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July 16, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 16, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
A very happy Friday to everyone.
Mark Davis of WBAP Dallas Fort Worth, proud Limbaugh affiliate since oh, I don't know, mid-90s.
And it's great to be with you.
As I occasionally amid the other fill-in guys, all of us are very honored to fill in when Rush needs a day or a week or whatever off.
Uh rush back on Monday, and I'm just glad to be with you here today on what would be open line Friday.
Uh but you know, but I mean, open line Friday to me is a rush thing.
Uh we're not going to fire off the big open line Friday sounder.
I sort of conduct my whole life like that anyway.
So presume that the Open Line Friday rules are exactly as they would be, even though Rush isn't here and I am.
So again, Mark Davis and Dallas Fort Worth at WBAP, how are you?
I hope your week's been good.
What a talk show week it has been, and the usual open line Friday notion of uh and honestly, here's here's here's the deal.
I've got stuff stacked up to offer you, and I know there's stuff in your brain that you'd like to offer the Rush Limbaugh Show.
So do it.
1-800-282-2882, bring it, and uh we'll put you through the uh not so arduous screening process, and you'll do some of the heavy lifting, and I'll do some.
We'll get through three hours, have a great time, get into the weekend, and rush is back on Monday.
Sound good?
Good, let's do it.
We have uh an amazing week to look back on the NAACP versus the Tea Partiers to the uh the the financial overhaul bill, uh that that piece of you know what that we got to talk about, passed with the help of three Republicans.
I mean, Olympia Snow and Susan Collins, what are you gonna do?
But uh and when Scott Brown rose when when his ascendancy was complete in Massachusetts, I I am I I'm prepared to be as continuously residually happy about Scott Brown's win over Martha Coakley as I was the day he won.
And I and and as Rush told you that day, as I told my listeners here in Texas, you know, this is not Jim Dement who's won here, the magnificent South Carolina conservative.
This is not a dyed-in-the-wool conservative Republican who has won in Massachusetts.
After all, it's Massachusetts.
There will be times when he will make our teeth itch.
This is one of those times.
And so the people of Massachusetts got to figure out what to do with this guy.
I mean, do we go tea party on him and uh and make him pay next time in the primaries, or do we do that at our peril?
And is that it's since it's Massachusetts, just hand that seat uh uh back to a Democrat if the conservative we want gets the nomination.
These are the quandaries of the modern day when you have a Tea Party movement that is magnificent in its commitment and determination to hold candidates to what you know Republicanism is supposed to be,
what conservatism is supposed to be, a devotion to genuinely smaller government, genuinely lower taxes, genuinely constitutional behavior.
That is where the touchstone is.
That's where the bar is set.
That is the measuring stick.
It has nothing whatsoever to do with race.
Uh memo to our friends at the NAACP.
And we'll we'll oh boy, will we talk about this today?
And we'll talk about and God bless Newt.
I love Newt.
How many of you love Newt?
Show of hands.
It's a lot of you.
I know I love Newt.
I love it.
Presidential run, I don't know.
Maybe we'll see how that works out.
But I will tell you this, and I love Newt.
Did I say I love Newt?
I sure as shooting don't need Newt walking around suggesting the Tea Party reach out to local NAACPs for town hall meetings.
What?
How can such a smart man have such a dumb idea?
And I love Newt.
Please tell Newt, I love him.
But doggone it, man.
If someone slanders you, if someone is a bully, you don't reach out to them, except to beat down their ridiculous claims and require them to act right before there's real meaningful dialogue.
Get out with these town halls with the NAACP.
And this is nothing but sad.
Nothing but sad.
A once proud, once great organization reduced to This kind of malicious clownish behavior.
Anyway, so what got me all ADD there for a minute was the commonality of the Tea Party angle.
Baselessly accused of racism.
But the Tea Party drama that takes hold here, and I think we're seeing it in a bunch of states.
Let's go to California.
Once again, hello, it's California.
Meg Whitman is running for governor of what?
You know, Mississippi, Alabama, Utah, Texas.
No, she's running for governor of California.
Is there some wisdom that says, and is it wisdom, that if you are the Republican running in a Massachusetts or a California, not exactly hot beds of uh of pulsating red state conservatism, that you kind of gotta back it down a little bit in terms of the conservatism.
School of thought number one is, yeah, that's what you gotta do.
You know, that if we were to offer up uh, you know, Rush for governor of California, okay, bad example.
That would just transcend all politics.
That would just that would the tectonic shifts would be so great that California would eventually would finally drop off into the ocean.
Let's make it so someone with Russia's conservatism.
Someone who has his every view, my every view, uh you know, that that that kind of tea party a Tea Party Republican offered up for governor of California.
I'm just saying, I mean, I don't know.
Wouldn't that person get his clock cleaned by the Democrat?
Maybe not.
Maybe not.
I mean, I know Sharon Angle has a little bit of a lead on Harry Reed, that's Harry Reed.
But it's also Nevada, not Nevada.
It's Nevada.
And Nevada's kind of a purple-ish state.
But in California or Massachusetts, you offer up a genuine limbaugh Reagan-style conservative, the conventional wisdom is that person gets his hat handed to him.
So, A, is that true?
And if it is, does that mean that we've gonna kind of have to hold our noses a little bit for somewhat less conservative Republican nominees?
Or is that just a bunch of hooey?
And you offer up down the line reliable conservatism in a marketable package, I'll tell you what I mean by that in a minute.
And if if it prevails, it prevails, good for you.
And if it doesn't, you bring it back again the next time until it does.
But because California is in such profound financial ruin that there may be all kinds of independent voters willing to listen to a Republican message because they've all of a sudden become enamored of uh of conservatism or Republican thought.
Eh, not necessarily, but they're just tired as all get out of what the Democrats have done to them.
Or what a squishy Republican like Governor Schwarzenegger has done to them.
And that logic may be what applies this very election year.
If Republicans are going to get this big bounce in 2010, and I believe we will, if Republicans are going to be able to reclaim the White House in 2012, and I believe we will.
it will not be because millions of Americans have suddenly decided, oh, I've been so wrong.
I really am a conservative Republican.
Oh, for some it will, but for most it'll be the same way Obama won.
Fatigue with the status quo.
Ugh, give me something new.
I don't like what's going on right now.
And you know what?
I'll take it.
I'll take it.
I'll take the that vehicle of success, that pipeline through which success will flow and gush into the elections of 2010.
At least the oil's not gushing in the Gulf.
What are we on?
Are we on uh almost a full day of that?
Fingers crossed, that's fantastic.
Kind of um slooped over shoulders at the White House, though.
Because they part of them, part of them, the environmentalists in the the the environmentalist angle of White House liberalism, sure, and listen, that's just human decency that deplores the envir the environmental effects of the spell.
We all have that.
But when you go to our respective political corners, boy, they and I guess they're just hoping In Barack Obama's America, that there's been enough damage by this spill that we may we may choke that thing off today.
But their hope is that it will remain a sufficiently shocking environmental scourge that this is oil's three-mile island.
And that all of us will go, ooh, oil, bleh, and go run out and crave those alternative energy sources earlier than we otherwise would.
But nonetheless, as we get down to the elections here, what we've got is a situation where we have choices, and the choices that we offer in terms of the candidates that we package, let me tell you what I meant about that two minutes ago.
I want, I'm gonna get really greedy in 2012, okay?
Tell me if you're with me on this.
I want someone whose brain and heart are driven with the proper conservative compass.
But I want, and I think we're going to need someone with a skill set to go up against Obama and a tr here here's here's my test.
And there's there's the way there's two ways to do that.
Number one is go toe-to-toe with him.
When that needs to happen on a debate stage or through commercials or whatever, when they lie about our nominee, and they will, when they lie about their own sorry record, and they will, we need a nominee who will call them on it.
But it needs to also be somebody who has that certain likability, that certain relatability.
And I'll I'll define it the following way.
Sarah Palin has a ton of it, Newt Gingrich has virtually none.
Bill Clinton had it.
George W. had some of it.
John Kerry and Al Gore had none of it.
It's that sit down with you for a cup of coffee kind of thing.
Now, that's not the most important thing about a candidate, but without it, it's harder to win, and with it, it's easier to win.
So here's where I'm getting greedy.
Give me somebody with the right heart, the right mind, and that skill set.
And I don't know if that's some, and I don't know if that's somebody who we're even talking about among the front runners, you know, God bless Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee and all of this.
That's that's all lovely.
Uh and if one of them winds up being the nominee, great, let's go win.
But that's why there is so much thought of what's this young guns book that's being getting put out right now.
Paul Ryan, one of the authors of that, and I love Paul Ryan and I love that roadmap.
Check it out.
It is magnificent.
And the thing that you need to love about Paul Ryan and the roadmap is that it makes people nervous.
Anyone coming to the table with a solution that that doesn't make people nervous is is a wimpy solution.
And I don't just mean the left.
There are Republicans nervous about the Paul Ryan roadmap.
Ooh, this might be, you know, too, this might ruffle feathers.
Well, it doggone well better.
Because if there are any feathers that need to be ruffled, it's in the Republican establishment as well, of people who have talked a good game for years about coming into power, making taxes lower, making government smaller, obeying the Constitution more ardently, and they simply haven't done it well enough.
It's time for people who will.
In there with him on this are Kevin McCarthy of California, very good guy, um, and Eric Cantor of Virginia, whom whom I really, really like, didn't enjoy the role he took in throwing Joe Barton under the bus.
Not a favorite moment, not a favorite Eric Cantor moment of mine, but uh an apparent listener.
I think Eric called the Eric called Byron York, or did somebody call some or Frank once, there you go.
And so uh the Mr. Minority Whip, I really do love you.
And and and I really, really do.
And if you wind up being in the mix in 2012, man, I'm prepared to listen.
But uh and Joe Barton, I'll tell you some things about Joe Barton.
Uh Joe's a friend of mine.
He's one district, he's one district away from being my congressman.
And when he went before that committee, uh, okay, listen, he'll be the first to tell you the apology to BP, eh, not his best moment.
You don't need to couch it in those terms.
But the notion of the shakedown for the trust fund, absolutely correct.
The revulsion that Joe Barton felt for this deal cut where BP's guy is brought into the White House, and there's Barack Obama and Eric Holder, the attorney general, holding uh a lawsuit guillotine over his neck.
Oh, yeah, there's a nice uh even playing field on which to uh have a discussion about what ought to happen next.
Joe Barton's instinct on that were 100% Correct.
And yet, even the Republican power structure said, Oh, we oh, we have to show the proper amount of disgust at Joe having apologized.
Well, that moment was about 2% of everything Joe had to say.
And that's why what I wanted from the Republican leadership was what I just gave you.
Okay, the apology, bad thing, sorry.
I'd like to have that back.
All right.
But everything else Joe said, spot on.
That's that's what leadership sounds like and feels like.
It makes some people mad, even on your own side.
That's what leadership is.
If nobody's ever upset, oh then what you have is just Nambi Pambi, go along to get along, and that's not what beats this regime in 2010 and 2012.
So it's time for everybody to gut up and grow up and uh put people out there who are this is these are not mutually exclusive, who are tough and likable.
And if I need to define both of those more during uh during today's broadcast, the good news is we got time.
So with that, uh I got all as you can tell, I've got all kinds of things in my head, but let's see what's going on uh in the world of phone calls and let's do it next.
1-800-282-2882, Mark Davis in Dallas, Fort Worth on WBAP, filling in for Rush just today, Russia's back on Monday.
Happy Friday, and phone calls are next on the EIB network.
It is the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis filling in.
Let's see if we can get a call or two in for the bottom of the hour.
Start off in Tampa.
Hey, Aaron, Mark Davis, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How are you?
Good, Mark, how are you?
Fantastic.
You made a uh comment earlier about um if a Tea Party candidate ran for governor in California, they'd have their their clock cleaned.
Well, I wondered.
I wondered aloud, would they be eaten alive because it's California, or is there a sufficient Tea Party passion where the turnout would be so huge that there could actually be a Tea Party candidate success in a state as purple toward red or red toward purple or more blue as California.
Yeah, that that's very true.
I'm originally I am from California.
Um grew up there.
I'm 26 now, been in Tampa for about 10 years.
But um what I understand what you're saying, yes, but I think the people of California would go for someone standing on principles rather than choosing someone who does the whole politics as usual thing.
Like if you look at the 2000 and 2004 election map by county, California's more red than they than they are blue and not great.
Well, but but that's that's kind of like the uh what that's like the Bush 2000 United States map by county.
It looks like a massive mandate, but but counties don't vote.
People do, and that's why Gore won the popular vote is because he had the far more populous counties, even though President Bush had far more actual counties.
I mean, that's correct.
But I I just tend to think like what when Reagan ran for governor, of course, this was years and years ago before I was even born.
Tell me.
Um I believe he won on principle.
And if the candidate, the Tea Party candidate were real, if they were if they were a candidate like that, I think that they'd give whatever Democrat liberal are run for their money.
Aaron, I think you could you could well be right.
And thank you for your call.
Because here's it may just be raw numbers.
We have been locked for my entire life, I'm 52.
Uh in uh roughly half of everybody votes.
Isn't it pretty true?
I mean, in in big time elections.
Presidential elections, big time elections.
You know, about half of everybody votes and the other half doesn't.
There have been some times when it's been a little depressed, 40, 45 percent, sometimes 50, 55, but we've never had 75% of people voting in a presidential election.
I think this November, you might see some turnout of 60, 70, you know, uh percent and higher, and it'll be fueled by Tea Party people.
You know, I I mean I guarantee you that in Democrat circles and and among young voters, exponentially higher voting totals were what got Barack Obama elected.
People who hadn't thought about voting and who wouldn't have been voting otherwise.
They went and voted for that guy.
Well, in in the case of Tea Party candidates and Tea Party fervor, that's what you're gonna see.
Now, in a in a in a state like California or Massachusetts, it is possible that you could offer up a uh a Tea Party candidate as a Republican nominee for something.
First thing you'd have to do is win the nomination.
But then in the general election, the Tea Party people would just go wild.
They would, they would show up in such overwhelming numbers while all the other constituencies, moderates, independents, liberals, you know, sort of more conservative Republicans even are kind of in there at 40, 50%.
And the Tea Party people are out there 75, 80, you know, percent voting totals.
You do that and you can win.
Now, I mean, California has about 40 million people in it.
You know, here in my state of Texas, we got just under 25 million people, and we're a lot more conservative than California.
Um it all it's it turnout, turnout, turnout, turnout, turnout.
That's what's so very important.
And when you're done with that, turnout.
So lessons lie ahead in that this November and in the all-important year of 2012.
Uh, when we come back, I want to tell you a little bit about uh something that might happen in 2012 that could shock you.
Mark Davis, right back.
It's the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis from roughly 100 degree Texas, or as they call it in Arizona, the place we go to cool off.
Jeez, what is going on in Phoenix and such?
As if things aren't hot enough in Arizona ideologically.
Anyway, it's the middle of summer, so that's what happens.
Now I mentioned as as we close the last segment, something that could happen in 2012 that could shock you.
Well, okay, let me revise and extend those remarks.
It won't shock you because it will have been in the making for a long time.
So let me establish this as we go back to your calls, let me lay another layer of topicality, because I've been thinking about this for well, a long time, but for a few weeks in particular.
There's a piece written by Pete DuPont, no liberal uh Democrat there, uh, on this subject this past week.
And you can go find it after I tell you what I'm talking about here if you wish to.
What is one thing that could happen?
What is one thing that could happen that would erode your 2012 confidence?
Maybe there are a lot, but there's one single thing that could happen where all of a sudden you'd say, wow, we're this could be trouble.
That would be the Hillary Clinton I told you so tour 2012.
This has gone in my mind from being a preposterous impossibility to being infinitesimally remote to now just being unlikely.
And please understand the meanings of all those words.
That means essentially going from a 0% chance to a 5% chance to maybe a 15% chance, just to attach some numbers to this.
I have no solid expectation.
I mean, whatsoever that Hillary challenges Obama in 2012, a definitive, oh, I think she's gonna do it.
Not right now.
But is it so preposterous?
Look at the things that make it usually a total deal breaker.
It involves usually someone burning every bridge he she ever had to challenge an incumbent that's always messy.
It involves blood on the walls, oh my God, that again, Hillary versus Obama again, oh my heavens.
So why in the world would the Democratic Party want that, or why would they be even willing to tolerate that in the upper party echelon structures fundraising uh uh halls and corridors?
Because maybe it's the only way they fend off disaster.
I mean, the only thing certain in politics is change.
I don't even know if November 2010 works out as well as I think it will.
Look at what can look at what can change.
So you talk two in a fraction years out, please.
I don't know.
All I know is the way things might go, seem to be going.
And if certain things hold, then yeah, Republicans are gonna win the White House back, because everyone is just going to be so glad to see Barack Obama return to private life.
Well, that is somewhat less true, isn't it?
If he's not the nominee.
And a Democratic Party staring, not just defeat, but embarrassment, staring it in the face, the embarrassment of knowing what they should have known about this nominee, knowing that Hillary was the infinitely superior nominee over Barack Obama.
But they got they just oh, the anointed one, oh, can we get some water?
People are passing out.
Can we get some water?
I mean, all that entire exercise and cult of personality, Well, look where that got you, kids.
Look where that got you.
A president where even among his own base, there is some buyer's remorse.
That's not what you want when you're trying to get a second term.
I guarantee you there are Democrats right now in the uppermost echelons of Democrat Ness.
Thinking, oh my heavens.
Hillary, would you even take our call if we called you?
And she's the only one.
I'm not talking about any old Democrat.
No, it would need to be someone with the star power.
Now the resume.
You can't just say, well, she's just been first lady of a state and first lady of the country.
What's that?
She's been a senator and secretary of state.
She got twice the resume Obama ever had.
She is tan rested and ready.
And there are Democrats right now thinking Well, their first thought is we hope that things aren't so bleak that we need to entertain this.
But you tell me how things get better.
What?
He's going to all of a sudden become competent.
So exhibit A, that this is a genius idea if Democrats actually do it is it scares the living daylights out of me.
Because suddenly 2012 is on.
I mean it's on no matter what.
President Obama's not going to be easy to beat.
I mean, please.
But we will have one thing going for us, and that is his incredibly failed record.
If Hillary's the nominee, we don't have that anymore.
I mean, obviously she can be linked to all kinds of things that he would do that she would that he did that she'd keep doing, but there'd be enough different where a lot of Democrats and a lot of crossover voters and a lot of independents who are falling so out of love with President Obama, where all of a sudden they would go, well, shoot, let's give her a shot.
And then you'd have that bit of but oh, and everybody gets all caught up in the history again.
History, first black president.
Yeah, that worked out real well, didn't it?
But now we'd have oh, first woman president.
And I understand that.
I mean, you know, when we actually I mean, I listen, I had that going for us.
Sarah Palin.
I mean she wasn't the first female running mate, that was Geraldine Ferraro, but uh who had no chance of winning.
The McCain Palin ticket, hard though it may be to believe, did at one point have a chance of winning.
I guess preptember or something.
Um so we had that, and and I as it's I was as energized by or I was additionally energized, not just that I liked her and liked her on the ticket, and she brought a little jolt of electricity to an otherwise fairly sleepy ticket at times, but I thought it was really cool that we'd have a woman vice president.
And it would be somebody whose views I I actually admired.
You know, I mean, even when President Obama won.
It's like, oof, well, nothing I can do about it, so at least you know, we got the black president thing taken care of.
And that's good.
It's it's good to have that barrier.
I I like it when barriers fall.
I like it better when barriers fall with people who I actually voted for.
And I'm not gonna vote to knock down a barrier when it's somebody whose views I don't support.
But I'm just saying, as we work our way through today, here comes some more calls right now, but the uh you know you know you're thinking about this.
I hope Hillary is enormously happy as Secretary of State.
I hope she is thrilled with her current life.
Or maybe there's just something in her ethically or I don't know what adverb where she would never challenge a sitting President Obama.
I'll just give you some free advice to the Democratic Party.
You ditch him and run her, your chances of keeping the White House in 2012 double.
And uh, and as Republicans, that means listen, beating President Obama will not be easy in 2012.
It will be easier than beating her.
So there you go.
Do with that what you will.
All right.
Rather than give somebody short shrift, let's go ahead and take our first break of this second half hour of the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Mark Davis in Texas with you, and you on the phone with me next on the EIB network.
It is the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in.
Let's hit the phones, shall we?
We're in Louisville, Kentucky.
Greg Mark Davison for Rush.
How are you, sir?
I'm Mark, how are you today?
Good.
Well, I had a I had a I think your idea is interesting.
I thought about it myself, and I I think certainly Hillary would do it if she thought she could pull it off.
Uh I think I think uh she and and Bill have been sort of planting some seeds of uh of disruption for a while anyway.
My only question is how does she pull it off?
Let's say his numbers tank.
Let's say the president's numbers tank and we have a bad economy, worse than it is now, and the tax increases go in next year, and then it gets even worse, and say his numbers drop into the thirties or whatever.
How does she pull it off without alienating the most loyal Obama demographic, which is the black voter, the black Democrat voters?
Good point.
Uh you have two things you gotta do to be president.
Win the nomination of your party and then win the general election.
In the primaries, she would not have the black vote, but guess what?
She didn't have it last time and she almost beat him.
Now what you have, though, is even some black folks who are interested in keeping the White House Democrat, if they know their guy is going down, there are some who will, you know, shrug and say, well, you know, see who we can offer up uh sometime next time.
But but but let's let's go with Hillary.
She he's Well I think is interesting is you know Obama's uh Obama's not on the ballot this November, but his policies and his puppets are on the ballot.
Correct.
We really have a chance to speak up and say, you know, no, no, we we need to stop this.
Exactly right.
So what would if Hillary were going to get the nomination in in a a bold challenge to Barack Obama, she could she would just have to get uh overwhelming white Asian and Hispanic vote, whatever, because the black vote is still going to largely go to him.
Can she do that?
Of course she can.
And you can just finish the sentence.
And then in the general election, even with some wounded feelings, she would, as any Democrat would, get about ninety percent of the black vote.
Go ahead.
Whoops, he did.
Oh, go not my wow, sorry.
Just needed to finish a sentence there.
Just 20 more seconds.
Well, that accrues to the benefit of uh Mark in K in Los Angeles.
Hi, how are you doing, Mark?
Hey Mark, how you doing?
Very good.
I listened to uh to your show when I'm in Texas on business a lot and uh pretty kind of interesting seeing um the view of California from outside of California.
Um being a Reagan conservative myself, I heard some analysis earlier about uh Tea Party candidate here, and I realized that the prize is you know, fifty-five, maybe fifty-six, seven delegates now with with uh population of California.
It's never gonna happen, and I'll tell you why, unfortunately.
California number one is dominated by unions.
And we all know that unions uh typically vote Democrat no matter what, just to keep their their gravy trough full.
Uh the second reason is the demographics here are are consistently uh going uh Democrat Democrat voter uh Democrat voter base based on the the Hispanic population.
Then that because you're you're all those observations are sound.
Does this mean that you are telling me that the current polls which show Carly Fiorina with a little edge over Barbara Boxer, that's just fiction.
When election day comes, everybody goes to their natural predelections and Barbara Boxer probably wins decisively.
No, no, no, I'm not saying that, Mark.
Why not?
If if it's all unions and all uh you know liberal Hismatic.
Yeah, you know, but Carly Fearing is not what you think.
She's not at all what you think.
Um how do you know what I think she is?
What do you tell me?
Tell me what you mean.
Well, she she's very much uh uh Democrat heavy conservative or Republican life.
Um she's she is nowhere near what a Republican or or a standard GOP candidate would be like in the rest of the country.
You gotta remember that.
That's that's almost all that that's that's a a fair point, and it's almost always gonna be the case in c in California.
That's sort of what I was talking about.
So if if Carly Fear if Carly Fiorina may beat Barbara Boxer, we should not take that as as the indicator that a Tea Party the c candidate would have.
Absolutely.
I think I think only way to get any kind of Tea Party candidates uh in in motion in California is at the local level.
And kind of like you know, the long march strategy, which has been the case in so many other parts of the country, you start local and you it takes a decade to build that kind of that kind of movement, and uh I don't I don't see that happening here just yet, but that's that's the only opportunity that I see.
And by the way, I want to make a just quick one here on you know, I think that the uh the Arizona uh SP ten seventy is a direct result partially of Californians leaving California in the eighties after Reagan uh gave uh the first amnesty, and I think a lot of Californians left, and they saw what happened, and they moved to Arizona, and I think some percentage of that is as a direct result of that.
You mean that that a lot of the people voting for it and the support that we see for it in Arizona is from folks who have been in Arizona from California for uh a few years, but since they moved to Arizona for what they hoped would be uh a uh uh a tougher border.
Yeah, I I I know people personally that that left here, you know, in the in the late eighties, early nineties because of what they saw happening, especially in Southern California.
Uh, you could well be right.
I mean, I don't know what what l number of people that is, but it's probably appreciable.
Thank you, sir.
Appreciate it.
My best to everybody in LA.
Let's go to the fine capital city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg.
Chris, Mark Davis in Farush, how are you?
Hey there, how are you doing, Mark?
I am good, thank you.
I I listen to talk radio all the time because it tells the truth.
But um I went and read on the bill that they passed through, and if people just go to it and read it, they will see the travesty that happened.
We are now gonna go into a socialist economy.
And I'm not even kidding.
I've no, I mean uh the the the the bug-eyed rant of twenty-five years ago is is today is the thoughtful analysis of today.
It's socialist, it's not America anymore.
People who used to say that, you'd say, Come on, calm it, calm it down, Uncle Fred.
It's gonna be okay.
Well, now, you know, it's it's somewhat different.
Well, one thing that gets me is to me, a government and a state is a business.
We're in to make money to survive to pay our bills.
Well, in this bill, one uh it's so vague that they could easily misinterpret and take over other forms of the government, just saying, Well, you're not producing, you're not putting out the economy, you're not helping.
And uh, another thing, and watch, it's gonna happen um next Tuesday, they got this unemployment that bill.
They've been holding on to it in the House because it's it's showing that unemployment's gone down.
It's not gone down.
People aren't fired because they're not getting anything.
Well, the sad thing, Chris, the this is the sad thing, the the the the when you talked about if people read the bill, they'd see the outrage.
I only wish that were some would.
Uh a lot of people would read the bill and are familiar with the bill already and think, well, whatever.
We we have to have government control of all these wall street titans.
We can't let these people run unfettered through a free market economy.
A ton of Americans, a shockingly high percentage of Americans, are just fine with this, especially when you have a White House crafty enough to wrap it in the terminology of consumer protection.
Chris, thank you.
What we need protection from is out of control expansionist collectivist government.
I don't need protection from my bank.
I need protection from these people.
Mark Davison for Rush, be right back.
We've got a couple of minutes left in this first hour of the Friday Mar uh Friday Rush Limbo show Mark Davis felling in.
Boy, there's a Freudian slip I shan't make.
Uh here's something, though, speaking of uh other radio people, uh my buddy Inga Barks at KMJ in Fresno.
I was on with her last night at her show just to kind of plug ahead of time what the good people of Fresno would be hearing on today's Rush Limbaugh show, and she texts me today, and uh and and and it reminds me of properly so that Chuck DeVore was the Tea Party favorite in that primary, and it wasn't Carly Fiorina.
But now that Carly is the uh uh nominee, now that she is the the Republican, the Tea Party people are finding ways uh t uh to love her, and she's gotta be finding ways to uh to attract them, because that's that's that's the only way she's gonna beat Barbara Boxer.
In Tennessee, Tim Mark Davis in for Rush, how are you?
I'm doing great.
How are you doing?
Great, nice to have you.
Not so I'd be with you, sir.
Um my question is this.
Uh hopefully we don't have to wait till two thousand twelve.
But anyhow, uh once we get Obama out of office, how hard is it gonna be for us to reverse the laws in the bills that his administration has passed?
It depends on which ones.
Uh of the bills that are passed by Congress, some are uh are like flipping a switch.
They passed, you unpass them, you pass the opposite, boom, you're done.
Others, unfortunately, the ones on which they've done the most damage, things like health care, require a Whole lot of hoops jumped through in order to take the tentacles out from around our necks that they have placed.
But the good n the good news is though, all of this can indeed be done.
It'll take a lot of time.
It'll take a lot of resilience.
It'll take a lot of Republicans.
But if we keep our eyes on the prize, the way they have, the way they have to turn us into a socialist country, we can turn it back into America again.
It'll take some time.
I am optimistic.
We can do this.
All we gotta do is hang together and not lose sight of uh of the hole we gotta dig ourselves out of.
So everybody, spring in your step and let's move forward, like to the next hour on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
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