This hour of the Limbaugh Wire brought to you by Rush -- back from vacation with nothing new to say
By Simon Maloy

There are few things that add more glaze to our already glassy eyes than the first days of Supreme Court confirmation hearings. They're scripted and formulaic, and the opening statements of the 19 members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are unlikely to deviate from anything you've heard on cable news over the past few weeks. But it's summer in D.C., and those same deadline-conscious journalists who find themselves easily tempted by Drudge bait will be treating us to in-depth analysis of senatorial platitudes and Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nicely mending ankle. And then there's Rush. Ever since President Obama announced Sotomayor's nomination in late May, we've known Rush's stance: She's a "racist" who is unqualified to serve on the Supreme Court, but the Republicans don't have the votes to stop her from being confirmed. His commentary on Sotomayor since then hasn't deviated from this theme, except for his allowance that he might support her if she turned out to be a "pro-life racist." And, like the opening statements of the senators on the Judiciary Committee today, we're sure that whatever Rush says today will not veer off in any appreciable way from his previous remarks. And yet, we can't help but think that El Rushbo's latest rendition of "she's a racist" will once again be given the BREAKING NEWS treatment.

Well, Rush got things going today by noting that the market is up 130 points or so, which meant that not only is America happy to have Rush back from vacation, but so are investors. Rush said we're in for a fast and wild week with the Sotomayor hearings getting started this morning. She's probably a lock, said Rush, but the Republicans are really unified in their message, making it about her record, her statements, and judicial activism. And the Democrats are on the defensive, said Rush, who noted that Judiciary Committee chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) said that the "classics" were unavailable to Sotomayor as a child. Rush responded: "That is one of the most, oh, tear-jerking, let's play the Stradivarius and get the tears going for poor Sonia Sotomayor; she was denied access to the classics. My guess is she'd have found racism in all the classics. She'd have found bigotry in all the classics. If she read the classics, she'd wonder why the hell are these classic. This is Western civilization, white-dominated culture -- the hell with this."

Then Rush exulted that T. Boone Pickens, in Rush's words, was "out" of the wind energy market. That's not exactly true -- Pickens is actually just retooling his wind energy plan, and even said: "It doesn't mean that wind is dead. It just means we got a little bit too quick off the blocks." Rush then lamented that they're talking about "stimulus three," explaining that "stimulus" one was the Pelosi-Bush program to send checks to everyone. Any sane person with a brain has to admit that this is not being done to revitalize the economy, said Rush.

Moving on to other matters of importance, Rush asked if the Michael Jackson funeral had finally ended, adding: "In fact, one of the problems with the Jackson memorial, it took some really important Obama news off the news. A lot of really important -- I think that's why the state-run media gorged on Michael Jackson news. They gorged on Jackson news long after there wasn't any because it allowed them the opportunity not to report on some of the negative stuff happening with Obama and the administration." Rush seems to have overlooked Jon Stewart's observation that the Jackson memorial led the media to shift its focus away from "some of the negative stuff happening" with Mark Sanford. Rush also said that he received many emails from listeners saying that with so much news happening last week, it just wasn't the same listening to the show with Rush not there; it just wasn't as vibrant. Normally, people thank their guest hosts when they do their job for a week. So, tough luck, Belling, Steyn, and Davis -- you're just not that "vibrant."

Anyway, Rush finally got around to explaining we should be happy that Rush is back -- the sports section of the New York Times reported on the financial ills of the New York Mets. Rush explained: "Sportswriters, who are as leftist as any other journalists, they can sit here -- they diagnosed the financial problems of a struggling big market baseball team with no problem. ... But they can't seem to see the same thing when it comes to Obama's economy. They can look at a baseball team and they can see just outrageously poor financial performance, planning, and so forth, and how it's all gonna lead the team to sink further down the drain and come up with the solutions to it: cut costs, get younger players, develop them, and so. But when they look at the Obama economy, they don't see it the same way." So, there, in Rush's own words, is why he thinks he is so vitally important as a media figure: He's the only person willing to make an apples-to-apples comparison between the U.S. economy and the New York Mets.

After the break, Rush... well, we'll just let him talk:

LIMBAUGH: The Sunday New York Times published a recent interview with Supreme Court Justice Ruth "Buzzy" Ginsberg, and after expressing her annoyance over a 1980 decision that forbids using Medicaid tax dollars for abortions, Justice Ginsberg said this -- I want to quote it: "Frankly, I had thought at the time that Roe was decided that there was concern about population growth, particularly growth in populations we don't want to have too many of, so that Roe was going to then be set up for Medicaid funding for abortion," unquote.

Now growth in populations we don't want to have too many -- that's Planned Parenthood. That was the original goal of Planned Parenthood. The original goal of Planned Parenthood was to abort various minorities out of existence. That was the original purpose. I think in Ruth "Buzzy" Ginsberg's case, when she says that she thinks Roe was about population growth, particularly growth in populations you don't want to have too many of, she's probably thinking about aborting conservatives. But the problem with that is it's the liberals that are aborting each other, or themselves -- their future generations.

Now what's astounding about this is that a matriarch of modern liberalism was candid about the underlying objective of the abortion movement -- that is to rid society of entire populations deemed unworthy. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was an early proponent of this. You know, it's called eugenics. And her aim was to wipe out the African-American population.

Other infamous world figures acted upon similar instincts using other means to object -- achieve their objectives: concentration camps, mass gassings, so-called ethnic cleansings. Planned Parenthood's no different -- Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood no different than any of the people that used concentration camps, mass gassing, so-called ethnic cleansings.

And what's just ironic as it can be is that the primary supporters of Planned Parenthood are liberals. And it's -- but here comes Ruth "Buzzy" Ginsberg just out of the box admitting what this is all about.

This, said Rush, is why liberals reacted so strongly to his term "feminazi" -- it's "way too close to home."

Another break and Rush was back, noting that Obama has tapped a new surgeon general, Dr. Regina Benjamin. Reading from an Associated Press article on Obama's selection, Rush characterized Benjamin as a black, environmentalist, Katrina survivor who "doesn't think doctors should make a profit," adding: "What more could you want?" Rush's claim that Benjamin thinks doctors should not make a profit is, as far as we can tell, based on the AP's reporting that she is "a rural Alabama family physician who made headlines with fierce determination to rebuild her nonprofit medical clinic in the wake of Hurricane Katrina."

Rush then shifted back to Sotomayor, saying -- and stop us if you've heard this before -- that if these hearings are done right, they can help inform the country as to who Barack Obama is. This radical woman reflects Obama's own racial attitudes, said Rush, and this "empathy business" is just another word for "activism." Rush said that the Democrats want to make this about Sotomayor versus him, and this new radio commercial from Latino group Presente Action attacking Rush is proof of that. Rush aired the ad, saying that he sounded pretty good in the sound bite -- he's the only one speaking in English in the whole commercial.

Rush then aired audio of Sen. Russ Feingold's (D-WI) opening statement, in which he spoke about Sotomayor's opportunity to answer attacks that she'll be biased against litigants based on their race. She is a racist, said Rush, and "wise Latina" is proof of that. We may not want to face the harsh realities of the definitions of words, he said, but that's the reality. And what about the Ricci case? That was overturned. She didn't delve into the constitutional issues; she just ruled against the white firefighters.

Rush then aired portions of Sens. Dianne Feinstein's (D-CA) and Jeff Sessions' (R-AL) statements. Sessions was so good, said Rush, that the state-run media had to rebut him.

After the break, Rush disputed the idea that "wise Latina" was taken out of context, as Feingold had intimated: "A couple of words that Sonia Sotomayor said taken out of context. You mean, like, macaca? George Allen saying macaca -- we heard about that for weeks and months  as The Washington Post and the Democrats sought to destroy Allen; he'd been a congressman, a governor, and a senator. Sotomayor's comments are much worse than macaca; and they're frequent, and they are long-held." Closing out the hour, Rush said that Obama is taking heat for saying that the stimulus is working as intended. But the thing is that the stimulus is working as intended -- it's driving up unemployment and that's been the point all along.

Greg Lewis and Zachary Pleat contributed to this edition of the Limbaugh Wire.

Highlights from Hour 1

Outrageous comments

LIMBAUGH: That is one of the most, oh, tear-jerking, let's play the Stradivarius and get the tears going for poor Sonia Sotomayor; she was denied access to the classics. My guess is she'd have found racism in all the classics. She'd have found bigotry in all the classics. If she read the classics, she'd wonder why the hell are these classic. This is Western civilization, white-dominated culture -- the hell with this.

[...]

LIMBAUGH: In fact, one of the problems with the Jackson memorial, it took some really important Obama news off the news. A lot of really important -- I think that's why the state-run media gorged on Michael Jackson news. They gorged on Jackson news long after there wasn't any because it allowed them the opportunity not to report on some of the negative stuff happening with Obama and the administration.

[...]

LIMBAUGH: Sportswriters, who are as leftist as any other journalists, they can sit here -- they diagnosed the financial problems of a struggling big market baseball team with no problem, the New York Mets. They come down; they go through this. Here's the Mets' payroll problem; here's their financial problem. They're in big trouble in the future; they have [been] paying all these old guys that aren't producing a whole bunch of money. It's just, they're -- and they're in deficit. What are they going to do? And they offered the exact proper prescription for Mets to be fixed.

But they can't seem to see the same thing when it comes to Obama's economy. They can look at a baseball team and they can see just outrageously poor financial performance, planning, and so forth, and how it's all gonna lead the team to sink further down the drain and come up with the solutions to it: cut costs, get younger players, develop them, and so. But when they look at the Obama economy, they don't see it the same way.

[...]

LIMBAUGH: The Sunday New York Times published a recent interview with Supreme Court Justice Ruth "Buzzy" Ginsberg, and after expressing her annoyance over a 1980 decision that forbids using Medicaid tax dollars for abortions, Justice Ginsberg said this -- I want to quote it: "Frankly, I had thought at the time that Roe was decided that there was concern about population growth, particularly growth in populations we don't want to have too many of, so that Roe was going to then be set up for Medicaid funding for abortion," unquote.

Now growth in populations we don't want to have too many -- that's Planned Parenthood. That was the original goal of Planned Parenthood. The original goal of Planned Parenthood was to abort various minorities out of existence. That was the original purpose. I think in Ruth "Buzzy" Ginsberg's case, when she says that she thinks Roe was about population growth, particularly growth in populations you don't want to have too many of, she's probably thinking about aborting conservatives. But the problem with that is it's the liberals that are aborting each other, or themselves -- their future generations.

Now what's astounding about this is that a matriarch of modern liberalism was candid about the underlying objective of the abortion movement -- that is to rid society of entire populations deemed unworthy. Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, was an early proponent of this. You know, it's called eugenics. And her aim was to wipe out the African-American population.

Other infamous world figures acted upon similar instincts using other means to object -- achieve their objectives: concentration camps, mass gassings, so-called ethnic cleansings. Planned Parenthood's no different -- Margaret Sanger's Planned Parenthood no different than any of the people that used concentration camps, mass gassing, so-called ethnic cleansings.

And what's just ironic as it can be is that the primary supporters of Planned Parenthood are liberals. And it's -- but here comes Ruth "Buzzy" Ginsberg just out of the box admitting what this is all about.

[...]

LIMBAUGH: So Russ Feingold: A couple of words that Sonia Sotomayor said taken out of context. You mean, like, macaca? George Allen saying macaca -- we heard about that for weeks and months  as The Washington Post and the Democrats sought to destroy Allen; he'd been a congressman, a governor, and a senator.

Sotomayor's comments are much worse than macaca; and they're frequent, and they are long-held. You see how this race thing works, folks. If you're a liberal, nothing you say can be held against you.

This hour of the Limbaugh Wire brought to you by the same old song and dance
By Simon Maloy

Rush got the second hour rolling by noting that on July 5, Vice President Joe Biden said that the Obama administration and everyone else had misread the economy. So not only does Rush have nothing new to say, he wants to talk about things that happened a week ago. It must have been tough for him to get through his entire vacation without weighing in on Biden's comment like he did on Sarah Palin's unexpected resignation as Alaska governor. Anyway, Rush then noted that Obama said that the stimulus plan, as Bloomberg reported, is working "as intended." If it's working as intended, said Rush, then we have to assume that 9.5 percent unemployment was intended. And Obama means it when he says that it's working as intended. Rush warned us that what he was about to say is "shocking" -- the circumstances which Obama intended are exactly why Rush wanted Obama to fail. It is Rush's firm belief -- because no one is this economically illiterate -- that they're doing this on purpose. They're depleting the private sector. He wants more chaos. And, said Rush, Obama "apologized for this country again" in Russia, saying that "we had nothing to do with the Cold War." Yeah, yeah, Obama wants chaos, wants to destroy the country, apologized for America, blah blah blah yadda yadda yadda. And Rush still thinks this is "shocking"? We've heard this rant so many, many times before, we're not sure it still qualifies as "shocking."

And by the way, Obama didn't "apologize" in Russia, nor did he say that the United States "had nothing to do with the Cold War." Here's what he actually said: "I think that it is very important in this part of the world to acknowledge the degree to which people struggled for their own freedom. I'm very proud of the traditions of Democratic and Republican presidents to lift the Iron Curtain. But, you know, we don't have to diminish other people in order to recognize our role in that history."

After the break, Rush returned to Obama's statement that the administration hadn't "misread" the economy, but rather that it had "incomplete information." Government and politicians always have incomplete information, said Rush, but they think they know everything, and that's why big government is always a failure. We already know the stimulus has failed in its stated purpose, said Rush, so how in the world can we trust these people to handle health care? Obama doesn't want any of this to work, and Rush said he knows that seems like a "radical" thing to say and is hard to believe, but there's no other explanation because no one is so economically illiterate to think that what they're proposing will actually work.

Rush's first caller thought that the administration is getting the American people "psyched up" to "run for cover," and then repeated Rush's claim that Obama wants his policies to fail. Rush said on health care, the Democrats have proposed a tax on the wealthy to pay for health care. How many taxes on the wealthy can we have? As far as the stimulus goes, said Rush, only 6 percent has been spent, and the money that's been spent thus far has gone to state governments to help deal with their deficits. The majority doesn't get spent until 2010, an election year.

Another break and Rush came back saying that CNN aired a portion of Anderson Cooper's interview with Obama, and Cooper asked him why, if they had incomplete information on the economy when the stimulus was passed, would he not have done anything differently. Obama said that the stimulus is a two-year plan and is working exactly as anticipated, but the enormous loss of wealth from the recession may require some re-evaluation. If they do a second stimulus, said Rush, there should be no doubt that they are trying to kill the economy. It's patently obvious what's going on, it's just going to take some people pointing out who's responsible for it.

Then Rush cited RedState.com in noting that Tim Geithner said last week that what the economy "is going through is a very necessary and healthy adjustment." Rush wanted to know how 9.5 percent unemployment is necessary or healthy. Rush then took a call from a young man who disagreed with Rush's thesis that Obama is trying to destroy the economy. Rush yelled at him for a few minutes about the stock market, and then he told us a story -- on his golfing vacation, he asked the course designers who was investing in these golf courses. They're coming from California, they said. They're leaving because California is going down the tubes. That's all well and good, said Rush, but where do you go when the federal government is out of control? Rush also noticed that every car he saw when he was at these golf communities was an SUV, and he thought that there's no way Obama is going to get these people to give these cars up. But he's going to try, he said, make no mistake.

There's so much economic misery across the country, but there's nothing being done to improve it. Instead, Obama is throwing up roadblocks. Look at Tim Geithner -- he thinks losing your job is healthy.

Coming back from the break, Rush had a question for us: How many of us think the economy is not that bad? Rush then wanted to know if we remember last spring when gasoline hit $4/gallon. He said that we heard every day on cable news how $4/gallon gasoline was ruining people's lives. But now we're in a recession worse than any we've seen since 1982, and none of these hard-luck stories are in the media. We've heard this one before, too. And once again, we see that Rush came back from an entire week off without one original thing to say.

Rush closed out the hour with a call from a woman who said she was in Sonia Sotomayor's 1972 high school graduation class, and Leahy's comment about Sotomayor not having access to the classics was wrong because they read Shakespeare and the Brontë sisters. Rush said: "All right, you are telling me that you had to take Shakespeare, that you had to read Emily Bronte. Well, those are -- [m]aybe those are not the classics that -- maybe the classics are Marx and Hegel." From there, Rush entered into an extended discussion of what constitutes a "classic" piece of literature, with Orwell's works and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest failing to make Professor Limbaugh's cut.

Greg Lewis and Zachary Pleat contributed to this edition of the Limbaugh Wire.

Highlights from Hour 2

"Socialism" watch

LIMBAUGH: All right, you are telling me that you had to take Shakespeare --

CALLER: Yes.

LIMBAUGH: -- that you had to read Emily Bronte.

CALLER: Yes.

LIMBAUGH: Well, those are --

CALLER: Absolutely.

LIMBAUGH: Maybe those are not the classics that -- maybe the classics are Marx and Hegel.

America's Truth Rejector

Falsely claimed Obama said the United States "had nothing to do with the Cold War":

LIMBAUGH: It's really not even a question of wanting Obama to fail; he has failed -- not the way I wanted him to fail. He's succeeded in his mind. He has succeeded. This is my whole point. This is a man with a chip on his shoulder. This is a man who seeks to get even. He apologized for this country again on this latest trip.

He said we had nothing to do with the Cold War; that we had nothing to do with anything. No, no, no, we had -- this is after apologizing. And I just -- I believe this man has as his intention to cut this country down to size.

This hour of the Limbaugh Wire brought to you by Obama's desire to govern like an "African colonial"
By Greg Lewis

Rush kicked off the third hour discussing the New York Times' and the Wall Street Journal's reporting on Dick Cheney and the CIA's "secret" plan to capture and kill Al Qaeda operatives. Rush said the Times' reporting emphasized the concealment of the program and its link to Cheney. However, Rush said that the story here is that the Journal reported that this plan had been in place since 2001 to target Al Qaeda leaders -- although, as Rush noted at several points, it was never actually implemented -- but Leon Panetta and the Democrats "ended it." That's the "real story," said Rush -- that the Democrats ended a program designed to go after terrorists. See if you can follow the logic here. Cheney can't be faulted for concealing this CIA program from Congress because it was never implemented after being authorized in 2001, but the "real story" is that the Democrat Panetta canceled this program to pursue Al Qaeda operatives. If Rush feels this program is so important, isn't the "real story" that Bush and Cheney had eight years to get it off the ground but never got around to it? Here's the deal -- no one really knows what this program was, why it never really got rolling, or why Panetta canceled it. But in Limbaugh Land, Cheney is God and Democrats love the terrorists, so such gaps in information are moot.

Rush went on, describing the Times story as giving "cover" to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for lying about her waterboarding briefing. Rush elaborated on this, adding that Attorney General Eric Holder "wants to go back and actually prosecute Bush administrations for war crimes because of torture." He continued:

LIMBAUGH: Folks, that doesn't happen in the United States of America. Administrations change; they go into the past; the current one leads to the future. It's in banana republics and totalitarian dictatorships where you go back and criminally prosecute your predecessors for the purpose of seeing to it that they never surface again.

Then Rush moved on to quickly address the newest senator from Minnesota, Al Franken, as he reminisced about his years-long policy of not referring to Franken by name and lamented that he doesn't know how he'll be able to do that now. Anyway, Rush said that Franken gets "a rant" this afternoon on Sotomayor because he's on the Judiciary Committee. Sticking on the Sotomayor hearings for a few more moments, Rush managed to squeeze in a plug for a Heritage Foundation conference call -- for AskHeritage.org members! -- on the Sotomayor hearings, featuring Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) and former Attorney General Edwin Meese.

Then Rush took a few moments to reiterate his point on the CIA story. The story is that Panetta cancelled the plan. It was never implemented, added Rush, but the story is that a Democrat [sic] CIA director canceled a plan to pursue Al Qaeda operatives, while we're in Afghanistan doing just that.

From there, Rush discussed former Secretary of State Colin Powell's comments about him from last Sunday's State of the Union on CNN. After playing the clips from the week-old broadcast, Rush managed to then tie his dislike for Powell together with his dislike for Sotomayor:

LIMBAUGH: I'll tell you what, let me try this. You know what? I'd have been a better secretary of Defense and a better secretary of State because I'm a white guy and I have a better understanding of the history of this country and national defense than Colin Powell. You think I'd be called a racist? Yes, I would. I would be called a racist if I had said that -- and I would be. If I'd said I'm better than Colin Powell 'cause I'm white and he's black, I'd be called a racist. So, why does she get a pass? She said she's better 'cause she's Latina.

After the break, Rush continued his post-vacation catch-up-athon, taking some time to address last week's resignation from Sarah Palin. He stated that the "state-run media" continue to misread Palin, then aired an audio montage of the media suggesting Palin might go on to be "the next Rush Limbaugh" or "Rush Limbaugh in a skirt." He also berated NBC News' Andrea Mitchell for saying on Meet the Press that Palin's "big flaw" is that she needs a coherent world view. Rush went on to criticize those in the media who say Palin is not refined or "well-read." Rush then voiced his concern over the possibility of a Palin-led third party, warning that third parties always lose and you never end up with congressional or Senate candidates. The bottom line, said Rush, was Willie Brown's column in the San Francisco Chronicle -- Sarah Palin is "outsmarting everyone." Rush added that she can "overcome this quitting business" depending on what she does between now and then -- although Rush explained that he had no idea what that would be, other than trying to "make some money."

After another break, Rush took a caller who brought up Obama's speech in Ghana, in which Obama decried government corruption, something both the caller and Rush found ironic. Rush used this opportunity to launch into a rather vile -- and repetitious -- rant. "Our government's soon going to be skimming 51 percent off the top of everything we make," said Rush. "What does that make Obama? Obama just kneecapped the auto industry; he put the United Auto Workers in charge on the board of directors and made them owners. What the hell is that? He kneecapped an entire industry."

It got worse:

LIMBAUGH: This is a speech he could have made to Americans. He gave a speech to Ghana that he could have made to Americans. This speech was given to make Obama look like he's for democracy, freedom and the rule of law, low taxes, economic growth. And he wasn't even speaking to Ghana. You know what? His primary audience -- right here; primary audience here at home. He wants to govern like the people he is lecturing. Obama wants to govern like an African colonial.

Jumping from that, Rush then read at length from a Financial Times interview with Larry Summers. Rush said that Summers is totally remaking the American economy, and on the subject of the "pay czar," Rush said that it was none of their business what anybody in the country earns. Then Rush read from Robert Samuelson's latest column in Newsweek about how the rich "are no longer recession-proof." Rush said taking money out of the private sector economy is exactly what the Obama people have in mind.

One more break, and Rush concluded the program with a call that was surely a boost to his already dangerously inflated ego. The caller told Rush about a paper he wrote as a college freshman, explaining that he had to write on an influential person, and he chose Rush. The caller said he received the highest grade in his class for the paper, and his professor said that Rush might be the most influential person of our time. Anyway, the caller got to the point, explaining that he has been saving up his money since he wrote the paper so that he could purchase skybox tickets at an Arizona Cardinals game, and invited Rush to go along. Rush declined the invitation, but told the caller he would keep in touch, as he would come up with a better way to spend some of the money.

We certainly hope you all enjoyed Rush's glorious return to the microphone today. But if you have spent some time with our vast Limbaugh Wire archives, you might have noticed that after a week off the air, he had virtually nothing new to say.

Simon Maloy, Zachary Pleat, and Ariana Probinsky contributed to this edition of the Limbaugh Wire.

Highlights from Hour 3

Outrageous comments

LIMBAUGH: All this does -- this is -- this confirms that this is just nothing more than an attempt to cover up Pelosi's lies about her waterboarding briefings. That's all this story's purpose is, is to give her cover, and, perhaps to further the cause that Eric Holder has announced. He wants to go back and actually prosecute Bush administrations for war crimes because of torture.

Folks, that doesn't happen in the United States of America. Administrations change; they go into the past; the current one leads to the future. It's in banana republics and totalitarian dictatorships where you go back and criminally prosecute your predecessors for the purpose of seeing to it that they never surface again.

[...]

LIMBAUGH: I'll tell you what, let me try this. You know what? I'd have been a better secretary of Defense and a better secretary of State because I'm a white guy and I have a better understanding of the history of this country and national defense than Colin Powell. You think I'd be called a racist? Yes, I would. I would be called a racist if I had said that -- and I would be. If I'd said I'm better than Colin Powell 'cause I'm white and he's black, I'd be called a racist. So, why does she get a pass? She said she's better 'cause she's Latina.

[...]

LIMBAUGH: Well, folks, I'm gonna tell you what: Our government's soon going to be skimming 51 percent off the top of everything we make. What does that make Obama? Obama just kneecapped the auto industry; he put the United Auto Workers in charge on the board of directors and made them owners. What the hell is that? He kneecapped an entire industry.

He said, that's not democracy; that's tyranny even if occasionally you sprinkle an election in there; that now is the time for that style of corrupt governance to end. Well, the last I looked, Obama just ordered the Justice Department to drop election intimidation charges against the New Black Panthers. He is funneling billions in tax dollars to ACORN, which is a criminal enterprise, if widespread illegality and voter registration means anything.

This is a speech he could have made to Americans. He gave a speech to Ghana that he could have made to Americans. This speech was given to make Obama look like he's for democracy, freedom and the rule of law, low taxes, economic growth. And he wasn't even speaking to Ghana. You know what? His primary audience -- right here; primary audience here at home. He wants to govern like the people he is lecturing. Obama wants to govern like an African colonial.