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March 10, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 10, 2011, Thursday, Hour #2
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Okay, let's see.
Let's see.
We still have still have record high unemployment.
We have an ever-widening trade deficit.
We are approaching record high energy prices.
We have record low consumer confidence.
And we are beginning to see serious inflation.
What's it all add up to?
Welcome to Stagflation 2, brought to you by Jimmy Carter 2.
The second term of the Carter administration.
But don't worry, folks.
We won't be hearing about the misery index from Obama's media machine at all.
By the way, Fox News is reporting that the Department of Justice is investigating death threats made against the legislators in Wisconsin.
Now, if we know Eric Holder, they'll only investigate threats made against his people.
Still, my friends, right, Schnerdley?
It's exactly right.
It's exactly what he said.
Still, folks, it is fun to watch these hard-working middle class families.
These backbone of America middle class salt of the earth families being dragged out of the assembly chamber.
Do you realize that the uh the Reverend Jackson even showed up there?
The Reverend Jackson even managed to slip past the strict unionized security at the Capitol.
I mean, we all know what a working middle class family man, the Reverend Jackson is.
Hi, folks, and welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh.
Great to have you with us here on the EIB network.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800 282-2882 and the email address Lrushball at EIB net.com.
Number of people seeking unemployment benefits rose last week, but the rise comes after applications hit their lowest level in nearly three years, and economists expect further declines as the economy approves.
So unemployment requests for assistance went up.
It's wonderful news.
Yes.
It's wonderful news because we had our lowest level in three years last week, and the economists expect further declines as the economy improves.
And problem is that this week they went really high.
You gotta hand it to the people at the AP.
They are they're just wonderfully loyal employees.
They never give up trying to talk up the economy for their Democrat bosses.
Applications for unemployment benefits rose by 26,000 to a seasonally adjusted 397,000 during the week ended March the 5th.
The latest report covers the week after the President's Day holiday when many government offices were closed.
Applications usually rise in weeks following holiday shortened weeks.
Oh, you see, ladies and gentlemen, how this is the once again trot out how a holiday has affected the seasonally adjusted number.
Even though President's Day and before that, Washington's birthday has been officially celebrated on the third Monday in February since 1968.
They act like something was weird about it this year.
Something very strange about President's Day this year.
Somehow it affected the unemployment numbers.
And of course, notice how the AP assures us there's plenty of hiring going on.
That's the next phase of the story.
Applications below 425,000 signal modest job growth.
This is really good news.
Companies are hiring more after months of sluggish job creation.
That's it actually says that in a story, more people sought unemployment aid last week.
Companies are hiring more.
So I mean the the the short version, the headline here, jobless claims and hiring are both up.
Go figure.
But that is the report.
Let's go to the uh audio sound bites.
Recount some of what happened media-wise in reaction to the shocking news Out of Wisconsin yesterday that the strategic maneuver of stripping all the appropriations out of the bill took place, making it possible for a vote to take place without a quorum.
On the day Scott Walker, governor of Wisconsin was accused of being almost ready to cave.
He did the exact opposite.
We have that maybe one of the greatest group freakouts in the history of the American media in this montage.
The Republicans in Wisconsin state Senate appear to have invented a new nuclear option.
State Republicans are pulling the nuclear option.
This is the nuclear option.
Making a mockery of democracy and the rule of law.
This was an illegal move.
Democrats are up at arms.
They say this was illegal.
They say this violated the rules of the chamber.
They are stripping the democratic rights of the people.
The Ash Wednesday ambush.
Ash Wednesday ambush.
That's Chris Matthews.
So it was the nuclear option.
It's a mockery of democracy and the rule of law, they say.
And everything that happened was purely legal.
Everything.
This again from the crowd that was considering reconciliation for Obamacare.
This from the crowd was simply going to deem Obamacare to have passed.
You know, there's a there's an analogy that left is freaking.
They're imploding right before our very eyes.
They are engaged in a freakout.
They really are in a meltdown.
Why?
It really isn't that complicated.
What happened last November?
Something very peaceful, an election.
Standard, ordinary, everyday, standard operating procedure election.
American citizens got in their cars and their buses, their rickshaws, the Hoof Express, and they headed on down to the polls, and they voted.
And in the election last November, the Democrats got shellacked.
Standard, good old-fashioned, ordinary, everyday election.
Especially Wisconsin.
The left is not practiced at winning at the ballot box.
They win through intimidation.
They win through bullying and other such tactics.
The left is really imperiled when elections are the deciding factor in who gets power.
And I'm not exaggerating this.
What do you mean, Rush?
I mean, Democrats, they they like elections.
They win them now and then.
Yeah, but they have what we call election insurance.
If they lose, they still have their plants in the judiciary, and they still have their plants in the uh bureaucracy.
But elections are a problem for the left.
And the reason that elections are a problem is because the truth be known, maybe 30% of the American people agree with the left.
Maybe at the outside, 30% of the American people are full-fledged liberals.
So in normal circumstances where everybody as a candidate tells you who they really are, what they're really going to do, the left would never win one.
Certainly not a national one.
No Democrat would ever win a national election if that Democrat were full-fledged honest about his policies and his ideas.
They have to make it up, they have to lie, obfuscate, uh, impugn, criticize, character smash, smear their opponents.
That's what we're left with in Wisconsin.
They don't know what to do.
The I mean the epitome of fair and square has just taken place, and they don't know how to deal with it.
The first phase of fair and square was last November's election.
The second phase of fair and square, and by the way, it was even overboard fair and square.
This governor and the Republicans in Wisconsin bent over backwards.
They gave these Democrats over a month to come back from their cowardly hiding place and the DMZ, the Illinois Wisconsin border, gave them a month, negotiated with them, talked with them, did everything that it Said you're supposed to do.
Cajoled, did not ram anything down their throats, did not act uppity, they just stuck to their guns, did the Republicans and the governor.
And the Republicans.
It was said yesterday were about the cave.
Governor was about the cave.
And the Democrats, the Liberals thought, my gosh, our fear tactics, our intimidation tactics have worked.
We'll keep it up.
Bring in more union thugs, bring in more buses filled with people that are here to deface public property and to frighten people.
Just bring them all in here.
That's how they do it.
The real bullies in our political culture were found on the left side of the aisle.
So they bring in all these people with their standard operating tactics, and guess what?
They didn't lose, they didn't win.
Good old fashioned standard operating procedure.
Very peaceful, everything above board, 100% legal.
The governor even went out of his way to be civil with the Democrats who fled the state.
Cowardly Democrat senators left the state.
Governor Walker went out of his way to be civil and nice when a legitimate outcome, the result of election and fair by the book, legislative process results in a Democrat loss, they are at a loss.
They don't know what to do.
They really don't.
So all they can do is take over the billing and act like petulant.
What if Peter Jennings call them having a tantrum?
The left is having a tantrum here.
Because the truth be known, they don't like elections because this is what happens in elections.
All it took was a Republican governor telling the people the truth.
Here's where we are financially.
This is why, and we've got not much time to fix this.
Right on, Gov. They elected him to do it.
He starts doing it.
It really is no more complicated than that.
They are, the left is befuddled when things are fair and square.
And they lose, don't know what to do about it, other than wreak havoc as they are doing now.
You know, if we outlaw bullying like Muchell Obama wants to do, if we outlaw bullying, the Democrats will never win another election.
They'll never pass another piece of legislation for the rest of time.
Because that's their modus operandi is bullying.
Intimidation.
Impugn the character and intentions of people.
These emails that the people were citing yesterday in the press and Walker was about the cave.
Those emails even show Walker was willing to bend over backwards for them.
He was willing to compromise, do all kinds of things.
Now this freakout, this montage that you just heard nuclear option anti-democracy, This freak out is from the same media that laughs when Obama ignores federal judges.
The same media that applauds Obama ignoring a federal judge saying his health care bill is unconstitutional.
The same media and the same Democrats who laugh when the regime is cited for contempt of court for ignoring court rulings.
They laugh, they applaud.
Except when they lose, then they can't figure it out.
If the standard good old American way determines that they lose, this is what you get.
Panic, bullying, defacement of public property.
Their sense of entitlement is breathless to behold.
Power is theirs by birthright.
Why, looky, here he is, the Reverend Jackson in Madison, Wisconsin, even as we speak.
Let's go back one more audio sum by before the break last night in Madison at the state capitol.
It's a conference committee meeting to remove the fiscal components from Governor Walker's budget bill, thereby negating the need for a quorum.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald of Juneau, Wisconsin, and Representative Peter Barca of Kenosha have this exchange, and he's a Democrat about the special conference committee meeting.
I have consulted with the legislative council, the legislative reference bureau, and the legislative fiscal bureau, and have been advised that this proposal would not trigger the special quorum requirement in Article 8, Section 8 of the Wisconsin Constitution.
At this time I would move to adopt the chairman.
As the conference, Chairman, excuse me.
I have like a 24-hour notice.
I have a couple of motions I would like to make as amendments to this motion.
Clearly, no options of the conference committees do have an opportunity for people to amend a bill.
No, there's no okay.
So now they adjourn the meeting in his face.
They just adjourned the meeting in his face.
It's an example for Washington Republicans, folks.
This is how it's done.
Just do it.
Just do what the people elected you to do.
Play for keeps.
The Democrats never hold back.
That's why I say this cannot be allowed to be the only incident.
Just because we're losing the media war, it doesn't look we're not winning the headline battle.
This ought to be the first spark that inspires everybody else at elective office to keep this train heading down the track.
This is how you do it.
Hey, Cookie, uh, would you get me Jesse Jackson just now on Fox?
I s folks, I you know what I just did.
I just I just tuned in to uh Fox News Channel, a Revyn Jackson's being interviewed.
I don't know what he said.
I I do not we have to share the pin, we have to shut a sacrifice, we need a kid through twelve education, we need Medicare.
And I mean, just uh he's calling for revolt and recall.
The people are hurting.
Pipple are hurting.
And we need calling for revolt.
Revolt and recall.
In uh in Wisconsin.
Back to the phones now.
Who is up?
Carl in Durham, North Carolina.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Russ.
Thanks for having me on your show.
You bet, sir.
Uh you know, uh during the tea parties, I remember that the media never missed a chance to point out that the crowd didn't look like America.
Uh I think the term they used over and over again was predominantly white.
You know, I love the skin color of the crowd was uh a real important factor.
Um, you know, I was I was watching last night all the different videos of the protests in Wisconsin, and uh I kind of pretended for a minute that I was a media person, and I started to notice that the crowd of protesters didn't look like America.
In fact, that might have been the most willy white crowd I've ever seen.
You mean in the union thug protesters there that are engaging in the uh storm in the castle and well no wait on a second.
I got a picture right here.
I'm looking at a picture of see if it was uh it's kind of a wide shot, but you may have a point.
I I I watched a lot of videos from a lot of different cameras and different angles, and uh I just I just noticed I didn't I didn't see what what looked like America to me.
Uh yeah, well, it it it the Democrats can take a picture of whatever's in it and say, this is America, but let us try it.
Uh we don't get anywhere.
That's that's an uh excellent point.
Uh uh what we can say colorless protest in uh in ways.
Don in Chicago, you're next in the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Rush, hi, Megadiddo.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you for taking my call.
I've been trying for years and finally got through, and you stole my thunder.
Um you know, it's I this happens now and then.
Uh uh, what what thunder of yours did I happen to steal?
Well, it's a it's about Obama going out and talking about uh this bullying in classrooms.
And it's always it's like usual, it's a matter of symbolism over substance, because he has a golden opportunity to stop bullying around the world, and instead he's gonna go talk about it in our classroom.
Well, there are two things about that.
First, and let's just be honest.
The bullying thing is Michelle's.
Just like the food thing is Michelle's, so's The bullying thing.
It was Michelle, she's running the videos that they're appearing.
It was Michelle that was today at the bully pulpit in the White House.
It was Michelle that had all the passion of the bullying and so forth.
And Barack's just standing there.
Well, I you know, I I have uh used different terminology uh to describe them.
I I tend to think that that's no question she bullies him.
I mean, when a guy's left to his own devices, what does he do?
I mean, even when you have the Soviet KGB in town, when it's lunchtime, this never happens.
They leave the White House and go to some burger joint in Virginia just so Barack can get some grease.
You know, you have a burger and fries, and and uh Medvedev is sitting there, what is this?
Bush.
Didn't understand it.
That's what Obama had to do to eat what he wanted to eat.
I know a lot of people think that she's the one bullying him in a really and uh the the verbal it looked like it.
Yeah, welcome back, Rush Limbaugh.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
By the way, just for future references, somebody calls them stealing their thunder.
I don't steal thunder, I make it.
I make thunder.
It is my thunder that appears elsewhere, reverberates coast to coast nationwide.
Now, about this bullying business.
Here's a here's a story from the Raleigh News and Observer.
Obama makes time for bullying prevention effort.
So here you have teachers, you have teacher-funded bullies defacing the Capitol building in Wisconsin.
Effort to intimidate elected officials.
Obama, who's the de facto leader of these said bullies, says bullying has no place in schools.
We had a caller say, why doesn't Obama stop the bullying in the Middle East?
I think it would help everybody to recall what Obama's opinion of this country is.
He thinks this country has been a bully in the world.
Look, you know it and I know it.
He believes that this country's well, it's one of the reasons why he's not doing anything in Libya.
May we be honest about this?
He's kind of hamstrung because he was out there ripping into Bush for all those years for Bush's democracy project in Iraq.
And remember, even before Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, he was running around saying this is a horrible thing, we had no business being there, it's none of our business, weapons of mass destruction, all of it.
U.S. has no business trying to shape events.
There's none of our business over there.
Who are we?
Well, now, you know, Cairo and Egypt kind of happened.
He was able to throw himself in front of that mob, but he didn't have to really do anything, make a couple speeches.
Libya's a little bit different.
This is actually a powder keg.
Things are good and blown up, and you got a real uh lunatic leader here who's capable of anything, and the world is clamoring for some moral leadership, some guidance.
And Sarkozy has had to step in and provide it because Obama is hamstrung.
A he has said we have no business telling these people what to do, and B, he's ripped Bush.
It was a central aspect of his campaign, in fact.
He's already had to tell a truth to his people.
He never intended to close Guantanamo Bay now, in the same week, to have to go against his own avowed belief that we have no business telling anybody in the Middle East what to do, to step in there and do something about Libya.
So, you know, we're we are the bully, and because we've been the bully, we're not going to be the bully anymore.
So we bring bullying, we make it a domestic issue that is so important that the White House has to get involved in it.
And of course, we all know that it's Muchell's issue.
I watched it this morning.
I watched it in the White House.
Muchell was running this whole show.
She was carrying the water on this.
Obama was not even in the camera frame.
Well, at times he was half of him was in the camera frame.
But, you know, she was she was uh running the whole thing.
It's ridiculous For the federal government to be involved in an issue like this.
The other reason that uh Obama might be afraid of doing anything in Libya is that bullies are notoriously cowardly.
You know, if there's any real well, what makes a bully?
A bully is somebody who goes after somebody much weaker and much smaller.
Bullies are notorious cowards.
If there's any real risk whatsoever to the bully, the bully won't take any action.
Might mouth off a couple words here, but really won't get into any serious action by definition.
Here's Conrad, Fremont, California.
Conrad, welcome to the EIB network, sir, and hello.
Hello.
Thank you for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Great privilege to be on your show.
I wanted to make a comment.
I've been in and around the unions for about 30 some odd years.
And to hear this Wisconsin thing and unions throughout the United States.
All I ever see and have learned through the unions is that they just want to take.
They never want to give back.
And when you when you're dealing with non-union entities and you have competition, all these other people can keep dropping their prices and asking their people to take the pay cuts.
Why can't they agree to come back and take pay cuts?
Well, now, you have to correct me here, but I think the private sector, there have been a number of cases where unions have done that.
I mean, I said three weeks ago in this program, I talked about some union people when I was trying to make myself understood that I'm I'm not opposed.
If you want to join a union, feel free, but understand what you're doing.
Uh but a lot of airline pilots unions and flight attendants, they've they've had to uh I don't know what the term is give back.
They they've had to release some previously won so-called salary gains in order for the airline to stay open and flying and so forth.
True.
And and I got people ripped.
What do you mean union never give back?
Who are you talking about?
So in the private sector, I think they have.
Not it's it's not standard.
What we're really talking now is about a different kind of union today.
You're you're talking about the private sector places, the auto workers and the mine workers and steelworkers and that kind of thing.
We're the real focus of attention today, and by today I mean in this era, is the public sector government union employee because of who pays them.
They don't make anything.
There's no production going, it's strictly a redistribution of wealth.
Now, nobody would have a problem with it if if they hadn't gotten so greedy.
If you have the average private sector salary in Wisconsin, salary and benefits package, let's look at it this way.
The average salary and benefits package in Wisconsin equaling sixty thousand dollars, maybe sixty-two, and the private sector, public or public sector union people making twice that.
That's not sustainable because the people who are paying them, in many cases have lost their homes, have lost their jobs.
Uh and even if they're working and have their homes, they're still paying their taxes, are paying these people twice as much as they make.
And it's um and this whole notion of collective bargaining, collective bargaining, when you're talking about a public sector union, collective bargaining against who?
The people.
There's no evil boss here.
There's no fat cat cigar chomping private jet-owning ogre flying around that everybody hates and despises.
These people are engaged in collective bargaining bargaining against Joe Six Pack.
And it's tough to make the case that Joe Six Pack is the enemy.
So they don't really try to make the case that Joe Six Pack is the enemy.
They they somebody is.
It's Republicans, it's Bush, it's uh Governor Walker, it's the the enemies of working people and so forth.
And it's all bogus because the working people, by definition, are making half what the union people make.
This this whole, the whole lexicon that surrounds public sector union people is has been bastardized.
They are not the aggrieved slave laborer, have to work six days a week, eighty hours a week, barely scraping by, getting black long.
That's not who we're talking about here.
And yet that's what people try to make us think that we are talking about.
The public sector union has nobody on the other side of the table opposing him.
Joe Six Pack's not in there at these negotiations.
Well, that's what that's what is a sort of a mockery here, but collective bargaining.
Who's on the other side?
Who's the enemy?
Who's paying these people?
Us.
The people as a whole.
Representatives of the taxpayers ought to be in there, but they aren't.
The closest the taxpayer has is their elected official, who, if he's a Democrat, is in the pay of the unions.
So where is the what really the way to look at this?
For the first time, the taxpayers in a long time have somebody looking out for their interests.
It's Governor Walker and the Republicans.
I mean, everything about this is really wrong.
It's 180 degrees out of phase.
They're trying to take the old stereotype of a private sector union person and attach that to a public sector union person which works nine months a year, earns twice as much as the average citizen in the state, taxpayer, and somehow is constantly angry.
And this same person's dues are automatically deducted, and they end up at the Democrat Party.
So in addition to all this, the taxpayers who are paying the salaries of these public sector people are ultimately the source of campaign donations for Democrats because 95% of all deductions in dues go to Democrats.
Well, where's that money come from?
The money comes from citizens of the state of Wisconsin or any other state.
You know, I've explained it in great detail the past couple of weeks or so.
It's a money laundering operation.
So it's it's it really is if you if you try to think about it, here you have the unions and their union bosses and leaders, their John Meane's, they're Richard Trumpkes.
When these contract negotiations take place, when this precious collective bargaining session takes place, who in the world is representing management?
Management in this case is the taxpayer.
Who's representing man?
Nobody.
What normally you have is a Democrat governor or a Democrat state official negotiating with the Democrat Union leader.
How do you think the financial arrangements got to be so out of kilter as they are?
So the real way to understand what's happened here is in Wisconsin for the first time, the people who earn the money who are paying the salaries.
In the whole arrangement.
Thanks for the call.
Appreciate it.
A brief timeout, back before you know it, right after this.
Talent on loan from God.
Ladies and gentlemen, Republican senators in Wisconsin have received death threats via email.
Bomb threats, death threats.
They have been told to put their things in order because they will be killed and their families will also be killed due to their actions over the past couple of months.
The language in this email is uh pretty vicious.
We feel that you and the people that support the dictator have to die.
We've tried many other ways of dealing with your corruption, but you have taken things too far.
And we won't stand for it any longer.
So this is how it's going to happen.
We know where you and your family live.
It's a matter of public record.
We have all planned to assault you by arriving at your house and putting a nice little bullet in your head.
However, we decided that we wouldn't leave it there.
We also decided this may not be enough to send the message to you since you're so high on Coke, KOCH, and have decided that you are now going to single-handedly make this a dictatorship instead of a democratic process.
So we have also built several bombs that we have placed in various locations around the areas in which we know that you frequent.
This includes your house and your car, the state capital.
Well, we're going to tell you all the places.
They want you to be scared.
This is from the Obama wing of the Democrat Party.
These are Obamaites.
Threatening death, bombs, and so forth.
Now the people who do this genuinely generally are the ones who never do it.
I mean, the ones that do it don't telegraph it.
They just show up to take credit later.
But these people are so lunatic and saying, who knows?
But these guys have to take it seriously.
The subjects of this, the targets of this.
And it's just a hoot here.
I mean, these people think that the democratic process has been thwarted.
The democratic process is triumphed here.
But folks, this is um this is serious stuff.
These Republicans in Wisconsin, you know, you live something through something like this, and the import of it sometimes doesn't hit you because you're living through it.
You have your own life to live.
There are things happening to you each and every day while this is also going on.
But this is the kind of stuff that ends up in history books years and years from now.
These Republicans had the guts to run for office in a deep blue state.
They had the guts to stand up to the public sector unions, and that's that's not a knitting society.
The public sector, not the Trumpkas of the world and the John Sweeneys in this.
These people play for keeps.
This is this is the way they get their money.
This is the way they get their extravagant lifestyles.
I'm talking about the leaders of these unions making half million to a million dollars a year, flying around on their own planes, flying or doing all these things that they accuse these evil private sector fat cats of doing.
We do have their public sector and private sector union leader equivalents.
Just like the global warming crowd, this is how they get their money, promoting a hoax.
That's where the grant money goes.
These people, you can call it working for a living, but this is just siphoning from the public trough.
And they've had they've had free access to the teat for decades.
Now it's threatened.
And this is not about the children, and it's not about democracy.
This is about money and power.
Not just organizational money and donation money, but it's about your own back pocket money.
It's about your own lifestyle money.
You take away the power of these unions, you take away the power to generate money through wealth transfers, then you become a cascade here of people getting less from the public trough.
That's as much as what this is about as anything else.
What these Republicans are doing, the guts to stand up to these public sector unions is vital.
But as difficult as it truly is to strip collective bargaining from these parasites and the public sector people, this is but a warm-up.
I mentioned this earlier in the program today.
What Wisconsin, Ohio, New Jersey, Indiana Republicans are doing better be an inspiration.
Because if what they're doing makes other Republicans get weak in the knees, if other Republicans get scared and don't like what they're seeing and alter the way they go, then all this is going to be for naught.
If we get caught up and oh my God, we're losing the headline war on Twitter, all the vo.
Now's not the time to start hoping the media get it and see our way.
There are decisions very difficult ahead.
The pressure people make can't be imagined.
Forget the Union thugs.
Up next is the welfare nation that's gonna be storming into every building they can get into.
This is the warm up.
Are we all ready for it?
I wonder.
So where is all this civility and who's going to be blamed for these death threats?
Michael Moore?
Jesse Jackson?
They're both calling for revolt?
Revolution?
Now we got death threats.
Oh wait, wait.
That's right, they'll blame that on me.
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