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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time in my life, I am proud of Massachusetts.
As I paraphrase Michelle My Bell Obama.
For the first time in my life, I am proud of Massachusetts.
I I I seem to remember some hack saying you never want to waste a crisis.
Some hack in the White House said that.
I think his name his name was Rom Emanuel.
That's exactly right.
Well, they are in a crisis right now.
And turnaround is fair play.
So let me say, ladies and gentlemen, you never want to waste a crisis, especially when it's the Libs experiencing the crisis.
So keep up the pressure.
Now is the time to keep hammering away.
This is not just one election.
This is the third blowout involving two, or actually three dark blue states.
It is not about Cochley's campaign or Corzine's problems or Creed Deeds being a lightweight.
The common thread here is Obama.
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So much to comment upon today, and I'm gonna relish every moment of it, ladies and gentlemen.
So many wonderful sound bites.
It is perfectly fine to gloat today.
It is called for.
This is a day of celebration, but it is also a beginning.
It is not by any means the end of anything.
There is a common theme that I am seeing through state-controlled media.
From Howard Feinman to Jonathan Alter to a guy named Tim Rutten here at the Los Angeles Times, the lesson of Massachusetts, anger.
Yes, it's angry white voters.
Angry white, but they've gone back to that meme.
They have re have revived that template.
Even had Donnie Deutsch on MSNBC today saying, well, you know, Scott Brown, um voters were just comforted by Scott Brown's white maleness.
They continue this was substance, Mr. Deutsch.
This was issues.
They continue to group people in victimization status.
They continue to see people by the virtue of the color of their skin or their gender, sexual orientation, or what have you.
Now, this guy in the LA Times, the lesson of Massachusetts, anger.
The electorate is increasingly restived, and it's not just about the Democrats.
See, my friends, this is the danger.
LA Times voters are mad at both parties.
This is the danger that we not allow the liberals and the Democrats to reinterpret what took place here.
Conservatism won.
Statism, liberalism lost.
If you are a Republican and you run against government run health care, if you are a Republican and you run against massive spending and deficits and taxes, if you run for smaller government, you will win.
You do not need to throw Ronald Reagan overboard.
You do not need to cross the aisle.
The independence came to us.
Big.
Rasmussen's numbers are incredible.
69, 70% of the independence wit for Scott Brown.
Uh, and that was an issue-oriented campaign that he ran.
These are Reagan Democrats that crossed over.
Conservatism is the answer.
The era of Reagan is not over.
We don't dare use this as a as a as a launching pad for a third party.
We have shown it's totally unnecessary.
Just get back to Reagan conservative roots.
We don't need any more people like David Brooks or Frum or any people in the middle who got this all wrong.
One year ago, they're telling us we had to cross the aisle.
We had to hope Obama succeeded.
We had to work with him.
We had to show the electorate that we were for larger government because they were.
We had to show the electorate that they were looking all the services we want are going to require a lot of high taxes.
That's what our pundits.
That's what some in our party were actually saying one year ago.
There was one man, ladies and gentlemen, who stood tall and opposed every aspect of that.
And I don't mind saying it was I. Your host, L. Rushbow at 800-282-2882.
Do not make the mistake that there's anger at both parties.
There need not be any anger at the Republican Party if they finally learn the lesson of what happened last night and uh the past three weeks in Massachusetts.
Do you understand?
Despite how you're seeing Democrats on television, this folks, this is the Berlin Wall coming down.
This is a Ted Kennedy seat.
They're still calling it that, and they've lost it.
And they lost it to a rookie, and they lost it to a rookie who was talking anti-Washington, anti-government, anti-spending, anti-Obama.
He was talking conservatism.
He may not be a full-fledged conservative.
In fact, the press conference today that he had.
Uh the uh the first question, first question, why are you so eager to get down to Washington?
He said he's going to make a courtesy call now.
Why are you so eager to get on down to Washington?
The uh uh the the let's see, these the see.
Next question, uh, what are you gonna do concretely to prove that you are an independent?
The third or fourth question.
You ran as an independent.
How are you gonna prove to voters that you are an independent?
What they're trying to do, what the press is trying to do is get this guy to say he's not a Republican, and he's not a conservative, he's a moderate.
They want the Republican Party to continue to fall for the things that got them in trouble.
That we gotta be like Democrats, that we gotta be more moderate, that we got to cross the aisle.
We have to work with Obama.
The lesson is right in front of us.
And it's no time to let up, folks.
This is pedal to the metal time.
Keep the hammer down.
The health care, the health care system that extended Ted Kennedy's life may have been saved.
The health care system that extended Senator Kennedy's life may well have been saved.
This was a great victory for all Americans who desire the same quality health care that Mr. Kennedy received during his life, and especially during his courageous and well-fought battle against cancer.
If Obama's health care succeeds, the great health care system that sustained and uh elongated the life of Senator Kennedy will be FIME.
It will be over.
Pete Weiner today uh writing a piece at commentary at the blog.
Number six.
This is important.
There is a slew of bad data for Democrats to pour through in the aftermath of Scott Brown's victory, but here is the most frightening data point of all.
Mr. Brown won unaffiliated voters by a margin of 73 to 25%, according to pollster Scott Rasmussen.
This is a three-to-one margin.
And it comes after independence broke for Bob McDonald and Chris Christie by two to one margins in Virginia and New Jersey, respectively.
This is a stunning.
And for Democrats, an ominous development.
More than anything else, it explains why they now face the prospect of losing both the House and the Senate in November.
Folks, this is bigger than 1994.
The level of outrage and disgust with the statism, the expansion of government, the accrual of wealth or debt that is being piled up.
It's worse.
The public outrage, the fright, the fear, the demand for something different is worse than 1994.
When the Republicans took the House.
Boston Globe editorial page today, Brian McGrawy has a column.
I'm thinking about reading it to you.
It is a column that somebody who got date raped would write about.
Date rape.
Voters were date raped by Scott Brown.
I kid you not, I kid you not.
I'm going to need some advil and a cold compress, please.
I'm the Massachusetts electorate, and I have what is barred on the absolute worst hangover hangover of my entire voting life.
Seriously, I was so drunk on power, so caught up in the moment, so free of any of my usual inhibitions, I can't remember what's gone on these last two weeks.
Think, electorate, think.
What did I do?
This much I'm starting to remember.
Martha and I walked into the party.
Everything seemed to be going fine.
She wasn't talking much, but she never really does.
She wasn't exactly pushing me to bare my soul either.
That's what I've always liked about Martha.
She's a low maintenance politician.
And now I'm vaguely recalling that stranger across the room.
The one in the barn jacket who kept smiling at me, seemed to know my name.
Martha vanished for a while, and is it bad that I'm saying this?
I didn't really care.
Suddenly that tall, handsome man was standing at my side doing something that Martha rarely did, offering to pay for drinks, chatting me up, curious what was on my mind.
Every time I tried telling Martha about my day, my hopes, my dreams, she shushed me, and she was preparing a legal brief for watching law and order, and now there's a stranger telling me he could change my entire world.
Scott, that was his name, yeah, lived near the outlet stores, talked a lot about being smarter with money.
I know not like Martha, who always had some expensive home renovation project up her sleeve.
And then I remembered that time itself seemed to stop.
The mundanity, which I don't think is a word, but he puts it in radio.
Everyday events gave way to the exhilaration of my suddenly unpredictable existence.
No more Martha taking me for granted, no more Martha calling all the shots.
I was living the moment immersed in the life I always wanted before caution overwhelmed desire.
We were on the dance floor, Scott and I, moving to the music, his hands all over my body politic.
Everyone was watching, and I mean everyone, fellow partygoers, bartenders, passers by staring in the windows.
Look at me, the Massachusetts electorate, the bellwether of America.
I think I took my shirt off.
I think I didn't care.
I remember something about Scott in a pair of Calvin Klein jockey shorts.
But it may have been a picture he showed me from his wallet.
Out of nowhere to bring video cameras filming us from every angle.
Analysts were describing the events.
Scott's important friends were texting and calling my cell.
Get this.
Kurt Schilling talking to a regular old electorate like me.
And just like that, there she was.
Martha's back at the bar, giving me that aloof prosecutorial look.
I all knew too well.
I went back to her sweaty and out of breath.
Amazingly, she didn't seem angry.
She didn't really show any emotion at all.
She just pretended like nothing ever happened.
And tried to continue on.
Oh, but something did happen.
I knew it.
She knew it.
So did Scott, who was still beckoning from the other end of the bar, asking me to take a walk outside, and now it's coming clear.
I did.
He was talking nonstop, but I noticed he was repeating himself over and over again.
41st vote, drawing boards, being a Scott Brown Republican, he was starting to lose me until we were standing in front of a GMC pickup, and he said, This is my truck.
Oh, you bad boy, you bad, bad boy.
I remember catching my breath.
I remember pulling a curtain shut.
I remember having to make a really important choice.
I needed to send a message.
I don't know much about Scott.
I have no idea how long he'll be in my life, but I do know that nobody will ever take me for granted again.
This is a metaphor column for being date raped.
Can't remember what happened, but you ended up liking the guy.
You ended up with the guy, but you're fuzzy on the details.
You woke up with a hangover.
I mean it's unreal.
It is unreal.
We double checked Mr. McGrawy is purported to be a male.
We double checked on this.
But I mean, this is hilarious, even according to the globe standards.
These people on the Democrat side and in the state controlled media, ladies and gentlemen, are literally flipping out and losing it.
They have lost it.
And we have only just begun.
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Mary Joe, this one's for you.
A lot of Democrats are running for the tall grass, ladies and gentlemen.
Bill Delahunt in the house, Massachusetts.
Let's uh let's uh let's break this health care bill into a whole bunch of smaller bills.
Jim Webb from Virginia had an incredible, incredible statement.
Let me find what Jim Webb had to say.
It is um it's just great.
Uh, he said in many ways the campaign in Massachusetts became a referendum not only on health care reform, but also on the openness and integrity of our government process.
It is vital that we restore the respect of the American people in our system of government and in our leaders.
To that end, I believe it would only be fair and prudent that we suspend further votes on health care legislation until Senator Elect Brown is seated.
Ladies and gentlemen, there are a number of Democrats coming out of the woodwork.
If the vote, the vote on the Senate bill today took place, five Democrats would vote against it.
That's the extent of the fallout.
And what this tells me is that there have been a whole bunch of Democrats privately totally uncomfortable with this whole process, thumbing their noses at the American people, not listening to them, passing legislation that nobody wants, having it done behind closed doors.
There are apparently a few Democrats who are breathing a sigh of relief over this.
And let's not forget, ladies and gentlemen, as President Obama himself has sung.
White comedian Paul Shanklin.
And the day Obamacare died.
Gotta take a break here, folks, as the EIB party zone continues.
We come back.
I'm gonna compare the number of working days in the Senate Obama had before he ran for president.
And between now and 2012 for Scott Brown, should he decide that he wants to run for president, hint he will have many more days of experience in the Senate than Obama had will be back.
Stay with us.
My friends, who knew?
Who knew that there were so many racist rednecked bitter clingers in Massachusetts?
Even in Hyannis for well, Obama, when he was at fundraiser in San Francisco was talking about all the bitter bitter clingers that when things weren't going well, they they dicked up their guns and then went to church and so forth.
Uh he was talking about people that didn't agree with him.
I mean, who knew there were so many racist rednecked bitter clingers in Massachusetts?
I mean, I'm just throwing their reasoning back on them.
I have here a uh uh a letter or a uh cop it's an op-ed maybe from uh Andy Stern, who is the president of the Service Employees International Union.
And you know where this uh op-ed is published?
In the People's World magazine.
It's the Communist Party USA's magazine.
And it carries a theme that I have seen throughout state controlled media and some Democrats today.
Massachusetts voters' message to Washington, it's time for action.
Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern released the following statement.
Today is no different than yesterday or the day before or the day before that.
Pat DeJong is still uh still wake up in Libby, Montana.
Pat's still mourning the loss of her husband and the selling of his family's ranch because of his medical bills.
And Pat will still go to the bed, um bedside of her patients each day, providing excellent care, still lacking coverage of her own.
Pat's reality is the reality millions of working people face every day.
The reason Ted Kennedy's seat is no longer controlled by a Democrat is clear.
Washington's inability to deliver the change voters demanded in November 20th 2008.
Make no mistake, political paralysis resulted in electoral failure.
What he's saying is, and I hope they believe this.
I really hope they believe it, and I hope they keep saying it, and we must encourage them to, that the reason this happened is because they have not passed health care.
They really, these people are delusional.
But let them keep thinking it.
They really believe this was a repudiation of the attempt to nationalize one-sixth of the economy.
This is a repudiation of a president who has destroyed the private sector on purpose.
This is a repudiation of a president who, by the way, has just announced today that he is going to appoint, actually announced it yesterday.
Obama is going to appoint a uh a special commission to make it easier for Congress to raise taxes.
He is going to appoint a commission to make it easier for Congress to raise taxes.
You don't believe me on that, Snerdley.
He also, he also has announced today, today, his intent to nationalize the student loan program, which he already has done.
They own the student loan program.
We had that story for you back in uh in December.
But on the day after this shellacking, he said he was going to double down.
He said that he was going to get serious.
He was going to fight just twice as hard.
So he is announcing the nationalization of the student loan program.
By the way, Brian McGrawy, Boston Globe, who thinks that he got date raped.
Put some ice on it, Brian.
Just put some ice on it.
That's that's Bill Clinton's way of dealing with it.
Hey, just put some ice on that, Brian, and uh go away.
Okay, let's compare Brown's days in orifice before 2012 elections to uh Obama's.
From January 3rd, 2005, when Obama became a senator to Wednesday, November 4th, 2008, when he was elected president, 1,401 days, or three years, 10 months in a day.
From January 19th, today, or yesterday, Brown was elected to November 6th of 2012, election day, 1,022 days, or two years, nine months, and eighteen days.
So Brown will have about 400 fewer days under his belt than Obama did.
However, however, let us never forget that Obama was on the campaign trail for many of those days.
He actually worked 150 days in the Senate.
Combined.
Most of those days were prior to the announcing of his campaign.
But then after that, uh, it was mostly on the campaign trail, went back to solve a financial crisis with McCain a couple times, go back for a couple of votes, uh, go back to listen to a State of the Union speech.
But 150 days is what Obama was elected to president on.
That kind of experience in the Senate.
Public policy polling.
Tom Jensen, here are my biggest takeaways from tonight's results.
This was a repudiation of Barack Obama.
Certainly Martha Coakley was a bad candidate, ran a terrible campaign, but that does not change the fact that we found Obama's approval rating at only 44% with the electorate for today's contest in Massachusetts, a huge drop from 62% of the vote that he won in the state in 2008.
Brown won over 20% of the vote from people who voted for Obama in 2008.
And we found that most of those Brown Obama voters were folks who no longer approve of the job the president is doing.
Can you say Reagan Democrats?
And in one of the bluest states in the country, barely 40% of voters expressed support for the Democrat health care bill.
Only 40, and yet there's Andy Stern out there saying that this happened because boom, nobody got the health care bill passed.
And Nancy Pelosi is saying the same thing.
They're all...
The leadership...
You know, there's a...
There's a...
Oh, by the way, did you see?
I was channel surfing around last night.
What a metaphor.
I I have never enjoyed watching meltdowns like I saw last night on CNN at PMS NBC.
Did you see?
Did you see John Kerry on CNN hobble up to the stage on crutches?
What a metaphorical heaven it was.
What an idiot.
John, just stay off the stage.
I mean, the whole party's been crippled.
The whole party's on crutches.
Massachusetts voters just cut the legs out from under the Democrat 60 seat majority, which could cripple Obamacare and Cap and Tax, and Kerry gave us that image.
Oh man.
I was digging it, folks.
I was digging it up.
One year ago, one year ago, we were told that Republicans had to become a regional party with no chance of winning in the Northeast.
We were told, sadly, by some alleged conservatives, that it was time to get over Reagan, that the era of Reagan was over.
We were told Republicans were doomed to wander in the wilderness for a generation, that we were a white regional party.
But then came Virginia, and then came New Jersey.
And then came Copenhagen, where we got booted out of the Olympics on the first vote.
And then came Climate Gate.
We had all those fake emails showing that the uh email showing the whole man-made climate debate is a is a hoax.
And then we had Virginia and Washington, and of course we had New Jersey and Massachusetts.
The people of Massachusetts have been liberated.
It's been almost 60 years, but the so-called Kennedy seat has been returned to the people.
In New York, recent polling puts former two-term Republic Republican Governor George Pataki 13 points ahead of Hillary's replacement, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand.
And by the way.
Ladies and gentlemen, I think that it is time for Mrs. Clinton to start gearing up for a run for the White House in 2012.
As I uh I firmly believe that she is.
I think the Clintons are waving out there.
They are watching this.
They are watching a lackadaisical failure response to the hurricane or earthquake, rather, in Haiti.
They are watching this election result, and they've been loyal.
They've been spouting the Obama talking points all over the place.
Hillary has dutifully gone wherever she'd been told to go by Obama.
And now we had a referendum on Obama.
His approval numbers are plunging.
No issue he supports enjoys majority support with the American people.
Mrs. Clinton, start gearing up for 2012.
Her loss was narrow.
Operation Chaos, orchestrated by me and executed by many of you, kept her in that race longer than she otherwise would have been.
But Obama has failed miserably in record time.
And my gal Hillary, who so many of you voted for, the Democrat primary could be well poised to springboard back into the race in 2012.
I hope she's pondering it.
Nobody could have ever expected except me this big and this fast a failure on the part of the President of the United States.
But I had no doubts, because I know and knew that his policies were going to take us right where we are.
So make no mistake about it, even without my urging, Hillary Clinton salivating.
Bill Clinton salivating.
Because that's a few years ago.
That guy's been getting his coffee.
And a couple more years, a guy can get his coffee.
Maybe three.
In California, land of a thousand liberals, another liberal icon, Barbara Colmey, Senator Boxer, polling under 50%.
She's leading Republican challengers by only three or four points in a state where Republicans haven't won a Senate seat in 42 years.
In Nevada, Democrat Majority Leader Dingy Harry Reid is in deep doo-doo.
In Arkansas, Blanche Lincoln has her hips...
Well, she's got her boots on up to her hips.
Seven-term Arkansas Democrat Congressman Vic Snyder announced he's not seeking re-election.
That's number five.
The myth that conservatives cannot win in blue straits, their states, is exploded by this year's elections in New Jersey and now Massachusetts liberals can be beaten in their own backyards.
We have been aided and assisted by the liberals being arrogant and conceited and showing us who they really are out in the open by virtue of their policies and their arrogant condescending attitudes.
And when people see it, they don't want any part of it.
Properly articulated issue-oriented conservatism will beat liberalism every time it's tried in whatever part of the country.
This has now been established with what happened.
Hey, Reagan also carried Massachusetts in a 49-state landslide.
The myth that conservatives can't win, the myth that conservatives have to cross the aisle, the myth that conservatives have to change who they are to adopt and attract moderates.
All of that, all that we were told by the alleged intelligentsia on our side, in our media in our party, has been blown to smithereens.
Those of us who are conservatives from morning to night, 24-7, 365, we are the ones who are vindicated here.
Liberals can be beaten.
This is the time.
This is the year.
No more excuses.
Hi, welcome back.
Rush Limboy, having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Here it is, Mr. Skurgley.
It's a Reuters story.
The White House laying the groundwork for a task force that could make it easier for lawmakers to approve tax increases.
That's the slug line.
The White House laying the groundwork for a task force that could make it easier for lawmakers to approve tax hikes.
By the way, I was watching CNN and MSNBC last night, and they kept, when Brown was going on and on with his speech, they cut out of it.
They went to Haiti.
They gave up.
CNN gave up even before Brown spoke.
I mean, you can think of it.
They cut out of election coverage and headed straight to Haiti.
Oh, it was funny.
It was it was hilarious.
Now, there is a uh you know, I think the defining issue in the Democrat Party right now is busing.
Stick with me on this, folks.
The defining issue, yes, is bussing.
Here we are in the morning after.
The Democrats are already splitting.
The not liberal moderate Democrats.
There really are no moderate Democrats anymore, by the way.
Let's get that out of the way.
But um the the not lib moderates, but it's between the here's here's the split is between the Harry Reeds who would throw swing state members under the bus in order to pass health care, and people like Jim Webb who would throw leadership and health care under the bus to save their own seats.
So it's about bussing.
It's about who's going to get thrown off the bus.
Jim Webb's trying to throw the leadership off the bus, and Harry Reid's trying to throw these other guys off the bus.
So bussing has come back to rear its ugly head and poison the Democrat process.
We have good cheer, ladies and gentlemen, should offer our friends on the other side of the aisle some good advice today.
Don't change a thing.
Not one thing.
You keep doing what you are doing, Senator Reed and Madame Pelosi.
Follow the lead of the President of the United States.
Support the strategy of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi.
That's what the unions want you to do.
We urge you to do the same thing.
Warren Buffett.
People are wondering why are the markets down today?
Everybody expected the markets to be up.
Could it be these next two sound bites?
Warren Buffett on Squawk Bucks.
The host Joe Curtain said, we got so many things to go over here.
I mean, I think if Wells Fargo, I think about the bank tax.
Is that a good idea to pay for the GM bailout with a bank tax, Mr. Buffett?
No, I don't understand that.
I mean, if it's uh some kind of a uh a guilt tax or something of that sort, because banks were among the whole United States that was saved back in 2008.
The government's made a lot of money off Wells, they made a lot of money off Goldman, they've made a lot of money off JP Morgan.
And where they're gonna lose money, well, at least what is possible they'll lose money, is in the auto company.
So if you're really looking for the people that benefited from government losses, you'd have to look there.
Or if you look at Fanny and Freddie, I mean, uh, you know, are you gonna go and tax uh the members of Congress who who ran Freddie and Fannie?
Whoa!
What a 180!
This is a guy who was in the back pocket of Barack Hussein Obama.
Mm-mm.
And now Warren Buffett is just I mean, dumping all over the bank tax.
He still doesn't understand.
It was kind of a guilt tax.
No.
It's populism.
He thinks everybody hates the banks.
He's trying to get people on his side by thinking they have the same enemy.
After saying we had it to save them, Mr. Buffett, we had to make them profitable.
Now he's going after their profit.
So Joe Kernan said to Buffett, well, that's exactly what I said.
You can almost tax any company in business that wasn't going to be able to float any commercial paper, you could tax them too.
Warren, don't give them any ideas because that'll be next.
What was done in the fall of 2008 was designed to save the American economy.
It wasn't designed to save the banks.
It wasn't designed to save me.
It was decided to save 309 million Americans, and a good job was done.
They've paid it back with huge interest.
The government's made a lot of money on that.
And to say that they should be paying for the fact that uh the government lost a lot or may lose a lot of money in Freddie and Fanny and and uh and perhaps with the auto companies.
I it just doesn't make any sense to me.
I just think a tax that's enacted with the idea that it'll the headlines will be appealing and that you know a certain amount of vengeance will be uh achieved.
I I don't think that's the uh that's the greatest form of tax policy.
Warren Buffett no longer in Obama's back pocket, folks.
Let us remember, ladies and gentlemen, success has a thousand fathers.
Failure is an orphan.
Scott Brown deserves all the credit in the world for turning Washington upside down, but we must also recognize the contributions of the following people.
David Rodham Gergen for asking the question that inspired Senator Brown to respond, it isn't the Kennedy seat.
It's the people's seat.
Thank you, Mr. Rodham Gurgen.
We must also thank President Obama, who came to town for Cokley, and added, added to the energy of the Pro-Brown supporters.
Thank you for that trip, Mr. President.
And of course, we uh we have to thank uh Nancy Pelosi and Dingy Harry, without whose bad ideas and bad leadership and even worse tactics, this would not have been such a triumph.
And of course, my friends, we must also thank the state-controlled media, who did everything in their power to push Obamacare, Obamacap and Trade, Obama banks, Obama automobiles, Obama take over everything.
I mean, I could go on forever.
In thanking so many people on the left for contributing mightily to the result in Massachusetts yesterday.
But I can't, ladies and gentlemen.
I must pause for an obscene profit break.
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