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June 7, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 7, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Oh no, the Fox is running a little story here, more and more people calling for Wiener to quit.
No!
No, no, no, no.
We want Wiener there.
We want this guy as the poster boy, the Democrat culture of erection and corruption.
I don't know.
What do you think's gonna happen?
You're gonna force him out.
You know, look at Andrew Cuomo.
Got a call from uh the Don.
Look at Bob Torricelli, got a call from Bill Clinton.
Both those guys shelved it for a while.
Toracelli forever.
Andrew Kumo for a while.
You know, Bill Clinton calls him up and reads in the Riot Act.
And it was Clinton that married uh Weiner and uh Ann Huma.
Yeah.
Anyway, great uh great to have you back here, folks on Rushball, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
We want Wiener front and center.
Damn straight.
I a quick question for I just asked Snerdley this, folks.
If there were a modern day Paul Revere, either on his bus or a horse riding through town, what would he be shouting?
The original Paul Revere.
The red coats are coming.
The British are coming.
What would what would the modern day Paul Revere be saying?
It wouldn't be the it wouldn't be the Chicoms are coming.
It uh it wouldn't be the Russians are coming.
What would it be?
Welcome back.
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If you want to be on the program, the email address L Rushmow at EIBNet.com.
Uh James Carvel on with Imus.
Oh, I know.
I know everybody's waiting for me to tell them when it's time to panic.
I will tell you when it's time to panic.
It's not time to panic yet.
Uh James Carville out there.
Humanitarian crisis out here.
It's a humanitarian crisis, Brewitt.
Now, we got the sound, but he's on Imus, and he's warning of unrest.
It could be riots out there.
But don't misunderstand what the rage in Cajun is saying.
He's not saying that people will be rioting because of Obama.
He's not saying people will be rioting because they're unhappy with Obama in the job situation.
He's really saying that they would be rioting in demand of another stimulus package.
That they would be that's exactly right.
Exactly right.
Basically warning that there will be riots if we don't have another stimulus.
Same thing that Obama subtly suggested, pushing for his first one.
Well, all these dire predictions are about getting more stimulus money into their campaign coffers for 2012.
That's that's why the push for another stimulus, more slush fund money.
Here is Carville.
Uh, and this was uh yesterday morning, IMAS in the morning on the Radio Plus uh syndicated on the Fox Business Channel.
And the question from IMS, you know, you you all famously said when Bill Clinton ran into the economy stupid.
Uh, gonna be the same thing this time, isn't it?
If 54,000 new jobs is the new standard, it's gonna be a very, very rough 2012 for President Obama.
I can't tell you what's gonna happen, but yeah, if this last job number is an indication of future job numbers, it's gonna be very, very rough.
People, if it continues, we're gonna see some civil unrest in this country.
I hate to say that, but I'm I think it's gonna be eminently possible.
Eminently possible.
If it continues to see some civil unrest in this country, riots if it continues.
Now, using intelligence guided by experience, what would how would it not continue in their minds?
We know that Obama's policies are not gonna correct it.
They've created the problem.
So we're not gonna have a fix.
We're not gonna have a great turnaround in unemployment trending downward.
So this is Carvel pushing for another stimulus from uh money.com as a CNN subsidiary.
Don't look to state and local governments to prop up the job market, which of course is the entire premise of Obama's stimulus.
To the contrary.
State and local government sector is set to go on a record-breaking layoff binge when the new fiscal year starts on July 1st.
State and local governments are forecast to shed up to 110,000 jobs in a third quarter.
The first time the bloodletting has risen into the triple digits.
Yep, we're on a we're on a downward path, said Greg Daco, principal U.S. economist at IHS Global Insight.
It's not looking good.
Now this too is just a blatant cry for another round of stimulus.
And that once again to trotten out this old need to keep teachers for the children, and we got to keep the cops working, and we got to keep the firemen working.
And of course, the article studiously ignores the fact that teachers are laid off every summer anyway.
The article also ignores the fact that reducing government spending helps the economy, which you would think is a concept that the writers at money.com might be able to figure out.
But look, don't look to state and local governments to prop up the job market.
Well, now wait a minute.
That was the premise of Obamacare of the first stimulus.
Remember the first stimulus, most of the money went state and local governments.
Why?
Remember, folks, it's a money laundering operation.
It's to make sure that state and local union workers remain employed because they pay union dues, and those dues end up at the Democrat Party.
Ergo.
State and local governments are forecast to shed up to 110,000 jobs in a third quarter.
110,000 jobs nationwide, state and local government.
Uh-oh, no more dues being collected from the unemployed, and that means no more money to the Democrat National Committee.
Oh no.
So I'm telling you this is another, it's a precursor to another round of stimulus.
And here's Carvel out now talking about unrest and perhaps riots and so forth, which is another call for more stimulus.
So forth.
State and local government employment has been a drag on the economy all year, averaging a loss of 23,000 jobs a month over the past three months.
Meanwhile, the private sector has created an average of 180,000 a month during the same period.
Cutting government jobs means cutting government spending.
And of course, that can never be a drag on the economy, but they say that it is.
This is what's offensive to me.
Somehow cutting government jobs is a drag on the economy.
It's the opposite.
Because it's more money staying in the private sector.
So just keep a sharp eye.
You have been warned.
You're hearing it first here.
All of this is the precursor for another stimulus.
Remember, it's worse than they thought.
At 10 years at decade of Bush, why worse than we thought, and it's uh gonna take longer than we thought, and we're trending in the right direction, but we can't afford to change horses midstream.
This is this is uh dead serious.
And current stimulus money going to the states ends June the 30th.
By the way, let me ask you people a question.
Now, very serious.
We just had just shared with you this story about all these uh supposed job cuts.
What do we have here?
Forecast to lose 110,000 jobs, state and local government employment has been a drag in the economy at a loss of twenty-three thousand jobs a month over the past three months.
Let me ask you a question.
That's basically 75,000 jobs roughly.
70,000 jobs have been cut in the states in the last three months.
How many of you have noticed significant reductions in service with the cuts to government jobs?
Have you?
No, I know you have it.
You know, why?
Because how many news stories on it?
Haven't been any news stories about how fire departments weren't there to respond to a fire.
Haven't been any stories about how looting took place at the mall because the cops Weren't there to show up.
Haven't had any homeless stories, none of that stuff.
So all these state and local job layoffs, but no pain.
So the media has uh has screwed up.
CBS evening news.
A couple of days ago.
Chronic unemployment worse than the Great Depression.
The unemployed have on average remained unemployed longer than in the nineteen thirties.
CBS News correspondent Ben Tracy reports that the chronically unemployed face the hardest road back to recovery, and that while the jobs picture may be improving statistically on a national level, it's not for them.
Ty Nong Nwakan, for example, has far too much time on his hands.
CBS News met the former truck driver.
He had been out of work for two years.
Ty Nong Nwakin said, I don't really tell too many people this, but I'm not ashamed or nothing.
I'm homeless.
I'm not ashamed or nothing.
His day job is looking for work at a jobs center in Hollywood.
He's got plenty of company, including Fabian Lambrecht, who wonders when the economy's improvement will affect them.
Yeah, they're saying there are more jobs.
I'm just wondering where these jobs are, said Fabian Lambrecht.
About six point two million Americans, forty-five point one percent of all unemployed workers in the country have been jobless for more than six months, a higher percentage than during the Great Depression.
And they try to tell us that we are in a recovery.
Sorry, folks, it doesn't wash.
Just doesn't wash.
We went back to the New York Times archives, ladies and gentlemen, June 16th of 2010, or June 18th of 2010, so almost a year ago.
It's interesting to go back and look at the archives, what Obama, the Democrats, the government was saying a year ago.
And this headline by Michael Cooper is the writer of the story.
Obama hopes recovery summer will warm voters to the stimulus.
The shovels are finally ready, but is anybody paying attention?
With a flurry of stimulus construction work getting underway about sixteen months after the 787 billion dollar package was signed into law, the Obama regime has billed the coming season recovery summer.
This week the regime issued a report on the stepped up pace of work rolled out by Vice President Joe Bightney to brief reporters on its progress.
President Obama went to Columbus, Ohio on Friday to laud the 10,000th stimulus financed highway project.
Now that the long promised road work ahead is here in big numbers, the question is whether voters will warm to the stimulus.
The stakes for the regime and the Democrats are high.
The midterm elections approaching, many voters, Tea Party supporters and otherwise incensed about spending.
Stimulus financed construction set to explode this summer.
This is a year ago now, folks.
10,700 highway projects should be underway next month, up from just 1,700 last July.
States expect to weatherize 82,000 homes this summer, twenty-seven times the number of homes that were weatherized last summer.
But with the recovery uneven at best, getting anyone excited about that may be tough.
Not to mention that for many Americans, this is shaping up his oil spill summer.
So it was perhaps unsurprising that Mr. Bight Me's stimulants briefing seemed to make more news for his criticism of a Republican congressman who apologized to BP for the fund that the regime demanded of it than it did for Mr. Bitemy's talk of some more road work.
The public's attention pan attention span is quite limited, said Pete Rain, the president of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association, which is precisely why I'm reading this story to you.
The public's attention span is quite limited.
A year ago, why ten thousand seven hundred highway jobs.
Recovery summer will warn voters to the stimulus.
Warm voters to the stimulus.
Obama rolled it out.
Biden was there.
It was hunky dory time.
This is the shovel ready jobs.
Last summer all ready to kick in.
We were finally going to attack all the unemployment.
With our goal of 500,000 new jobs created every month.
The stimulus has been credited by many.
Now again, I'm reading from last June, New York Times.
The stimulus has been credited by many economists with helping the economy grow again and creating jobs.
What a bunch of idiots they were.
The Congressional Budget Office, a nonpartisan agency.
Ahem.
Estimated last month, it had created 1.2 million to 2.8 million jobs so far, the stimulus had.
But with the unemployment rate remaining stubbornly close to 10%, the stimulus continues to get mixed reviews.
Hence the renewed public relations push.
Visiting Columbus, Ohio on Friday, Mr. Obama surrounded himself with workers in hard hats and safety vests and recited the litany of signs the White House has taken to mentioning lately as part of its effort to convince Americans the economy is recovering, aided by the stimulus, and is helping to boost job growth.
It's pretty much what he did last week at the auto plant.
I mean, it's all a show.
Nothing's happening.
Nothing's changing.
Nothing is improving, except they're all saying it is.
Every time they go up and say something, yeah, we're just now getting started.
Another long hot summer.
Go back to last summer and read what the regime was doing and saying, and then compare it to where we are.
And we've lost ground.
We've lost ground.
The unemployment situation is worse.
American attitudes are worse and more depressed and negative.
Despite the best efforts of the New York Times to spin for the regime.
Grant, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
You're next in the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
I wanted I wanted to know if you know of anybody, particularly maybe somebody who isn't on the national stage in the past or whatever that uh could maybe beat Obama in a primary.
Um Hillary.
Yeah, that's what I was thinking, too.
I've I'll tell you who I like, and I've never heard his name mentioned on the national stage, and that's my former governor of Oklahoma, Brad Henry.
Uh Brad Henry.
You think Brad Henry can beat Obama in the Democrat primary?
No, I don't know whether he he could or not, but I I like him.
He did a good job, and he did it scandal free.
See a Democrat?
Yes, sir.
He's a Democrat.
Scandal free.
Yeah, he uh was in just before uh this lady said now, Mary Fallon.
She's a Republican.
But he did it for eight years up until this past.
Well, what makes you what makes you think that Obama's gonna have a primary challenger anyway?
Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of.
I'm um I voted for him holding my nose, but I'm not very happy about it, and I would just assume maybe take a chance on somebody else.
You ever maybe think about voting for a Republican?
Well, um not for some of the ones that have run.
Right.
Uh if you don't like Obama, you know, it doesn't matter which Democrat you get in there, nothing's gonna change.
They all believe this garbage.
They all believe this garbage.
Okay, it's come to this, folks.
Disgruntled Democrats in Oklahoma are calling me, asking me for suggestions to alternatives to Obama.
Of course, that was pretty slick of me.
Why don't you just vote Republican?
Why are you working?
Not quite ready for that.
Uh obviously, Dennis Shereport, Louisiana.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Uh, good afternoon, Rush.
Hi.
Uh I enjoy your show immensely when I get a chance to listen to it, and you are the man.
Thank you very much.
And you're detractors, as far as I'm concerned, can all go to Haiti.
You know what I'm saying?
I do.
I actually do.
They got the personality.
The liberals I've met in my life as the personality of a rock.
They're really uh not even human, it seems after.
Yeah, I can understand that.
Well, plus with me, you know, you're dealing with someone who uses the voice as a work of art.
And it's just hard to compete with.
The point I'm trying to make is uh Obama or President Obama, I'll show 'em respect, even though the Democrats or liberals wouldn't show George Bush respect or the office respect, I should say.
President Obama said that uh previous two months to last month, they created two million jobs.
Well, if unemployment is four hundred thousand a week for those eight weeks, that's three point two million.
So he actually lost one point two million jobs.
That's how I see it.
Yeah.
I applaud you for wasting the time to do the math on this.
The idea that this regime has created two million jobs over any period of time.
I mean, this is it's an exercise in the absurd.
This is this is pure spin.
Just go out and say it because they know the stenographers and the state controlled media will um report it.
I I think it's just it's absurd.
So is the the notion that we're in a uh in a in a recovery.
But there's news out of uh Massachusetts from the Boston Globe about Romney care.
Now re one of the things about Romney care that was uh touted uh is something similar to Obamacare that was touted is that it would reduce the number of people going to the emergency room because more people would have insurance.
Uh-uh.
Hasn't happened.
Emergency room uh visits have been on the rise in Massachusetts since the passage of the two thousand six health care law there, much to the chagrin of supporters who projected that the opposite would happen as more people had insurance and were connected with primary caregivers.
A new study published online shows that the issue may be a bit more nuanced.
When it involves liberal causes is always nuanced.
You know, not silly or stupid or wrong.
With overall emergency room visits increased forty-one percent or four point one percent between two thousand six and two thousand eight.
Visits for low severity problems fell slightly by one point eight percent.
The very, very, very, very small decline's a small step in the right direction, but still this is exactly what's gonna happen with Obamacare.
Uh like like businesses saying they'll stop offering health insurance.
We have thirty percent of them said they're pulling out of the market once Obamacare is fully implemented in twenty fourteen.
Uh nothing that they're telling us about the good things that'll happen with the passage of these kinds of bills is in fact happening in the uh the test tube operation, if you want to look at it that way in uh in Massachusetts.
Just isn't happen.
Habits are habits.
Paul in Charlotte, North Carolina, great to have you, sir on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush, 247 Dittoes, man.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Yeah, I think you can use a historical device or historical tool or analytics tool used by historians to actually prove that Sarah Palin didn't make a slip of the tongue.
Right?
Rhetorical criticism, you start with what was said and take it to its larger context.
What she said was Paul Revere warned the British uh et cetera, et cetera, about the the forthcoming doom.
Well, her entire tour, bus tour, has been about throwing off government, the shackles of government, and there basically being a warning to to Americans about the greatness we've had and what's coming to throw off the shackles of government.
So it's the fact she said what she said fits perfectly inside of her overall thematic bus tour, which kind of makes her kind of like Paul Revere.
Well, they the yeah, I mean one of the the purpose of the buff tour has been to expand people's historical knowledge of the country as well.
And particularly her families.
Now, she happens to go into a place where they tell her about the midnight ride of Paul Revere to bring it happen.
So she comes out.
And the uh press, as always, eager to trip her up.
Well, what did you learn, Miss Palin?
Oh, Paul Revere is uh warn the British that are gonna ring those bells.
And then the press goes nuts.
She probably had just been told by the people at the museum or wherever it was that she went, the historical site, what had happened.
She probably doesn't even either she didn't know it before she went or did whatever, but she had just probably something she had learned, been taught at whatever point was repeating it.
But because of the arrogance of the media who think they know it all, and you start with the premise that she doesn't know anything.
So whatever she says, immediately you chalk it up, she's stupid and uninformed, and so forth.
Because that narrative or that template for her is already out there.
So it is what it is, and she's turns out in this case to be right, but they just can't handle that.
So her being right wasn't due to scholarship.
She just got lucky.
That's what they say.
She's got lucky.
Snurdly just asked me if I saw jobs, Steve Jobs.
You know, every time I start talking about Apple, Snurdly, you know, there is hatred on my own website.
There is hatred in my own subscriber email.
Oh, yes.
Oh, it's be there you go.
I don't listen to you for commercials for Apple.
I listen to you for the idiot.
Every time you start Apple in a free commercial, I tune off.
Kind of stuff.
And all I can tell you is that we don't do Apple commercials here.
It hasn't happened.
But yeah, I um I saw Apple, I saw jobs in the keynote yesterday.
Snerdley is all excited about what they have coming for the desktop operating system.
10.7, they call it Lion.
Uh I'm fascinated by it all.
But this Snerdley is cool.
There's no question.
But Lion really is just incorporating a bunch of the mobile operating system into the desktop.
But let me tell you what happened yesterday.
This what I think just is as a as a pure computer layman here.
What I think happened yesterday is that the desktop computer has been rendered what's the word for it.
It's no longer going to be the hub.
It's just another device.
What with Apple's cloud?
Because once IOS Vits, once that hits, and once people have it, you will no longer have to connect your iPhone or iPad to iTunes to activate it.
Everything will be done wirelessly.
You will never ever again have to attach your mobile device to your computer to activate it to get it started, or even to download things.
Even software updates will come over Wi-Fi.
You'll never have to get.
So, and and the push technology that's going to be in what they're calling the cloud.
There's one thing everybody thought that turned out not to be.
Music in the iTunes library is not going to be streamed.
It won't be streamed.
But what's going to happen is that automatically, there are nine different core applications, and they're going to be synced identically.
Every device, your iPad is going to have the exact same stuff as your computer as your iPhone has on it.
And all you've got to do is you add a song on your iPhone, and instantly it shows up on the other places.
Wirelessly.
Pictures too.
You take a picture on your iPhone, it'll show up on your iPad and on your computer without you having to connect it.
Now that renders the computer as the hub, the desktop computer, or even the laptop, as the hub of everything.
That's a that's a huge, I mean, bye-bye Microsoft.
Bye bye Windows and all that.
This is that is and this is the first step for that, but that was huge.
Just my layman's understanding of this.
And I haven't had time, I haven't had the time I want to read all of the blogs and people who have finally played with the beta at the worldwide developers conference that have got information that's uh a little bit more detailed than what was announced at their keynote thing, because people are playing with beta versions of all this.
Uh But there's a so much.
There's a new program called iMessage, which is text, MMS, iChat in one.
You're going to be able to text on all your devices without having to use ATT or any telephone connection.
With other people who have that program.
Or in or Yeah, it it's a lot of things like that.
Just off the top of my head, there are there are many, many others, but it's all really uh cutting edge stuff.
It's cool.
I I happen to crave it.
I I was last night trying to just dig up and learn as much about it as I could, and I was so ticked off when I found out that none of this stuff gets activated until the fall.
Unless you compul being a compul no, I'm a techno freak.
I'm I'm I happen to like Apple stuff as I use it.
Yeah, compulsion.
You might want to say it's compulsion.
Yeah.
What are you calling me an Anthony Wiener with tech stuff?
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
I just um You know me, I'm a cutting-edge tech guy.
I just uh it's it's I don't know, it's fascinating.
And there this this thing addresses some of the obstacles of keeping like I've got four computers, two iPads, three iPads, and an iPhone.
And to keep everything the same on them is a pain in the butt, and it won't be anymore.
Be uh it'll be automatic.
Anyway, I gotta take a brief time out here, folks.
We will be back.
We will continue.
Well, there's the iTunes in the cloud beta is available.
And the iOS V is a beta.
It's available if you're a developer and and all that.
But that's it's still in the uh in the test mode.
I gotta go.
Quick timeout.
Back and continue right after this.
And we are back, Rush Lynn bought a big voice on the right.
Doing what I was born to do.
And having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have the same time.
And think sturdy, look at it this way.
If Wiener, if iOS 5 had been up and running, if Anthony Wiener were in a cloud, he'd be able to text all these women at the same time.
He could send that photo to all of them at the same time.
And we got home, the all that stuff, all the chats would be on the computer at home or in his orifice or wherever.
If he happened to be a Mac Playboy.
Here's Pam in Rolla, Missouri.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Thanks for letting me be on your show.
You bet.
I wanted to talk to you a little bit about uh one Republican woman's perspective on Sarah Palin.
Oh, okay, good.
Um I'm a couple years older than Sarah, and I have only four kids.
Um but I think with Sarah Palin for me, there is this transferred feeling of mistrust or misgiving, which probably has been shifted onto her instead of being placed on the party structure or the GOP hierarchy, which might be its proper place.
What do you mean, misgiving?
What what mistrust, Miss What do you mean for her?
Well, have you ever been through the uh convention, the caucus convention process as a delegate rush?
I have not, no.
Okay.
Well, I would say that my experience in 2008 was definitely not that it was gonna be grassroots or bottom up as I had hoped, but that it turned out to be a lot of top-down.
And and I feel that um there's a lot of backroom king making that goes on.
Okay, we got 30 seconds.
How does that affect Palin?
What does that have to do with her?
Well, Sarah Palin was felt to be acceptable by the GOP hierarchy as a running mate for a man who, granted, has a recurrence of a very bad type of cancer, a man in his 70s.
And so what was it about Sarah Palin that these backroom kingmakers thought was very acceptable?
Did they think that she was really aligned with their ideology or that she could be easily swayed over to their ideology?
It's maybe not so much that I, you know, have anything personally against Sarah Palin, but I just wonder these people don't make these kinds of decisions for no reason.
Interesting because I don't remember the hierarchy of the Republican Party liking her at all from the get-go.
That's what I remember.
Gosh, I wish I had more time with you, but I don't.
Yeah, I um I remember the GOP hierarchy being shocked about Palin.
I'm just going to tell you this, though.
If she runs and if she gets the nomination, she's going to end up being the one to beat.
You you mark my words on this, all this stuff notwithstanding, and I gotta go.
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