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Feb. 22, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 22, 2010, Monday, Hour #3
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So I'm in there when Snerdley's office.
We always repair in there because it's a fun three or four minutes of every hour to just see what the hell they're doing in the news media.
And Snerdley, just sitting there looking at the monitors.
I don't know what he's thinking about it.
I'm looking.
We got Miss NBC, got Fox and C-SPAN on in there.
And Snerdley says, I just don't understand this.
Oh, they put up a deal, Boehner.
Democrats are doubling down on a backroom deal.
They're not supporting him.
The House of Republic is not supporting Obama.
Belso Sternley says, I really don't understand their strategy here.
What do you mean?
Thank God they're not going to.
No, no, no.
I'm talking about the Democrats.
What do you mean, John?
Democrats?
Rush.
I don't understand their strategy.
It's an election year.
Nobody.
Nobody wants what they're literally ramming down our throats.
I very patiently, so I must answer this question countless times a day.
I said, Snerdley, you're trying to understand irrational people in your own rational way.
And it never going to work.
You've got to understand, these people have wanted this health care like this since Roosevelt.
This is, think of the Lord of the Rings, the guy that needed the third ring.
It drove him insane.
Anybody touched the ring, got insane.
Healthcare's the ring.
They have wanted this.
They are willing to lose seats to get this because this finally remakes the country into a socialist, whatever else you want to describe it, with their party ultimately in charge.
I said, you have to understand.
And this is not a perfect analogy because the kamikaze pilots had more honor than the Democrats.
But I doubt that very many of us could understand willingly getting in a Japanese zero and flying it into the deck of an aircraft carrier.
That's what they're doing.
They are committing suicide.
And if you try to understand that in a rational way, I'm sorry, it's not going to ever make sense to you.
You have to understand these people as they are and what it is that motivates them.
They're this close and they've wanted it for so many decades.
And imagine that they had 60 votes and they couldn't get it done.
And they had 4,000 more votes than they needed in this house and they couldn't get it done.
And they've got this man-child little president that's alienating everybody now and it's going off the edge of the cliff and they want to grab it and go over the cliff with it because they think that's how it's going to pass.
They're that close.
Now they've lost that Kennedy seat.
Now we're talking insanity.
Now we're talking payback.
All right.
You people are going to take away the Kennedy seat from us.
Well, watch this.
You like your freedom?
Ha!
You better have fun with it the next four years because we're taking it from you, pal.
You don't support us.
You don't think we're the best thing that ever happened to you?
We're going to make sure we're the worst thing that ever happened.
That's their attitude.
You can't possibly understand that.
Nobody wants to believe it.
Politicians have that view of the American people.
Telling you, the modern day Democrat Party has led from Obama on down, has vile, utter contempt for you.
And the more you reject them, and you can't reject them more than saying Senator Kennedy's seat is now not yours.
You do not understand what that makes them feel.
You do not understand.
They do not have the humility to say, gee, what are we doing wrong?
They don't have that kind of humility.
They're never wrong.
They don't do anything wrong.
We are just too stupid to appreciate their brilliance.
And we really illustrate our stupidity when we take the Kennedy seat away from them.
And the governorship of New Jersey.
In Virginia, a year ago, folks, they were on the verge of getting the ring.
The ring was two centimeters away from the finger.
It was ready to be slid on there.
Little Dizzy Dean lingo.
And now the ring is on the floor and they can't find it.
And they are in an abject panic.
They are irrational to the point of being blinded to the political harm they are causing themselves by doing this.
They're that close.
They've wanted it for so long.
And by the way, the why they want it is very important too.
They want, aren't you nervous when you see an individual lusting for power?
Well, here's hundreds of thousands of these little people lusting for power.
They want their hands forever on the U.S. Treasury.
Don't rule out the fact.
Don't ignore the fact that it's all about money.
Have you ever seen a genuine Democrat leader that's a pauper doing it for the cause?
They do it for the cause.
But these people don't want to earn their money by working.
They get their money by taking.
And when you run one-sixth of the U.S. economy, and when you have whatever numbers of trillions of dollars every year coming into the town, you run from the back pockets of the working people and you get your dibs on it first before it gets sent back anywhere.
Yeah, man, that's cool.
Nowhere else in the world you can go to have access to that kind of money when you don't even have to earn it.
You can spend it and you can buy things with it for yourself and you never ever have to earn it.
What a sweet deal.
And they raise young little liberals at every level of our educational system to become just like them.
They're up against us.
We don't want government.
We don't want to have power over government.
We want to de-emphasize government.
We don't want to live in Washington.
We don't want to work in government.
We don't want to become bureaucrats.
We want to close bureaucracies.
It's an epic battle.
We stand for taking care of ourselves, personal responsibility, all of these things.
We're the ones that are said to be out of touch because of that.
Happens to me every time I mention buying something without getting the money from you to do it.
Look at this.
Charlie Cook, the esteemed, respected political consultant, makes predictions out there.
This is from Phil Klein, the American spectator.
Charlie Cook, whose Cook political report, the go-to source for reporters accessing the competitiveness of congressional races, has declared, quote, it's very hard to come up with a scenario where Democrats do not lose the House.
It is hard to come up with a scenario where Democrats don't lose the House.
They know it.
They know why.
It's called Obama, and it's called health care, and it's called debt, and it's called spending, and they're all for it, knowing full well they're going to lose the house.
They believe that before they're thrown out, they can get enough done that will essentially remake this country in ways that will be impossible to tear down for years.
It's as though they believe that they'll fly their Japanese zero into one of our aircraft carriers and survive it.
Maybe not instantly, but in a couple years, they'll be back in the cockpit of a new zero.
They're going to lose the house.
They know it.
Obama, he's not going to lose anything.
Truth be told, Obama would love to have the Republicans run one of those houses so he can blame them literally for everything that doesn't get done.
He wants to blame the Republicans now, even though there's nothing they can do, or wasn't until Scott Brown stop it.
Charlie Cook, it's very hard to come up with a scenario where Democrats don't lose the House.
Also looking at maybe nine Senate losses, nine Senate seat losses.
And it's only going to get worse the more they do this, ram something that 60% of the American people want no part of down their throats and openly cheat, break rules, change rules improperly to get it done.
Led by some of the most unpopular people the country has ever known, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Barney Frank, with Obama soon to join them.
So the only way you can understand this is to understand how much they want it and why and how close they think they are.
I don't know how, because I've never lusted for anything like this.
I don't know how to relate to wanting something for 70 years that I thought was actually attainable.
I don't have that kind of lust.
I work all my life to defend and protect the Constitution, but I would, I can't relate to people who want to tear it apart.
And I can't relate to people who get excited about how close they're getting to being able to do that.
I can't help you to understand it other than to say it's irrational.
You might play a game.
You might have fun trying to come up with something you would just love.
Imagine what in 50 years you've wanted it.
And there it is all of a sudden.
You can't quite do it yourself, but it's there to be had.
You can't do it, folks, because it's irrational.
It's entirely irrational.
Especially when you add to it that it's just another phase of everything else they've always wanted that has never worked.
Quick timeout.
I'm a little long here.
Oh!
Yeah, we're going to get some phone calls.
This is from the Arizona Republic, under growing pressure from conservatives and Tea Party activists.
Senator John McCain of Arizona is having to defend his record of supporting the government's massive bailout of the financial system, TARP.
In response to criticism from opponents seeking to defeat him in the August 24th Republican party, that would be J.D. Hayworth, I think.
He's not named here.
Four-term Senator McCain said that he was misled by the Treasury Secretary, Henry Paulson, and Ben Bernanke.
Tell me, misled on TARP, misled on the bailout.
McCain said the pair assured him that the $700 billion troubled asset relief program would focus on what was seen as the cause of the financial crisis, the housing meltdown.
But 15 months later, commercial lenders still are in shaky condition.
The commercial real estate industry is in trouble.
And he was misled.
Four terms.
That's 32 years.
32 years.
He's been on the Commerce Committee and a bunch of other committees.
Essentially, his whole adult life since having returned from Vietnam.
And he doesn't know when he's being politically hoodwinked?
32 years?
He doesn't know when he's being misled?
Huh?
Okay, we'll get to your phones here in just a second.
This is interesting.
I'm not sure of the source of this.
Senate Republicans are claiming that Democrats lack the votes right now to pass health care reform through reconciliation rules.
Although these two reporters, I'll find out where they're from in a minute here, said the Republicans' math appears to be a bit fuzzy.
Senate Republicans on Friday distributed a press release titled 18 Democrats Oppose Healthcare Reconciliation with a breakdown of each senator's statements on the issue.
18 defections is a significantly higher number than many observers believe is accurate.
Of course, media experts and observers, you know, they're always surprised.
Healthcare experts say the number is likely closer to between 8 and 12.
A Democrat leadership aide said that no one knows the real answer because Democrats have not whipped the vote count yet on reconciliation.
The Democrats are holding off on strategic decisions and how to get healthcare reform passed until after Obama's summit at the White House on Thursday.
That's what they're doing here.
They're waiting until after the summit on Thursday to whip their vote.
They probably don't have enough votes for reconciliation right now.
No question.
Now, this is very interesting here.
Assuming all Republicans reject reconciliation, 10 Democrat defections would kill the health care bill.
And that's why when the Republicans are doing the right thing, you have to continue to support them.
And they're holding firm on this.
I mentioned earlier, it was a Dana Milbank story in the Washington Post that said it's Rahm Emmanuel that's saving Obama, that he's really being ill-served by Robert Gibbs and Valerie Jarrett.
That this is a couple of groupies, essentially.
They do believe in this messianic-like transformational figure.
And so now there has been some fallout.
It's a politico.
Emmanuel is taking heat over this Milbank column.
Critics left and right are accusing Rah Emmanuel of disloyalty by proxy after a Dana Milbank column in Sunday's Washington Post defended Emmanuel and trashed reputed Emmanuel rivals Valerie Jarrett and Robert Gibbs.
There's not a shred of proof that Emmanuel fed Milbank the Rom-friendly intel included in the piece or that he was the source of a tart comparison of President Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter.
In fact, Milbank said Monday in a live chat on the Post website he didn't speak to Emmanuel for the peace.
Emmanuel's spokesman declined comment.
State-controlled media, anyone?
Somebody told Milbank that Rahm Emmanuel is saving Obama.
Somebody out there said, hey, if it weren't for rum, we already would be Jimmy Carter.
Gibbs and Valerie Jarrett, they have no idea what we're facing.
They still think Obama's his great transformational figure.
So, hey, it's not Hunky Dory inside the White House.
And look at James Lewis here in the American Thinker is Obama steering the ship of state toward the rocks.
Public policy polling, Obama's approval decline.
State-controlled Associated Press.
Liz Sadati-Ron Fournier.
Democrats worried about Obama's track record.
Democrat governors said Sunday they worry about Obama's track record fighting Republican political attacks and urged him to better connect with anxious voters.
Hey, you Democrat governors, I'm sorry, he can't.
He doesn't connect with anybody but elites and professors.
He can't connect to the average voter.
He's got nothing in common with the average voter.
Even as they raised concerns, Democrat governors insisted that the White House has started turning things around.
The stars are aligning, said Jack Markle, the governor of Delaware.
Obama thanked Republican and Democrat governors for helping stabilize the economy.
Folks, there's a story here that the economy in the States is getting worse and worse.
Exactly as I told you, slush fund money is running out.
It's going to start laying off all these public sector employees.
It's not getting better at the States.
And fast Eddie Rendell, the Pennsylvania governor, wants the White House to revamp its strategy.
It's, I mean, this, it's just a year later.
Back to the phones now.
This is Sarah in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
I'm glad you called.
Thank you so much for waiting.
Hello.
Sarah, hi.
I'm very terrified of public speaking, but somehow you inspired me to call in.
Thank you very much.
And thank you, Ms. Certainly, for allowing me to call in.
I wanted to actually just share a success story that you helped bring about.
Last October, I was pretty much liberal to the point where I didn't understand what I was doing.
I had just recently graduated from college about a year or two ago.
I didn't know much.
I'm ashamed that I didn't educate myself very much in this.
And I was really taken by some of the pretty speeches that Obama had given.
And I guess I really wanted to put a message out there for anybody else who's on their, they have the right mind, but they're on the wrong team.
So I wanted to thank a couple people, specifically you, because without you, I wouldn't have anyone to turn to for common sense news, which is what really got me.
I really cherish listening to you.
I listen to you when I exercise every day.
It's the only time I really get news.
So I only listen to yours and then maybe Fox later.
I was, for the young people like myself who are around college or just outside of college, I wanted to give them an encouraging message.
I was liberal or close to it.
I wanted to do the right thing to change things for the better.
And at the time, Obama's speeches sounded very humanitarian.
I do not think about that anymore.
I know that liberalism is not really about helping people or causes.
It's more about making everyone equal in mediocrity or dissatisfaction.
So I don't want any of the younger adults out there to let guilt drive them to make wrong choices.
And so I thank you specifically for starting me off on this journey.
I also want to thank Sarah Palin, who I got to meet at a book signing last fall.
She's a great person.
She's also another person with common sense that I can easily follow.
And then ironically, I have to thank the frauds at the Global Warming Institute because without them, they would not have catalyzed my reaction to pretty much fear and hate liberalism.
I was a supporter of global warming for a while, and I didn't know as much about it, but I did put my faith into scientists and their research.
Sarah, I can't tell you how much I've enjoyed talking to you and hearing you share with us your revelations.
I know it had to.
I mean, this had to be a slap upside the head.
I hope you're okay now.
Yeah, I misspoke.
I said McCain's four terms is 32 years.
It's 24 years.
It doesn't matter, folks.
24, 32.
If you still, if you've been in that town that long, if you can't spot, you can't tell you're being politically hoodwinked, then I don't know what.
Folks, let me get a simpler way of understanding what's going on here.
And this ought to actually be very comforting to you.
Why the liberals can't get anything done?
They're big agenda items.
I mean, they can do all kinds of things in stealth, pollute the court system and all that.
But they're really in any big puzzle here.
The liberals are a small minority of the country with an overwhelming majority of the media.
And that creates the illusion that they are a majority in the country.
And they're not.
They think they speak for the country, but they don't.
They speak to each other.
Joe Klein writes for Evan Thomas.
And F. Chuck Todd does reports for Katie Cruick.
Their audience is each other, not the American people.
I don't care if they're losing subscribers or readers or viewers because they're stupid anyway.
You're too dumb to know what they're doing and how well they're doing it.
Just like you're too stupid to understand how brilliant Obama is and all that.
All right.
By the way, that last caller, Sarah, you have to understand that's the kind of thing you live for.
Here is a young college student who just didn't even know why she was liberal, but she had every misconception about it, that it was compassionate, that it was humanitarian, that Obama was indeed something special.
She believed in global warming.
And what, in less than a year, it's all blown up.
And she wanted to call here and talk about it, and she did.
Those are the kinds, she's representative of a lot more going through this that either don't try to call or when they do try to call, they don't get through.
But we're, I mean, we are growing.
Our ranks are swelling because of people like Sarah.
I mean, here it is, folks.
This is liberalism on display, unfettered, unchecked, unstopped in Louisiana.
Well, prior to Bobby Jindal, in Detroit, in California.
I mean, wherever you look, that there's huge trouble, you're going to find liberals and unions that have been in charge and in power.
And now you've got Obama and the Democrat Party now no longer even asking George Lackoff rhymes with to help them disguise what they're doing.
They're just open about it.
And people see it.
This is why I say from now on, no Democrat or liberal ought to ever be given power again.
But they do package what they do well.
They do mask themselves well when they start getting into gear by talking about how compassionate they are and how fair they are and how mean Republicans are.
And speaking of Republicans, ladies and gentlemen, let's go back to the audio soundbites.
As you all know, the prototype Republican, according to Inside the Beltway Democrats, is General Colin Powell.
General Powell, the prototypical Republican, strategically endorsed Obama for president at a time designed to hurt McCain the most after telling us that John McCain was the perfect candidate for the Republican Party, moderate, willing to work with the Democrats across the aisle and all of that.
So General Powell was Abba Bob Schieffer, faced the nation yesterday, who said, do you think the political system is broken?
The American people, I think, see the extreme positions being taken.
Too left on the Democratic side, too far right on the Republican side.
The Tea Party movement is also now become a force in American politics.
So our system is not broken.
It's a great system, but it's in some disarray right now.
And the American people are looking for their leaders to fix it.
They're looking for the White House to fix it.
And they're looking for leaders in both the Republican Party and the Democratic Party in the House and Senate to start finding ways to compromise and get the country moving and not just scream at each other.
Okay, there we go.
The typical inside the Beltway state of mind.
When liberals are not getting what they want done, somehow the system's broken.
System isn't broken.
They're just a minority.
Small minority, but they've got a big media on their side.
So let's see here.
It's in disarray.
The American people are looking for their leaders to fix it.
They're looking for the White House.
No, General Powell, the American people understand the White House is who's breaking it.
The White House and the Democrat Party have already broken it.
We're not, we don't want them to be part of the equation.
They don't fix things.
The American people are rejecting the Democrat Party.
The American people are rejecting Barack Obama.
The Republican Party isn't doing anything.
They don't have the votes to do anything.
The next question.
Well, regardless of who is right and who is wrong, of course, see, that doesn't matter.
In the Beltway, it doesn't matter who's right or who's wrong.
Just do you agree and support liberals?
Question here.
Regardless who's right and who's wrong, the critics, especially Republicans, are having a fetal day with what's going on right now.
The CPAC conference, this is the conservative group that met in Washington this week, your fellow Republicans.
I would caution my Republican friends that he's got three years to go.
And in that three years, the American people are going to want to see some progress and not just claims that this guy's out of office and we're going to do everything to destroy him or that somehow he is a socialist taking over the country.
Have we so lost our faith in this country that we think one person, one man, can suddenly change our entire system?
That's kind of absurd.
And in fact, you're seeing through the Tea Party movement and through what the Republicans are doing that no one person can change the country that way.
Okay, so General Powell here is warning conservatives that Obama has three years left and to try to destroy him and call him a socialist is not right.
The question, I think, is not properly framed.
His question, have we lost faith in this country so that we think one person, one man, can suddenly change our entire system?
It's kind of absurd.
We have one man who's trying, and he's got a whole political party behind him, General Powell.
And right now, General Powell, I'm not sure, but I don't think you're doing anything to stop it.
I haven't heard you criticize any of this.
In fact, you said, General Powell, that this is what the American people wanted, bigger government, higher taxes.
Does it look to me like that's what they want now that they find out that's what they're going to get?
I don't see you criticizing any of this.
Got Tea Party people on his mind.
However, he's mentioned him in these two bites.
We have one more.
Schieffer said the former vice president, almost on a weekly basis, has said something about the president's putting the nation's security at risk.
He talked about dithering.
He talked about how we should still have the option of using waterboarding if necessary when we catch these guys.
Are we less safe?
Has Obama made this country less safe?
The Transportation Security Administration created by George Bush is still in action working in our airports.
The Directorate of National Intelligence was created by President Bush and it is still under President Obama working hard.
Our counterterrorism authorities and forces are hard at work.
Our law enforcement officials are hard at work.
We have gone after the enemy in Afghanistan with 50,000 more troops.
We have continued the policies that President Bush put in place with respect to Iraq.
And so I don't know where the claim comes that we are less safe.
Did I really just hear that?
So mirandizing the fruit of Kaboom bomber, bringing Khalid Sheikh Mohamed to New York and a $200 million a year for security-only trial, having this new Muslim outreach guy that spoke up in favor of Sammy Al-Aryan, who's been convicted of raising money for the Islamic Jihad while he was teaching at Florida Atlantic University or some South Florida university.
He denied that he spoke out for the guy that, oh, you know what?
I just remembered I did voucher the guy once.
Why do we need Muslim outreach?
You know, I thought Obama was the guy to do that.
The Fort Hood shooting, this lunatic professor so into Obama, and you still will not read that she's a Democrat.
Amy Bishop, we had the attempted terrorism at Fort Dix in New Jersey.
We had the routing and the death at the recruitment center in Arkansas.
What am I missing here?
We didn't have any of this stuff going on when George W.
And by the way, just because he's still got people filling these offices, we don't know if these people have the slightest clue what they're doing.
We don't know if these people think that terrorism is our fault.
The odds are they do if they're part of Obama's team.
And we deserve to be hit, General Powell.
Democrats have said that because we are stealing all the world's resources and terrorism are poor.
Terrorists are poor because of us.
And we support Israel.
They have a right to be mad.
And we should understand why they're mad.
That's the kind of people running these positions now.
This Brennan guy?
I mean, you know, a lot of people have accountants, but they steal sometimes.
Just because you got the position filled doesn't necessarily.
So, anyway, there's your prototypical Republican, General Powell.
According to the Inside the Beltway, conservative media intelligentsia.
His.
Here's another way, ladies and gentlemen.
I spent many eloquent moments in this hour, previous hour, earlier in this hour, explaining the liberal mindset, comparing them to kamikaze pilots.
Lord of the Rings, wanting something so bad, being so close to it that you lose all rationality.
Probably the best way to understand the mindset of the left and their commitment to things is a fact of information that I bet many of you do not know.
Who is the founding father of communism?
Karl Marx, exactly right.
And he worked with a guy named what?
No, Engels.
Well, Trotsky, yes, those guys were, those guys were bootlickers.
They came along later.
He worked with Friedrich Ingels.
What you do not know is that four of Karl Marx's children literally starved to death while he was researching his work on communism, running around with intellectuals like the very wealthy Friedrich Engels.
Four of Karl Marx's own children literally starved to death while he was running around putting together all the wonderful aspects of communism.
Here is Catherine in Pittsburgh.
I'm glad you waited.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hi, Rush.
It's a real honor to talk to you.
I've been waiting for some time.
I'm just thrilled to be talking to you.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
So I'm a college student in Pittsburgh, and I had the, it's an oral communications class, and a kid in my class was reading a song lyric or a song quote or whatever you want to call it from a song.
And it said, to die for your country is not honorable, and to die under the red, white, and blue isn't a good way to die.
It's not respected.
And, you know, to those types of tones.
And I said, and at the end of this presentation, everyone clapped, excluding me.
I did not clap.
And I got reprimanded for not clapping for him.
Okay.
What did the student say?
Again, I go a little slower.
It said he said, to die for the stars and stripes is not honorable.
And to die for our country is not respected.
So a student made the statement, and everybody but you applauded?
Yes.
And then what happened?
And then my teacher yelled at me.
She said, well, why didn't you applaud?
Why didn't you applaud for him?
And I said, it's disrespectful, and I don't agree with it.
And I think our country is a great place.
And, you know, and she said.
Why did she think you had to applaud just to avoid hurting the guy's feelings?
Or did she agree with this student?
I think she agreed.
Why would I even ask her?
Of course she agreed.
She's a professor at a university.
Why would I even think otherwise?
Because after that, she was after the end of the presentation, he was the last presentation.
And at the end, she stood up and she goes, very good, very, very well, very well spoken.
Okay.
Did you suffer any more than a reprimand?
Or did it stop there?
I'm not sure yet.
I haven't gotten my grade yet.
Wow.
Well, you hang in there, Catherine.
Hang it.
This is worth the reprimand.
You heard it from me.
We hear these kind of stories periodically.
Kids call from all over with the stories of what's happening inside these institutions of higher learning.
Thanks much, Catherine.
Be right back, my friend.
Karl Marx could not have been researching communism with Leon Trotsky.
Trotsky was four years old when Karl Marx died.
See, Trotsky, folks, was born in 1879, the same day as Hillary, in fact, October 26th.
Not sure if the same year.
Jury is still out on that.
Quick 21-hour break here, folks, and be right back tomorrow to do it all over again.
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