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Nov. 1, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 1, 2010, Monday, Hour #3
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You see this headline on Fox right now.
Nevada Senate race results may be delayed until December.
And they're saying the same thing about the results in Washington state.
Results may be delayed until December.
Now why would we have to wait till December?
Now in Washington, all the ballots are well, most of them, vast majority are mailed in.
State of Washington.
I am unable to hear what the reason is because I am hosting the program even as we speak.
Great to have you here, 800-282-2882 if you want to be on the program, the email address Lrushbaugh EIBNet.com.
Slate.com, Jacob Weisberg, how the Republican Congress will abandon Tea Party ideas and legislate toward the center.
Starts out this way, in a likely event Republicans capture control of one or both houses of Congress next week, and new leaders will face a strategic question.
Should they pursue the agenda of the Tea Party movement that brought them to power?
Or should they try to mollify the party base with gestures and symbols without taking its radical ideology too seriously?
There's nothing radical about the Tea Party.
There's nothing radical about conservatism.
There's nothing radical about constitutional government.
It's just being portrayed that way.
Now, Mr. Weisberg says, while they'll never discuss the problem honestly, indications point to the fact that Republicans will try to mollify their base with gestures and symbols without taking them too seriously.
That is the GOP congressional leadership will faint right while legislating closer to the center.
I have no doubt.
When talking about the Republican establishment, I have no doubt that that's what's going on.
Now this, you know, this story here from Slate, this political story next up for GOP leaders stopping Palin.
And you're seeing stories like this all over the place.
Uh about how the Tea Party, even if they win big, it's not going to be big enough.
It's going to be played down.
Uh they don't have any real representation.
These are robes and so forth.
Uh there's panic.
The Democrats, the media are in sheer panic over what's going to happen.
The Republicans are too, in a way, the establishment types.
GUP operatives.
But let me I have tried to make clear, folks, that I I don't I don't expect the Republicans to take this lying down.
I too many times, I will admit in my naive past.
No, I've I've always believed that elections matter.
And I've always believed that people in politics are honorable.
I've I've had a lot of late awakenings.
I've had a a lot of late in my life realizations.
I'm not embarrassed to admit it either.
I'm not embarrassed to admit that more often than not, election results are viewed with contempt by professionals in both parties.
Particularly the Democrats, because they obviously govern against the will of the people while actively lying.
For different reasons.
Liberalism by definition holds people in contempt.
Republicans, by nature, don't, but when it comes to the establishment types inside Washington, where the pros live and breathe, uh, any outsider, I don't care what they think, where they come from, how much money they really doesn't matter.
So I've I've come to realize here that they're not gonna it's just like when when Republican ranking Republicans tell me they expect Obama to move to the center.
I'm I literally just laugh.
Because they don't even think he's gonna move to the center.
If they tell me that, I don't believe they believe it.
I've got a story that just cleared right now about how Obama's sharpening the veto pin.
How Obama's preparing to bludgeon Republican opposition with his veto pin.
He has no intention of compromising with the Republicans.
Obama's not gonna sit there and say, gee, wish, you know what?
I really misjudge the American people.
They really don't like what I'm doing.
I'm may I may be wrong.
He's gonna do that.
He's gonna hold voters in even more contempt.
Well, it's it's it's the same with with the Republican establishment.
They're not gonna sit there and take this lying down.
They're they're they're not gonna say, gee, you know what?
We really misjudge those pro-life, or we we really misjudge those Tea Party people.
You know, we we really misjudge our own voters.
I guess we're gonna have to change and reflect what what our vote.
No, they'll make they'll try to make you think that's what they're doing, which they've done in the past, but in terms of, and I'm talking about the elite establishment, not the whole party at large.
Don't misunderstand, just the elite inside the Beltway establishment.
They're going to try to obstruct all they can.
It's all about power for them, just like it is for the Democrats.
It's all about who gets to take their turn in charge of the Federal Treasury.
And buying whatever and whoever they can with it.
Pay off their cronies.
Democrats pay off their cronies and supporters.
Republicans get their turn every four or five years.
Voters resent all of that.
Revoters are, particularly Tea Party people, far more idealistic, far more originalist in their interpretation of Constitution, far more civic-minded.
And I really believe one of the reasons so many people eventually, in the general public, grow tired of politics is they eventually realize that for the elites of both parties, it isn't about ideas.
They'll try to make voters think it's about ideas, but at the end of the day, it's about money.
It's about taking care of their cronies and paying off their goodies, and the Democrats get their turn at it.
So I I say this with the intent here of just again letting you know that the Washington establishment, I don't care if it's Republican, Democrat or from Mars, the Republican Washington, Democrat, Republican, Democrat establishment, whatever, will do their best to undermine whoever wins from our side.
And they're going to try to structure things so that when the Tea Party victors get to town, they're going to be told, okay, here's how the town operates, and here's where you're going to go, and here's who your staff is, and if you want to go anywhere, this is how you're going to vote.
This time around, I think it's a battle that they uh they can't win.
This is an even greater reason, this reality, a greater reason to send even more conservatives to Congress, and then even more after that.
And then more after that.
Remember, this is just the first election.
And as I say, the DC establishment is not going to take this lying down.
They're not going to go, oh, wow.
Well, you we we we really misread the people.
Look at what the people vote.
They really want smaller governments.
Okay, well, we're gonna give them smaller government.
We want to stay in office, we want to get re-elected.
If we know Obama's not going to do that with the Republicans, why do we think anybody would do it with us?
The country class.
Now, don't misunderstand, our home politically is the Republican Party.
The effort here is to reassert dominance and make the Republican Party the true home of the conservative ascension.
And there will be a battle that ensues doing this.
And it it continues after the election tomorrow.
It doesn't tomorrow doesn't end anything.
Tomorrow is you've heard that convoluted quote.
This is not the beginning of the end.
It's not the end of the beginning.
It's simply the beginning of the beginning of the end of the beginning.
Whatever, however that goes.
However it goes, it's it's it's true.
So these stories, next for GOP leaders stopping Palin.
As I say, this is a political story, and I've if if you read the whole story, there really isn't anything in it that justifies this this dramatic headline.
The headline is trying to depress Tea Party people.
Well, you get into the story very long.
There's there's not a whole lot there there.
I mean, sure, you find there's some Republicans opposed to Palim, but what's new about that?
There's nothing new here.
The very idea that they have to stand up and stop her, they're simply afraid.
Those that want to stop her, afraid of her definding the Republican Party.
It's not because they're afraid of her because she's stupid.
They're not afraid of her because she's a neophyte.
They're not afraid that she's going to lose big.
They're afraid that she could usurp their power.
Or lead a movement that could resurge, usurp their power.
Here's Frank Rich in the New York Times grand old plot against the Tea Party.
Everybody, it's a plotting against the Tea Party here.
This piece, I don't have time to read the whole thing to you, and I don't want to anyway.
But trust me, it is maybe the single most condescending article written yet about the Tea Party, about all of us, the country class, by a guy who who personifies, typifies, arrogance and condescension.
As good as anybody, as well as anybody does, in uh in Washington.
No question whatsoever.
So, folks, this is again meant only to fire you up and to hit you with continued doses of reality.
I'm not trying to depress anybody.
You know all this anyway.
Some of you may still have a lingering idealism that election returns translate into people seeing the light.
And for a lot of people it does.
But I'll just remind you, when was it?
Was it 2002, the midterms, or was it 2004 when the exit poll showed that values voters made the difference?
Remember the Democrats, the first two weeks after that were all over telling us, yeah, you know what?
We gotta we're gonna get our acting gear on that.
We 2004, yeah, we heard the voters on that.
We we heard the voters were a little weak on non value, so the drive-by's did their duty and started talking about how the Democrats are now seeing where they went wrong and trying to correct the mistakes that they had made.
And it was it's for two weeks and that's over.
Have you seen any change in Democrats and their appeal to value voters?
No, they still insult you.
They still hold you in contempt, ridicule you, and make fun of you.
Without exception.
Back to the phones, we go to Kent, Ohio.
And Mike, thank you for calling, sir.
You're up.
Thank you, Rush.
Mike, proud member of the Porties County Tea Party.
Thank you, sir.
You were talking about firing up people to vote and not knowing what you want to do.
I am so upset that these states who have not given our military personnel a vote.
They know how they're gonna vote.
They don't want them to vote.
They've held their vote out.
I'm asking people who have not quite decided, or maybe who have decided, please use your vote to give these military people a voice.
They've given them to prisoners.
Give them to the military.
This is an excellent point out there, uh, ladies and gentlemen.
Uh, military ballots in Illinois, Chicago, they just weren't sent in time.
They had seven months, seven months, and they just couldn't get the military ballots sent soon enough.
And it's happening in a number of places.
There's a big contention point in the Florida 2000 recount.
If uh if you recall, because he's right, they do how they they they have a pretty good idea how the military is gonna vote.
So to counter the military Chicago, they send the same identical number of ballots to the prisons.
And they got there on time.
So Mike is saying, if you happen to be apathetic, go vote anyway.
As a military person would.
And we know how that would be.
We know.
I mean, nine out of ten times we know how the defenders of liberty, the pilots of freedom, the bombers of liberty are gonna vote.
We know this.
Reminds me, I'd say I've first time I was at a Super Bowl game in San Diego.
Redskins versus who are they playing?
Redskins, uh the Broncos.
My first ever military flyover at anything at a Super Bowl.
Herb Alpert.
Or was it Doc Severinson?
Somebody on the trumpet, one of the two playing a national anthem.
And we could see the Jets or four of them in formation, getting ready to turn on bass and then final to head toward the stadium.
And they try to coordinate the arrival with the exact moment the last note of the anthem is played by the trumpet player.
And the jets were a little behind, so the trumpet had to hold a note.
Made it even more dramatic.
And those jets fly over.
I mean, it's just a roar, unlike you.
I have you patriotic juices, blood, everything starts flowing.
I started pounding the guy next to me.
I was just I I could never remember being so euphoric about anything.
I started pounding on his shoulder.
He's actually getting frowning at me because he was hurting.
And I said, Did you see that?
How can you how can anybody vote Democrat after seeing that?
And I shouted it as loud as I could hear.
Two people who were Democrats have sitting in front of me from Washington who turned around and scowled at me.
And then a guy behind me tapped me on a shoulder, and I turned around and he said, That's a sound of freedom, son.
You just heard the sound of freedom fly over this stadium.
And we know how they would vote.
Eight, nine out of ten times.
And they are being denied in certain cities, precincts, states, military deployed overseas, will not, have not received their ballots in time.
And remember, there's no such thing as coincidence in politics.
Terry in uh Sisters, Oregon.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hi, Bress.
Thank you for taking my call.
How are you today?
Very well, thank you.
Good.
I gave out Halloween candy last night.
Three teenage boys came to our door.
One was dressed as Obama.
And I told them, I'm going to have a redistribution of wealth.
So I gave the first boy candy, and I gave the second boy candy, and the boy dressed up as Obama got no candy.
And he looked at me and said, You're probably a Republican.
Did this really happen?
Seriously.
You really did this.
I mean, I've heard of people doing this.
You really did it.
You denied some kid dresses Obama candy.
I did.
On the theory you're redistributing wealth, and he had more than the other two, so it was his turn to do without.
I just wanted to prove a point.
And he was a teenager.
Had a big thing.
How do you dress as Obama?
Did a guy have big ears?
He had a mask on.
And I asked him, Are you Obama?
And he said yes.
How old was the kid?
He had an Obama mask?
He did.
How old do you think the kid was?
I think he was about 16 or 17.
Yeah, 16 or 17-year-old trick-or-treating?
Absolutely.
I've never heard.
I have never heard of that.
I mean, I outgrew that by age 10.
Certainly, but certainly by age 12.
Yeah, I know I wasn't a liberal.
Sixteen years old trick or treating.
Could have been.
He had a mask on.
It was hard to tell.
Yeah, yeah.
But what does he think he's going to get as Obama?
You know, I I don't know.
Well, you know something?
If he was Obama, he could be a kid up to age 26.
And if you stop and think about it.
That's right.
The Clinton teenagers, you know, when they when they when they dressed up as as Clinton to go trick-or-treating, you know what they wanted.
Sad to say.
No, uh, decorum prevents us from saying.
Yes.
But you know what?
I was in New Orleans last night.
Catherine and I went to the Saint Steelers in the uh in the Superdome.
They did two nights of Halloween in New Orleans.
Saturday night And uh last night in the Dome.
You you haven't you haven't seen Halloween until you've been to New Orleans.
You can't find anybody not in costume.
All right, Mike, stand by the audio soundbites right at number 12.
There is a story in the New York Times today.
Date-lined out of Miami.
It's by Doug Mills, and the headline of the story, Young Voters Say They Feel Abandoned.
Young voters say they feel abandoned.
Two years ago, the University of Miami could not get enough Barack Obama.
The campaign rally he held here felt like a rock concert.
His face appeared on T-shirts all over campus and pro by the way.
I've I got the answer to my question.
Obama goes out for Halloween dressed as himself.
That's how you know it's back to the story.
A campaign rally he held here, felt like a rock concert.
His face appeared on t-shirts all over campus.
Pro-Obama volunteers registered 2,000 new voters.
Meetings of the College Democrats that attracted 200 people in 2008 now pull 12.
New voter registration way down too, and free posters of President Obama are now refused by students.
They were once considered to be the Michael Jordan of politics bolsters.
It's not the fad anymore, said Jessica Kurzner 21, a junior from Houston, and vice president of the College Democrats.
It's it's not the fad to be politically knowledgeable and active anymore.
See, we we told you it was just a fad in 2008.
It was just a fad.
This was not what Generation Obama expected.
Mr. Obama won two years ago with 66% of the 18 to 29-year-old vote, historic proportion.
Now, however, former Obama volunteers nationwide say that they and their former colleagues are less involved and more ambivalent.
Experts say the usual midterm effect, in which young voters are especially likely to disengage has combined with an unexpected distance that has arisen between Obama and many youths.
While most of them still view him more favorably than their parents or grandparents do, various polls show that the youthful passion that led to action has not been sustained.
Peter Levine, director of the Center for Information Research on Civic Learning and Engagement at Tufts University, said they were emotionally invested.
Somehow they should have been turned into for Democrats a revival of progressive policy.
And in a neutral way, a revival of democracy starting with young people.
But it just didn't happen.
You read the story, and it's more testimonials from people who just don't feel the love.
They just not feel the love.
Snurley says, Well, what happened?
What happened?
The problem is that nothing happened.
College is still as expensive.
They still can't find jobs.
People still anger and argue with each other.
All the stuff about the sea levels, nothing's changed.
As far as they're concerned, a polar dares and manatees are still dying.
Nothing's changed.
They thought idealistic change was immediate.
So it was a fad.
But let's move forward in this piece, shall we?
The final paragraph.
The New York Times knows that most readers are not going to go that far in any of their stories.
But I did.
Last paragraph.
The University of Miami students said would have helped break through the talking points being offered by Republicans.
Even on mostly liberal college campuses, the arguments against Obama have become more common.
Garov Demon 20, president of the College Democrats, University of Miami said the other day they were blaring Rush Limbaugh in the breeze way.
Two years ago it was Obama.
Today it is limbaugh in the breezeway.
On the radios and the loudspeakers of college Democrats at the University of Miami.
That's the last paragraph of that piece in the New York Times.
Now to the audio sound bites.
Last night, C-SPAN's QA during a discussion about the 2010 midterm elections.
George Mason University history professor and author Richard Norton Smith was a guest and said, among other things, this.
I'm wondering if the Obama administration from the very beginning, by really putting Limbaugh and Palin out there as the face of the Republican Party, doesn't in fact have a strategy to encourage a latter-day Goldwater.
Obviously, they'd like to run against the most vulnerable, most quote, extreme Republican candidate.
And the real test will be whether the Republican Party sort of falls for that, or whether there is a conservative candidate who may not set their hearts pounding, but who is acceptable because they want to win badly enough.
Oh, so the new mantra from the left here that Obama really is brilliant.
He was years and years and years ahead, everybody, that what Obama was doing by calling me and then Palin, the leader of the Republican Party, was really very crafty.
By making me and Palin the face of the party.
He was hoping that the Republicans would say, Well, I guess that's what we need to do.
Nominate a Palin or a limb to be the face of our party, and then get skunked like Goldwater did in 1964.
Because this historian thinks Goldwater's gets skunked.
He has forgotten Reagan.
Obviously.
He has forgotten Ronaldus Magnus.
And we will see who gets skunked tomorrow.
But I think this is all hocus pocus.
I don't think this guy single me out, Obama.
He didn't single me out or Palin out because he wanted the Republicans to adopt us as leaders.
He was hoping that they would denounce us.
That's what Obama was hoping for.
He was hoping that Boehner or some Republican in that meeting, two weeks after he was immaculated, would agree with him that Rush Limbaugh is not how things get done in Washington.
That's what he was hoping.
At the time, he was courting the conservatives he knew he could influence and control the David Brookses, the uh David Frum's.
You know, that bunch that had dinner with him at George Will's house.
That's who he was trying to anoint as the new conservative leadership.
He was he was just dying.
I told Boehner this.
Boehner said, Why Rush, why do you think he did that?
Because they wanted you to go out of the room and agree with him, John.
That would have made their day if one just one of you in that meeting would have gone out and say, you know what, President's right, we've got to stop listening to Rush Limbaugh.
If you'd have done that, you'd have made his day.
The fact that you didn't put, you know, gummed up uh all his entire works, Cokey Roberts, ABC's this week during the round table, talking about, although she doesn't mention it, reverse Operation Chaos.
What we do know is that any time a president is challenged in a primary, he loses in the general election.
And there's very I would not be at all surprised to see this president challenge.
Goki Roberts thinks that Obama will be challenged in 2012.
She thinks, yes, she's still around and she thinks that Obama will be challenged, and she said that no president challenged by his own party ever wins.
Jimmy Carter, a recent example.
Lanny Davis.
Lanny Davis uh this morning on MSNBC got a question from from Chris Jansing, the hostette.
I have to ask you, uh I know you saw polls that said almost half of the Democrats what Obama challenged for the nomination in 2012, and the number one person they think should challenge is Hillary Clinton.
Is that all polling and fun?
Do you have any poof?
I haven't talked to her, but I'll tell you what I know about her.
The answer is absolutely not.
She loves being Secretary of State.
She's a strong supporter of Barack Obama, and she and I've not talked to her, so I'm just speculating.
The answer is she's very happy and she will not challenge a sitting Democratic president who she strongly supports.
Right.
So Landonny Davis has no proof whatsoever that Hillary will seek the nomination.
He hasn't spoken to her, but he knows that she loves being Secretary of State, loves Obama.
He knows that she won't do it.
Now, what's he going to say if he knows that she is going to do it?
Is Lanny Davis going to go on television?
Yo, yeah, I know that Hillary's going to challenge Obama in 2012.
He's not going to is he going to say that?
Of course not.
Of course he's not going to say it.
Let's play audio soundbite number 15.
This is a Saturday in Canton, Ohio, a Democrat National Committee campaign rally.
Former President Clinton was there.
And while he was speaking, Representative John Bochieri, Democrat Ohio, quickly left the stage because his wife went into labor.
Clinton said this.
The baby's now being born.
Tell him goodbye.
You'd be amazed how many times I take a picture with a very pregnant woman and she immediately gives birth like that.
I would like some credit for your fifth grandchild being born into the world.
We we got another Democrat.
I wish we could register that baby before it's too late.
Does he not realize how this sounds?
Yeah, I can't tell you how many times I take a picture of a very pregnant woman.
Nine months after the first time I met her.
You know, it's just it's amazing.
She, every time, every time I post her picture with a woman, a pregnant woman nine months after I met her, she immediately gives birth.
I got we got a new Democrat right now.
Does he not get this?
I don't think I I really I don't think he doesn't.
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I have heard that, snurdley.
I've gotten a bunch of emails saying that our program in um Tri-Cities, Washington broadcast a Harry Reed rally.
He's in Nevada.
Anyway, they said our station at Tri-Cities, Washington was uh somehow interrupted with a Harry Reed rally.
Uh they said a satellite problem.
I've had a bunch of emails of people saying that.
Now, people they forgot to run O'Donnell's ad in Delaware.
Twice.
They just forgot to run it.
Now, people are wondering why why is Obama lost the youth vote?
Folks, he promised to pay their tuition.
It's that simple.
He promised to pay the to everybody if it's gonna be free.
Your insurance premium is gonna come down $2,500.
You weren't gonna pay any taxes.
Everybody else is gonna be paying everything for you.
He told them their tuition was gonna be free.
Very simple.
Obama was trying to split, use me to split the GOP.
That's what he was doing.
He's trying to use me to don't listen to Rush Limbaugh.
That's not how things get done in Washington.
He was trying to use me to split the GOP.
I unified the GOP.
Here is Nina Totenberg Sunday morning inside Washington on television in Washington.
I'm already afraid, very afraid.
I mean, it's not like the governance has been going great.
I think we'll, I don't know whether I should be afraid, but there will be gridlock.
She's talking about the election results.
She's scared to death the election results.
She's afraid of them.
Because the great unwashed are going to prevail.
Evan Thomas from Newsweek question.
Evan, Paul Krugman says future historians will probably look back at 2010 elections a catastrophe.
You, Evan, are an historian.
Do you agree with that?
No, but they may look upon it as a kind of a joke.
There's a sort of a circus aspect to it.
It's become comic in a kind of a dark way.
Krugman is a professional doomsayer, so you have to take that with a grain of salt.
But obviously the political system's a mess.
Yeah, political systems a mess.
It's all because the Tea Party is going to win.
It's a mess.
Why is it a mess?
They told us that Bill Clinton that Barack Obama was the Messiah to fix all of this.
I thought NPR people weren't supposed to offer their opinions anyway.
Nina Totenberg doing it there on Inside Washington.
But notice you people, you're all responsible for the mess that's politics today.
Eh, the election is a circus.
Nobody can take it seriously.
Nobody, nobody.
And yesterday morning on Fox News Sunday, Sarah Palin asked McChris Wallace, you're saying local reporters in Alaska conspired with the Murkowski campaign to put out false information about Joe Miller.
We have it on tape that CBS reporters in the affiliate up there in Alaska on tape are saying, let's find a child molester in the crowd as a supporter for Joe Miller.
Let's blast that.
Let's concoct a Ron Paul moment there.
Let's find any kind of chaos so that we can tweet an alert saying, ooh, there is chaos.
Joe Miller got punched or by that's sick.
Those are corrupt bastards, Chris.
That's what is wrong with the media today when they have their chosen one.
And nine times out of ten, heck, ten times out of ten in the liberal media.
It's going to be the liberal is the chosen one.
So we have a problem there with what Joe Miller has had to face.
Those are corrupt bastards.
She's talking about local media in Alaska, which did contrive to make up things about Joe Miller and his uh supporters and so forth.
Standard ordinary fair, but when's the last time you ever heard anybody on television call a media corrupt bastards?
And how many of you who heard it stood up and cheered when you heard it?
So, in Delaware, the media at TV station forgets.
Damn it, they just slipped their minds to run the Christine O'Donnell 30-minute campaign ad 30-minute ad.
Forgot to run it twice.
And in Alaska, local media conspiring against Joe Miller.
So, ladies and gentlemen, annoy the corrupt bastards tomorrow.
Annoy the corrupt bastards on the left and in the media.
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