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April 7, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 7, 2011, Thursday, Hour #3
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By the way, standby audio soundbite 17 and 18.
Oh, wait.
17 and 22.
Let me mark those so I even remember that.
17 and 22.
All right, greetings and welcome back.
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And this for all you birthers out there, Fox News reporting that if Donald Trump gets elected president, his wife Melania would be the first foreign-born first lady since Louisa Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, who was the sixth president.
They are actually reporting this.
that if Trump's elected, his wife will be the first foreign-born since the sixth...
First lady since the sixth president of the United States.
Ha, ha, ha.
Speaking of which, um, have you noticed the media is not complaining how a governor you gotta hear McCulski.
Barbara McCulski on the floor of the U.S. Senate yesterday.
We're going to turn out the lights at the National Institutes of Health.
We're gonna say to a researcher, I know you're working on that cure for cancer.
I know you're working on that cure for Alzheimer's or autism.
But you know what?
Washington, the Congress says you're done essential.
Yeah.
So we're gonna shut down the cure for cancer.
Well, this is this is how they message.
You know, this is how they do the narrative.
And if you've got blackadaisical slackjaws out there who pay scant attention, you mean the Republicans are against curing cancer.
There is there are people who have that reaction.
We have to face it.
We sit here with that can't possibly be.
Don't down me on this.
You get somebody like Barbara McColsky, who who sounds like a union leader, claiming the Republicans are going to shut down the cure for cancer, and there are people probably shopping where it McDonald's in Port St. Lucy.
You believe it.
And they get all worked up.
Now you'll notice the media is not complaining how a government shutdown might slow down companies getting permits to drill for oil.
They have their priorities here.
And CNN, we're keeping an eagle eye on them because they got the big countdown clock going.
CNN and all the networks are really pounding the propaganda point about the military not getting paid during a shutdown, and they never bother to mention the pending continuing resolution, which explicitly addresses this problem.
But you watch.
There'll be a message, the shutdown will stop the cure for cancer.
This is what they will say.
Now let's go to this statement from Obama.
Executive Office of the President, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, April 7th.
That's today.
Administration strongly opposes House passage, H.R. 1363, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30th, 2011.
And for other purposes, the bill is a distraction.
and From the real work that would bring us closer to a reasonable compromise for funding the remainder of fiscal year 2011, and avert a disruptive federal government shutdown that would put the nation's economic recovery in jeopardy.
If presented with this bill, the president will veto it.
This bill is a separate bill that Boehner brought forth this morning that would by itself fund the military being paid through the end of this current fiscal year.
That's what Obama is going to veto as a distraction.
So all of you military families, you're not going to get this perspective reported because all of the networks are pounding the other propaganda point about the military not getting paid during a shutdown.
And of course, this is The fault of the Republicans.
But they are not mentioning the pending continuing resolution, which explicitly addresses this problem.
Actually, it's outside the CR.
Boehner has a separate bill.
And that's what this statement is addressing.
If presented with this bill to separately fund the military, the president will veto it.
What the president's saying is this is a distraction.
You're trying to get this done at the expense of passing the continuing resolution.
What they're trying to do is make sure the military gets paid, and the administration is saying we're not going to get caught in your trap.
And the press is carrying the message and the narrative for a president, the Office of Management and Budget, which is the regime, is calling a bill to fund the military a distraction.
The OMB and the White House both have called the bill a distraction.
A bill to fully pay the military through September 30th of this year.
That is a distraction.
That is who we are dealing with.
That's who we're up against here.
And all of this is about $30 billion.
That's the difference in what the Republicans want in cuts and what the Democrats want in cuts for the next week.
Okay, so we let's say we miraculously come to some compromise on this.
We're going to be here again in ten days, doing this all over again because these CRs go for a week or ten days.
Nobody's talking about passing a full-fledged budget for the rest of the year.
They imply that here in this statement from the OMB in the White House, but nobody's talking about that.
So once again, the regime is lying.
The Office of Management and Budget is lying.
Barbara McCulski is lying.
The cure for cancer is not going to be shut down.
You think the only place in the world the cure for cancer is going on at U.S. government funded agencies.
Well, that's what she wants you to believe.
That nobody in the private sector is working on it.
It's outrageous, folks.
It is literally outrageous.
Partisan politics being placed above.
Common sense and decency.
And all the Republicans are doing is addressing what people stated they thought was a concern back in November.
Massive spending, indebtedness, unsustainable so.
This bill is a distraction from the real work that would bring us closer to a reasonable compromise for funding the remainder of the fiscal year, 2011, and averted disruptive federal government shutdown that would put the nation's economic recovery in jeopardy.
They're talking about a bill to fund the military so that they would be paid through the end of September.
That is what is a distraction.
So, Moving on to the audio soundbites yet again, David Rodham Gurgen.
Last night on CNN's Anderson Cooper 94.
Cooper said, look, he he had a bipartisan commission, much heralded long ago.
And they they seem to have kind of put out this report, but some controversial proposals.
He does seem to have embraced his own report very much.
What we're seeing, I think, in President Obama now is a different kind of leadership.
And it's very troubling to many of us.
We'd like to see our president out front.
We'd like to see him carrying the banner follow me.
But he leads in a different way.
He likes to let others sort of take the lead from him and then step in at the last minute or put a little gentle touch on it.
Uh, as he's doing with these, he's intervened at the last minute in these budget negotiations.
David Rodum Gergen, not happy.
This is not what they were thought he thought they were going to get from the uh Messiah.
The guy's voting present.
He's punting.
He's letting everybody else take the arrows.
He's letting everybody else do the heavy lifting.
He comes in at the end of the day, such as signing Obamacare, and then claims credit for it while other people go out and do the quote unquote heavy lifting.
Now, what Anderson Cooper was talking about, you know, we had the deficit, this blue ribbon bunch led by uh Irksum Balls and Alan Simpson, and they issued their report in December, and Obama basically said, pfft you.
He tossed it aside, you're not gonna do it.
And Irksham was irked.
Because Irksum he gave up a gig.
He was uh involved in the University of North Carolina.
Irksum really got into this.
He thought that he was doing something for his country.
Alan Simpson, same thing.
Then Obama, when they finished their work, which they took very seriously.
Obama just basically shelves it.
And I don't know about Alan Simpson, but Irks and Bowles expressed shock, surprise, and sadness that all that work was apparently for nothing.
Well, at the Hill.com, Alan Simpson and Irkson Bowles have a piece.
Paul Ryan's budget is a positive step.
They love Paul Ryan's budget.
The budget released this morning by Paul Ryan is a serious, honest, straightforward approach to addressing our nation's enormous fiscal challenges.
We applaud him for his work in putting forward a proposal which will reduce the country's deficit by approximately the same amount as what we would have.
We are particularly encouraged that Chairman Ryan's budget looks beyond the recent debates about near-term cuts and recognizes the need to address long-term drivers of the debt.
So they're looking at Ryan and think, hey, our work here has been somewhat salvaged.
So they're joining the mix now among the group of people praising Ryan's work and the substance of that budget.
A brief time out here, folks.
We'll be back.
We will continue after this.
All right, CNN is gone.
CNN is totally run amuck.
CNN now claiming that a government shutdown will cost the economy one percent of GDP.
That is impossible.
The lesson went on for a while, which of course it won't.
Because it doesn't really shut down as we've been over.
I don't know how many times.
Banger Main, Matt, welcome to the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Hey, God bless you, Ross.
Treger, Treger, Treger, ditto.
Thank you.
Listen, I've been driving 23 years to get in touch with you, and thank God I did.
It was 23 years ago.
God rest our soul.
My mom, I was cutting the grass in the backyard.
She came out and said, You gotta listen to this guy, and I've been listening to you faithfully ever since, buddy.
Well, I appreciate it.
Thank you very much.
Now listen, I got a qu I got a comment and I got a question for you.
All right, go ahead, right ahead.
All right, the comment is yesterday, uh Barack was talking before Al Sharpton's group, and he tried to bring it down to, you know, how many of you people out there are married?
You know, everybody, oh, of course, yeah.
Well, you know, you got how many of y'all get everything you want?
And there's a little chuckle, and you know, you've got to compromise.
Well, then remember the DNC ran those ads on a campaign.
It was like uh take off on Ozzy and Harry, I forget the name of the two people, you know, sitting at the kitchen table, the husband and wife.
Yeah.
Well, here here's my example to bring it down for those poor people that live in real lender and make it easy.
I'll uh keep the the math simple.
Say you're only making a thousand dollars a month.
Okay, that's 12,000 a year annually.
And then they come back, Tom, and they sit down, and the wife's been doing all the bills.
So the husband realized he gets a tax bill for eighteen thousand dollars.
Honey, what is this?
Well, he find out he's only making a thousand, but his wife is on the side spending five hundred dollars a month, buying shoes and all his nice clothes she likes.
So he sits down and says, Honey, we can't stain this.
We got we gotta, you know, get get uh uh uh finances in order.
So according to Barack, am I supposed to compromise with it and say, okay, spend instead of spending five hundred dollars more a month, let's only spend two hundred and fifty dollars more a month.
We're still gonna be fifteen thousand in the whole when you're only making twelve thousand a year.
It makes no sense.
The husband has to stand up, do the right thing, say, honey, we gotta live within our budget.
We're only making a thousand, we can only spend a thousand.
Well, but I don't even live within our budget, and Obama trying to give this lesson.
Well, I understand, I understand.
But no, listen, and that right.
My question to you is this if you run for a president, of course you gotta uh uh cross the teams out to eyes, right?
And you fill out all the paperwork.
How come that paperwork isn't a matter of public record where you can just see what uh the the candidates have on public record?
Um I don't really know.
Well, that's what I'm thinking.
You know, if you gotta it should be a matter of uh, you know, doing a uh freedom of information uh request, and you see all the forms they filled out to become eligible to even be a candidate, right?
Well, this has been brought up.
I mean, McCain had to be vetted.
McCain had to prove it.
And a lot of people are wondering why Obama didn't have to prove it.
There really is I mean, terms of a lot of paperwork to run for president, you have to fill out forms for exploratory committee and so forth, but uh really how extensive can it be?
It it doesn't appear Obama had to produce anything.
Or that what he produced was sufficient.
So that's that's the only thing you can go on um there.
You know, McCain had to be vetted satisfactory way.
If if Obama wasn't, then of course you would have to ask why.
Well, that would just be open endless speculation as to uh as to why.
It could be the same answer as the reason why McCain Republicans didn't want to criticize him.
There was just his an historical element to Obama's candidacy, and who wants to be responsible for blowing that up.
So that could be a partial explanation, not sure.
But I'm gonna look more into that.
I I've uh this whole berther thing has made me wonder just who do you have to present what paperwork to prove your qualifications out there.
We just assume that I mean the question's never been raised about anybody else that ran for president, has it?
Who?
There was one other guy that we questioned where he came from in the eighteen hundreds.
All right, well, you'd find out how these people proved it.
Um in the eighteen hundreds guy it was never resolved.
So but somebody still raised the question about who whether or not he was a uh legitimately qualified citizenship and all that.
Well, we'll find out.
Britain in Paducah, Kentucky, welcome to the EIB network.
Hi.
Thank you.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Very good, thanks.
I'm thrilled to talk to you.
Uh I heard you mentioning earlier that Obama was calling for a release of the oil reserves.
Is that correct?
Yeah, this couple years ago, or three years during the uh when Obama was a senator and and the price of gasoline was skyrocketing up to four bucks a gallon.
And and he's calling for the release of those reserves again now?
No, I don't think he's calling for them now.
If he is, I've missed that.
I don't think he is now.
Okay.
No, he was then on the basis that would bring down the price.
They're saying, but and all my only point was Obama say drill dra bill baby drill baby drill would not have an effect on the price.
Okay.
When in fact he has purposely previously stated that having more supply would affect the price.
Now he says it wouldn't affect the price.
I'm just trying to point out some hypocrisy.
Well, um i that is a defining characteristic of uh I mean it it's it I wanted to I wanted to uh comment on the soldiers and uh military personnel uh comment that you made a couple of minutes ago that he would veto any bill.
Well, isn't he in effect calling them non-essential by doing that?
Yeah.
Well then, you know, the government employees are essential, but the soldiers are not.
Because he knows he knows that the narrative in the press is gonna be spun that John Boehner is responsible for this, that the Republicans are responsible.
The way, you know, Boehner Boehner submits a separate bill that deals with nothing but funding for military salaries through the end of the fiscal year, September 30th.
That's what Obama claims is a distraction.
Obama says, No, we don't need to be doing that.
We need to s we need to avoid a government shutdown.
I'm not gonna sit here and act like we're gonna shut the government down and go ahead and sign that.
Um that's just a distraction.
So the press will come up and say Boehner attempted to sidetrack from the issue and to uh curry points in favor with military families, but the sly, crafty Obama saw through the trick and would not allow our military personnel to be used as pawns in the serious discussion and debate over funding the U.S. government.
That's what the message is gonna be.
So even though it will be an Obama veto that results in military personnel not being paid, a veto of a bill specifically to pay them.
The narrative and the PR message from the media will be that it's Boehner's fault.
The Republicans' fault for doing that as a whole distraction instead of focusing on getting a budget.
Sandy in Madison, Wisconsin High, you're on the EIB network.
Thanks, Rush, and I tell you be still my heart.
I hope I can speak clearly here.
I live just west of the madness downtown in Madison, and uh we just went through the prosper election.
And I am just this is the Democrats' tactics.
Back at the end of the administration, Doyle and the Dempse, when they lost, passed legislation that tied Prosser's hands for raising money.
He could only spend 300 some thousand dollars.
They tied to it.
If he did raise money, he had to taxpayer money would then have to be donated to his opponent.
Right.
Okay.
Well, anyway, they have reported, not on the news, but uh with talk show people, that there has been an overcount of uh at least 10,000 in MAT and Dane County.
Yeah, right, big shock.
Yeah, what a shock.
Well, the his opponent, you know, Green Party, uh works for the DNR.
Uh her creds are she is an environmental lawyer.
And the tactics I don't know when our Republican friends are going to wake up.
John Fond apparently warned Senator Fitzgerald that he, after the primary in November, that they needed to adjust the laws, create legislation the minute they got on the ground running in January.
We have same day registration.
Yeah, I know all of this.
You know, you're you're you're absolutely right, and it's all rules established with the Democrats to enable them to challenge elections that they lose and ultimately end up winning.
We've talked about the Republicans simply don't know how to play that game.
They just don't know.
It was Chester Arthur.
Chester Arthur, who people uh thought might have been born in Canada rather than in Vermont.
The only other example of a president questioned on his uh uh eligibility based on place of birth, Chester Allen Arthur.
People thought he was born in Canada.
This this Wisconsin Supreme Court election.
Now the real question is the other side engages in fraud, so how do you combat fraud?
Do you engage in your own kind and try to beat them at the fraud?
Because the Wisconsin Supreme Court elections prove one thing.
Democrats are unbeatable when election fraud's unstoppable.
And if no effort is made to stop the election fraud, and it wasn't in this case, I mean prior to the fact.
Motor voter is election fraud.
Same day registration it's fraud.
It's ripe with fraud.
And it it happened in this Supreme Court election in Wisconsin.
You're allowed to show up and register to vote that day.
Talk about eligibility and so forth.
Uh you can call a motor voter any number of things.
Uh also agreeing the legislation limits the amount of money your candidates can accept, and if they do accept it, your opponent has to it's it's a Republicans just places don't know how to play these games.
Even after being victimized by them for so long, they still rely on the Civics 101.
Okay, we won the election, that's it.
Everybody's gonna realize, look at the difference.
When a Republican wins the White House, what do the Democrats do?
Threaten to filibuster Supreme Court nominations, shut them down, destroy the nominees personally, whatever they have to do to keep them off the court.
I give you Robert Bork, Alito, Roberts, any number of people they tried to keep off the court.
Um Ginsburg, any number of people.
When a Democrat wins the White House, what do we do?
We say, well, they won.
They get their judges.
Yeah, we'll we'll throw up some obstacles at the circuit level and the district level, but for the most part, you know, and and by the way, we bally who it's so afraid the independents are gonna are are not gonna react favorably to cheaters and to ideologues.
So in order to not tick off the independence, we are the essence of nice guys.
Oh, yeah, the Democrats won, they get their choice.
In fact, we sometimes go out and praise the I'll never forget when that when Holder was nominated to be attorney general.
Conservative media types, intelligence praised the choice, all to be seen as a nice guy.
Now, this was in the aftermath of this election, and I guarantee you Obama's race silenced an entire party.
The fact that he was the first black president candidate silenced everybody on the Republican side.
There was no criticism of Obama and barely any criticism of what his policies were going to be.
Then he gets nominated, then he gets elected.
And I remember uh you know, uh after James Jones was appointed to some military position, national security advisor position.
A bunch of Republicans woke up and praised the choice.
Well, if you would have told me that Barack Obama would nominate somebody as responsible and blah, blah, blah, blah, and I'm cringing.
Why are you going out of your way to praise the guy?
Who how is it gonna get you votes?
How does telling everybody how great your opponent is help you?
Now, I can understand, you know, showing a modicum of respect, but going the we we go overboard on this.
Well, yeah, they won, they get their judges.
They won, they get their attorney general.
We got a racist attorney general.
We got a guy up there who says I don't like the way my people are being treated.
What is that?
We've got an attorney general who who made sure that the case against the new Black Panthers was thrown out because the civil rights division of his Justice Department has as a policy they're not going to make defendants out of people of color.
They're just not going to prosecute people of color, not we're gonna make them defendants.
Well, um But we still had people praising Eric Holder.
Now, admittedly, before he was doing all of this, and before he announced his decision to have uh what's his face, uh Khalid Sheikh Mohammed tried in New York City and so forth, but still, this is what we do, and the reason we do it is because we are cowed.
We believe that independents and voters are gonna see us as nice guys.
They're gonna see us as non-confrontationalists.
They're going to see us as non-ideologues, and somehow this is going to cause us to triumph down the road, and it never does.
We've got to, you know, what the one thing, I don't care what you think about what Trump is doing on this birther stuff, but one thing Trump's doing is giving a lesson here on whoever the nominee is going to be for 2012.
You take it to these people.
You take it to them.
There's there's a reason why Trump is showing up number two in presidential polls.
He's taking it to them.
The Tea Party took it to him in November.
The Republican Party simply can't bring itself to do that.
No, for some reason we have to be seen as nice, because we think the independents will love us.
We think if if we're not nice, the independents will abandon us in droves.
Where are they gonna go to the most mean, extreme political party in our lifetimes, the Democrats?
John Fund had a piece of Wall Street Journal UFC, sent me the uh the link to it uh the night prior.
Fund realizes I'm a powerful, influential member of the media, and he had a startling statistic in his piece that the journal ran yesterday.
The Milwaukee police did a study which found that in 2004, that's the presidential race, between 4,600 and 5,300 more votes were counted in Milwaukee than the number of voters recorded as having voted.
So in Milwaukee in 2004, between four and five thousand more votes were counted than there were voters who cast ballots.
Now, does anybody really believe that the same kind of fraud didn't happen in the Supreme Court election Tuesday?
Far more important to the Democrats and their union paymasters than whether John Kerry became president or not.
It's the same thing.
Folks, we're looking in Wisconsin, we're looking at the state of Washington, where the same thing happened there.
Until who was it?
Christine Gregory finally got the votes that she needed, kept counting, kept in King County.
They uh or what is the nickname for King County?
It's uh I'm a metal block.
But nevertheless, they kept counting and they kept finding votes that were not cast.
It's the same thing in Minnesota.
Al Franken, the 60th vote for Obamacare.
They kept counting and counting and counting, and they finally found votes.
They couldn't find voters, but it didn't matter.
The Democrats had the judgeships.
The Democrats had the positions on the elected commissions.
So the same thing here in Wisconsin with the Supreme Court election.
So it happens in the state of Wisconsin, happens in Minnesota.
In Wisconsin, they know you've got the left of the left in that state.
The Republicans should know what they're up against.
At some point, you gotta say they have no excuse.
They know what they're up against.
There's there's w when when you these elections, as I say, in in the state of Wisconsin, these Supreme Court elections prove Democrats are unbeatable when election fraud isn't stopped.
Nobody can beat election fraud.
If you don't tackle it, if you don't stop it, if you just say, well, you know, that's how they play the game.
And that's who the Democrats are.
We're we're not going there.
It's not worth it.
Whatever.
So in the 2004 presidential race, 5,000 more votes in Milwaukee than there were voters.
And it stood.
It's how Franken ends up in the Senate.
It's how the the mayor or governor of Washington gets elected.
And now it may end up how the Democrat Union thugs get control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Pure and simple.
Atlanta, Andrew, glad you waited.
Your next EIB network.
Hello.
Yes, sir.
Good afternoon, Mr. Rush.
Long time listener, man.
How are you doing?
Very well, sir.
Thanks very much for the call.
Uh, I gotta tell you, um, I I could talk to you about the hypocrisy of the left.
I could talk to you about what's going on down here in the Gulf.
I could talk to you about a thousand different things right now that just boil my blood.
But as you know, this time of the year, this is when we get uh when our families redo the health care premieres for the company you're going through, both individually or through your company.
And I got an email I can forward to you that I just got from the general manager of my company, and I'm 29 years old with my 26-year-old wife with my seven-month-old little boy, and I manage the entire southeast of the United States, and we just got an email saying that our health care provider has now dropped us the company.
And that our new PP, it's not even a PPO anymore, it's a POS $515 per paycheck bi-weekly.
So $1,030 a month, except for two months out of the year when I get to pay over $1,500.
And if these people honestly don't think that what's going on in DC, because I'm an average show, if they want an average show, does not affect their lives.
They're living in a dream world.
Well, I think they know that.
And I think more and more people are starting to realize it as you are.
I mean, what I want to make sure I understand what happened to you.
Your company dropped you, you say?
No, the insurance company dropped my company.
They said that they can no longer afford the high-level PPO.
And on top of this, Rush, my father is a doctor in Albany, Georgia.
Uh he's an optometrist in his office, has had the same health insurance plan for years.
And even his health insurance plan at a doctor's office that they can no longer afford to be in the health care insurance.
And both instances faded.
Have you ever try something?
Go ahead.
Just try something.
And I'm not, I'm not, I'm not trying to be a wise guy.
See if you go out just somewhere, join a pool for catastrophic health insurance only, and pay for everything else yourself.
See what you can find.
Well, actually, it's funny you said that.
Uh I dropped out on my GM that my week there's no way we can afford that.
And so for my wife and son, I paid for the health care insurance out of pocket for Blue Cross Blue Shield here in Georgia.
Because my company's threw uh uh an insurance plan up in New Jersey, which was where my company's headquartered out of in the States.
Yeah.
I wish I had more time with you because I've but I don't this is this is make or break time.
I've got to go.
But I'm sure this is going to come up again.
Thanks for the call.
See you right back.
All right folks, open line Friday is coming up tomorrow.
It is, right?
This is Thursday?
Yeah, because it's the first day of Masters because we've been watching it there.
Now and then I've been focusing on the show, but I've been checking the Masters out during commercial timeout.
So we'll see you tomorrow.
Open line Friday or it could be open line bomb.
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