly, folks, our focus is not on the Republican Party. Our focus is trying to save the country, save the country as it was founded. And there is a lot of hope in that regard. The Heritage Foundation today talks about the vote in the Senate yesterday: "You have to read all the way to page A-25 in today's New York Times to learn about it, but the Senate took its first floor vote on Obamacare yesterday and the White House lost. Big. The NYT reports: 'Democrats lost a big test vote on health care legislation on Wednesday as the Senate blocked action on a bill to increase Medicare payments to doctors...'" They tried to bribe the doctors and people wouldn't go along with it. "Yesterday's vote marks a significant failure of the Left's special interest approach to passing Obamacare. From the beginning, the White House thought that if it bought off all of the business interests involved (the American Medical Association, the drug industry, health insurers, hospitals, etc.) opposition to the plan would wither.
"In one sense, the plan worked. USA Today reports PhRMA, Pfizer, America's Health Insurance Plans, and the Federation of American Hospitals have all ponied up millions of dollars for lobbying and television ads in support of Obamacare. But all these special interest television ads failed to rid Americans of their common sense objections to Obamacare's government takeover of health care." Read all about it at the Heritage Foundation. The American people have told Gallup they want to see Congress move in the opposite direction they're currently moving on health care. This was a big failure for the Democrats, a big failure for their strategy, a big failure for their tactics. They'll be back, but it was a huge failure.
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| • Gallup: Obama Quarterly Approval Average Slips Nine Points to 53% • Heritage Foundation: A Whole New Health Care Ball Game • Politico: Conservatives Roar; GOP Trembles |
CHENEY: Having announced his Afghanistan strategy in March, President Obama now seems afraid to make a decision and unable to provide his commander on the ground with the troops he needs to complete the mission. It's time for President Obama to make good on his promise. The White House must stop dithering while America's armed forces are in danger. (applause) Make no mistake, signals of indecision out of Washington hurt our allies and embolden our adversaries. Waffling while our troops on the ground face an emboldened enemy endangers them and hurts our cause.
RUSH: Another sound bite from the former vice president.
CHENEY: The president's chief of staff claimed that the Bush administration had not asked any tough questions about Afghanistan, and he complained that the Obama administration had to start from scratch to put together a strategy. We dug into every aspect of Afghanistan policy, reviewing options and recommendations and briefing President-elect Obama's team. They asked us not to announce our findings publicly, and we agreed, giving them the benefit of our work and the benefit of the doubt. The new strategy that they embraced in March ,with a focus on counterinsurgency and an increase in the number of troops, bears a striking resemblance to the strategy we passed to them.
RUSH: And yet this little man now runs around like a baby, blaming the Bush administration. He sends Rahm Emanuel out on television Sunday to blame the Bush administration once again for having no battle plan in Afghanistan, for leaving poor old Obama with no direction, nowhere to go, whoa is us, oh, it's so sad, our brilliant president was really let down by former President Bush and Vice President Cheney. (crying) Cry, cry, cry. And now we learn that they presented them a plan, and the Obama people said, "By the way, don't go public with this." Cheney said, "Okay, fine." And they used the plan in March as though it was their own, and now they're abandoning the plan.
Cheney says we can win if we have courage.
CHENEY: Now they seem to be pulling back and blaming others for their failure to implement the strategy that they embraced last March. It's time for President Obama to do what it takes to win a war he has repeatedly and rightly called a war of necessity. (applause) And the success of our mission in Afghanistan is not only essential; it is entirely achievable with enough troops and enough political courage.
RUSH: Taking it to them. You know, Cheney is a great man. I love Dick Cheney. I love his family, and this is very courageous for him to do. Is there an elected Republican speaking up like this? I don't think so. The Republican Party is full of a bunch of moderates, I guess, now. Well, Mike Pence, great guy, there's some of them, don't misunderstand, but I don't see anybody speaking up like this. By the way, the applause was raucous. We have simply edited the applause that Cheney got for time constraints. This is great. I love this one, too. In this bite, Cheney accuses the Obama administration of libel.
CHENEY: To call enhanced interrogation a program of torture is not only to disregard the program's legal underpinnings and safeguards, such accusations are a libel against dedicated professionals who acted honorably and well. Intelligence officers who acted in the service of this country find themselves hounded with a zeal that should be reserved for America's enemies. The Justice Department is set on a political mission to discredit, disbar, or otherwise persecute the very people who helped protect our nation in the years after 9/11.
RUSH: Exactly right. And it's being done on purpose. And furthermore, in his final line, Vice President Cheney last night in Washington knocks Obama for talking down the United States.
CHENEY: We cannot protect this country by putting politics over security and turning the guns on our own guys. We cannot hope to win a war by talking down our country and those who do its hardest work, the men and women of our military and intelligence services. They are, after all, the true keepers of the flame. (applause)
RUSH: "We can't hope to accomplish anything by talking down our country and attacking those who do its hardest work." It's not just the military that Obama's selling out. It's all of us. It's all of us who are being assaulted, attacked. Our private sector, which produces our jobs, our livelihood, it's where our dreams and ambitions meet with either our success our failure. It's all being co-opted and taken over by the government.
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RUSH: The White House, ladies and gentlemen, has fired back at Dick Cheney. Robert Gibbs, the press secretary, "was asked about Cheney's comments today and said that Cheney failed Afghanistan. 'What Vice President Cheney calls "dithering" President Obama calls his solemn responsibility of the men and women in uniform,' Gibbs said Thursday. 'I think we've all seen what happened when somebody doesn't take that responsibility seriously.' Calling Cheney's comments 'curious,' Gibbs attacked the Bush administration for allegedly taking years to provide the support necessary for the war effort in Afghanistan.
"'I think it's pretty safe to say,' Gibbs said, 'that vice president was for seven years not focused on Afghanistan, even more curious given the fact that an increase in troops sat on desks in this White House including the vice president's for more than eight months.' So the White House fires back. But when they fire back, we hit back twice as hard.
I went back, ladies and gentlemen, to our news archives because I think it's important that everybody remember there were plenty of mainstream media news stories about the unprecedented briefings from Bush to Obama. Here's just one. New York Times' Peter Baker, December 16th of 2008:
"The White House has prepared more than a dozen contingency plans to help guide President-elect Barack Obama if an international crisis erupts in the opening days of his administration, part of an elaborate operation devised to smooth the first transition of power since Sept. 11, 2001. "The memorandums envision a variety of volatile possibilities... 'This is very unusual,' said Roger Cressey, a former Clinton White House counterterrorism official who was held over under Mr. Bush. 'We certainly did not do that,'" with the Clinton years. "'When the transition happened from Clinton to Bush, remember it was a totally different world. You had some documents given that gave them a flavor of where things were at. But now you've got two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a hot war against Al Qaeda.'" The media went out of its way, Gibbs, to point out how Bush was briefing Obama! It was "unprecedented."
Now, the real reason the press did this? Don't be fooled. Everybody knew that Obama had no clue what he was doing in foreign policy. The reason the press talked about all of the cooperation between Bush and Obama on foreign policy during the transition was to create the impression that Bush saw the Obama people as worthy and responsible successors. It was all... The purpose of these stories was not to praise Bush. The purpose of all these stories was to elevate Obama to a position of credibility and stature as president-elect. So Gibbs is up there, "Cheney failed Afghanistan. Cheney (muttering)."
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RUSH: I just saw something. During the top-of-the-hour break, I'm in Snerdley's office, and I'm watching what today is news pornography: MSNBC. I mean, if Obama's going to say that Fox News is "talk radio," then let's call out MSNBC for what it is: News pornography. And their guy at the White House, John Harwood, was giving a smiling, approving report on Kenneth Feinberg, the pay czar, announcing 90% pay cuts for 25 executives at the seven banks and auto companies that the government now runs. And he said that the administration had to do this to "quell public anger over the high compensation of these executives at firms who took taxpayer money." I'll bet you... I didn't hear it, but I would bet you that your local radio news at the on top of the hour probably had the same thing because that's the media template.
The pay czar cuts were demanded by you! These 90% reductions in salary and compensation from the pay czar, it had to happen because you were demanding it. The public was demanding that these guys get their salaries cut. So that's the excuse that they're giving. If this is true, if the majority of the American people want this, then we should see Obama's approval numbers just skyrocket the next time a poll is taken, right? So let me see if I understand this. The argument is that if the government has some role, including tax dollars, in a project or a program or service that someone benefits from, then the government has the authority to set standards -- like salaries, benefits, prices, and so forth. Okay. Fine.
If that's what you think, let me ask you a question: Where do we draw the line once this power is unleashed? Let's say you receive a subsidy. After all, if you have a student loan, you are being subsidized by your benevolent government. On that basis, if the government has an involvement in something and they have the total right to dictate terms, then I guess the government can dictate what course you'll take and what your major will be, where you will go to school, who teaches you. How about people who received subsidized government housing? Should the government be able to tell them what they can eat, how many cars they can have? After all, it's subsidizing your housing! It's taxpayer money that's buying your house or that's securing your college education.
If it's subsidizing your housing then it's allowing you to keep more of your money to spend in other ways. Why should you be able to do that without some dictate from the government? If you're going to sit here and tell me that these Wall Street guys deserve to get screwed like this because, "It's taxpayer money and they're being bailed out and we want them to suffer," well, then, last I saw, 52% of the people of this country received some sort of check from the government at some point, which means that 52% of you might someday have to sit there and follow the dictates of this tyrannical regime called the Obama administration. How about General Motors and Chrysler? The government owns them now with their United Autoworker friends.
Can the government now tell you how far you can drive, how often you can drive, how many cars you can have, what you will pay for gasoline? If the argument is that a government connection -- a financial government connection -- somehow gives the government a constitutional power to dictate, then what are the limits to this power and where are they written? Well, the answer is, there are no limits, really, and they aren't written anywhere. I'm depressed. After 21 years I still have to say what I'm going to say next. After 21 years! For those of you who have been listening to this show for 21 years, if what I'm saying to you is causing a light to go off and you haven't considered it before, it depresses me.
When I speak out against a "czar" dictating salaries and bonuses for executives who work at bailed-out firms, I am arguing against tyranny. I am not arguing for any particular person or salary or benefit. I am not arguing or supporting an industry. I am coming out against tyranny -- unchecked, uncontrolled tyranny. I am speaking out against the wanton, abject taking of individual liberty and freedom. I am speaking out against the taking of the fruits of one's labor by a government. They are taking and stealing people's work. It frightens me deeply that so many people seem to think this is a good idea. This government is taking over more and more things with and without our permission. To say that that empowers the government to control our liberty, is to surrender your liberty. You're giving it up when you allow this kind of tyranny to take place, for whatever emotional satisfaction you might derive from it.
If the government buys jet engines from Lockheed Martin or some other firm and the company makes billions of dollars from the government purchases, does the government then have the power to determine the salaries and benefits of the executives of Lockheed Martin? By virtue of what I'm hearing some people say today, by God, yes, they do -- and that scares me. I'm telling you, folks, New Zealand is looking better all the time. Now, the Lockheed Martin example is not a bailout. But without that money, the firm might well suffer economic setbacks or even go under. Why limit the issue to executive salaries? Can the government set the wages and benefits of the employees? If not, why not? Once they have the power, what limits them? You think it's just about 25 executives -- rich, hated Wall Street executives? You think it's just about those 25? (scoffs)
This is called a giant jackboot in the door. This becomes a spiral, a spiral in which your liberty is lost and the government's power is absolute. Now, of course they're starting with the cases which they know are the least sympathetic. They know Wall Street people have no sympathy. They know that people have a genuine dislike because of the successful class envy ploys that they've used over 50 years. They know there's a lot of hatred out there. There's a lot of people wanting to say, "You tell those people that have $20 million houses, yeah! You take their money away! Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! I don't even have a job. Why are we bailing them out?" Okay, fine. So you see how they do it? They pick targets where or where they think a majority of Americans will support the action against. But then, folks, the principle is set and the power is then exercised, and it's never surrendered.
You think it's just funny what's going on with the attack on Fox News from the White House? You think it's just an interesting news story of the day? Have you thought this through? Do you realize what this is all about? This is not just about marginalizing Fox. This is making sure that no other news agency carries any story reported by Fox. This is about trying to see to it that Fox loses sponsors. This is about sweeping Fox off the playing field. It is not the result of Obama panic. It is not the result that Obama is worried about and he's losing control. Because he is cementing more control each and every day. Everything that's happening here is according to plan and is on schedule, health care notwithstanding. That's the one thing that does have them bugged because it's supposed to be done by now.
He is having genuine trouble on that in his own party. Things are not rosy, but he's taking liberty and freedom from people every day, and he's trying to sweep the playing field of all of his opposition. And if he succeeds at doing that then there's no stopping him. So this is not about "getting even" with these Wall Street guys to me. This is not about defending Wall Street guys or Wall Street or the financial industry or anything about them or what they've done. It's about shouting from the rooftops that we are losing liberty, that tyranny is on the march -- and it's on the march under the guise of a smile and a soft-spoken eloquence, when a bludgeon is being used each and every day.
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RUSH: Do you realize, ladies and gentlemen, what we are living through right now is exactly why the Revolutionary War was fought? What we are living through right now is exactly why the Constitution was written, to limit the powers of a tyrannical government. And we have fought numerous wars to preserve that liberty for ourselves and even other nations, and now we appear to be just giving it away. For what? Somebody tell me what's good about this. Somebody explain to me why we are giving away our liberty and giving in to tyranny? For what? Where's the improvement here? Fairness? Fairness! So we have been overtaken by fairness? Fairness is why we give away liberty? Fairness is why we surrender to tyranny?
By the way, this reminder: Lest we forget, within days, probably hours of President Obama's election, it was announced that the TARP program wasn't going to be anything like it was supposed to be. It would not be used to buy troubled assets after all. The Troubled Asset Relief Program, that's what TARP stands for. November 12, 2008, AP: "Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Wednesday the $700 billion government rescue program will not be used to purchase trouble assets as originally planned. He announced a new goal for the program: to support financial markets which supply consumer credit in such areas as credit card debt, auto loans, and student loans." They've taken over student loans. Next January the student loan program will be totally run by the government. They own two automobile companies, and now they're consolidating as much of Wall Street into Obama control as possible. So as soon as Obama was elected the whole purpose of TARP was changed, lest we forget, and we see now why. What is happening is by design.
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RUSH: Mike in Jacksonville, Florida. I want to squeeze a call in here before we have to take a break. How are you, sir?
CALLER: Good, sir. I was watching the news last night on this pay czar thing, and I was actually happy about it. As a small business owner I'm thinking this might wake some people up, finally. You know, I don't know if anyone -- maybe it's just me that caught onto this -- but did anyone listen to the 90%? I mean, why 90%? Why not 50%? Why not a hundred percent? This is just like what the government does with everything they do,. It's an arbitrary number to get everyone worked up, and then we gotta sift through all the ramifications.
RUSH: Well, we will see. We will see. Remember now, the State-Controlled Media today, Mike, is backing up the decision by the pay czar -- who acted without Obama's knowledge, we are told. They're backing it up because they're saying people like you, Mike, are demanding this. The American people are angry over these execs and their bonuses and their compensation. The American people want these guys financially raped. Obama is simply reacting to overwhelming public demand. So that's the story they're putting out. So everybody that watches the mainstream media is going to think that everybody else in the country is happy about this. So they think, "Well, maybe I should think it's a good thing, too, if everybody else does," and this is how propaganda is spread.
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RUSH: It seems to me, folks, we pay Congress' salary. Don't we? And who is it that determines whether or not they get a raise? Why, it's themselves! Do we have anything to say about it? No. Just every two years in November. That's about it. They cost a lot of money, too, folks. These people are bleeding us dry. The United States Congress is breaking this country. It's going into bankruptcy. Now, it seems to me that Congress and the president ought to have their salaries cut by 90%. Look at their record. Look at what they've done to the currency, to the deficit. Look at all the waste with our money. Why aren't their salaries cut by 90%? Why aren't we out there demanding that people be held accountable? Why do we bow down to this tyrannical authority they have aimed at us? "Oh, the government says we have to get a vaccine, and the government knows everything! The government is best. We never challenge the government." This is starting to remind me of the stories I read about the Soviet Union in the sixties and seventies.
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RUSH: Now, I had a lot of people email me. I checked the e-mail and have been doing that during the break. "Rush, what do you mean?" This is when I was warning people about the tyranny of supporting this unaccountable pay czar cutting executive pay. I made mention of the fact that if the government gives you a student loan, can they tell you where to go to school? Can they tell you what to study? "Common, Rush! As usual..." I get the e-mails. "As usual, Rush, you're exaggerating." I am not exaggerating. Can I take you back to September 15th, 1993? New York Times: "In an effort to create more family doctors, President Clinton's health plan would empower the Federal Government to decide how many doctors should be trained each year as family practitioners, radiologists, surgeons, neurologists and other specialists.
"The proposal is provoking intense debate among medical educators and other experts." The Clinton health care bill was going to assign universities to medical students. The Clinton health care bill, had it become law, would have told graduating doctors where they had to go to work! It would have assigned them hospitals, cities, and communities. They were going to stop them from specializing. If we had "too many" radiologists, they were going to make 'em specialize in something else. The same thing is happening now, except they're not letting this kind of detail get made public. But it's all in the plan. It's all part of the future. All right, back to the phones. To McHenry, Illinois. John, I'm glad you waited. You're next on the EIB Network, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Hi. How you doing, Rush?
RUSH: Pretty good, sir. Thank you.
CALLER: Good. Before I get to my point I just want to thank you from all of us in middle America. You keep sounding the trumpets of freedom and liberty. And you and Sean and everybody are truly appreciated. I know there's many of us out there who wish we could do more for you but we certainly appreciate your willingness to be here for us.
RUSH: Oh-ho-ho! You have done more for me than I can ever thank you for.
CALLER: Well, it's certainly my pleasure. My point is real simple. You know, we've got an administration that really has totally lost control but now we're going to go down this road where we're going to start telling people how much money they can make. Whereas we have, you know, Hollywood, which can sit down and make $20 million for what most of the time is a horrible film. But that seems to be okay. But now we're going to tell those that are responsible for our investments and making sure we have money for retirement by properly running these companies that, "You know, you can only make so much money here." I think it's ridiculous. The hypocrisy is just incredible.
RUSH: Well, I don't think the entertainment industry is off the hook here. They're just going to be... You know, right now the Obama people are going after people who they think nobody has any sympathy for.
CALLER: Well, that's true. I think you're a hundred percent right there. I just wonder at what point that the rest of the American public is truly going to start to wake up. It's almost scary that they haven't thus far.
RUSH: I, frankly, think more Americans are wide awake on this than you would ever know. They're just not reported on -- and when they do make themselves visible, such as at a town hall meeting or a tea party, they are ripped to shreds. They are criticized. They are called Nazis. But look, Obama is tanking. Obama's numbers tanking. CNN itself yesterday with a story that half the country disagrees with Obama's policies. Well, if CNN is reporting that half the country disagrees, then it's more than half. The problem is that the people who are awakened feel powerless. They feel powerless. They have no political leadership in Washington representing what they stand for. That's what they see anyway. They don't see that that leadership exists. John in West Islip, New York. Thank you for waiting, sir. You're next. Hello.
CALLER: Rush, greetings from the People's Republic of New York. We miss your contribution to our tax base.
RUSH: (laughing) Yeah, mine and many others. (laughing)
CALLER: Yeah. Rush my question is, like, where are the people who are at the butt end of all of these programs that are coming out of the White House...? When is there going to be, like, constitutional challenges in court? Because, you know, I wonder if the guys -- you know, the smartest guys in the room on Wall Street, AIG, Bank of America who got the TARP money, mine and your TARP money. Did they read the fine print? Did they, like, see, "Hey, we're going to be able to take your pay away if you don't do what we want"? It absolutely amazes me. I just have one other quick point. Did you see at that Wall Street fundraiser how Obama tore into those idiots who paid 15 grand a plate?
RUSH: Yeah. I had that in the sound bite roster yesterday and I didn't get to it. Folks, let me tell you something. If I got to everything I have in my show prep, from my Stack of Stuff to every sound bite -- if I got to all of this every day -- we'd be talking you off the nearest bridge.
CALLER: Absolutely.
RUSH: We had it. I didn't get a chance to get to it. I didn't. I heard it. I heard it. The thing about this Wall Street business, I want you to think about this. You ask, "When are they going to rise up? When are they going to do something about it? When are they going to mount a constitutional challenge?" I don't think you understand the real, abject fear of this administration that most people that interact with it have. This is a time where these people do not want to make waves. Now, I want you to consider something else, too. There are lots of firms on Wall Street. Not all of them are having their pay cut. I'd have to get the list, but it's just five or six or maybe seven of them plus the automobile companies. But there's a whole bunch of people that are not even being touched, like Goldman Sachs, the wealthiest Wall Street firm.
Is anybody complaining that in a recession -- Biden calls it a "depression" -- they tried to hide the fact that they had a record first quarter this year and that their bonus payments to their people are in the billions? And do you hear the pay czar going after them or Obama going after them? No, no, no. Because there are some Wall Street firms that are A-okay. And they are the ones who are going to really get rich if this cap-and-trade thing happens because there's cap and there's "trade." Trade what? Trade carbon credits. Where do you trade things? Wall Street! The stock market! Guess who's going to be making money on both sides of the trades? Ever heard of Goldman Sachs? And I'm sure some others. So this is another point here, folks. You think Wall Street is being screwed. It isn't Wall Street. Some of the richest, wealthiest, most powerful people are being enriched further by virtue of this. They happen to be the ones giving all the money to Obama, by the way.
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RUSH: Let's move on to this pay czar business. I know a lot of you have mixed emotions about this. I'll explain what I think your mixed emotions are. Here you have a bunch of Wall Street types and they've already got a bad image, I mean these are the fat cats paying themselves gazillion dollar bonuses and salaries and nobody likes that and, meanwhile, they're getting rich, everybody else got poor, the subprime crisis, all the fraud that was there. So these guys, to save themselves, sign up for the TARP bailout and they accept all this bailout money, and they probably all voted for Obama, or the vast majority of them did and now all of a sudden out of the blue here comes a pay czar saying, "Guess what, we're gonna cut your pay by 90%." Some of you are going, "Well, good, about time that happened. These guys ripped us off, they stole, and everything, and now they're taking federal bailout money." Okay, if you get in bed with a snake you gotta expect the snake to be a snake. In this case the government's the snake, you get in bed with the government, you let the government bail you out, you are opening yourself up to letting government tell you how to run your business.
That's exactly what's happened, and I know that a lot you probably think that's pretty good. It's just like when you see taxes go up on cigarette smokers, "Yeah, smoking kills, secondhand smoke kills, raise taxes on those filthy people!" Yeah, you say that until it starts to happen to you. When everybody else starts to get the shaft but you don't and you think everybody who's getting the shaft deserves it, then you sign onto it. What happened yesterday with this pay czar, regardless of your emotions on this issue, is simply outrageous. The secret to presidential success, ladies and gentlemen, is deniability. That is one of the major secrets to any president's success. "I didn't know that was going on." Bill Clinton, (doing Clinton impression) "Ha-ha, Waco invasion, why, you better go talk to the attorney general, I had no clue about that." So now it is said that Obama had no idea that his pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, had come up with this figure of 90% cuts in pay. He didn't know. Stands by the decision now but he didn't know about it.
If that's true, these czars have even more power, there's even more reason for an investigation to be called. We got people who are not confirmed by the Senate, not accountable to anybody except Obama and he doesn't know what they're doing, his own administration says, running around basically taking over the private sector under the guise of bailing it out and helping it. You can look at General Motors and Chrysler and say, "Hey, that's going well, isn't it?" We learned yesterday that all that bailout money, guess what? The taxpayers will not get it back. Really? Government investments in these things are not going to pay off. Big shock. Whoever thought they were?
"It will go down in history as one of Barack Obama’s signature decisions on the economy, a dramatic move to slash corporate pay at bailed-out banks and automakers. But on Wednesday night, administration officials said that the president of the United States didn’t have all that much to do with a decision that will, in many ways, come to define his relationship with Wall Street. In fact, sources within the administration say the decision to cap corporate pay was Kenneth Feinberg’s, and his alone. … Feinberg’s decision rocked Wall Street – where many otherwise media friendly executives avoided phone calls and deleted e-mails from reporters Wednesday night. Many issued outright “no comment” statements rather than react to the pay-cut news in the first hours after the news broke. Very few executives thought a pay cut of this magnitude was in the offing."
Where to start with this, folks? This is a level 10 BS alert, Barbra Streisand alert. First we are supposed to believe that little old Barry Obama had no idea that his pay czar was out acting like a fascist, and other czars have and do. Barry was clueless that some rogue czar in his administration was out dictating pay for financial firms? It's like Barry had no idea that Anita Dunn idolizes Mao Tse-tung? Barry had no idea that Ron Bloom idolizes Mao Tse-tung? Barry had no idea that Van Jones was an avowed Marxist and communist? Barry had no idea of any of this? You see the wall of deniability the press is trying to build up? He didn't know about any of this. He's Mr. Perfect. He's Mr. Clean. He's Mr. Calm, Cool, and Collected. He's reworking the American economy so what's happening now doesn't ever happen again. The only way that can happen is if what's happening now becomes permanent. Let's go there. Has there ever been a more compelling case, I ask you, for Congress to get rid of every so-called czar there is, has there ever been a bigger bucket of crap poured on Americans and American businesses than this administration and this so-called pay czar who's acting unilaterally without old Barry's knowledge?
Is there no one in Congress to stand up and say, "What's going on? We're going to investigate this." You've got people acting without the president's knowledge, interfering in the private sector, capping executive pay. The problem is, the Democrats in Congress are all for this, and Barney Frank, in case you've forgotten, wants Congress to go further than even the pay czar has gone. Barney Frank wants the government to regulate pay of every business in the country whether they've received bailout money or not. So it's no wonder Obama is out there attacking me and Fox News. Who else will report this? That's what's really going on here. The people who are reporting the truth in this country are the targets of this administration. Fox News, talk radio, me in particular. That's what's going on. The American Thinker has a piece today. There was a hearing yesterday. Joe Lieberman, whatever his Senate health committee is, Lieberman had three administration officials up to talk about the shortage of the H1N1 flu vaccine.
Have you seen any news stories on that? Did you know it happened other than me telling you? If there were a shortage of flu vaccine in the Bush administration and a Senator had called three members of the administration up to explain it, that's all you'd be hearing about because they'd be trying to create a panic that Bush is incompetent, his administration is so incompetent it's going to lead to people dying. There was one news agency that reported the results, the story at all. It was Fox News. You can go to Google, you can go to AOL, you can go to any search engine you want and try to find any mainstream story of Lieberman and a hearing with three administration officials on the shortage of H1N1 and it's not there. They didn't report it. Only Fox did. And in this way, some people are saying maybe the administration's plan to marginalize Fox is working. Fox reports something, you simply let it stay with Fox, it doesn't go anywhere else, and only the Fox audience will know about it. There is definitely collusion, because there's no difference between Barack Obama and Chris Matthews, Barack Obama or anybody else in the Drive-By Media, they are on the same team, they are doing the same things, just from different locations.
I think everything about this story, this pay czar, is blockbuster. It's late-night comedy gold. Everything about the story is a lie. Everything about the story, this is in The Politico, but it's all over the place, it's at FoxNews.com, every detail about this story has to be a lie. I refuse to believe that Obama didn't know what Feinberg was doing. In fact, the truth probably is Feinberg's following orders. Feinberg is following orders, and I guaran-damn-tee you, Obama said you get up there and you rape 'em and you make 'em poor and you make 'em pay and you let 'em know. Just don't tell 'em that I knew anything about it. You go out there and you're on your own and I'll back you up.
I don't believe for a moment that Obama had no idea what his pay czar was doing when he announced these kinds of cuts. "One official told Fox News that Feinberg from the start had the independent authority to work with companies and make such a call. Obama was never required to sign off before final decisions were made." Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, WTF, who the hell is going to believe this? Sign me up for the Ten Million Man March, folks. This is so much worse than Clinton hiding behind Janet Reno's skirt after the Waco invasion, it isn't even funny. Obama didn't sign off? What the hell else has he turned over to his czars? I mean it's all a lie.
Here's another headline from Fox News: "White House Pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg Did Not Seek Obama's Approval." I don't believe it for a minute. I believe that Feinberg could not have acted without Obama's instructions. Make no mistake, Obama is not an innocent bystander, he's not Mr. Perfect, this guy's got a chip on his shoulder and he's going after everybody that he thinks is responsible for this nation's immorality and unjustness and unfairness, and those people happen to be those who achieve. I would really like to ask everybody, because I know there are a lot of people happy about this, this is what's scary, there are a lot of people happy that these guys have been raped this way. That's why I started the subject saying "I know you've got mixed emotions." But I want to ask you a question, I want to ask you how is your life better now that the pay czar is in control? Okay, these Wall Street guys got 90% of their salaries cut. I want to know how that's improved your life. If all you're doing is sitting around saying, "Yeah, man, yeah, man, you screw 'em," is your life any better for that? You want to live on vengeance? Is vengeance your diet? Is vengeance your meal? Show me the calories. Show me the nutritional value of it.
Just like when the rich get tax increases, "Yeah, man, yeah, man, soak 'em," does it make your life any better? So Wall Street execs are gonna lose 90% of their compensation. How is that job search coming for you, by the way? So you gonna get a new job now because of this? You gonna get more money? You going to have a better life because Wall Street got screwed? Cut salaries of a hotshot Wall Street guy, no problem, I'm not a Wall Street guy, you go ahead and cut 'em. Go ahead and raise taxes on cigarettes. I'm not one of the cigarette smokers. Ripple effect. It's all coming. It's going to affect all of us. It's right out in the open, we can all see it. By the way, in the Associated Press story on this, is this little paragraph: "Elsewhere, Freddie Mac --" a supposed private sector business, it's a government-run mortgage house "-- Freddie Mac is giving its chief financial officer compensation worth as much as five-and-a-half million dollars, including a $2 million signing bonus. The government-controlled mortgage finance company doesn't have to follow the executive compensation rules because it's being paid outside the Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP." So you work for the government and you get paid whatever you want. Five-and-a-half million to the Freddie Mac CEO, Wall Street guys get canned, get raped. And Barry Obama had no clue. Do you believe that?
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RUSH: John in Houston. Welcome to the EIB Network, sir. Hello.
CALLER: Hey, Rush! Mega dittos from the great state of Texas. Listened to you for many years, and it's so funny I get through on a day that I disagree with you on this one issue.
RUSH: Yeah?
CALLER: I'm open... I'm I will open to your ideas and changing me. The only thing I would like that B.O. has done so far is given those Navy SEALs the authorization to shoot the pirates. So I'm not a supporter of his. BUT the pay czar is limiting the compensation of the CEOs who have received my tax dollars. So I understand the overall principle you're saying, that it's a bad thing for the government to get into this business of regulating who can make what. I don't agree with that overall. But in these specifics instances, what's wrong with it?
RUSH: Well, there's a practical reality to all of this, and that is: Despite what you think of these people, they are the best and brightest at what they do and they're going to go elsewhere. They're going to elsewhere. They're going to leave the country to find jobs elsewhere. They're not going to sit and put up with this. You know, we can go on and on and on about "my tax dollars bailed them out." You know, 1.4 trillion of our tax dollars don't even exist and they're spending it! Look, I understand the mixed feelings. Central Planning fascists shouldn't have anything to say about private sector compensation. That's a given. But these firms took money from central planners. (I really would like to know how many of them voted for Obama.)
But here's the thing. Every business in the country can now see what happens when you make a deal with the devil, when you get in bed with the snake. You end up selling your soul. These companies are now screwed, John! They are screwed, which is the design here. The Obama administration... This is fascism: They're still private owned but they're being run by who? Not even Obama, we're told. The freaking pay czar, who doesn't even have to tell Obama what he's doing! So he doesn't have to stop at the execs. He can limit the pay of the janitors. He can limit the pay of anybody he wants -- and pretty soon, it's going to spread beyond companies that took TARP money. These people who put their companies on the hook are gonna get the hell out, and the second-teamers will step in and run things into the ground in partnership with the government that intends to take over these businesses.
The unintended consequences here are things that you need to look at. It's tempting to say, "Those are my tax dollars. They took my tax dollars and they paid themselves big bonuses! It's about time we got the tax dollars back!" You're not going to get the tax dollars, pal. Obama is taking them back, Obama is stealing people's work. Go talk to Ken Lewis who runs Bank of America. They are retracting; they are taking back his entire 2009 salary, the whole thing! Not 90%. All $2.3 million of it. Now, class envy has been practiced so well by the Democrats and a lot of the country is cheering about this. But it's not helping anybody's life. It's not improving anybody's circumstance. I'll tell you who I feel for here, John. There are shareholders of these companies. People like you who have invested in these companies, not with your tax dollars but with your after-tax dollars. Our government has taken advantage of a financial crisis they created. They're destroying firms, they're destroying jobs, destroying wealth, and they don't need to be applauded for it!
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RUSH: Look, folks, I'm going to have a lot more to say about this as soon as we get back in the monologue segment of the next hour. But would you people please stop and think what you're saying? So you pay taxes and you think you can dictate pay for firms? You pay taxes, and that allows you to support people who want to take over private business? Do you get to tell Walmart how much it pays people simply because you go in there and buy a damn pair of flip-flops every other day? Folks, you gotta wake up here. This is absurd.
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CALLER: Yes, hi, Rush.
RUSH: Hi.
CALLER: Thanks for taking my call. I'm a faithful listener for years. I just wanted to make another comment about the salaries Feingold (sic) is telling them what they can pay their executives.
RUSH: Feinberg.
CALLER: Feinberg, I'm sorry. No one is questioning Obama about this. When he took over the banks and the automobile companies, he said, "I don't want to run these companies." He said, "We'll just be shareholders." See, it's our money, the taxpayers' money. He said, "I don't want to, and I'll give the money back."
RUSH: I remember it. "I don't want to run these companies. I got a war to win. I don't want to run companies."
CALLER: Why aren't they questioning him? Because when Joe Wilson called him a liar, his whole campaign was on untruths. I get so upset when I hear this, that when they wanted to pay the money back but he said, "Oh, no! We have a stress test. We have to wait and see whether you have enough money before you can go back and run a bank," and no one is following this. He's going to continue to run these banks. This is what he wanted to do in the first place. And so they should really call him down. There's nobody to talk to him about it.
RUSH: Now --
CALLER: I called Congress. Who do you talk to when the top people you can't trust? You know, I called the FBI, and you know what they told me?
RUSH: No.
CALLER: They said, "Watch Fox cable and listen to talk radio," and then I called another time --
RUSH: Wait a minute! Wait a minute. Wait. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Back up. You called the FBI?
CALLER: Well, I wanted to find out what was going on with ACORN, the 14 states that they had arrested these people.
RUSH: What FBI office did you call?
CALLER: Los Angeles.
RUSH: And they told you to listen to Fox News and talk radio?
CALLER: Talk radio.
RUSH: To find out what was going on?
CALLER: Yes. And the next time I called you know what they said?
RUSH: No.
CALLER: Listen to talk radio and watch Glenn Beck. And they said, "We all watch Glenn Beck."
RUSH: That's what they told you at the FBI?
CALLER: Exactly. And so when I wanted to find out they said call the Justice Department, what was going on. Well if you can't trust the Justice Department, who do you talk to? Who do you talk to? You can't trust the top. I called John Boehner, because he's the one you can really talk to. I said, "You've got to tell them that Obama is going after the Internet and talk radio. They've gotta stop it."
RUSH: And what did he say?
CALLER: Well, I talked to the office. They said, "Yeah, we know what's going on," and when I called the FBI they said, "We know what's going on, but we can't do anything because the Secret Service will say they're in charge." This is what's going on right now.
RUSH: You know what, folks? I feel like I'm in that balloon flying over Colorado.
CALLER: They all know what's going on, but who do you go to? I feel like screaming.
RUSH: The woman calls the FBI (laughing) to find out what's going on. The FBI says, "Listen to Limbaugh. Watch Fox"? Look, to your original point here that Obama said he didn't want to run companies, and yet he's running companies. Don't forget what I said at the top of the show: One of the primary ingredients to any president's long-term success is the deniability. The Drive-Bys are doing very well getting the story out, "Hey, this Feinberg guy acted totally on his own. Obama is so busy working on Afghanistan, he didn't even know." Now, let's take 'em at their word just for the moment. Obama didn't know, okay? So Feinberg says, "Hey, Wall Street, 90% you're gone." Has Obama said, "I think that's a little high. Uh, I wish I'd have been consulted on that. Uh, we're going to roll that back to 88%." Has he said anything? He ordered this, but they're trying to give him deniability.
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MITCHELL: What prompted you to go to the floor of the Senate and make this accusation? You're talking about interest groups that have gone out, made campaign ads now against key elements of the president's program. What's wrong in going after them? You're not suggesting that the Obama White House has revitalized and recaptured that a-attitude and that kind of approach to politics?
SENATOR ALEXANDER: It's basically -- it's --
MITCHELL: (talking over him) We're talking about breaking and entering? The plumbers? I don't think you want to go there, Senator, saying that this White House -- at least in what it's done publicly or what we know it's done privately -- has even reached the level of threats and pressure of the Nixon White House.
RUSH: My goodness! So here she is, a "real news woman," lecturing us! "I don't think you want to go there, Senator! I might tell Obama what you said! I don't think I want to go there, Senator." This administration has gone far beyond what Richard Nixon even contemplated! This administration is targeting individual private citizens and a network. This administration is doing everything it can to silence and put out of business its opposition or its critics. Nixon was just trying to get a fair shake. It's amazing.
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CALLER: Shoot, I don't watch Oprah, it wasn't me, that was a girl from North Carolina. (laughing)
RUSH: My goodness.
CALLER: Okay, I want to go back to the comment you made about family doctors getting money for college --
RUSH: Yeah?
CALLER: -- from the government --
RUSH: Yeah.
CALLER: -- government had to send them where they needed them.
RUSH: That was in the Hillary health care plan.
CALLER: Well, I wanted to go back to 20 years ago when I was a young married woman and --
RUSH: Whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you now?
CALLER: I'm a middle-aged married woman.
RUSH: Okay.
CALLER: Okay. All right, so I'm 45. When I was in my early twenties I got married young and I decided I want to go back to college and neither of our parents had the money, which we were married, so, you know, we were on our own, and we didn't have the money, but I wanted to go back to college and South Carolina has a program called the South Carolina Teachers Loan Program. At that time it was enough money to pay for a four-year college degree. And I live in a small town of 5,000 people, but there is a major state-run university, Clemson University, 30 miles away from me. So I commuted every day. And the South Carolina Teachers Loan Program, if you made good grades and you taught in a critical geographic area, poor area, or you taught in a critical subject area, mathematics, which I did, secondary mathematics, high school math teacher, then they would pay the loan off, and if you do one or the other it was five years, and they still have this loan program but it's not enough to pay for the outrageous costs that college is today.
RUSH: By the way, I have to interrupt you here because you just reminded me of something, a story that I had yesterday, didn't get to, university tuitions all over the place are skyrocketing, and it's the one thing nobody in government's doing anything about, complaining about, trying to reverse --
CALLER: Right.
RUSH: -- 'cause we have the student loan program, we have this loan program, we have that and so forth -- so what eventually happened with you?
CALLER: Well, with me, I was very fortunate to get a job only 20 miles away from my hometown, and they paid for my loan in three years. But because I taught in a critical geographic area and a critical subject area, they paid my loan in three years, so I got a $25,000 education for free. But I taught where they wanted me to, but I was doing what I wanted to do. Now, talking about doctors taking that government money, also with that Teachers Loan Program in South Carolina, I didn't have to do that. If I had decided when I finished my four-year degree, you know, I don't want to go into education, I would just have paid it back like a loan. And I'm sure --
RUSH: What is your point here? You took the loan and they told you where you had to teach?
CALLER: Yeah. Well, my point is you make it sound like it's a problem for someone to take government money, like a doctor who did not have the money to go to college, and then, you know, the government tells you where you got to go to practice your medicine --
RUSH: I have a huge problem with that.
CALLER: No.
RUSH: I have a huge problem with that.
CALLER: No. Rush, if you don't have the money and that's the only way you're going to get your education, and it's probably only for four or five years that I would imagine that they want you to teach in a certain area -- I mean practice medicine in a certain area. Okay, let's go back to the CEO's high pay --
RUSH: No, let's not.
CALLER: Yeah, we are.
RUSH: No, we're not.
CALLER: Well, the problem there is, my husband had to take a 13% pay cut this year.
RUSH: I'm sure you're all for that.
CALLER: Oh we're loving it.
RUSH: You are loving that your husband had a 13% pay cut?
CALLER: No, I'm being facetious and sarcastic.
RUSH: Well, you're being inconsistent because if you think the government should be able to -- (crosstalk) she cannot hear me. If you think the government should tell you where you can work because you get a loan from them then you ought to be happy when they cut your husband's pay or whoever cuts his pay.
CALLER: Well, the government doesn't pay my husband's pay. That's where you're wrong. That's where you're wrong, Rush.
RUSH: I'm not wrong.
CALLER: The government --
RUSH: I am --
CALLER: What is natural market --
RUSH: I am not wrong. That's what's so frustrating about this, I am not wrong. These people, they just won't listen to me. Snerdley, they just will not listen to me, on top of everything else.
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RUSH: That call, that last call, folks, that's one for the ages. I don't know if you caught it, because it was going by so fast. "The next thing we're going to talk about --" I said, "No, we're not talking about it." "Oh, yes, we are," she said. And we're not even married. Very, very instructive.
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That picture should have obama with pot.
since obama via fiat legalized pot
Obama is.....Toker in Chief (Dave’s not here maaaaaan)
Thanks to the Bush tax cuts I was able to sock enough money away to weather my husbands latest unemployment. It was a fairly decent cushion. Pelosi is an idiot if she really thinks raising my taxes is going to fix anything. I’d like to see her juggle her finances like I have to and then claim people need to pay more.
God bless, W!
Hang in there!
Speaking of Dede Scozzafava, and where is Mitt? http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368871/posts
and Cheney
YEP!!!!!!!!!
As you can see, Mitt is raising BIG bucks for the BIG boys!
Rush, she was in school teacher mode. Once in a while you come across a teacher or retired teacher who was used to having absolute command of the classroom and they think they are still in it.
Bump post 6 for Cheney video
“Economists told us this morning in our session that absent that recovery package, we’d be in much worse shape.”
“I’ve been to the desert with an economist with no name
It felt good to to be back on the range”
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