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Dec. 8, 2010 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 8, 2010, Wednesday, Hour #2
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The press conference yesterday, you know, there weren't a whole lot of questions from the White House press corpse highlighting the importance of compromise yesterday.
No, folks, those questions were dumping on Obama like he was a dog.
And I have to tell you, stop and think of this now.
Think about it.
Obama has gone from being treated like a messiah to being treated like a dog just two years into his term.
He's gone from the highest heights to unprecedented lows in terms of the way he's being treated by his idols, state-controlled White House press corps.
Such a precipitous fall would have serious consequences even on an emotionally healthy and reasonable man.
This guy, by virtue of his answers, is stewing.
He is stewing in the privacy of his existence as a narcissist would.
Being unappreciated, not being heralded, not being treated as the historic figure that he thinks that he is and at one time was.
Let's continue here with the audio sound bites.
You know, before we do this, I want to mention something to you.
I'm in the process of maybe asking you guys a question again.
I remember saying, remember when the ranking Republican called me, told me he expected Obama to moderate, move to the center, because he'd have to do that to get reelected, that he heard the American people.
And I said, Mr. Ranking Republican, I think you're wrong.
I think this guy is going to just double down.
He is not going to move to the center, and he, if he has to, will use executive actions to get what he wants done.
And people are saying, hey, Rush, it looks like he's moving to the center here on this tax cut thing.
It looks like he's moving to the center on this.
It looks like he's because, I mean, he could, he could just say, all right, screw it.
We're not doing it.
These things are expiring, and now we're not, we're going to let these tax rates go back to what they were with Clinton.
And I've been thinking about that and trying to figure out how he's looking at this strategically.
I think the way he's looking at this strategically is that get this stuff out of the way now.
People will forget about it.
And in 2012, he'll get his tax increase.
In fact, I just, Barney Frank, who needs two drains in his mouth now, by the way, he was just on Andrea Mitchell, NBC News, in Washington, her show.
And he said, two years from now, there clearly will not be such an will be able to raise taxes on the rich to a maufa-laboux.
See, I think Obama believes that too.
I think Obama is confident that the nut jobs of his base will rally behind him two years from now when it matters.
It doesn't matter now.
I remember a story Bill Belichick told going into a Super Bowl.
The Patriots were playing the Packers or the Rams, I forget which, and they won in an upset.
I think it was the Rams.
And a couple days before the game, he got out videotape of a horse race to show to the entire team.
He stopped the race one-fourth of the way through.
He said, okay, who's going to win?
And the players all started making bets on who was going to win based on what they saw.
He stopped it at the halfway point.
It's okay, who's going to win?
The players made bets.
Don't think it's going to stopped it three-fourths of the way through.
Okay, who do you consider to win now?
And the players all made bets.
And finally, he said, don't you understand?
It doesn't matter.
It only matters at the end.
All this stuff, the first turn, halfway through, three-quarters, it doesn't matter.
You can't tell who's going to win until it's actually over.
It was his way of telling his guys, you got to play all four quarters in this game.
Doesn't matter what's happening at halftime.
Obama's looking at this in much the same way.
Doesn't matter right now what the base is doing because they can't take it out on him at the polls.
It really doesn't matter.
In an electoral sense.
Sure, it ticks him off, messiah-wise, ego-wise, but it really doesn't matter.
Two years from now, it'll matter.
That's when they either will or won't vote for him.
And two years from now, he'll come out.
He'll refight this tax issue.
And that's why this ticks me off.
Because it ought not come up again.
We should be going for cuts.
This is a two-year extension.
Two years plays right into the electoral theory plans of the Democrats.
Now, his base, most of this is real.
The deal brings him back under his wing before the election.
He already said he's going to fight this in two years.
And if the Republicans aren't careful, and they aren't, they said this could backfire on him.
He said that he's going to try to appeal to Democrats and independents by bashing the rich in two years.
He said he's going to do it.
Now, many confidently say on our side that the public doesn't buy this class envy stuff anymore, that they don't buy class warfare.
It doesn't work.
I'm not so sure.
But even so, why test it?
Why test it?
We won a massive election victory.
Deal with this now.
The cavalry's coming.
I guarantee you, these people arriving in the House in January, you're going to love it.
They are going to be hell-bent on implementing what they were sent to Washington to do.
Now, we'll be watching.
Some of them will probably be courted by the powers that be socially in Washington.
And we know that it happens to the best of them.
Get caught up in that town.
And the way things work there, we know that liberals run it.
So we'll see.
There's a lot yet to happen in front of us.
Now back to the audio soundbites.
Obama still answering the question that Jonathan Wiseman of the Wall Street Journal asked, what are your core values, man?
What are you going to go to the Matt over?
This is a big, diverse country.
Not everybody agrees with us.
Oh, shot the tape and queue it back up.
I told you about this one yesterday.
He is talking to the press.
This is near the end of the presser.
He's frustrated and angry with the press corps and with the questions.
He is answering this question from Weissman at the Wall Street Journal, and he is speaking not to the people of this country.
He's speaking to the press corps.
He's talking to the White House press people in that room, calling them us, for example.
This is a big, diverse country.
Not everybody agrees with us.
I know that shocks people.
Now, the New York Times editorial page does not permeate across all of America.
Neither does the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
This is why FDR, when he started Social Security, it only affected widows and orphans.
You did not qualify.
And yet now, it is something that really helps a lot of people.
When Medicare was started, it was a small program.
It grew under the criteria that you just set out.
Each of those were betrayals of some abstract ideal.
He is livid at these guys, but he was talking like a heretic.
The New York Times editorial page doesn't permeate across all of America.
You know, we run around, we complain about the mainstream media.
We complain about the bias, the lack of objectivity, and so forth, and so do they.
Except he's upset.
He's trying to remind these guys, look, the Times is our Bible, but it doesn't permeate all across America.
Damn it.
Not everybody agrees with us.
I know that shocks you.
You know, the New York Times editorial page doesn't permeate it.
I mean, this is really opening up.
This is a clear view into his mindset and that of the full-fledged liberal mindset.
They're ticked off.
They're winning.
They're ticked off.
Hey, not everybody agrees with us.
That makes him mad.
By the way, he committed another gaffe.
This is why FDR, when he started Social Security, only affected widows and orphans.
That's that you couldn't be more wrong.
It was old age assistance.
Social Security was called old age assistance.
It was specifically about seasoned citizens.
It wasn't about widows and orphans.
And this is not the first time he's got this wrong.
He's got this wrong many, many times, like 57 states.
He campaigned in all 57 states.
He's looking at the press.
You guys didn't qualify for Social Security when it started.
The hell they didn't.
Everybody qualified when they reached a certain age.
But it wasn't for widows and orphans.
You guys didn't qualify me.
Medicare didn't start off.
By design, the only way these things get passed into law is if they're said to cost very little just to help a small group of people.
But look at what happens to all these programs.
They finally expand and blow up to the point that nobody can pay for them.
Nobody knows how many people are being treated redundantly, benefiting redundantly from all of this.
This chip on his shoulder moment, that's when he's backed into a corner, the bamster plays the race cart.
He's still answering the question from Jonathan Wiseman, Wall Street Journal.
What do you stand for?
What are you going to go to the man over?
What are your core values?
This country was founded on compromise.
I couldn't go through the front door of this country's founding.
And if we were really thinking about ideal positions, we wouldn't have a union.
Oh, the chip on the shoulder becomes visible.
The chip on the shoulder is large.
Country was founded on compromise.
This is the first pay-in-to-compromise that I've heard from the Democrats regarding this deal.
The press didn't ask about it.
We've been told a bipartisan chip of compromise.
That's what the American people want.
But there hasn't been any celebration of it with this deal until now.
Country was founded on compromise.
I couldn't go through the front door at this country's night.
And believe me, he still holds that against this country.
And that's one of the reasons he's got this country in his crosshairs.
Make no mistake about it.
Saul Olinski taught that community organizers, the agitators, should not have core principles.
They should just try to get done what they're told to get done.
Obama was a community organizer.
You have to be flexible.
You have to be able to roll with the flow.
That's what Olinski said.
Alinsky said, you have to be willing to give up everything and anything to accomplish your larger goals.
And Obama's ticked off here.
The media not knowing that about Alinsky.
He thinks everybody on the left knows the Bible.
He thinks everybody on the left ought to understand what he's doing here.
He can't believe that they don't.
Sounded like he was starting to channel his inner reverend right there towards the end of this press conference.
The anger.
Finally, still answering the same question, he tells the liberals he tried to keep his promises.
Listen to this.
Take a tally.
Look at what I promised during the campaign.
There's not a single thing that I've said that I would do that I have not either done or tried to do.
And if I haven't gotten it done yet, I'm still trying to do it.
And so to my Democratic friends, what I'd suggest is let's make sure that we understand this is a long game.
This is not a short game.
And to my Republican friends, I would suggest I think this is a good agreement because I know that they're swallowing some things that they don't like as well.
And I'm looking forward to seeing them on the field of competition over the next two years.
Yeah, well, again, look at what I promised during the campaign.
He promised these tax rates would expire.
He promised it 10 times, maybe more.
And he says there's not a single thing that I've said I would do that I have not either done or tried to do.
So they get a dose of creating or saving jobs.
He gets credit now for doing it or trying to do it.
And he's trying to extend these or to increase these tax rates.
He's trying.
He just can't get it done and wants credit for it.
So he's tried.
He tried.
He tried to keep his promises.
He's a liberal.
His intentions should be all that matters.
That's what he's trying to tell.
Hey, I'm trying here.
But even the country was founded on compromise.
So I couldn't walk in the front door when this country was founded.
And we take a break.
Be back.
We'll continue right after this.
Get to your phone calls.
Your guiding light, Rush Limbaugh, talent on loan from God, Barney Frank, says that he will not vote for the deal.
He says there won't be a recession in two years.
He was with Henry Mitchell, NBC News in Washington, who said, are you going to vote for this deal if this is what ends up on the floor?
No, I won't vote for it.
I don't feel that I should be coerced.
I believe, and I certainly was honest about this in the campaign I ran, that it would do no economic damage if you had that fairly small increase.
Two years from now, when this comes up again, we won't be in a recession, clearly.
And I will make a prediction to you now.
They'll be just as opposed to taxing in a fair way as they were today.
That is, this argument about a recession is pure cover.
That's not their real reason.
And when we take this up in two years and we're not in a recession, you're going to hear the same kind of resistance to putting the right back to where it was during that very successful economy under Bill Clinton.
So they're going to bring it up in two years.
That's the plan.
They're going to bring it up in two years, and clearly, there won't be a wasutin.
I don't think it's clear that there won't be a wasutin because unemployment is going to continue to be denied it to 10% because we're going to extract unemployment benefits.
Those would be no reason for go back to work.
He says the Republicans, you know, this recession and raising taxes, they're just a cover.
They're going to be opposed to the fairness no matter what.
All right, to the phones.
You people have patiently waited.
I appreciate it.
We'll start with Mike in South Jersey.
You're up first today.
Hello.
Hello.
In the beginning of the show, you had that woman, a congresswoman or whatever, saying how, you know, because of the tax increase, how many jobs have you created or what, saved or whatever?
The thing is, is with the amount of taxes you pay, and I mean, you must pay a heck of a lot, we'll never know how many federal jobs you saved or created because that's where your money comes from.
Thank you for that.
Am I right?
No, you're right.
You're right.
You're talking about Sheila Jackson Lee.
And she said, let me not focus on people.
Let's focus on corporations.
What will the likes of Rush Limbaugh get a big tax cut do to reinvest their dollars to help build America?
Well, you probably paid for the roads, some of the road work I've seen over the years with the signs up that they have that say, you know, your federal tax dollars at work to repair the bridges in towns.
I'm sure your tax dollars went to pay for that.
You know, my taxes in one day, my taxes for one day in New York City would pay Sheila Jackson Lee's taxes for the full year.
I mean, actually, your tax dollars pay her salary.
As do yours.
It's an excellent point you are making.
I don't get these people.
Stupid.
I just want to thank you for paying your taxes.
You enjoy your taxes.
You know, very few.
I appreciate this.
So few people ever thank me.
Period.
I don't mean just for paying taxes and so forth.
But I am so tempted.
It's not, it just, it's uncouth.
It isn't classy stuff talking about all this stuff.
But, oh, man, what do I do to help reinvest in America?
Good lord.
I'll not submit the list to her because she would just turn it around and find a way to use it against me.
Well, when did it become couth for a congresswoman to attack a taxpayer?
I guess now.
I guess it's cool to be able to do it.
It's okay.
Hey, certainly, it goes with the territory.
I am the titular head of the Republican Party.
I am the power base.
That's what she thinks, along with many people on her side of the aisle.
Well, she's titular head of something, not the Democrat Party.
All right.
Fastest three hours in the media zipping by here.
Another obscene profit timeout, but we will be back.
More phone calls are coming up.
And it's more Mannheim steamroller in the bump rotation.
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You know, all you liberals that are mad at Obama.
I mean, I understand it, but Obama did not write the health care law.
Reed and Pelosi wrote the health care law.
Well, their staffs did.
That healthcare law has been in a drawer.
It's been in Henry Waxman's drawer.
It was in Pelosi's drawer.
It's been in Harry Reed's desk drawer.
They've had this thing written up for years.
You think they're going to put together 2,000 pages on the day after Obama gets elected or emaculated?
That thing's been sitting around collecting dust.
And that's why it was written years ago by the staff.
But if you're going to get mad at Obama, you've got to get mad at the people who wrote it because they're the ones that ultimately caused all the delays with it.
These guys, oh, we don't need to read this thing.
Why do we never read the bills?
Well, that caused the delay.
Well, you people mad at Obama, and I understand it.
You'll be mad at the whole Democrat Party for crying out loud.
Look what you gave the guy.
You gave him the White House.
You gave him a super majority in the House.
You gave Obama, talk about you Democrat voters, 60 votes in the Senate.
You gave them everything he needed to get everything he wanted like that.
There was nothing the Republicans could do to stop anything.
That's why most of the Republican Party was just depressed as they could be.
There wasn't one thing they could do legislatively to stop anything Obama was going to do.
And yet look where we are in two years.
Now, he's got a lot done.
But there's a lot that didn't get done, and the left is livid.
You know, you got to hand it to them.
I mean, look what they, look what the unions did for this guy.
Not just the unions.
Let's look at the left.
The unions, the media, African Americans, Hispanics, illegals, homosexuals, educated elites, the government employees.
They invested billions of dollars into getting the Messiah elected.
They got him total control over this government.
Total control.
I mean total.
The Republicans couldn't do one thing with votes to stop him.
He was supposed to do everything they wanted.
This was their great moment.
Just like they'd been trying to pass health care for 100 years or 50.
They had been waiting.
They had been masturbating at night to this whole notion.
They had been having orgasms of this whole notion.
I can't, well, I'm describing it that way, folks, is I want to be literal.
I want you to know what the election of this guy meant to the left.
Put yourself in their shoes.
Imagine that Ronaldus Magnus II surfaces.
Imagine there is somebody, and this guy wins in a landslide, gets 60, 61 seats in the Senate, 150-seat majority in the House.
Imagine, imagine what you'd be expecting.
You would expecting the Rhino-Republicans to get rolled or to come around.
You would expect all kinds of things to happen.
And if it didn't, you'd be saying, what's the point?
You'd be suspicious.
You'd be wondering, what's the point of getting everybody elected?
What's the point of spending all this money?
What's the point if it's not going to happen?
That's where they are.
That's why they are livid.
And despite all of this, he barely got Obama through, Obamacare through, barely got it.
He didn't get everything he wants yet.
We're still having another presidential election in two years.
After all, there will be another election.
There was a question about that.
There was some question about whether there would be elections again, but there will be one in two years after all.
They don't have card check.
They don't have amnesty for illegals.
They don't have gay marriage.
They don't have gift mill closed.
They don't have tax increases on the rich.
There is no more majority in the House.
They barely have one in the Senate.
They should be mad because he had it all.
They gave it all to him.
You could say that they paved the road in rubies and diamonds for this guy.
They paved the roads in gold.
He was taken to the White House without his feet getting dirty by touching the ground.
He has not taken advantage of all that he's been given, and now it's gone.
I have here in my formerly nicotine-stained fingers statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the tax cut deal.
Two years ago, working Americans had high hopes that we would ultimately emerge from the deep, punishing financial debacle with a sharp focus on a fundamentally stronger, fairer, and more balanced economy.
Today, that vision has dimmed.
The tax cut deal rewards Republican obstructionism by giving the wealthy the tax breaks they demanded.
It throws away precious resources needed for investments in jobs and our economy on upper income tax cuts that'll do very little to propel economic growth, setting up excuses for the deficit hypocrites to argue for even more cuts to programs serving working families.
It large the tax cuts for the top 2% with an indefensible cut in the estate tax, giving yet another bonus to the super-rich.
Taken together, this package locks in the growing income inequality that has plagued our country for at least another two years and quite possibly much longer.
Of course, Dick, there is no cut in the estate tax.
It's right now zero, and it's going up to 35%.
But that's a minor little detail.
It is unconscionable that the price of support for struggling middle-class families and workers who have been unable to find jobs for months and months and months is yet more giveaways for our country's wealthiest families.
Millions of jobless workers have lived in fear for months while Senate Republicans have the gall to use their hardships as political leverage for the benefit of the rich.
How do we use our power to escape caving into Wall Street and moneyed interests?
And how do we create the millions of jobs we need now and move toward a future of broadly shared prosperity?
He doesn't say it, but what he means is, how do we do this since we can't count on Obama?
They do feel betrayed.
And in this statement, Trump could just admitted income tax is all about income redistribution.
It's not about raising revenue.
It's about income redistribution.
Everybody's talking about the hissy fit that Obama threw in his press conference.
He did, but the press corps threw one, too.
It was a bunch of children.
It was Romperoom.
It was kindergarten at the White House press conference yesterday.
Pure and simple.
Ken in Las Vegas.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
You're next on the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
My pleasure to be on.
Longtime listener back, I actually lived in Sacramento during the KFBK days decades ago.
Show was relevant and appreciated then and now.
Thank you.
You had a caller last week that was challenging you on the number of employees the show had and how you contributed that way.
And I think you had a good case there where you could have made a better example of that in saying that, how about if you take the show and say, what kind of economic revenue does the show generate?
All your affiliates, all the advertising, all of the dollar amounts nationally that are a direct result of your show and really a direct result of the show.
Well, wait a minute.
I remember the call, but no, I didn't have a chance because it was this guy telling me all about my business.
He was telling me how few employees I had because it's just a radio show.
Exactly.
And I think that the right answer to that and how you quiet these guys is to say, you know, an example of how the wealthy 1% can contribute is your show is a perfect example and really one guy.
And if you take, in fact, go back to the KFBK days and add up all of the revenue that's been generated by all the advertising dollars, all the employees it took to generate all of that, and add them up over the last two decades, and I'll bet the number is huge.
And there's a good example of saying how the wealthy 1% can contribute to the economy.
It's what you're generating and what your show is doing and how much money it generates, not for you, but what puts people to work and how much revenue flows as a result of that across the country.
It has been said by others, not me.
It has said by others that I saved AM radio.
Well, what?
I mean, if that's true, how many jobs did that saver create?
It has been said that I started the alternative media.
How many jobs has that saved or created?
How many pundits?
How many bloggers?
How many other talk show hosts?
It's been said by others.
I just use this as an example.
I, of course, have never said it, but others have.
Well, a good example of that would be a general contractor.
Let's say it's not just what the revenue that that contracting firm generates or how many employees it has, but if he has a number of subcontractors, it's all the revenue that flows through the subcontractors, all the employment that they have, and it's all a result of that one general contractor.
And I think you're in a similar circumstance.
That's how you quiet these guys down.
Yeah, it wouldn't quiet it down.
It would make me a bigger target.
You know what?
It would make me a big, it would stun them.
Just like the left really doesn't like Walmart, Walmart does a better job of servicing the poor than the government does, than the Democrats do.
And the Democrats want to be known for doing that.
It would be, I could ballpark a figure, an annual figure, of the dollars generated throughout all the tentacles of this radio show, starting with the show itself, and then the people who are immediately employed by it, all the way down to our affiliates, the people who work there, local advertisers, national advertisers, it'd be a big number.
But I think to ballpark it even now would be to make me an even bigger target.
It would just cause even more resentment.
What you think would happen is that people like Sheila Jackson and Lee would look at it and say, wow, I never knew.
I had no idea.
And while they would say that, it would not please them.
It would not please them whatsoever.
It would say, we've really got to get rid of this guy now.
We really, he's spreading tentacles way too deep in our society.
If we don't get rid of him now, we're never going to be able to get rid of him.
Now, it's because they're not like us, folks.
Obama, these people, they think differently than we do.
They just do.
You know, we try, everybody tries to understand what makes a liberal a liberal.
Well, Russia don't really think.
They're all just, it's all emotional with them.
They're angry.
Whatever it is.
They just think differently than we do.
They think differently than we do about the country.
They think differently than we do about the economy.
And there's very little in common.
And that's why compromising with these people, to me, is a waste of time.
Defeating them is what is paramount.
You know, how about the money that I earn that gets taxed to help these big blue liberal cities to fund themselves?
When I put money in the banks, I need more than one.
Put money in the banks.
That money is used to lend money to people like Sheila Jackson Lee and her constituents, their voters.
I mean, I could sit here and make up a figure like Obama and claim to have saved or created over 8 million jobs.
I could do that.
Who could say that I'm not doing so?
Who could say the number is not accurate?
The regime says, well, he created or saved 3.5 million jobs.
And then you add jobs I intended to create or save.
Why, that adds another 8 million.
So 16 million jobs that I created or saved or intended to create.
Well, Obama wants credit for the promises he tried to keep, right?
He just said it, his press cover.
He wants credit for the promises he tried to keep.
So I saved or created 8 million jobs and another 8 million that I intended to save or create.
Really tried.
Total of 16 million.
There you have it.
Let me be even more truthful, ladies and gentlemen, if that's possible.
I could say that I created Air America.
Created and saved jobs at Air America.
Would there be a Media Matters for America if it weren't for me?
And they've got a huge staff over there funded by George Soros.
Media Matters was founded to discredit me and my reputation.
They wouldn't exist.
The left wouldn't exist without me.
Would George Soros have bought those 100 reporters for NPR if it wasn't for me?
My cigars alone save or create 400,000 jobs, many of them in the Dominican.
If the government would stop taking my money, I would create another 8 million.
I'm up to 24 million jobs I've either created or saved or intended to.
And if it would stop taking my money, I could do another 8 to 12 million.
By the time I'm done, we're going to have to start importing more workers to fill all the jobs that I would create.
Now, on another subject, why are we creating a retirement program for the unemployed?
Don't they need pensions?
All the years they've not worked, so they can go to Florida and not work.
I mean, we have pensions like Tim Palinti had a bus strike.
They wanted full health care and pensions after working for 15 years.
And we've been told that the unemployed receiving benefits is an economic stimulus.
That not paying these people not to work would cost us 600,000 jobs or some number.
Well, why even contemplate the notion of having them go back to work then?
We're extending unemployment benefits.
We've done it six times since 2008.
We do it because it's Christmas time, there aren't any jobs.
Why not just create a social security type program for them now and just start giving them that money so you never have to go back to work?
We can look at the unemployment rate.
It would come down immediately because all those people unemployed would simply no longer have to work because they'd be on this new retirement plan that we create.
They need pensions too.
The unemployed need pensions too for all the work they haven't done.
Pay for all the years that they haven't worked.
Where are our hearts?
I ask.
You know, even more than pensions, what about reparations for the unemployed?
Social Security-like retirement program for them.
Look at all the economic stimulus there.
And then reparations.
It's not their fault.
It's society's fault that they don't have any jobs.
Just plug them in there on that Pigford lawsuit like it's already being done.
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