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April 12, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 12, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #3
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This is somebody's headlines.
Obama gets more budget deal credit.
This is a CNN poll on Bayner on the short end of it.
Spending cuts will affect nearly every federal agency.
Upending almost every federal agency.
Health care, education, transportation, slashed.
The Libs are calling it an assault on basic services.
This is this $28 billion budget deal.
That's the LA Times.
Washington Post's $38 billion in cuts budget deal will cover various domestic areas.
Some of the worst sounding trims are not quite what they seem, would not necessarily result in lost jobs or service cutbacks.
They were worried for a moment there at the Washington Post that this $38 billion budget agreement would sh would actually shut down the economy.
They were actually worried about that.
Great to have you back, Rush Limbaugh behind the golden EIB microphone.
There's only two of them.
One's a backup for the primary.
Telephone numbers 800-82282.
If you want to be on the program, the email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Byron York and the Washington Examiner.
The pundits are fond of saying that Republicans are deeply divided over cutting federal spending.
John Boehner, the story goes, is barely able to ride herd on these rowdy Tea Party freshmen who want deeper cuts than House Republican leaders.
There's been less discussion of the deep divisions on the Democrat side.
How deep are those divisions?
Well, as Obama prepares to reveal his budget priorities tomorrow and lie to the American people.
I threw that in there.
Byron didn't write that.
Just take a look at a new document called the People's Budget.
The people's budget is a product of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of the most liberal Democrats in the House.
It's not a small bunch.
They got 76 members of the Progressive Caucus.
That's about 40% of the 192 Democrats in the House.
But remember what I said earlier.
These internecine fights in the Democrat Party, they're not over the end result.
They're over how fast to get there.
Pure and simple.
Many members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus are quite prominent.
Barney Frank, John Conyers, George Miller, Charlie Wrangell, Rosa DeLoro, Gerald Luton Nadler, Louise Slaughter, and others, in other words, the Progressive Caucus, about three times bigger than the Blue Dog Coalition is not a fringe munch within the House.
The people's budget, they have put together their own document called the People's Budget.
It's the Liberals' answer to Paul Ryan's budget proposal, which they say is leading us down a road to ruin.
The people's budget would eliminate the deficit in just 10 years.
But wait till you hear how.
Wait till you hear this.
The people's budget would uh eliminate the deficit in just ten years.
Ryan's plan would take more than 25 years to do what they say.
The people's budget would expand Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.
This budget saves the American people from the recklessness of the Republican majority.
Now, how can such fiscal miracles be accomplished?
By tax increases that would make even some top Democrats gasp.
The most extraordinary tax increase proposed by the Progressive Caucus is to raise the Social Security tax to cover nearly all of a taxpayer's income.
Right now, the Social Security tax, FICA, is imposed on the first $106,000 of income.
For people who make more than that, the caucus would tax a full 90% of income.
So, for every dollar above $106,000 you make, the tax rate would be 90%.
Not the income tax rate.
This is the Social Security tax rate, FICA.
So if you make 206,000, 100,000 of that would be taxed at 90%.
Every dollar over 106 grand taxed at 90%, no matter how high it goes.
No matter what your income, the caucus would raise the Social Security tax that employers pay as well.
Although that's I have to keep for 22 years I've had to point out that the employer doesn't pay Social Security tax at all.
And every year I'd mention this, and I still get people emailing me and phoning me arguing with me.
I'm not even going to waste my time explaining it again.
If you don't understand it by now, you won't.
You just don't want to.
Anyway, the caucus would create three individual tax brackets for the highest incomes, topping out at 47%.
It would also raise the capital gains tax, the estate tax, and corporate taxes.
It would create something called a financial crisis responsibility fee and a financial speculation tax.
And of course, it would repeal the Bush tax cuts, which Obama is going to propose tomorrow night, by the way.
After agreeing to them in December, Obama is going to propose we get rid of them.
Now, the Progressive Caucus is just an offshoot of the Socialist Party of America.
They are a bunch for all intents and purposes.
You call them socialists, but they're communists.
How about the die the people's budget?
It sounds Maoist.
Sounds like something Mao Saitung and a gang of four would write.
Now, if anybody needed reminding, the people's budget is proof that the liberal idea of budget balancing is tax, tax, tax.
If you're looking for spending cuts in the people's budget, you'll find only one really big one, that's national defense.
The liberals would end overseas contingency operations, i.e., the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan starting in 2013.
They would save more money by reducing strategic capabilities, conventional forces, procurement, and research and development programs for the military.
In other words, they would gut the U.S. abilities to defend itself today and long into the future.
What would the liberals spend money on?
Well, the people's budget is essentially a newer and bigger stimulus bill.
It pledges to invest 1.45 trillion dollars in job creation, early childhood, K through 12 and special education, quality child care, energy and broadband infrastructure, housing and research and development, along with billions more for stimulus like road and uh and other transportation games.
Over the overall the plan shows the gaping divide between the progressive caucus and the Obama White House.
Back in his Chicago days, Obama might have signed on to something like this.
But now, as president, desperate for the support of independent voters in 2012, he can't, at least not openly.
But some strategists are arguing that the people's budget is good for Obama because it lets him position himself responsibly between what he'll call the excesses of Ryan and the progressive caucus.
My friends, um the most important line in Byron York's piece here is as president, desperate for the support of independent voters, Obama can't support it, but he might easily have signed on to it back in his Chicago days.
This is just evidence what I said in explaining the internecine battles in the Democrat Party.
Obama, I'm telling you, do not doubt me.
Obama agrees with everything in the Progressive Paucus, caucus people's budget.
He just can't come out and support it openly the way the authors do.
But he and the rest of that bunch of democratics, there might be three Democrats in all of Congress who think this is too extreme.
The vast majority of them, this is precisely what they believe.
I mean, the difference is you'd have to quibble over pennies.
Hate defense, raise taxes on everybody.
The only job would come working for government.
This is exactly what they believe.
It's exactly what Obama would love to be able to accomplish.
He can't say so.
And he can't openly support this.
But he's not opposed to it.
The people's budget, and this is nothing new, by the way.
The people's budget is something the communist parties in the U.S. have been putting out for years.
1999, the Congressional Progressive Caucus website was hosted by the Democrat Socialists of America.
That's one of the hardest things for people in this country to get their arms around that people like this actually exist.
That a lot of them live in this country, that a significant percentage of the population in this country, 20% maybe, believe this.
And a lot of them are elected.
Forty percent of the Democrat caucus is made up of people like this, almost half of it.
It's not within the party itself an extreme fringe group or its fringe extreme beliefs.
It's who they are.
Okay, I said we got a great audio soundbite roster.
Let's get started.
Last night on On the Record, Greta Van Sestran, she talked to uh Donald Trump.
And she said Rush Limbaugh says a GOP caved in in a recent fight over the continuing resolution, a 2011 fiscal budget that was hammered out Friday, and they had this exchange following her assertion.
Do you agree with Rush Limba?
Well, I'm a fan of Rush.
I like Russia a lot.
I think it's step by step.
Certainly they probably wanted a little more, but if you look at the pundits, they're all saying that Obama lost big and the Democrats lost big.
But I think it's a step-by-step issue, and next year we'll really be telling.
That was last night, don't forget, and he had not seen the media that came out today that talked about, hey, you know what, after we've looked at all this, Obama was the big winner because really they counted a bunch of stuff from a previous Obama budget that hadn't been spent.
You know, there's some money previously allocated, not like TARP, but you know, there's unspent TARP money.
There are other elements of the budget where money hasn't been spent where they went, they got some of that money and applied it to this.
It was originally thought that about six billion dollars unspent from the census budget was applied here to reach the 38%.
Turns out that was not the case, but things like that did happen.
And uh the Donald didn't know that last night.
So Van Sustran said, well, look, our debt ceiling is the next big issue.
The uh president, when senators said he would vote no to raise the debt ceiling.
Now he wants to raise it.
What is your position?
Unless they come up with some really good ideas and come up with them fast, I wouldn't do it.
I'd force them to the fire, I'd make sure that they come out and straighten out this mess that we have, because our country is a financial mess.
And unless you're going to straighten it out, and you have to do it quickly, because we're gonna end up being like some of the worst countries in Europe.
We're gonna end up being literally, if you look at what's happening with China, if you look at what's happening with some of uh the other countries, what they're doing to us, until we can straighten that mess out, we're gonna have to do something with the debt ceiling.
People are still trying to figure out what is he doing?
What is his objective?
I I and my email is running a gamut.
Uh some people think that he's actually running at the behest of Democrats.
Uh Rahm Emanuel, to so split the Republican Party to get him to support and run as a third party or to cause a third-party splinter.
Uh other people are saying Russia, remember how you were right about Perot.
This is we're looking at Perot 2 here.
This is a set, this is a second coming of Perau.
And people are urging me not to get sucked in here by this.
Other people say, What?
But this guy is really going out on a limb.
This is this birth certificate thing.
I mean, really going out of a limb uh for what purpose?
I mean, is it people can't imagine he's doing this without somebody urging him to do it for an ultimate payoff.
Uh now something people just can't accept that things are what they are.
And I'm not I just sharing with you what I have no answer.
I'm just sharing with you here what people are saying to me in the in the email.
So then uh let's see, Lam Wall Street Journal website, Kelly Evans interviewed Trump, who's everywhere now.
Uh, and during a discussion about him possibly running for president, uh Question If you don't get the nomination as a Republican, will you run as an independent?
I'm thinking about that.
I'm very conservative.
To be honest with you, I think it would be very, very bad for the Republican Party.
I could also possibly win as an independent, otherwise I wouldn't do it.
I'm not doing it for any other reason.
Because I like winning.
The concern is that if I don't win, will I run as an independent?
And the answer is probably yes.
And that bothers me only from the standpoint that if I don't win, we're not going to get a Republican and Obama gets re-elected.
So why do it?
That's an amazing answer.
The concern is if I don't win.
Will I run as an independent?
The answer's probably yes, and that bothers me.
I gotta get him back on here.
I I gotta get Trump back on there.
Cut through all this noise.
And see what's actually going on here.
This is what, Tuesday?
I think I can do that by the end of the week.
Get him back on it.
I bet I can.
I bet I can.
Uh let's see, I'm gonna skip uh Cip number four, skip number five.
Oh, go to number six.
Yesterday at the White House, Washington, uh Phao Obama spoke with eighth graders from Longmont, Colorado's Altona Middle Scruel.
And the little girl stood up and said, What was the hardest challenge you had to overcome to become president or being president?
Being president, the hardest thing is that this is such a big conflict with so many different kinds of people, and everybody has different ideas.
And so even if you have a pretty clear sense of what you want to do on the election or on health or on foreign policy, there's going to be, you know, half the country may disagree with you.
It'd be easier if I could just say, well, here's what I think is the best thing to do.
I would just do it.
But I've got this thing called Congress, and they're elected to make sure that warp is cognizant.
Oh, we got this constitutional thing.
First, will Obama ever speak to a grown-up audience again?
Seems like every audience either a bunch of salivating Democrats with their tongues on the floor or a bunch of kids.
And here, what did he what did he essentially say?
He's complaining he's not a dictator.
It'd be so much easier if he was a dictator.
He thought he was going to be able to do the job of a dictator.
He can't do that.
Oh, how about did you see where Obama laments the loss of his anonymity?
Wishes he could just sit in the park and yeah, and and watch people walk by.
He just really misses, you know, he has he hates getting up having to shave.
Um he hates getting up having to look presentable.
He'd like to just, you know, veg, and he can't do that.
He would love to go to Central Park and just sit there and tax people as they walk by.
Uh, but he can't.
Um collect taxes from as they walk by.
Well, he can't.
He can't do it.
Amazing the complaints that I mean, look, he sought the job.
It's not as though this was an unknown aspect of the job that you lose your uh anonymity.
All right, folks, sit tight.
We're coming back.
We'll get back to your phones and just jiffy.
Okay, another email.
Dear Rush, this is maddening.
Why do you have to go to your subscriber email account?
You get immediate feedback from all of us listening.
If you just check your Twitter stream while you're on the air.
Thanks.
Gina in St. Louis.
Gina, I don't, I'm not on Twitter.
I don't tweet.
Uh I think there's a lot of limbaugh imposers, posers, imposters, and so forth out there pretending to be me, but nobody can really pull that off.
So if if you think you're tweeting with old L. Rushbow out there on Twitter, you're not.
As um I'm not there.
This next story.
Perfect.
This uh this dictator uh in uh Ivory Coast, the president of Ivory Coast, his name is Bagbo.
How does he really pronounce it?
Well it's G B A G it needs a couple vowels.
Uh G B A G B O' Gagbo.
Gabogbo.
I'll pronounce it Bagbo because it sounds funnier.
Laurent Bagbo was offered a professorship at Boston University if he would quit as president.
I'll be off we go.
No, he's holding out for Harvard.
Uh he was offered a chance to teach at Boston University in the United States if he were to renounce his claim to be president of Ivory Coast and end the country's civil war, uh, said a source familiar with the negotiations on CNN, the United States gave permission for him to lecture at the university and teach anywhere else in the country as a visiting professor.
A senior African diplomat told CNN on Tuesday.
Now who pays him?
American taxpayers would pay the guy, or your tuition fees for your young skulls full of mush would pay the So here.
Right?
He's offered a professorship if he'll leave.
At Boston University, the audio soundbites, Alan Simpson babe was on a roll last night.
He was on hardball with Chris Matthews.
You know, he was one of the co-chairs of Obama's deficit commission out there, along with Irks and Bowles.
So they had him on and and uh uh well yeah, he was on Hardballed and he was uh Oh, the first bite here is with client number nine over on uh CNN with Elliot Spitzer.
Client number nine said, Let's talk politics for a second.
The Republicans gotta have a presidential nominee next year, and you know, look, you've been doing everything that's right and good for the public without being partisan, Senator Simpson.
And that's what the public applaud.
Yeah, everybody's applauding Alan Simpson.
CNN wonders why nobody's watching.
Everybody is applauding Alan Simpson and Elliot Spitzer knows it.
But but to be partisan for a moment, Senator Simpson, uh, is is there Republican candidate out there who's talking common sense on the deficit right now?
I can only tell you if they stay away from the social issues, if somebody is saying return to the base, or somebody is telling you they're gonna do this or that, or abortion is a hideous thing.
Who the hell is for abortion?
I don't see anybody with a sign, but for God's sake, it's a deeply intimate and personal decision.
And I don't think men legislators should even talk about it or even vote on it.
And then you got homophobes in our party.
Good God, we're all God's children, we're all human beings.
If they're gonna play that ancient ritual, we ain't got a prayer, it doesn't matter who they put up.
All right, so the Republican party's full of homophobes, and men should have nothing to say about abortion, even though even though that in in city many cases in abortion, they are the known father.
In some cases it's not known.
Uh, but they shouldn't have any role whatsoever.
Uh it's a hideous thing, and he doesn't know anybody who's for it.
You ever heard of Planned Parenthood, Senator?
You ever heard of Margaret Sanger?
I mean, there are Senator, let me tell you something.
If you you see Planned Parenthood or uh other uh leftist organizations advertising, promoting uh uh women's health services.
You know what that stands for, Senator?
You know what will women's health services means in the current debate?
What were they talking about during this most recent budget battle?
It's about women's health service.
It was abortion.
Anyways, got what's got to do with the budget?
But the question was there any Republican uh nominees out there talking common sense on the deficit?
Hell, I don't know.
Bunch of homophobes, good God, we're all God's children.
Where's the bar?
Then on Hardballed, he went over there with Chris Matthews.
Matthew said, What do you think of uh the Republican field?
How about that?
Two networks, same question.
What do you think about the Republican field?
Because you were a pro-choice Republican of some belief in fiscal responsibility.
You proved it on the commission.
Is there anybody running for president right now that you think has got the right stuff and earns the Alan Simpson rough hewn endorsement?
We won a governorship there in New Jersey, one in Virginia by not talking about social issues.
Then you've got homosexuality, you've got don't ask, don't tell.
We have homophobes in our party.
That's disgusting to me.
We're all human beings.
We're all God's shoulder.
Now, if they're gonna get off in that stuff, Santorum has said some cruel things, cruel, cruel things about about homosexuals.
I'm not sticking with people who are homophobic uh women, uh, you know, uh moral values while you're diddling your secretary while you're giving the speech on moral values.
Come on, get off of it.
Yes.
He did say it.
He did say it.
He said it on hardball pleasantly.
Good old Alan Simpson, babe.
Uh Senator Simpson, let me say the whole Democrat Party is for abortion.
They get a cut of every abortion at Planned Parenthood in contributions.
Planned parenthood's a money laundering operation for the Democrat Party.
Abortion is the sacrament of the religion of liberalism.
Uh by the way, since I think 2001, I think he still is.
Simpson has been the honorary chairman of the Republican Unity Coalition, the Rook, uh R U C, which is a gay straight alliance within the Republican Party.
So see.
One more.
Jim Abola.
ABC's world news tonight uh had a report about gasoline prices approaching the five dollar per gallon mark.
And there's also um another guy in this uh Moody's analytics economist, Chris Lafacus.
Uh Phil and anchor George Stephanopoulos, but here's the exchange.
The dreaded five dollar mark.
It's a price point economists say will hurt not only personal budgets, but could thwart the recovery.
We're right on the cusp.
It's not going to take too much more of an increase in oil prices to start triggering these changes in in consumption behavior.
There's nothing more pernicious for the economy than an increase in oil prices.
It acts as a tax.
A tax that does little to benefit the American taxpayer.
It doesn't pay police and firefighters.
In fact, sixty percent of the oil dollar goes overseas.
And George, that's a transfer of wealth.
No one here wants to see absolutely not.
Oh, wow, they're lamenting the high gas price uh revenue not going to government.
It's going overseas.
And of course, the gas tax is is a locked in number, no matter how price how high the price goes, the gas I think the tax, federal tax, stays the same.
And they're upset about that.
Rat on rad on round home.
Back to the phones.
People have impatiently waiting, such as Terry and Phoenix.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello, sir.
Oh, rush, rush, rush.
I am so excited.
I'm really jacked here.
I hope my broadcast insurance with the Justice Brothers is current.
If not, Bo better keep his hand on the bleep button.
Now we got a 40-second delay here.
You have no qualms.
First of all, uh Tom, the guy that sent you that email.
Screw him.
You know, you've got to hit the the opponent with as much as you got, every chance you get.
You don't hold anything back at any time.
So Tom thought I wasn't being optimistic optimistic and I think I was spending too much time whining, which I don't agree with.
I don't think I'm whining.
I think I'm trying to correct the record and teaks, but to each his own.
Yeah.
Well, I just noticed my notes uh I are written on the reminder to renew my uh my rush 24-7.
Um, let me talk about Bader for a second, if I may.
Yeah, go ahead.
Okay, since uh how much time you need?
We got about four and a half minutes.
Uh uh that should be plenty, I hope.
Cool.
Um I I feel like um, you know, since he was uh elected the the uh Speaker of the House, he's been wooing me, and you know, he's a really good looking guy, and he's been talking nice things to me, and you know, me being the regular taxpayer, and while things were really good, uh looking good, and and I decided, sure, I'll go with this guy.
And then uh last Friday night, you know, there we were at the dance, and I think he might have slipped me a roofie.
Because uh when I woke up Saturday morning, man, I was sore all over.
I think it was date rape.
I'm not sure.
Whoa.
You know, well, from Alan Simpson accusing people of diddling their secretaries while talking about social issues to you feeling date raped, we've about covered it here.
Well, you know, the the best thing that we got out of that deal is is maybe they're playing reruns on NPR.
Otherwise, we got nothing.
You know?
So I I I got two questions.
I love that.
Play reruns on everybody.
Okay, what's the questions?
Well, what are we gonna do about Boehner?
You know, I for years and years, us Republicans have been, oh well, you know, he didn't realize that it was gonna come out that way, and he was trying his best, and he's doing the good work and yada yada blah blah.
But we we can't afford that, Rush.
You know, things are too close.
Bahner is a good guy.
Uh uh, you know, I'm I've played golf with Boehner and I know him.
He's uh he's uh he's he's a good guy, but and he's I think in a lot of cases animated by not making the same what what what he thinks were mistakes made during the Newt days.
And he clearly thinks the government shutdown was a mistake.
He doesn't he doesn't want to be perceived as the architect of that.
And I you know, we disagree about that, and they've I don't think the government shutdowns an end to anything.
I think it's a tool.
Um but you know, you have to when you look, I I don't offer this as an excuse.
I say this just trying to make help people maybe to understand, not agree with, but to understand the the sentiment our our people have about the media, it is a genuine fear, and I can't emphasize it enough.
And when you look at them looking at what's happened to Sarah Palin, they don't want that.
They they don't they don't they don't want to be in those crosshairs.
They don't want any part of it.
Uh it's just they don't think they can they don't think they can handle it, they don't think you can overcome it.
If they if they start if they end up being targeted like Palin, uh I think it's the end of their career.
Well, I you know, I if we give them credit for being a million people in them in the media that would vote, you know, the way they report it, big deal.
We got 20 million listeners of you like me that can overturn that.
So he needs to know that that we're behind him no matter what the media says.
So I I don't know how we get that message to him.
Well, that's a good point.
That's a good point.
You know, and my other question is, and I know you can fix it because you are the greatest.
I can't get uh go to my PC to work on iPad.
Well, have you have you have you uh got the app?
Uh you don't have the iPad.
Oh, you don't have the iPad.
You know the iPad.
Um that is so shameless I can't reward you.
I know.
I'm so shameless.
I know, but I did say the NPI rerun thing.
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Jeez, and I've got the way the Donald.
Quickly, 20 seconds, 20 seconds, Max.
You know, he's touching the nerves that need to be.
He is, all right.
He is all right, I gotta go.
I really do.
Thanks very much.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away.
Okay, we're gonna try to get Trump on one day this week.
Should be able to do that.
Actually, you know, I think Trump might actually be the real illegal alien here.
I mean, you say what you will, but he is one guy actually doing a job that most Americans wouldn't touch.
He fits the bill in that regard.
I hope you people have a wonderful Tuesday.
Prepare for Obama's next series of lies to you tomorrow.
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