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RUSH: Back to the audio sound bites, ladies and gentlemen, Joe Biden, February 6th he was in Williamsburg, Virginia. This is where the Obamaoids, the Bamster and his boys went down there to give the Democrats a big pep talk down there, and they had Biden do this, and it was the House Democrat issues conference, and here\u2019s Biden with typical Joe Biden inspiration.<\/p>\n

BIDEN: If we do everything right, we do it with absolute certainty, we stand up there and we make really tough decisions, there\u2019s still a 30% chance we\u2019re going to get it wrong.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s a great way to inspire everybody. Here\u2019s Obama out there selling the whole debacle today under false pretenses and here\u2019s old Joe, ‘Hey, Chuck, stand up, let \u2019em see you. Oh, no, God, aw, wow, gee, stand up for Chuck.\u2019 He asked a guy in a wheelchair to stand up in Columbia, Missouri. So now he\u2019s out there saying, ‘If we do everything right, we make every tough decision, we do it all right, there\u2019s still a 30% chance we\u2019re going to get it wrong.\u2019 (laughing) Follow me, boys, we\u2019re going to see General Custer here, and if we do everything right, 30% chance we\u2019re still going to get it wrong. So then on the same night, CNN\u2019s Situation Room, Wolf Blitzer was talking to David Axelrod, one of Obama\u2019s big advisors, he said, ‘You know what Biden said, David, that\u2019s not very encouraging. A one-out-of-three chance, even if you get everything you want, the president gets everything he wants, it\u2019s still going to be wrong?\u2019<\/p>\n

AXELROD: Well, I don\u2019t know, I don\u2019t know exactly about what that math was, but I know this, that there\u2019s a hundred percent chance we\u2019re going to get it wrong unless we pass a very substantial economic recovery package now.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I mean, they\u2019re trying to cover this guy\u2019s tracks fast — ‘I don\u2019t know exactly what the math was, but I know there\u2019s a hundred percent chance we\u2019re going to get it wrong unless we pass a very substantial economic recovery package now.\u2019 I don\u2019t want to use the word ‘criminal.\u2019 This is politics. How do you tell the difference between normal politics and criminality, but what\u2019s being done in the name of economic stimulus and jobs here is one of the biggest frauds perpetrated on the American people. It is entirely fraudulent here the way they\u2019re selling what this is. It is not what it is. It is not going to create jobs. It\u2019s not going to start funneling money into Elkhart, Indiana. How about that woman, we played the sound bite, ‘Well, when the money gets to Elkhart, I mean, is it going to get straight here, is it going to go somewhere else first?\u2019 I don\u2019t even believe that\u2019s a real question. I think that\u2019s a focus grouped question that they picked somebody in the audience to ask the question. Who thinks this way? Well, I take it back. Now, that I think about it, I think a lot of Obama voters might think that way. ‘Where is my money, where is my money?\u2019 How about all these people who think Obama\u2019s going to pay for their gas, pay for their car. I wonder how many people\u2019s jalopies are sitting on the side of the road waiting for Obama to fill it up. I guess it\u2019s true that people could ask a question like that. It\u2019s just fraudulent here. Dingy Harry, also Friday night, during a Q&amp;A on Capitol Hill in a hallway, unidentified reporter says to Dingy Harry, ‘Are you confident the size of this package is still big enough to do what it\u2019s supposed to do?\u2019<\/p>\n

REID: It\u2019s approaching a trillion dollars. It\u2019s a piece of legislation that is job creating. Did we get everything we wanted? No, we didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, you did.<\/p>\n

REID: Remember as Senator Baucus said, there are no cuts, no one lost anything. Everything in here is new money. So I am very, very happy with what we have. It\u2019s a product, as Senator Murray said, that we should be proud of, and we are proud of it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah, a trillion bucks, and then we\u2019re going to have another trillion piled on in TARP 2 tomorrow and we\u2019re going to be at $2 trillion in stimulus. It\u2019s not stimulus. The TARP 2 is going to go to the banks for whatever the hell they\u2019re going to do with it that they haven\u2019t done with the first $700 billion. And then we have the so-called stimulus bill, we\u2019re to the point now that the Chinese are not even buying the debt, they\u2019re not even buying the treasuries to support this. We are printing the money and at some point inflation is going to rear its head and that\u2019s when all hell is going to break loose. I don\u2019t know how that doesn\u2019t happen, I hope it doesn\u2019t, but if you start printing money like this, too much money chasing too few goods, I just don\u2019t know how you don\u2019t get inflation. Inflation is what gave us the misery index back in the 1970s. Chuck Schumer, trillion dollars of pork, it\u2019s small, little thing to Chuck Schumer. CNN\u2019s State of the Union on Sunday, John King said, ‘Is it better than the House bill and the key test, creating jobs as soon as possible, or is it a lesser bill, but one you had to agree to simply to get the votes in the Senate?\u2019<\/p>\n

SCHUMER: The most important thing is that we are not going to let small differences stand in the way of passing this very strong bill which the American economy desperately needs. To quibble over small little things and let the bill go down would be a huge mistake for the American people, given the state of our economy and the need for a real shot in the arm.<\/p>\n

RUSH: And once again, this is entirely disingenuous. Little things like national health care? Little things like national health care with features including a new health czar, a new bureaucracy and means testing of treatment for the elderly? By means testing, if the treatment costs more than you\u2019re likely to live and therefore the cost is deemed a waste, then you die, you don\u2019t get the money. You don\u2019t get the treatment. The federal government will be in charge of this, and that is in the stimulus bill. We\u2019ll link to the sources on this, citing the specific page numbers in the stimulus bill for you to consult. Barney Frank yesterday on television, Meet the Depressed. David Gregory said, ‘You\u2019ve got the top CEOs coming down from the US banks to be interrogated by you. They\u2019re going to be in front of your committee on Wednesday. What do you want to ask them?\u2019<\/p>\n

FRANK: The first I\u2019m going to ask them is this. What is it that you do because you get a bonus that you wouldn\u2019t otherwise do? I want to know like, if they didn\u2019t get a bonus, would they knock off early on Wednesday? The problem with compensation is not just that it\u2019s large, but it gives a perverse incentive. They pay themselves in ways that say this: If I take a risk and it pays off, I get extra money, but if I take a risk and it loses money, I break even. Heads I win, tails I break even, is going to encourage people to flip too many coins, and that\u2019s — one of the things we have to do is that.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this dovetails with Obama, and of all the things that he said last week, one of the scariest things to me last week was his cap of $500,000 a year on CEO pay if they are accepting federal money. The real problem here with CEO pay is shareholders and the board of directors not exercising their proper oversight and watching this. But you don\u2019t want the government doing this. I make no apologies, and I have no brief for these corporate executives, but this is about nothing more than expanding government. I don\u2019t care what Barack Obama thinks of private sector salaries. It\u2019s none of his business, even if he is president of the United States. It\u2019s none of Barney Frank\u2019s business what the private sector salaries and bonus situation is. It\u2019s not their business until they start doling out money and these idiot guys on Wall Street and the banks start accepting it, and then they become prisoners. And what really frosts me is these guys taking the money. <\/p>\n

They take the money, and then they\u2019re tied. They are lassoed to the federal government, and they\u2019ve gotta let Obama run their business, and they\u2019ve gotta let Barney Frank call \u2019em up there and grill \u2019em, when, as I\u2019ve said over and over again it ought to be Barney Frank and Chris Dodd, et al, who are facing the questions and being made to explain their roles in the collapse of the subprime mortgage industry and the housing bubble and the like. It\u2019s just one small step from them dictating CEO salary to them dictating everybody else\u2019s based on what Obama thinks is right and based on what Obama thinks is wrong, or Barney Frank or Chris Dodd or any of these other people. On the subject of Tom Daschle\u2019s taxes, Barney Frank actually had something interesting to say. The question from David Gregory was, ‘You got the president out there castigating Wall Street. You brought up the issue of compensation. You brought up the issue of compensation very strongly and yet this kind of thing happens in Washington with Democrats not paying their taxes.\u2019<\/p>\n

FRANK: Well, change it by the voters being tougher, frank — I think that part of the problem is the voters. You know, nobody in the Senate — well, a couple in the Senate but nobody in the House parachuted in, and the voters have to be tougher, I don\u2019t think they hold us to a high enough standard.<\/p>\n

RUSH: He\u2019s got a point. He\u2019s got a point. The voters don\u2019t hold \u2019em to a high enough standard. However, that is one of the biggest cop-outs. ‘Well, hey, you know, as long as we can get away with it, we\u2019re going to get away with it. If our voters aren\u2019t going to send us outta here, if the voters aren\u2019t going to punish us, why should we, why should we hold fast here.\u2019 They\u2019re not afraid of you, folks, they\u2019re not afraid of you. They have forgotten how the House bank caused half the place to be thrown out back in 1990, and the House post office and so forth. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So you gotta hear this. I told you earlier Obama was cracking up when he was addressing the Democrats. We have two sound bites, and we had this post from the Weekly Standard saying he doesn\u2019t sound right here.<\/p>\n

OBAMA (shouting): Don\u2019t come to the table with the same tired arguments and worn ideas that helped to create this crisis!<\/p>\n

RUSH: Stop the tape. That\u2019s an attack at me and my bipartisan stimulus plan, which was tax cuts, the corporate tax rate cut in half and capital gains tax cuts. Actually, capital gains suspended for a whole year. Obama is coming right at me \u2019cause I\u2019m the one that proposed this bipartisan plan. They think that Reaganomics gave us the problem that we are in. It didn\u2019t. It was the Community Redevelopment Act. It was the subprime mortgage business that led to all of this — and the housing bubble that ensued and all of that was derived and put up by Democrats in Congress.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: We are not going to get relief by turning back to the very same policies that, for the last eight years, doubled the national debt and throw our economy into a tailspin.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It did not.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: We can\u2019t embrace the losing formula that says, ‘Only tax cuts will work for every problem we face,\u2019 that ignores critical challenges like our addiction to foreign oil, or the soaring costs of health care or falling schools and crumbling bridges and roads —<\/p>\n

RUSH: It\u2019s not happening.<\/p>\n

OBAMA: — and levees. I don\u2019t care whether you\u2019re driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you\u2019re headed for a cliff, you\u2019ve got to change direction. (shouting) That\u2019s what the American people called for in November, and that\u2019s what we intend to deliver.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So they believe that Reaganomics, Bushnomics created the mess we\u2019re in, that they had nothing to do with it. It\u2019s just the exact opposite. The direction they\u2019re taking this country… Folks, the road is a fork. We are on a road with a fork in it. We can take the fork to the Moscow of the 1970s or we can take the fork to China. That\u2019s the road to recovery Barack Obama is offering. We might want to try the road south to Cuba, but the only thing that would make that worthwhile are cigars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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