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RUSH: Guess who has become the latest capitalist? John Kerry! I\u2019m not surprised. Half hour ago, Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, Washington, on her MSNBC show, interviewed Senator Kerry (who, by the way, served in Vietnam) about the Citibank news that they\u2019re going to be giving out 50% raises. Yeah, 50% raises. And her question to Lurch was, ‘Finance and banking committees in the Senate, are you disturbed that Citibank\u2019s about to award big pay raises, perhaps to get around the bonus requirements? I mean, Citibank took TARP money. Should they be awarding big pay raises? They\u2019re not earning money. Their stock price is down. Should they be awarding big pay raises, or is that, as they say, ‘what they need to do to compete\u2019?\u2019<\/p>\n

KERRY: Look, we understand in the normal course of business people have to be paid appropriately. There is competition in the marketplace. You have to attract good people. All those things are true. But you also need to do these things within the limits of — of what people perceive, of what the marketplace will bear in terms of a sense of appropriateness and decency given the challenges that our economy faces and we hope that people will respond appropriately.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What a 180! What an absolute 180. Back last fall when we were bailing these people out, John Kerry (who served in Vietnam, by the way) was bashing all of these Wall Street entities, all of these banks. Now all of a sudden, ‘Well, you know, they gotta pay a lot of people, and gotta pay good people, and they gotta pay \u2019em appropriately. It\u2019s competition in the marketplace.\u2019 That\u2019s all fine now! It\u2019s all fine when the Democrats and Obama are running the show. I\u2019m telling you, folks, this is going to filter out to the average Obama voter. This is not what the average Obama voter thought he or she was voting for, to make Citibank rich, to make Goldman Sachs rich. Forget whether they\u2019re right or wrong for a second here. I\u2019m not concerned with whether or not these Obama voters understand capitalism or not. In this instance — and I remain influenced by that bunch of calls we got last week from Obama voters who were livid.<\/p>\n

They thought they were going to be getting all this money and they just see Obama doing what Republicans have done: bail out the banks, bail out the big rich people. Well, now, with the Goldman Sachs and their big bonuses and their ‘record first half of \u201909,\u2019 whatever it was; now Citibank 50% raises to get around the bonus requirements, limitations? And Democrats now talking about, ‘Well, yeah, we have to do this.\u2019 See, back in the early days of the administration, when AIG was doing this, it was time to hang \u2019em and burn \u2019em at the stake and send ACORN up there to protest on the lawns of the homes of the executives at AIG! Now, ‘Weeeell, we gotta pay people. It\u2019s a competitive business out there. We gotta pay people, good people.\u2019 It\u2019s all fine now. I\u2019m going to tell you what we\u2019re looking at here, folks. Democrats don\u2019t get it. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re looking at Jimmy Carter 2. We\u2019re looking at it. We\u2019re right on the cusp of it. Warren Buffett\u2019s told us today that the economy is going to be in shambles. We\u2019re going to see at some point — if I\u2019m right about this, and I\u2019m seldom wrong, we are going to see — an approval number chart that\u2019s going to track pretty close to old Jimmy Carter. The Democrats are arrogant. They are condescending. They make the mistake of believing that every American lives and breathes and hopes and dreams on what Democrats are going to do each and every day, and that they are insulated and insured against any criticism because of this lapdog media that follows them around. You watch. You watch. This health care thing, too. They\u2019re going to have more problems with this. And what they\u2019ve done to Gerald Walpin, this is coming out, too. The inspector general in the St. Hope Academy case, AmeriCorp, they tried to ruin this guy. This is Clinton travel office all over again. Like I said last week, this is just like the Clinton travel office. They\u2019re just getting rid of somebody who\u2019s a thorn in their side. The St. Hope Academy was a mess out there. They shouldn\u2019t have got the money; Walpin said they shouldn\u2019t have gotten the money. They were misusing it. So they get rid of Walpin. This kind of stuff is — and they\u2019re trying too much, too soon. Obama is on television every day, this and that and the other thing now. At some point there\u2019s going to be a lot of give here. I\u2019m confident of this. Keep a sharp eye. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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