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Feb. 24, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 24, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Hi, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
I am Rushland Boy, and this is the Excellence in Broadcasting Network, a network named after the daily performance characteristics and capabilities of the host.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program and the email address LRushbo at EIBnet.com.
Now, just to close the loop on this, this is a commentary by James Dellingpole in the UK Telegraph today.
And just an excerpt here.
What this is, it's an article on that crook, that greedy crook, Pachari from India, who ran the IP, or runs the IPCC, the UN's climate panel, and how he got rich ruining the last steel plant in Britain, and how the mainstream media in Britain has tried to quash that story.
It's a comment.
I don't want to read the whole thing until you prints out to five pages, but it has this little excerpt.
Meanwhile, our prospective next prime minister, David Cameron, has come up with a wizzo new scheme to make our inflated electricity bills even more painful than before.
He said we need to apply gentle social pressure on people to bring down their energy use.
So, let's do just as they're doing in California.
We will make each energy bill come with an illustration of how much energy people's neighbors are using in comparison to their own usage, inspiring them to consume less in competition.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's what you Brits need to do, is start copying our first failed state, California.
Let me tell you what's going to happen.
I'm going to make a prediction to you people in the UK, and I know you're out there, and I know you're listening here on your internet connections.
If you do this, if you attach your neighbor's usage of electricity to your electric bill, you're going to cause riots in the neighborhood because of the mindset that's been established that humans are destroying the planet and that we are wasting all of our great resources.
You wait.
You get a bill that shows somebody down the street from you is using twice as much as you, and you're going to go down there and you're going to commit violence, or you're going to commit vandalism, or you're going to organize the other people in the neighborhood to organize against this person that's using so much more than you are.
It's not going to cause this guy to go use less in a competitive.
This is where liberals do not understand human behavior in any way, shape, manner, or form.
They believe that if you put everybody's electric bill usage on your bill, in your neighborhood, that you'll start a competition to see who can use less.
That's not natural.
That's not what we're...
The Republican Party, it's the same as any other political party out there.
Spend and spend and spend.
Debt, debt, debt.
Screwbush.
You put your neighbor's bill on your bill.
I'm guaranteeing you, you do it in this country.
You're going to end up with wars inside neighborhoods over people using too much.
Now, I'm following a couple governors, as you know, on this program.
We're following Chris Christie in New Jersey, and we're covering Bob McDonnell in Virginia.
And this is from Politics Daily.
Virginia's new Republican governor, Bob McDonnell, has ambitious plans for his state.
He wants to put young Virginians back to work.
He wants to make Virginia the first East Coast state to drill offshore for oil and to compete with California to become the wine capital of the United States.
McDonnell made these points in his keynote address, the inaugural conference of the American Action Forum, which its website calls a new voice for center-right ideas and action.
With jobs as the focus of the conference, the governor said that the scariest unemployment statistic we face is the hidden unemployment that is masked by Virginia's official jobless rate.
According to BLS, Virginia's employment unemployment rate in 2009, 6.6%, but taking into account discouraged, marginally attached, and underemployed workers, Virginia's overall unemployment rate was 12%, nearly double the official rate last year.
The jobs problem goes deeper than many people suspect.
McDonnell won a landslide victory in November.
He ran on the slogan, Bobs for Jobs.
So offshore.
What is basically here?
What's McDonald talking about?
Oil, wine, jobs.
You see how it works?
Produce things.
He's not talking about, oh, we're in such bad shape.
We need more unemployment benefits.
Oh, God, no, we need some already projects to rebuild roads.
He's not talking about that.
He's talking about oil, wine, jobs, producing things.
Make jobs.
Not jobs bills, but actual jobs.
And then, of course, we go to Chris Christie.
And this is from a blog of Dan Serucci, blog spot.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, this is yesterday, signed a sweeping executive order directing a comprehensive review of all state authorities, boards, and commissions, taking immediate action to reform abusive fiscal practices at those authorities, boards, and commissions by strictly limiting the hiring of lobbyists, eliminating golden parachutes to departing executives and employees, and capping travel expenses at $250.
Executive Order 15 also institutes a wide review of all state authorities, requires recommendation by May 15th on whether each such authority, board, or commission should continue to cease or exist.
In the case of those that continue, the review would further determine whether positions at such entities should be compensated in any way or operate on a strictly volunteer basis.
So this guy is rolling up both sleeves.
He's putting on the overalls and he is getting into the muck that is the state of New Jersey's fiscal situation and he's going to fix it.
And this guy McDonald in Virginia is doing the same thing.
But I don't know, folks.
I don't really know if this, these, what the hell am I talking?
See how easy I get fooled.
These guys are Republicans and they're no different than them.
What the hell?
I'm sorry.
I'm so embarrassed.
I just wasted your time praising those two guys and what they're doing.
And they're no different than Democrats.
Oh, geez.
Nearly 25.
Let's get back to some real news.
25% of all mortgages are now underwater.
More bad news on the housing bust front.
25% of all mortgage borrowers are underwater, meaning they owe more on their loans than their homes are worth.
Yeah, you know, yo, you know this, thirdly?
You know this personally.
I got to tell you a little story here, folks.
One of our staffers had to go to a local government office today.
I don't care what for.
I don't remember what for, but there were a long line, an hour and a half wait, and there were signs all over the place.
Sorry, you have to wait along because the legislator has cut our funds and we've had to reduce death.
So people are waiting.
And I was told people from all walks of life in there.
You have various levels of affluence and various levels of Middle class, lower middle class people.
And somewhere in the middle of this, one person started complaining about being underwater in his house.
And everybody in the room.
Now, remember, this is a Democrat county.
Everybody in the rooms.
Yeah, me too.
From every walk of life, my house is worthless.
I'm thinking of walking out of it.
Everybody.
I mean, this, we're talking lots and lots of people, an hour and a half's worth of waiting in line, people.
So I asked when this staffer told me the story.
I said, well, now, were they mad at Obama?
Some of them are, but it was the government, the government, they said they were going to help us and they haven't helped us.
They were going to fix it.
They haven't fixed it.
The government was just, everybody was ripping the government.
I sort of just smiled because right now the government's Obama.
And the Republicans, they suck too.
And greetings.
Welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh serving humanity simply by showing up.
I got an email.
Dear Rush, you're being hacked.
Every once in a while, we hear a buzzer, and then your voice starts degrading the Republicans.
We'll look into that.
Try this headline.
Cash-strapped Los Angeles going after unlicensed dogs.
The city council voted yesterday to have two departments share information in order to track down people who have not licensed their pets.
Council President Eric Garcetti estimates that two-thirds of the city's dogs are unlicensed.
Licenses cost $15 for a sterilized dog and $100 for an unaltered pet.
Now, you know, this is all good.
Wow, $100, they're going to find you $100 if you don't license your unaltered pet.
What about all the unaltered people in California?
And look at, they seem to know exactly how many dogs are unlicensed, but they can't give us a relatively close number on the number of illegals that are in Los Angeles.
Here's Neil in Matthews, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Hey.
Hey, you talked about ABC slicing 20% of their redundancy off, and then you talked about some people that weren't laying anybody off like Fox News.
Well, there's somebody else that's not laying anybody off.
It's the federal government not laying anybody off.
Oh, no, they're ramping up.
They're hiring.
Yeah, they're hiring.
In fact, they got a new, that leader of the panel put together a new program.
It's called a RAP program, R-A-P, Redundancy Acceleration Program.
It's in an effort to put Americans back to work.
Well, you know, I saw something.
I saw something funny the other day.
Remember those blizzards that went in there and shut down Washington for three or four days?
The whole place shut down.
And they said non-essential people didn't have to show up.
Nobody showed up.
Which was a tantamount admission that they're all unessential.
And by the way, did the country survive?
By the way, they're getting a new one.
New York, they keep ramping this up.
May get 10 inches as a winter storm warning or watch starting tonight through Friday in New York, tonight through Thursday in Washington to Passaic, New Jersey.
Michael, glad you called.
You're on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Mega Ditto's Rush.
I just got to tell you, I was driving across town to Manhattan today, blasting my radio with you on.
Just letting your message resonate.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, sir.
With the windows down.
Absolutely.
Well, you're a passenger and driver's side.
Thank you.
That had to be fun.
It was a lot of fun.
The looks were priceless.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
I don't believe this.
I'm sorry, but the Toyota CEO just arrived in the hearing room, and he's been.
I thought he's being attacked by a swarm of insects.
It's more photographers than I have ever seen, inches from this guy's face, slapping pictures with the flash going off and so forth.
Oh, man.
Guy's got a translator thing.
I guess he doesn't speak English.
This is Mr. Toyota.
Okay, I'm sorry to interrupt you there, Michael.
I thought he's being, I thought Clarence Thomas was up there, something being attacked.
Not a problem.
I just wanted to make a point.
You know, my wife's a teacher in the state of New Jersey, and she was laid off after the last school year.
There were about 40 teachers laid off in her particular district.
And instead of the mood being everybody running looking to find their next job, it's really everybody sort of, you know, happy with all the compensation that comes their way and how the impetus to get back to work is really lost.
It's actually, it's almost like winning a lottery of some sort.
You mean unemployment compensation benefits?
That's right.
And how they, you know, every couple of months you get a letter in the mail extending unemployment, extending COVID subsidies.
Yeah, I know.
And Dingy Harry announced, I think, yesterday that he's going to go for an extension again of unemployment benefits all the way through December.
It's in the jobs bill.
It's in the jobs, unemployment compensation extension through December in the jobs bill.
Voted, voted for, by the way, by another worthless Republican, Scott Brown.
Now, I'm looking here at these Japanese Toyota execs, and I would love to know what's going through their heads right now as they're sitting there being grilled by a bunch of corrupt thieves that are defined as U.S. congressmen and women.
I would love to know what is in there.
I would love to know what they are really thinking.
I would love to be a cartoonist and just start putting little bubbles above them with words in there about what they're really thinking.
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Here is Dennis in Denver.
You're next on the program, sir.
It's great to have you here.
Thank you very much.
I've got a very simple question that I would love your opinion on.
Sure.
Does the president and Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and anybody that wants to support the health care bill and its current incarnations realize if they ram it down the American public's throat that they are declaring war on the American public, or do you think they realize it and really don't care?
I think it's a little bit of both.
I think when you're talking about Democrats, war is a little strong, but I know what you mean.
They hold us in contempt.
The fact they haven't been able to pass it, they blame on us.
They blame on the Tea Party people, which they call teabaggers.
They blame it on the stupid people in this country who listen to talk radio and read blogs.
They think, and look at Joe Klein said it recently.
Bill Maher said it on Larry King.
You people are just too stupid to understand all the great things and the issues the Democrats are trying to do.
And because your stupidity is standing in the way of their achieving it, they have contempt for you.
So they're in a sense declaring war, but they also don't care.
It's patently obvious.
They're willing to lose the house over this.
I travel around the country.
I'm an over-the-road truck driver, and I see what their actions have done to this point, and it is dismal out here, to say the least.
You talk about the job market and the economy overall, or you talk about people's attitudes.
Yes.
Just all of that.
I mean, when you look at a warehouse section in L.A. that a year and a half ago was completely full, and you go in there now and it's 80 to 90% empty and just the people's attitude and, you know, it's unbelievable.
I've never believed I would see something like this in my lifetime.
Well, you are, and it's not just you.
A lot of people, it's just like, it's like the story I just recently told about my staffer.
After I told the story, the staffer added something else.
And that is, in addition, every one of these people complaining about their house being worthless, there being no help.
They thought the government, Obama, was going to fix all this and fixing nothing.
And then they asked, and there's no jobs.
And they started, there's no jobs.
And they were mad at the government.
That's Obama.
Look, I think it's even worse.
I know that Obama has no experience.
I know he has no executive experience.
I know not one member of his administration has spent any time in the private sector as an employee or as a manager.
And I know he's been educated to think the country is unjust and immoral as it's been founded.
just the fact that they keep piling mistake after mistake after mistake on this makes it more and more difficult for me to believe that this is not purposeful and that if you want to talk about if if people start to think that if people start to think this is being done on purpose for whatever reason then there is going to be in november an uprising
There's not a dime's worth of difference between the Republicans and Democrats.
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Get this.
Hillary Clinton has finally explained why our allies hate us.
Now, you probably thought that our allies hated us because Bush was stupid, couldn't talk, and fought an unnecessary war in Iraq against a man who did not deserve to be thrown out of office, Saddam Hussein, right?
No, you are wrong.
Hillary appeared before Congress today and she explained that the reason we are hated is domestic policy.
Domestic policy is what has hurt us abroad.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is complaining that domestic political battles are hurting the president's foreign policy goals and damaging America's image abroad.
I'm not making this up and I'm not teasing you.
Hillary Clinton was testifying before a congressional committee on Wednesday when she said fights between the White House and Congress had led to gridlock in appointing officials to critical positions, including those with key foreign policy and international assistance responsibilities, which has created confusion among friends and allies.
So you see, the fights between the White House and Congress have created gridlock that's making our allies hate us.
Therefore, to translate this, it's the Republicans who are standing in Obama's way of his brilliant foreign policy, his brilliant domestic policy.
Republicans are standing in the way is why the world hates us again.
This is psycho, folks.
This is the same page in a playbook with a couple of editorial changes.
I am not making this up.
It's the Republicans.
And don't forget, the Republicans can't stop anything.
They're not going to get health care in the House because they don't have enough Democrats to vote for it this time.
They do not.
Murtha is gone.
Abercrombie is leaving.
Remember, they only had three votes more than they needed.
They had 218.
They needed 215.
Murtha's gone.
He's not been replaced.
Neil Abercrombie of Hawaii is retiring.
Oh, yeah, Cow the Republican.
He's not voting for it this time.
He was the Republican that did in Louisiana.
If you do the math right now, it does not look like they've got the votes.
And Stupek, Stupex not going for it.
He says there's a lot of guys not going for it along with him, not just because of the abortion stuff, but because they don't even know what they're doing yet.
It's going to be implemented in 2018, and they don't understand the reason they've got to do this now.
Well, they do understand it.
They have to fall on their sword for Obama.
They're not going to say so publicly.
It's all about giving Obama something to run for re-election.
It's all about him, and they're starting to resent this.
Folks, I have to tell you something.
I'm watching, this looks like a war crimes trial with these Japanese Toyota execs before an august committee of the U.S. Congress.
I mean, Ras Musson, the latest approval numbers for Congress, 10%.
Now, we are making a mistake by broadcasting pictures that look like, well, for what they are, we are shaming these Japanese Toyota execs.
We are publicly humiliating these guys.
And the Democrats are doing this for pure political posturing.
And this is a mistake.
You talk about, this is a foreign policy blunder to be handling this situation this way.
This is not to shame these people like this.
There are a lot of Toyotas on the road in this country because people like them.
There are a lot of Lexuses on the road in this country because people like them.
A lot of Nissans on the road here.
People like Toyota-made products.
And to shame them this way is not...
You talk about not enhancing our image around the world.
This, this does not look good because these guys haven't done anything to us except they have done something to the Democrats.
They don't have UAW employees.
That's what this is really all about.
John Boehner was with Megan Kelly on Fox this afternoon about Republicans going up to this healthcare summit tomorrow.
This was the question of two, first of two.
When I listen to you talk, I think to myself, all right, so nothing's going to get done.
It sounds like nothing new will take place at tomorrow's summit.
He'll say that what he's been saying, and you're going to say what you've been saying.
I guess we're going to have to see.
I can't predict what's going to happen tomorrow, but the president invited the Republicans and Democrats to come to the White House.
I think Republicans need to go.
I don't see any reason to allow the president to have a six-hour infomercial about his bill.
It's theater.
It's nothing more than theater.
It's more talk.
So the next question, well, one Democrat source came out today, predicted this would be a, quote, career-ending vote for those who vote yes in favor of the bill that winds up coming out of the House or Senate.
A Democrat source said that anyone voting yes is ending their career.
Do you agree?
I do.
This is an issue far beyond any issue that I've seen during my legislative career.
An issue that all Americans understand and have some feelings about.
And after everything I've seen over the last six or seven months, the American people have been very loud and very aggressive about how bad this bill is and the fact that we've got all these entitlement programs that are going broke, and here they are wanting to create a new entitlement program that's going to cost a trillion dollars right at the beginning.
That we don't have.
Says John Boehner on Fox this afternoon, Bill about this in Beaumont, Texas.
Welcome, sir, to the Rush Limbaugh program.
Bill, are you there?
Yes, I am.
Well, welcome to the program, sir.
Thank you very much.
By the way, I wanted to tell you that she really has the great moves at the pageant.
I did one of the – oh, the dancing at the pageant.
Yes, won the judges' dance contest.
Absolutely.
Thank you.
You did good.
I wanted to just, I mean, it's a perfect timing.
I wanted to follow up with this thing that Boehner did that you just did from Boehner.
Yeah.
You know, it's, I mean, I get the feeling that everybody is just hoping that the Republicans, that here we go, the Republicans are going to a nice little party up at the Blair House.
I hope as a Republican, independent, as a conservative, my more than wish, my demand of the Republican Party and the people that represent us in Washington is that they have been rehearsing, that they have been playing out the scenarios, that they have been figuring.
I mean, these guys are pros at this.
This is what they do for a living.
They know what's going to happen.
They know what Obama's going to, you know, what his generally how his game plan is going to run.
What do you think he's going to do?
What do you think Obama's going to do?
I don't know, but I think it's pretty clear what he's going to do.
He's got a plan.
He's going to say this is it, and he's going to try to start the negotiation with this thing that he's produced, this outline that he's produced.
And I think that it's really, I hope that our Republican representatives have prepared their version of what they would like to see.
And I hope they go in there and they're tough.
They don't take, they don't do what's politically correct.
They do what's necessary to convey the position of the conservatives in this country.
This is a very, very, this is, it's just insanity that we're talking about having this, adding the kind of money to our deficit that this bill will add under any circumstances.
Well, be it for the good of 31 million people that aren't covered by health care or anything else.
This country is going down the tube.
And I want to go financially.
I mean, this is the greatest country in the world.
We've got the greatest people.
I just can't say enough positive things about the citizens of the United States.
Look, here's what this is all about.
And the answer can be found in what I just told you.
Congressional approval is 10%.
Obama wants to shift the blame for this not getting done to Congress, not him.
That's what this is about tomorrow.
The Republicans and Democrats both know there's not going to be anything come out of this summit tomorrow that's going to end up as a piece of legislation that a majority of Congress or the Senate will vote for.
This is an attempt.
Obama is going to say.
I listened to what the Republicans said.
I put some things in there that they want.
This is a fully bipartisan.
He's going to say it.
He knows he's got an echo chamber to repeat it.
Republicans are going to be on defense.
No, no, no.
We don't, you know, the things we wanted are not in there.
I don't know how they're going to handle it.
But I know what the objective is.
And the objective is to shift blame to them and take the heat off of the Democrats.
The only problem with that is that a lot of Democrats like Stupak are out there saying they want no part of it anyway.
So I think the whole thing is a joke.
It's theater.
This is where Obama thinks he shines.
It's an attempt to raise his poll numbers.
Six hours here?
Six hours of Obama in campaign mode?
That's the way they're looking at this.
The Republicans know what they're getting into.
They're just like Democrats.
How could they not know?
Back we are, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone here at the Limbaugh Institute.
Because the ChiComs sold off a bunch of T-bills the other day, the Japanese are now the largest holders of our debt.
And this does not look good shaming these Toyota guys up there.
And I'll bet the ChiComs don't like a bunch of Asian guys being shamed like this.
And it looks to me like, I mean, folks, the Democrats running this show and the debt, we're looking at the board of directors of GM and Chrysler, essentially, this committee, grilling these Toyota executives.
And the Democrats are always looking for guidance from some of their respected elders in circumstances where it's not clear what the next course of action should be.
I wonder if some of these Democrats are asking themselves as they listen to these Toyota guys, what would FDR do?
What would FDR do?
Let's listen to a little bit of this.
This is Akeo Toyota speaking broken English to show respect to the board of directors of GM and Chrysler.
I'd first like to state that I love cars as much as anyone.
And I love Toyota as much as anyone.
I'm here with my Toyota family of dealers, front team members, and friends.
I take that most pleasure in offering vehicles that our customers love.
And I know that Toyota's 200,000 team members, dealers, and suppliers across America feel the same way.
However, in the past few months, our customers have started to feel uncertain about the safety of Toyota's vehicle.
And I take full responsibility for that.
Now, this is what these guys know they have to do in front of American congressional committees, particularly this committee, the board of directors for GM and Chrysler.
They have to go up there, they have to admit mistakes.
They have to tell them, they have to Americans love.
These guys love this.
They got to go up there and just explain how dirty rotten they were.
Today, I would like to explain to the American people, as well as our customers in the U.S. and around the world, how seriously Toyota takes the quality and safety of its vehicle.
I myself, as well as Toyota, am not perfect.
At times, we do find defects, but in such situations, we always stop, strive to understand the problem, and make changes to improve further.
In the name of the company, it's long-standing tradition and pride.
We never run away from our problems or pretend we don't notice them.
Now, next, by way of one more bite to go, and this is the Pierce de Résistance.
This is a comment tailored to appease Democrats.
They're basically blaming capitalism.
They just grew too fast.
Toyota has, for the past few years, been expanding its business rapidly.
Quite frankly, I fear the pace at which we have grown may have been too quick.
So they're up there, they're groveling.
They know the drill.
They understand what they have to do in order to get out of there and get home.
Remember, the Democrats in that committee, always seeking guidance from their heroes, asking themselves, what would FDR do in this situation?
I just want to remind you folks, I was sneezing yesterday.
I was coughing.
I felt stuffed up.
And I grabbed my trusty Zycam, sprayed it in there.
I am no sneezes today, no blowing the nose.
You people watching on the Ditto Camp saw this.
This is a new oral spray.
It's a breath spray too, four times an amount, three times a day, or every three hours.
I swear this Zycam stuff is magic.
Now, this poor old Toyota guy has to go up there and say, perhaps we grew too fast.
And the Democrats, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, too much capitalism.
You grew too fast.
How come that's never said about government?
Why is it never said that government is growing too fast?
And that's a problem.
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