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Sept. 3, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 3, 2010, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Too kind, too kind, exponentially too kind.
Thanks, Johnny.
Thanks, Rush.
Look forward to your return after a Labor Day weekend.
And let me thank the other marks on the adjunct professors at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Brother Belling, Mark Belling for the first couple of days of this week, Brother Stein for yesterday and Wednesday.
And I've been smiling since the beginning of the Wednesday show as Mark Stein opened his fill-in stint by making reference to the week of all marks and saying that, of course, Mr. Belling had just finished, that he's there Wednesday and Thursday.
And then he mentioned that, of course, Friday is Mark Davis, who can be recognized by his sinister accent.
I hope Rush is happy with what those of us who fill in for him do.
And of course, ultimately, what we really hope is that you folks are happy.
Listen, please, I'm not just a talk show guy here at WBAP in Dallas-Fort Worth.
I'm also a listener.
I'm a fan of this art form.
And I know that when the shows that I come to and listen to and rely on, when the guys aren't there, and there's the fill-in host, it's like, oh, man, well, I'll fight through this.
And our job is to make it as pleasant and fulfilling for you as possible.
So let me share with you what I've brought to the table.
Mark Davis from Dallas-Fort Worth, and we're thrilled.
I'm thrilled to be with you today.
And there's something kind of significant about today.
I was asking HR and the gang at headquarters that with this week, I guess week plus two days, absence by Rush, I think the timing of this was for him to go ahead and spread his wings and get out there and spend some time with the new bride and maybe on a couple of golf courses.
Who knows?
He'll tell you what he was doing on Tuesday.
But it's a nice opportunity to take some time off before the home stretch of a lifetime.
I am probably the final fill-in host between now and Election Day, so no pressure.
And I think we're going to talk some tea party stuff today.
Not nuts and bolts tea party stuff, even though, I mean, you can if you want, but I emceed a wonderful event here in the Dallas-Fort Worth area last night.
Met a couple of folks who I was really glad to meet.
Meet the internet icon Andrew Breitbart and Jenny Thomas of Liberty Central fame, but also there's another type of fame.
It's called being Clarence Thomas's wife.
And for both reasons, it was such a joy to be around her and a couple of other folks too.
But with all of that still rattling around in my head just from last night, it has me thinking about the Tea Party passions and what are they really going to mean.
I mean, when we wake up on November 3rd, exhausted from partying, I hope, with whatever lubrication we please, sprite or something harder, I don't know.
That's when the real fight begins.
In fact, I'll share with you this enormous narrative: in fact, let me paint it this way.
Let's go back to April 15th, 2009.
This regime had been in power for a scant three months.
And in just that amount of time, an outfit called the Tea Party Patriots was taking shape, and their co-founders were with us last night here in Texas, Mark Meckler and Jenny Beth Martin, both great.
And they told a story.
It was very self-deprecating.
Mark Meckler in particular said, This thing is totally catching fire, and we don't even really know what we're doing.
All we know is that something is resonating.
And so they got their organizational act together very quickly so that on April 15th of last year, there were all kinds of events all over the country as people were already recoiling at what the Obama regime was doing to us.
It took eight years for people to get tired of Bush.
It took three months for people to freak out about Obama.
So on April 15th of 2009, the event at City Hall in Dallas was one that I was honored to be the master of ceremonies for.
Phil Dennis, Ken Emanuelson, the Dallas Tea Party guys called me.
That's when I first met them.
And let's just say we've been hanging out a lot ever since.
And after that whole night was over and everybody had left and we're there on a beautiful spring night in downtown Dallas, bathed in the amber lights of City Hall.
And it's all kind of quiet and kind of deserted because it's downtown Dallas, even though it's kudos to Mayor Leopard.
Things are looking better in downtown Dallas.
But it was just really, really quiet.
And the only people left sitting around in our exhausted afterglow were the organizers and me.
And we all looked at each other and said, okay, that was good because we had like, probably had like 5,000 people out there.
And we said, this is great.
But will it amount to a hill of beans?
I mean, can we keep this going for the rest of 09 into 2010 all the way to an election that takes place after 85% of 2010 is over?
I mean, November of next year.
Can we keep this going?
Well, I believe that answer is in, ladies and gents.
I believe the jury has returned.
And the answer is a resounding yes.
We haven't done it yet.
We're still, you know, eight, nine weeks away to November 2.
But is there anybody doubting that on that day, there will be a resounding fervor to reclaim this country, not just for conservatism or just for Republicans.
I mean, none of this is about scoreboarding Democrats because Tea Party movement is in some ways has more grief to give wavering Republicans or Republicans who talk a good game about conservative constitutional leadership and then fail to deliver it.
I mean, my entire life, my entire adult life, the first election I voted in was 1976.
I voted for President Ford.
That didn't work out.
But Carter won and Carter gave us Reagan.
Who knows what Obama may yield before he's done?
We may have decades of conservative leadership thanks to this guy.
And I say that only half flippantly.
But as we've taken a look at the passions that are coming to the fore, we've always been here.
I mean, listen to the years of Rush Limbaugh shows.
I mean, Rush was saying the same things.
I was saying the same things, adhering to the same principles, you know, while Bill Clinton was winning two straight elections.
You know, you think we weren't saying these things in 2008 as Obama won?
You think we weren't saying these things?
We've been a constant.
We've been here.
You know what's different?
You.
You.
Talk show guys do not change history.
We do talk shows.
We seek to inform, entertain, educate.
You know, and believe you me, just from my perspective, I learn a lot more from the show than I probably teach anybody during the show.
I, you know, all I can do is keep my facts right and back up my opinions honestly.
What I learn from doing shows here in Texas, and by all means, every time I'm blessed to sit in for Rush, is I get a big snootful of what people are thinking.
And it's kind of funny because the very first time, I think I have this day bronzed on my calendar, which is hard to picture, but you know what I mean.
I think the first day I filled in here was like March of 08.
Things were not looking so great in March of 08.
We didn't know.
I mean, we didn't know how it was going to go.
And then it only got worse.
Obama actually won and then started to just screw things up on a Herculean scale.
But we've, but, you know, Rush has always been here.
I've always been here in my community of Dallas-Fort Worth.
So, you know, we can be here saying the same thing, saying the right things, making all the sense we can conjure.
And it amounts to nothing if you don't respond, if voters don't vote to bring about these results of constitutional, strong but limited government with sensible taxation, sensible regulation, you know, actually winning the war, things like that.
You know, we can't make those appetites just spring by the sheer force of our will.
Oh, how I wish we could.
But we can't.
We can't.
All we can do is do radio shows.
Are they of value?
Are they important?
Well, sure.
Certainly.
Absolutely.
I'm not downplaying the importance of this, the art and science of talk radio in the national debate, in the national discourse, but that's the national debate.
It's the national discourse.
What we've got coming up on November 2nd is national voting.
People taking everything they've heard, everything they've seen, and reacting to it, reacting to it viscerally and behaviorally.
Now, the big parlor game is how many seats are Republicans going to pick up in the House?
What are you, 39, 40 to make Nancy Pelosi not the speaker anymore?
Cool, I just got tingly.
I just like the sound of that sentence.
Of course, then we get John Boehner.
I like Congressman Boehner.
He's a good guy.
I've been around him some.
I like him.
God, I'm starting the uncomfortable questions before we've even won the majority.
Hey, it's my last time filling in until the election day.
I got to get this material in now.
Okay, people of Ohio or anywhere else, let's say we get this.
Please finish one sentence before starting another.
If we need roughly 40 to get the majority back, some say we might get 50.
Didn't Newt say something about 50 or more?
Mark Meckler, the Tea Party Patriots guy, I had him on my local show a couple of days ago in advance of last night's event.
He's throwing down 70 to 100 seats.
And I'm like, dude, I don't believe in jinxes, but whoa, whoa, tap the brakes.
Is it impossible?
No.
But I guess there's a lot of attention paid to the expectations game, and properly so.
Because what if all we need is one more than the majority, and Nancy Pelosi is not speaker anymore, and I am officially dancing in the streets.
But if we're throwing down 65, 70, 80, and we only get 53, you know, the media narrative will be, oh, the Republicans got far less than they expected.
Yeah, whatever.
Let them spin it however they like, just so we have the majority.
But if we want to get into some nuts and bolts here, let's say we get that majority.
You good with Boehner as speaker?
I mean, obviously, that's what the etiquette would call for.
That's what the decorum would call for.
That's what he's in line for.
That work out for you?
In most ways, I guess I am.
I kind of sense that Leader Boehner was kind of on board with, this is a local guy, but you'll remember it.
The throwing of Joe Barton under the bus.
You will perhaps remember my very good friend, 6th District Congressman Joe Barton of Texas, when he called the White House BP trust fund thing.
What did he call it?
He called it a shakedown.
You know why?
Because it was.
Now, then, unfortunately, and Joe will be the first person to tell you this, he then sort of apologized to Tony Hayward.
Quit while you're ahead, quit while you're ahead.
And then that everybody went nuts on that.
And because of that, some in the majority leadership, and that's Boehner, whom I really do like, Eric Cantor in Virginia, who I really, really do like.
But I think they had to kind of spank Joe.
They had to be perceived as spanking Joe.
And when 90% of what Joe had done that day was completely defensible and, in fact, honorable, it's called speaking truth to power.
It was a shakedown.
And so I just, I'm like many, like many, to return to a little bit of the Tea Party ethic, I'm a little wobbly about Republican leadership, about the Republican elites, the Republican power structure.
I want them to be very hip to what's going on here.
Listen, let me invoke, you know, someone do some more name-dropping for you because I'm sitting here in Texas.
It is a Texan, Pete Sessions, who holds the post atop the NRCC, the National Republican Congressional Committee, their job win the House.
It's a wonderful senator, a wonderful man, John Cornyn, who sits atop the NRSC.
The senator from Texas is in the job, has the job of electing more to the Senate.
And maybe, cross your fingers tight, can we win the Senate too?
Dare we dream?
Well, I think the New York 23 debacle was a big memo to Pete that says, hey, excuse me, butt out of primaries.
And I hope that Senator Cornyn is getting that memo because I wasn't real thrilled when Senator Cornyn got all misty about Charlie Crist in Florida.
What?
Hello, Marco Rubio.
He exists.
And I'm not saying you have to throw Charlie under the bus and go whole hog behind Rubio.
Okay, I wish you would, but all right.
If you don't want to be perceived as getting too aggressive against an incumbent, that was before Charlie changed parties.
Then here's a great idea.
Butt out.
Stay out of it.
In Alaska, stay out of it.
Don't send lawyers to Alaska to help Lisa Murkowski beat Joe Miller.
What are you doing?
The people of Alaska did not want Lisa Murkowski.
If you're the NRCC, the NRSC, guys, please, please lay back, butt out, see who the people want, see who Republican voters want, and then rush in and help that Republican, whether it's the incumbent, the establishment, darling, or not, help that Republican beat the Democrat.
Now, in Arizona, it didn't work out that way.
We had J.D. Hayworth, who got smoked by John McCain.
Okay, that's what happened.
Go help McCain beat the Democrat.
Go ahead.
But in the primary process, butt out.
Just saying.
All right, I'm filled with advice and thoughts, and I'll bet you are too.
Here's how you bring them to me: 1-800-282-2882.
1-800-282-2882.
I've got a couple more things to throw you from the week gone by, from this morning's news, and we're going to go to calls pretty quickly.
So start placing them.
1-800-282-2882.
Mark Davis, InfoRush on the EIB network.
It is the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show.
Oh, by the way, it goes without saying that even though there's a guest guy in the big chair, is it Open Line Friday?
Of course it is.
Just because Rush isn't here, the rules do stay the same.
Open Line Friday.
I've clearly got a bunch of things in my head, and I'll spread those out and see what you think of them.
But you're welcome to toss me some material, see how it works.
Just as if Rush were here, Open Line Friday is in full swing.
1-800-282-2882.
Let's go to one of the iconic Limbaugh affiliates.
That's the Mighty 77WABC.
I just enjoy saying this.
We're in the Bronx with Vinny.
Vinny, Mark Davis in for Rush.
How you doing?
Hey, guest guy dittos, Mark.
Good to hear from you.
Jason, you touched on it, but we really need to step back, meaning outside here.
You have people like Larry Sabado predicting 61 seats in the House.
The Cook report, which is usually extremely reliable, I mean, he's off the charts.
We're counting seats before we've won anything.
There's going to be an October surprise by this president.
And with being set up for the mainstream media's narrative to be on November 3rd, well, definitely the Republicans should have done much better in this atmosphere.
And I just feel we need to be fighting for something, not just against something.
Where's our agenda?
Well, okay, well, you've given me three things, and they're all really good.
Number one, would you like people to start to tamp down the expectations?
Sure, that's fine.
However, if people honestly think if Sabato thinks 61, say so.
If somebody else thinks 50, say so.
If Mark Meckler of the Tea Party Patriots thinks 100, say so.
I don't want to muzzle anybody.
And if the media, if the Washington Post, New York Times, Huffington Post morning after analysis is, huh, look at those Republicans.
Some said they would get 90 and they only got 52.
Ha ha ha.
I don't care what they say.
You know what I say?
We got 52 and the majority.
And I'm pleased with that.
Now, October surprise.
Sometimes cynicism is extremely well placed.
It's impossible to know, but what kind of thing you think they'll cook up?
Because you're clearly expecting something.
I can almost guarantee he's going to, well, I can't guarantee, of course, but my gut feeling is he will extend the Bush tax cuts.
He will give it a holiday for a year or something like that.
That's not an October surprise.
That's actually, I mean, an October surprise is usually a scandal that usually has the feeling of being trumped up for the purpose of doing damage to an opponent.
I guess for these people, an October surprise would be actually doing something conservatives don't hate.
Well, you got to do, he has to do something in an economic vein in order to get people back on his side.
And let's not forget who we're talking about.
We're talking about the most radical liberal president in this nation's history.
No.
No doubt about it.
For him to actually extend the Bush tax cuts would be an October surprise.
I mean, he would.
Well, it would.
But the first, you know what, though?
But the first thing I'd say, I mean, as a straight shooter, the first thing I'd say is, Mr. President, I disagree with virtually everything you've done except this and the 20,000 new troops.
If he does something I actually like, I'll say so.
I'm still going to hope to God he loses in 2012.
Listen, let's do something.
On the last thing you said about we can't just be against something, we've got to be for something.
True, but in a minute, I'll stick up for the logic and the reason of being the party of no.
Tell you about it in a minute.
Mark Davis, Silton and for Rush on the EIB Network.
It is the Friday, September 3rd, Rush Limbaugh program headed into Labor Day weekend.
Rush will be back on Tuesday.
Great to be with you.
All right, as we finished up with Vinny and the Bronx, he had laid down a lot of things about the notion of the jinx, the notion of the expectations game.
And I understand all of that.
We could very well have a lot of people out there saying, oh, Republicans are going to pick up 50.
They're going to pick up 60.
They're going to pick up 80.
And if it winds up being, you know, 53, there will be people who will say, well, that's less than was expected.
I don't care.
I don't care.
It will be the morning of November 3rd, and we will have kicked Nancy Pelosi out of the speaker's office.
I don't care what Matt Lauer says about the expectations game.
I don't care what Katie Couric says, you know, with those 25 people watching CBS Evening News.
If she says, well, they expected a lot more, whatever.
Let people come out with whatever honest expectations they have.
I actually have the story about Larry Sabateau.
Boy, hasn't he carved out a cottage industry for himself sitting out there in Charlottesville at the University of Virginia.
I remember the first time I heard about him, it was years and years ago, and now he's like the go-to guy for everything.
That doesn't happen by accident.
Good job, Larry.
But I've got the story about him from U.S. News and some of the numbers that he lays down.
But the last thing that Vinny mentioned was, you know, we got to stop being, you know, against things and we've got to be for things.
Okay.
If there's anything that I enjoy doing, it's taking things that people say a lot that seem smart, that seem wise, and putting them under the microscope and seeing if they are really, really true.
On this one, I'm going to say partially, because just as everyone is at, listen, I've said this, especially with regard to healthcare.
We can't just get out there and take the flamethrower to Obamacare.
We've got to come back to people with the specific ways in which we would do better.
Fine, understand that.
But that's a process.
First, we have to kill this thing.
And I think that's the way people generally like to absorb the narrative.
First, get rid of the bad idea.
There is nothing more positive you can do than stop a bad idea.
It is a positive, uplifting, constructive thing to do to get rid of bad ideas in the country, in your company, in your family, in your personal life.
You ever have somebody, there's always somebody, I think I've delivered this little speech on a past fill-in thing, so pardon the redundancy.
There's always somebody, oh, he's so negative.
He's just so negative.
Well, you know what?
Find me that guy.
And you know what?
I bet you may have a curmudgeon.
You may have a pessimist.
But you know what else you might have?
You might have a genius.
Because before you start making up all kinds of good ideas, you've got to get rid of the bad ones.
You've got to clear the playing field.
Clear the decks of the horrible, noxious, socialist, expansionist, collectivist ideas that are out there.
So there's like, whew, okay, that's good.
We've cleaned up a little bit.
Now let's fill that vacuum with good ideas.
You got to take these things in order.
So as we look toward some pretty stunning success on Election Day, November 2nd, do you know why it will have been?
We say, oh, yeah, Tea Party passions.
Oh, yeah, people recoiling at the audacity, love that word now, of the Obama regime.
But it will be because people are in the mood to say no.
So if we're the party of no, good for us.
Saying no to Obamacare because people hate it.
Saying no to insane spending because it's crippling the economy.
Our businesses are sitting on their hands and keeping their powder dry and refusing to expand.
We're going to say no to that insane spending.
Saying no to punitive taxation.
Saying no to activist judges.
We're going to say no to all those things.
Now, every time I say things like this, I hear Frank Luntz in my ear, and rightfully so.
Frank is a master of message, the pollster you see all the time on Fox News and various other places, written a wonderful book called Words That Work.
And if Frank's talking or writing something, pay attention because he's all about the messaging.
And we can have, for example, an example of Frank Lunt's logic, right?
If I sit here right now and say capitalism is good, most of you listening will nod and go, yep, that's true.
Good for you.
Now, does a Republican candidate need to be out on the trail this campaign season saying, capitalism is good?
The answer to that is no.
Is it because it's not true?
No, it is true.
It's that words mean things.
You ever have somebody say, oh, well, that's just semantics.
Just semantics?
Semantics is everything.
What's the meaning of the word semantics?
Semantics is about the meaning of words.
So Frank's point, which is genius, is that get out there and talk about economic freedom, right?
Economic freedom.
If drill, baby, drill seems a little harsh, talk about American energy exploration.
And that's not code language.
That's not dumbing down a message.
It's packaging a message so that people will nod rather than recoil.
And isn't that kind of what elections are about?
Getting people to come toward your message so that they actually vote for you?
That's kind of what it's about.
So anyway, so party of no, darn right.
Proud of it.
But just to finish off this brief rant, I know that's not where it ends, that you got to flip the coin.
And the, you know, the obverse side of it for you numismatists is that, yeah, we're going to say no to Obamacare, but that means saying yes to healthcare reform that makes sense, that's about doctors and patients and choice.
That when we say no to insane spending, we're saying yes to bringing government back to the size that the founders would find appropriate for our time and that makes sense for doing the things that government actually ought to do.
We're saying yes to a sensible size of government.
When we say no to punitive taxation, we're saying yes to a tax policy that does not blister you for succeeding, that does not dissuade business and individual entrepreneurship.
When we say no to activist judges, what we're really doing is saying yes to judges who will obey the Constitution, who will rule according to what the Constitution actually says instead of making stuff up.
So we're saying yes to all of those things.
Well, I hope that all made sense because I'm exhausted.
Let's take some calls.
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I said Open Line Friday because it is, and it's the Rush Limbaugh Show, even though I'm filling in.
And as proof of that, here's, I have no idea what spurs Mary to call me about this, but I am intrigued.
And we go to Columbus, Ohio, and say hi to Mary on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
Hey, Mary, Mark Davis, filling in.
It's nice to have you.
Hi, Mark.
Great hearing you.
I haven't had the pleasure of hearing you on the radio before because I work during the day, but I had taken today off.
And when I from Texas, it instantly brought to mind the fact that I watched the movie W last night.
I'm a Republican.
Did you?
And refused to watch the movie for a very long time.
And then I thought, you know what?
I'm going to watch it.
And I don't know if this will.
But with good reason, for those that don't know, for those that don't know, a very good reason to avoid it at the outset is two words, and those words are Oliver Stone.
Exactly.
That's exactly why I didn't want to.
But go ahead.
And then I decided last night.
And I don't know.
Did you see it?
Did you watch it?
The day it came out.
The day it came out.
I found it surprisingly good.
And only because obviously they portrayed him as a bit of a clown, which I didn't like.
But the second part was even Oliver Stone managed to bring through George W. Bush's honesty to me, his honesty, integrity, his ability to see things as we see them, meaning you and I, not the politicians.
I just found it to be a surprisingly good movie.
But the other question I thought of after I finished talking to your person was, where's Colin Powell?
You know, I watched him in the movie last night, came across very well.
But since he got behind Obama back in the during the run for the presidency, I haven't heard anything about him.
Is he still backing everything Obama does?
Well, I think if we were able to read his mind, we'd discover that he was.
But since it doesn't, it's not very helpful for people who are trying to, I don't know, maybe sell future books or run for something in the future or simply maintain respectability, since it's not helpful for them to step out in favor of Obama these days, I think we might not be seeing as much of Colin Powell.
Just to give you the, I had a very similar reaction.
I figured going in to see an Oliver Stone movie about George W that I would walk out just, I mean, movies don't ever tend to make me that mad.
I try not to get that upset about popular culture.
I just kind of shrug and go, well, there's Hollywood.
What would you expect?
And in this case, it was like, well, there's Oliver Stone.
What would you expect?
And so what I was expecting was a complete smear, and I did not get it.
From Josh Brolin as George W. Bush to, you know, Scott Glenn was Donald Rumsfeld, right?
Richard Dreyfus as Dick Cheney.
Was it sometimes cartoonish?
Yes.
Did it sometimes make light, make fun, or even disparage some of the Bush legacy, the Bush imagery?
Yes.
But it was, again, with the default setting of an Oliver Stone movie, I dare say, almost balanced.
There were moments where, you know, especially in the early courtship of George and Laura, Laura played wonderfully by Elizabeth Banks.
It treated that almost affectionately.
And compared to what it could have been, Oliver Stone's W movie, which quite frankly, I also pretty well forgot after being in the theater about two weeks later.
It's not the kind of thing that, I mean, Stone has done some things that I really actually did like.
Even some things that I, JFK, not one of them.
The guy does have some talent at this.
This was not one of his great works, but I would have to give, what do you want to call it, grudging admiration for probably not giving in to his baser instinct of savaging the man.
W does not do that.
And if you got a couple hours and it's on cable, check it and see if you agree with Mary and me about that.
All right.
Speaking of the former president who lives about eight miles from where I'm sitting right now, and he shows up, he shows up at Ranger games.
If I seem stunned and disoriented here on the Limbaugh show, it's because we're about to have playoff baseball in Texas.
We don't know what we're doing.
We've got the Cowboys and the Super Bowl coming here.
We're all about that.
We've internalized that.
But playoff baseball for the Texas Rangers, please.
We have no idea how to act.
But he shows up for that.
He shows up at DFW to welcome the troops.
He is as magnificent a citizen and as magnificent a man as he was when he was president.
Could he have been stronger on the border for me?
Yep.
Do I wish he'd have stiffened his spine against the bailout urge?
Yep.
But what a magnificent man, what a magnificent couple he and Laura are.
We are honored to have them as in their retirement years.
What do you want to call that?
He seems too young for that, but living right here in Dallas-Fort Worth.
And the next, where you're about to get a big, a big snoot full of George W because here comes that book.
Here comes decision points before too long.
So we'll see how that book tour goes.
All righty, it is the Rush Limbaugh Show.
I'm Mark Davis filling in.
More of you next on the EIB Network.
It is the Friday Rush Limbaugh Show.
One quick thing.
I mean, if I need to come back and spank Oliver Stone for a portion of the W movie that is just a steaming shovelful, it is the ramped-up tension between George W. and George H.W. Bush 41 was played by James Cromwell.
And there are scenes in there of just completely concocted levels of tension.
Now, again, you might ask, how do you know?
It's not like a memory from when they were 10, from when he was 10.
They were both adults.
I mean, George W. entered adult life.
There's just no context, no narrative from that time that gives anybody any reason to.
I mean, there's just no reason to believe that happened.
So go see it.
And if you want to, we'll see what you mean.
All righty, 1-800-282-2882.
Mark Davis filling in for Rush.
We go to Flint, Michigan.
Alicia, hey, welcome to the Rush Limbaugh Show.
How?
Hi, Alicia.
You okay?
Yeah.
That was a weird noise.
Wow.
Bless your heart.
How are you?
Real good.
Bitto Swim Love Gen C Tea Party.
Thanks.
I was calling.
Here's the part where you start getting the show content.
A couple of changes in the political scene, which I see nobody commenting on.
And that's why I wanted to comment on them.
Go.
Okay.
Well, the first one is that in the Tea Party, I think it's happening in other places too.
People are suddenly discovering that they can get involved politically.
It's not that hard to do, and that they can make a big difference in a short period of time if they do that.
We've kind of been leaving this sort of activity to the political class because we felt as if it was hard.
Our Tea Party got together with a whole bunch of other Tea Parties in Michigan and formed a caucus and pushed to get the Secretary of State nominee we wanted on the Republican Party.
We didn't get everything we wanted.
But then again, we got this idea and pulled it off in 10 days.
And given that we're grand newcomers to the whole thing, I think we didn't do too badly.
I think that's really good.
No, Alicia.
Go ahead.
I'm sorry.
No, that's okay.
Go ahead.
No, I'll tell you what.
I think you might be.
How old school is this?
Turn the radio down when you're on the Rush Limbaugh show.
Alicia, let me thank you and allow my words to resonate with what you've said.
Clumsily though they may be phrased.
Yeah, apathy.
This is the Obama administration, this regime, everything they've been doing, and go to a Tea Party rally and ask how many of you are recently politically plugged in.
Every hand in the room goes up just about.
People three, four, five years ago who didn't do anything.
They just went about their lives.
It was apathy.
Oh, I guess I could vote, but what good would it do?
Well, when you suddenly are aware that there is an enormous wave of people as frustrated as you are, as sick to death as you are, of enormous expanding government to obscene levels, and you actually have company where your vote, coupled with others, may actually do something, you actually get off the couch and vote.
You actually mobilize.
You actually community organize, dare I say.
You actually bring about change through your sheer electoral will.
And that's what we're seeing before our very eyes.
So congratulations to you in Michigan and in every other state where exactly the same thing is happening.
A brief break is happening right now on the Rush Limbaugh Show.
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