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Nov. 1, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 1, 2010, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
If you are paying attention to any media today, if you paid any attention to any media over the weekend, you are looking live at panic.
You are seeing panic personified.
You're seeing it from the state-controlled drive-by media.
You're seeing it from the Democrat Party.
And you are even seeing it from the elites in the Republican Party.
Sheer utter panic.
Great to have you here, Rush Limboa at 800-282-2882.
Email address El Rushbo at EIB net.com.
Let me first give you a general review and followed by specifics, both stories and audio sound bites, what I am speaking of regarding the sheer panic that uh that is out there.
There is a um it uh newfound cynicism, media cynicism about Washington all of a sudden.
Now, to put this in perspective, two years ago, three years ago, starting in 2007 through the 2008 campaign, uh, the people selling us Obama sold us on changing Washington.
It was going to be post stick with me on this.
I know this redundant, but it's important.
Postpartisan, post-racial.
Uh it we're gonna be almost utopia-like.
People who've never gotten along before we're gonna get along.
The races are finally gonna bury the hatchets.
Uh the sexes and the genders are gonna bury the hatchets.
The rest of the world was gonna love us.
A lot of people went to the polls thinking this was possible.
One man was going to make it possible.
Barack Obama was going to change Washington.
Starting at the end of last week through this weekend and into this morning, story after story after story, and I'll show them to you when we get to that point of the program.
You can't change Washington.
There is so much cynicism in the media today.
You can't change Washington.
Two years ago, it was all about hope and all about change.
And they tried to stick with that up to even the beginning of last week.
Now all of a sudden, the conventional wisdom is you can't change Washington.
And the proof is that Obama couldn't change it.
If Obama can't change it, nobody can.
That view is from inside the Oval Office, by the way.
If Obama can't get his face on Mount Rushmore, nobody can.
If Obama cannot be great in America, nobody can.
If Obama can't change Washington, nobody can.
And now they're even saying, Obama supporters that he was an idiot to try.
The thing is, he didn't try.
He's not tried to change Washington.
What Obama's done is grow it.
And he has succeeded in growing it.
And the opposition to Obama is not so much rooted in changing Washington as it is rooted in shrinking Washington.
That's what this is.
And anybody who gets in the way of this, in terms of the Tea Party and the people are going to show up in droves tomorrow and vote, anybody who gets in the way of the effort to shrink the party is going to find themselves at political risk.
The next opportunity there is to vote on them.
Now, as I told you last Monday on this program, and I prepped you for it all last week and today and tomorrow.
The effort is on to demoralize you.
The effort is on to dispirit you.
Sharon Angle can't pull it out.
Dino Rossi can't pull it out.
John Rasey can't pull it out.
It ain't gonna have the House is gone.
The Democrats are admitting the House of Gone 50, 60, who knows how many seats, but the Senate forget it.
You don't have a chance.
What did he say?
She's uh mentally disturbed.
Harry Reid has said, Sharon Angle mentally disturbed.
Los Vegas.
Barack Obama told people don't go there.
Remember, early on in his administration, the days of getting on your plane and going to Vegas, days are over.
Guess who is flying into Las Vegas and swelling the population of this town At geometrically progressive numbers.
Hundreds of Democrat congressional aides, operatives, and lobbyists have descended on Washington.
Las Vegas.
As well as the gaming industry in Nevada is getting ranked up and in gear to save Harry Reed.
Obama says don't go to Washington.
Practically anybody who has any time on their hand, Nevada, I'm sorry, Las Vegas, and anybody who has any time on their hand is there.
Flooding Las Vegas.
In Delaware, Christine O'Donnell bought two 30-minute TV ads on a local TV station.
The station forgot to run it both times.
They simply forgot to run Christine O'Donnell's 30-minute ad.
One last night, one this morning.
30 minutes, bought and paid for.
They say they forgot.
As someone in broadcasting, there's a thing called the traffic log of each day's program with the commercials that are supposed to run computers do it these days.
Maybe in Delaware they're not that far advanced at this TV, but there's no forgetting.
There's no forgetting to run an ad.
Believe me, there's no forgetting to run an ad.
There's only a purposeful omission.
There's only an active decision not to run an ad.
So everybody flocking to Las Vegas to try to save Harry Reed.
They're scared to death of Christine O'Donnell in Delaware.
Out in the state of Washington, Dino Rossi in the poll that counts, is up by two.
Something also to keep in mind about Dino Rossi in Washington.
Most of the voting in the state of Washington is done by mail.
Public policy polling, a lib bunch in North Carolina's gone out.
And they have polled people in the state of Washington who've already voted.
The early voters, among those who have already voted, it's 5247 Rossi.
Among the early voters, 5247 for the Republican over Patty Murray.
Now, if that's true, if the public policy polling data is true, it means a lot of ground that Patty Murray is going to have to make up.
Now, as I say, we're not going to know Washington for quite a while because most of the balloting is by mail.
After they finish in Las Vegas, all these people, consultants and lawyers, are going to be going to the state of Washington to deal with that recount.
To deal with that count, period.
Okay, so Obama was foolish to try to change Washington.
The Tea Parties, they're trying to tell you people don't even don't even worry about voting because you're not going to change anything.
You can't change Washington.
If Obama couldn't change it, you can't.
Don't even worry.
Don't even bother to vote.
The media is even running stories today saying the elite GOP, as typified by Carl Rove and Trent Lott, are just waiting to sabotage any effort, any idea you have of changing Washington.
They are willing to co-opt the Tea Party freshmen.
In fact, they've already started by hiring their insider staff for them.
This is meant to dispirit you.
This is trying to tell you that you don't know the ways of Washington.
You don't have anybody who's going to get there who does.
You're being outflanked and outspent by the insiders, Carl Rove and Trent Lott.
Don't even bother to vote.
They've got more money than you do.
They have more insider way knowledge experience than you do.
Washington can't be changed.
If Obama can't do it, nobody can.
It's all over the media today.
And I'm going to give you the examples of it as the program unfolds.
You Tea Party people, you're so silly.
You're so silly to even try to change it.
Friday night television show in Washington, I think it's called Inside Washington, uh, Nina Totenberg was on that show along with uh Evan Thomas.
And this is funny.
This election is like a circus.
They never seen it this bad.
Never ever seen it in this bad.
The elites are running scared.
The elites, both parties inside Washington are running scared.
And all this talk about changing Washington.
Maybe I may be splitting hairs here.
But changing Washington equals shrinking Washington.
That's the objective.
Now that is change.
But it's a specific change.
If the Tea Party cannot change Washington, then why is everybody so damned afraid of them today?
If the Tea Party can't change Washington, if these new arrivals, the newbies, if the new conservative ascendancy, and let's call it what it is, if this new conservative ascendancy cannot change Washington, then what's everybody so damned afraid of?
They are afraid because they know the Tea Party, the conservative ascendancy can change Washington.
Just not in the way they want.
That's why they're afraid.
They are genuinely afraid.
Government spending has increased 22% since Obama took office.
Where is the rage of outside money with Harry Reed?
Reed has tried to say that all of angle support came from outside Nevada.
Look at who's flooding Las Vegas today.
Everybody going in there to save Harry Reed is from outside except the gaming industry.
The drive by media.
The insiders in Washington, including, I would include the elite GOP in this, are in panic mode.
You are seeing it up close and personal.
The next 24 hours, you are going to see ratchet it up even more.
All of it designed to dispirit you and panic you.
All of it designed to make you think that what you know is coming really isn't coming.
It's going to be to confuse you.
It's going to have you scratching your head.
On one report, you're going to hear how it's going to be a GOP Republican sweep.
The next report ain't going to be as big.
And they're already setting the table, as I mentioned to you last week.
If you look in the right places, you will find stories about how big, how sweeping this victory tomorrow is going to be.
The reason for that is so that they can take the actual result and call it a disappointment.
All these stories about how big the wind will be, anything short of how big the wind I mean, they're talking 60, 70 seats in the House now, folks.
Last Friday it was 50.
Now it's 60 or 70.
If that doesn't happen, it's going to be a disappointment.
It's going to, hey, the Tea Party's not what everybody thought it was because what's taking place right now is the laying of the table, a setting of the table for after tomorrow.
What's taking place now is the setting of the table for the rest of this year and starting next year.
They know they're going to get skunked.
So they're setting their agenda, setting the table for what's going to happen and how they're going to affect your attitude and your behavior.
They're doing everything they can, and they have to, to delegitimize the election even before it's happened.
The usual accusations.
We're having a temper tantrum.
We have no money and no clout.
Carl Rov and Trent Lott and the insiders have far more money.
They have far greater ties to the lobbyists and the insiders who actually make things work.
You Tea Party people really can't do anything.
You are embarrassing us and you are embarrassing the country.
You're turning this election into a circus.
The rest of the world is looking at this country and they can't believe after electing Obama two years ago in what promised to be such a sweeping positive change for the entire world.
Now two years later, the American public has been consumed and taken over by sheer insanity.
And the rest of the world is looking on with great fear, great trepidation.
They are going to say it's just a fluke that so many Democrats got beat tomorrow.
Because what is going to happen is that you're going to show up and you're going to vote in droves.
and You are going to get rid of the popular kids.
You are going to bust up the high school click.
For perhaps the first time, the high stool click has been busted up.
The point of the program today is to give you details, forecasts, prognostications, as well as not be distracted by other news that's happening, such as U.S. small business owners believe a U.S. economic recovery is unlikely to accelerate before the second half of 2011 amid worries about issues such as health care costs.
U.S. small business a recovery months away.
Translate, small business, no confidence in the Democrat-run government to fix the economy.
No confidence in Obama.
CNN.
The number of Americans who say things are going badly in the country at 75%.
This is the old question.
Are you better off than you were two years ago?
Are you better off than you were four years ago?
Seventy-five percent of Americans say things are going badly.
That number is higher than it has been on the eve of any midterm election since the question was first asked in the mid-1970s.
This is a CNN opinion research corporation survey released today, indicates the economy remains by far the top issue on the minds of Americans.
52% of people question this poll, say the economy is the most important issue facing the country.
And who is it that doesn't dare talk about what they've done to fix it?
Who is it that has no message?
Who is it that cannot call one dime's worth of attention to its own achievements and accomplishments, which they have.
They passed health care.
They did the stimulus, they did TARP, they did TARP too.
They have gotten even with Wall Street.
They took over the car companies, financial regulatory reform bill.
And yet they don't point to any of it with a smile on their face and say, give us two more years to do even more.
They want you to forget they've had anything to do with it.
It's blame Bush again.
Is trying to scare John Boehner.
Imagine this, Obama says Boehner, he's a little cocky.
I don't know if I can work with him.
Boehner is a little cocky.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
Cocky.
How about cocky, aloof, elitist, and incompetent.
Newsweek.
Newsweek trying to distract me with their story on me today.
Newsweek trying to distract me from this program by putting a picture of me on their cover and making me number one in the top 50 pundits in a number of ways.
They are not going to distract me.
This is all part of the media two-minute drill.
It isn't going to work.
We're focused and we are disciplined and don't go anywhere else for the next two and a half hours.
Be proud.
Be honored.
Be happy.
Go ahead, be cocky if you wish.
No matter how this election turns out, we have a pretty good idea how it is going to turn out.
The power of this conservative ascendancy.
The power of effectively the silent majority.
We're finally giving a voice.
Hearing a voice from the silent majority.
The Tea Party.
No matter how the elections turn out, the power of the Tea Party movement, mindset, has already been proved in a hundred ways.
Look at every race.
Everyone in this race is trying to look like a Tea Party conservative in West Virginia.
The governor, Joe Manchin, trying to sound like Ronald Reagan.
Remember, he voted for Cap and Trade.
This is a guy who supported Obama's health care until he saw what was in it.
Said he wanted to run for senator.
Now he's got to say he didn't like it.
With the rare exception of states like California, maybe even in Massachusetts, New York, some places there are some Democrats running as conservatives, as they know.
They saw the writing on the wall, and now they need to see the writing at the ballot box.
Shhh Which they would Joe Manchin, the Democrat governor of West Virginia, seeking the Senate seat held by Robert Sheets Byrd.
Joe Manchin said over the weekend that he is a friend of Sarah Palin.
He is a friend of Sarah Palin.
He knows what he has to do to try to get elected in West Virginia.
He knows her from their work together as part of the National Governor's Association.
Washington, AP, American income's post largest drop in 14 months.
How's that recovery?
Hope and change working out for you.
Keep in mind, too, that when the Bush tax cuts expire at the end of the year, even more will be taken out of your already small paychecks.
You want that more?
Vote Democrat.
Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh, brand new week broadcast excellence, election eve.
A quick email, dear Rush, you think that piece in Newsweek correctly and almost alone in the major media, saying that you are essentially the reason for the impending GOP victories intended as a distraction.
You think it's intended as a well, I just tweaking the media into uh suggesting that they were trying to get me to talk about me rather than the issues and the uh and the uh candidates in uh in other races.
Uh the governor's race at Connecticut all of a sudden is neck and neck.
Let's go to the audio sound bites as we start to illustrate some of the panic, some of the effort to dispirit you, to impugn you, to mischaracterize you.
Here is a media montage from yesterday and last night.
Now the usual suspects, I'm not even gonna bother giving you the names of these people, it won't matter because they are as interchangeable as cookie cutters.
Anger and fear are dominant now, and that's propelling what's going to happen on Tuesday.
The rise of the Tea Party, the anger.
That anxiety and frustration and anger.
They're angry.
They're not just angry at Barack Obama, though, they're angry at everybody in Washington.
A campaign full of anger.
There is so much anger in the land.
And why shouldn't there be?
Somebody tell me, why should we remain docile over the assault on the United States Constitution?
Why should we remain docile and civil and polite?
Just because these people say we said over the assault on job creation in this country.
What in the world is wrong with being angry about this?
There's a great post dealing with this, Mo Lane at redstate.com.
And this was uh over the weekend.
Political story.
Grim Democrats await huge losses.
These people are on the verge of watching a large percentage of their client list, and in many cases, friends and members of their social circle.
Remember, I've always told you that part of the seductive lure of Washington is not just to be included politically, but socially as well.
And now the Democrats on the verge of watching a large percentage of their client list.
These are these uh campaign consultants, advisors and so forth.
Friends and members of their social circle be thrown out of work right in the middle of one of the most toxic employment environments in recent history.
They've been fighting for a year and nothing has worked, and now they are afraid, the people responsible for this, some of them being in the unemployment line.
Now, Mr. Lane says a lot of people might have a desire to not kick these Democrats when they're down.
To have a little empathy, realize that we've been there too, and they did kick us when we were down.
But we should be better people.
We should not kick them.
We should not be mean.
We should use our empathy because it happened to us in 2006 and 2008.
And as nice people, which we all are, It's an instinct to back off to not kick somebody when they're down.
Laudable impulses to be sure.
But as Mr. Lane reminds us, before you act on those impulses with regard to these professional Democrats, and not to kick them when they're down, regarding your desire to be nice and civil and don't forget your desire to show Howard Kurtz and Mark Halpert and Michelle Norris and Clarence Page, all the other people in the montage that you're not angry.
Don't go on defense.
Don't accept their premise.
Or if you do, ask what's wrong with a premise.
As I just did.
What's wrong with being mad?
You ought to be fit to be tied.
Remember this.
These people losing the election tomorrow told their clients, the Democrats to say that you hate African Americans.
The people losing tomorrow said that you hate Latinos.
The people losing tomorrow said that you hate gay people.
The people losing tomorrow say that you hate women.
The people losing tomorrow say that you hate Jews.
The people losing tomorrow say that you hate Muslims.
The people losing tomorrow accused you of hating the poor.
The people who are losing tomorrow accuse you of hating America.
Why shouldn't you be mad?
Your character is impugned daily in the media.
And nobody comes to your defense.
In fact, in your own party, the elitists sort of give faint agreement.
Talking of your little kooky unsophisticated rubes, you know, from the margins of political business.
You don't really know what you're doing.
Good people, but you just don't know you're racist, you're sexist, you're bigots.
Remember the people losing tomorrow in an effort to win called you racist.
They said you hate blacks.
They said you hate Latinos.
When all you're doing is standing up for the law, when all you're doing is defending the Constitution, they say you hate African Americans.
They say you hate Latinos, they say you hate gays.
The people losing tomorrow have called you fascists.
The people losing tomorrow have called you stupid, uneducated, unsophisticated, they have called you hate mongers.
They have said you were insane.
In some cases, they have sent union thugs to beat you up at campaign rallies.
Why shouldn't you be mad?
They have said that you are violent extremists.
When the Times Square bomber was caught, these people suspected that it was you who planted the bomb because you were upset at Obama's health care.
Why shouldn't you be mad?
Why shouldn't you be angry in defense of the honor and traditions that have made this country great as they are under assault by a political party and machine who do not subscribe to their greatness, who do not believe they have a role in America any further?
The people who are calling you violent extremists are the ones engaging in violence.
The ones who call you hate monkers are the people who engage in hate of you.
The ones accusing you of being insane themselves don't have elevators that go all the way to the top or are an order of fries short of a happy meal, and they run many blogs.
And as Mr. Lane points out, you could keep this going for as long as you cared to.
You have been called unpatriotic.
The people losing tomorrow have called you cowards.
Cowards on race, cowers on any number of subjects.
You have been mocked at every opportunity.
You have been accused of shouting the N-word at members of Congress on the day of the health care vote when it did not happen.
Why shouldn't people be angry?
But besides all of that, the root of the anger is the all-out assault on the decency and greatness and morality of this country and its people.
As Shelby Steele pointed out so brilliantly last week, when you assume the position of presiding over a fallen America, by definition, you cannot preside over a great America.
You have to preside over a people and nation in decline.
If, for all of you in the media who think it's so reprehensible for people to be angry...
if people aren't mad today, what the hell would it take to get them mad?
Have you thought about that?
The real special interests in this election are the media, the unions, and the takers, not the producers and not the makers, the consumers, not the producers.
The producers are not the problem.
The media is trying to get you to show mercy.
The media is trying to get you to feel less confident about what's going to happen tomorrow.
They're trying to keep you from running up the score, so to speak.
They don't want what happens tomorrow to be seen as a mandate.
Sadly, even Scott Rasmussen's getting in on this a little bit from his website.
Voters don't want to be governed from the left, the right, or the center.
They want Washington to recognize that Americans want to govern themselves.
Sounds good.
Mr. Rasmussen continues.
In this environment, it would be wise for all Republicans to remember that their team didn't win.
The other team lost, meaning the Democrats.
Now, this is as far as he goes is correct.
This is not a big Republican victory.
This is a conservative ascendancy.
This is not a, we want Washington to change victory.
Mr. Rasmussen says heading into 2012, voters will remain ready to vote against the party in power unless they're given a reason not to do so.
This is an attempt to shape events.
Voters do want a conservative government.
Listen to them when they speak at town halls.
Listen to voters when they tell you what they're upset about and what they hope to change.
They want a conservative government, which is a smaller government, less government.
They want less intrusion, limited taxes.
They want the border secure.
They want a strong military.
They don't want to be bothered and harassed whenever they start a business.
Or make an addition to their home.
Far too many people are unwilling to say that this is a conservative ascendancy.
Too many people unwilling to say.
Maybe they're not schooled enough in conservatism to understand what's going on.
But the effort to redefine us will continue.
It happens today.
It happened last week.
It's been going on for as long as I live, and it will happen tomorrow.
The effort to redefine what happens today or tomorrow and this week in the ballot box.
This redefining of what is occurring.
It is a conservative ascendancy.
It cannot be said it's simply an anti-Washington or anti-incumbent mood.
There is a conservative ascendancy, and when you see Joe Manchin, the Democrat governor of West Virginia, and the way he campaigns for his Senate seat, and many other Democrats, when you hear them parroting Ronald Reagan, you hear them parroting conservatism.
Now, this is a very simple thing to understand.
It's obvious to most of us, but Republicans and the right are not the same.
Republicans and conservatism are not universally not always the same thing.
A lot of these polsters, Doug Schoen is one, and he's coming up on an audio soundbite, like to say Americans want the parties to work together, that they want a centrist government.
That's an attempt to de-emphasize conservatism.
The American people want gridlock the next two years.
They want this regime stopped.
They don't want to work with Obama.
They don't want compromise with the Democrats.
They don't want to institute fair and open debate with Democrats in the House of Representative.
It's not about that.
It's about arresting the bloated growing of government, stopping it dead in its tracks.
It is about being governed from the right.
And we'll be back and continue.
Your phone calls are coming up at some point.
Don't go away.
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So we're angry, and this is somehow puzzling.
Somehow unbecoming.
The people who are now in power were willing to lose two wars.
One in Iraq, one in Afghanistan.
The people who were in power now were willing to drive our economy into the toilet and have done so.
The people in power now have caused 17% of the people of this country to not have jobs.
And they were responsible for half of those people never wanting to work again.
The people in power in this country want to extend unemployment benefits in perpetuity for the purpose of making these people serfs.
And thereby robbing them of their human dignity, the American people and their dignity at stake.
By virtue of the people in power now, and we're not supposed to be mad.
The people who are now in power, willing to destroy the economy, your savings, just to win their elections in 2006 and 2008.
I wonder why we're angry.
And it is very true the Republicans aren't going to win tomorrow.
That is exactly the point.
What's being voted for tomorrow is not more collegiality.
Bipartisanship is not being voted for.
It is not on the ballot.
...
The desire to accommodate is not on the ballot unless the people who have taken this country in the wrong direction finally admit it and join us in fixing it.
That's the only compromise there will be.
Stopping what is going on in Washington is absolutely necessary.
You can call it gridlock, whatever you want, but it should and hopefully will be just a a beginning, part of turning things back, going in the opposite direction.
Audio soundbites, Doug Schoen, C-SPAN 2 last night.
He's on with uh Amity Schlay's.
He's talking about his book Mad as Hell.
And Amity Schlays says to Doug Schoen, could you repeat what happened with Michael Steele and Mr. Rush Limbaugh?
Steele criticiz.
Limbaugh pushed back, and Steele sued for peace.
And in a certain way.
When that happened, I said, Boy, that's the power of Rush Limbaugh.
In actual fact, while he is undeniably potent and powerful and influential, it was ultimately an expression of Tea Party power reflecting itself in that dispute.
But maybe it's a force in history that much antedates the Tea Party, such as the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, that radio doctrine that made very strongly opinionated shows such as Rush Slimbaugh is possible.
Now the uh point here that Doug Schoen is making is that uh the people reacting and agreeing to me with me in the dispute over Michael Steele with a Tea Party people.
That's true, can't be denied.
Doug Brinkley.
Sunday morning Fox News Channel's happening now.
The co-host Jenna Lee talking to Doug Brinkley, he's Rice University history prof and author.
She said, What's the one piece of advice you would give any leader elected this time around, regardless of their party?
They should not shut down the government like happened with Newt Gingrich.
I would uh try to find a candidate if you're the Republicans that's palatable to the Rush Limbaugh Tea Party right, but also can attract some people in the center.
There you have it.
Uh find somebody palatable to me, Doug Brinkley.
Now, that's another thing.
You are going to continually hear that the objective is to shut down the government.
It is not.
There's not Newt Gingrich Redux going on here.
Gridlock is not shutting down the government.
Nobody in the Tea Party, nobody anywhere is talking about shutting Down the government.
As happened in 1995.
They're trying to mischaracterize and impugn people again and frighten voters into thinking that's what you're all about.
You know it isn't.
We know it isn't, and they know it isn't.
Where do you hear what some historian says is the reason Obama attacked me two months into his term in office back in 2009?
We have the soundbite of that coming up in the um first part of the next hour.
Plus, we will be getting to your telephone calls.
I'm looking at the board up there now, and uh looks like a good board.
Looked like Snertley is into it today, not phoning it in.
I'm just he's all in a twit here because of the cowboys.
Uh 800-282-2882 is the number.
We'll be back.
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