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RUSH: Neil, Charlotte, North Carolina. Welcome, sir. Glad you waited. You\u2019re on the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hey, Rush, I heard you talking a while ago about never hearing about a pay czar, and I hadn\u2019t either until I was talking to my father-in-law, and he told me about a man named Leon Henderson back in FDR\u2019s time. An executive order by FDR created what was called the Office of Price Administration. Leon Henderson, my father-in-law\u2019s friend, became the head of that division of the OPA and he was dubbed the price czar by the media. And the interesting thing was the OPA was actually used to help control and regulate resources during wartime trying to stave off inflation, but it actually morphed into what government normally does, an overreaching arm. And in 1942, October 2nd, the Office of Economic Stabilization was responsible for, get this, controlling wage levels and regulating food prices and basically generally stabilizing the cost of living. But the problem that stemmed from that was the government outreach, talk about Big Brother, in 1943 alone, 650,000 investigations into private citizens for noncompliance and 618,000 violations in 1943 and \u201944. So the government chased these people down.<\/p>\n

RUSH: You know, I didn\u2019t know all of that. I\u2019m not surprised, \u2019cause it didn\u2019t work. And we came out of it, and a lot of those policies were repudiated. And it\u2019s true that we\u2019ve had wage and price controls tried a couple of times. I remember Nixon did it. Nixon did it when inflation was 3%, wage and price controls. And they never work. They never work. Look, this guy does fashion himself as a modern-day FDR, there\u2019s no question about that, and those are interesting facts that you cited. But I\u2019ll tell you something. What Obama is doing with all of these czars, particularly the pay czar, is a little different than wage and price controls. Wage and price controls are slapped all over the country, and they are by definition temporary. They are to control an emergency at the moment, ostensibly. What Obama is doing is buying companies. Obama is nationalizing companies and then telling people in those companies what they can and can\u2019t earn, it\u2019s a pure definition of fascism. <\/p>\n

But I agree with you, there are a lot of similarities, which, by the way, offers a lot of reasons for hope because we came out of that, and of course it took a world war to get us out of that kind of stuff, but the country did not fall into dictatorship. The country did not fall into tyrannical control. FDR tried, but it didn\u2019t fall to that. I know we\u2019re still living with it but we haven\u2019t succumbed to it is the point, and we\u2019re not going to succumb to this. I\u2019ve gotten some e-mails, ‘Rush, you\u2019re really depressing me today. I feel like just checking out.\u2019 Let me tell you something, folks. I happen to be depressed. I happen to be in a foul mood today, and I\u2019m not one of these people that come in here and go, ‘Hey, hey, everything\u2019s wonderful, ah, great.\u2019 Normally I\u2019m up and ebullient, but today I\u2019m just in a foul mood. All this stuff is getting to me, but I don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to win. My frustration centers around the lack of organized opposition to it and that\u2019s going to have to happen at some point in time. The future of this country will be determined in November of 2010 and we\u2019ve already learned today, given what they\u2019ve done to Kinston, North Carolina, they are counting on election fraud big time. <\/p>\n

They know at the White House that they are in big trouble. They can read the poll numbers. They know what the mood of this country is. That\u2019s why there is a sprint to get all of this stuff done before 2010 but it won\u2019t be enacted until after 2010 and some of it not until after 2012, after Obama runs for reelection. That\u2019s why 2010 is a crucially important time. That\u2019s where ultimately this is going to be stopped. But, no, the tea parties weren\u2019t for naught. The town hall meetings, they were not for naught, they weren\u2019t worthless. Let\u2019s play this sound bite number nine. This is Eric Massa. He\u2019s on a liberal talk show. And, let\u2019s see, there\u2019s a fill-in host, I never heard of the fill-in host, so I\u2019m not going to mention the name. ‘Senator Kent Conrad is still pushing the idea of co-ops. Is that dead in the water? What\u2019s the point of talking about it?\u2019<\/p>\n

MASSA: The Senate bill and the House bill are on different planets. And they\u2019re on different planets because as much as I want this administration to succeed they did not present a piece of legislation to the United States Congress. We still don\u2019t have a piece of paper that says what his plan is. We\u2019re kind of like pilots flying blind.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Now, this is again Eric Massa who\u2019s a Democrat from New York, a member of the House of Representatives. So it indicates there\u2019s some frustration out there and I\u2019ll tell you what the frustration is. These guys are going to go stand for reelection next November, a year from now, and they\u2019re the ones having to put their names and their reputations on these myriad plans. Meanwhile, the great emancipator — sorry — The Messiah, Barack Obama, sits up there and gets to play Mr. Perfect all day long and bring in Earth, Wind &amp; Fire, grab Air Force One and take the family up for dinner and for dates and so forth, and be treated like there\u2019s never been a human being like him and he gets to escape all the heat for it. So there\u2019s no question some Democrats are a little, ‘Eh, where\u2019s his plan? We got five plans, these two plans are on different planets.\u2019 <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, we\u2019re all on the Hale-Bopp comet while the health care plans are on two different planets and he\u2019s saying, ‘I don\u2019t know where we\u2019re going to come to any agreement here and we\u2019re not going to come to an agreement on these two different plans unless Obama tells us what he wants.\u2019 And he\u2019s not going to do that. Not now with his poll numbers shrinking, it\u2019s just not going to happen. So these guys are starting to say, wait a minute, we don\u2019t want to sink or swim on this when he\u2019s going to get the credit for it and we\u2019re going to get the blame. So, look, these guys are playing defense, they\u2019re playing defense. None of this was supposed to happen. Obama was supposed to get health care in August, before August. There was supposed to be universal acclamation, ‘Whatever you want, Barack, it\u2019s yours,\u2019 from everybody in the country. There was not supposed to be this opposition. And now look what they\u2019re doing, going after me, going after Fox News, talk radio. Their colors are showing and they are not pretty. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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