Limbaugh notes 1-27-09

Posted by highlysuspect on January 28, 2009 in politics | ∞

On Today’s Show…

Government meddling harmed a lot of businesses. Now that same government prints money for a bailout, so taxpayers think they own the businesses and can veto purchases like corporate jets. Washington shouldn’t tell businesses how to run and neither should you. But when a company or a person accepts money, there are always strings attached. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

» NY Post: Citi Group Cancels Plans to Buy $50m Jet

Pearl of Wisdom: “This bailout money is not your taxes. Washington is printing the money for it — and when you do that, at some point inflation has to rear its ugly head. Nobody is talking about that, but when inflation hits, it’s going to be the greatest tax that you pay. It’s a law of economics.”

» Heritage Foundation: What the Stimulus Will Cost You

Obama can pass his “stimulus” bill without any Republican votes, and then take all the credit if it succeeds. But he knows it won’t succeed, and he wants to avoid Clinton’s fate. Clinton passed his first budget without GOP votes, and it helped spur the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress.

Pearl of Wisdom: “If Obama can co-opt McConnell and a number of Republicans in the Senate to go along with him on this, then when this economy blows up, they’re on record with Obama as being responsible. This is why it’s crucial that the Republicans hold out. Because Obama doesn’t need a single Republican vote in the House to get what he wants, and he only needs a couple in the Senate, and that couple is just to break cloture.” (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Barney Frank — who helped cause this meltdown by forcing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make loans that’d never be paid — says Obama’s mandate is to control businesses, because conservative economics of letting the market work have demonstrably failed. This is totally backwards.

Rush: “The President of the United States hopes I fail.” (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here)

Obama has aborted Pelosi’s contraception plan from the “porkulus” bill. What if every item in this that has nothing to do with stimulus, received the same media scrutiny that Pelosi’s idiocy got?

» Bernard Goldberg’s New Book: A Slobbering Love Affair: The True (And Pathetic)

Story of the Torrid Romance Between Barack Obama and the Mainstream Media

Janet from Gross Pointe: People don’t turn their back on Democrats like Carl Levin, Jennifer Granholm, and Kwame Kilpatrick in Michigan because the state literacy rate

is dismally low.

Pearl of Wisdom: “If you look at the details of what’s in this porkulus plan, very little of it is stimulating. It’s just pork. It’s the Democrats paying back unions and the people that got ’em elected. There’s $4.19b for ‘neighborhood stabilization.’ That means voter fraud. That’s ACORN.”

There are many places where the bailout money went, and it became sort of a Ponzi scheme that arose from forcing home ownership on people who couldn’t afford to ever pay for that home.

Rush chats with Jane Hoeppner about the Super Bowl. Jane’s the wife of the late Terry Hoeppner, Pittsburgh Steelers’ Quarterback Ben Roethlisberger’s college coach at Miami of Ohio.

» Tony Dungy Interview on Thursday: “Uncommon: Finding Your Path to Significance”

From Rush’s Stack of Stuff Quick Hits Page:

» Thursday and Friday: Coach Dungy and The Hutch » Kid Asks Roethlisberger Best Question

» Schwarzenegger Wants to Tax Rounds of Golf » Pelosi Nightmare: Woman Gives Birth to Eight

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