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RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, a quick question here. When did Barney Frank become the face of the Democrat Party? This guy is getting more face time than Pelosi. The amount of face time he\u2019s getting is equivalent to what Obama\u2019s getting. <\/p>\n

Now, if Barney Frank is the face of the Democrat Party, what are we really looking at when we see his face? Seriously, now. Fifty billion, hundred billion, even that may not be enough to keep people in their homes. Let\u2019s see if I understand this. If you cannot pay your mortgage, no matter who you are, no matter the circumstances of getting the mortgage, you will forever keep your home. Is that how the loan process works now? Seriously, folks, stick with me on this. If you can\u2019t pay your mortgage and Obama\u2019s going to have a big announcement on this Tuesday or Wednesday in Phoenix, if you can\u2019t pay your mortgage, no matter who you are, no matter the circumstances of how you got the mortgage, you will forever keep your home? But then we are told that the banks screwed up, that they make stupid decisions that have cost them billions of dollars. The banks made stupid decisions, right? But here now the banks are told that they must maintain loans that are not paid. So the banks are blamed for making stupid decisions, Barney Frank comes along and orders them to continue to make stupid decisions, that the federal government is going to bail out the people to whom they stupidly lent money. <\/p>\n

These are the same fools, by the way, the same fools who 30 years ago demanded that banks issue these bad loans, are demanding now that the banks maintain bad loans. You see, folks, if you\u2019re a new listener here on Presidents Day, you have to understand the housing crisis is not brought to you by the Bush administration, and it\u2019s not brought to you solely by the banks. It\u2019s brought to you by Jimmy Carter, something called the Community Development Act that barely got a ripple of a start with Carter, but Clinton really juiced it, and it was all under the premise of affordable housing, that every American should have the opportunity to experience the American dream, which has always been defined as owning your own home. So the Community Redevelopment Act, ACORN, community agitators, all put pressure on banks to loan money to people who couldn\u2019t pay it back. This became the subprime mortgage market: people who were lent money who had no prayer of paying it back, even after any cursory examination of their financial situation indicated they would not be able to pay it back, they were still required. <\/p>\n

Janet Reno, when she was attorney general, pressured these banks with all kinds of harassing investigations if they didn\u2019t comply. So the very government now that says we\u2019re going to bail out anybody who borrowed money who can\u2019t pay it back for any reason now says the banks made stupid lending decisions are now gonna keep the banks, force the banks to continue to maintain loans that are not paid, which is a continuation of the problem in the first place. Right under our eyes, right before our eyes, right under our noses, the reason the problem occurred is being repeated! Only this time it\u2019s not being hidden. This time it\u2019s right out in the open with Barney Frank proudly saying, $50 billion won\u2019t be enough, a hundred billion, even if we have to go higher. It\u2019s identical. The banks after being railed against and now bailed out, and their executives being told what they can and can\u2019t spend money on, what they can and can\u2019t pay themselves, same people 30 years ago demanded that banks issue these bad loans are demanding the banks maintain the bad loans. <\/p>\n

So the thing that caused the problem is being repeated right front of our eyes. And the thing you have to understand is these are not business decisions; these are not market decisions; these are pure political decisions because the government is running the banks. No wonder the credit markets aren\u2019t lending, no wonder there\u2019s no confidence on Wall Street, for crying out loud, they\u2019re being forced — just last week before we left on Friday it was JP Morgan Chase, and what was the other bank? JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup said they\u2019re going to suspend foreclosures, that is, reclaiming houses that people can\u2019t pay the mortgage on, until Geithner and Obama come up with their plan. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is down over 2,000 points since Obama\u2019s election. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. We have some fascinating stuff from CNBC. Last Friday on the Kudlow Report, Kudlow talking with Charlie Gasparino of CNBC about the bank rescue plan, and they play this bite of Senator Chris Dodd from the Senate floor.<\/p>\n

DODD: We\u2019re in the deepest economic crisis in the lifetime of any living American. And they\u2019re worried about their pay. Our system of economy is at risk these days and we\u2019ll be judged by history as to whether or not we can respond intelligently to it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Kudlow says to Gasparino, ‘These horrible people, Dodd says they\u2019re worried about their pay, Charlie, imagine that. How materialistic.\u2019<\/p>\n

GASPARINO: If this little thing that he snuck in there at the last minute last night in the stimulus bill does make it into the final draft of the legislation, it\u2019s going to change forever the way Wall Streeters are compensated. What he\u2019s doing is saying that he\u2019s capping the bonuses, so what he\u2019s essentially saying, and it\u2019s capped at a pretty low level, for the top 25 guys, if you\u2019re at a bank that received more than $500 million of TARP funds, which is just about every major bank, you can only make like a $200,000 bonus or a $100,000 bonus. What he\u2019s mandating, Larry, is huge salaries.<\/p>\n

RUSH: This is Gasparino\u2019s theory for how they\u2019ll overcome the restrictions on bonuses. They\u2019ll just pay themselves salaries now and that\u2019s where Barney Frank said, ‘Wait a minute now. We want some of that money back if you have a down year.\u2019 And Kudlow says, ‘I don\u2019t think Wall Street cares much about the stimulus plan, but I think they do care a lot about mortgages.\u2019<\/p>\n

GASPARINO: They don\u2019t care about the stimulus plan. They know it\u2019s a joke. Most of the people I talk to know it\u2019s a joke. Over the summer I wrote a column that basically said, underlying a lot of the skittishness in the market is fears about Obama\u2019s economics, you know, his theories about economics. I will tell you now that I was called like a — I was called Kudlowesque in that.<\/p>\n

KUDLOW: You are Kudlowesque. That\u2019s why we love you.<\/p>\n

GASPARINO: And I\u2019m proud to be. But you want to know something? Look at where the stock market is today.<\/p>\n

KUDLOW: I understand.<\/p>\n

GASPARINO: The market is scared of these guys.<\/p>\n

KUDLOW: I understand.<\/p>\n

GASPARINO: Because they don\u2019t think they know what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

RUSH: They know exactly what they\u2019re doing. See, that\u2019s the dirty little secret here. The Obama administration knows exactly what they are doing. This is an all-out assault on our capitalist system. There is no other way to describe this. And it has the support of practically everybody in the Drive-By Media, to the extent that they even understand what\u2019s happening here. And, of course, the Democrat Party is all together. Finally Kudlow says, ‘Geithner has fled to Rome. He just got out of the country. Now he\u2019s doing it under the guise of the G7 meeting, but I think he\u2019s fleeing the American media and the stock market. When\u2019s he coming home? When\u2019s he going to announce the so-called details of this toxic asset rescue, the secondary securitization market rescue? Maybe this mortgage bailout rescue, when is it all going to happen, Charlie?\u2019<\/p>\n

GASPARINO: Well, at that meeting, that\u2019s all everybody was asking for, when are we going to get some details? ‘Cause nobody really knows. And I will tell you this, Larry, if Tim Geithner was a conservative Republican he would have had a bullet in the back of his head. He wouldn\u2019t have had columnists championing him because his debut was so bad, it was so horrible, and it sent the exact wrong message.<\/p>\n

RUSH: It did especially after the night before at the press conference, Obama had built the expectations up so high, ‘Well, I can\u2019t step on my Treasury secretary, he\u2019s going to have a detailed plan.\u2019 Geithner goes out there and looks worse than Dan Quayle ever looked, deer in the headlights and so forth, came off as a little authoritarian, which all these people are. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: CNBC. Again, I\u2019m not sure exactly. Let\u2019s see, when was this? I think it was Friday. It might have been earlier this morning, however. I\u2019m not sure. I was sent a review, a partial transcript of a discussion on CNBC today about the Porkulus plan. It\u2019s a good conversation about it. It\u2019s all about picking winners and losers, how the wheels are coming off anyway. The interviews are with Larry Kudlow. The guests here are Dan Clifton of Strategas Research and Donald Luskin. He doesn\u2019t think the thing\u2019s going to work at all, but what this points up to, Dan Clifton here says his firm has researched the Porkulus bill, and companies that lobby as a greater percentage of their revenue outperform the market. Companies that lobby, as a greater percentage of their revenue, outperform the market. So we now have investment firms charting how much companies lobby as a measure of how successful they will be.<\/p>\n

Not whether they make a good product, not what their balance sheet looks like, not how good their management team is. It\u2019s all about how much damn money they spend lobbying Congress. So you have financial advisors, to illustrate this, charting a company — and, by the way, Microsoft is just going great guns. Microsoft is said because of the stimulus to make out very well. Well, guess what Microsoft is doing in big numbers ever since their anti-trust suit, and that\u2019s lobbying. So this investment house advises clients to pick stocks, companies, based on how much money they spend lobbying, because they will be the winners, because Washington is picking the winners via legislation. <\/p>\n

It has nothing to do with balance sheets, how good a product is, how well the company\u2019s run or any of this. He talks about how he tells his clients to invest in ‘winners\u2019 from the stimulus package regardless how flawed the stimulus package is. One of the areas that he says that people ought to invest in is wind and solar \u2019cause Obama\u2019s moving in that direction, that Obama will do anything to make his alternative energy plan a success. So you have an investment counselor telling his clients to forget how bad the policy is, invest in the policy winners. So essentially Obama is picking market winners. Kudlow said, ‘Well, what about Boone Pickens and his wind program?\u2019 And Dan Clifton says he will, and GE is going to be a winner, because they\u2019re in the wind turbine business. <\/p>\n

So invest in GE because they\u2019re spending a lot of money lobbying to get done what Obama wants to get done. I have been… you know, this makes all kinds of sense to me, when I have watched all of these businesses go totally ‘green.\u2019 I thought, ‘It\u2019s just PR. It\u2019s just marketing. All they want to do is capitalize on the public sentiment that buys into global warming.\u2019 It turns out that\u2019s not it at all. They figure out what political leaders want, they figure political leaders are going to get what they want, and so they lobby to be a part of what the political leaders\u2019 desires are, in this case wind. This guy\u2019s theory is that Boone Pickens is going to make out like a bandit — and of course if he does, it means Nancy Pelosi will, because Nancy Pelosi has invested in his company. And her husband, Pelosi and her husband. <\/p>\n

Now for Boone Pickens\u2019 company to actually do well on the bottom line — which of course may not now be necessary for Boone to get a lot of investment in his company. He may not have to ever do anything to get a lot of investment, just that Obama\u2019s all for it, and if Boone does a lot of lobbying for that, then he\u2019ll get some investors. So Boone may not even need gasoline to get back up to four bucks a gallon to succeed. I watched this interview. ‘What an idiot I am!\u2019 Economics is so simple. It\u2019s so simple, it\u2019s complicated, and I shoulda figured this out on my own. I apologize. Now, this guy Donald Luskin disagrees with me. He says forget all of this and go buy gold \u2019cause we\u2019re heading down the chutes and there\u2019s nothing anybody can do to stop it. So they balanced it out.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, now, here\u2019s the other side to this. The other side is that, ‘Hey, somebody is going to lobby the government for some plan that a leader wants, like Obama? Invest in those companies.\u2019 That is what Dan Clifton, Strategas Research, said Friday on CNBC with Larry Kudlow. Don Luskin, who, by the way, is chief investment officer of Trend Macrolytics, (it says here ‘an innovative investor for 30 years, frequent contributor to CNBC and National Review.\u2019) Don Luskin also spoke with Larry Kudlow. He doesn\u2019t think this is going to work at all. The stimulus isn\u2019t gonna work because it will screw up the economy so bad that even Obama\u2019s winners will be losers. He says, ‘Buy gold. I\u2019m not going to dignify this nonsense, this winners in this green energy stuff. It\u2019s common sense. Even if you subsidize losing ideas, you still have unprofitable companies.\u2019 <\/p>\n

That\u2019s true, but what if they keep getting propped up? What if they keep getting bailed out? What the hell are we doing now but bailing out the losers? It\u2019s exactly what we\u2019re doing. So what if they keep getting bailed out by people like Obama? He said, ‘Maybe the winners in the stimulus bill will beat the market but if the wheels of the government come off and it goes down 30%, it\u2019s not going to help to beat that kind of market,\u2019 is what Luskin says. I think the first part of this is, to me, somewhat interesting with how lobbying is now being looked at to determine in what company you should invest in terms of buying stock. <\/p>\n

But all this is just minutia that obscures what\u2019s really happening here, and that\u2019s we\u2019re losing our country. We\u2019re losing the country you and I grew up with. If this goes on unabated, your kids are not going to recognize it, for certain. They\u2019re not going to have the liberty and the freedom to engage in the pursuit of opportunity and prosperity that we all had. There isn\u2019t going to be any prosperity to speak of — and whatever prosperity there is, is going to be limited by government, in terms of salary companies, who knows what else. This is nothing more than a blatant attack on the capitalist system, a blatant attack on liberty and freedom. It\u2019s about stimulating the Obama presidency, stimulating the Democrat Party.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: You remember I was telling you what I saw on CNBC, I read a transcript summary. Here are the two sound bites. This is Dan Clifton of Strategas Research Partners, and Larry Kudlow says, ‘There\u2019s a big energy play, wind, solar. Rate these two real quickly. Do you have a winner, a loser, or what?\u2019<\/p>\n

CLIFTON: There\u2019s a new grant program, so the wing thesis works. I look at Vestas Wind, I look at First Solar, I look at SunPower. Obama is moving us into a direction, whether you agree with it or not, where it is going to be renewable energy. That\u2019s where they are pushing. They will do anything to get there. There is going to be new demand in legislation. The wind thesis works at this point with these two pieces of legislation. We are creating the infrastructure for this renewable energy. That\u2019s GE, those are the tech companies that have to write the software to create this type of new electricity. <\/p>\n

KUDLOW: All right, let\u2019s go down, a couple of others, quicky here. Health care, IT, Microsoft, is that true?<\/p>\n

CLIFTON: I would say the same thing. In each of these issues, whether it is renewable energy, health care, information technology, we can go right down the line, Microsoft has positioned themselves to be the big winner in this stimulus package \u2019cause they are writing the software to make this happen.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this is the guy that is advising his investment clients not to look at the performance of the company or the balance sheet but rather how much lobbying they are doing, because if they are doing a lot of lobbying they\u2019re going to get government contracts and it doesn\u2019t matter whether they succeed or not, they\u2019re going to have a lot of investment and the stock price is going to go up. This brought the following reaction from Donald Luskin. Kudlow says, ‘Don Luskin, what do you make of this rundown, buddy?\u2019<\/p>\n

LUSKIN: Larry, I\u2019m not even going to dignify this mess by pretending that there are going to be winners. This green energy stuff, come on, throwing subsidies at stupid, unprofitable ideas isn\u2019t going to make stupid unprofitable companies profitable. It will just make them subsidized for a year. The only winner in this stimulus bill is gold because this is leading straight to inflation.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Donald Luskin putting the truth to — Snerdley told me during the break he thinks the economy is going to rebound in four years and the big challenge that we\u2019re going to have is making sure Obama doesn\u2019t get the credit for it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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