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RUSH: What was the refrain all weekend long? ‘Obama won. Obama won.\u2019 This so-called stimulus bill, of course, has little to do with stimulating the economy and everything to do with stimulating the Obama presidency. What did this thing cost, $789 billion that\u2019s projected to run out to over three trillion? Doesn\u2019t matter what it cost, could have cost two trillion, could have cost five trillion, even ten trillion, the cost would have made no difference. The story line was not about cost, the story line was not about results. It was about President Obama\u2019s first test, would he get his way, how many Republicans would support him? Analysis of the contents, forget it. Synthesis of the comments, forget it, no way. And it gets even worse. Nobody read it before they voted for it, not one Senator, not one representative, not one journalist, no one read it before they voted for it. The very people who said the housing crisis was because borrowers didn\u2019t read their mortgage terms, ‘What do you mean, you don\u2019t understand ARM? What is it about ARM you didn\u2019t understand?\u2019 ‘Well, you never pointed out to me that it was in the mortgage.\u2019 ‘Well, we did tell you about it, we told you to read it, adjustable rate mortgage. Means the rate could adjust.\u2019 ‘Well, nobody ever told me that. You\u2019re just a predatory lending bunch, that\u2019s all.\u2019 <\/p>\n

The same people, very people who said the housing crisis was because borrowers didn\u2019t read their mortgage terms now tell us they didn\u2019t read the Porkulus bill before they voted for it. By the way, Rasmussen with a survey out, 38% of the people support the Porkulus bill. The polling on this is so all over the ballpark, 38%. I saw, before it was passed, something like 62 to 69% were for it. I don\u2019t remember what poll. Now Rasmussen, 38% say it will work. That means 58% don\u2019t think it will. There are some undecideds in there. These people even came up with the phrase ‘predatory lenders,\u2019 but I\u2019ll tell you the more accurate term is ‘predatory spenders.\u2019 Predatory spenders. I was watching MSNBC just a moment ago and they had a discussion on the following topic: Can Obama save your home? Wait \u2019til you hear the sound bites coming up on this. There\u2019s already friction between the White House and the Banking Queen, Barney Frank, over the amount of money that\u2019s going to be spent to help people pay their mortgages. The administration is saying, ‘Well, wait a minute, now, some of the restrictions that came out of this bill, we\u2019re going to have to change those after the fact,\u2019 and Barney Frank said, ‘Over my dead body you\u2019re gonna change this stuff.\u2019 Those sound bites are coming up. Sit tight. Hang tough. <\/p>\n

Lots of stuff to do today, folks. It\u2019s an amazingly active news day, despite the fact the president\u2019s on the third day of a vacation. This guy\u2019s taken more vacations than I have. By the way, you know it\u2019s gonna work. He went to Chicago for a Valentine\u2019s Day date and dinner at Table Fifty-Two, some big restaurant, with his wife. It means that Michelle Obama calls the shots here. That\u2019s the one thing it means. We know she gets angry, we know she gets enraged, she called the shots here. He had to go home no matter what was going on. The stimulus bill still hadn\u2019t been signed. It was going to be a catastrophe. What day did it pass? Friday, right? Government was going to end on Saturday, remember? And Pelosi had to get to Rome by Friday night. It was going to be a catastrophe, had to be signed, had to be done, still hasn\u2019t been signed, and Obama is headed back to Washington today from Chicago, then he\u2019s flying to Denver tomorrow. I\u2019d just think he\u2019d stay in Chicago and go to Denver from there and save a lot of fuel and save a lot of carbon footprints. He\u2019s flying back to Washington. He\u2019s going to fly to Denver, sign the stimulus bill in Denver. He\u2019s going to head to Phoenix and save people\u2019s homes. It\u2019s a beautiful thing, folks. It\u2019s just absolutely wonderful. <\/p>\n

They\u2019re arguing over $50 billion or $100 billion to pay your mortgage. Well, not yours. You\u2019re probably paying yours. You don\u2019t count, you don\u2019t qualify. You can\u2019t sue members of Congress, but a dereliction of duty lawsuit would be cool. Every congressman has to swear under oath that he did or did not read the bill before voting for it. I mean we are talking trillions of dollars here and a total reordering of the American culture, politically and socially. Trillion dollars. You know, during the Roaring Twenties, I wasn\u2019t alive then, but I know a lot of people who were, and during the Roaring Twenties there was a notorious nightclub hostess called Texas Guinan, and when people showed up at a nightclub that she hosted she greeted them by saying, ‘Hello, suckers.\u2019 Well, let me update it to ‘Hello, suckers.\u2019 We were told that we were so near economic collapse, Congress had to approve the bill before they read it, Friday, or there might not even be a Saturday, Congress passed it on Friday, Obama signed it Friday night? No. Did he save the economy from collapse on Saturday? No. We\u2019re talking collapse here for heaven\u2019s sake! Did he sign it on Sunday and save America on Sunday? No. How about today? President, no. <\/p>\n

Do you realize presidents can sign bills anywhere at any time? It\u2019s not as though the bill has to be FedExed to Denver and there might be weather delays from over the weekend. We\u2019re talking collapse here; we\u2019re talking catastrophe, and the bill\u2019s still not signed. You see, ‘crisis\u2019 and ‘collapse\u2019 were words, just words. The stimulus scheme that had to be voted on Friday will not be signed until tomorrow, so, ‘Hello, suckers.\u2019 (laughing) Even after the passage the story line remains: ‘Obama won, the Republicans didn\u2019t support him.\u2019 Nobody\u2019s asking, did America win? Because the Drive-Bys are equating Obama\u2019s success with America\u2019s success. The reason nobody\u2019s asking, did America win, is because they know the answer. America did not win. Americans will be paying the price for years, if not decades to come. In fact, ladies and gentlemen, from Reuters: ‘President Barack Obama\u2019s aides warned Americans on Sunday not to expect instant miracles from the stimulus bill that he will sign tomorrow.\u2019 They said it will help eventually. By the way, Obama has said that things are going to get worse even after he has signed this. <\/p>\n

He said even if he gets the bill, which he\u2019s going to sign Tuesday, that it\u2019s going to get worse. ‘There will be signs of activity very quickly,\u2019 David Axelrod said on Fox News Sunday, ‘but it\u2019s going to take time for that to show up in the statistics. The president said it\u2019s likely to get worse before it gets better.\u2019 White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, the brightest and most intelligent, most articulate, best press spokesman in the history of the White House, used similar language on Slay the Nation on CBS. ‘I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any doubt that we\u2019ve seen this economy has gotten worse just in the last few months.\u2019 Yeah, Dow Jones down 2,000 points since your guy was elected, Bob. The acceleration in job loss probably means this economy is going to get worse before it gets better. I think I\u2019ve got the explanation for all of this. A little known story out there, the UK Daily Mail, I found it: ‘Alien Life May Be All Around Us (Or Even In Us), Says Professor.\u2019 This explains it all. Do you remember the movie Men in Black? In fact, one of the things I regret most — nah, don\u2019t regret it most, but I do regret this. The producers of that movie called the office and said, ‘Could we use five seconds of videotape from you on TV monitors showing you as one of the aliens that have come from outer space?\u2019 They used Newt, and they had Clinton up there, and for some reason, I don\u2019t remember why, we said no. <\/p>\n

So this guy is saying essentially that\u2019s what\u2019s happened, there are billions of earths in our galaxy, meaning billions of places life could exist similar to us, or entirely different. This scientist, this professor, a cosmologist, Paul Davies, ‘said it was ‘entirely reasonable\u2019 to believe that we share the planet with a form of life different to anything we know of. This ‘life, but not as we know it\u2019 might be lurking in poisonous lakes or deep under the sea or could even be inside our bodies. Professor Davies said: ‘It could be right under our noses, or even in our noses. It could even be that ‘weird life\u2019 and real life are intermingled.” If you think an alien is in your nose, try Zicam<\/a>. (laughing) If it stops the common cold, it\u2019ll kill an alien lurking in your nose. This is a dead serious story. ‘Calling on scientists to launch a ‘mission to Earth\u2019, he said it was possible that life had evolved more than once, meaning we are not alone on our planet.\u2019<\/p>\n

A letter to the editor of the Reading Eagle newspaper, headline: ”Limbaugh Likened to Cult Leaders.\u2019 Dear editor: There was a time when Rush Limbaugh was interesting and informative, and I got some good information and different views to think about in the news. Those days are gone. I compare Limbaugh of today to some of the cult leaders in our society: Jim Jones, David Koresh and Warren Jeffs. Limbaugh is acting like an absolute ruler who used manipulative methods to control the minds of their followers.\u2019 Man, if that were only true. That has been my objective, by the way. This woman is Susan Miller. Susan, you\u2019re on to something here. I have sought absolute ruler status. I\u2019m not retiring \u2019til every American agrees with me. That would be absolute power, and I\u2019m still on track for that, but if it were true, Susan, Obama would never have been elected, much less nominated because, of course, I ran Operation Chaos in order to create chaos and prolong the Democrat primary system. Ms. Miller continues in the letter, ‘The information he spewed has great power and influence on the minds of those who are unable to think for themselves.\u2019<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know if she\u2019s talking about me or Obama. I think she\u2019s given an accurate description of your typical Obama voter, those who are unable to think for themselves. ‘I am a registered Republican, but I\u2019m sick and tired of listening to his ranting and raving about the new president. He stoops pretty low many times and thinks nothing of insulting people, calling them pet names and making fun of people — tactics of the classroom bully.\u2019 Yes, this is so true, Susan, that the entire federal government is gearing up to put me out of business. Henry Waxman is looking into it now, Mr. Snerdley, and as I have predicted, they\u2019re going to go about this at the FCC, and they\u2019re going to go about this with regulatory restrictions on local ownership, station ownership, programming, not gonna call it the Fairness Doctrine. So you got Clinton, you got Hinchey, every day there\u2019s somebody new weighing in on it. Harkin, and now Gibbs, or maybe it was Axelrod, one of the two in the Obama administration, was asked about this recently, they backed off. Obama previously said, ‘I\u2019m not interested in the Fairness Doctrine.\u2019 They backed off of that now, because Ed Morrissey over at HotAir.com, said, ‘You know, every Obama statement has an expiration date.\u2019 That\u2019s a great line. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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