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Jan. 28, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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January 28, 2009, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of The Rush 24 7 Podcast.
I think he's in trouble.
And I think, ladies and gentlemen, he knows he's in trouble.
Now you would never know it unless you have a highly trained and experienced eye and ears like mine.
Watching the Barack Obama press conference.
Well, it wasn't a press conference, because he didn't take any questions, but watching his appearance this morning in the White House with a couple of CEOs.
I have an entirely, and of course, what's odd about this, I have an entirely different take from those who analyze this event in the White House that happened just mere moments ago.
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On January the 9th of this year, uh what would that be 19 days ago?
Barack Obama said there is no disagreement that we need action by our government.
A recovery plan that will help the jumpstart the economy.
How would you interpret that?
And by the way, prior to that, he said government is the only entity that can get this go.
Cookie, I'm sorry I didn't think of this until just now, but see if you can find that.
I don't remember if that was an audio bite that we played or if it was a quote we took from.
It was a quote out of an I could have sworn I saw him say it.
I know I saw him so I don't know whether we had the soundbite.
Cookie, search the archives.
We got great archives.
We got a really great archival system, and we back it up, by the way, so that never lose it, but find it when he said it was this month.
Government's the only entity can do this.
And then, because it relates to what's coming next, then he said on January 9th, to repeat, there is no disagreement that we need action by our government, comma, a recovery plan that will help to jumpstart the economy.
Today, an entirely different tune.
Today, Barack Obama morphed into Ronald Reagan.
He stood s uh aside from the podium while two CEOs, one from IBM and one from Honeywell, sang his praises.
There were no small business people up there with him, just major corporate people.
And of course, IBM and Honeywell probably will benefit greatly from whatever government action there is with the internet wiring and updating technology and computer networking, this sort of thing.
But I don't want to besmirch the CEOs.
I mean, this is a con game, and they've got to go up there and pay the protection money, and But they sang this guy's praise.
He's a great leader.
Oh, this is gonna be the greatest thing.
And Obama got up there and sounded like Ronald Reagan.
And this to me is the signal that he knows he's in trouble.
Now he's not in trouble in terms of getting his bill eventually passed.
But I'll tell you, more and more people are now starting to see that this is not a stimulus bill at all.
It's what we've been calling porculus.
It's just it's a standard budget bill that has a 30% increase in the budget is what it is.
It's all it is.
And if you look, there's been some a conservative uh analysis of the bill suggests that only twelve cents of every dollar will go to genuine stimulus things like creating jobs and so forth.
But they are part-time jobs, they're they're they're static jobs that have a start and end time, they're not career jobs, which is a big big difference.
And of course, the news is getting out of just how filled with pork this is, how typical it is of the way Washington spends money, the Republicans in the House seem to be holding firm.
He doesn't need a Republican vote at all.
And I think the pressure, the purpose of this meeting today was, or the result of the meeting was he knows he's in trouble because he desperately wants Republican support.
Because when this goes down the tubes, he wants to be able to say that all of Washington was complicit.
He doesn't want Republicans to be able to run re-election campaigns in 2010 and 2012, saying they opposed this when we're in the mess that's even deeper than it is today.
So he wants Republicans there.
He doesn't want to repeat of what happened in 1993, where not one Republican voted for the Clinton budget, which then led to the Republicans, partly a factor taking over the House in uh in 1994.
He doesn't need the Republicans all.
As I said yesterday, why in the world, if this is so great, if this is so wonderful, if this package of his is going to reignite an economy like we've never seen before, why wouldn't he want all the credit?
Do you realize he could destroy the Republican Party forever if his plan works and none of them vote for it?
Can you imagine what he can say four years from now?
It would be the end of the Republican Party.
And if that's the case, why not do it?
Because we know that in politics, uh the objective is to wipe out your opponent.
It just is.
But uh, we're gonna get that back.
We uh we're gonna get that back.
So there's a there's a lot, there's a lot going on here that that is is underneath the surface.
We've got perception galore today.
Because what the picture that Obama wanted with these two CEOs and a bunch of other CEOs in the audience singing his praises, suggesting we've got to get this done.
They're smiling and they're talking about how competent he is and how open he is, how much he listens, and he goes out and sounds like Reagan, and then the drive-by's dutifully point out that while this m this wonderful uh Kumbaya meeting is going on in the White House, the evil mean Republicans are in the house are getting ready to vote no and the whole thing, and look who's for it, why American business is for it.
So this is this is perception.
Uh, and that's why he knows that he's in trouble here.
He's not in trouble that this thing is going to pass someday.
He's in trouble because he knows the Republicans are starting to stand firm and not uh and not and not join up with it.
Uh he's trying to create uh this this perception here of using conservative language to advance his leftist agenda.
It's a total it's it it really was pretty smart, and it's it's uh uh very good at creating this perception.
Because that's exactly what's happening.
Let's go to the audio sound bites, and I'll show you what I mean here.
Uh the first one.
This this is a portion of his uh remark where Obama keeps his promise to meet uh with people that you wouldn't think would be on his team, sat down with American business leaders today.
Here's the first of two bites, a portion of his remarks.
I'm very grateful that all of these individuals have taken the time to come.
Uh these are some of the leading uh CEOs in the country.
These are people who make things who hire people.
They are uh on the front lines in seeing uh the enormous problems in our economy right now.
Their ideas and their concerns have helped to shape our recovery package.
I don't know, but I'm grateful that they're here today to talk about why it's so important that we act and act swiftly uh in order to get this economy back on track.
Their ideas and concerns have helped to shape our recovery package.
Uh-uh.
Not buying this, folks.
This is not how business operates.
Business, well, I guess I maybe maybe I'm wrong.
Business now goes does go to Washington with their hand out.
They do.
Here, here is Barack Obama whose plan is pure Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Pure New Deal, pure grow government as large and as fast as we can, sounding like Rinaldus Magnus.
In the end, the answer to our economic troubles rests less in my hands or in the hands of our legislators than it does with America's workers and the businesses that employ them.
They are the ones whose efforts and ideas will determine our economic destiny, just as they always have.
For in the end, it's businesses, large and small, to generate the jobs, provide the salaries, and serve as the foundation on which the American people's lives and dreams depend.
All we can do, those of us here in Washington, is to help create a favorable climate In which workers can prosper.
Businesses can thrive and our economy can grow.
Keep that in mind.
Let's go back to January 8th, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, Barack Obama.
Only government can provide the short-term boost necessary to lift us from a recession this deep and severe.
Only government can break the cycle that are crippling our economy.
That's why we need to act boldly and act now to reverse these cycles.
That's why we need to restart the flow of credit and restore the rules of the road that will ensure a crisis like this never happens again.
That's Barack Obama twenty days ago, suggesting only government can provide the short-term boost necessary to lift us from a recession this deep.
Only government can break the cycle that are, he said, crippling our economy.
Play number one A, again, Mike, keep in mind.
In fact, I want to do this back, but let's do this chronological order.
Play 19 and then 1A, back to back, nothing in between.
Are you ready?
Here we go.
Only government can provide the short-term boost necessary to lift us from a recession this deep and severe.
Only government can break the cycle that are crippling our economy.
That's why we need to act boldly and act now to reverse these cycles.
That's why we need to restart the flow of credit and restore the rules of the road that will ensure a crisis like this never happens again.
In the end, the answer to our economic troubles rests less in my hands or in the hands of our legislators than it does with America's workers and the businesses that employ them.
They are the ones whose efforts and ideas will determine our economic destiny, just as they always have.
For in the end, it's businesses, large and small, that generate the jobs, provide the salaries, and serve as the foundation on which the American people's lives and dreams depend.
All we can do, those of us here in Washington, is to help create a favorable climate in which workers can prosper.
Businesses can thrive and our economy can grow.
Can I translate that for you?
That's right out of my mouth because I say it a different way.
It's the people who make this country work.
What government has to do is get out of their way.
Eliminate obstacles, regulations, cut their taxes, unleash the creativity and the entrepreneurial spirit born of individual freedom on which this country was founded and get out of the way.
Let the economy recover and let it happen right before our very eyes.
Now I know what he told these business leaders.
What you just heard is what he told the business leaders.
Do you think, GrabCut19, in his meeting with business leaders before this appearance today, he said this?
Only government can provide the short-term boost necessary to lift us from a recession this deep and severe.
Only government can break the cycle that are crippling our economy.
Stop taking that's why we need to act or did Barack Obama tell his business leaders this morning in his meeting the following.
In the end, the answer to our economic troubles rests less in my hands or in the hands of our legislators than it does with America's workers and the businesses that employ them.
They are the ones whose efforts and ideas will determine our economic destiny just as they always have.
For in the end, it's businesses, large and small, to generate the jobs, provide the salaries, and serve as the foundation on which the American people's lives and dreams depend.
Drop the tape.
Blunt force comment.
He doesn't believe a word of what he said there.
Because his plan has none of this in it.
Folks, there's a game going on here.
A giant con game, right out of Sol Alinsky's rules for radicals.
It is clear that he is in trouble.
He thinks he's in trouble in getting what he wants here.
He's using conservative language to conservative group of people to promote a socialist left if leftist agenda.
It's all intentional.
It is all contrived.
The key here is perception.
He is creating perceptions.
He's a likable guy.
He speaks well, but he conceals His real politics with his language.
So you've heard two Barack Obamas separated by 20 days.
You might say, well, how do we know which one's real?
Go look at the stimulus plan.
And tell me if you can find anything in there that does anything to strengthen business to get government out of people's way.
You will not.
So what we just heard at the White House today was smoke and mirrors, a 100% show, and of course the drive-by media that analyzed it after it was over, fell for it, hook, line and sinker.
I, of course, didn't.
Which is why I remain enemy number one.
Pioneers take the arrows, folks.
And I have a thick skin and am eager for them to keep aiming.
Back after this.
And we're back.
Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Coming up in a few minutes after the bottom of the hour break, Congressman uh Phil Gingry from uh Georgia.
Uh he says that uh what the political wrote about him yesterday commenting on me, the story was headlined, GOP to Rush, back off, claims that it was not accurate and so forth.
So he wants to come on and set it straight.
Eric Cantor from Virginia will be here after the 1.30 Eastern time, uh, Eastern time break.
Again, remember Tony Dungey tomorrow in the second hour, the top of the second hour, and on Friday, the Hutch will be here to uh discuss the Super Bowl.
I was reading some comments from Jerome Bettis, uh former great running back for the Steelers, number 36 out there.
And I said, Bettis was uh was echoing my theory on the game.
Bettis said this game is gonna come down to the Steelers' offense against the Arizona Cardinals defense.
I was happy to see that Bettis agrees with me.
Bettis is stepping up.
ABC News, a blog, reported this exchange from the meeting Tuesday between Barack Obama and Republicans.
Roscoe Bartlett, a Republican.
Mr. President, I probably come at this from a slightly different perspective.
Speaking to Obama here.
I remember when FDR beat Hoover in 1932, so I remember the Great Depression very well.
I don't remember any of the many government programs affecting the course of the depression.
Uh government programs didn't work then, and I don't know why we think they're gonna work now.
Mr. President, I think our obsessive borrowing has fully mortgaged my kids and my grandkids, and now we're working on mortgaging my two great-grandkids.
Mr. President, I think it's more than a little bit selfish to try to solve our economic problems, which we created by burdening future generations yet to be born.
This prompted applause.
Obama said the only reason I'm pursuing this plan is because if we don't get the economy moving again, the situation for future itations uh will inherit will be even worse.
So the um the Republicans in private, uh, at least Rascal Bartlett, some were uh standing up to the uh to the Messiah.
This in a in a in a really hilarious story here of audacity.
So on Fox News.com and try this headline, President Obama said he expects and respects philosophical differences with Republicans, but he wants to keep politics to a minimum so they can get the economy back on track.
Obama has urged the Republicans to keep politics to a minimum on the stimulus bill.
Now this is audacious you can get, suggesting there is a minimum politics in the biggest political stimulus plan in history.
He wants to keep ideology out of this, no compromise.
He by the way, he said no compromise on taxes.
He said we won.
Now, one of the things that uh uh the Republicans have to do, it's it's it's not it's not gonna be sufficient thing, I think, just to say no.
They have to have an alternative.
And the alternative, obviously, rooted in conservatism.
Now, I uh, as you know, ladies and gentlemen, earlier this week, I presented to you my serious, and if I if I do say so, quite uh quite brilliant, uh uh bipartisan stimulus plan, the Obama limbaugh bipartisan stimulus plan.
And it took me a an entire monologue to recite this to you.
Essentially, it is to use the election returns as a means of dividing up what we do here.
We've got a trillion dollars that we're going to spend on this stimulus before it's all said and done.
Obama gets fifty-four percent of the vote.
McCain got forty-six.
So fifty-four percent of the trillion dollars let Obama spend it however he wants.
The forty-six uh percent represents four hundred and sixty billion of the trillion dollars.
We uh on our side will begin a plan of immediate tax cuts.
Capital gains tax cuts, perhaps even elimination of capital gains, slashing the corporate tax uh tax rate in half, uh throw in some real estate tax relief as uh as well, and we'll just see side by side, which works.
It would be true bipartisanship.
It'd be true compromise.
Uh I have reduced uh ladies and gentlemen, uh that monologue to seven hundred and fifty words.
As of now, it will run as an op ed in tomorrow's Wall Street Journal, which will uh which is a perfect publication in which for it to run uh so that uh people in the uh business and di this is uh people are gonna look at this perhaps and say it's a it's it's an economic op-ed.
It's not an economic up.
This is a this is a political op-ed.
Um but what's happening here with we're all getting sidetracked because this is not this is not about the economy, it's about big government.
It's not about creating private sector jobs.
This whole this whole dog and pony show today at the White House was a total sham.
And I've got more.
After this.
Remember, folks, despite the Reaganesque language from President Obama about uh forty-five minutes ago.
Back on January eighth, they said only government can fix this.
Only government has the means, only government, only government can do it.
So pure perception today, trying to make it sound like you, the people who make the country work are going to be uh the ones responsible are gonna get out of your way, government's gonna get out of your way.
It's the exact opposite.
This was pure perception.
Uh it's not about the economy.
This this whole stimulus bill is not about the economy.
It really it's not about the economy at all.
It's not about your job.
It's about big government.
It's not about creating private sector jobs, as the president intimated today.
It's about expanding government jobs and expanding the uh size and reach of the Democrat Party.
It's not about growing the economy.
It's about controlling the uh the individual.
But he says what he says very well, and a lot a lot of times people don't care what he says.
What he says doesn't matter, it's how he says it.
Uh, we'd like to welcome to the uh microphone Georgia Congressman Phil Gingri, who was uh uh ended up being quoted yesterday by Jonathan Martin and uh somebody else at Politico.com.
Congressman Gingri asked to come on the program today to address that, and we are happy to have him here.
Congressman, welcome to the program, sir.
Uh Rush, thank you so much.
Uh, thank you for the opportunity, of course.
Not exactly the way I wanted to come on, but I appreciate you giving me the opportunity.
Mainly I want to express to you and all your listeners uh my very sincere regret for those comments I made yesterday to Politico.
Uh basically the intent of of my words to them was to discuss the unique position of Congressional Republicans and our leadership, uh, particularly John Boehner and Mitch McConnell.
Uh I ended up putting my foot in my mouth on some of those comments, and I just wanted to tell you Rush and and all our conservative uh giants uh uh who help us so much uh to maintain our base and grow it and get back this majority that uh I regret those stupid comments.
Well, I look I appreciate that.
I I um I have you know quite a lot of experience with uh with with people in the media and uh believe they they loved uh the uh little storm that they were able to uh create yesterday.
And I thought this was one of the goals when the when the when the when it was reported that the president told you guys not to listen to me uh last Friday in his cap in his White House meeting, I thought one of the objectives was to have some of the Republican conference or caucus come out and and uh and denounce me as well because he would like to co-opt you guys as on his team and distance you from conservatism and so would the uh so would the media but uh you know it's it is what it is and I'm glad that you called and
I've I've read your uh explanation for this on on the website.
We all want to be on the same team here, Congressman.
Our numbers are dwindling in Congress, and there's a reason for it, and we want to reverse that.
Well, we're down, as you say, Rush, we're down to 178 in the House, and our House membership is looking more and more conservative, and we're going to work our tails off across the country trying to recruit additional Republicans that understand that, as you've so well said, that this economic bailout rescues
stimulus package is uh is nothing but growing the government uh and is not growing private sector jobs and uh and I and again I was trying to defend John Boehner who basically is le providing very good leadership on this issue.
I I can assure you Rush that on the House side uh there will be very, very few Republicans look I I totally agree with you on that.
I think I think the backbone is is clearly visible here.
Uh and I look look at I I understand why you guys might be upset with me.
I mean I'm not uh I don't have thin skin and uh when I when I make the statement that it appears the President's more concerned with me than he is with Mitch McConnell or John Boehner.
I can understand how that would uh uh uh uh offend some people but look at it this way look at me as taking the heat look at me as taking the fire directing it away from you so that you guys can go stealthily do what you're doing here and building an opposition to this.
I want to ask you a political question about the vote.
I I know that you don't know how it's all going to end up but what are you what is your thought?
Let's say not one Republican votes for this.
I happen to think on the leading question I happen to think that would be perfect for the future and your reelection efforts.
What's your thought on that?
Rush I agree with you completely.
Unfortunately that's not going to happen because you know on the Senate side uh there are there's some rather moderate leaning uh Senate Republicans reelection in twenty ten and you know you names and and uh there are few in the House and and uh they're gonna they're gonna tend to go along with this but uh uh it's gonna be a very very small percentage but I agree with you it would be the the best possible message for this country would be for every single Republican to vote against this.
My uh you know the way I look at this by the way we're talking with the Congressman uh Phil Gingri from uh the eleventh district in Georgia my I look at the Obama's presenting this as the end all to all of our problems.
This is going to magically create jobs, magically reignite prosperity.
It's going to eliminate all the bad memories that we had from the Bush years.
If it's that wonderful if it's that magical why even care whether you have Republican votes.
Why not have all Democrat because he doesn't need one vote from you guys past this.
He's got enough votes in the House to get it done himself.
Why not let the Democrats take all the credit for this magic?
Oh because he won if it if it fails and I expect that he will he wants to say that well hey the Republicans uh voted for it too you know it's not just me.
Don't blame the Democrats this was a bipartisan bill.
Exactly.
He wants cover.
Exactly right.
Well you have uh you know I I know you hear from your constituents but sometimes the beltway can be a lonely place.
You can end up being isolated up there and you um I I just like for you to know on behalf at least the people I can speak for most of them in my audience is that uh they got they've they they have extremely high uh hopes, expectations or what have you that um uh that you guys can hold firm and represent an alternative ideological approach to what President Obama's trying to do because you know we we keep hearing about how the American people are scared and they should be even Obama has said if this thing passes we're gonna have
ten percent unemployment even if he gets this there there's there's a war on prosperity.
People's lives are at stake.
They're losing their jobs and some of them didn't vote for him, Congressman, and they don't think this is his plan is the way to get this done.
They think what you believe is their ultimate hope uh and the and the and the ultimate way that they're going to be able to rebuild their lives get their 401ks back up.
There are a lot of people invested in you guys.
Well rush can uh congressional Republicans and our leadership need you and and other conservative giants to galvanize the millions of Americans who don't live in in uh in Washington.
They may not even live in Republican districts.
Uh maybe they're in Democratic districts, but but we've got to have your support, and of course, I know you reach millions of people across the country.
I'm telling you, I've heard from quite a few of them uh since my foot and mouth disease yesterday, and uh I just thank you so much for what you're doing, and we're with you 100%, and we know that you're with us a hundred percent more importantly.
Congressman Phil Gingrich, Georgia.
Thank you very much for calling, sir.
It's great to have you here.
Thanks for you bet.
We'll take a brief time out here, folks, and we'll be back.
We will continue in mere moments.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Again, I say, I'm just so sad my parents are not alive.
I would not believe this.
You know you talk about bailouts.
My friends, I do have an apology to make to you.
Were it not for me, the TV network MSNBC would have no audience.
I single-handedly have bailed out NBC for the fourth day in a row.
I have an audio soundbite roster here that has a minimum of twelve sound bites from various N MSNBC shows throughout the busy broadcast day.
They are talking about me now.
Under the rubric of, am I the new leader of the GOP, which illustrates clearly even these people who now claim to be listening to me every day still don't understand what I do here.
This isn't about the Republican Party.
At any rate, were it not for me bailing this network out, they would have no audience left.
I have replaced George W. Bush in the crosshairs at MSNBC.
And for this, because they would have dwindled away to zilch to statistical zero in the ratings.
So I uh I offer my apologies for this, but it was not done purposefully, and I'm not going to alter what I'm doing just to take away programming material from uh from MS NBC to the phones.
We start in Pittsburgh.
This is Shelley, and it's great to have you with us.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
What a pleasure to speak with you.
Thank you.
I just wanted to call and make sure that you got my email uh via the Democrat Committee website where they encouraged us all to write our comments about your uh your comment, you know, about hoping Obama failed.
Look at there are so many of these.
I think the well-wishers using the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee website, people sending me good wishes far outnumber the malcontents that the DCCC hopes sign their their petition.
You know, what I think is if I'm doing such great damage to the Republican Party, why petition against me?
If I'm doing all this damage, this is this is another thing just hilarious.
I think you're right.
I was on there and I emailed you and I read a few comments, and of course, there's the sheep who don't bother to research any of what you really said and our media.
Yes, they did.
They lied about it.
They took it totally out of context.
They got a little clip, a 19-second clip of me.
That's right.
At the end of a long monologue explaining why I hope he fails.
They're just using that.
It's the Michael J. Fox thing all over again.
Right.
And I just wanted you to know that I emailed them also, and I told them that if they wanted to confront you and win, they should learn a lesson from their debacle with Harry Reed, and they should do it honestly.
Because what Harry Reed did, uh twisting your words around and and that just blew up in his face, and he didn't even have the good sense or class to admit that he did that after you raised all that money for charity, he tried to horn in on that and take responsibility for it, and it just made him look like an absolute ass.
So I suggested to them that if they were going to try and take you on, the best of the happy to do it honestly.
Wait, wait just a second.
See, this is it might have made him look like an ass, but where is he today?
He's the majority leader of the U.S. Senate.
Was he harmed by that at all?
I bet to this day he doesn't think he is or was.
We won't know until he begins his own re-election effort in Nevada in 2010.
Uh folks, you got to understand what this is about.
This this this uh if if you want to take this stuff seriously, to me, this is old hat.
This is just the latest stunt that they've tried for a number of years.
But let me tell you, let me offer you a contrast.
It wasn't very long ago, was it that the Democrat Party spent entire weeks praying, hoping, demanding defeat in Iraq.
They spent years saying they hope President Bush failed.
In fact, Google, back in the old Google search days, if you searched it, they they had to pull this down eventually, but I've got the I've got the screenshots.
If you put in the words George W. Bush in the search field at Google, the second or third entry was miserable failure.
Dick Gephardt called George W. Bush a miserable failure way back in 2002.
Now the idea that the Democrats have behaved like angels the last six years, and all of a sudden it's mean old Rush, now saying rotten things about Obama, and they have to take me out of context again to do it.
Now, this is a this is a it's it's troubling to some people.
It's it's interesting, nevertheless.
We had we had brave men and women in the U.S. military losing their lives, getting wounded.
We had the members of the U.S. military who were following orders and succeeding, succeeding in taming the wild west known as Iraq.
And all during that time, Harry Reed and others are hoping that they lose.
They are calling the commander a liar to his face.
Commander General Petraeus, when he's brought up to testify.
Every Democrat, from Waxman to Hillary Clinton to Harry Reed.
They were waving the white flag of surrender before the surge even began.
This war is lost.
Jack Mertha was accusing them of being murderers and rapists.
They said some of the most outrageously wrong, lying, personally destructive things about George W. Bush.
So it rings a little hollow to me for the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee to now, and by the way, this is an association of elected Democrats.
This once again, the similarity to Harry Reid is this.
You have elected Democrats using the power of their office to attempt to stifle the speech of a private citizen who is in the media.
And the First Amendment's free speech clause was expressly, not expressly, but it was focused primarily on political speech, which is what we do here.
And so the Democrats get this free ride.
Nobody was up.
I don't remember too many people in our party doing what the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee is doing today.
I don't remember people petitioning the Democrats to shut up, stop aiding and abetting the enemy, stop saying we can't win.
Remember, we would do side-by-side audio sound bites of how talking points from Harry Reed or Chuck Schumer sounded just like they came from Mahmood Ahmadinizad.
Or when a tape came from Amon Al-Zawhiri.
How similar Zawahiri or Ahmadinezad's views of America were to what Democrat leaders were saying.
The idea that they have been angels and behaving clean and pure as the wind-driven snow, and all of a sudden I come along.
And they have to they have to manufacture a lie or an out-of-context statement in order to get their rabble rouses.
This is an attempt to stifle dissent.
Remember what Hillary said about dissent.
Dissent is the new patriotism.
Well, not anymore.
The new patriotism is paying higher taxes, according to Joe Biden.
So, you know, we've got we're in a we're in a serious battle here.
These people play for keeps.
The Obama philosophy is to clear the playing field, not level it, just get rid of anybody on it who could stand in your way.
And that's what the Democrat congressional campaign Committee is uh is doing, and they're doing it dishonestly.
So, you know, you could I appreciate all everybody responding to it and sending them a message, but what what they're gonna do, just predict this to you.
It won't be long today or tomorrow, they're going to say they exceeded their goal in signatures.
They're gonna say we got more signatures to tell Rush to shut up than we ever dreamed of getting.
That's the next step of this.
That's the next stage.
We got more response.
The American people, they will say, are fed up with Rush Limbaugh.
And they may release some numbers.
Who knows?
Who how are we gonna prove it?
They don't have a counter on their uh on their website.
So this is just more of the same Stalinist type under the cover, under the guise of doing good and protecting the new president that everybody loves and making sure he's not criticized.
When the fact is, my friends, I, L. Rushbow, and I say this happily, have hijacked Obama's honeymoon.
Back after them.
Sorry, my friends, dealing uh with a member of the media and uh an editing process going on in my op-ed coming up tomorrow, as of now in the Wall Street Journal.
Gotta take a brief time out.
We'll be back before you know it.
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