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Well, the big election in Delaware today, and it's bringing out people on both sides, on the Republican side, on both sides of this.
It is most unfortunate what is going on because in my mind, you know, I was telling you about this dinner party I went to on Saturday night where the host threw out the question of scale of one to ten, ten meaning country's finished, one meaning, hey, we're in Fat City.
Where do you think the country is?
And a prominent person says, I think we're at an eight.
I was telling the story to other people who asked me, well, what did you say?
I said, well, I guess that's six or seven, but I wanted to focus on a different aspect of this, and that is how to arrest and how to stop this.
And my point was that we've never had, never, I mean, we've got the Democrats ready to run off a cliff.
We have got liberalism and socialism set up to be destroyed.
And the frustrating thing is that half the Republicans in this country don't see it.
Or they're afraid of it.
Or they don't want to go there.
And that's the thing that bothers me about it.
We still have people who want to compromise with these people.
We still have people who want to walk across the aisle and be reasonable and get along with them.
We still have people who think that professional Washington politicians is a way to fix this.
And clearly, it isn't.
And some of these people are citing the Buckley rule.
Now, I can honestly say that I know what the Buckley rule is.
I can honestly say I knew William F. Buckley.
And I knew that Buckley, Buckley was a friend of mine.
And they're invoking the Buckley rule is ostensibly that you vote for the most electable conservative option against a Democrat in November.
You vote for the Republican/slash conservative who can win.
To me, this requires clairvoyance, as is being currently applied in the Mike Castle, Christine O'Donnell race in Delaware, to use an example.
The polling data is that Castle will win big and O'Donnell will lose big.
If she gets the Republican nomination today, if she wins the election, she'll lose big.
The poll says she'll lose by 25 points.
Castle will win by 20 points.
But who knows this?
The election's a long time off.
In a year like this, it seems to me that Americanism versus socialism can make up 25 points.
And why the hell not try to?
Because what I don't understand, why not try to make up the 25 points?
Okay, let's just assume that it's correct.
Let's assume that Christine O'Donnell is down in the polls, Democrat polls, by the way, by 25 points.
Okay, fine.
If she's the best option we have to stop what's going on once she gets to Washington, why not try to make up the 25 points?
We got socialism, communism, liberalism on the ropes.
I know it's too risky.
Let me tell you something.
It's worth the risk.
We're talking about saving the blank damn country.
What do you mean it's too risky?
You know, well, the professionals say, I know this is the problem.
The professionals are saying it's too risky.
It's patently obvious that there are those who don't see this the way I do.
That there are those who don't see this the way you and I do.
I mean, we can drive around the country.
We clearly see things.
This ain't good.
9.5%, 10% perpetual unemployment.
The administration says, it ain't going to get any better.
We're losing our private property rights.
They're coming after everything we have.
There's a soft tyranny in the country today.
You can't build on your own property.
You can't use a certain kind of toilet.
You have to use a certain kind of light bulb for crying out loud.
They're telling us what kind of light bulbs we have.
You have to drive a certain kind of car.
You can't open a business without permission from the government.
We're being told we have to buy health care.
A direct violation of the Constitution.
The Constitution is being shredded in front of our very eyes.
We're being told we have to buy health care or we're going to get a fine.
We have to buy a certain kind of car.
We have to buy a certain kind of light bulb.
Now Michelle Obama is on an anti-salt kick.
Come on, give me a break.
That doesn't matter a hill of beans with what's really at stake here.
I know.
My problem is I don't make my living in Washington.
So I don't understand.
I don't understand the ebb and flow of what goes on there.
I don't understand that I have to keep my hand in the till no matter who wins.
See, I don't understand that I have to work with whoever wins if I'm to support myself.
I live and work in Washington.
And if I'm going to live and work in Washington, I have to be able to get along with whoever runs the place.
And I have to act like I'm in league with whoever runs the place, regardless who is running the place.
Well, I'm sorry, if that's what it takes to understand, I never will understand it.
I don't want to earn my money in Washington.
And I want to keep so much of my money from going there in the first place.
But more and more of our money is going to end up going there.
You believe we're having a tax cut debate here?
This ought not to be a debate.
With half the Democrats wanting to extend the Bush tax cuts, what in hell's bells are we doing talking about compromising with them on extending them or not extending them to certain groups of people?
It's time to talk not only about maintaining these, but cutting more taxes.
We're losing the control of the language.
It used to be that responsibility was a key word in American culture.
Today it's been replaced with entitlement.
I grew up, you grew up.
We were raised.
We were taught to be responsible for ourselves.
Today, people are taught that life's about benefits.
One of the conversations is this dinner party on Saturday night.
It was about the unions and the problems we have with their pensions and the unfunded pensions and the unfunded health care liabilities of public employee unions, the state and federal, all across the country.
And I'm listening to the chatter go back and forth on the minutiae of policy.
And I raised my hand because, you know, I had to shut up at some point for other people to talk.
So I raised my hand for Mission to speak.
Can I ask a simple question here?
How many of you at this table were raised with the idea, or how many of you people at this table grew up believing that wherever you worked, they were going to pay you for the rest of your life after you quit working, and they were going to pay your retirement, and they're going to pay for your villa in the Caribbean, and they're going to pay for your health care.
But I did not grow up that way.
My point was the fundamental problem is we've got so much of the country thinking that's what being an American is, that you go to work for someplace and you retire after 20 years and from that point on, you get 80% of what you were paid, or 75% or 90% plus your health care benefits.
And people give me static when I point out I have done that for myself.
People give me static when I have to go to hospital, I pay for it myself.
Well, it's easy for you to say, well, I accepted the responsibility for myself.
How come I'm the one that's a bad guy when I assume responsibility when I'm not forcing anybody else to pay for whatever I need done at a hospital?
And I certainly am not relying on anybody for my retirement, and I never have been.
How come I'm the bad guy?
Well, I'm not talking about luck or good fortune.
I'm talking about attitude.
If you don't have the attitude that you've got to be responsible for yourself, it doesn't matter.
At least if you're raised with the attitude that you are responsible for yourself, it might have some impact in the way you motivate yourself to live your life and accomplish things.
But if you grow up believing that the system owes you because the system has screwed you even before you were born, then guess what?
You become a liability for all the rest of us.
You are not an asset.
You are a sponge.
And we got a nation full of sponges and a political party which is creating more of them and paying them and inventing them and inspiring them.
Meanwhile, I'm sorry if you get tired of hearing this.
I don't like having to turn off lights on my property eight months a year.
I don't like being told I have to go out and got some curly cue spaghetti light bulb in 2011.
I don't like being told what I can and can't do with my prop.
This is, if you believe in the Constitution of the United States of America, you have to say that where we are right now on a scale of 1 to 10 with 10 the country being finished, we're close to a 10.
If you believe in the Constitution, we've lost sight about what this republic was supposed to be.
Can't open a business without permission from the government.
Now you sit around and decide whether or not to expand your business based on what the government's policies are going to be, and you know that they're not for you.
You know that you're the enemy if you're a business owner.
If you produce income, if you generate jobs, you're an enemy of this state.
This is a soft tyranny.
And people say, I have no policy idea.
No policy ideas.
How about the Bill of Rights?
How about the first 10 amendments?
I'm in the free speech business.
I'm very much concerned about this.
Castro, look at this.
Cuba to cut 500,000 government workers and reform salaries.
The shift would mean that one-tenth of Cuba's 5.1 million strong workforce are going to be looking for jobs in the private sector by April 2011.
There's just one problem in Cuba.
There is no private sector in Cuba.
It has been destroyed.
There is no private sector.
They can't even repair the 57 Chevies that you see driving around downtown Havana.
There is no private sector.
So they're going to 500,000 government workers off the workforce.
What are they going to do?
Raul Castro has warned for years the state could no longer afford to subsidize every part of Cuban life.
Well, I have a solution.
I have a solution that Cuba might want to try based on looking at Obama.
What are they faced with here?
500,000 government workers will be fired.
Salaries are going to be reformed.
Why doesn't Castro just increase spending and raise taxes to save Cuba?
That's what we're doing here.
We're raising taxes and we are increasing spending to save our country.
Why doesn't Castro do that?
If our president has it so damn right, if our president is so smart, if all we got to do to save our economy in our private sector is raise taxes and increase spending, then why doesn't the Cubans do it?
Well, the reason is that's all the Cubans have done since their inception.
And guess what?
They never have amounted to anything economically.
And now they're really nowhere.
And the evidence of where we are headed is all over this world.
And we got a race here in Delaware where the professional Washingtonians, oh, I don't know, man, if she gets a nomination, I don't think she can win.
Do you know that Mike Castle voted to investigate George W. Bush for impeachment?
Do you know this?
Did you know this, Snerdly?
You did not know this.
Mike Castle voted on the War and Peace Republican, he's a War and Peace Republican representative, Delaware at large, voted yes on investigating Bush impeachment for lying about Iraq.
He did not vote for impeachment.
He voted to investigate Bush for lying about Iraq with the possibility Bush might be impeached.
He voted for the investigation.
Now, this investigation was launched by a bunch of liberal Democrats.
So we have professional Washingtonians now telling us that Mike Castle's the only option we've got.
Well, it's time, ladies and gentlemen, for the Limbaugh rule to supplant and replace the Buckley rule because the Buckley rule requires clairvoyance.
The Buckley rule requires people who can't possibly know the outcome of anything in the middle of September to support or not support somebody based on what they think is going to happen in early November.
Christine O'Donnell can't win.
It's 25 points down.
Can't win?
If a constitutional conservative can't win in this climate, coming down from 25 points, we need to find that out, find out where we are.
But why not go for it?
The stakes dictate it, do they not?
Here's the Limbaugh rule.
In an election year when voters are fed up with liberalism and socialism, when voters are clearly frightened of where the hell a country is headed, vote for the most conservative Republican in the primary period.
Back in a second.
Hey, we're back.
El Rushbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution.
Here's who introduced this bill in Congress to investigate Bush lying on Iraq or about a rock.
And therefore he should be impeached.
The resolution resolve President George W. Bush be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors.
The following articles of impeachment be exhibited in the United States Senate.
Resolution sponsored by Dennis Kucinich, co-sponsored by Keith Ellison, Sheila Jackson Lee, Jim McDermott, Robert Wexler, and Lynn Woolsey.
And there's Delaware's Mike Castle on the Republican ticket voting for this.
Another Republican senatorial candidate today in Delaware voting in favor of an investigation to say Bush lied about Iraq for the purpose of then filing articles of impeachment.
Now, if Mike Castle goes to Washington, D.C. as our senator, he'll be just another liberal, but he's going to have an R next to his name.
Now, somebody tell me how that helps the country.
Somebody tell me how that helps the conservative movement.
I can understand Republican Party being for Castle.
I can understand for elected Republican officials being for Castle because he's the party chosen guy.
And if you're in the party and you want to be advanced, you want to run for office someday, you got to go along with the party.
But I don't understand people who profess to be conservatives supporting this guy.
It's all of the basis of clairvoyance that Christine O'Donnell can't win or that she's embarrassing or something.
It's embarrassing to me that we got a guy who voted to investigate Bush for lying about Iraq for the purpose of maybe impeaching him.
The bigger risk to me is that rhinos, Republicans in name only, like Mike Castle, tarnish the conservative brand.
They confuse and turn off the electorate who end up thinking, well, they're all alike.
I mean, when people say there's no difference in the Republicans and Democrats, if they're talking about Republicans in name only and Democrats, they may have a point.
So the conservative candidate, the Buckley rule, a conservative candidate can win, Castle gets elected.
It just blurs for independents, what conservatives are, and independents are running to the Republican Party in droves right now like they never have before.
Now, here's the resolution.
Again, resolve that President George W. Bush be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the U.S. Senate.
And Mike Castle's in there voting for it.
Now, in 2008, Christine O'Donnell got 35% of the vote against Bite Me, Joe Bite Me, who was running at the top of the ticket with the Messiah in 2008.
Now, McCain, who is the epitome rhino.
I mean, this is the model Republican, we were told, got 37% of the vote in Delaware in the 2008 presidential race.
Bite me outspent O'Donnell $4.9 million to $116,000.
And they tell us she can't win.
Bite me was an incumbent at the height of his popularity, favorite son, top of the ticket in a year when the Democrats are winning in a landslide.
Why is it so impossible to believe that she would win against a nobody in a midterm election when the Republican Party is going to have a landslide?
Who's saying she cannot win?
Let me expand a little bit here on the Limbaugh rule, which needs to take over from the Buckley rule.
In fact, you know, some of these people on our side who all of a sudden now lovingly invoke the Buckley rule are the same people told us that the era of Reagan is over.
Well, Bill Buckley and Ronald Reagan were inseparably good friends.
Isn't the era of Buckley over?
Isn't it amazing how selectively these people call up some of our heroes and use little slivers of what they've said or believed?
Buckley ran against a rhino Republican for mayor of New York, knowing full well he had no chance of winning.
He violated his own rule then.
Buckley says you vote for the Republican most likely to win.
Well, it wasn't him when he ran for mayor of New York, and I'm sure that he knew he wasn't going to win, but he did it anyway.
So the era of Reagan is over.
Very people that tell us that now cite my good friend William F. Buckley Jr., Limbaugh rule.
In an election year when voters are fed up with liberalism, in an election year where the future of the country is at stake, folks, it is not an overstatement to say this administration is destroying this country as it was founded.
I don't need to exaggerate it.
I'm not exaggerating for effect.
I'm not trying to cause buzz so that more people will tune in.
I'm not trying to cause buzz so that our friends in the leftist media will cite it.
I'm not trying to tweak the media here.
They are hell-bent on destroying this country as it was founded.
And in a year and a half, they've gotten pretty much of that done.
They have incredibly succeeded in just a year and a half, a little over a year and a half.
They've already taken over.
One-sixth, one-fifth of the U.S. private sector with taking over healthcare.
Automobile companies, basically essentially running the student loan business and the lending business in total.
Now demanding you have to buy health insurance and you get fined.
Hiring 16,000 new IRS agents.
And Democrats are on the run during all of this.
Now it's just come to light.
You know, Pelosi said, well, people find out what's in a healthcare bill when it passes.
We've got to pass the people and find out what's in it.
Well, we've been telling you about the new rules on 1099s.
As a small business, if you do $600 of business with anybody, you've got to file a 1099 with the IRS, which means you're going to have to ramp up.
You're going to be paperwork of finding a 1099.
A 1099, I use them.
You know, I have people contract hire.
I contract employees.
I pay them X for doing a certain amount of work, and I pay them the gross.
They pay their taxes.
It's a 1099.
I have to send them a 1099 at the end of the year.
I report the 1099 to the IRS.
They have to pay their own taxes, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Well, the healthcare rule, if you do $600 of business with anybody over the course, you've got to file a $1099 for every instance above it, every instance.
Including if you're a small business that has trucks and you're buying diesel.
A $1099 for all the diesel you buy at all the different stations all across the country, wherever your trucks go.
And the Democrat, whoa, we didn't know that was in there.
There's an effort now to get that taken out.
Section 9006 of the health care bill, just a few lines buried in the 2049 page document, 2409 page, mandates beginning in 2012, all companies will have to issue a 1099 tax forms, not just to contract workers, but to any individual or corporation from which they buy more than $600 in goods or services in a tax year, which is every year.
This is, I mean, it's, you talk about productivity shutdowns, you know, how people try to rearrange and arrange their lives to avoid tax consequences.
It's just an absolute mess.
Now, the Democrats, some of them are saying, well, we didn't know this is in there, and I don't want to get it stricken.
And the administration says, no way.
The administration, no way.
We're not changing anything.
We are on a charted course to destroy this country as founded, and we're not going to back off of it one bit.
Well, to me, that's pretty radical.
It isn't politics as usual.
So the Limbaugh rule, in an election year, when voters are fed up with liberalism and socialism, and when the fate of the country as founded is at stake, you vote for the most conservative Republican in the primary, period.
It will be a rare opportunity to move the party and the country to the right.
The Limbaugh rule, do not play defense when your offensive hand is as strong as ours is.
I look at what's happening, what we're faced with, and I listen to people debate on the margins, Christine O'Donnell versus Castle.
See, the issue to me is not Christine O'Donnell.
The issue is Castle.
It's very simple.
She's not the issue.
Castle is.
Guys like Castle will tarnish the Republican brand and the conservative brand, just as McCain has done.
Lindsey Graham, I mean, there's no different than that.
In 2008, I'm going to go through this again.
In 2008, Christine O'Donnell got 35% of the vote against Biden.
Biden was running at the top of the Democrat ticket as the VP candidate for the Messiah.
And the beloved McCain only got 37% of the vote in Delaware.
Biden have baggage?
Does Biden have baggage?
Does Biden have baggage?
Does Castle have baggage?
Now, the point is, McCain only got 37%.
Should we not have even contested in Delaware?
Maybe we should have just seated Delaware, not even sent McCain, shouldn't even have tried to win Delaware.
To my mind, if the polls are right, she's down 25 points if she wins today, 25 points down the general.
There's no better year than today than this year to make that up.
Certainly worth fighting for.
Biden was an incumbent at the height of his popularity.
He was a favorite son at the top of the ticket in a year, 2008, when the Democrats are winning in a landslide.
Why is it so impossible to believe that Christine O'Donnell would win against a nobody in a midterm election where the GOP is going to have a landslide?
The GOP is going to have a national landslide.
Who's to say with ontological certitude that she's a destined loser in the midst of a GOP landslide?
And who is it that doesn't want to try?
Who is it that doesn't want to seek a conservative victory here, given what we are up against?
So the line is Christine O'Donnell has no shot of winning Delaware.
Isn't that what they said about Scott Brown in Massachusetts?
Martha Coakley is going to clean his clock.
I mean, Scott Brown had not a prayer.
He had no chance.
The Kennedy seat?
Come on, Rush, don't kid me.
Now, who are we told we had to support the SCUSA fuzz of the world, whatever.
We were told we had to support Didi Scuzzafuva.
Who else?
Any number of rhino Republicans.
We said, Chris Christian, have a chance?
I'd have a prayer in New Jersey.
Who are you kidding, Rush?
O'Donnell or O'Connell in Virginia.
These are blue states rush.
Come on, we need to get a Republican that can win there.
These things just can't happen.
You're going to have to, you're going to have to get real rush.
What happened to Charlie Christ?
Charlie Christ supposedly is shoe-in in Florida.
Marco Rubio doesn't have a chance, Rush.
When he's too young to have a chance, really?
Who's running for the hills and now has to be honest with who he is as a Democrat seeking help in the White House, Charlie Christ.
And of course, Didi Scuzzafava, that was New York 23.
Remember 1992, ladies and gentlemen, the year of the woman.
The Democrats, you may be too young to remember the year of the woman, but I was there.
1992, year of the woman, the Democrats told us the Republican Party was too white and too male.
Didn't have any women.
That year we had to go out.
We had to get women, women, women.
All we were was a party of angry white males, too many old white guys.
Now, this year, the ruling class is telling us, oh, we need moderates in there.
We need people who can win.
Even if it is people like Cass Lee, we do have to hold our nose.
We need somebody who can win.
We need people willing to walk across the aisle, be reasonable, work with the Democrats.
They have the power.
And now, some of the fact she's a woman doesn't matter.
As I pointed out yesterday, when everybody starts ripping into Christine O'Donnell, even on our side, they rip into her as a slut, as a stupid idiot, as she filed lawsuits.
They don't rip into her on policy.
The critics of Mike Castle don't talk about whatever baggage he's got.
We hear about Mike Castle.
We hear about policy, the benefits of a castle victory.
I'm talking about people on our side, not even willing to discuss the policy aspects.
And then, of course, Sarah Palin comes in and endorses her.
And now we've got people who say, well, I'm sorry, Christine, but you know, Sarah Palin, people on our side.
So I guess I don't understand it.
I don't make my money in Washington.
My living is not owed to a single entity in Washington.
I mean, I don't do business there.
I have a radio station.
Don't misunderstand, but I mean, I'm not part of the ruling class culture.
My opinions, my profile do not determine how financially well off I do and what my prominence within the social circles in D.C. are.
I'm not completed on them.
Oh, true, I'm not dependent on them.
I'm not dependent on the Washington political class.
I don't have a magazine or column read by these people who then approve me and anoint me as one of them.
I don't have a blog read by these people.
So I guess I don't understand it.
I'm out of touch from afar.
I don't understand how things work in Washington.
I don't understand how you really get things done there.
All I know is that within two weeks of Obama assuming office, he calls a meeting of the Republican leadership and he tells John Boehner, you don't want to do the way things Limbaugh does.
You can't listen to Limbaugh anymore.
It's not how things get done here.
Really?
Yet I somehow am an honorary member of the Republican class in 1994, but I don't know what goes on there, and I don't know how things work there.
I certainly don't derive my living, what goes on to walk, and I'm not dependent on what happens there.
I'm just like you.
The further away that city is from my life, the more prosperous I am.
The more distant things in that city are in relation to how I live, the more prosperous I am.
The closer those people get to my life, the greater risk I'm in.
I'm talking about professionally prosperity.
You know what I'm talking about.
Anyway, I have to take a brief time out here, my friends.
We'll get to some of your phone calls when we come back.
This, the EIB network, El Rushball, serving humanity.
Back after this.
Yeah, I sturdily just asked me if I saw this TV as tech a reporter on television.
She's making the rounds here.
Her name is Lynas or Inez Sines.
That's how you pronounce the name.
Let me tell you, that woman is, well, bubblishious, I guess.
It's clear here, the anatomy.
Maybe it's just me, and I'm sure that doesn't matter to the New York Jets, but elevator doesn't go to top floor there.
Order of fries short of a happy meal could be the language difference.
Don't know.
John in Durham, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hi, Rush.
It's good to talk to you.
Yes, sir.
I've got to tell you, you came down a little bit in that second segment, but the first part of your show, you sounded very, very mad.
You sound angry.
And I'm a happy liberal.
What are you happy about?
Well, I guess I'm happy at the meltdown.
I'm listening to the Republicans versus the conservative meltdown so far out from the election, and it really is comical.
You were talking recently about a dinner party that you attended with all of your representative, oh, I don't know, what is that, the Republican Blue Blood establishment people sitting around all trying to figure out how they can get to be in charge.
And I've heard before in your program people talk about that.
Wait, wait, wait.
No, that's not what was happening at the dinner party.
It wasn't people trying to figure out how they can be in charge.
There's people detailing what they think the damage Obama has done to the country, which I want to take you.
Why are you happy?
What is happening in the country?
Is your happiness totally derived from the misery of people you don't like?
No, no, no, no.
What makes you happy?
What are you happy about happening in the country?
Well, let me explain.
The only issue that I have in mind is covered by the liberal side of the aisle.
I could care less about Obama's politics.
And as I said to your call screener, I don't care about his economics either.
That doesn't bother me.
But the issue that matters to me, and I'm a single-issue voter, it just so happens it's covered by the left.
So I'm going to continue to vote for them.
What is the issue?
I'm an animal rights wacko.
I try to soft shoe that from time to time and say that I think that people are really mistaken when they abuse, shoot, starve, torture their dogs and cats.
But I promise you, the only place I can get legislation through any of our local establishment is through the left.
It's too bad the NRA and, I don't know, other places oppose that.
Otherwise, I'd be on your side.
What's your favorite TV network?
You watch a Discovery Channel?
You like the new Nissan commercial?
Actually, I'm a huge football fan.
TV's on, football's playing.
Otherwise.
Are you being serious here?
You're absolutely serious.
You support the left because you oppose the abuse of animals.
You think they're the one group of people going to stand up for the rights of animals?
Well, no, historically, and you are a political historian.
Are you serious about this?
Sir, your country is fundamentally being destroyed right before your very eyes, and you are telling me that what animates and informs you is whatever the hell is happening with Flipper?
Single issue.
So we got a guy who's happy to hear all this internecine warfare going on between conservatives and Republicans because the Democrats are loyal on animal rights issues.
He's a single-issue guy.
I guess 9.5%, 10% unemployment doesn't bother him.
I guess the dismantlement, dismantling and the destruction of the U.S. economy is irrelevant to him.
So he admittedly is a single-issue guy.
There aren't any single issues right now.
The future of America is a package deal.
Guy ought to go hug a polar bear.
I mean, maybe he can audition for the next Nissan commercial.