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RUSH: Here\u2019s a story in the New York Times today. Headline: ‘Should White House Employees Keep Their Bonuses? — The hot-button issue of year-end bonuses from firms that took bailout money may not just be a headache for Wall Street. It could also become a White House problem.\u2019 No, it won\u2019t. It won\u2019t become a White House problem. ‘Several members of the Obama administration worked for financial companies that received bailout funds, raising the question of whether they should keep any bonus they received. At least three members of the still-growing team of political appointees, for example, worked at Citigroup and were eligible for year-end bonuses. <\/p>\n

‘One of the former Citigroup executives, Michael Froman, the deputy national security adviser for international economic affairs, has decided to give his bonus to charity. The White House declined to provide specific details on what the other two — the deputy Secretary of State, Jacob J. Lew, and David A. Lipton, the White House\u2019s senior director for international economics — will do,\u2019 regarding their bonuses. However, last night on PMSNBC David Axelrod was asked about this. MSNBC said, ‘Those people who once worked for financial firms who may be working now at the White House, some chose to give up their bonuses, but the administration didn\u2019t force anybody who was in the position to in fact give up their bonuses. Do you know of anybody in the White House who kept their year-end bonus and is the administration rethinking its policy on that point just because of the way it looks?\u2019<\/p>\n

AXELROD: I don\u2019t have encyclopedic knowledge of people\u2019s finances and I don\u2019t think we\u2019re going to start sorting through everyone who\u2019s, uh, worked here and — and examine that. We need talent that we have. Right now our problem isn\u2019t that. Our problem is that we\u2019ve got enormous challenges. We have to work on them all at once to get this economy moving again, and we need all hands on deck.<\/p>\n

RUSH: So, if you\u2019re working at the White House and you got a bonus, that\u2019s none of the White House\u2019s business \u2019cause your ‘talent\u2019 is so needed. Just like they said that we needed the talent of the tax cheat, Timothy Geithner, who is incompetent and clueless — and if there\u2019s anybody who doesn\u2019t really know what they\u2019re doing, it\u2019s Tim Geithner. He may be in on the game, too, knowing exactly what he\u2019s doing. I doubt the Obama administration would bring anybody in there that is not up to snuff. But see? When it\u2019s the government — and of course the Obama supporters will say, ‘Yeah, but they\u2019re working for government. That makes them holy! That makes them above criticism. <\/p>\n

‘Of course they can keep their bonuses, because they gave up their wealthy positions in the private sector, Mr. Limbaugh, in order to work for the government and to help the people. So they should keep their bonuses because they\u2019ve given up so much. They have sacrificed so much to work for the Obama administration.\u2019 This is how the Obama crowd would react to this, and here\u2019s Axelrod. You know, liberals are going to have rules for themselves that exempt themselves from the rules they make for us. ‘Ah, the problem isn\u2019t these guys that got bonuses. We need the talent here! Our problem is we have enormous challenges.\u2019 Well, so does AIG! AIG has an enormous challenge and all these Wall Street things have enormous challenges, but you certainly don\u2019t care about robbing them of their talent. <\/p>\n

By the way, a reminder: at the top of the next hour, Mark Levin will be here. Mark Levin will be here to discuss his new book, the title of which is Liberty and Tyranny, a conservative manifesto. Have you started reading it, Snerdley? Did you get a copy? Well, you can have mine. Once you start, you can\u2019t stop turning the pages. As I said yesterday, throughout my entire star-studded career, I have people saying, ‘Rush, what can I go read to learn what you know? Where can I go? What books and magazines should I read to understand conservatism?\u2019 and of course I\u2019ve always had my list that I give them. My website, my books, the books of others. This book is a one-stop shop. This book is it. And it\u2019s going to be a pleasure to talk to Mark about it<\/a> at the top of the next hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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