Jan. 21, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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| Great to have you. | |
| A thrill and a delight. | |
| Way to go, President Obama, way to go. | |
| He jumps all over the banks today, and Citicorp stock is down six percent. | |
| Six percent. | |
| Not six points. | |
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| My friends. | |
| I was just in Snerdley's office in there. | |
| And I saw videotape of Scott Brown, the senator elect from Massachusetts, sitting down congenially, uh with a very friendly looking uh conversation with the Senate majority leader Dingy Harry Reed. | |
| And I'm sorry, but uh a thought just burst forth in my fertile mind. | |
| Because I remember how Dingy Harry treated Roland Burris. | |
| Roland Burris was nominated to uh take the seat of President Obama by uh by then Governor Bolgoyovich. | |
| And Dingy Harry was not nice. | |
| Dingy Harry said, We're not we're not gonna see him Senate rules, we're not we're not there. | |
| We wouldn't see anybody appointed by that government. | |
| I I'm just telling you, folks, that that what jumped into my mind is that Dingy Harry was treating the Senate elect white guy from Massachusetts a lot better than the dark-skinned brother from the hood in Chicago, Roland Burroughs. | |
| I mean, it's i it was an inescapable observation. | |
| But you would have thought the same thing had you seen it. | |
| And had you had the memory that I have, and that is the way they all treated Roland Burris. | |
| They all those Democrats, all those. | |
| It wasn't just Dingy Harry, and um Roland Burris has the Negro dialect, and he's dark-skinned. | |
| Don't get mad at me, Harry Reed brought it up. | |
| Okay, Chuck Hugh Schumer. | |
| Chuck Yu Schumer calls for hearings on this un-American court decision. | |
| This, folks, this week, this has been the perfect storm. | |
| Look at what has happened. | |
| You had Scott Brown winning in Massachusetts. | |
| That election, by a big number. | |
| The Ted Kennedy seat, as the Democrats thought of it. | |
| The Ted Kennedy seat. | |
| This is like somebody winning the Queen's throne. | |
| This is like some janitor in Great Britain beating the Queen in an election if there was one. | |
| Not to put down janitors. | |
| I'm just trying to the disparity between stash station and life here. | |
| So that was just huge. | |
| They're rocking and rolling. | |
| They cannot, they cannot center themselves. | |
| They're off balance on that. | |
| That one election. | |
| Health care as we know it at this moment is dead. | |
| Pelosi said there's no way she can get the votes to get this through of the Senate bill through the House, and the Senate doesn't have the votes to get the Senate bill through the Senate. | |
| Now, on top of all that, Obama has come out and said, Yeah, we lost touch with the American people. | |
| They just weren't smart enough. | |
| I thought they'd figure out by all these speeches and all this time on policy that they would figure I knew what I was doing, but they didn't. | |
| So we're gonna have to spend more time on them. | |
| By the way, he just he just made a speech. | |
| It was on TV in the last half hour saying that his budget is not going to throw money at what doesn't work. | |
| You're not gonna do that. | |
| And in the next breath, literally, the next breath, he reiterated his commitment to environmental sustainability. | |
| All those billions of dollars thrown at green jobs were not a waste, even though there aren't any green jobs. | |
| He hasn't learned anything. | |
| So we got this moron in office than everybody there even now. | |
| Well, we thought he was a messiah. | |
| And we thought we thought he was something special. | |
| And we thought there had been a sea change in the thinking in the direction of the people of the country. | |
| And we thought that the passage of our slush fund, that meant the public would pass everything. | |
| We go along. | |
| We just get everything passed. | |
| They misjudged everything. | |
| First and foremost, who Obama is. | |
| And they didn't know that I would say I hope he fails, which changed the whole dynamic. | |
| Then on top of all that, Obama comes out today and says, you know what? | |
| Getting these two sides, the Israelis and the Palestinians to talk to each other is really hard. | |
| Our expectations were too high. | |
| I don't think we're going to be able to get anything done on that. | |
| And then this morning, out of the clear blue, the Supreme Court lifts 100 years of bans on the spending in political races campaigns by corporations, profit and nonprofit. | |
| They did not address how much a candidate can be given. | |
| But there is now no limit on how much they can spend running advertising or on when they can run it. | |
| A big chunk of McCain Feingold down the tubes. | |
| And Chuck Yu Schumer is beside himself. | |
| He said we're going to have hearings in his committee on the on the unamerican nature of this decision. | |
| Now Chuck Hugh Schumer, he's in charge of their re-elector in the Senate. | |
| I think he's still the Senate uh campaign coordinator. | |
| And remember, he's the guy that went and found uh the credit report records or had one of his staff on Michael Steele on American, Senator Chuck Yu. | |
| Let me tell you what this is a perfect storm because he knows these Democrats, these Democrats for the entirety of my life. | |
| And we've talked about it this week a lot, the enemy's list, big corporation. | |
| I don't care which one. | |
| Big military industrial, big oil, big pharmaceutical, big farm, big agriculture, um, big retail, whatever big tobacco. | |
| Big you I mean, you know, they they have just had these corporations in their crosshairs, and they have been pummeling them, and they have demonized them, and then they have made them villains in the eyes of their own voters and constituents. | |
| And now, as I rub my hands together in delight, simulating what's going on in corporate boardrooms ever since this morning. | |
| They're licking their chops because it's payback time, mama. | |
| Payback time, Mr. and Mrs. CEO at Big Whatever, now have no limits in what they can say and how much they can spend saying it about people like Chuck Yu Schumer. | |
| And about people like Barack Obama and the attention, California corporation CEOs, Barbara Boxer is only ahead of Carly Fiorina by the margin of error. | |
| Three measly percentage points. | |
| See, Chuck Yu Schumer knows that for all of these years there have been no limits on what the unions can spend. | |
| Zip zero nada. | |
| The unions have been able to confiscate the dues of their members and spend lavishly on the election of Democrat after Democrat after socialist after socialist. | |
| And now things will be equal because American corporations can do the same. | |
| Yes. | |
| Uh move on.org and George Soros and the 527s now have some competition. | |
| Republicans didn't set up as many 527s as did the Democrats. | |
| So Chuck Hughes beside himself because the Democrats have to cheat. | |
| The Democrats have to have an advantage. | |
| They have to have uh an unlevel playing field, and the playing field today was just leveled by the Supreme Court. | |
| An institution the Democrat Party thinks is rightfully theirs. | |
| That they should own. | |
| And dictate to. | |
| So perfect folks, I can't tell you. | |
| And if I if I if I I'm thinking here starting to call John Boehner, the Speaker of the House, and Mitch McConnell, a Senate majority leader. | |
| This is such a wonderful, wonderful week. | |
| A perfect political storm has hit with one election and one Supreme Court decision. | |
| I just love it. | |
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| Uh you know, I let me tell you something. | |
| I personal story. | |
| I used to try to get away with getting out of Valentine's Day. | |
| Yeah, I used to say, look, I don't want to fall in line. | |
| Everybody else does it. | |
| What you why do you want something from me on Valentine's Day? | |
| You know I'm giving it to you because I think I should, not because I want it didn't work. | |
| It doesn't work. | |
| It doesn't well I'm not just telling you sturdily, it doesn't work. | |
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| No matter what, you're gonna make it up and you're gonna do it under duress. | |
| I mean, there's just certain expectations that have to be met, right, Wendy? | |
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| All right, you gotta hear this soundbite. | |
| This is uh Fox and Friends this morning. | |
| Steve Ducey was talking to uh uh former Clinton advisor Lanny Davis. | |
| Yesterday on his show, uh Rush Limbaugh was talking about Hillary. | |
| I know you're uh friend of Hillary's, said uh, with uh what happened in Massachusetts and with Obama's numbers going down, he said, Hillary, get ready. | |
| You're well positioned to springboard back into the race in 2012. | |
| What do you think about that idea? | |
| You know, I respect uh Rush Limbaugh as a very smart man. | |
| He's a great entertainer. | |
| I actually love uh listening to him because he gets me so mad. | |
| Uh but I don't take him seriously. | |
| I don't take him seriously. | |
| He's a provocateur, he has fun provoking, he doesn't mean that isn't like Hillary. | |
| He's just a good entertainer, and I respect that. | |
| He has great ratings. | |
| Oh, I don't know. | |
| I think he means it. | |
| Well, I did mean it. | |
| I honest to God, Lanny, if you're listening, I honest to God do think that she's considering the I mean that's you got the perfect storm brewing here. | |
| This this this is an ideal time for somebody to move in. | |
| Uh and and she's parked over there at state. | |
| She's doing her loyal, dutiful duty, but that can't be too thrilling. | |
| Uh and besides, they send big, you know, czars everywhere that she would really like to go. | |
| They send her to the you know, sticks, while other people get the glamour posts. | |
| Um, and you know she's she's you know, especially now with everybody seeing how they got got got scammed by Obama. | |
| You know, Lanny, I'm telling you. | |
| I think I think I know the Clintons, and I I think I think you know that I know them too, Lynn. | |
| And I think you know that I know that I know I'm right. | |
| And you know that I'm right when I say they're plotting it. | |
| At least sketching it out. | |
| At least talking about it amongst themselves. | |
| All right, back to the phones. | |
| Mary in Baltimore. | |
| Great to have you on the EIB network. | |
| Hello. | |
| Hi, Rush. | |
| How are you? | |
| Just fine. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Good. | |
| You are my hero. | |
| I I I I'm gonna get right to the point though. | |
| But I wanted to let you know that um you give me the courage to stand to by my con conservative convictions. | |
| Thank you. | |
| Um the reason I'm calling is that I love Scott Brown. | |
| I really was rooting for him, and I'm so glad he won. | |
| But I'm so afraid that he is going to buckle. | |
| Why? | |
| Because I'm afraid that Obama's gonna offer him some kind of big thing for for for his state of Massachusetts, and he's gonna be just like Mary Landrew or um Ben Nelson. | |
| He doesn't have to offer it to Brown, he can offer it to Kerry. | |
| If he if he if he offers Brown big stuff, he angers Kerry. | |
| Carrie's now the senior senator from Massachusetts, even though he is on crutches. | |
| Hobbling around metaphorically representing the Obama administration and the Democrat Party, by the way. | |
| Now I look I understand why you think this. | |
| A lot of Republicans, a lot of conservatives have been burned. | |
| Look at uh the one of the big reasons why the Republicans were voted out in 2006 is Republicans did not vote for them because they ceased to govern as they had promised to. | |
| They ceased being conservative. | |
| They became part of the Washington power structure. | |
| So it's quite natural that psychologically and realistically that you would think, oh God, I hope he doesn't become a celebration. | |
| Yeah. | |
| So afraid I'm just like please, please stand by what you say, stand by what you say. | |
| Well, yeah, I look it th uh I don't know Scott Brown, so I I can't predict movements or something. | |
| I can just say if if he after this, if he does what you're afraid of, he's toast it cannot be that silly. | |
| After running against the machine with those words, he he cannot possibly run the risk of becoming part of it. | |
| That just he would be just like Obama if he did that. | |
| He would be exactly like Obama. | |
| No well, no, no. | |
| Well, close. | |
| No, no, no. | |
| There's no Republican that's exactly like Obama. | |
| There's no. | |
| No. | |
| Uh but but nevertheless, I I I wouldn't worry about it right now. | |
| It's not under your control anyway, so don't let it worry. | |
| Just keep a sharp eye. | |
| We'll tell you when it's time to panic, but I don't think we're gonna be pushing the panic button on this. | |
| Good. | |
| All right. | |
| Thank you. | |
| You may be confident. | |
| Don't worry about anything until I tell you to. | |
| Uh let's see. | |
| Roger in King Wood, Texas. | |
| Welcome to the EIB network, sir. | |
| Hello. | |
| Hi, hi, Rush. | |
| I've been listening so long, I don't know how long I've been listening. | |
| I say on this election, uh, I am as happy and as giddy. | |
| I went to bed with a smile, woke up with a smile off of Massachusetts. | |
| But being uh somewhat realistic and following Republican politics as long as I have, I would uh I would caution a little bit. | |
| I don't want to take the bloom off the rose. | |
| No, of course not. | |
| But a little bit that uh, as happy as I am that the people of Massachusetts by time uh uh voted this guy in. | |
| But he is, yeah, and it's a small butt. | |
| Uh he is still a New England Republican. | |
| Uh he's talking conservative. | |
| Yeah. | |
| I want to see where the votes come down, and when he pushes that button in the Senate before I get too ecstatic, because we don't need three of them up there in that neck of the woods. | |
| I just hope that he's all he's talking about. | |
| What do you mean? | |
| Three of who? | |
| Well, you got the two up in Maine. | |
| We don't need another one in Massachusetts. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Well, no, you know what, though, I'm gonna tell you something. | |
| I made a point of this yesterday. | |
| His vote would be irrelevant if the Republicans had not held lock steady rock firm in the Senate, including Snow, including Collins. | |
| Do you realize it's a shock, Rush? | |
| It's n it well, yeah, but it's no mean feat for that to happen. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| As much public pressure on the health care, health care, health care, and as power of popular as as Obama was at one point. | |
| Uh so yeah, look, I understand. | |
| I I I totally understand people being cautious about this. | |
| Uh and wanting to temper the uh extremes on the celebration side. | |
| Well, yeah, let's have our excitement. | |
| Uh, but you know, let's uh let's see where it goes. | |
| Let's not be as giddy as the Democrats wrongfully were about President Obama. | |
| And uh, just an aside, Rush. | |
| Uh would we, as a group of Republicans, be as excited as we are today with the potential of doing a 94 redo if McCain had won? | |
| I don't think so. | |
| No, of course not, absolutely. | |
| Let me tell you this is bigger than 94. | |
| Now, look. | |
| Let me tell you something. | |
| I I understand what you're saying about, you know, temper the extremes of celebration, but what has happened this week is huge. | |
| The Democrats have a supermajority in the Senate, a big majority in the House. | |
| They have a Democrat architect of health care in the White House, and it has been defeated. | |
| And it's the people of this country who defeated it. | |
| The machine was defeated. | |
| And now you've got this Supreme Court decision. | |
| There is a legitimate reason for people to be happy. | |
| People have devoted their whole lives this past year to creating this result to beating back the socialist takeover of the American health care system. | |
| It is worth celebrating. | |
| It's also imperative to remember that the same kind of enthusiasm must continue all the way through November. | |
| Actually, soundbite's 12 and 13. | |
| Soundbite's 12 and 13. | |
| And we're back, Rush Limbaugh, serving humanity. | |
| An amazing post today by Steve Hayes at the Weekly Standard.com. | |
| Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell is pressing the Obama administration on questions about the handling of the fruit of kaboom bomber. | |
| The Christmas Day bomber makes some news in the process. | |
| McConnell notes that several top national security officials offered disturbing testimony yesterday on Capitol Hill about the decision-making process on the fruit of kaboom bomber, or why there wasn't one. | |
| I and that leads McConnell to seek answers to several troubling questions. | |
| Among them, first, why were Miranda rights given to this obvious terrorist after only a brief session of questioning, which predictably ended his cooperation? | |
| Second, at what level of authority was this decision taken to treat him as a criminal defendant instead of an unlawful enemy combatant. | |
| Who made this decision? | |
| I asked this question last night of John Brennan, the president's senior counterterrorism advisor, three times, and he refused to answer. | |
| I think that the Senate's entitled to know precisely who authorized this. | |
| A year ago, this president decided to revise the national interrogation policies and to restrict the CIA's ability to question terrorists. | |
| The administration created a high-value detainee interrogation group to question terrorists. | |
| Why wasn't this group uh uh brought in case this uh the terrorist was taken into custody? | |
| Americans need to know these answers. | |
| And I know where they're going with this. | |
| The holder make this decision? | |
| Because they say it's something high ranking in the Justice Department. | |
| Other people said, no, the FBI, somebody on the ground made it. | |
| No, somebody on the ground could not make this decision. | |
| Somebody much higher up at justice had to make it, or even higher than that, as in the president. | |
| And and and Jeff Sessions uh released a great, great statement on this. | |
| I mean, this because this is a huge, huge snafu. | |
| This is a totally mismanaged event again. | |
| It's as bad as deciding to have this trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on public view in New York in a criminal venue. | |
| Last night CNN's Larry King Live, state-run media do not like Scott Brown. | |
| They don't like him because he's an attractive Republican. | |
| They're gonna go after him the way they go after Sarah Palin. | |
| Uh David Rodham Gurgen said this on Scott Brown. | |
| He was embraced by the social conservatives. | |
| He wants to put a lot of restrictions on the way abortions are done. | |
| He's very much against gay marriage. | |
| He's against a lot of other things. | |
| He was uh also very much against Ephesus Bending. | |
| He was a very much against the health care bill, but along with his sort of, you know, populism and his real authenticity. | |
| He reminds me a lot of Sarah Palin in some ways. | |
| I don't think he's Sarah Palin in pants, but I do think he has some of that same charismatic quality. | |
| Oh, that means they're worried about him because they they're scared to death of Sarah Palin. | |
| Uh next on the panel discussion was uh John Avalon, who is a a uh uh uh columnist at the Staphanopolis, Stasinos Ariannis place. | |
| Stasinopolis Post. | |
| And this is what he said. | |
| Independents voted for Barack Obama because he promised to transcend all the old politics of left versus right, black versus white. | |
| Independents are angry and liberal House leadership, I think did misread the 2008 election as a liberal ideological mandate. | |
| But Republicans shouldn't get too far ahead of themselves either. | |
| If you look at the conservative populism that's out there, look at the heroes of conservative populism, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, independents don't like them. | |
| Scott Brown was able to win independence in a state that's fifty-one percent independent. | |
| That is what's happening. | |
| That's what Republicans and Democrats need to do to survive. | |
| Well, okay, so we're back now to this. | |
| Uh it's the independents and the independents hate conservatives. | |
| They hate me, hate Palin, but even after Gergen says Brown is Palin, they still hate Palin, so they voted for Brown. | |
| Uh, they voted against the machine. | |
| It's what, you know, these these uh the the liberals at the Stassinopolis Post and every other places are not gonna they will not be able to understand. | |
| It will not permeate. | |
| People do not want this kind of overreaching, expans expansive intruding government. | |
| They just don't want it. | |
| That's the message here. | |
| That's what the machine, the public policy unions get them out of there. | |
| Stop their influence. | |
| Now the AP takes its swipe at Scott Brown today. | |
| Uh and it says uh Brown doesn't always match the everyman image that he put forward. | |
| As he campaigned for the U.S. Senate from the back of his pickup, Scott Brown portrayed himself as an independent-minded every man and moderate candidate fighting the Democrat machine. | |
| But as a Republican in Massachusetts, Brown sometimes found himself to the right of his own party. | |
| Oh, they're trying to say he's our right winger now. | |
| He once proposed an amendment which would have allowed emergency room doctors to deny emergency contraception to rape victims based on the doctor's religious beliefs, which drew the ire of fellow Republicans. | |
| This is a fallacious charge. | |
| It is so fallacious. | |
| Brown has filed a criminal complaint against the Cochley supporters for making this campaign or claim in campaign flyers and advertisements. | |
| It did not happen, and the AP knows it did not happen. | |
| Well, we know that's the case anyway. | |
| He has criticized the federal stimulus program as ineffective, but he said he would not return the money. | |
| And in the final weeks of the campaign, Brown benefited from the financial backing of conservative groups like the Tea Party movement, which pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into television as for him. | |
| And this runs counter to his every man image. | |
| How Tea Party is made up of every man, every woman. | |
| It's okay for the unions to shower money all over the place, but somehow it's not good. | |
| And it paints Scott Brown a different image. | |
| Like uh like former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, and even Obama in 08, Brown is getting a boost from his own limited political resume, according to Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public affairs at Princeton. | |
| In the absence of a strong record or public profile, voters felt free to read into the candidate whatever they want. | |
| There is a virtue of not being a known commodity and not having tons of experience in the national spotlight, Zelizer said. | |
| With Palin, people knew nothing about her when she was introduced, and that was an asset at first. | |
| Yes, you see, uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh like Sarah Palin, Scott Brown might seem to be wonderful at first. | |
| But once we get to know him, we will loathe him as much as we loathe Sarah Palin. | |
| Obama is the king of empty suits, the king of empty resumes, a hundred and fifty days. | |
| Experience in the Senate. | |
| All of his experience is teaching acorn and learning from Acorn. | |
| Back to the AP story. | |
| Brown was able to craft his own image in the public mind in large part because of an initial lackluster response from Democrat Martha Coakley. | |
| Only after Brown picked up momentum and polls uh reflected a tight race that Cochley responded that it was too little and too late. | |
| Oh, yeah. | |
| Yeah, see, if only if only Cochley and the Democrats and their lickspittle media had gotten their researchers on the job earlier, if we'd gotten this this kind of story out earlier, we could have taken him out. | |
| Well, he's portrayed himself as an independent-minded candidate on the campaign trail. | |
| Brown's campaign has pulled in support from deep pocketed lobbying and interest groups, from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Tea Party movement, and the Iowa-based conservative American Future Fund. | |
| Uh okay, AP, how how does how does getting support from a truly grassroots movement not match up with Brown's image as an everyman? | |
| By every man, they seem to mean plain as day. | |
| During the campaign, Brown portrayed himself as stronger on national security. | |
| He also campaigned alongside Rudy Giuliani, but a month after the terrorist attacks of 9-11, Brown was one of three Massachusetts representatives to vote against a bill that would have granted paid leave to state workers volunteering for disaster leave with the American Red Cross. | |
| Now this is just too much. | |
| This this is just this is hilarious. | |
| What hypocrisy? | |
| It's clear that Brown cares nothing about national security if he's against paid leave for state workers volunteering for the Red Cross. | |
| It means he you people are going to have to do better than this. | |
| The American people have caught up with you, AP and the state controlled media. | |
| He's also positioned himself to the right of his party's two thousand eight presidential nominee, John McCain. | |
| That would not be hard. | |
| Brown said he doesn't believe that waterboarding is torture. | |
| To the right of McCain, doesn't consider waterboarding torture. | |
| I mean, every complaint they have, it makes it sound like he's an every man to me, folks. | |
| I'm love in love with this guy. | |
| I tell you this week, folks, a perfect storm. | |
| Last night, PMS NBC hardball with Chris Matthews. | |
| He spoke with Howard Dean about the uh Massachusetts Senate race. | |
| And Matthews said uh Massachusetts voters had a choice between the public option candidate and kill it, and they voted kill it. | |
| How do you explain that? | |
| These voters were sending a message to Washington. | |
| They asked for change. | |
| But she said I want to give you the public option. | |
| You're whistling past the graveyard here. | |
| I don't think she ran for the public option. | |
| Our polling shows what it shows. | |
| But she's for the public options. | |
| She got blown away. | |
| People who are for the voted for the public option who were for the public options for the candidate of the public option. | |
| Because they wanted to send Washington a message. | |
| They want real change. | |
| I love listening to this. | |
| They're shouting and talking all over each other. | |
| Uh and and it continued. | |
| Voters of Massachusetts agree with you, but they voted Republican. | |
| That makes no sense. | |
| Oh, it doesn't. | |
| Of course not. | |
| Oh, but you rationally would not have voted for the conservative Republican because he's against health care. | |
| But you say the voters are irrational. | |
| They somehow send smoke signals in their voting. | |
| They vote for a conservative Republican who's totally against health care to tell the country they want a progressive health care program. | |
| That's crazy. | |
| We know what they do. | |
| Are voters crazy? | |
| We actually there's only one crazy person around here, and I may hold up a mirror, you may see him in a minute. | |
| I'm just looking at the results. | |
| I'm not cheering them. | |
| I'm looking at them, and you're not looking at them. | |
| You're saying no matter who won. | |
| Suppose Cochley had won, you would have said that was a victory for progressive Democrats, wouldn't it? | |
| No, I would have said that. | |
| In other words, if she wins, that's a victory for your side. | |
| If she loses, that's a victory for your side. | |
| Uh this combobulation, discombobulation all over the place, and Matthews, in our final soundbite of this Troika, has finally had enough of Howard Dean. | |
| He says, why do you believe that Martha Coakley's defeat meant people wanted a progressive health care bill? | |
| Howard, I don't understand what you're talking about. | |
| I think people are sending a strong message to Washington. | |
| They want strong leadership, they want real change, and they don't want to accommodate the special interest. | |
| Most of what the verdict in Massachusetts was is that we'd rather have no bill than what we've got. | |
| That's what the verdicts in the case. | |
| Well, they did decide they wanted no bill. | |
| This guy with a barn coat that said I'm going to vote to kill the bill won. | |
| I would say that the people who are against the bill won. | |
| I think that's true. | |
| But don't forget there are a lot of people against the bill who are Obama's core base voted against one of the Coakley. | |
| Martha Coakley was with you, and she lost. | |
| Yeah, well, you know, she was totally with Howard Dean. | |
| Yeah. | |
| She lost. | |
| Well, well, she wasn't. | |
| I didn't show you. | |
| She votes exactly like you on this issue with the progressive position, the public option. | |
| She said she was for that position, and the voter said no, thank you. | |
| So don't you love hearing news? | |
| You want to hear one more of these? | |
| Because here, the same show. | |
| Matthews is fired up at his guys for blowing it. | |
| He uh uh he had uh Axelrod on, David Axelrod, White House advisor. | |
| And they had this exchange about Massachusetts in the Senate race. | |
| How did the Republican guy with a truck grab from you? | |
| They grabbed Jack Kennedy from the Democrats. | |
| He's riding with you around that truck with Jack Kennedy's movies saying he I'm like Jack Kennedy. | |
| How the hell'd you guys let him steal your bacon? | |
| Look, I I I I agree with you. | |
| As I said, I think we were a little late uh to recognize uh the potency of his threat, and he was a a very good uh candidate, and he tapped into uh a lot of things that the Republican Party is lining up with the banks. | |
| They're standing with the insurance companies, so they can talk the talk, but when it comes time to walking the walk, they don't do it. | |
| And we're I'm happy to have that contest uh next uh uh next November if the president chooses to run in two thousand and twelve, and we'll see who the real deal is when it comes to standing up for working people. | |
| Now there you go. | |
| Standing up for working people means unions. | |
| Standing up for working people, the Democrat Party means unions, and any place that's not unionized, be damned. | |
| And that's the machine that Scott Brown ran against. | |
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| Uh Patrick in Glenview, Illinois. | |
| Welcome to the EIB network. | |
| Great to have you here. | |
| Hi, Rush. | |
| Thanks for getting my call and I wanted to um you know the Democrats had a supermajority. | |
| They could have passed anything they wanted. | |
| And the only thing that kept it from being passed was their infighting, and that was due to the the people's voices being heard. | |
| Right. | |
| Um I wonder what would have happened if we, you know, people have been calling for term limits. | |
| I I would say if we had term limits in place, we'd be looking at a health care bill. | |
| Everything would have gotten passed because they would have said, you know what, I'm out of here anyhow. | |
| I'm voting along party lines, and the party's gonna take care of me. | |
| Well, the system worked the way it was supposed to. | |
| Uh I and I used to be a proponent for term limits, and I'm thinking no, because these guys, the only reason nothing went through is they were scared to death of their jobs. | |
| And that's why they were fighting amongst themselves. | |
| Well, um just the thought, yeah. | |
| Yeah, uh. | |
| I if if if Scott Brown had lost, we would have health care. | |
| It's not just a term limits thing. | |
| No, no, no, I know that too. | |
| But I'm just wondering, you know, I'm just thinking how lucky we are that we didn't have term limits because the people's voice I think would have gotten lost. | |
| Well, uh, look, I know what you're saying. | |
| If we well, but what you're saying at the when you at rock bottom. | |
| If we had term limits, we wouldn't have Barney Frank to laugh at. | |
| We wouldn't have John Kerry as a buffoon. | |
| We wouldn't have Pelosi running it, it'd be gone. | |
| And people who are probably uh a less likable or d more likable would be in position. | |
| So, yeah, but what if questions are uh uh uh academic exercise for me anyway? | |
| I understand what you're saying, but I'm a literalist. | |
| I deal with what happened and what is. | |
| And heard her term limits aren't gonna be happening anytime soon. | |
| Der Spiegel magazine, the international edition found on the World Wide Web. | |
| Has this story entitled The World Bids Farewell to Obama. | |
| And what it is, is a series of paragraphs and quotes from other newspapers in Europe. | |
| Here's one, the Financial Times Deutschland. | |
| For everyone else in the world, this means that they will have to bid farewell to a candidate for whom the hopes were so high. | |
| They will have to say goodbye to the charisma they fell in love with. | |
| Obama will be staying home after all. |
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