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May 18, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 18, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Hey, we're just uh peachy.
Fine and dandy here at the EIB Network and the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
As always a thrill and a delight to have you with us.
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I'm going to get to this Time magazine piece here in just a second.
Because they come very close to telling all of you randy guys out there, hey, you know what?
Case can be made for you dropping your seed all over the place.
In fact, makes evolutionary sense.
Women can't do it.
Somebody has to.
Dawn, you will particularly enjoy this.
Yeah, it can be a dirty job populating the planet.
It can be a real, real dirty job.
Somebody has to do it, however.
And Time Magazine comes along here, just nick of time here to um, you know, Democrats do it.
There's maybe a good reason for it.
But I want to stick to this mandate since this thing has come up again and it's front and center in everybody's mind.
Put on my teaching cap for just a moment here.
And remind everybody what this is all about.
Why is Newton hot water over supporting an individual mandate, for example?
What's the big deal?
People who are just arriving at all of this might not understand.
So what?
In fact, what's individual mandate?
So what's so bad about that?
The individual mandate was an Obama regime trick.
They had to massively increase taxes to cover the mandate.
And everybody being covered, everybody being treated, everybody having access to the healthcare system.
They want to massively increase taxes to force people to pay into Obamacare, but they wanted to say that they were saving money while covering everybody, including 32 million people were not, are not covered at the moment.
They wanted to impose on you.
It was a sleazy political move to try to hide the cost of the mandate.
They were trying to tell you and us that this mandate would lower costs.
That the mandate would lower premiums.
Remember all of this.
This was their this was their end around single payer, because they couldn't do that out of the box.
They don't have the uh support for that.
That's where they want to get to, but they want single payer to result from it being the only remaining option for people because they've destroyed everything else.
This was their end or the mandate was their end around single payer, forcing each of you to buy a plan that had to be approved by the federal government, forcing you to enter into a contract with an insurance company to buy it instead of taxing you directly for health insurance that the government would run.
The way to understand the mandate is just to substitute for a tax increase.
Pure and simple.
They knew that there was not a mood in the country that would accept a massive tax increase.
But you come along and you say, individual mandate, everybody buy their own.
Everybody have to oh yeah.
That's gonna have uh you know an instinctive support to it before people look into it.
So instead of taxing you directly for health insurance, that the government would run, they force you to buy health insurance.
This way, they can claim that they aren't taxing.
They can claim that they're not creating a single payer plan, but in effect it's all of the same sort.
Government control over you and your decisions.
They're making you buy Insurance, they are forcing you to spend money.
It's the same thing as them forcing you to pay taxes.
This was just to understand this, individual mandate equals tax increase.
What did they think was easier to get people to accept tax increase or mandate?
And even that, the mandate was robustly opposed.
Who's the government to tell me what I have to buy?
Now, in court, when the regime is challenged that this is not a direct tax plan, that it is an unconstitutional attempt to force people to buy what they might not want.
Now they're arguing that it's a tax because they say they have the power to lay taxes.
This is how sleazy they are.
They start off, they want more revenue to pay for all this.
They know there's not the atmosphere for raising taxes, they come up with this mandate business.
Then when the mandate is challenged constitutionally in a 26 state lawsuit.
We have the power to lay taxes, lay tax levy taxes.
Perfect example of how sleazy they are.
So they say to you that they're not taxing you.
They say to the court that this is nothing more than a tax on you.
They say, what's the big deal?
That is, when challenged that the government does not have the constitutional power to force you to make a private purchase under the Commerce Clause, the Obama regime now argues, okay, well, let's call it a tax then.
It's not really complicated what's happening here.
It's just that some people don't want to accept it, deal with it because it's a call to arms.
There just aren't that many fighters out there anymore.
A lot of litigators are being boxed in by all of this because they just uh it's it takes a lot to go up against the regime.
It does that a lot of people who value their careers down the road and you know want their careers to be based in uh in Washington.
Now, as for the constitutionality of states mandating the buying of health insurance, if the federal government, I just want to reiterate this, if the federal government is directing the states to force their citizens to buy health insurance, that does not get around violating the Commerce Clause.
The federal government does not have the power to force people to buy health care, whether it tries to force it directly or whether it tells the states that they have to force it.
So this the state mandate uh well, state mandate eventuates because uh Newt has said this is like auto insurance, and the states force you to buy auto insurance, but the the analogy doesn't hold because it's not universal.
If you don't have a car, if you don't drive, they can't force you to have automobile insurance.
Now, if the states do it on their own, then the individual state constitution is the issue, not the federal constitution, as is the case here in uh or up there in in Massachusetts.
But the mandate isn't even a substitute for a tax increase.
The administration is now claiming in federal courts that it is a tax increase, but they're only saying this because they have the authority to levy taxes to raise taxes.
So they're just lying about this.
Whatever point they get run into opposition, at whatever point they get resistance, they change the story.
But make no mistake, where all this is headed is the eventual in 10 to 15 years.
Obama has said this himself, the eventual end of private sector health insurance companies.
They simply will not be able to stay in business.
You know, you don't get it all at once.
It's gonna take a while for this stuff to um Be implemented.
We wouldn't accept it if it was just thrown at us all at once.
But as time goes on, companies are not allowed or not it doesn't make sense to stay in business at some point.
It's going to end up that the only place you can go to get health insurance will be one of these federal exchanges, i.e.
single payer, and that's where they're headed.
It is well known, authoritarians, totalitarians throughout history have known controlling the health care of a society is that's like the IV.
You go in a hospital, they put an IV in your arm, it's there in case they need to get in in an emergency to do something else they've already got the pathway in.
Healthcare is the IV to total state control over a population.
Hitler knew it.
The Nazis, it's one of the first things that they tried.
That'll be the media tweak of the day.
Although it's nothing new.
We've said it before.
All right, a brief time out when we come back.
How you may be able to drop your seed all if you're a man all over this country and be applauded for it.
Don't go away.
Time magazine, why powerful men compulsively cheat.
No different than AP 1995.
Why it's okay to tell a little white lie now and then.
It's by Jeffrey Kluger.
Human males Human males have never been thought of as models of sexual restraint.
Well that's the open, there's the lead.
Human males never been thought of as models of sexual restraint, and with good reason.
From the moment the adolescent libido begins to boot up, boys seem to enter into an ongoing state of emotional, if not literal preopism, from which they never fully emerge.
As far as nature is concerned, this is just fine.
The goal of any organism, after all, is to ensure the survival and propagation of its genes, and males far more so than females are eminently equipped to do that.
Even the world's most reproductively prolific mothers rarely produce more than eight or nine children in a lifetime.
Males can conceive every day, multiple times a day.
And they come emotionally hardwired to do just that.
Now part of the reason that they don't, apart from the impracticality of trying to raise two hundred kids, is that they just don't get that many mating opportunities.
Sex requires a willing partner, and females with so much more on the line in terms of the time, effort, and energy that pregnancy and child rearing involve can be extremely selective in choosing mates.
Men don't care.
That requires males to develop a whole suite of emotional muscles.
Self-denial, self-restraint, a facility for delayed gratification that will help them cope with an appetite that at some levels will never ever be fully satisfied.
And that in turn is a central pillar of monogamy and fidelity.
See you see, Dawn, we're just robots.
We can't help it.
Only tie we have is that thin little shred of a link to morality.
Self denial, self restraint, delayed gratification, being able to wait four hours or two weeks.
But what happens?
What happens when the lid comes off?
What happens when the opportunities for males are unlimited?
In some cases, not much.
Males either continue to practice self-control or after a brief period of happy debauchery, think rock stars or leading men who are always seen stepping out with a new piece of arm candy, finally settle down into stable monogamy.
In some cases, though, the stability never happens.
In some cases, unlimited opportunity simply leads to unlimited appetites.
Emperors and despots may be best known for this kind of behavior.
The 18th century Moroccan ruler Moulay Ishmael is said to have fathered 888 children with his 500 concubines.
Well, let's sturdy, let's figure this out.
Everybody's going, whoa, good lord.
Okay, 888 children.
Somebody do the math.
888 times 10 minutes.
Maybe five.
888 times five minutes.
Let's figure out how much time this actually took.
You will find it's not that much time.
Average woman will agree with me.
Five, ten minutes.
So this guy, eight hundred and eighty-eight children, five hundred women.
Genghis Khan makes Ishmael look practically barren.
A 2003 analysis of the Y chromosome of 2,123 men now living across the former Mongol Empire showed that there are sixteen million men living today whose line stretches back to Genghis Khan.
Sixteen million.
One out of every two hundred men now on the planet has a genetic line back to Genghis Khan.
Not Walt.
No way.
Not Wilt.
Not even not even not Tiger.
Not Mule Ishmael.
No, no, no.
Not Bill Clinton.
Modern day men of power.
Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Elliot Spitzer, John Edwards, John Enson, JFK, FDR, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dominique Strauss Kahn, with their serial wives or serial philandering can behave just as badly, if less prolifically.
When men have more opportunity, they tend to act on that opportunity, says psychologist Mark Held, a private practitioner in the Denver area who specializes in male sexuality and the problems of overachievers.
The challenge becomes developing ways to control the impulses so that you don't get yourself into self-defeating situations.
Okay, so here you have it.
Time magazine explaining it.
All this, all of and by the way, there's another whole page and a half of this.
I'm not going to read any more, basically giving you the nuts and bolts of it.
But I mean here it is.
Schwarzenegger, Strauss Kant, Kaligia, Clinton, Spitzer, Kennedy, John Edwards.
An excuse.
An explanation.
A reason.
Biology propagation.
Keeping the race alive.
Ability, availability.
Time.
Have you run the numbers in there?
888.
What's an end?
What's the answer?
Okay, under 48 hours.
148 hours.
148 hours to uh less than a week to father 888 kids with 500 different women.
It's three work weeks.
It's your average vacation.
And of course, you're still able to walk.
There's no reason that you can't keep going.
Women can't do the story goes on.
Women cannot do this.
They can't.
No, it's not.
No, no, no.
Doesn't get into jealousy or not.
This points out that physiologically, biologically, women cannot do this.
They simply can't.
So now, yeah, that's why you say not so it's a good thing to lie.
The two go hand in hand.
Only men can do this.
See how unfair it is.
The feminists never had a chance.
Powerful men.
Why powerful men compulsively cheat?
See, not every man's got it in him to do this.
A lot of women are scaredy cats, cowards, afraid of women, afraid of their own shadows.
They don't they get bogged down with a responsibility.
I mean, you think this guy cared for his 500 kids?
Heck no.
He left it up to the 888 women.
There are 500 women.
Yes, this is true.
Dawn is pointing out here that a lot of men are a lot more substantive than the examples given here, that they have much more rich, meaningful, uh morality-based lives than the reprobates mentioned.
Well, I don't know who they are, but she's convinced they exist.
This is the point.
Dawn is convinced that they are out there.
Asked to name some.
We draw a blank.
But Dawn is convinced that they're out there.
In fact, doesn't every woman think, just give me the chance, I can change this.
I can change this.
Just hasn't met the right woman yet.
Or what have you.
Anyway, Maria did what you would expect in such a traumatic situation.
She was in Chicago taping the Oprah show last night.
And we will continue.
Your phone calls are next after this.
Don't go away.
Well, some of you people are going to love hearing about this story.
It's from the Politico Today by Mike Allen.
And the headline of the political story, GOP elite see Mitch Daniels as the 2012 savior.
Top Republicans are increasingly convinced that President Obama will be easily re-elected if stronger Republican contenders do not emerge.
And some are virtually begging Mitch Daniels to add some excitement to the slow starting nomination race.
It's a sign of the Republican straits that the party's depending on a bland, wonkish guy for a boost of adrenaline.
But interviews this week with longtime party activists and strategists.
And by the way, not one person is named in this piece.
So we don't know who these Republicans speaking to Mike Allen at Politico are.
Interviews this week with longtime party activists and strategists made clear that many in the Republican establishment are unnerved by a field led by Romney, who could have trouble confronting Obama on health care.
Tim Pollenty, who has yet to ignite excitement, John Huntsman, who may be too moderate to get the nomination, and Newt Gingrich, weighed down by personal baggage in a sense that he is a polarizing figure from the 90s.
Despairing Republican lobbyists say their colleagues don't ask, who do you like?
They instead ask, who do we back?
A central player in the GOP money machine, again unnamed, says it's not that they're up in arms, it's just that they're depressed.
So we have a story here about the Rhinos.
You know, we've been talking on this program about the Republican Party who's convinced that Obama can't be beat.
Mike Allen found them, whoever they are.
Well, we know they're out there.
It's absurd to believe that Barack Obama can't be beat.
Look at nothing personal meant here.
And even Mike Allen refers to it.
Republicans are increasingly convinced that.
President Obama will be easily re-elected if stronger Republican contenders don't emerge.
They need Mitch Daniels to show up and add some excitement.
And Mike Allen says, now that is a sign of how bad it is for the Republican Party when they're depending on a bland, wonkish guy for excitement.
Here's a poll quote, the other scenario, and it terrifies Washington Republicans.
That's the possibility that some very conservative insurgent candidate will become the Romney alternative.
Newt, Michelle Bachman, Santorum, Palin.
So, folks, this the word's gone out, the inside the beltway Republican elites, the Rhinos, they are scared to death that some conservative is going to get the nomination.
And they want the exciting Mitch Daniels to ride in, announce and save the day.
Let me throw a name at you out there.
And this person's toying with getting in the race.
And there are some Republicans who are trying to convince this person to get in the race.
And there is a lot of excitement attached to the possibility that this person will get in the race.
Well, who do you think I'm talking about?
You have a look on your face in there, as though you know who I'm talking to.
Texas Governor Rick Perry.
Texas Governor Rick Perry is lurking out there.
And he has, he has the potential to light this up.
If Rick Perry decides to get in this, folks, then you can you can wipe away all the conventional wisdom that's out there heretofore and to date, because it's a brand new day, and it starts all over again.
And the Republican elites do not like Rick Perry.
The Republican elites do not like Rick Perry.
Let me tell you who said endorsement.
No, I'm not endorsing anybody here.
Don't do that.
I didn't look at Drudge has the story that Rick Perry is being asked to consider it, that he's thinking about it.
I'll tell you a little story.
Folks, I'm just going to tell you a little story.
I was asked a year ago, sometime in the last 12 months, I forget exactly when.
I was asked to appear in Texas at a fundraiser for a very popular Texas politician.
Not going to name the politician.
Doesn't matter.
Upon this was in the midst of the Texas gubernatorial race.
Remember, Kay Bailey Hutches was challenging Rick Perry for the governorship of Texas.
And I received a panicked email from a member of the inside Republican elite, warning me.
Now get this.
Warning me that Rick Perry was going to show up for the express purpose of trying to horn his way into a photograph with me.
And I was insulted and angered by this, not by what Perry was going to do, but so Rick Perry wants to show up, he's a governor of Texas.
They were warning me to be on the lookout that Rick Perry might try to use me to advance his gubernatorial campaign.
The only reason I tell you this, and the only reason it's interesting is that the people sending me the note were the same people talking to the politico here.
Who think Mitch Daniels equals Mr. Excitement, who are petrified of Newt getting in, petrified of Bachman, petrified of Santorum, petrified of Palin, petrified as somebody conservative getting in.
They wanted to warn me that I was going to be used.
And I'd I'd better be on a lookout.
Do not, whatever You do, do not do not let this happen.
And of course, it happened.
I posed for a picture of Perry.
Kemi showed up.
He said some nice things about me.
He was a friend of everybody there.
He didn't intrude in a place he wasn't wanted.
The governor of Texas.
Please.
So I did I tell you the story only to illustrate what I've told you all along and what you've known instinctively probably yourselves.
And that is the Republican Party is by no means unified here, and the Republican Party is as well, the elites in it are as alarmed at the prospect a conservative will get the nomination as are the Democrats alarmed that a conservative could get the Republican nomination.
All right, a brief timeout.
We'll come back.
I promise.
Phone calls on the other side here.
Rick Perry used to be soft in immigration.
Now he's not.
Rick Perry is in no way you're going to hear Rick Perry supporting amnesty in any way, shape, manner, or form.
He's um uh is is he solid on that plus uh pro-life.
He's Rick Perry stands in opposition to inside the beltway Washington elites.
I don't care what party they uh they are.
And he's got great hair.
Folks, you gotta one thing, we gotta put a picture of Rick Perry up there on our website if you haven't seen him.
It's it's axiomatic.
You are not going to be elected president unless you've got at least a 10-inch part in your hair, preferably 14-inch.
You're not gonna be bald.
Uh the second thing is that uh this it's the same thing with a television anchor.
You're you're you're never ever going to be a prime network news anchor unless you have a 14-inch part in your hair.
Well, they're just in a television age, there are just certain realities that you can't get around.
But uh tell you how the liberals are gonna react to any Republican that's why do you think the liberals are out there pushing?
Don't make me say this again.
Look at I mean I got enough trouble with these Republicans.
Snerdley wants to know how the liberals are gonna react to another Texas government.
They're gonna go nuts.
So what?
Let them.
When are they ever not nuts?
Let me look at Rick Perry is a strong fiscal conservative.
He f there are people in Texas that wanted a state income tax.
He fought it.
Rick Perry's a guy that tracked these Democrats that left the state down.
Remember, they ran out on their just like the Wisconsin Democrats uh did.
So no, I'm not endorsing anybody.
I'm just I'm just telling you, and and he's lurking out there.
It's why I've always tried to caution people it's way too early here to start throwing in the towel or thinking all's lost regarding the uh the presidential field.
There's other people that uh might decide to get in this thing too.
You never know.
Here's uh what is it, Tamila?
Sorry, Tamala in Pasadena, California.
Why love Pasadena?
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
We know that you uh come out and visit us every now and then, and we've been we've been uh trying to get Dr. House to give us the scoops on when you get out so we can uh try to get you to come to one of our rallies.
Well, you know, Dr. House is very discreet.
He is very this is the House ear clinic, folks.
These are the uh the people that yeah, the surgically implanted my cochlear implant.
Brought my uh my hearing back.
Yeah.
He he and his wife are just uh salted the earth and uh our what he's done for our military and that from the 60s.
Brilliant, brilliant man.
So thank you for making a good choice.
And uh the beautiful Pasadena.
Um I I I just have to say what an honor it is to talk to you.
And my mom is going to my mom is freaking out right now because she knows I'm on this show and she's gonna be.
Why aren't you freaking out?
I always say it's always my grandmother loves you Or my son loves you, or but it's never the per why aren't you freaking out?
Rush, I am freaking out.
All right, that's better.
However, I want to be able to be put together enough to talk to you.
And after all, I am a Tea Party leader, and we we are all about excitement and channeling that through our people.
So trust me, when I get off the phone with you, I'm gonna make a whole bunch of phone calls, and by the end of the day, there's gonna be about five thousand Tea Party folks in Pasadena that are gonna be fired up for for you, Rush.
Way to be.
I like that.
I like that.
Thank you so much.
And I I don't want to take too much time because I know there's a lot of people that uh have a lot of great things to say, but uh as a Tea Party leader out here in this area, I think what what has been kind of lacking has been this real conservative dialogue and a true elevation of our conservative principles.
And you know, of course I'm disheartened to to hear uh what Speaker Gingrich I I personally know him.
I was on a phone call with him and uh many other Tea Party leaders yesterday morning so that we could vocalize um kind of our issues with his comments on Sunday, and you know, I gotta say, Rush, he is one of the few true GOP leaders that has actually reached out to us,
and we there are m a hundred plus of us that have personal stories where he waived his speaking fees to come out and support us, help us do fundraisers, teach us about canvassing our neighborhoods when our local GOP um would not because there was already a division between GOP and Tea Party from the from the long-term GOP folks.
And there will continue to be.
And there will continue to be, but we're fighters because we believe in the constitution, Rush.
We believe that man has an innate button, if you will, in our DNA that is God put in there that we love freedom.
We were just talking about that in terms of the Time magazine piece.
That's exactly right.
And and I watched a movie recently called The Way Home, and it was about these men that were thrown into the Soviet gulag in 1939, and they walked 4,000 miles for freedom.
When is the last time somebody walked 4,000 miles to go to a communist country or a socialist state?
It just doesn't happen.
And what I want to see, what all all of the people that I represent want to see is we want to see the elevation of the concert true conservative dialogue.
And I don't care if Newt slips up, I don't care if Sarah slips up, I don't care if anybody slips up.
As long as they are in the fight.
What we are looking for, uh me as a mom, as a twelfth generation descendant of Captain Miles Standish, I want a champion.
All right, exactly.
That's what we all want.
We all want somebody who is going to be courageously conservative and unafraid of it, and will be unbashful in discussing it.
We don't want people who are going to try to moderate or modify their conservatism for the audience.
Okay, I'm talking to a group of Hispanics, and I gotta dial it back.
No, you don't dial it back for anybody.
I'm talking a group of women.
No, you don't dial it back for women.
Uh well, I'm talking to the media.
I gotta no, you don't dial it back.
Conservatism is what it is.
You're proud of it, you're eager to articulate it, fearlessly so, and with a lot of pride.
Uh I totally agree with you.
That's what we all want.
That's what we all want.
What we don't understand is why people who call themselves conservatives are afraid to be it.
That's what we don't understand.
And that's why you people of Tea Party are really valuable.
As long as you do not waver from your demand that that's what it's gonna take for you to support, no matter if it takes five elections, if you don't waver from that, then you will eventually get it.
No doubt about it.
Tamla, thanks for calling appreciate it.
Diane in Santa Barbara as we stay in California.
Welcome to the EIB network hive.
Hi, Rush.
Hey, um, I hate to say this, but um I love um first of all, I love that you defend um people like um Gingrich and stuff, but in some way this this warning, I feel like you're saying that you're you're kind of shaming those who are um you know, picking apart what he's saying and stuff like that.
I do not know how you are hearing that.
I honestly don't know how you are.
I am shaming those who are picking apart what all I what I am a master communicator.
You have just told me that I have failed today.
If you Yeah, I know.
Shocking to me.
Well, I but I haven't failed.
But in your mind, I have all I did was go back and describe for you the original Newt Gingrich was a hundred percent conservative through and through.
Uh yeah, that's not defending his statements of today.
That's in fact, Newt said that I got a couple things wrong.
I played his sound bites proving that I didn't get it wrong.
I Well, we need we need more people um picking apart, because that's a mistake that we made with um with the media made with Obama is, you know, oh wait, you can't ask him this, you can't ask him that.
But you know, I just want to encourage more of that in the media.
Wait a minute.
What is it you want to encourage more of?
Picking apart Newt.
Well, yeah, just um.
Look at I'm struggling here.
Like, I started the program calling Newt out.
What when when he claimed that I was misrepresenting him.
Now I said some nice things about Newt from where he was back in the effect.
I got a note from Newt here.
I got an email at a quarter of what an hour ago, a little over an hour ago.
I can't read it to you now because of time constraints.
You know, folks, we take a back seat to nobody here when it comes to picking people apart.
We are the leaders in that.
We were the only people who were picking Obama apart, for example.
We pick everybody apart.
Sometimes we put them back together again, but we still pick them apart.
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