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July 30, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 30, 2010, Friday, Hour #2
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That's all you need to know.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
And we are going to get to the Folkest hour, I promise, ladies and gentlemen, and when we do, pretty much whatever you want to talk about is fair game.
That's the way it works on Friday, Monday through Thursday.
I have to care about it.
If I don't, we don't talk about it.
Not necessarily true on Friday.
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My friends, I'm gonna ask uh I'm gonna ask your indulgence for one more segment on this whole General Motors Robert Gibbs swerving into me and totaling the administration running into the EIB network yesterday.
And the reason I want to spend some time, it's a teachable moment.
And I also don't want to leave anybody confused, nor do I wish to provide an opportunity for others to say, I hope GM fails, which I don't.
I do not want General Motors to fail.
That's why I am so exercised and upset about all this, but it's a it's a teachable moment for people about what we are and who we are dealing with.
So to set it all up yesterday afternoon at the White House of the press re press briefing, the the press Secretary Robert Gibbs was um was asked about me.
Limbaugh said some things here about Obama Motors again today.
Uh, what was your reaction, Mr. Gibbs?
Well, you're gonna play these two sound bites back to back, bam bam without me in the middle of them.
Rush Limbaugh and others wanted to walk away.
Rush Limbaugh and others saw a million people that worked at these factories that worked at these part suppliers that supported communities, and thought we should all just walk away.
The president didn't think that walking away from a million jobs in these communities made a lot of economic sense.
We've got auto companies that for the first time since 2004 all showed an operating profit in the first quarter of this year.
It's adding jobs.
A million people leaving their job would have had a multiplying economic effect.
That's a million more people that would have been on unemployment benefit.
I'll let those that sat in the cheap seats a year and a half ago and wanted to walk away from a million, explain to every one of those workers why they made that decision, whether they thought the decision they made 16 or 18 months ago different than that of the president of the United States, whether they still stand by it.
You should ask Mr. Limbaugh.
I don't know what kind of car he drives, but I bet it's not an F 150.
Okay, now, Mr. Gibbs, let me explain something to you.
And in the process, all the rest of you who are listening.
Mr. Gibbs, you, your president, your party have destroyed millions of jobs.
You sit here and talk about protecting, saving, keeping 55,000 million jobs.
You're not fooling anybody.
You and your president and your party, the Democrats, have impoverished millions of families.
You have destroyed homeownership for hundreds of thousands of families.
You have destroyed small businesses throughout this country.
Your tax and spending and regulatory policies have driven parts of this nation into third world status.
You have taken a recession, and you have made it worse.
You haven't saved or created a damn thing except for more government jobs.
The real prosperity in this country right now is Washington and surrounding environs.
As for the automobile industry, I'll say this again.
No industry can survive forever with endless subsidies, massive subsidies, paid for by the taxpayers in an economy where those same taxpayers are losing their jobs and homes and savings.
And we brag about this.
People have lost their jobs, their homes and their savings.
And you're taking future earnings from them and bailing out industries.
And the sad thing of all, The saddest thing of all for General Motors, Obama Motors, is that they are pinning all of their hopes on the vault.
A car that requires a $7,500 tax credit to even interest people.
Look at all of the great cars that General Motors has made in its storied history.
All the great cars it still makes.
And they've been they've been forced by the government into counting on the vault, an electric car which has been a dream and a myth for 100 years.
You don't believe me, I'll read to you from the New York Times from 1911 in just a moment about the electric car.
They were having wet dreams about it back then at the New York Times.
This makes me sad to listen to, to listen to these stumped up press conferences and town meetings, touting all this great success when none of it is taking place.
I do not know how in good conscience, you expect the automobile industry to survive when the very people who are paying for it are losing their jobs and their small businesses and their savings and their homes.
Mr. Gibbs, if if uh government ownership and subsidies were the answer, then Zimbabwe would not be a third world country.
Cuba would be teaching us how to do things.
The Soviet Union would not have failed.
North Korea would be the place everybody in the world wanted to go.
If command and control economies, government ownership and subsidies created a workers' paradise.
The old Soviet Union still be in existence.
Mr. Gibbs, if you were right, but you aren't.
General Motors makes great cars.
We drove the Cadillac, the crossover SUV, a bunch of these cars, even the Malibu.
We had a great time driving here.
They make a lot of great cars.
And these models, these models were on the drawing board long before you, Mr. Gibbs, became a spokesman for Obama.
The problem is ensuring the long-term sustainability of the automobile industry.
And your answer is to destroy bondholders.
The legitimate investors in Chrysler got the shaft and were called greedy.
When it came time to bail somebody out when the government was going to bail out Chrysler, the legitimate investors got the shaft, the bondholders, and they were told they were greedy.
And who got the money?
The United Auto Workers, and who got the seats on the board of directors?
You and the board of directors has the members of the United Auto Workers on it.
Average investors, the bondholders.
You go out there, you destroy bankruptcy laws to reward your political allies.
This is not a sustainable economic model.
And then to pin the hopes of this great company on a on a car that's having to be forced on people.
It's just very sad.
And I don't believe, Mr. Gibbs, I don't believe you people care about when you get right down to it, the car workers, you care about union leaders.
You'd get rid of all these restrictions.
You get rid of the cafe standards, you would get rid of all of these punitive government regulations.
You'd hire companies, or you'd let the company hire people that love cars and manufacture design cars that they love and that other people would love.
you'd get rid of some of the most onerous union rules that prevent these companies from hiring more people and keeping more people.
You'd allow these companies to grow and prosper and hire people.
Will you tout growth by virtue of what?
A bailout.
You tout jobs saved by virtue of a bailout.
Yeah, the government worked, and that's what the vote's all about.
The vault is supposed to make sure that the American people understand that Obama saved the day, and Obama knows best.
Obama knows what everybody ought to be driving.
He wouldn't be caught dead in one, and a Secret Service wouldn't let him get caught one.
Mr. Gibbs, your entire economic model is unworkable.
Look at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
I mean, your economic model has been tried.
Every Western socialist democracy.
Cuba, Soviet Union, North Korea, wherever you look, Zimbabwe, take your pick.
It's been tried.
It doesn't work.
You use Mr. Gibbs, your podium at the White House every day to spread lies, to spin, to twist, creating all these phony measures of progress, creating or saving jobs.
Because you failed, and so you have to resort to these magic tricks.
We have with the number just came out today, 2.4% revised downward GDP growth in a second quarter.
People cannot buy cars or homes or get jobs with that kind of tepid growth.
And yet they're out touting it today.
Let me remind you that 2.4% growth in 2007 was proclaimed a recession.
When 2.4% growth happened in one of the Bush quarters, final quarters of his administration.
They couldn't wait.
It's a recession, it's a recession, it's a recession.
Look only 2.4% growth.
Now we got 2.4%, and they're throwing parties.
Look at Obama.
Look at the magic of Obama.
2.4% growth.
Consumer confidence all-time low.
And plummeting.
In the summer of recovery.
So much so that Vice President Bite Me yesterday has to come out and say, yes, what?
It's Bush's recession.
When just last week, it was a summer of recovery.
Vice President Bite Me said by this time this regime would be creating a half million dollars, uh half million jobs a month.
And we're still losing 452,000.
And next year, folks, this is the gut-wrenching reality.
Next year, Mr. Gibbs and his boss intend to make it much worse than it is.
They are going to raise taxes across the board on everybody, particularly on the job creators, and on the wealth creators.
And this is money that belongs to us.
It belongs to the people.
Obama's regime is going to take even more of your disposable income.
Money that you could be using to buy the vault if you wanted to.
Money that you could be using to perhaps grow your business.
Money that you could be using to spend in the private sector to stimulate the economy, you're not going to have it.
There are going to be tax increases next year for everything.
Income, health care.
You name it.
Double dip recession.
Guaranteed.
You're not compassionate.
There's no compassion in this agenda.
There's no compassion in these results.
This regime, folks, does not believe in you.
And that's the saddest thing.
This is the first presidency, the first administration, maybe in history, maybe in my lifetime, does not believe in the American people.
Does not believe in America, believes the country, this country is the war problem of the world, that we're not the solution.
We're no longer going to be the leader of anything.
We got people happily presiding over the decline of the United States.
You don't believe in the American worker.
You don't believe in the American dream.
You believe in big government, in ever-expanding, all-powerful government.
That's what Gibbs and Obama and Pelosi and Reid et al.
believe.
And that's how your president is going to be remembered.
Just how Herbert Hoover is remembered.
We live in Obamaville.
Mr. Gibbs, we all pay your salary.
All of us taxpayers.
And you show no respect.
You have nicer things to say about our enemies than you have to say about Americans.
You sue.
One of your own states.
A state trying to protect its people.
Your job.
You sue the state.
You declared war against the people, governing against the will of your own people.
And in the midst of all this, you then run around and continue to insult all of us.
One other thing.
Whatever I drive, Gibbs, I pay for.
Dirty little secret, Mr. Gibbs, I've earned it.
Everything I drive.
whatever I have, I pay for it.
I don't ever ask anybody for a penny, Mr. Gibbs.
And I make I never make the assumption that anybody owes me one.
Unless I'm providing a service for them.
I don't ask anybody for a dime.
I have no expectation that anybody else is responsible for me.
Certainly not you.
The day will never come I want to turn over my necessities in life to people like you and Barack Obama.
You people in the White House have earned nothing.
You produce nothing.
The food that you're eating at the White House mess is paid for by us.
Or even if you go out and grab a burger at Obama's favorite burger joint, the odds are you're paying for it with money that we've paid you.
We pay for the food you eat, transportation, the jets your boss uses, and there's never any gratitude.
There's just more insults.
There's never any thanks or appreciation for what the people of this country have done for the ruling class.
There's just more contempt and insults to our intelligence.
I gotta take a brief time out here, folks.
That's that.
When we come back, you may have heard that there is a...
Well, there's an arm of the administration executive branch that's looking into amnesty without legislation.
They've found a way that they can do it.
Amnesty without Congress acting.
Now they're denying.
Then there's a memo circulating around about how they're going to do it.
They're denying they're going to do it, but they're thinking about it.
That and your phone calls, a lot else.
Still on tap when we get back.
It's open line Friday.
El Rushbo having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Great to have you here.
Stoking you up for a six-mile run.
That's what that last monologue was worth.
Re-energize the American public from behind the golden EIB microphone, not of the phones.
Battle Creek, Michigan.
Joe, great to have you here from the home of Tony the Tiger.
How are you, Rush?
Very well, sir.
Thank you.
Hey, I just I called uh to let you know, and I'm sure you already do, so I guess the audience, the reason that uh Mr. Gibbs made his statement about the F-150.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Simply a dig on you and and your uh accomplishments, basically an income.
Because an F-150 is quote unquote a working man's vehicle, and uh he's basically saying you wouldn't stoop to that level, so why should you even be making that kind of uh a comment about a lot of people are trying to figure out what Gibbs meant.
Um I'm sure that's what he meant.
Well, I'm not.
Um out there in the um, even on the insane lunatic leftist blogs, they're trying to figure out what did Gibbs mean when he said, I don't know what kind of car, Mr. Limbaugh drives, but I assure you it's not an F-150.
First place, Obama doesn't make the F-150.
Obama does not control a company that makes the F-150, it's a Ford vehicle.
Right, right.
Now, so people says, Do you even know that?
Does he even know that Ford makes the F-150?
We don't know.
Well, look, you he may not, and you again, another thing is you illustrated the depth of these folks' ignorance when you quoted from Obama's book saying the reason that the car companies have not pursued hybrids and and electric vehicles is because of the cost of retooling, and anyone involved or that knows anything about the automobile industry knows that that that is just completely ignorant.
They retool every single year.
So it's it's just another example of how big these people are.
It's something, it's it's called demand.
It's called supply and demand.
Let me uh thanks.
Thanks for the call out there, Joe.
I have here from the Daily Beast.
Now, this is the website of Tina Brown, a ranking member, I mean, real ranking member of the ruling class.
She may be uh the class queen.
She may be the homecoming queen of the ruling class, Tina Brown.
And there's a story here by uh Robert Bryce.
Why is the Senate throwing more money at a technology that is not working?
Electric cars are all the rage.
Last Sunday's New York Times contained a long profile of an entrepreneur behind Tesla Motors, the upstart company that's produced about a thousand electric sports cars.
The story goes on has a quote from the New York Times on November 12th, 1911.
I can't squeeze the quote in before the break, so just consider this a tease.
In three and a half minutes, I'll tell you what the Times said in 1911 about the electric car.
Let me let me deal with something snerdly.
No more calls about what Gibbs meant.
Uh and I want to get this off the table because Gibbs is an idiot to talk about what Gibbs meant is a waste of time.
It's like they say when you get into an argument with a fool, don't ever do it because it's hard to tell who's the fool once it starts.
The best I can tell is that Gibbs meant to refer to a truck that G. Emmer Chrysler builds, and instead he referred to a Ford.
Now to analyze it beyond, that's a waste of time, folks.
And besides, does Obama drive a pickup truck?
Does Gibbs drive a pickup truck?
Does Barney Frank drive a pickup truck?
Does John Kerry drive a pickup truck to get to his boat?
Scott Brown drives a pickup truck, but any of these elite ruling class Democrats drive pickup trucks.
I know Fred Thompson drove a pickup truck.
Does Hillary drive a pickup truck?
Now Clinton did have an El Camino with AstroTurf in the back to make it more pleasurable to lie down on, if you get my drift.
Remember that, Brian?
You don't remember that?
Clinton had an astroturf.
He bragged one of those El Caminos out there, Limbaugh.
I had AstroTurf back back there in the flatbed.
I came here real handy.
Yeah, hey, that we're the knee pads now because you get burns on that astroturf stuff, but it was better than a flat metal bed.
You know, you think I'm making this up?
I'm not making it up.
Clinton had Astroturf in the back of an El Camino.
So Clinton's driven a pickup truck, but do they now?
Is that the new test?
Is that the new test?
In order for me to uh be a uh uh a real American, I have to somehow drive a pickup, an F-150.
The government buy pickup trucks to pick uh Elena Kagan up to get her to the Supreme Court hearings.
White House personnel, they they showing up and pick-up trucks.
And even if they are, who the hell's paying for it?
So, you know that no more analysts, analysis of what Gibbs meant, because it's not worth the time.
New York Times.
Well, electric cars are all the rage.
Last Sunday's New York Times contained a long story profile on Elon Musk, the entrepreneur behind Tesla.
On Tuesday of this week, the news was dominated by the announcement of the sticker price, 41,000 of the new Chevrolet Volt.
Late Tuesday, the same day, the same day.
Senate Majority Leader Dingy Harry introduced a scaled back energy bill that promises some 400 million dollars in new subsidies for the electric car business.
In addition to whatever else General Motors has already been given the scaled back, and they don't have the uh time, the votes for cape and cap and trades.
No, they're gonna go back and scale back in that scale back energy bill, 400 new million dollars in subsidies for the electric car business.
That money will be added to the several billion dollars the federal government's already committed to electric car development and production.
But amid all of the hype, the essential question is obvious.
Why is the government throwing so much money at a technology that shows so little promise?
The electric car industry has a century-long history of failure.
Again, this is uh Mr. Robert Bryce at the Deadly Beast.
Dailybeast.com.
The electric car industry has a century-long history of failure, and yet we're being told this time things are different, just like this time socialism's gonna work.
We're the people we've been waiting for.
This time we got people that know how to implement socialism.
This time we know how to do the right people here.
We've finally got the right kind of money.
This time, the electric car is going to work.
The technologies are better, the batteries are better.
By the way, preface this.
I don't want General Motors to fail.
Don't anybody misunderstand this.
Do you know where they're building the batteries for the vault?
They're building the batteries in South Korea.
All these jobs.
Today, all of these jobs that we are saving and creating.
We're building the batteries in South Korea.
Wanna know why?
It's dangerous.
A lot of toxic and hazardous material in these batteries.
Something goes wrong, people can get sick.
Not good.
Let the South Koreans get sick.
And we'll build up their economy.
So the batteries being built over there.
But we're told the batteries are better now.
Four 40 miles to the charge.
Whoever.
Did you ever think?
That that's a great.
For Jay Leno, it'd be a great punchline, the monologue.
Oh, yeah.
See Obama's new car, 40 miles to the charge.
Instead, this is being touted as a breakthrough in battery technology.
40 miles to the charge.
And consumers, it is said, are ready to accept electrics like never before.
Really?
Is that why you have to subsidize these things at billions and billions and billions of dollars?
Consider this declaration.
Look at me.
Consider this declaration.
The electric car, quote, has long been recognized as the ideal solution because it is cleaner and quieter and much more economical.
That was published in the New York Times November 12th, 1911.
The electric car has long been recognized as the ideal solution because it is cleaner and quieter and much more economical.
1911.
New York Times.
The new Chevy Vault costs as much as a brand new Mercedes-Benz three Clark C-class C-350.
Prices on electric cars will continue to drop until they are within reach of the average family.
That's what a reporter said this week about the Volt.
Prices on electric cars will continue to drop until they are within reach of the average.
So guess who guess who it?
Mercedes.
That's what I said yesterday.
If you if if you've got 41 grand in a Mercedes C class, look it, I don't.
Yeah, I just is this is what's sad to me.
I I I am not here to rip in the General Motors.
At any rate, there you have it.
It is what it is.
Mercedes has a sunroof.
Yeah.
Just cool it.
Cool it in there, just cool it in there.
Yes, it has real seats.
It's got a bent seat.
It's got.
Yeah, it's got headroom and leg room.
You know, it's just be quiet.
Rob in Wichita, I do not want General Motors to f it's just the exact opposite.
Robin Wichita went away.
Uh Stephen Reno.
No, no, no, no, sorry.
Eric in Los Angeles.
Uh hello, sir.
Great to have you here.
Russia.
It's great to hear your brain traveling 120 miles an hour like a floored GTO.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you very much, sir.
Yes.
Uh waste all the gas you care to.
Uh uh, I I called about um uh revealing that that the Obama administration, in in his inaugural address and his inaugural period, he he announced that uh we won and that Elections have consequences.
And this is the ongoing uh re rationale for him, not excusing themselves for any of the basically coup d'etat tactics that they're using here and taking over the United States government, in stomping on Arizona, in uh shutting out the Republicans from the from the uh uh reconciliation uh process on the health care bill, and on and on and on, and even carrying water for the Mexican government.
Um these are these are very parallel to the to the uh tactics and the process that Hugo Chavez just went through in getting himself elected president of Venezuela, and then changing the Constitution, changing the uh the um the term of office of the president,
and and if you notice the Obama administration had got really upset about Honduras taking out uh President Zaleya for flagrantly violating the the Honduran Constitution.
Yeah, we sided with the dictator down there.
There's no question.
So, but but these are the techniques of a totalitarian.
These are these people have taken over, and the Obama administration and all of their czars and and Eric Holder and everybody, they're not going to apologize for violating the Constitution for breaking all the rules because they said we won.
Hey, elections have consequences.
Apologize.
No.
Well, the the apology of course they're not going to apologize.
Their problem is the Constitution is an obstacle.
And that's why they want to put people like Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan in there, people who are willing to rewrite it while they ignore it.
People who think that it's outmoded and outdated, and is even written from the wrong perspective.
The Constitution was written from the perspective of limiting government against the rights and freedoms of the citizen.
And that doesn't jibe with the way Obama looks at government.
Here's a story.
You talk about Hugo Chavez and so forth.
This is uh Reuters, a court in Russia's Far East has ordered an internet provider to block five sites, which it said disseminated extreme views, prompting U.S. internet giant Google to say Thursday the move restricted access to information.
The Russian government has told this uh internet provider to limit access to the five sites that include YouTube video service owned by Google.
You may not know this, but a piece of I mean legislation or not.
I think it might have been something from the Federal Trade Commission, the FCC somewhere.
Barack Obama has the authority now to shut down the internet, throw the switch in the event of an emergency that he determines warrants it.
He has the ability to shut it down if he wants to.
In Russia, a court, which is the regime, has ordered an internet provider to block five sites because it's disseminating extreme views.
The irony here is that one of them is Google, which of course is in bed with this regime.
And from the Washington Times.
This thing cleared the wires last night about 8:30.
With Congress gridlocked on an immigration bill, the Obama regime is considering using a backdoor to stop deporting many illegal immigrants.
What a draft government memo said could be a non-legislative version of amnesty.
The memo addressed to U.S. citizenship and immigration service director Alejandro Mayorcas.
And written by four agency staffers, lists tools it says the administration has to reduce the threat of removal for many illegal immigrants who have runafoul of immigration authorities.
Charles Grassley got hold of a memo written by staffers.
Grassley in Iowa Republic, in the memo, in the absence of comprehensive immigration reform, United States citizenship and immigration services can extend benefits and or protections to many individuals and groups by issuing new guidance and regulations, exercising discretion with regard to parole in place, deferred action, and the issuance of notices to appear.
Grassley said, what in the hell are you talking about?
They said, oh, no, no, no, we're at this.
These are just, you know, we're throwing things up against the wall here.
Well, we don't intend to grant blanket amnesty, they said.
Nowhere at any time do we intend to use this regulation for that purpose.
Now, the exercising discretion means ignoring things.
Now, uh this memo, folks, this is coming from the belly of the beast.
This is right out of the regime, the U.S. citizenship and immigration services.
This is this is not some backwater little side agency playing around while everybody else is doing serious things.
This is coming from the heart of the beast.
This is coming right from the heart of the Obama administration.
And this issue bouncing here off of the subject of our last caller.
The issue here is the dictatorial nature of this regime and his willingness to do anything to advance his agenda.
They've been caught, they are looking at ways to grant amnesty en masse without legislation if they can't get it done.
And they've been caught, memo's been seen, and now they're oh no, no, no.
No, we would never.
We would never.
They're looking at it, and that's the point.
They're looking at it.
And if they could find a way to do it, they can find a way to do it.
Who knows?
With this bunch, you just don't know.
And you have to assume, based on everything else we've seen them do, that they would do it.
I'm sorry, folks, I can't get off of this Obama motors business.
I just can't, so much of it is educational.
You know, this it's a perfect example of the ruling class versus the country class, the rest of us.
People are struggling to keep their jobs and their homes.
The government has essentially dictated that a company produce a 41,000 dollar car that goes 40 miles on an electrical charge that are going to give you a $7,500 tax credit to entice you to buy.
This is not evidence of progress, folks.
This is not evidence of success.
It is a completely out-of-touch ruling class that lives in one world while the rest of us lives in another.
A $41,000 car that goes 40 miles.
What a charge.
And Obama's out there touting all this great success today.
Meanwhile, they will not secure the border.
They want to slash military defense spending.
They're spending money that they don't have.
They're destroying the banking system.
They've taken over the student loan program.
But they have demanded, directed the production of this car.
A $41,000 car that goes 40 miles on a charge.
And we're supposed to bow down or applaud and be grateful.
All this wonderful progress and success.
Supposed to really feel up and excited about the future.
Yeah.
I mean, and now four staffers are writing a memo to the director of the immigration service of how we could have amnesty without legislation.
And in the document is this, uh, they've reinterpreted or reinterpreted legal opinions of the definition of admission for those entering under temporary protective status in the face of war or environmental disasters.
They can change their status to stay in the U.S. permanently if there is an environmental disaster.
Well, did they not call global warming an environmental disaster?
They're looking at ways to grant amnesty to people already here.
Well, yeah, might be a war out there.
If we're still a war in Afghanistan, yeah, we're in a war, environmental disaster, global warming.
They're setting up the circumstances.
If they can't get it passed through Congress, they're gonna do it by executive fiat.
Here's Barack Obama, the leader of the regime, March 30th, 2009, in Washington in an announcement about the automotive industry.
Let me be clear: the United States government has no interest in running GM.
We have no intention of running GM.
That's uh President Obama, March 30th, 2009.
In Washington.
Doesn't want to run General Motors.
Anybody want a Ford F-150?
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