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Oct. 18, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 18, 2010, Monday, Hour #2
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So why the media swing?
A week ago, everywhere you looked in the state controlled media, the Democrats are coming back.
They even had polling data.
It's not as bad as it looks.
Why the Democrats might hold on to the House.
And then just a week later.
The news today and over the weekend is it's worse than anybody thought.
I mean, it's hopeless.
We're looking at anywhere from 50 to 80 seats lost in the House.
Might even lose the Senate.
But even if we don't lose the Senate, it's going to be so close in there there's going to be a handful of moderates.
That will determine what happens in the Senate.
How to explain this?
It's simple.
At the end of the day, the media still wants its credibility.
Even if they only have to behave for two days to get it.
They can spend the whole year trumpeting how great Obama is, how wonderful he is, what how high his approval numbers are, how much the people love his agenda, and then get down to the nitty-gritty time close to the election, run the state.
It's really bad out there.
So that after the election, they see, see, we were told you.
So what explains the rest of the year?
Obviously, we've never had a media this tied to the agenda.
Openly tied to the agenda of a president.
We've always had liberal media, it's always been liberal, but this openly tied to the agenda we've never seen before.
So one of the reasons for trumpeting the Democrat comeback last week.
They wanted to get more people to contribute money.
They know that smart money aren't going to send good money after bad prospects, so they want to raise the possibility that more money coming in might make the difference.
So the agenda-oriented media was fundraising for the Democrats and ultimately for a lost cause.
But now it's really too late for money to help.
Now they're trying to panic the base.
The union thugs, the welfare kings, the welfare queens, the food stamp millions.
They are now trying to panic these people to get out the vote.
Are they going to lose their perks?
They're going to lose their safety nets.
Bye-bye, Social Security Republicans will kick you out of the house.
The media, far more invested in the Democrat Party than any foreigners have ever been invested in the Republican Party.
In fact, the media is probably as invested in the Democrat Party as the ChICOMs have been invested in the Clinton campaign.
Because the truth is, most foreign money has gone to Democrats.
There was even a case, what was the name of the uh aerospace company?
Back during the Clinton years, the ChICOM could not get a satellite in orbit.
They'd launch it, and whatever they were trying to get in orbit would plummet.
There was a big Democrat donor of an aerospace firm that had the answers for the ChICOMs.
That was Lorrae Space.
That's where Laurel space, and it was Bernie somebody who was the CEO.
Bernie Schwartz.
Now, at the time, the State Department had purview over how much an American corporation could help a foreign government.
The Clintons transferred that from the State Department to the Commerce Department, where their buddy Ron Brown, may peace be Oham peace be upon him, uh was serving.
The Commerce Department took over, and it was allowed, so Bernie Schwartz was allowed to make big time donations to the Clintonistas in exchange for giving the ChICOMs help with gyros essentially to Keep their space objects in orbit.
It was Lorell Space that actually went over to China and examined some of the debris from failed ChICOM spacecraft, missiles, satellites, and what have you to try to figure out what was going wrong.
All for the sake.
This is payback for the contributions to the Democrat Party.
We had John Huang, we had Charlie Tree and the People's Liberation Army guy that was smuggling weapons into the U.S. via Long Beach Harbor.
Media far more invested in the Democrat Party than any foreign money was ever invested in the Republican Party.
Bernie Schwartz was the single biggest contributor to the Democrat Party in the Clinton era.
Morale Space.
A uh a review of campaign finance databases by NBC News and the Center for Responsive Politics shows that between 1992 and 1998, Bernard Schwartz gave the Democrat Party 1,131,500 while he, his family, his companies, and their political action committees and executives gave another $881,000 to other Democrat candidates.
Schwartz gave another $217,000 to the DLC, the Democrat Leadership Council.
So we're well over $2 million from one guy and his ancillaries.
The man behind the China Trouble.
This is a story from the NMS NBC website, Congressional Record, House of Representatives, June 18th, 1998.
Bernard Schwartz.
So all this talk of foreign money.
This, by the way, is uh designed to do two things.
That's to get domestic money going to the Democrats, to ramp up their fundraising.
It's also to set the stage to explain the blowout.
Well, there's no way we could compete against special interests of foreign money.
You have to laugh.
You know, last week's debate with Dingy Harry and uh and Sharon, by the way, grab the dingy hairy bit because we've got Dingy Harry's already been in a recording studio to build on that great performance of his in that debate.
But here he is, here's Sharon Angle.
She's a grandmother.
She's Betty Crocker.
And how is Dingy Harry describe her?
An extremist.
A tool of the special interests.
It's just the script.
It's just what you say about anybody who is an opponent of Democrats.
Doesn't matter whether they are or aren't extremists or tools of the special interests.
You just say it.
It's been shown to work.
It's focus group data.
Here's Dingy Harry and his message for the country and Nevada after the debate.
And now a message from Harry Reed.
My fellow Nevadans, I feel your excitement and anticipation all around me.
Though I'm in Washington, I still remember my humble roots in Stoplight Nevada.
I know what it's like to live on a fixed income of 193,400, not including medical, dental, retirement, and real estate benefits.
I've been privileged to be your senator, making sure that Americans get mandatory pink ribbons and shoes for mammograms and colonoscopies.
Because if you snip off the things they find when you go up, as my good friend General Petraeus says, Social Security is just fine like it is.
If you re-elect me, I'll continue to fight extremist grandmothers like my opponent, who's never been in politics before.
See what I'm talking about?
Extremist grandmothers.
Yeah, Johnny Chung, $50,000 in cash to the White House, to the map room, the coffees, all those $250,000 in money orders, campaign contributions.
Anyway, it's all a setup.
It's all too uh to blame the Republicans explain the loss, and it's also to um, I think, set up an explanation and a defense for potential Republican House oversight investigations into the corruption in the regime.
And we're I mean, you could start right with the czars.
Here are unappointed.
Well, they're appointed, but they're not confirmed.
They're not accountable to anybody.
Nobody even knows what they're making.
And some of them have more power than cabinet secretaries do.
Boston Globe, you know, one of the uh one of the stories that we've been ongoing here the past couple of weeks has been what will Obama do after the loss if it is as big as predicted.
And I've told you the ranking Republicans I've spoken to in the Senate expect Obama to moderate.
Because he wants to be re-elected.
So you'll have to move to the center and agree more with the Republicans.
And I've said a couple of times how ridiculous it is to think that.
He's not going to move to the center.
He's not a traditional by the book political candidate.
He's got something far more important on his mind than just being re-elected.
So here's the Boston Globe of the story.
Big changes.
Obama may be on his own.
This is a story about how will Obama continue to advance his agenda.
And they make it plain here, Scott Wilson with the story, Obama will have to go around Congress.
No matter how the elections turn out, a consensus has emerged in the West Wing that Obama will have to set out goals that do not rely as much on Congress to advance his unfinished agenda.
He has no intention of moving to the center, has no intention of moderating in order to be re-elected.
Implementing that agenda takes precedence over being re-elected.
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Sit tight back before you know it.
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Microphone West Newton, Massachusetts, another political story.
President Obama fear and frustration drive voters.
It's the old bitter clinger argument here.
Obama said Americans fear and frustration is to blame for an intense midterm election cycle that threatens to derail the Democrat agenda.
Part of the reason he says that our politics seems so tough right now, and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we are scared.
Obama said Saturday night in remarks at a small Democrat fundraiser.
And the country right now is scared.
So now we've moved on from it being Bush's fault to our fault.
Because we're scared and we're scared because we're stupid.
What is this business about science?
Uh science and argument and facts.
Democrats never use science or argument to get elected, never argue policy.
They don't even risk telling us what they really want to do.
They lie.
There's no the the opposite of fact and science is what Democrats use to get elected.
They rely on feelings and slogans like hope and change.
And then they proceed to rule against the express will of voters once they're elected.
But the voters are finally starting to catch on.
Even Obama's supporters.
Because his rhetoric doesn't match.
He's fixed it.
Out of the ditch.
Nothing's getting any better, and we're told that this is the new norm.
10% unemployment is the new norm.
To the phones we go, this is Sarah, Springfield, Illinois.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
I'm if I sound shaky, I apologize.
I'm nervous.
I'm so honored to talk to you.
You don't sound shaky, and you don't sound nervous at all.
You don't sound like you're jiggling in the slightest.
Oh, not jiggling like Michelle Obama, but um anyway, that's another story.
I knew she was gonna say that's why.
See, Pavlov's here.
I knew that's what all I had to do is say jiggling, and I knew that you're gonna mention Michelle Obama.
Do you think she's gaining weight too?
Um, yeah, then I'll tell you exactly where it is.
It's right around her rear end in her side, but you know, that's exactly where it went.
But some women gain weight there.
It's okay.
It's obvious she has put on a few pounds.
Um the reason I'm calling though, I'm so excited for November 2nd.
Um I'm so excited to, you know, my father in law refers to it as uh flushing out the pipes in the clog toilet.
I think it's great.
I'm so excited.
But as you've said, just you know, just a few minutes ago in the blame game and Obama blaming other people and blaming Bush and now the American people.
I'm just really afraid that he's this is this is going to get him re-elected in two years.
Why?
Why are you carrying in the midst of what looks to be very exhilarating victory?
Why then do you proceed to the negative?
Well, I proceed to the negative because I'm trying to think long term, and I'm thinking, are the problems that we're all having now really going to be solved in two years?
And if they're not, you're still gonna have a bunch of people out there who are unemployed who are going, okay.
Well, we gave the Democrats a shot, they screwed it up.
Well, now we'll give the Republicans a shot, they screwed it up, and Obama will be there going, see, I told you so.
Well now and now I know I I know that that's right.
I I know that whatever the Republicans could not say a word for two years, and Obama's gonna blame them for stopping and opposing his agenda, which of course is aimed at fixing all that's wrong, which is a fat out lie.
I know that that's what he's going to do, but do you think the voters you'd have to agree here that for this big victory to occur, if it does, there has to be a level of sophistication and understanding on the part of the voters, and then to think that Obama's gonna get away with convincing them he's not in the White House that the Republicans are running the show, you're gonna have to rely on repo the voters losing this level of sophistication in two years and falling for another trap.
So but if they're still in the same boat that they are now, I mean, they I think they could fall into the trap.
And that's my concern.
I just you know, I think people vote I think people vote the way that they're having a tough time right now, so they're gonna vote everybody out right now that they want to get out to try to make their lives better.
And I agree.
I agree.
We need to I mean, I'm in the Bobby Schilling district.
I mean, we're in the Phil Hare race.
I mean, it's terrible in here in Illinois.
But I'm afraid, you know, two years from now, well, I'm gonna my neighbors who are, you know, unemployed.
Well, they're still gonna be unemployed if they're you know, they ha if the economy hasn't been fixed, and well, maybe Obama can fix it again.
Maybe Obama will be out there going, see, you know, you vote the Republicans in, they still didn't fix it.
I mean what I just feel like it's kind of it's a deadlock, and we're gonna be stuck with him another four years if we're not careful.
That's just my concern.
Whoa!
I cannot believe what I'm looking at.
I don't believe what I'm seeing.
Pardon me, I've not lost track of what you were saying.
That's okay.
I'm looking at something on TV that I don't quite believe.
Let me I understand your your fear here.
Nothing's gonna get done.
No substantive changes are going to take place in terms of the economy and so forth, the Republicans can be able to stake claim to, correct?
Correct.
That's what and so you you think that by the time the voters it only took them a year and a half to sour on Obama, so another two years to sour on the Republicans to go back, because the media is gonna be on his side.
So if let's assume that that's pretty accurate, what would you advise the Republicans to do, knowing full well this could possibly happen?
Well, that's what I'm calling you for.
I mean, I've I refuse I will never vote for Obama.
I I mean it's pointless.
Anything the hope, the change, I mean, give me a break.
It it I don't like this hope or change.
I don't like it at all, but it'll come back out.
Yes, we can in two years, and hope and change and change what we got going on right now, and who's in the charge right now, the Republicans are right now running the House and Senate.
So blame them for your problems.
Don't blame me.
It's it's very, very simple.
Very simple theoretically.
All the Republicans have to do to ensure that they do not get blamed for any lack of progress is to see to it that they make every effort in the world to stop this, to keep talking.
This conservative ascendancy must continually be sold.
It must be supported.
The people who are going to invest in voting Republican are gonna have to see something.
Now they are gonna be limited because of presidential vetoes in what they can do, but they will not be limited in what they can try.
And they must try, and they must try with a lot of verbiage.
They must announce what they're going to try.
They must continue to say that what Obama has done and wants to keep doing is unacceptable.
They cannot rest.
They cannot relax on their laurels.
They cannot assume that the country has moved with them.
There is a fire in the belly of this country.
The Republicans are going to have to keep that fire stoked.
The people will.
The people are going to throw anybody out who does not stay focused on fixing this and turning this around, putting it in the right direction.
I don't care what party they come from, and I don't care what they've done in the past.
So if the Republicans want to overcome what I think is an accurate strategy, the Democrats' media are going to try, they have to pretend the next two years they are still on the campaign trail.
They are still campaigning.
Obama is still a problem.
Liberalism is still a problem and there's a long way to go.
Liberalism And we're back.
Rush Linboh.
Thank you for uh we're trying to remember something here, folks.
Doesn't matter.
I want to tackle what our previous caller said in a little bit more detail because it's a good question.
Uh and I myself have advanced the theory that Obama will actually enjoy having a Republican opposition, because in his own case, running for re-election in 2012, he's going to run against somebody.
He wants to run against somebody, and he'd much rather run against Republicans than he would run against his own party, as evidenced by what's happening now.
His party's in charge of everything.
It's gone to hell, and he can't really run against it.
So now it's people that are stupid, don't understand what he's trying to do.
Bush left him a big mess.
No Democrat can run around, no Democrat is running around on Obama's agenda trying to get re-elected.
They're not saying, look what we did.
Give us another two years so we can finish the job.
Not one Democrat saying this.
Not one.
Most of them are running away from it.
Now, there are two primary things in answering what's going to happen the next two years.
The first thing is what's Obama going to do.
Now remember, I have told you these ranking Republicans believe that Obama's gonna moderate.
I don't.
I don't think Obama's gonna try to compromise with the Republicans.
He's not gonna compromise at all.
He's not gonna give them an inch.
The only way re uh Obama would go along with any Republican idea is if it is a rhino Republican idea that essentially equals compromise on the basis of him being agreed with by them.
So what will Obama do the next two years?
He's going to continue to press his agenda.
That's why he's there.
He is there to remake this country.
He has a chip on his shoulder about this country, whatever the reason.
There can be no doubt now.
Obama does not like this country as it was founded.
He is hellbent on making this country pay the price he thinks it must pray for our imperialism or colonialism or whatever crimes we've committed as a nation since our founding.
He has no interest in compromising with Republicans.
He's going to continue to advance his agenda.
So that alone provides the Republicans with a simple opportunity.
Continue to oppose the agenda.
Very simple.
The Republicans, secondly, are going to have to make an ongoing everyday effort to roll some of this back, to stop it, which includes talking a good game sincerely, coupled with actions that they take.
They cannot just sit back and go into a prevent defense and wait for two years.
Now, there will be gridlock, by the way, which is a good thing.
The Republicans are going to hold fast on their agenda, there's no question.
There won't be that many rhinos to go along with Obama's.
His agenda is going to be stuck, but he's going to continue to push it because continuing to push the agenda is what's going to give him the opportunity to run against the Republicans for stopping his agenda.
Now his j He's going to say, as he's been saying since the get-go, that his agenda will save the country, that his agenda will fix the problems, that his agenda will put the economy back on solid footing.
He's going to say the Republicans are stopping him, standing in the way.
Republicans are against progress.
They are for special interests, you know the drill.
The I really look at these next two years as a continuation of this last year.
For the first six months to eight months, nobody in the Republican Party had the guts to oppose Obama on anything.
After the first six months to eight months, they began to get a little bit more comfortable with opposing things in his agenda of primarily health care, cap and trade, the real huge far-left stuff, and they held firm.
The American people aren't going to change.
This conservative ascendancy isn't going anywhere.
It will expect results.
The people voting next month are going to expect performance commensurate with their votes.
And if they don't get it, they're going to throw the next bunch of people out in two more years, Obama and whoever else.
We have reached a tipping point in the country.
We have crossed the threshold.
For the vast majority of Americans, this is not politics as usual, where the Republicans win a couple times and the Democrats win, and we share power and we go back and forth.
This is about saving the country.
And any elected official who does not understand that his or her job is to save the country by opposing the direction Obama and the Democrat Party are taking it, will also be defeated the next time around.
It's that simple.
I don't believe the voters are going to lose their sophistication.
I don't think voters are going to lose their understanding of things.
I don't believe voters are going to all of a sudden become stupid or ignorant or forgetful.
Oh.
I don't see them falling for Obama anymore like they did in the 2008 campaign and maybe the first six to nine months of his regime.
Now you and I, we never did fall for him, but you have to admit for the opposition to Obama to be well over 50%.
A lot of people that voted for him and embraced him have now seen the light.
They're not gonna, they're not gonna fade away.
If he continues to push the agenda, if he continues to make people question what his real interests are, there will always be opposition.
That's not going to change.
People aren't gonna I don't think he can get this magic back where hope and change and sloganeering can all of a sudden win the day.
I don't think those days can happen again.
That's once in a campaign, once in a presidency.
I don't I don't, I just don't believe they can go back to recapturing that.
Not after it is now known what he really wants to do.
The truth now will overshadow any dream, any fantasy, any platitudes that are offered up.
The Republicans, to the extent that they want to be re-elected are gonna have to understand and act upon the notion that it is the country that's at stake here.
The future of people's families, their jobs, their children and their grandchildren, the debt, the spending, all substantive things, this election is going to turn on substance as much as any election in my lifetime has.
Not platitudes and not slogans and not marketing and packaging.
A clear majority of the American people are scared of where the country's headed and where the Democrat Party's taking it, and they're opposed to it.
To the extent that the opposing party does not energetically try to stop it, the opposing party will pay the consequences the next election in 2012, along with Obama.
The sad thing is look at how expensive this learning curve has been.
Look at what it's cost us.
Look at what it has cost us for so many people to finally wake up to see where liberalism will take this country, Where the Democrat Party will take this country.
It's taken trillion dollar deficits.
It has taken indebtedness and a national debt, the likes of which can really never been be repaid.
10% unemployment, with no promise of any improvement, significant improvement for years.
Look at what it's cost.
But because it has been realized, there's no going back now.
Any Republican who is sworn into office, if this land, let's assume here that these elections do result in these, well, the Republicans winning the House, a big majority, and let's let's say it's a 50-50 Senate.
Any Republican who assumes office, hoping that people understand he doesn't really have the power to change anything is finished.
Any Republican sworn into office next January, hoping that the American people realize we can't really repeal anything until we get the White House in 2012 is hopelessly lost.
Any Republican who is hoping that the voters realize that they don't really control a government is in for a huge surprise, him or herself, because the voters expect this to be stopped.
And the one thing voters know is the Republicans will have the votes to stop it.
May not have the votes to repeal, say, an entire piece of legislation like Obamacare.
But the voters will know the Republicans have the votes to stop anything else Obama wants.
The only way Obama will get anything he wants is either Republicans caving and agreeing with him or him going outside the Constitution and doing it by some sort of executive fiat by ignoring Congress.
Want cap and trade?
Fine.
Here's how it's going to happen.
We'll have the EPA do it.
Congress, you don't matter.
That's the only way he's going to be able to get things done.
In which case, which is what he's going to do.
Folks, he is who he is.
He is the most radical leftist ever elected to power in this country.
He's not going to stop.
If he were going to moderate, he would have done so after Scott Brown won that Senate seat in Massachusetts.
He would have given up on health care, or he would have moderated his proposal to get a couple of three Republican votes, but he didn't.
He kept plugging away at what expense?
To what expense?
His own party.
His own party has people whose careers are now over because they voted for his health care bill.
Democrats have ended their political careers.
Does he care?
No.
Is this somebody who is going to moderate and compromise with Republicans?
No.
This is somebody who is going to go extra constitutional to get done what he wants to get done.
This is what's in store for us.
The Republicans, the opposition, whoever they are, is going to have to do everything they can to stop any further advancement of the Obama agenda.
That's what's crucial in the next two years.
Before something can be turned around, it has to be stopped.
Something in motion has to be stopped before it can go the reverse direction.
Or turned before it can start going the opposite direction.
Can't happen overnight on a dime.
But if the Republicans are going to make a huge mistake, if they are going to rely on people understanding that until Republicans win the White House, they really can't do anything because the expectations are that they can stop it.
The expectations are that the Republicans can stop any further agenda advancement by Obama, at least legislatively.
And if he goes extra-constitutional, if he tries to do all this by executive order or some sort of use of executive power that's not permitted or defined in the Constitution, they better caterwall like they've never caterwalled before.
They better shout for the mountaintops.
They better start investigating, issuing subpoenas.
It's crunch time.
The American people are serious about this, and the Republicans need to realize it.
The fact that there are some people who are thinking that the Republicans are going to cave, and somehow Obama's going to succeed in blaming them for all of this disaster, ought to scare them.
That ought to wake Republicans up left and right.
It ought to wake them up.
Do you realize there are people who think that Obama's going to succeed in blaming you for all this mess?
That's how little confidence some people have in ruling class Republicans.
So they've got their work cut out for them.
They're going to have to be energetic.
They can't just occupy the House as a majority and think by fiat Obama's stopped.
It's going to be a lot of work.
They're going to have to roll up their sleeves because the real work is going to begin after the election.
We'll find out if they're up to it.
And if they're not, people who are will be elected in 2012.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
As we pointed out on numerous occasions, uh, ladies and gentlemen, the the real and present danger to America is not Obama.
Obama is a common person in this country.
The Democrat Party is full of Obamas.
The real clear and present danger is that we have a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like Obama with the presidency.
That's the real, and now the question is, have we learned our lesson?
We're about to find out.
Have we learned our lesson?
This is the starkest wake-up call this country has ever had.
This is the clearest indication of what the Democrat Party will do to America if left unchecked.
This is the clearest illustration yet.
And I find it interesting.
Well, it's interesting, but it's it's not surprising that people using experience still believe that the people can be tricked ultimately into believing that this economic mess is indeed the fault of the Republicans.
Even though the Democrats have run this country since 2007.
Starting with Pelosi, the Democrats in the House, Dingy Harry in the Senate, and Obama gets the White House in 2009.
That's when he's immaculated.
The Democrats have run this country into the ditch, the exact opposite of what Obama and the Democrats are saying about the Republicans having done so.
I mean, we're in the mess we're in precisely because of one thing, liberalism, socialism, Marxism, whatever you want to call it.
The abandonment of market capitalism is why we are where we are.
The assault on market capitalism, free market capitalism is the reason why people are thinking their opportunity for prosperity, economic advancement is dwindling by the day.
So with this obvious explanation of why the Democrat Party, liberalism, Obama, and it's all around the world, the evidence that it doesn't work and is failing.
Still, there are people who live in mortal fear that in two years' time the American people can be convinced that all this is because of the Republicans.
The media, the Democrats have gotten away with it time and time again.
But never before has there been this clear and stark an illustration of where Democrats will take the country.
So it's going to boil down to elected representatives of the people who are going to be elected this November, taking the ball and running with it, and understanding why they've been elected and what is expected of them.
And don't worry, folks, they will be reminded Each and every day.
Don't worry about that.
It's the fastest three hours in media.
It is evidence of that the first two are already in the can.
People have been on hold for a long time, and I promise I'll get the phones early in the next hour, earlier than.
In fact, Snurdly, I might even get the phones in the opening monologue segment.
You don't believe me?
He thinks once I get rolling, the plans to go to the phones will fall by the wayside.
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