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April 19, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 19, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #3
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I have an idea.
I have an idea for the Republicans.
Greetings, welcome back.
Great to have you here, Rush Limboss serving humanity.
Just by being me.
I mean, that's essentially what happens here.
When I show up and the microphone goes on.
A nation comes to a screeching halt to listen and learn.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800 282-2882 and the email address Lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
Now, Obama's out there speaking to these skulls full of mush today, and he said, We can't spend more than we take in.
Now there's a possible second meaning to this.
We're sitting here, and we're incredulous that he'd be such a goofball.
He's the architect of spending more than we take in.
So it could well be.
Remember now.
My theorem is that what Obama's doing here is simply providing the national media some sound bites.
Not really, this audience is a bunch of props, but he's providing the national media with a bunch of sound bites to use uncritically in his campaign.
Now, if you're Obama, and this is a likelihood, if you're Obama and you say we can't keep spending more than we take in, it could be a prelude to, so I'm going to raise taxes.
We have to raise taxes.
You know, we must consider that as the way he's thinking.
We hear him say, the most profligate spender in the history of spenders.
We hear him say we can't spend more than you take in.
And we think, how can somebody be so stupid to say this?
How can he continue to say these things when he is the architect of it?
Now I know we pointed out yesterday.
If we were to confiscate, well, let's put it this way.
If Obama got every tax increase he wanted, it would not offset his spending.
The Wall Street Journal had a story on it yesterday.
We looked at it in even greater detail.
If you if if not tax, if you confiscate all the wealth, the the income, confiscate the income in this country.
You're looking at what, two trillion dollars?
A little over two trillion dollars.
We're spending 3.5 or almost four.
There's no way that you can confiscate or tax enough to cover what we're spending.
But he doesn't care about that.
He's setting the table here.
He's establishing the rationale for he's also stated we need to raise taxes.
That's the reason for it.
We can't spend more than we take in, meaning we better start taking in more.
He doesn't mean we better start spending less.
So here's my idea.
And knowing full well it'll never happen, but I still nevertheless propose it as one who cares deeply and loves amazingly this country.
Republicans propose a budget to Obama tomorrow.
We call it the we can't spend more than we take in budget.
We cut spending to revenue.
We j we totally hit him off at the pass on tax increases.
We present a budget that cuts spending to revenue.
And we call it the Obama says we can't spend more than we take in, Bill.
And we give him credit for it.
We give him the credit for inspiring the legislation.
We say that we saw him make the speech to the students at the junior college in Virginia, and a light went off.
A great idea.
We wish we had thought of it in such simple terms.
You can't Take in more than you spend.
Or spend more than you take in.
So we propose the Obama says we can't spend more than we take in Bill.
Pass it.
Republicans in the House propose it and pass it.
Call his leftist bluff.
Head him off at the pass on tax increases.
He's using poll-tested language in lieu of actually running the executive branch.
So wrap him up in his own words.
Everything he's doing is poll tested.
When's the last time you heard Obama say, We can't.
We can't continue to spend more than we take in.
That's focus group research.
Call his bluff.
You know what else I would do?
I would pose or propose a bill, pass a bill right now in the House that restored the $500 billion in Medicare cuts.
Damn straight.
He's out there accusing us and wanting to take seniors out of their houses and kick them off on the dog food and so forth.
So what we do, we pass a bill right away in the House that restores the $500 billion Obama took from Medicare to fund Obamacare.
And we and we spent it twice.
We call it the Save Medicare from Obama Medicare bill.
Now my spies telling me, listening to ABC Radio News at the top, indeed audio sound bites from Obama today.
Among them, uh we can't spend more than we take in.
Shared responsibility.
Exactly what I thought.
The speech is already being used for these sound bites by national news uncritically praising Obama with the guts to face this.
People are trying to keep their jobs, they're trying to find jobs, they're trying to save their homes, they're trying to save their businesses, and this guy talks about shared responsibility.
Which means turn your backs on your families and give more to him to redistribute.
That's what he is defining as sacrifice.
Forget taking care of your family, I'll do it.
Via taxes and the redistribution of your money.
My gosh, folks, that we're being handed this guy on a silver platter here.
But we're not we're not gonna get there if we're gonna continue to cower in fear over how to deal with a guy.
Let's go to the sound bites.
I want to start with Andrew Breitbart, and I'm gonna get to Sarah Palin.
I meant to play her sound bites from yesterday.
Uh well, from her Saturday speech in Madison.
Meant to play them yesterday, didn't get to it, so I'm gonna do it now.
But before that, Andrew Breitbart was on with Hannity last night.
Got a new book out, Righteous Indignation.
And Hannity said, uh, look at it.
NBC CBS ABC, they're contemplating whether they want to keep their nightly newscasts now.
Well, here's what happened.
Twenty years ago, Rush Limbach comes in the game, he acts as a checks and balance, Drudge comes in 15 years ago, and then the blogosphere explodes, and all we did was ask of the mainstream media was to correct their bias problem.
When they wouldn't correct themselves, citizens in the form of the Tea Party, people with video cameras going everywhere, said if you're not going to correct yourself, we're gonna create a media in the wake of your incompetency.
And that's what's happening.
It's the most exciting time in media, and unfortunately, the mainstream media is so upset about it, it covers it as if we're the villains out there.
Andrew Breitbart, now uh Andrew is his book is out now called Righteous Indignation, and I don't know if you know this about Andrew, but he started out as folks.
This guy was full bore commie babe leftist.
Andrew Breitbart used to be an accredited member of the Hollywood left.
Same Andrew Breitbart used to be an accredited member of the Hollywood left.
And now he has told me, and I of course believe him, because what of the reason could there be?
He has told me that it was listening to me in LA started, we got on the air there in 1989 in KFI starting, is listening to this show was the first time he had heard in a consistent, Understandable way, anything other than what he had always been told growing up.
Now he asked me to do a forward or a blurb for his book, which I did.
Uh but yeah, he's he's he he was as far don't believe this, but that's part of what he writes about in his book.
I mean, he was a big lefty until he heard the EIB network.
Now let's go to Palin.
No, his book is called Righteous Indignation.
Pretty interesting cover.
Got it up there at um at Drudge.
They he had a bunch of different photographs that he was pondering using on the cover.
He sent me a couple of them asking for my thoughts.
I said, look, you're on your own on this.
The picture he's using is not one he sent me.
It's tame in comparison to what he was gonna lose.
Here's Palin.
And I'm playing these sound bites here because Obama's delivering himself to us on a silver platter.
I'm I'm folks, I'm serious.
The Obama says we cannot spend more than we take in bill.
Pass it.
We simply reduce spending to current expenditures, current revenue.
That's that's it.
That's what and credit him for the inspiration.
Make them defend it.
That's that's what I don't understand is our inability.
I don't know why we can't take it to him.
I don't know.
I'm exempting Paul Ryan from this.
Uh, because he's done it.
But why why can't we take what this guy says and run it right back at him?
We can't we can't spend more than we take it.
Fine.
Pass a bill that says so.
Credit him.
Pass it.
Send send uh the the defunding of Obamacare every every month.
Make him defend it, make the Democrats veto it, vote against it every every month.
Make them own the issue.
Here's Palin defending Governor Scott Walker in Wisconsin.
A pension is a promise that must be kept.
Now your governor Scott Walker understands this.
He understands that states must be solvent in order to keep their promises.
And that's what he's trying to do.
He's not trying to hurt union members.
Hey, folks, he's trying to save your jobs and your pensions.
She was being heckled.
She talks through the hecklers, talking about the tea tea party next.
Unfortunately, some of your union bosses don't understand this, and they don't care if union members have to be laid off.
No, they want to protect their own power, and if that means forcing a governor to lay off union workers, then so be it.
They've proven that is fine with them.
But that's not real solidarity.
Real solidarity means coming together for the common good.
This tea party is real solidarity.
She owned the crowd as a huge crowd.
It's not a good weather day either.
Um to Obama.
President Obama, you do not have our consent.
You didn't have it in November, and you certainly don't have it now.
You willfully ignored the will of the American people.
You ignored it when you rammed through Obamacare.
You ignored it when you drove up the debt to 14 and a half trillion dollars.
You ignored it when you went to bat for government-funded abortions, and yet you threw our brave men and women in uniform under the bus, Mr. Commander in Chief.
You ignore it when you apologize for America.
Why you bow and kowtow to our enemies and you snub our allies like Israel.
She's taking it to him.
What is so hard about this?
Yeah, Rush, will you hear what they say about her?
Yeah, and she just keeps talking, doesn't she?
Yeah, but Rush, but Rushman destroyed her.
Doesn't bother her.
She keeps talking.
I mean, I would submit they have a destroyed her.
She's still talking.
Still drawing a crowd.
Still gets airtime.
They have a destroyer.
She kept going.
2012 election begins in Wisconsin.
Mr. President, you and your cohorts threw all the hatred and all the violence that you could at these good folks here in Madison, Wisconsin, but you lost here.
And Madison!
You defended that 2010 electoral mandate.
Your historic stand brought down the curtain on the last election.
And the 2012 election begins here.
We will take the courage and the integrity that you showed all of America.
We will take it and we will win back our country.
And in the big finale, as I told you yesterday, she suggests the Republican Party, if you're not going to fight like men, you better start fighting like girls.
We didn't elect you just to rearrange the deck chairs on a sinking Titanic.
We didn't elect you just to stand back and watch Obama redistribute those deck chairs.
What we need is for you to stand up, GOP, and fight.
Maybe I should ask some of the Badger women's hockey team, those champions.
Maybe I should ask them if we should be suggesting to GOP leaders.
They need to learn how to fight like a girl.
I'm telling you, I'm all for that based on what I know about it.
I'm all for it.
All right, we're back into the phones.
We return to uh Mount Dora, Florida.
This is uh Gary.
Gary, thank you for waiting.
I appreciate it.
Hey, nice talking with you, Rush.
You bet, sir.
I have tempered dettos for you, man.
I submit that you're you're right more than anyone present day in our society, and I agree with you for most everything that you talk about, all the subjects you talk about.
Uh oh.
I agree with Eddie, you're a caller from the Bronx as well.
I think Obama's a liar, and I think you know, most conservatives are just tired of hearing his voice.
Yeah.
Why are you providing cover for John Boehner?
Seems like we need a leader.
We don't need a nice man.
You called him a nice man last week.
He was nice we don't need nice men.
We need men.
Yeah, I agree.
He was I agree.
He's a comebastard creep.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Don't infer.
I'm not in I'm not inferring that.
What I'm saying is we don't we don't have time for nice men.
No, I understand.
He was being berated personally in my email.
I I probably should have read some of the some of the emails.
He was he was some of the people were just really launching into the guy.
A couple of phone calls did too.
And what I said was he's a fine guy.
He's a human being.
He's a f is he's a fine guy, and then I made the mistake of saying I played golf with him.
That opened the floodgates.
When I said I'd played golf with him, said, Oh gosh, that's all it takes on own limb boys.
You'll have to play golf.
Well, when you're out playing golf with him again, why don't you just mention to him that there's a conservative voice out here in the country that would like for him to be a little bit more aggressive than just being a nice man.
How do you know that I haven't?
Well, I don't know that.
I know.
But if you have, reiterate it.
If you would, please.
It's going back to Sarah Palin's comments.
I mean, she was directing those comments to the COP leadership.
You know, but what kind of puzzled me about this was that I have been i i it last week after all that stuff came down.
I the the the the comment about Obama about Boehner being a fine guy was after I had taken him to the woodshed, too.
You know, I did, but he's he's his own man.
He's he's not he's not somebody that that is is is a sponge that doesn't know what he thinks and is waiting for what everybody else thinks to hear what everybody else thinks before he knows what to do.
He does have a mind of his own.
I don't I don't know.
There may be some people been harder on Boehner than than I have been, but I mean I have in no way given him a pass on what what has happened up there.
I the point I'm trying to emphasize is the conservative thinking people in this country don't want nice politicians any any longer.
We we want hardcore men, like the hardcore men that defeated the Nazis.
It took hardcore men to defeat the Japs.
Japanese, yes.
The Japanese on you know in the caves on Mount Suribachi.
Right.
It takes some hardcore men.
Not just man be pamby guys like Adam from Indiana.
You know, we need to take these guys on, the liberals, the Democrats, the Republican in name only type of the first thing.
I know, and I just last week I just I was lamenting the fact that these guys just don't have it in them.
That here we are in 2011, and a lot of them seem to be stuck back in the year 2000.
They just don't have the the uh the whatever you want to call it, the confrontational uh gene, uh the the hand to hand fighting, but they just they just don't seem to have uh that that kind of fire in their belly.
They do they they they want to prevail, but they don't want to upset a whole lot of apple carts along the way for whatever reason.
Isn't that sad though?
There's more women with backbone there in in Washington DC than there are so-called men.
Something else I have pointed out that the the the gonads on our side happen to be wearing skirts.
It's it's it's it's very obvious.
My only in my humble opinion it shouldn't be that way, but if it if it has to be that way, then it should be that way.
Be thankful for what you get.
Yep.
I mean I it is what it is.
Uh I I think that you know that I I've I've even mentioned on this program that a lot of haven't mentioned any names, but some some freshmen are already dispirited because of what they've run into.
They they they they showed up loaded for bear.
And I've talked about some of the freshmen in '94, too, how after two years of frustration they quit.
And back then they were dealing with true revolutionaries, and even they back then were getting a little bit unhappy with the way Newton and the boys were handling things.
Nobody's gonna always always be uh be happy.
But my reference to Boehner being a nice guy, said it had nothing to do with the way he's handling himself in this.
It was not worthy or deserving of being called pond scum.
We were talking about books here.
Breitbart's new book, Tom Watson.
I I I've read this now, my second golf book.
Watson's got a great golf book out called The Timeless Swing.
Now he sent me a copy.
It's just it's not quite coffee table size, filled with uh pictures and illustrations.
But there's an iPad, iPhone version of this book with videos.
The other the only other golf instructional golf book I have read is Jack Nicholas's book.
This book by Watson, if you play golf uh and you're interested in getting better, you don't take lessons because you don't want to take lessons or what read this.
This it is fascinating.
It's so simple.
I've never seen a golf book that is that is this simple and cogent and straight to the point.
Uh I it it's it's amazing.
I I started reading this, and particularly, you know, what I've learned with Hank Haney and the Haney Project, I I could not literally put it down.
I watched all the videos.
It's it's amazingly good.
If you play golf.
And then there's Breitbart's book, Ann Colter's got a new book coming in June that she won't tell anybody about what's in it, which is a good marketing technique.
So we're uh we're loaded out there in that regard.
Here's Tracy in Pittsburgh.
Tracy, welcome to the EIB network.
Great to have you here.
Mr. Limbaugh, it's an honor to speak to you, sir.
Thank you very much.
I hate to keep bringing up Donald Trump, but I I have a question.
Why do you why do you hate keeping bringing up Donald Trump?
Well, I'm gonna tell you why.
I I think he has an ulterior motive.
Um and what I need to know from you, or your opinion, is uh what's gonna happen if he does not get the Republican nomination and he decides as if he runs and he decides to run as an independent.
That's the end of the Republican Party.
If anybody does that, it's the end of the revolution.
Well, it's it's the end of the Republican Party, but it's also gonna it's gonna put Obama right back into office.
I mean, that's the same thing.
That's what I mean.
It's the same thing at the end of the Republican Party in this election cycle.
I mean, uh I think he's uh he's gotta have some kind of an ulterior motive here in what he's doing.
I mean, I actually Well, what do you think it is?
I'm not real sure.
See, I know Trump.
I know Trump.
I play golf with him.
He's a fine guy.
And and you don't think it has anything to do with, you know, when Obama when Obama got elected, he he had a lot a lot of good things to say about Obama.
You know, he he hoped he was gonna be a great president and this and that and the other thing.
Look, I don't I I cannot let me be honest here.
I the fine guy, I'm just that's that's an audience tweak.
Apparently, when I tell people I play golf with somebody who's a fine guy, that just sends people into orbit.
They just they just lose their sanity.
No, I've I know Donald Trump uh fairly well.
I've not discussed other than interviews on the program his aspirations.
Uh I've had a hard time over the course of my years knowing exactly what he is politically.
I know he donates to both parties because he's primarily a real estate guy, and if the Democrats run the show in Chicago, that's to whom he's gonna donate.
If he doesn't understand all that.
Okay.
It's it's the same, you know, Microsoft got in trouble for not doing this.
Microsoft did not have any lobbyists, they weren't giving money to the Clinton regime.
So guess what?
They had a class or a uh uh big time uh depart antitrust suit brought against us.
It's the way of the world.
But he the other day when you had him on, um his reason for for running for president was that he felt he could do something for the country, he could bring the country back.
But you know, Rush, you've said yourself a million times, you know, you could bring the country back.
You would not take the pay cut.
Why would Donald Trump take a pay cut and tie himself up with all the rhetoric that he's gonna go through running and you know, his past is gonna be brought up.
There's let me answer your questions here.
There is there is an answer to that.
You may not like it, but it's an answer that is applicable to everybody who runs.
And I I said this yesterday.
Trump just happens to differ from these other people in that he says it.
He says the country needs me.
They all think it.
There's nobody that would put themselves through any of this without that kind of an ego.
They all you think Clinton doesn't have a Trump ego.
He's got that in more of you.
You think Obama doesn't have it?
They've all got it.
It just Trump says it.
He just he just happens to articulate it.
So I I I remember playing golf with him uh maybe a year and a half ago, shortly, a short time into the regime.
And we're in the same cart.
We're playing at Trump International here.
And uh he said, Tell me truth about Obama said Donald, he's a bad guy.
You think he's a bad guy?
I said, Yeah, I I I and he started he started uh, you know, echoing my sentiments in his in his own way, but he wasn't nearly as com as committed in his comments as he is as he is today.
And when we finished playing around with golf, we didn't talk about politics the whole round.
Uh I still wasn't sure what he really what he really thought.
I don't, you know, I don't know that anybody has the magic answer.
What's he really up to?
You know, I'm I have all the theories that you do, that he's a Democrat plant, I've heard that.
Um that that he's out there just promoting the apprentice.
Uh that that uh he's bored, whatever else he's doing, is trying to stir things up, he's just trying to have a little fun.
Who knows?
There's all kinds of answers to this.
Well, if he's promoting if he's promoting his program, you know, that's fine with me.
I don't care, you know, he he's out to make money, that's good.
My my problem is uh I guess the the let's get down to the nuts and bolts.
If he if he decides to run and he does not get the Republican nomination.
If he feels so uh I don't know what word I want to use, uh passionate about this country, he would be a fool to run as an independent.
Do you agree with me?
Because he he would know he would know that that was gonna that would put a that would put Obama right back into office.
You're forgetting No, you're forgetting something here that's that's crucial.
Okay.
Just using your hypothetical, if he runs as an independent, given his ego, I would think he'd do it to win.
Now, he may be fooling himself into thinking he can win, but he's not going to do this purposely to lose, to screw somebody.
If that's what's going on, then there's stuff going on that nobody's going to ever find out.
If he's got an animus about somebody.
When Perot was out, we knew...
Perot had it in for the Bush family for for whatever we knew that we don't know stuff like that about Trump and whether or not he would go independent third party reform party or whatever we don't know that.
I we don't know it yet um if I were to talk to Trump again I'd I'd I'd say Donald you know you're you're you're saying things here that make me think you don't understand the conservative base.
The conservative base does not want a 25% tariff on on Chinese goods.
Somebody's told you that the conservative base is a bunch of extreme wackos and then they're not you you're you're talking to a fringe group thinking they're the conservative base.
They're not and I may still tell tell him this at some point but there's he he's been all over the political spectrum politically he's come out uh for abortion he's against abortion he's uh uh he's he's he's thought Obama was a great guy that Bush was an idiot now where is it written that people can't change their minds and can't grow well where it's written in core beliefs.
If somebody really has a core belief the core beliefs don't fluctuate this isn't the this is what people are trying to figure out with Trump.
When you get down to brass tax the best thing you can say is I think that forget the independent run or whatever um the real question is he conservative he says he is but is he really is you have to you have to balance what he's saying now by itself and then go back compare it to what he said in the past I mean you won't find like I'm a committed conservative you won't I don't have a past like Trump does or I have disagreed with myself so many times.
Well, I agree with you 100%.
I feel exactly the same way.
I know what I feel, and I've never changed my mind about it.
I'm definitely as conservative as I get.
But what you're saying about, you know, if you get back to the presidency and if he would, you know, you can't go by what he says now because of what he said in the past.
The only thing we can do is if he would get elected, all we can do is hope that he...
Well, no, you're going to have...
No, you're going to have to go.
Go on what he says now and then compare that to things he said in the past.
If you're going to assume...
what he's saying now he's not being sincere about then you write him off.
I mean you don't even give him a time a day.
Okay but okay but my point is well I guess I I should have explained it a little bit more you didn't understand what I meant.
If he would get the conservative if he would get the Republican nomination okay you're gonna you're we're not gonna I'm not gonna sit out I'm not I'm not like that.
I'm gonna vote and if he if he is the conservative candidate I'm gonna vote for him.
I'm gonna vote for him and I'm gonna hope that he does live by conservative values and and and governs by conservative nomination if Elmer Fudd gets the Republican nomination I'm voting Elmer Fudd.
This is where our party I think is a little bit screwed up here.
And I've I've got to take a break because I'm getting way long into my next segment but we're gonna have this conversation many many more times down the road so just you know be patient folks it'll all become clear you know this Trump business I mean he's in person he's much like he is behaving here in this uh campaign I don't know if you saw the episode the Haney project that uh Al Michael's with with me but you know we were sharing mutual stories about Trump.
Trump has a a course out in Palos Verdes, California just it's a public course beautiful just overlooking the Pacific Ocean a great day you can see Catalina Island is just stunning stunning golf course.
And uh you know when you play golf with Trump wherever you play hits the best course in the world his course he'd never been to a place like it there's nobody there's no better piece of property anywhere.
He said everybody talks about Pebble Beach hell with Pebble Beach.
What do you got in Pebble Beach?
What's the body of water in Pebble Beach?
Well it's it's it's it's um it's it's it's uh it's the bay they call it the the um uh Carmel Bayes that's right that's right they have a bay I have an ocean my course is on an ocean they're in a little piddly bay Well, you know, you have to go a long way to get a better course at Pebble Beach.
It's just the way he is.
He's he's uh he's constantly selling.
But it's funny.
The way he is does not rub people the wrong way.
Well, rub some women the wrong way, but I have experience with that, too.
So I under I I understand it.
The braggadocio, all that kind of stuff.
Don't dig it.
All right, folks.
A great note to close out here on, but I've got to tell you, the um White House, the president, is hosting a meeting on immigration form this afternoon at the White House.
Here we go again.
The election is already going into high gear, and these guys are going to try to find a way to come up with a plan that nobody can call amnesty.
Mark my words.
Michael Bloomberg is going to be at the meeting, and the AFL CIO Prexy, Richard Trumpke.
So there's uh uh a wide range of opinions here.
So immigration reform this afternoon at the White House.
Got to get some new voters for the Democrats.
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