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March 24, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 24, 2011, Thursday, Hour #2
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It's a funny headline, ladies and gentlemen from Fox News.
Reporter speaks gibberish on air after medical incident.
What's news about that?
When did a reporter not speak gibberish?
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Mayor Jim Suttle.
Where is this?
Omaha.
Mayor Jim Suttle.
Omaha, Nebraska, went to Washington on Tuesday, flush with ideas for how federal officials could help cities like Omaha pay for multi-billion dollar sewer projects.
Among the items on his brainstorming list, a proposal for a ten cent federal tax on every roll of toilet paper you buy.
Based on the four-pack price for Charmin Double Rolls Tuesday at a midtown high V. Such a tax would add more than 10% to the parole price, pushing it over a dollar.
The idea came from a failed 2009 house measure by an Oregon congressman to help cities and the environment.
Yeah, I heard about that.
I said, well, this is simple.
Let's just put it on the table, said Suttle.
It doesn't mean I endorse it.
I'm just putting it out there.
The mayor says that Omaha needs help with the metro area's 1.7 billion dollar bill for federally mandated sewer improvements.
The work must what happened to the stimulus?
Wasn't this precisely what the stimulus bill was for?
Nearly a trillion dollars in stimulus, infrastructure, and all that kind of stuff, and that's what a sewer is.
And now a toilet paper tax.
Just the beginning.
Anthony Wiener, Representative Anthony Wiener, New York, said yesterday he's looking into how a health law waiver might work for New York City.
This is a political story.
Anthony Wiener says here likely to run for mayor of New York, said that because of the city's special health care infrastructure, his office was looking into alternatives that might make more sense.
Now the political neglects to mention in this story that Anthony Wiener claimed to have written Obamacare legislation.
That was their scoop, by the way, and they failed to mention it in this story.
They even had the video clip to prove it, in which Wiener says the bill and I are one.
If you read the whole story, you'll read how Wiener talks about how friends got waivers.
Which is exactly how laws work in third world banana republics.
So here's New York City.
A waiver might work for New York.
Here's the author of the health care bill.
The author, the self-proclaimed author of Obamacare, saying that New York will need a waiver in order to survive.
Wiener is one of the healthcare law's biggest supporters during the debate leading up to the reform.
He was one of the last holdouts in Congress for the public option.
The president said, well, Wiener did.
He said, I wrote the bill.
And the bill and I are one.
And The president said, if you have better ideas that can accomplish the same thing, go for it, said Wiener.
Well, I'm in the process now of trying to see if we can take Obama up on that in the city of New York, and I'm taking a look at all the money that we spend.
Medicaid and Medicare.
Maybe New York City can come up with a better plan.
Well, I thought I I thought this was the end all to health care.
This was everything we needed, and now the nation's largest city needs a waiver.
From Obamacare.
Back to the audio soundbite Zibigniev Brzezinski on MSNBC this morning.
He was on there with uh his daughter, Mika Brzezinski.
So Mika Businski asking her father Zbig Brzezinski.
Last time we talked dead, you said that the president shouldn't act alone in Libya, that it should be collective action, and they're not calling it war.
Well, it really isn't war.
It's something in between war and military intervention to stop something that's going on, but without intending to conquer the country.
But I have to tell you frankly, Mika, that I cannot think of another instance in recent times in which I myself was so uncertain in thinking about the problem, how we should act.
Because there are so many downsides and so many uncertainties.
But in the end, I concluded that if we didn't act, it would be worse.
Sounds like we're in a bond movie here.
So Zebeg talking to his daughter Mika, the Bzhinskys on MSNBC, and it's not a war.
It's something in between that and military invention.
Stop something that's going on but without intending to conquer the country.
Not according to the American left.
The American left, the kooks out there think that's exactly what this is about if you listen to them.
Establishing a U.S. base.
They mad.
These leftists are mad.
This is the Obama's no different than George W. Bush to them.
In all of this.
Well, according to Mr. Brzezinski, Mr. Snertley, the an act of war uh is not an act of war unless we're not unless we're trying to conquer the country.
You know, hold territory, so to speak.
And uh Z Big says that that's not what we're doing.
We're not we're not going in to conquer the place, so it really isn't a war.
It's uh it's uh and it's not really a military intervention.
It's it's it's it's kinetic military action.
I mean, that's why they've come up with this ludicrous term.
But well that's that's why it's they don't want to call it a war on terror because the uh the Muslims don't intend to occupy us.
They just uh blew up the World Trade Center.
Of course, you might get some argument on that from certain people.
Uh all of this is nothing more than one of these intellectual exercises to excuse Obama, give him a pass.
It really isn't war.
You know, Democrat presidents don't like using the U.S. military.
They if the truth be known, liberals actually are happier when the U.S. military loses.
Liberals don't want military success.
They don't think the world should be shaped that way.
And of course, ours is a world governed by the aggressive use of force.
Liberals hate that.
To them, this is a world governed by the aggressive use of speeches.
You know, and all the speeches in the world didn't stop Gaddafi from deciding he wanted to become illegitimate.
So he starts doing what he's doing, and all these guys, I mean, I've I have never seen such pretzel-like maneuvering on the part of Democrats in order to accommodate what else is going on.
Either Obama's incompetence or else this this is just strictly this whole kinetic military action, war, military intervention, whatever they don't want to call it, is nothing more than a PR move.
To try to elevate uh Obama's stature from a position they're particularly not particularly happy that he occupies.
But it's it's like I said in the first hour, this is a joke.
You know, all of this, the the commentary about it, the action itself, the lack of an objective, the lack of a withdrawal strategy, no definition of victory.
Uh I mean, it's it's it is a joke.
The question is, is it is it purposefully so?
We look like anything but the solution to the world's problems here.
We we look like an utterly uh aimless, purposeless country here.
If you couple that with uh the the fact that we have a president who views this country's past In exactly that way.
Back after this.
CNN is running a crawl, a graphic crawl at the bottom of the screen about Libya.
It says humanitarian crisis feared.
What now?
I I thought that's precisely what we had averted.
I thought that's what everybody was taking credit for, that we have averted a humanitarian crisis.
Go back here to number uh 15, Ed.
Audio sum by number 15, Zibigniev Zhinsky on MSNBC this morning, explaining what's going on in Libya.
Well, it really isn't war.
It's something in between war and military intervention to stop something that's going on, but without intending to conquer the country.
But I have to tell you frankly, Mika, that I cannot think of another instance in recent times in which I myself was so uncertain in thinking about the problem, how we should act, because there are so many downsides and so many uncertainties.
But in the end, I concluded that if we didn't act, it would be worse.
I wonder if Z Big would have the same view if they were Republican in the White House.
I just uh have that that question.
But it uh it really isn't war.
Not war something between war and military intervention, uh, stop something that's going on with without intending to conquer country.
To tell you frankly, Mika, that uh cannot think of another instance.
So we here we I thought we'd averted a humanitarian crisis.
But you also heard Zebig here say that it is not a war because we are not intending to conquer the country.
So I guess the first Gulf War was not a war.
We didn't try to conquer Iraq.
Saddam Hussein was left in place.
The Vietnam War was not a war.
We weren't trying to conquer North Vietnam.
Right?
So that wasn't a war.
The uh the war of 1812.
Was that not a war?
We weren't trying to conquer and occupy Great Britain.
We were trying to keep from being conquered and occupied.
This is you know what?
This is not a war, it's a pickup basketball game.
That's what they're trying to make it look like.
Not just midnight basketball, this thing's going on around the clock.
Sarah Palin did weigh in.
She was on with Greta Van Susterin on uh Fox last night during a discussion about the non-war, the kinetic military action in Libya.
Uh Greta Van Susterin said, What should we be doing in Libya, Sarah Palin?
Gaddafi has the blood of innocent Americans on his hands.
He needs to be held accountable for that.
It happened all those years ago.
Well, now's our opportunity to make sure that he is held accountable.
So when our president said at first that our mission is to see Qaddafi go, he's gotta go.
But then we're told by one of his top advisors, the president's top advisor, saying, well, no, really, Qaddafi's probably gonna prevail in this.
He's probably gonna prevail over the opposition.
And then our president changes the tune again, saying, Well, it's not our mission to oust Gaddafi.
A lot of confusion.
I would like to see, of course, as long as we're in it, we better be in it to win it.
And if there's doubt, we get out.
Win it means Qaddafi goes, and America gets to get on out of there.
Right.
So that's uh that's palin weighing in on the definition of victory.
Uh wood Jesse Jackson rhyme.
Uh thrown in.
If we're in it, better win it.
If there's doubt, we get out.
Win it means Gaddafi goes.
America gets to get on out of there.
And then Susan said, well, what Bill Marr just used the vulgarity with you.
Did you guys hear about this?
I had the story yesterday.
This is the one that Now Gang had to apologize for.
They had they they had it, they had to chide Mar for what he said.
He he referred to her uh using an obscenity uh beginning a four-letter word beginning with a word a letter T. And the Nags did not really want to come to her defense, but they were kind of forced into it.
This is a demeaning comment about a woman.
So they they chided Marr for saying it, but then they also said in their statement, look, you Republicans don't think this means we like you.
Don't think it means that we're on your side about it.
No, we're we're on to you guys.
You we know that you've trapped us into this.
And we have to, it was hilarious.
Oh, come on, you know what the the T word is.
It it starts with a T and it ends with a T. So anyway, that's what Mark called her.
So that's what Vancostrin's asking her about here.
Bill Maher, you just used a vulgarity with you.
Now you may say that you're over it, but it is degrading to women.
That's the problem.
You've got a daughter, your daughter's friends, everybody's watching has a mother or a sister's degrading.
It does need to be fair.
Nobody's ever promised that life was going to be fair, and politics, they i it really isn't fair.
The scrutiny, the double standards, and and all that.
By the way, I need now's defense like uh fish needs a bicycle.
I don't want them to defend me.
My point is when a shot is taken at me, it is water off a ducks back because I know the important things in life that we need to concentrate on, especially the national and international issues that are so important on our country.
So as Palin says she doesn't particularly uh care about it.
She's not affected by it.
Which I is um I mean that's the attitude she needs to have.
Look, okay, Snurdy, do you still not know?
Okay, you figured it out now.
Guys, I could say that he called her um we didn't call her a twit.
Does that help?
You know what's amazing.
The people in Rio Linda knew this with the first letter.
You required three letters minimum to figure it out.
We go back to the phones.
Panama City, Florida, and Scott, she's gone.
All right, Diane in West Union, Illinois is next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Rush, Mr. Wonderful.
What a pleasure to speak to you.
It really is an honor.
Thanks very much.
Every every day we learn something from you.
Appreciate that.
I do too, actually.
The question I had for you, because I feel like I'm the only one that saw this on TV.
Um, I feel like they're using everything that's happening like in Libya to uh uh, you know, to take away everything that we're seeing.
Uh yesterday morning I happened to see on TV on Fox uh Obama's little speech there in Brazil.
Uh he said that we're gonna give them two billion dollars to drill oil, and we'll be the best customers that they ever had.
Yeah.
Nobody's talking about it.
You know you're right.
And I uh I must admit that I didn't mention it here on this program.
The reason I didn't is that I have mentioned it and don't I'm not d don't misunderstand.
I just want to say for the record, we have mentioned Obama uh and his associations with Petrobras for months on this, but ten billion dollars to start their drilling.
Just last week we had a story where they were giving them even more money for a floating underwater oil storage depot.
Uh while per while not permitting domestic drilling in this country, we are paying and investing Brazil's oil drilling and distribution, largely because I think it's not the only reason George Soros is a primary investor in Petrobras.
Right, right.
I mean, uh w we can invest two billion dollars there, but not create uh any jobs here with oil production or coal or anything else.
We've got to shut down our oil production here.
Meanwhile, the Chicons can explore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico with the Cubans, the Vietnamese are looking into it, and of course our friends, the Mexicans continue to drill.
Um, don't don't half of them have uh have drilling on off our shores anyways.
Uh yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But yet our people can't uh, you know, have any jobs or create any wealth doing this.
It makes you wonder.
It does make you wonder.
All right.
I mean, we half expected him to uh make this little side stream.
Oh, wait a minute.
By the way, a correction, George Soros pulled out of Petrobras August, I'm told.
Still has some shares in it, but he pulled out his um most of his investment there.
So, this is a strict investment with the country now.
Obama to Brazil.
We'll be back.
Phoenix, Arizona.
As we stay on the phones, Teresa, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, God bless you.
God bless everybody.
I just have a question to my government, if you don't mind my using your show to get to them because they don't answer my calls.
Well, they listen to this show, I guarantee you, so you will be heard here.
I have a question about protecting the people, and that's supposedly why we're doing this latest civil action, apparently, being it's not a war.
This is not a civil action.
This is kinetic military action.
Well, if they so concerned about protecting people, why didn't we get involved in Rwanda?
Why not the Sudan?
Why aren't they concerned about protecting the people in in Arizona on the border of Mexico?
There's a slaughter happening.
There's a lot of crime.
Texas, New Mexico, all of the borders.
And why aren't we protecting the innocent of all innocent, the unborn babies?
If you're so concerned about protecting people, why aren't we protecting all people?
This that's this is a lie.
I'm tired of being used as a pawn and thinking that like your your parody was explaining about being gullible.
We're not gullible.
Stop lying to us.
That's a good question.
I've raised it myself.
We got people starving in Darfur, uh genocide in Darfur, or we've got people being slaughtered in Syria and Iran.
Uh and we take no action.
So this is um I I think in all candor, yeah, one of the reasons why Libya is it was thought, listen to these people.
We'll be out of there in a week.
I thought so.
They're dealing, they're dealing in their minds, they're dealing with a genuine lunatic here, Mo Mark Gaddafi.
No big deal.
How hard can this possibly be?
They don't have an Air Force, they don't have anything.
Have to trust that uh Obama has uh uh bona fides to do this kind of stuff.
I think it's all PR.
Look at we can speculate on the reasons here, and most of them are not pretty.
Most of them are not satisfying.
Most of them are not uh intellectually honest.
The White House, folks, you're asking me, the White House has got different versions of what the purpose is.
Purpose to get him out of there.
Others say no, it's not.
Humanitarian mission.
We've got to make him be nice to his people.
You've got to stop criticizing them when they yell at him.
I mean, it's a joke.
This is utter incompetence.
And to have now all this defined as kinetic military action.
Um this is almost beneath my pay grade to analyze.
This is almost so stupid I can't get my arms around it.
And I really fear that if I was able to totally understand this, and I'd have to slice off a bunch of my own IQ to figure it out.
Libyan government's not going to vote Democrat.
I mean, you live in the kidnapping capital of the of the world.
You live in Phoenix.
But you and and so, you know, you your your state's being sued by Obama.
The Libyan government is not going to vote for Democrats.
That's another reason why there's no action being taken.
If the Libyan government was going to vote Democrat, there's another thing.
Obama is taking a real risk here.
He's had Lewis Farrakhan ask him, Who the hell do you think you are?
And Reverend Wright's now back out.
He's not saying favorable things.
Yes, part of it's fun, I have to admit, uh, part of it's fun here to watch, analyze and so forth, but when you get past that, I don't know about you.
I don't like seeing either this kind of purposeful making the country look like a joke or this kind of incompetence of the highest levels.
Either one.
Frank in uh Charleston, South Carolina.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
Uh, I'm a first-time caller.
I'm not a trained articulate broadcaster, so please bear with me.
All right.
Okay, uh, Rush, my call is regarding the SIU's plot or plan of Mr. Lerner to get uh mortgage holders to withhold 10% of their mortgages.
Yes.
Is this part of a bigger plan or plot?
And how can we know if it is not investigated and the media will not report on it?
Well, now one thing, and I I I I say this with some suspicion and doubt myself, that Lerner has is not a member of the SEIU anymore.
The story is Stephen Lerner was tossed out of there.
So the reason that that's being made public is everybody does not associate this theory or this this strategy with the SEIU.
That this guy is a lone wolf, so to speak.
Now, your question, could it work?
That's what everybody's been asking me.
Could a strategy designed to bring down Wall Street to destroy the wealth of individuals there, to destroy the banking business for the effective purpose of taking 17 trillion dollars they have and redistributing it back to people that this learner guy thinks have had it stolen from them.
Could it work?
You might say that this was tried in 2008.
Who do we really know what precipitated it?
We have the subprime mortgage crisis, and what was that?
The subprime mortgage crisis, if if if I may be blunt and honest, was a series of government directives to lending institutions demanding that they loan money to people who could not pay it back.
Under the guise of affordable housing fairness, uh making things equal in the country or what have you.
But if you are going to use the power of the government to tell banks you've got to give these people money essentially, they're not going to be able to pay it back.
What are you doing to them?
Are you not launching an assault on them as is?
Now, the thing that the left never considers is the dynamic aspect of what they do, or the dynamic aspect of the economy.
They look at everything statically.
So they see a tax increase on the rich.
Oh, that's going to generate X numbers of dollars.
They don't factor what the rich will do to avoid paying it.
So they slap these demands on lenders, banks.
You're going to make loans to people that can't afford it.
Well, what are the banks going to do?
They're going to try to figure out a way to get that money back somehow, or shift and pass the loss down the line to somebody else, which is what happened, in the form of new financial products called derivatives and collateralized debt obligations and all this other gobbledygook terminology that we heard.
And where did it lead?
Well, it led in 2008 to a financial crisis that we were told could collapse the world financial system if we didn't bail out the banks with TARP in twenty four hours.
So you ask yourself, has it been tried, maybe on a much more sophisticated level than this renegade SEIU guy, Stephen Lerner.
You need to ask George Soros.
If there's if there's a guy who would love to see this happen, it would be George Soros.
Let's find it.
Could George Soros do it?
He brought down the British pound.
Could it happen?
Could this learner guy actually pull the could he succeed in getting enough people to just stop paying on their mortgages?
His theory is just stop paying.
There's such a backlog of foreclosures, you're going to be in your house for at least a year and not paying for it.
And that's going to take wealth away from this.
His whole theory Is that debt?
Debt that has been defined, manufactured, the rates of the debt, the percentages set by the lenders.
And that is how the lenders have gotten rich by separating the middle class from its hard-earned money by making everything meaningful to them so expensive they have to borrow money to get it from a house to a car to a college education.
And that depletes them of disposable income.
So their standard of living never rises.
And these people are going to have to pay.
So we're gonna this we we need to get this money back that debt has robbed everybody of and redistribute.
Does he have any allies in the White House?
He's a former SEIU guy.
We know he has allies on the left.
We know this is Cloud Pivan.
They just want to create total chaos.
They want the system to collapse and plot upon itself.
As to as to whether or not this guy could actually pull it off and convince enough people to do this, who knows.
The interesting thing to me is that there are a lot of people probably sympathetic to this who would love to bring this about.
There are people that hate this country as it's constituted.
There are people that despise capitalism.
There are people who are totally comfortable, totally willing to believe that they'd be as rich as anybody if it hadn't been stolen from them.
Not that they didn't have the ability to earn it and they don't work hard enough or what uh what have you.
So I um I I don't I don't live in fear of this particular incident, but I am very much aware that there are kook, fringe leftists who want to destroy this country as it exists.
I don't know how many of them are in the White House.
That's what really bothers me.
Guys like Lerner, when you learn of the plan, it's gonna be like the roadrunner and coyote.
It's the people inside the White House trying to pull something like this off that we don't know about that, frankly, if they exist, worry me more.
Your guiding light, Rush Limbaugh with half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
And in the process, just to irritate the liberals to Cincinnati.
This is Ron.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Great to have you with us.
Hi.
Thank you very much for taking my call, Rush.
It is an honor to speak with you.
I know.
Thank you very much.
All right.
Hey, the reason I'm calling, uh, I think I've got it.
I think I know why he or what he's up to in Libya.
I don't know if you recall uh in the previous administration, uh Bush would often send out very, very high folks in his administration to explain how he was defending the power of the presidency, and it was bigger than himself.
It was that he needed to be careful and uh protect and expand the power of the institution.
And I think what we've got going on right now is Obama is busy tearing that down so that future presidents are gonna be incapable of garnering the support that they need to take action on our behalf in the world.
Well, I must respectfully disagree with this.
I don't think a guy who has authoritarian desires and tendencies wants to diminish the office that gives him that power.
Uh I'm I would fully agree with you if you uh if your speculation was that he was trying to diminish the um uh aura and and the role of the United States in the world as the arbiter of world events.
I think that really bugs people like Obama.
I think I think this notion that whatever happens in the world, the U.S. is involved, has to be involved, has national interests.
I think that bothers the heck out of them.
I think they they have resented it.
And they they they blame so much of the world's problems on the United States uh being involved in things outside our own borders, hence all the apologies that the uh president has given.
So I don't think he wants to diminish the office of the president.
If he's gonna do that, he's still got two years to go in it.
That that's I've I mean I can understand why you would think that, but he's got to know too that future office holders are going to be Democrats.
He wants them to have all kinds of extra-constitutional authority.
Here's a guy's denying federal court rulings on his own health care, but he's a guy that's ignoring federal health court uh court rulings on drilling moratorium, the unconstitutionality of his uh health care bill.
This is a guy who has czars that are unaccountable.
We don't know.
They they don't have to be confirmed.
We don't know who they are, what they do, what they're paid, they answer to nobody but him.
He has lived by executive order, he is extra-constitutional and congressional as much as he can.
I I uh with all due respect think it's the exact opposite.
I think what he's trying to do is amass and coalesce the uh the power of the presidency because that's his that's his nature.
His ego uh and and all that.
But when it comes to taking action that would diminish the role of the country in the world, yeah.
Now you might be talking.
Hillsborough County, Florida judge is under withering attack from conservatives for saying he will use Islamic law to decide if an arbitration award was correct.
He used Islamic law in Florida.
He's under attack, he wants to explain himself.
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