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Nov. 3, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 3, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
What is all this talk about compromise?
This talk about compromise started last night and it's being given almost a full throated throttle today, and it's coming from both sides.
Compromise.
Ladies and gentlemen, losers.
Compromise.
Winners do not compromise.
The Democrats won nothing.
The Democrats won't be the Democrats.
It was a wipeout, and don't let anybody tell you anything otherwise.
...
One of the shortest speakerships in history.
I have been surrounded by...
I literally have been surrounded by pessimism since last night, and it is it has amused me.
It has really amused me.
I was thinking about how I had to open this program in 2008.
After Obama won the presidency.
I was thinking about how I had to open this program in 2006.
In 2008, Obama wins.
They have the House and the Senate.
That was a reason to be pessimistic, but I wasn't.
I opened that program in 2008 this way, November 5th.
Well, my friends, the new tone has finally come home to roost.
And I pointed out that conservatism did not lose in 2008 because conservatism was not on the ballot in 2008.
This was a wipeout last night.
This was a total rejection of the Obama agenda.
This was a total rejection of the Democrat Party.
Now any time you have a storm go through, you're gonna have things that don't make any sense.
Tornadoes tear up one house, go by another house, and leave it totally undamaged, and nobody can explain it.
nobody can explain Harry Reid although I'm gonna try I can I can tell you what happened with boxer I can tell you what happened with Meg Whitman we're talking California we're talking unions But there is absolutely no reason here to be pessimistic about anything.
People said, well, 1994 rush, that was really big.
Why was 94 big?
94 big it was unexpected.
It was a surprise.
Last night this was expected.
I warned everybody, you know, don't don't don't don't fall for this trick that they're gonna try to dispirit you and say your win wasn't that big.
Look at what happened in the state legislatures.
The state legislated, according to the Republican state leadership committee, 19 legislative bodies have switched from Democrat to Republican control, which means they did better than they had hoped for in their wildest dreams.
They'd hoped to pick up 17.
They are gonna be redrawing congressional districts.
Democrats, every Democrat in the House, I don't care.
Every Democrat in the House Blue Dogs that went out and openly campaigned, supporting Obama and health care lost.
We are two Americas.
We have fly over America and we have the coasts.
Take a look at the map.
It's it's 90% red.
The blue is on the coasts, I'm a little bit in Texas, a little bit here in South Florida.
We do have two Americas and Obama is going to do his best to continue to divide this country.
I have to laugh.
I laugh when I listen to these guys, Democrats, Obama and his age, talking about, well, now it's time to compromise.
No, compromise is off the table.
They didn't want to compromise with us, and we have no business compromising with them.
They lost.
Losers compromise.
We don't.
We've got nothing to compromise.
Where do we compromise with this agenda?
There's not one aspect of this agenda that's worth compromising.
This agenda must be stopped.
That's what this election meant.
And make no mistake about it.
I don't care what they're saying in public, I don't care what Obama says in his upcoming press conference.
I am telling you that Obama knows the truth.
The Democrats know the truth of what happened.
They were wiped out.
Sixty seats, folks.
That is almost unprecedented.
Sixty seats in the House of Representatives, the people's house.
Don't let anybody tell you differently.
Unprecedented in modern times, previous record 55 seats back in 32.
When Hoover was rejected.
And it's bye bye Pelosi.
And by the way, folks, as you know, I'm the eternal optimist.
As long as the Democrats control the Senate, what better face than that of Dingy Harry to be the face of the Democrats in the Senate?
And it's also not a bad thing that Chuck Schumer is unhappy as hell because he was figuring to be the next leader.
He was he had already buried Dingy Harry.
He and Dick Turbin were gonna have a big knockdown drag out for Dingy Harry's gig.
And now Dingy Harry hangs on.
Dingy Harry hangs on, and he is the face of the Democrat Party, and the country is asking how in the heck can this happen?
And the country is saying unions and fraud and deceit.
Any Democrat win last night was either the result of fraud or deceit, or in the case of West Virginia, Governor Manchin running as Ronald Reagan.
Governor Manchin as a Democrat promising to torpedo cap and trade.
If this guy does not vote against the Obama agenda the next two years, he's toast in 2010.
It's the EIB network, it's Rush Limbaugh, it's a day after the election, and we will be back and continue right after this.
Half my brand tied behind my back just to make it fair, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EB microphone.
So they want to compromise, huh?
They say they want to compromise after telling us, after saying after 2008 Obama and the White House, well, uh, you want to you talk to me on tax because five.
Well, I won.
Screw you.
I won.
In the last two weeks.
President Obama has said, Well, you know what?
Huh?
Republicans drove the car in the ditch.
And they won't, they won't, they want to fix it, but they gotta sit in the back.
Republicans sit in the back of the car.
We don't mind them being in the car, just sit in the back.
Now they want to compromise.
From Politico, top aid to President Obama said not to look for change in his fundamental principles, but certainly there were messages that have to be heeded, and we will.
Well, which is it?
Because the message last night was screw your fundamental principles.
The message last night was we don't like your fundamental principles.
The message last night was we don't like health care, we don't like financial regulatory reform, we don't like expansive government, we don't like bigger government, we don't like higher taxes, we don't like anything your core beliefs represent.
We don't like anything you stand for.
If there's any compromise that needs to take place, it's Mr. Obama and the Democrats compromising with the American people rather than governing against the will of the American people.
The message last night.
Barack Obama is not the only person who can scratch his nose with his middle finger.
We scratched our noses with our middle fingers all day yesterday and all of last night.
Here back to the political story on the Obama aid.
If you believe in democracy, we were swept in by a big wave, so you have to pay attention to these results and what people are saying, the Obama aide said.
They want us to work together to focus on the economy for jobs and growth.
We're gonna do that.
No, we don't want to work together.
And the American people did not say they want to work with you.
The American people said yesterday they want to stop you.
The clear meaning of this election, 60 seats.
Folks, don't get all bummed out here because of what happened with Harry Reid and Boxer and so forth.
1994, as I said, was a big upper because it was such a surprise.
Yesterday this was expected, and so there wasn't much drama to it.
There weren't any over the topic expectation surprises and so forth.
So people have a tendency to go, homistic.
This is a repudiation, the likes of which is rarely seen.
And this was a repudiation of the president of the United States, it's 60 seats and counting.
This was a repudiation of his agenda.
This was a repudiation of the Democrat Party, and make no mistake.
The Democrats and their allies in the media know it full well.
That's why they're now out with this spin that what it all means is the American people want to compromise.
No, no, no.
We want to stop.
We want to put a dead stop to the Democrat Party and its agenda.
My question is to the aide to President Obama's quoted here in the Politico.
He says they want us to work together, focused on the economy for jobs and growth.
You've been doing that for two years and you have destroyed jobs and growth in the economy.
But since when do you and the Obama regime care anything about what the people are saying?
You have been governing against the will of the American people from the first day you were immaculated.
When all of a sudden do you care what the American people want?
If you cared what the American people want, last night would have happened.
Would not have happened.
If you cared what people wanted, you would have gained seats.
If you had been acting on the desires, the hopes and dreams of the American people, the Republican Party would have been aced out of existence.
You, the Democrats, had that power.
You had that possibility.
I was never worried it was going to happen.
These liberals are liberals.
And they view the American people with contempt, and they are viewing you with contempt today.
While saying they want to reach out to you, while saying this election means that the Republicans better realize the American people want to compromise.
They're sitting behind the closed doors and holding you in utter contempt.
How dare you do this last night?
How dare you deny these Democrats their seats?
John Dingle is history.
Michigan practically was swept aside in favor of Republicans.
There are four more leaning Republicans and twelve more undecided, depending on how they fall, we could be over 70 before all this is said and done.
But rush, but rush, but rush, what about the Senate?
Ladies and gentlemen, I it is what it is.
Is there anybody in the Senate?
The Senate does not have the same aura about it that the House of Representatives has.
The Democrats in the Senate did not take to the streets and walk publicly and taunt people in the Tea Party as they went to vote for health care.
The House Democrats did that.
The Senate Democrats did not behave en masse, in unison, as the House Democrats did.
You go forward to 2012.
What was remarkable about yesterday?
What's the pickup?
Are we six or seven Senate seats now?
Okay, we're at six, and they on the on the really optimistic upside, it could go to ten, but we're at six solid right now.
Stop and think of this.
Stop it.
It go to nine, I mean, where were we two years ago?
Where were we two years ago?
We were lost and it was lost and it was over.
So many of us thought America as we knew it had been wiped out.
No.
America as we know it spoke up and has been saved.
Now you go forward to 2012.
You know, Republicans had the most seats to defend last night in the Senate.
You go forward to 2012, but Democrats have to defend 21 seats and make no mistake, those 21 that are up for re election in 2012 or 20 or 2010, uh 2012, I'm sorry, they knew exactly, know exactly what happened last night.
They're gonna have to behave like a bunch of Joe Manchins if they want to survive.
A significant number of them are.
The House of Representatives is where all of the Obama legislation was written.
It was where all of it originated.
It's understandable the House has as a whole an identity, whereas the Senate, by nature of its existence, does not.
The tone was more humble.
Back to the political piece.
The tone was more humble than is customary for this white house, and the aide promised a period of introspection.
The aide also mentioned deficits as an area the parties can do a better job of working together.
There are lessons for us.
There are lessons for Republicans as well, the Obama aide said.
This wasn't a vote for more partisanship for more ideology.
The hell it wasn't.
It was exactly that.
It is exactly why I voted.
It is exactly why the vast majority of Americans voted.
It was a vote of no.
It was a vote to stop.
It was a vote of anti-liberalism.
It was a vote against the Democrat Party.
It was not a vote to work together.
Why are you spending so much time on this rush?
Because there are people on our side who are being sucked into it.
There are people on our side who are being sucked into the whole notion of compromise because they know the press is going to love that.
The press gonna love them.
The press is going to treat them fairly.
Reaching across the aisle is what was rejected last night.
We We had two candidates in California who epitomize the ideal Republican candidate.
We had two women, Meg Whitman and Carly Fiorina, and we were told this is how the Republicans win in the future.
Moderate, reasonable, understandable women.
What happened to them?
They were defeated.
The very people responsible for creating the mess were re-elected.
Moderates, people who want to reach across the aisle, people who want to work together, people who use the word bipartisan were rejected.
We're defeated, soundly, in California alone.
The idea that we can work together, we should, is suicidal.
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Both Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman ran as moderates, proud, proud moderates.
Indeed, they were the model candidates, according to the party fathers, the Republican side, and we see how well that worked out.
It is what it is, folks.
It is what it is.
Both women were heartily endorsed by Senator McCain.
And both were prominent in his campaign of 2008.
How's that hope and change working out for you?
Now exactly who are the stupid people.
Last night on Fox, Carl Rove said that there was a lesson in Christine O'Donnell's defeat.
The lesson is that we don't vet candidates.
We're gonna end up with flaws, and therefore it's gonna be a problem.
The problem is that we didn't vet, we didn't feel it.
She decided to run on her own.
The Republicans didn't feel Christine O'Donnell.
They didn't pick Christine O'Donnell.
Outsiders don't come packaged.
Outsiders are not packaged by the insiders.
The lesson.
The lesson.
Let me tell you what Christine O'Donnell did.
She has taken the Republican Party in Delaware to the right.
She has moved the conservative ball forward.
Sarah Palin on Fox last night said, I hope everybody notices what they're saying on CNN tonight that even Mike Castle would have lost in Delaware last night.
Christine O'Donnell could have won were it not for all the backbiting after her primary victory.
Had the party gotten behind her, had Steele had some on the ground money for Nevada.
Who knows how that might have turned out?
We didn't have any money on the ground in Nevada.
There was no way we were going to combat the unions getting behind and the gaming industry getting behind Dingy Harry, and who knows what hell happened at ballot boxes and places.
But there are no money on the ground game money in Nevada and very little in in in Delaware.
What the hell was going to happen?
I know this.
I know that Christine O'Donnell didn't kill anybody at Chappaquitic by driving her car up the bridge.
I know that she didn't lie about her country and denigrate her country when she got back from Vietnam.
I know she didn't do that.
She doesn't have anywhere near the baggage that prominent Democrats have.
She has nowhere near the baggage that acclaimed, loved, adored, and said to be stars in the Democrat Party.
Did she ever join the Ku Klux Klan?
Did she ever become a Klegel and recruit for the Ku Klux Klan?
She didn't, did she?
The Democrats have a guy who did.
Robert Byrd and his seat stayed in the Democrat Party.
Wrangle won, well, yeah, the New York, California, the machines there.
But I mean, what would the at Wrangle?
Did she have anywhere near the kind of financial fraud and tax cheating that Charles Wrangle had?
Oh.
And yet somehow there's a lesson that we are to learn from Christine O'Donnell.
Exactly who are the stupid people here?
Christine O'Donnell or the people who let the media and the unions put Chris Coons into that seat.
Is it really smart that we have Chris Coons in the Senate from Delaware?
Is it smart that we in it took steps that allowed that to happen?
Who's really stupid out there?
Who are the stupid people?
Sharon Angle or the people who let the media and the unions give the election to Harry Reed without any ground game money.
Where were the people defending Sharon Angle when her character was assaulted out of the box by Dingy Harry?
Where was it?
Who are the stupid people out there?
The Tea Party people or the idiots in California who re-elected Jerry Brown after throwing him out 28 years ago.
He's back.
He's back.
This idea that somehow there's a lesson to be learned in what we do.
There's a lesson to be learned in who we nominate.
There's a lesson to be learned in who we elect.
This was a wipeout last night.
There's nothing to be ashamed of.
There's nothing to be embarrassed by, there's nothing to be depressed over.
Everybody said from the get-go, this is the first step.
Nobody said Obama was going to be defeated last night.
Nobody said the agenda was going to be totally reversed last night.
Last night's not even the end of the beginning.
The end of the beginning is still happening.
This is Jerry Brown's third term in California.
Schwarzenegger couldn't run because it would have been his third term.
Jerry Brown waits long enough, goes over there, becomes mayor of Oakland, really burnishes his credentials.
And then runs for a third term.
Was Christine O'Donnell ever a Black Panther?
Did she ever go to anybody's polling place and intimidate people into not showing up?
Did Christine O'Donnell do that?
Did Sharon Engel do any of that?
Christine O'Donnell ever get a TARP bailout for a boyfriend of hers.
A lot of Democrats did.
A lot of tempered Democrats got TARP bailouts for their husbands.
Who are the smart people here?
Who is it that says we have to run around and keep making excuses for ourselves?
Sarah Palin campaigned for a lot of candidates, and the vast majority of them were victorious.
Whitman and Norfee Arena campaigned with Sarah Palin.
They didn't want her anywhere around.
Well, we see how all that turned out.
Thank you.
I don't know if I've ever seen a disinformation campaign like we saw against Christine O'Donnell or Sharon Angle, Meg Whitman, Linda McMahon.
You have to hand it to the news media.
They did their best out there.
They did their best to mischaracterize and miscategorize these people.
They really did.
Imagine in in Nevada, the state with the highest unemployment, the worst foreclosure rate, this the state of Las Vegas, state of Nevada, which Obama told everybody to avoid.
And it still goes for Harry Reid.
What could be suspicious about that?
We know that people don't like Harry Reid in Nevada.
We know that.
They're on the board saying so.
They're on record saying so in all kinds of polling data.
Worst unemployment, worst foreclosure rate.
And still they vote for Harry Reed.
As I say, not bad.
If it is what it is, then good.
We got Harry Reid.
He's still there.
What a what better face could we have as a Democrat Party?
Nikki Haley wins the governorship.
Republican women who are conservative sailed.
They've got more to be proud of than than is known.
Marco Rubio last night.
Did you happen to hear Marco Rubio's acceptance speech?
We have some sound bites of it.
He struck an interesting tone, as did Boehner.
You know, it's really not time to celebrate here.
One in ten of Americans uh out of work.
Um future in question because of all this massive debt.
There's really not a whole lot to celebrate here.
There's a lot of hard work that needs to take place.
Rubio was amazing.
And of all the Republican wins last night, it's Rubio that has the Democrats probably as scared as anybody.
He is as scared, they are as scared of Rubio as they have been scared of anybody, because Marco Rubio is supposed to be the quintessential Democrat.
Marco Rubio is supposed to be the kind of guy that can only be elected by Democrats, the only kind of Hispanic can ever win as a Democrat.
And look what he did.
Marco Rubio ran as a Reagan Republican.
And he got 50% of the vote in a three-way race.
Last night was a wipeout.
Sixty seats, perhaps sixty-four before it's all said and done.
Look at how the Democrats treated Republican women.
In California, both Whitman and Fiorina and Christine O'Donnell.
They were called the B word, the W word.
So the B word, W word is slur, the slut word they all lost.
According to the media.
What a triumph for the feminists.
What a triumph for the nags.
Calling a woman a slut, calling a woman a whore, calling a woman a bitch.
Let you win an election.
You call a woman a bitch, you call her a whore, you call her a slut, and you win.
What a great night for the feminists.
What a great night for the Democrats.
I'll tell you another reason Obama is deathly afraid of Marco Rubio.
Because the next editor of the Harvard Review was its first Hispanic.
That's right.
There's a there's this this Rubio candidacy in victory last night has everybody on the Democrat side quaking in their boots.
This notion that they're happy, this notion that they're they think it's it could have been a lot worse for them, and they dodged a bullet and this notion that they're going to compromise.
Before the television coverage started last night, before the exit polls were fully released and in full force, Democrats were getting a first glance...
And what was happening accurately portrayed their party as facing a mass murder in a political sense.
Sixty seats.
Did the Democrats pick up sixty seats with Obama in two thousand eight?
They did not.
Not since Herbert Hoover has a party picked up sixty seats in the House of Representatives.
All right, a brief timeout.
We're going to squeeze your phone calls in with all of this.
Plus, uh, we got a sound by roster pretty good too.
Sit tight.
We're coming back with much more right after this.
And we're back, El Rushbow cutting edge societal evolution.
I got a note from a friend in uh in San Francisco.
Yes, I have a friend in San Francisco.
Uh, dear Rush, uh, Carly Fiorina did not run as a moderate.
She ran a pro-life pro-gun campaign.
Pro-life pro-gun, and she is refusing to concede.
Uh right now to Barbara Boxer.
She ran as uh pro-life pro-gun moderate.
I well, look at splitting hairs.
I never thought she was a conservative.
Um never thought McCain is a conservative until he has to win his own state in a primary, and then he becomes conservative.
And anyway, look, folks, it is what it is.
And you build on this.
And the heavy lifting just now begins.
It really does.
I want to play Mitch McConnell.
Grab audio soundlight number 34.
There was a meeting today on Capitol Hill, right before the program started.
Republican leaders held a press conference.
This is a portion of what Mitch McConnell uh soon to be the Republican.
Well, he is a Republican leader in the Senate, and he might well be the majority leader.
He holds on.
This is what he had to say.
We are indeed humbled and ready to listen to the American people.
We're determined to stop the agenda Americans have rejected and to turn the ship around.
We'll work with the administration when they agree with the people and confront them when they don't.
This election yesterday was clearly a referendum on the administration and the Democratic majority here in the Congress.
It seems to me the best strategy for the other side would be to listen to the voters yesterday.
They've made a clear statement about what they'd like to see done.
If the president comes in our direction, obviously we want uh to make progress for the country over the next two years.
If the president comes in our direction, that's compromise only happens for the losers.
The winners do not compromise.
In Oklahoma City, Oklahoma voters have approved a measure that would forbid judges from considering international law or Islamic law when deciding cases.
Republican Rex Duncan, the sponsor of the measure, called it a preemptive strike designed to close the door on activist judges.
The voters agreed.
In Iowa, Iowa voters have voted to remove three state Supreme Court justices siding with conservatives, angered by a ruling that allowed gay marriage.
When you dig deep, the closer you get to the grassroots of this country, you find out what a wipeout this was last night.
I just want to point out, too, ladies and gentlemen, my prediction was 60 seats in the House and nine seats in the Senate.
My prediction looks to be pretty accurate here.
It's at 60 now in the House.
And there are some leaning, and if uh if we win three more in the Senate, we'll be up to nine.
Washington State refused to implement a tax increase on the top one percent, i.e., millionaires.
Washington state refused to implement.
Now, and I know if Patty W Murray ends up winning this thing, if she ends up winning, you're gonna say, but Rush, but Rush, they still send somebody back who will raise taxes.
Senate seats are not considered grassroot elections.
They just aren't.
You add the power of incumbency to it.
Uh it's look at it.
I'm not making excuses.
I would have liked to have these.
Don't misunderstand, but it is what it is, and it doesn't mean Defeat.
Let me grab some phone calls here so I can say that I took some.
In the first hour, I'll start in Hartford, Connecticut.
This is Susan.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Oh, hello, Rush.
Do you know that you are a gift to me from God?
I've been trying to call you for about 15, 20 years.
And I got through today because I'm still in my pajamas.
I was so bummed out.
I wanted Linda McMahon so badly because she sincerely wanted to get Connecticut working.
And all these people did in this state was put the same old, same olds back in that go along to get along with the wrong agenda.
And all I could think of is some famous man once said about these people.
And then I heard your show, and I thought, why am I crying?
We got Bahner.
We don't have to look at the lion snake of the grass that said we're gonna shove the bill through before we know what's in it.
And then we got some great Republicans that are gonna start looking into this.
Let me tell you something.
We have some stars.
We have some conservative stars.
I want to think about it.
We have a bench.
Do you people realize John Dingle, who's been in the house since the days of Susan B. Anthony lost.
John Dingle is gone.
That is not insignificant.
A wifer.
He got wiped out.
Remember his what was his nephew?
Nephew called us 20 years ago hoping it would happen.
Took 20 years, but it did.
Uh anyway, I Connecticut people, I've been there, and they are a depressed lot because they read the New York Times.
If you people in Connecticut would stop reading the New York Times, your life expectancy would increase and your daily happiness would expand in ways that you don't believe possible.
All right, I have to apologize here, folks.
I was totally misinformed last night, maybe early this morning.
It was a late night.
I was uh told that John Dingle had lost, but he did win by 14,000 votes.
Michigan lost.
Dingle won that uh 14,000 votes.
It was his toughest challenge.
But I'm sorry about that.
I I was um uh to find out where I where he was saw that, who told me that.
Somebody's gonna pay.
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