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RUSH: ‘In the end, backers of a cigarette tax increase for children\u2019s health couldn\u2019t assuage voters\u2019 worries about monkeying with the state constitution — an issue stoked by a record-shattering $12 million TV blitz financed by the tobacco industry.\u2019 We\u2019re talking Oregon here. ‘The result was a shellacking of Measure 50 — voters trounced it by a 60 percent to 40 percent margin in Tuesday\u2019s special election — and a stinging setback for backers of the effort to extend health care to 100,000 uninsured Oregonians,\u2019 by raising taxes on cigarettes. ‘Gov. Ted Kulongoski, a leading backer of the plan, said he still thinks most Oregonians support an expansion of children\u2019s health care but were heavily influenced by the advertising. ‘What happened was, the tobacco industry bought the election,\u2019 Kulongoski said in an interview Tuesday night with The Associated Press. The tobacco industry\u2019s ad campaign focused on what it called the ill-advised move of enshrining the tobacco tax in Oregon\u2019s constitution, while other ads questioned whether all of the money would go to provide health care for children.\u2019 <\/p>\n

You know, you people in other states — and I\u2019m going to applaud you people in Oregon, you\u2019ve done the right thing. You might not have done it for the right reason, I don\u2019t know. The right reason is, you going to continue to tax tobacco, a product whose use is limited more and more every day. New York Times had a story the other day, had it in the stack, didn\u2019t have a chance to get to it, they\u2019re really moving fast in certain parts of the city in stopping smoking in homes. Everybody thought when I first mentioned this, ‘Come on, Rush, they can\u2019t do that, they\u2019re not going to go that far.\u2019 That\u2019s what you said when I warned you back in 1995 when the Sierra Club came out and started targeting SUVs, ‘Come on, Rush, they\u2019re not going to pull that off. You\u2019re just being a lot alarmist here.\u2019 Nope. I may be alarmist, but it\u2019s true. <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t doubt me. They\u2019re not going to be able to raise the money, these states and the federal government, to keep raising these cigarette taxes. They\u2019re not going to be able to raise the money down the road because it\u2019s going to become too expensive to buy, and you can\u2019t smoke \u2019em anywhere anymore. It\u2019s getting to the point, without banning it, this is just silly. So the people of Oregon, I don\u2019t know if that was in their minds when they voted or not, or whether it was what the governor says here, just the ad campaign. I think trying to enshrine this tax increase in the Constitution, that was probably an overreach, and I applaud the people of Oregon for seeing that and turning it down. <\/p>\n

There were other elections yesterday. In Utah, ‘Voters on Tuesday killed the nation\u2019s first statewide school voucher program that promised tax dollars for private tuition, no matter how much a family earned or whether kids were in bad schools.\u2019 In another of the most closely watched questions on state ballots Tuesday, ‘New Jersey voters rejected the state\u2019s plan to borrow $450 million over ten years to finance stem cell research.\u2019 This is amazing. The people in New Jersey turned down essentially a tax increase. What they\u2019re not telling you here is this is embryonic stem cells. ‘The Utah measure…\u2019 we had a caller that called about this not long ago, ‘…was the first voucher election in the U.S. since 2000, when voters in Michigan and California rejected efforts to subsidize private schools. … There have been 10 state referendums on various voucher programs since 1972,\u2019 all of them unsuccessful, according to the National School Boards Association. This is an issue that\u2019s going to take a lot of work, because the public school system is so entrenched. One of the stars on the flag may as well be for the public school system. That\u2019s how people look at it. It\u2019s as much a part of America as apple pie and moms and razor blades in candy on Halloween. So it\u2019s going to take a lot of work to get this voucher stuff done. <\/p>\n

In Michigan, ‘Michigan voters are soon going to decide whether a nativity scene belongs on public property.\u2019 It\u2019s going to be real interesting to see what happens here. Usually these things lose, which is why liberals have to take things to court instead of having votes. ‘Does baby Jesus have a place on public property? That\u2019s what voters in Berkley, Michigan, were deciding Tuesday as they went to the polls to consider a measure–‘ Well, this was yesterday\u2019s story, so I\u2019m not sure if we know what the outcome of this was. But this is just another in a long line of attacks on traditions and institutions that have been — and Christmas is a national holiday to boot. Now, all of this might sound like bad news, and sometimes, there is joy in bad news. (interruption) What are you shaking your head in there about? None of this sounds like bad news to you? The voucher thing? Well, you mean the voucher program where a tax increase was refused? Let me check that. Tax — yeah, would have been a tax increase. That is a positive sign. Good eye, Mr. Snerdley. Even I missed that one. So there\u2019s joy in bad news. If you know how to spot it, if you know how to look for it, nothing, I mean nothing, folks, gets our country, our spirit, our ingenuity jump-started like issues, real issues, not talking-point issues, not the kind of blubber that is coming out of the mouths of Democrat presidential candidates. <\/p>\n

So oil knocking at $100 a barrel, it didn\u2019t get there today. The crude market\u2019s closed. But it got close, and of course, we\u2019ve got the Drive-Bys. They\u2019re now fanning out and positioning themselves at gasoline stations next to the pumps, walking up to drivers with the microphones and camera and begging them to explain how they are suffering, how terrible it is, and how poor they are because these prices have gone up. But, the higher price is what makes us and takes us closer to finally realizing we are going to have to produce more energy. We\u2019re going to have to drill for our own oil. We are going to have to have more refineries. We are going to have to build nuclear at some point. The higher the prices of these things go, and when the price starts affecting supply — right now there\u2019s not a shortage of gasoline. There\u2019s no shortage of gas. There\u2019s really no shortage of oil. A lot of the oil price is the speculation market, commodities market, but nevertheless, as the price goes higher, it takes us closer to, quote, unquote, alternatives, and when we hear news about the ChiComs drilling for oil with the Cubans in the Gulf of Mexico and Mexico finding the biggest field that they\u2019ve got also in the western Gulf of Mexico, and we can\u2019t drill in ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), we can\u2019t drill in the Gulf ourselves, at some point, something has to give, and the higher price leads us that way. <\/p>\n

Now, the subprime market, the subprime problem, the mortgage problem, the credit crunch roiling the markets. Well, let\u2019s look into Congress, the Congress that started the problem by demanding that lenders make riskier loans. You know what the root of the problem is? The root of the problem is a bunch of liberals in Congress, and probably some Republicans joined them, trying to go out and buy votes with people that had no business being qualified for a loan being told, the lenders being told, ‘Go ahead and qualify those people.\u2019 We want everybody to experience the American dream. So people started borrowing money that they couldn\u2019t afford and they got these adjustable rate mortgages, and guess what, the adjustable rate mortgages are adjusting upwards. Minorities hardest hit, of course, once again, their guardian angels in Washington putting them in the sewer on the promise of, ‘We\u2019ll make these evil lenders that have been red-lining you, we\u2019ll make \u2019em give you the money.\u2019 <\/p>\n

The dirty little secret is, folks, and I don\u2019t want to burst anybody\u2019s bubble here, but let\u2019s say you have a $500,000 mortgage on your house and let\u2019s say that you used the subprime market. Let\u2019s say you didn\u2019t put any down. Let\u2019s say you found a way — and there are ways to do this — to get a mortgage on house without any money down. Do you know how much equity you\u2019ve got in it? Zilch. There are ways to do it. (interruption) You mean there aren\u2019t ways to do it now? There were ways? It can be done. As a powerful, influential member of the media, it\u2019s done. People are playing games with this all over the place. I\u2019m not talking about FHA. But, okay, if you don\u2019t like that example, $500,000 mortgage, $500,000 house, let\u2019s say you put $20,000 down just for the sake of it. Do you know that you don\u2019t have any equity in that house until you sell it? You don\u2019t own it until you\u2019ve paid it off. One of the big myths about home ownership, ‘I now own my home.\u2019 No you don\u2019t, the person that lent you the money owns it until you pay it off, and then you go to sell it, you bring in a higher price than what you bought it for. Yes, you\u2019ve got a prophet, but what are you going to do? You gotta flip it. If you sell your house, you gotta live in something else, and chances are you\u2019re going to buy a more expensive one, you\u2019re going to get another mortgage. <\/p>\n

You don\u2019t own anything that you\u2019re paying for. You own it when you have finished paying for it. The people that loaned you the money own it. It\u2019s not a big deal. I don\u2019t want to burst anybody\u2019s bubble here, but I don\u2019t think this is taught in econ 101, and I don\u2019t think that most of these people in the subprime market have the slightest idea what they were getting into here. But, nevertheless, this gives us an opportunity to look at the people who actually came up with this plan, demanded that these lenders make these loans, and that\u2019s our good old Congress. Now, the Republicans lost the Virginia statehouse, and they lost the governor\u2019s seat in Kentucky. Well, that\u2019s not good, and a lot of people are unhappy about it, but it does have a potential positive aspect to it, and that is, as Republicans who are less than conservative and who are less than defined as to what they want this country to be, you have Republicans who are more and more liberal, are trying to sound more and more liberal, are going to keep losing, it\u2019s going to finally be figured out by Republican candidates that they\u2019re going to have to develop backbones, they\u2019re going to have to shape up and stand for better, smaller government. That\u2019s what wins elections. <\/p>\n

I know in Kentucky the key issue was corruption. The Republicans have a problem with this sometimes. In the case of Congressman Jefferson (Democrat-Louisiana), it was still no big deal. ‘He was like a sharecropper\u2019s son. He had all these economic problems. Look at where he\u2019s risen to, I mean, we can\u2019t hold him to the same standards, look at where he came from, plus he\u2019s a minority,\u2019 blah, blah, blah. But the corruption issue, that\u2019s a tough one. With the Democrat Party there\u2019s no such thing as corruption because they have no standards that they try to live by, so corruption is something you can\u2019t stick to them. Dennis Kucinich wants to impeach Cheney. This is fabulous, because he\u2019s a presidential candidate, the darling of the anti-war left and his own party giving him the leprosy treatment today because he\u2019s embarrassing the hell out of them. The Iraq war, going our way, good news. Pelosi, speaker of the House, good news, Dingy Harry still running the Senate. Good news, Chuck Schumer\u2019s in the tall grass after that Mukasey vote. We got Ted Kennedy — you want to talk about great news — Ted Kennedy detailing the agony of drowning from the floor of the Senate! You can\u2019t tell me that\u2019s not good news. Good news, the Clinton machine is falling apart, for now, over this debate muff that she made, and they still haven\u2019t been able to make this go away. So there\u2019s positive news out there, folks, if you look at it in the right way. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: By the way, the voters in Berkley, Michigan, did ‘turn down an amendment to the city charter yesterday that would have allowed a nativity scene to return to the lawn outside their city hall. The charter amendment failed by 55-44% margin with 4100 votes cast, 4136. Some residents of the town were outraged that the city and a local clergy association cut a deal with the ACLU to move the nativity scene, which had been displayed on public property for about 25 years, away from government grounds and onto a patch of grass outside a church. The display spent its first Christmas at its new location last year but those who want to return the nativity scene to public property petitioned to get the measure on the ballot where it was defeated,\u2019 essentially by the ACLU. <\/p>\n

One other interesting thing happened. ‘A referendum before New Jersey voters yesterday,\u2019 this one I particularly love, because essentially New Jersey has just changed its constitution to allow ‘idiots\u2019 to vote. ‘The fourth measure in the referendum that the voters of New Jersey went in yesterday on, asked voters to replace a section of the state constitution written in 1844 that describes people with mental illness as ‘insane\u2019 and calls people with developmental disabilities ‘idiots.\u2019 The description will be replaced with ‘a person who has been adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction to lack the capacity to understand the act of voting.” (laughing) So it\u2019s nice to know now that intelligent voting will be taking place in New Jersey, right? (laughing) ‘[R]eplace a section of the constitution that called people insane and idiots with this: ‘A person who has been adjudicated by…” That means ‘found not guilty,\u2019 for those of you in Rio Linda, ”by a court of competent jurisdiction to lack the capacity to understand the act of voting.” They can\u2019t. <\/p>\n

Oh, and other good news: one thing out of North Carolina. There was a big property transfer tax rejected all across the state. ‘Wake, Durham, and Orange County officials see a pretty clear message when voters in other counties as make it clear they won\u2019t accept a new tax to help pay for the cost of growth. In 16 counties in North Carolina, including Chatham and Johnston, voters on Tuesday rejected by big margins the idea of taxing property sales to pay for growth.\u2019 It suffered a sound, sound defeat. The results were lopsided everywhere, by a three-to-one margin in most of these counties: ‘no\u2019 to tax increases anywhere.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Taxes. I have demonstrated in the last 20 minutes what one of the cutting issues in the 2008 presidential race is going to be: taxes. Everywhere there was a tax-increase related measure on a ballot yesterday in a state, it lost, and it lost big. In a liberal state like Oregon, 60-40, a proposition to raise the cigarette tax to pay for children\u2019s health care, down to defeat, 60-40. Cigarette tax. Most people don\u2019t smoke cigarettes. It still went down! North Carolina, they wanted to institute a tax in 16 counties called a property transfer tax. This is essentially a tax that you would be charged when you sell your house. You\u2019ve already paid property taxes out the wazoo. You\u2019ve paid any number of closing costs, all these other taxes that are tacked on to every aspect of your life, and then they want to have a tax on you when you sell your house. The purpose of the tax would be to fund growth and development. Well, hey, let\u2019s stifle it in the home market. So that went down to defeat. <\/p>\n

A tax increase that would have provided school vouchers in Utah, that one really wasn\u2019t close, either. Now, there a number of different factors there, because I think a lot of people like the idea of being able to send their kids to private school, but they don\u2019t want any tax increases on anything right now. So what do the Republicans have to do? We\u2019ve already got the Democrats on the immigration issue. It is a winning issue for the Republicans, if they\u2019ll just have the guts to come out against amnesty and get serious about border security. Number two is taxes. You\u2019ve got Rangel, who has proposed this massive, incredible tax increase, 2.9 trillion, I\u2019ve heard people say it would be over ten years if nothing was changed about it. You had a story in the Washington Post today that the whole business of making the economic changes necessary for global warming will cost people through the roof, the green agenda is in trouble, and that\u2019s an albatross around the Democrats\u2019 neck. <\/p>\n

What is it when you strip it and reduce it all down? It\u2019s taxes! It is clear the people in this country are overtaxed and they think they are overtaxed, and they know they\u2019re overtaxed, and they\u2019re fed up, and they\u2019re not going to go for it even on taxes on cigarettes. When they have a chance to vote on it in state elections, they reject it big time, a liberal state like Oregon. It wasn\u2019t long ago, just last year, that I told you that 800 people a day were moving to Florida, and they were leaving places like Long Island and the Rust Belt, where taxes, property taxes, income taxes, the tax on the pothole in front of your house, everything is going up, and they simply can\u2019t afford to live there anymore, so they were moving to Florida, to the Riviera up there, the panhandle and then the Tampa-Sarasota area. Guess what\u2019s happened, folks? Those 800 people may still be arriving, but more than those 800 are leaving! They are leaving primarily from south Florida and they\u2019re moving to places like North Carolina, and you know why? Taxes! <\/p>\n

Now, we don\u2019t have an income tax, a state income tax in this state, but property taxes — actually, mine went down. I got my bills the other day. (interruption) Did yours go down too? No, no, no. It was pretty substantial. Well, maybe 2%. I\u2019d have to run the percentage. But it went down, Snerdley. I\u2019m not going to sit here and complain and moan about it. Yours went down 200 bucks? He\u2019s throwing a fit in there. I know, 200 bucks to you is like a quarter. (laughter) But anyway, this is true. The point is that there are lessons here for the Republicans to learn. To get sucked into all of the issues that the Drive-Bys put out there, the Democrats, it\u2019s not going to be about the Iraq war, this election is not going to be, I\u2019m telling you. It\u2019s not going to be about America\u2019s being embarrassed in the world. This is going to be about America\u2019s future and rebuilding it and grasping hold of what needs to be grabbed hold of to right the ship and turn it the right way. These issues are just made to order. You can link Hillary to Rangel\u2019s tax increase very easily, because she\u2019s going to do it. They\u2019re going to raise taxes. They can\u2019t wait to even do it, they can\u2019t wait. They\u2019re so eager to do it. They can\u2019t even stop talking about it. They\u2019re creating all kinds of ammo. Illegal immigration, lots of things out there that are on the ballot. Plus, we\u2019ve shown them how to take the Clintons off stride and not end up in Fort Marcy Park, yet. <\/p>\n

John in Indianapolis, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, how are you?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Fine. Thank you.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, I wanted to ask two things. First of all, I wanted to tell you, did you hear about the huge upset in the mayoral race in Indianapolis, where our Republican challenger who only had $51,000 in his coffers for the campaign, beat the Democratic incumbent, a two-term, who had several million dollars, on the basis of fighting crime, and, of course, the overwhelming property tax increases that were tried to be put upon the citizens of Indianapolis. They tried to raise mine. I was listening to you; they tried to raise my personal taxes by over $10,000.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Your personal property tax?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Uh-huh.<\/p>\n

RUSH: On the house?<\/p>\n

CALLER: They made it $24,000. The elderly came out in droves and kicked this guy to the curb. The one thing that the man said, who won the election, that I thought you would appreciate, was that ‘money does not win elections.\u2019 I know you would probably take issue with that, but in this case it really was true, Rush. He had no money, and, as one of the commentators said after the fact on the television, they said that he won\u2019t be beholden to anyone because he had no significant contributors. His name is Greg Ballard. He just walked in, saying that this is wrong, he\u2019s a former Marine. We like to say that, you know, Indianapolis called in the Marine. The people of the city were just outraged when the city council and the mayor tried to push through huge tax, property tax increases on us. And we elected a Republican for the first time in eight years. The other thing about this, Rush, is that the town council went to Republican. This was especially significant, since during these tax debates in the spring, our town council decided to lock the public out of the room, would not listen. The Democrat-led town council would not allow the public to come in and voice their opinion on one occasion.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What happened to the sunshine law? Well, who knows. I mean I think things go right out the window when it\u2019s convenient. But I knew you\u2019d get a kick out of this election. This is a big deal.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What\u2019s your new mayor\u2019s name?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Greg Ballard.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Greg Ballard, and he\u2019s a Marine.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And, by the way, the Indiana Republican Party did not necessarily come alongside him. They didn\u2019t do a lot like spending money or anything like that. He only had television ads in the last few days, which, by the way, our Democratic mayor had gone completely negative in all of his ads talking about his inexperience, et cetera. This man has come from nowhere Rush with no money —<\/p>\n

RUSH: What is Greg Ballard\u2019s position on the artificial noise piped through the speakers at the RCA Dome during Colts games?<\/p>\n

CALLER: All I can think, is if it helps us win against the Patriots next, that\u2019s just fine. Rush, I want you to say hello to my brother who just survived brain surgery. He had cancerous brain surgery out in Portland, Oregon, he\u2019s a listener to your show, his name is Tom and his wife Sherry, would you say hi to them for me?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, Tom and Sherry, great to have you in the audience. That\u2019s great news about him, by the way. You shared a whole lot of great news with us in the scope of a very short phone call.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yeah, it\u2019s a big election.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this concept about the money. You\u2019re saying what you said to me because I\u2019ve repeated the Jesse Unruh remark that has now become lionized in politics, that ‘money is the mother\u2019s milk of politics.\u2019 There\u2019s no denying that on balance, you need it. In a city election, you don\u2019t need to run out all over the state, you don\u2019t need to buy television time all over the state in order to be heard. Local media can do a lot for you, and —<\/p>\n

CALLER: The local media, Rush, they were — last night, I watched all three channels. I couldn\u2019t sleep. And they were mourning the loss of a Democratic mayor. They were not celebrating the new guy.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: And you could just tell it. I mean it was all three of our local people, they didn\u2019t care —<\/p>\n

RUSH: Oh, I understand all that, but here\u2019s the way money did matter in your election. It always will one way or the other. The money in this election, that you\u2019re talking about, the mayoral race in Indianapolis, was the taxpayers\u2019 money, the people\u2019s money —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — and that\u2019s where it was a factor. So it\u2019s always going to be there.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Whether somebody has the money to spend or not. I know you\u2019re talking about the power of the message.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Right.<\/p>\n

RUSH: As opposed to not having the money to get it out.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He had $51,000 versus multi-millions on the part of the Democrats, and that\u2019s what I\u2019m trying to get at here, Rush. I want you to understand that — and I know you do — I want your listeners to understand that the people, when they get fed up, when they\u2019re tired of something, they will go and vote the person out.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly, regardless of what the ads are, regardless of what they\u2019re told. This is why your call could not be better timed, because it came right after our little tutorial for Republican candidates out there, especially the presidential candidates, gearing up here for their primaries and the general. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Michael in Jackson, Mississippi. Welcome to the program, sir.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Rush, mega dittos from the new Republican Mississippi. We swept every single statewide office, except for one. It\u2019s the first time that\u2019s ever happened in Mississippi.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, and it\u2019s after Hurricane Katrina!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Yes, and, you know, we have the best governor: Haley Barbour. You know, while Louisiana\u2019s been wringing their hands over trying to do something, he\u2019s been actually doing something. We\u2019ve got all kinds of new buildings up, new casinos. I mean, there has been so much construction in Mississippi. We\u2019ve got our bridges back up. We haven\u2019t been sitting around waiting on the federal government. We\u2019ve had Mississippians getting out there and rolling their sleeves up and getting the work done.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know. That\u2019s why we haven\u2019t heard any news about it. That\u2019s why the news continues to focus on New Orleans. There\u2019s no bad news on Mississippi. It\u2019s all really good news.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, it is.<\/p>\n

RUSH: However, Louisiana\u2019s going to get its act together, because Bobby Jindal\u2019s just been elected governor over there, and he\u2019s a Republican. I\u2019m going to be talking to him tomorrow afternoon for the next issue of the Limbaugh Letter.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, our new secretary of state said within the first 60 days, his priority is to have voter ID in Mississippi, and that we\u2019re going to work on having no benefits for illegal aliens in the state of Mississippi. That is all going to be top priority in our new administration.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you what. Go ahead and do this, but don\u2019t brag about it, because people are going to be moving to that state like left and right. <\/p>\n

CALLER: Well…<\/p>\n

RUSH: You want \u2019em to go to North Carolina out of Florida. You want to keep it quiet what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I better keep it quiet. But I\u2019ll tell you what. You know, I\u2019ve been listening to you ever since you had your TV show.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n

CALLER: I rank you with Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan\u2019s my all-time hero. <\/p>\n

RUSH: Wow.<\/p>\n

CALLER: So you and Ronald Reagan are my two greatest conservative heroes that I\u2019ve ever been lucky enough to listen to.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I thank you very much for that.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I\u2019ll also tell you that I\u2019m a gas-guzzling guy. My wife has a big old H2 that, I\u2019ll tell you what: If she has a wreck, my children will survive. I have a Dodge with a big old hemi. (laughing)<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I gotta tell you something. I love you, man. You\u2019re my kind of guy.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I have a 1979 Corvette that has 420 horsepower, so I\u2019ve got gas-guzzling machinery over at my house.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I\u2019ll tell you what, what I was watching this NBC pregame show at halftime out there going green and turning the lights out, I got on the Internet and I started looking at 12-cylinder automobiles that I still don\u2019t have. If Cadillac made one, I would have bought it Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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