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RUSH: Joanne in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Hi, and welcome to Open Line Friday.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Thank you, Rush. First I need to apologize to Snerdley for calling him ‘royal\u2019 when he put me on hold. I certainly didn\u2019t mean to offend him.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that, and I\u2019m sure he does, too.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Okay, we… You know, we had that cute little stimulus they sent us last year, that $600 per person, $1,200 per couple?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Exactly. We had two of them!<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, we got our $1,200 last year, and I thought, ‘What the hell, my insurance is due. I\u2019ll just pay it for the year,\u2019 right? My homeowners insurance.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yeah.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I did my taxes, and before I went ahead and checked that I had gotten the stimulus, I was going to owe $23 and change. Once I checked that I got the stimulus, I owe $1,223 and change because it put me into a different tax bracket!<\/p>\n

RUSH: You mean you took the $1,200, and your taxes went up $1,200?<\/p>\n

CALLER: That\u2019s what I gotta send the government back, plus my $23 and change.<\/p>\n

RUSH: That\u2019s the first story of that type that I\u2019ve heard, but this doesn\u2019t surprise me because of what we\u2019ve learned about the $13 a week.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I\u2019m just thrilled about that! My husband changed his deduction, because I work part time; he works full time; and we have a teeny, tiny mortgage. So we can\u2019t write off the insurance. We don\u2019t have any children so we have no regular deductions, and the interest that we pay doesn\u2019t add up to the standard deduction. So we\u2019re kind of screwed.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Hey! Hey! I feel like I\u2019m talking to a compatriot here. Welcome to the club. I sometimes feel alone on all this.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I only started listening to you about two years ago when my high school sweetheart brought me back up here from Florida, after we\u2019d been apart 29 years (he found me at Classmates.com) and I started listening to you, and I said, ‘You know, this man makes a hell of a lot of sense. He sounds like my dad.\u2019<\/p>\n

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

CALLER: You\u2019re welcome.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. I really appreciate that, ma\u2019am.<\/p>\n

CALLER: But I\u2019ll tell you what. I am fit to be tied, mad as hell (laughing) and I just don\u2019t know what to do about it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, you know what? When I find people mad as hell, one of the things that helps is playing a Barney Frank sound bite.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know, Barney Frank… If I have to listen to Barney Frank one more time or look at Obama one more time, I\u2019m just going to puke my lunch. (laughs) I\u2019m just over it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, okay. That I can understand.<\/p>\n

CALLER: He is funny. Your parodies are funny but the man is not funny at all, because he actually believes what he\u2019s saying.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You got to learn…<\/p>\n

CALLER: And that\u2019s frightening.<\/p>\n

RUSH: …to laugh at it now and then.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I laugh at it. I laugh at it between one and two when I listen to you every day at lunch, and all day Friday.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I appreciate that, ma\u2019am. I\u2019m going to play a Barney Frank sound bite, so you have about ten seconds to either turn the radio off or —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, I won\u2019t turn the radio off. And you do great tomorrow, \u2019cause I\u2019m going to turn you on at five o\u2019clock on Fox and listen to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you very much. It\u2019s a lot of pressure. I hope I do well.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Oh, you\u2019re gonna do just fine.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All these television cameras there, and —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Eh, don\u2019t worry about it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: — the largest crowd ever, and everybody is hoping I fail. <\/p>\n

CALLER: No.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Do you realize the Democrats are going to be hoping I make the biggest fool of myself? The liberals will be hoping I fail and stumble over an electric cord out there, or maybe the podium collapses in front of me.<\/p>\n

CALLER: It\u2019s not going to happen!<\/p>\n

RUSH: I know, but I know they\u2019re hoping it.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, you know what? They can hope all they want. They show every day what idiots they are by opening up their mouths.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Yes, ma\u2019am. I agree a hundred percent. All right, here comes the Barney Frank sound bite. Thanks very much, Joanne. I appreciate it. Last night on Chris Matthews\u2019 show, Barney Frank was the guest and Chris Matthews said, ‘What do you make of this big shift away from Bushism, if you will? Away from tax cuts, from people who make certain amount of money — and to begin a health fund, you know, national health care? What do you make of the big shift back to all this?\u2019<\/p>\n

FRANK: I think it\u2019s what people voted for. There was no secret that this was going to happen. John McCain kept predicting that if Obama won, this would happen, and I think Obama felt an obligation to make an honest man out of John McCain — or to keep him honest. One John\u2019s always been pretty honest. Of course the private sector is the engine to create wealth. But we also know, as Franklin Roosevelt knew and as others have known, that the private sector works best when it\u2019s got a set of rules and a cooperative set of arrangements with the public sector.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So during the campaign, remember now, the Democrats said that we –McCain, Joe the Plumber, we — were crazy for warning that Obama was a socialist! Now Barney Frank says everybody knew it? Everybody knew this was going to happen? I did! I guarantee you that a majority of people that voted for the Bamster did not know this was going to happen. He was talking tax cuts. He wasn\u2019t talking about this. He was talking about lowering the sea levels four feet. He wasn\u2019t talking all this detailed, massive spending. I ‘disagwee\u2019 with Mr. ‘Fwank\u2019 on this, folks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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