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RUSH: Okay, spanking bill in California. “The state Legislature is about to weigh in on a question that stirs impassioned debate among moms and dads: Should parents spank their children? Assemblywoman Sally Lieber, D-Mountain View, wants to outlaw spanking children up to 3 years old. If she succeeds, California would become the first state in the nation to explicitly ban parents from smacking their kids.” Making a swat on the behind a misdemeanor might seem a bit much for “some and the chances of the idea becoming law appear slim, at best” but Lieber begs to differ. “I think it\u2019s pretty hard to argue you need to beat a child 3 years old or younger,” Lieber said. “Is it OK to whip a 1-year-old or a 6-month-old or a newborn?”<\/p>\n

Who\u2019s talking about whipping or beating? That\u2019s not what spanking is. I remember I had to go cut my own twigs a bunch of times. I had to sit out in my underwear in the backyard at night to cut my own twigs. We\u2019re next to a hospital and nurses walking by, you know, in an alley behind the house. Gee whiz. I got all embarrassed. Nurse didn\u2019t know I was there. It was dark. The bill is being drafted, being written broadly, she said, prohibiting any striking of a child, any corporal punishment, smacking, hitting, punching — why do you equate spanking with punching? So there you go, what\u2019s the penalty here? It\u2019s such a long story. “If my six-year-old doesn\u2019t put his clothes in the hamper I\u2019m not going to whack him, he just won\u2019t get his clothes washed.” Well, that makes sense. Send the kid around in bad hygiene. That\u2019s really good punishment. It\u2019s like rubbing your dog\u2019s nose in its own poop to housebreak it. That really makes a lot sense. Next time the dog comes along and licks you.<\/p>\n

“Lieber said it would be a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail or a fine up to $1,000, although a legal expert advising her on the proposal said first-time offenders likely only would have to attend parenting classes.”<\/p>\n

That\u2019s even worse, a bunch of arrogant, conceited liberals trying to take over the raising of children. Channel 5 in San Francisco, CBS 5, “Do parents have the right to spank their churrin? It\u2019s a controversial issue, and while a Bay Area lawmaker wants it addressed in Sacramento, a majority of those surveyed for a CBS 5 poll expressed opposition to a spanking ban. Five hundred Bay Area adults in a Survey USA on Thursday, 57% would oppose such a bill. Only 23 would support it. Poll has a margin of error plus or minus 4%.” Folks, forget the results of the poll. Somebody has proposed this. It\u2019s not the state\u2019s job to raise your kids. It just isn\u2019t. Arnold Schwarzenegger, by the way, the governor of California, who has proposed a tax increase loan (Laughing.) I still can\u2019t get over this –(Laughing.) sorry, I just can\u2019t. You know, Clinton calling them investments was bad enough. We\u2019re not even getting an investment in California, we\u2019re going to borrow a tax increase. (Laughing.)<\/p>\n

“Growing up in Austria, Governor Schwarzenegger said he got smacked about everything, but when it comes to disciplining his four kids, he and his wife never resort to spanking. He expressed an open mind yesterday to a controversial proposal that would ban parents from spanking children under the age of three. He hinted that he has concerns about how the bill could be enforced, ‘Is it that when you see someone spank a kid, do you go and say, can I see a birth certificate of the kid?'” Hey, we got spies in grocery stores that have ratted out parents and called child protection services. Yeah, we\u2019ve heard about all this. Hell, yes, you\u2019re going to have all kinds of neighborhood spies running around trying to look in windows, listening for kids crying, probably not even ever witnessing the spanking, just hearing the crying. Maybe there was no spank, calling Child Protective Services and the kids going nuts and the accusation, you have to prove you didn\u2019t do it. It\u2019s just asinine.<\/p>\n

I wonder if this bill, once it starts at three — you know, liberals will never solve problems with this legislation. It will go higher than that. Once it\u2019s three, then they\u2019ll raise to five, then they\u2019ll raise to 18, then they\u2019ll raise it so that you can\u2019t discipline your kids at all. Wonder if they would ever have a bill saying you can\u2019t spank yourself? What\u2019s this going to do to San Francisco? Where spanks is a way of life. It\u2019s enjoyment. I used to spank myself when I made an error on the radio or whatever and people would call and get mad, and I would spank myself. I did it on my television show to demonstrate it once. We have the audio from that because I\u2019m not going to do it now here on the Dittocam. But this is from November 6th of 1992.<\/p>\n

RUSH ARCHIVE: I can spank myself. People who spank themselves next, Rush. Watch this, do it much my left hand, I\u2019m right-handed so it won\u2019t hurt as much. Do it with my left hand. (Screaming.) (Applause.)<\/p>\n

RUSH: Imagine that being a crime? I know I\u2019m older than three, and I must say when I spanked myself it worked. I usually didn\u2019t make the same mistake again. By the way, we\u2019ve been on the case of spanking and the government trying to control it for the longest time.<\/p>\n

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