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July 27, 2009 |
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Story #1: Great Headline: July Has Been Disaster for Obama
RUSH: This is from TheHill.com. It's by Sam Youngman. "'Analysis: July Has Been Disaster for Obama, Hill Dems.' -- After the climate bill passed 219-212 on the afternoon of June 26, there was a feeling that the White House could get much of its agenda through Congress in 2009. A month later, there are doubts that President Obama will even achieve his number one priority of healthcare reform, much less cap-and-trade, immigration reform and a regulatory revamp of the financial sector." Can you believe this? I mean, if July's been a disaster -- and I love that headline -- then I hope August is terrifying!
Story #2: Geithner Promises ChiComs US Will Raise Taxes
 RUSH: Tim Geithner, Treasury secretary, "pledged the United States will shrink its budget deficit over the next four years and boost national savings. He called on [the ChiComs] to maintain efforts to ease the impact of the global recession. He said, 'We are committed to taking measures to maintaining greater personal saving and to reducing the federal deficit to a sustainable level by 2013.'" Can I translate this for you? What Timothy Geithner has just promised the ChiComs is: "Don't worry about us. We're going to be raising taxes here. We're going to close the deficit, and all these massive tax increases are not going to hurt our economy." Man, I'll tell you, we have to go begging hat in hand to the ChiComs?
Story #3: Falling Support for Obama's Porkulus Plan
RUSH: This is Doug Bandow. He's at Cato Institute. But this is from the American Spectator blog. "The president's poll numbers continue to slide. Remember the 'stimulus' bill. So do the American people -- and not fondly. Rasmussen: Confidence in the $787-billion economic stimulus plan proposed by President Obama and passed by Congress in February continues to fall. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 25% of U.S. voters now say the stimulus plan has helped the economy. That's a six-point drop from a month ago. Thirty-one percent (31%) say the stimulus actually hurt the economy, little changed from a month ago. However, this is the first poll showing that more voters believe the plan hurt rather than helped."
Story #4: Obama Approval Drops in Rasmussen and Zogby
RUSH: July has been a disastrous month for President Obama, as I said earlier. And, by the way, here's another poll that shows Obama under 50%, and people want to say, "Well, yeah, but Rasmussen? Rasmussen leans a little right, Rush." Okay, Zogby. If Rasmussen leans a little right -- and I'm not conceding that, but this is what some people say -- then you have to admit Zogby leans a little left and they came up with the same number. "Survey finds 51% believe US is on the wrong track. Forty-one percent say the nation headed in the right direction. And Obama's job approval has fallen to 48%." So both Zogby and Rasmussen have the same number. So there's something ticking out there, and we've got to make that tick get louder and louder and louder. Fighting these people is a daily thing, folks. We can't give up.
Story #5: Weight Watcher Shoplifts Cupcakes in Port St. Lucie
RUSH: Get this from Port St. Lucie. Heh-heh! Do you know the story, Snerdley? The headline says it all: "Weight Watchers Demonstrator Accused of Shoplifting Cupcakes at Port St. Lucie Publix -- A woman involved in a Weight Watchers demo at a Publix was arrested after shoplifting cupcakes and other items, according to a police report obtained Friday. A loss prevention official..." Have you ever heard of that job title before, a "loss prevention official"? It's a security guard. It's like window washers are no longer window washers. They're vision control coordinators. Ha! "A loss prevention official told police that Kelly L. Barber, 47, was in the store ... 'conducting a demo for Weight Watchers.' The loss prevention official said she saw Barber 'conceal store items' in a blue bin and leave the store without paying for the goods, which included Weight Watchers cupcakes, a book and teeth whitening strips. 'When questioned, Kelly explained she just wanted to whiten her teeth and stated it was stupid she stole the items as she had never done this before,' the report states. 'Kelly did not have an explanation for'" the cupcakes. Hee, hee... Anyway she faces a retail theft charge. I love the news that comes out in this little town.
Story #6: Diet Update: Rush Loses Six Pounds Over Weekend
RUSH: I did lose six pounds this week. I cannot explain it. I got up Saturday morning and I weighed three pounds less than when I went to bed. Well, I played golf Saturday morning. Don't get me sidetracked on exercise; you know how I feel about that. But anyway, I said, "This can't be right." I've been on this diet since March 9th; three pounds, usually, in a week. But I got up Sunday morning, and three more had come off. I said, "The scale has got to be wrong." So I got up today, and sure enough, six pounds came off in two days over the weekend. Now, I didn't eat much 'cause, you know, I wasn't hungry, but my brother can't believe it: "Six pounds, that's unbelievable, pretty amazing." I know it is. I'll take it, by the way. I'll take it.
Story #7: Global Cooling: 3,000 Record Lows So Far in July
RUSH: Okay. Three thousand low-temperature records were set this July. This is from Accuweather, and it's not just the surface land temperatures. "Some blog reared points out that water temperatures at Frying Pan Shoals off Cape Fear fell to 78 degrees a few days ago." You can't even get a hurricane out of 78-degree water. Three thousand record low temperatures set in July and the month is not over.
Story #8: UK Guardian Claims Bush "Hid" Climate News
RUSH: The UK Guardian has a story today that the Bush administration "secretly hid" global warming evidence. Now, I was sent this news by our official climatologist here, Dr. Roy Spencer, at University of Alabama at Huntsville. He said, "Rush, this is hilarious. There has never been any 'secret evidence' of global warming that anyone ever tried to hide. The military has classified a bunch of high resolution images in recent years that might help with a few of the details of our understanding of the climate system but we've had civilian satellites covering the whole earth every day for 30 years now. Even instruments that look through clouds. There's no way to hide climate news." How do you hide it?
Do you realize, folks...? There are so many teachable moments here. The only depressing thing about this is that we never learn from them. We always have to re-teach them. But, look. Every argument the left is advancing is being demonstrated to be intellectually baseless and wrong. Obama's method of creating jobs. Obama's method of doing health care. The whole global warming hoax is now starting to be seen as such by more and more people. Everything these people... This ought to be a giant national teaching moment. These people ought to never, ever be entrusted with power again -- and more and more people are going to realize that as they do more and more damage.
Story #9: Liberals Continue to Wage War on Hot Dogs
RUSH: You remember back just before the All-Star baseball game in St. Louis a bunch of wacko health freaks, health Nazis put up a billboard warning people that hot dogs cause cancer. And I said to you on that moment, "You doubted me when I told you they were going to come after your SUV, and now you see they have come after your SUV." They're coming after hot dogs. They went after MSG, coconut oil. This group is back. It's called the Cancer Project. I have the story right here. It's in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "If you relish hot dogs, beware. The Cancer Project so firmly believes you should fear frankfurters that last week it sued meat makers to force them to label wieners with cancer warnings.
"The move comes just a few weeks after the same group caused a stir in St. Louis when it targeted baseball fans headed to the All-Star Game with an anti-hot dog billboard. The billboard, located off Interstate 70, features an image of hot dogs jammed into a cigarette pack labeled 'Unlucky Strikes.' The Cancer Project’s lawsuit was filed in a New Jersey state court against such top dog companies as ConAgra Foods, which owns Hebrew National; Kraft Foods and its Oscar Mayer division; Sara Lee, and Nathan’s Famous in an effort to make them include the notices on packages sold in the Garden State. The suit was filed on behalf of three state residents who said they had purchased hot dogs made by the companies without having been aware of the alleged scientific correlation between eating processed meats and colorectal cancer."
This is absurd and it's hilarious, but it's real. Sued by three residents who said they had been misled when they bought hot dogs that they didn't know that they might cause cancer. "The suit cites a report from the American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund --" Any time you see "world" in front of any group it's a bunch of leftists at the UN. "Scientists say there is no safe amount of processed meat that can be eaten, and that just one 50-gram serving of bacon, sausage, deli meats or other processed meats, every day increases a person’s chance of getting colorectal cancer by 21 per cent." What? Well, that's my point. Snerdley just said, "Why are they just picking on the hot dogs?" That's the starting point. After that, they'll go to bacon, and after that they'll go to baloney and whatever processed meats. After that they'll try to put Boar's Head out of business. And after that they're going to come for potato chips. And after that they're going to go after wine. And after that they're going to go after Oreos. Might have to put that off 'til Obama is out of office, but they'll eventually go after Oreos. I hope you people like granola, and I hope you like seaweed kelp. And I hope you enjoy eating raw soybeans because that's where the children of Obama are going to take us if they're allowed to.
Story #10: Potty Pork: Feds Use Stimulus Money to Build Toilets
RUSH: I saw this story in the New York Post today: "The feds are spending tens of millions of stimulus dollars to repair and build toilets across the nation, in an outflow of taxpayer funds that critics have branded 'potty pork.' From humble sylvan outhouses to 'historic' restrooms, cash from the $787 billion stimulus is going to spruce up or completely replace aging toilets, government releases show. In New Mexico alone, the feds are spending $2.8 million for toilets in national forests." How's that hope and change working for you? I guess somebody's got a toilet job. "The bathroom bonanza runs across myriad federal agencies, from the Department of Housing and Urban Development to the Veterans Affairs Administration and the Army." We're refurbishing toilets with stimulus money.
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