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May 21, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 21, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Okay, yeah, so it's it's uh let's see.
It's gonna be 19 through 21, not 21 through 23.
You got that, Ed?
All right, greetings, my friends, and welcome.
Well, I just got it.
Third version of the damn day.
Welcome to the EIB network El Rushbo on Friday.
Let's go.
Live from the Southern Command in Sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And you know the rules for open line Friday.
When we go to the phones, the program is all yours.
Uh, content-wise, anyway.
Monday through Thursday, that's about what I am interested in.
On Friday, it's about what you're interested in.
Even if I don't care, I'll act like I care if I can.
But as always, one thing doesn't change on Friday, and there's no kooks allowed.
If you are cook, and you know who you are, you kooks know it.
For example, a kook, somebody who thinks I give the Republican Party a pass.
Because they don't walk out of uh the joint speech yesterday with uh Senor Wensis.
And there are other kinds of cooks, and you all know who you are, and Sterling has asked me to ask you to not bother him today.
Um are you on edge in there today?
Is something uh really Snurdley informs me he's still ticked off at uh Senor Wensis and the Well, yeah, I a lot of people are.
I the the whole notion of the president of the United States sending out this this uh this little robot uh to mouth his words against the state of Arizona.
It is.
It's you know, what is what country is Obama think he's president of?
And now he's getting he's getting rid of the one counterterrorism national security guy who's any good.
And the excuse is, well, Obama says he didn't like the way the guy briefed him, which means he didn't like the truth uh that the guy was imparting.
Anyway, uh telephone numbers 800-282-2882.
If you want to be on the program today, the email address.
Yeah, it's Dennis Blair, uh, is the guy I'm talking about.
Uh he was the CIA's uh very ranking in the CIA at some point, brought into the Obama administration, uh director of national intelligence, uh, and he's gotta go.
More on that as the program unfolds before your very eyes and ears.
From the Los Angeles Times today, just right on cue.
Right on cue.
Actually, it's an AP story, but doesn't matter.
Who is discriminated against in America?
More Americans say Latinos than blacks or women.
And it is far from just Latinos who feel that way.
An AP Univision poll found that 61% of people overall said Latinos faced significant discrimination compared with 52% who said blacks face discrimination, and 50% who said women do.
The survey also underscored how perceptions of prejudice can vary by ethnicity.
While 81% of Latinos said they confronted a lot or some discrimination, a smaller but substantial 59% of non-Latinos said so.
The AP Univision poll compiled the views of 901 Latinos who were compared with the results of a separate APGFK survey on the general population.
So, right on cue, right right after Senor Wensis bashes the state of Arizona, Latinos pass blacks as the most discriminated against in America, poll.
So imagine this.
You're minding your own business, and you get a phone call.
And somebody under says, Do you think Latinos are discriminated against?
Yes or no?
Yeah.
What about blacks?
You think they're yeah.
Uh what about women?
Yeah.
You think white people are discriminated?
Hell no.
Uh uh I'm sorry, I don't even think that was asked.
What kind of polling data is this.
It's just it just keeps piling on and on and on.
It doesn't stop.
All right.
The market down 376 yesterday.
The uh the regime uh uh claimed that uh the reason for it was the good news and the employment numbers.
They keep trying to spin that as uh as good news.
Uh get this.
In a roll of the dice, Democrats moved yesterday to take up a roughly 190 billion dollar plus jobs and tax package next week, hoping to complete passage before Memorial Day and forestall threatened cuts that would affect the elderly and the unemployed, and unwieldy amalgam of state aid, infrastructure investments, tax cuts, and extended jobless benefits.
The massive bill is a sleeping giant in this political year, uniquely captures the hard choices facing a government beset by record deficits and an uncertain economy.
Sander Levin.
There's a lot of positives and no choice.
The more people think of this, the they literally realize it's a jobs bill.
We just spent over $800 billion a little over a year ago.
It has not worked.
There are no net new jobs.
There's no way anybody can suggest it it works, and so we're coming back for $200 billion more, and they're going to call this a jobs bill.
And then we've got the financial reform bill that passed the Senate.
And you know what this is like, folks?
This is uh it's it's it's it's nonsensical.
Nobody even knows what it means yet, because the Congress here has surrendered all kinds of regulatory power to the executive branch.
The Treasury Secretary and the Federal Reserve get to write the rules here.
There aren't really any specific rules in the financial reform bill.
We don't know what it's going to be.
Whatever who's running the show wants it to be.
This is one of the reasons the market was down 376 points yesterday.
So we have the same people who have been saying for who knows how long, you know, we've got to stop these cycles.
Obama said, we've got to stop these cycles.
There's a risk out of it.
The same people who've caused the cycles, they keep doing the same things over and over that repeat the cycles.
And these are the smart people.
The quasi, the so-called smart people.
State aid, unemployment and shovel themed investments now.
It didn't work the last time, so Democrats want to do it again.
And then they're going to add on the doctor fix to this.
On the spending side, the biggest single cost factor in the bill is the decision to devote close to $65 billion during the next three and a half years to uh try to stabilize Medicare reimbursements to positions.
Uh physicians.
Now, as we pointed out in a morning update, it isn't it isn't a panacea for the doctors.
Whatever the new figure is is frozen in time.
It's the same figure they get for five straight years.
Now we're cutting by definition of the Democrats.
That's a cut.
Uh so it's this is uh we don't have the money.
We just we do not have this money.
And here's the specifics on the uh on the uh expanded benefits for the unemployed people who are out of work for long stretches would get expanded unemployment benefits through the end of the year under a bill.
The Democrats plan to pass next week.
The bill would extend for a year about 50 popular tax cuts that expired in Jan.
What tax cuts?
That expired, expired, not will expire, but expired in January.
The bill would be paid for in part by tax increases on investment managers and some U.S. based multinational companies.
In response to the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the bill would increase taxes on oil companies by 10.9 billion over the next Decade to finance the oil spill liability trust fund.
Unemployment benefits.
For many people will start to run out June 2nd unless Congress acts, where they will act next week.
The bill would extend unemployment benefits for up to 99 weeks in many states at a cost of 47 billion dollars.
Money we do not have.
And as we know, uh the by the way, this is this happens to extend these unemployment benefits through the election.
Through the end of the year means through the election.
And we know that this does uh nothing to inspire people to go out and look for work.
We've read you the sad stories of people who um you know what?
I'm not gonna take that job.
I'm not I why go to the trouble of having to get up and drive to work and pay parking and uh and oh no, I'll I'll just sit here and accept my unemployment checks.
You know, call back in six weeks and so forth.
Maybe when the benefits run out at some point for me, then maybe I'll be interested.
But I'm I I'm not gonna I'm not gonna start looking for a job until my unemployment benefits run out.
The problem is when they bun out, a run out, here comes Obama to the rescue.
They're never gonna run out.
Now I have to ask a question again.
We're a year and a half in, for all intents and purposes.
We've spent $700 billion on TARP, the toxic asset relief program.
We've purchased General Motors and Chrysler.
We have spent close to a trillion dollars creating jobs.
None of it has worked from our perspective.
There is no good economic news.
Uh jobless numbers are up again as of yesterday.
It hasn't worked.
Nothing that Obama's doing is working from the standpoint of it being good for the country.
Our foreign policy is such a joke now that Turkey, Brazil, Russia, China, and Iran are laughing at us.
Just yesterday, Ahmadineizad, oh yeah, we could uh we could destroy Israel inside of a week.
Oh yeah.
And the response is, you better, you better not.
Why?
We might do sanctions on you, you better not.
I hear many people in media say as they report these kinds of stories.
I'm not going to get into motive.
That's that's for the uh that's for the uh the kooks uh kind of motive.
I'm just reporting fact.
The motive, uh, my friends is you have to understand it if you're gonna understand the depth to which we can plunge.
Because this is not naivety, this is not accidental.
This is not a bunch of theoreticians who um who are just give us time, just give us time.
We know this will work.
Our professors all of our lives have told us this.
This this the things that are being done to this country are not being done to help it.
The talk surrounding all these things is trying is is to convince people that the programs are oh, Jimmy, this this is to say that this is worse than Jimmy Carter's presidency, yes, it is worse, but that doesn't even come close to describing what we're talking about.
Jimmy Carter was a he was the bumbling stumbling fool.
These people are bumbling stumbling fools, but they know exactly what they're doing.
That's the scary thing.
They know exactly what they're doing.
They know we don't have any money.
They know that they're not creating jobs.
They know that extending unemployment benefits is not going to do anything toward job creation.
They know that they are not providing incentives for small business and corporations to create jobs.
They know they're they know all this.
I gotta take a break.
It's open line Friday, and uh if uh if if Snerdley Rummer, you're on your own here, folks, when you call it sturdily thinks you're cook, you might not make it today.
He's in that kind of mood.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
Harry Reed, dingy Harry commenting, ladies and gentlemen, on the passage in the Senate of the financial regulatory reform bill said simply the American people are saying you gotta protect us.
And we didn't back down from that, said Senator Reed.
When this bill becomes law, the joyride on Wall Street will come to a screeching halt.
And in a way he probably doesn't intend, he's probably right.
This financial regulatory reform law has a good chance of driving a lot of businesses out of this country, which means driving capital out of this country.
Democrats like Dick Durbin, Illinois, say this bill hearkins back to FDR.
This is what FDR did.
Same kind of extraordinarily wonderful, miraculous measures that FDR took after the stock market crash in 1929.
He's probably right too.
And what happened there was that the depression was extended for 15 years because of what FDR did.
And you know, the depression has two components to it.
The second component of the Great Depression, starting in 1929, was a collapse of European markets.
A collapse of European countries' economies.
It wasn't just the stock market crash here.
That was the first segment of the two segments.
You should see it on a on a chart and a graph.
The Great Depression had its life extended by virtue of the legislation Durbin's referring to here that FDR imposed on banks, financial institutions, coupled with a collapse in Europe.
It is eerie.
It is eerie.
And back then FDR and everybody said we got to do this to prevent another crash.
We have to do this to prevent another stock market crash.
We can't keep having these crashes.
We've got to stop this.
And so we keep doing it.
We're doing the same type of people who believe the same kinds of things, keep implementing the same kinds of policies, claiming that we got to stop what's happening.
They're the ones causing it.
Now it's gone global.
Now we got the UN and European people talking a global tax on banks.
And so forth.
It wasn't enough, ladies and gentlemen, to uh take measures to make the United States appear to be rock solid.
No, no, no, no.
Now we've got to extend this around the world.
We're bailing out Europe.
The German, the German parliament today voting for another trillion dollars.
It isn't working.
It never has worked.
And yet the smart people, the elitists, keep doing the same things over and over again.
And they tell us, well, it may not have worked in the past, but that's because the wrong people were implementing the ideas.
We're now the right people.
Finally, we're the ones we've been waiting for.
Now the truly smart people are in charge, and it's going to be fair.
Everything's going to be fair.
We're going to end unfairness.
We're going to end inequality in uh in economic matters.
And it's going to be a disaster.
This is this is this this legislation is not going to stop any financial scams.
What it'll do will be allow more uh government benefits to be showered on favored financial firms who make the right political contributions.
That's the idea of this.
It's uh as I look at this, I'm really stunned.
People go to Washington to have power.
That's what they're there for.
To spend money to get re-elected.
Yet, this financial regulatory reform bill, authored by one of the architects of the current financial melee as we are in, Chris Dodd, and Chris Dodd and Barney Frank having joint press conference today celebrating this.
I mean, this is these are the people that caused this, particularly the Sun Pride Mortgage Crisis.
They know nothing more about what they're doing than if you were called up there to fix the financial system.
You probably know more than they do, because you're probably more oriented toward free market fixes Rather than government control fixes.
So what's going to happen here?
They have surrendered power.
Members of Congress have turned over the actual lawmaking or the rule writing for this bill to executive branch officials, Treasury Secretary, Federal Reserve.
And everybody says, well, we're going to end too big to fail.
No, it's just the exact opposite.
They're going to have the authority and the power to bail out whoever they want based on political considerations.
This is a huge amalgamation of power in the executive branch, but it's been surrendered to them by Democrats in Congress.
Somebody is going to have to explain this to me.
I have my own theories that the agenda and changing this country and making it right for once is a bigger idea and a more important thing to do than holding on to individual little thiefdoms of power.
Meeting and surpassing all audience expectations every day.
That's me, open line Friday, 800-282-2882.
New York Times is not happy today.
Story written by Charlie Savage.
The House Armed Services Committee has dealt a major blow to President Obama's hopes to shut down the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
By unanimously, unanimously, that means every Democrat voted to keep it open.
Unanimously approving legislation that would prohibit creating a detention center inside the United States.
Now, what happened?
What happened to this brilliant job creating idea to send the detainees to prison not being used right now in Illinois?
That was Dick Durbin's idea, and remember, oh yeah, there's going to be a lot of jobs out there.
It won't be any problem having these people.
Now all of a sudden, out of nowhere, the House Armed Services Committee has voted unanimously to approve legislation that would prohibit creating a detention center inside the United States.
Late Wednesday, the House Committee unanimously approved a defense bill for 2011 that bans spending money to build or modify any facility inside the United States to house Guantanamo detainees, according to a summary of the bill.
It says the committee wants to see a thorough and comprehensive plan that outlines the merits, costs, and risks associated with utilizing such a facility.
No such plan has been presented to date.
The bill uh prohibits the use of any funds for this purpose.
Now, the cynic in me says this was always going to be the case.
The cynic and me, and I could go back and we can get the audio archives where I told you folks they're never going to close Guantanamo Bay.
They're not going to shut it down.
All of this is just a bunch of PAP BS, loose lips, in order to satisfy the kook fringe that is the Obama base.
They're not going to close it, and they're not going to bring detainees to the United States.
They're not going to maybe Khalid Sheikh Muhammad, but that's it.
So every aspect of this was a lie.
Where's Durban today?
Durban ought to be outraged.
So should every politician from Illinois who told us what a great job creator moving those detainees to a new prison in Illinois would be.
But now, not only can they not move them to Illinois, they can't move them anywhere.
And I'm here to tell you, this was the game plan all along.
They were never going to close it.
That first day in office, the executive order.
What are we doing here, Greg?
Oh, we're closing that guant one year from now.
What happened to that executive order?
What happened to that?
Well, the guy who wrote it is unceremoniously dumped or moved somewhere else, Greg Craig.
He's gone.
Well, I'd like to be a fly insect wandering around these fringe kook left-wing website control stations today.
I mean, This is one of the main reasons they voted for Obama.
So they thought torture was going on down there.
Speaking of torture.
Speaking of torture, outside the White House, Barney Frank, Banking Queen, had a press conference with uh with Chris Dodd after meeting with Obama about financial regulation reform.
And this is what Barney Frank said.
In addition to putting rules in place, we've empowered the regulators going forward.
In fact, we have instructed the regulators going forward and given them principles so that they will be able to deal with new phenomena.
This is not a static bill.
This is a framework that allows for appropriate innovative regulation going forward.
That's exactly what I told you.
The regulators, executive branch people.
They can do whatever they want.
They set the rules in this.
It's just a framework.
appropriate innovative regulation to destroy whoever they want to destroy and in the other white comedian paul shanklin A vocal portrayal there as Barney Frank, Massachusetts.
From my radio show archive, January 16th, 2009.
This is before Obama was immaculated.
January 16, 2009 was right about the time I first went public and said, I hope he fails.
Here is what I said, January 16, 2009, a full five days before the immaculation of Obama.
Don't deal in things that aren't real.
Don't get yourself worked up about something that isn't going to happen.
We have real things to get worked up about here, but closing Gitmo isn't going to happen.
It is not going to happen.
It's not going to happen.
He's not going to close Gitmo.
January 6th, 2009.
Since we're talking about Gitmo and foreign policy, this foreign policy is worse than Senor Wences.
Coming here and denouncing our own laws and our own states.
Obama's foreign policy is blame America.
It's not just a disgrace, but it's a total failure.
Everything the man is doing is an abject failure from our perspective, our perspective being, is it good for the country?
Now it's it's understandable, folks, to reach the boiling point when a guest of the United States insults the United States while being honored in the United States.
Senor Wensis.
Felipe Corderon, the Mexican president, insulted the United States, insulted the state of Arizona while being honored by Barack Obama and the Democrats in the United States.
And it's understandable to reach the boiling point or to bounce off the walls when our president listens to the insults and says, Amen.
And it is understandable to want to put your fist through the TV when you see Democrats in Congress, our Congress, give him a standing ovation when he does this.
But that's just the least of it.
Obama's foreign policy, apologize for America, blame America, criticize America, is not only a disgrace, it is not working.
It is failing.
In fact, it is so bad it is back firing.
Okay, you you tell me.
Is it working in the Middle East?
Are we handling Iran or are they handling us?
The last time I saw, there was a big picture with raised hands as though it was an election victory night with Ahmadini Zad, Lulu from Brazil, and the Prime Minister of Turkey, celebrating over the fact that Iran was going to be exporting uranium to those two countries.
And the Chicoms and the Russians are in on the deal, too.
They're very happy.
Are we getting the support of other nations or is Iran?
Key nations like Brazil and Turkey are supporting Iran, not the United States.
So right now it's Iran too, Obama Zero.
And uh how are we doing with our allies?
Uh is Britain still talking to us?
Germany's still talking to us, France still talking to us.
I mean, here we give a state dinner for a puppet.
Mexico to come in and criticize, falsely accuse us of human rights violations and discrimination, violating our core values, bashing the state of Arizona.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister of Israel shows up and is lectured.
And given three hours while Obama goes to dinner to change his mind on these settlements in Jerusalem.
I'm sorry, our kuds.
Al Kuds, the Islamist preference in pronouncing Jerusalem as uttered by John Brennan, counterterrorism chief.
It seems the only foreign land that Obama's policy is working is the nation of journalists, the left wing nation of journalists.
Seems to be the only place it's working.
Well, I don't even think they like us.
It's been positive that the world likes us, but they don't respect us anymore.
They never have liked us.
They feared us.
Our enemies, that's what we cared about.
Our enemies feared us.
Now they no longer fear us.
In addition to not liking us, now they're laughing at us.
I famously said that I hoped Obama would fail.
Well, his foreign policy has.
When does America demand Plan B?
What is Plan B gonna be?
Plan A was apologizing for America.
Plan A included criticizing America.
What's plan B?
Apologizing for individual states?
Maybe we are already into plan B of the Obama foreign policy.
And then what's plan C gonna be?
When's he gonna start apologizing for St. Louis?
When's he gonna start apologizing for Memphis?
When's he gonna start apologizing for Dallas?
When's he gonna stop criticizing and apologizing the United States?
What country does he think he is president of?
Okay, it's open line Friday.
How are you doing in there, Snerdly on the um?
No kooks.
No co now that's that's interesting.
Snurdley thinks there haven't been any kooks.
What happens if I think one of these people on the phones is a kook?
Do you want to know?
Do you want to know if I think all right?
Well, let's see what's out there.
Indianapolis.
Jason, you're up first today on Open Line Friday.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
How are you doing?
Very well.
I uh actually on that poll that Univision AP poll uh they called and um it was clear through the poll that uh they either wanted you to make yourself out to be uh three hugging hippie or a far left wing uh militant activist.
Um but they actually ended up um I got a call from an AP reporter earlier this week, and there's they quoted me in the story that he put up on the AP website.
And um interestingly enough, he left out um the pieces that would have sort of impugned his um point of view.
Uh, right below my quote, he actually misrepresents Arizona law and says that it requires um state law enforcement officers to check the status of Hispanics, the legal status of Hispanics.
Now I'm looking for your I only have one page of the story.
I generally only paid uh print out one page of the story, and uh who called you?
You say you participated in the poll.
Who called you?
Well, the poll was was done by AP, and it was a week or two ago.
I can't remember for sure.
I spent 45 minutes on the phone with a two, they did two.
There was AP Univision, and there was AP GFK.
Now Univision surveyed Latinos.
APGFK surveyed the general population.
Yeah, it must have been that one then.
Okay, so but I'm the it's a one page story.
Um my quote is I don't know, two, three paragraphs down.
It's just a small little thing about how I'm the lawn care specialist and I work with Hispanics.
Um, and that you know, he was shocked that I didn't think there was much discrimination against Hispanics, but I told him, you know, that people that I work with and the clients that we work for don't treat them any differently than anybody else.
You know, here's my question about this.
Um by the way, great answer.
Uh my question, if if if America is so racist, if we are so racist and discriminatory against Hispanics, if we're so terrible on human rights issues, why do they all want to come here?
Would somebody splain that to me?
And then once they get here, if we are so damned racist against Hispanics, if we're so discriminatory against Hispanics, if we are so terrible on human rights issues, after they have gone through all the hell it takes to get here, then why do they stay?
Why do they fight so hard against being sent back home?
If this place is as rotten as the AP and Univision want us to believe, if the majority, the Latinos are the most discriminated against people in the country, why do they want to come here, folks?
And then when they get here, why do they want to put up with all that?
Why do they want to stay?
Why do they fight so hard?
To avoid being sent home.
Well, the fact of the matter is the whole story here is bupkus.
The whole thing is BS.
It's not news, it's a poll used to make news.
It's just like these attacks now on Rod or uh Rand Paul uh as as a racist.
Believe me, this is not about Rand Paul.
This is an attempt to tar and feather the entire Tea Party movement.
Make no mistake about it.
Back after this.
We were told during the campaign 2008, Barack Obama would be the first post-racial, post-partisan president of the United States.
Let me tell you what he is.
Barack Obama is the first post-American president of the United States.
Believes in all this transparency.
Has he has he talked to the governor of Arizona yet, Jan Brewer?
Has he spoken to her yet?
Oh no, no, can't do that.
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