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June 29, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 29, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Hi, welcome back.
It's Rush Limbaugh having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have, starting a million conversations simply by being here.
We will get to your phone calls in this hour as soon as I finish making several more brilliant points about what happened here today with Obama at his press conference and what it signifies and what it means.
That telephone number is 800-282-2882.
Here's the story, by the way, this is February 2009, Fox News.
Stimulus includes tax break to promote private jet sales.
Just a few months after lawmakers scolded auto execs for flying to D.C. in private jets, Congress approved a tax break and a stimulus package to help businesses buy their own planes.
The incentive, first used to help planemakers recover from the 2001 terror attacks, sharply reduces the upfront tax bill for companies who buy assets like business planes.
The aviation industry, which is cutting jobs as it suffers from declining shipments and canceled orders, hopes the tax break in the economic stimulus bill just signed by Obama will persuade more companies to buy jets and snap a slump in general aviation that began last year.
And so what does he do today?
Just dumps on them.
Dumps on them personally, dumps on the people who own them, dumps on the people who fly them, castigates them, attempts to make them enemies of the people of this country, demands that their taxes be raised.
It's to sit here and pose as a savior while he is the man who destroyed the job-creating sector in this country.
We must replace Barack Obama with a conservative Republican president.
We must have as many conservative Republicans in Congress, House and Senate, as we can.
The way you increase jobs and growth and opportunity and wealth is through capitalism.
We've just been through 29 months of socialism.
It's miserable.
It's depressing.
It's stifling.
It destroys the national mood.
We need to contain the government.
As long as Obama's in the Oval Office or on the golf course or in some diner eating greasy hamburgers or in charge of the executive branch, as long as his party controls any part of Congress, this nation cannot recover.
We do not have a chance.
We do not have a chance.
This country does not have a chance with Barack Obama remaining in the Oval Office.
To agree with Obama and the ruling class, you have to ignore the trustees who oversee our entitlement programs.
You have to ignore the Congressional Budget Office.
You have to ignore major credit rating bureaus.
You have to ignore the unemployment, foreclosure, and bankruptcy figures.
If you want to agree with Obama, you have to ignore everything else you're hearing.
You have to assume that everybody else is lying and that only Obama is telling the truth.
You have to ignore all the measurements and trends rational people look at to determine policies.
You have to ignore all of that to agree with Obama.
And you have to embrace the platitudes and the constant lies of a president who five years ago was a considered joke by his colleagues in the Illinois State Senate.
He was considered a joke, Mr. Vote Present.
A few years before that, he was a community organizer in Chicago.
He was a nothing.
He is the least qualified man in any room he enters.
Now, we Americans are not perfect.
But one thing we did that we will pay for for decades to come, and our children and grandchildren will pay for, is the election of a man to the presidency who is historic in the sense of his ignorance, his stubbornness, his incompetence, and his contempt for the American system.
That's what's historic about Barack Obama.
Not the color of his skin.
We blew it big time in 2008.
And we are going to pay for it for decades.
At some point, we have to start fixing this.
Now, one hour ago, I started this program by telling you that what Obama would do would be to present a list of horribles, people and circumstances in such bad shape that only more government and only more Obama and only more spending.
And I want to confess to you that I wrote those notes to myself at 10.45 this morning.
That's how much I did not come up with this after his press conference started and then start the program cheating on you.
I made my notes about what he was going to do at 10.30, 10.45 this morning because I know these people.
Like every square inch of my glorious naked body is a great piece.
Where is it?
I wish I knew how to pronounce this guy's name.
He's got a piece here at Reuters.
James, it's P-E-T-H, O-K-O-U-K-R.
I-S.
To me, it looks like Pethekoukis.
So I will say it's Pethekoukus or Pithakus.
For now, call him Aristotle because he makes a lot of sense.
He said, the last thing the economy needs now is a tax increase.
If the economy was too weak to absorb a tax increase last December, and Obama admitted that, it was Obama himself who said, well, we can't do away with the Bush tax cuts right away.
Economy, we need, that's so damn frustrating.
He knows damn well what has to be done here.
He's purposely doing this mess on this country on purpose.
He knew last December to extend the Bush tax cuts meant to help this economic recovery, whatever it was, continue.
And so Mr. Aristotle here says the last thing the economy needs, a tax hike, if the economy was too weak to absorb a tax increase last December, when the White House and Congress agreed to extend all the Bush tax cuts for two more years, its health is even worse today.
The economy grew at just 1.9% in the first quarter.
Many economists now think it might grow just 2% in the second quarter or even less, which ought to be a red flag to Washington.
Research from the Federal Reserve finds that since 1947, when two-quarter annualized real GDP GDP growth falls below 2%, which we're on the verge of doing, recession follows within a year, 48% of the time.
Number two in his piece here, tax revenue isn't the problem spending is.
We all know this.
We know what the problems are.
The problems are socialism, liberalism, Barack Obama, the Democrat Party.
Now look at Obama.
He rides his corporate jet for free while he's dumping on everybody else who pays for theirs.
They pay for theirs.
Somebody is paying for it.
He is not paying.
We are for him to ride around.
How about the Democrat National Committee pay for all of its uses since Obama's obsessed over jets?
How about Michelle Obama pay for her junkets with the kids?
This latest trip that she took just cost 800 big ones.
You know, there's no reason to millionaires and billionaires, and you are a millionaire, Mr. President.
You ought not to be freeloading.
How about you and your party pay your way?
Set an example.
Why should the taxpayers pick up your travel?
The weather service might have to cut the National Weather Service.
So we have a near $4 trillion budget, folks.
Our budget is near $4 trillion, and he proposes cutting or threatens in order to scare you cutting the weather service.
Why?
Because you might not get advance warning of a tornado.
And we can't have that.
So no, we can't cut the weather service.
Well, how about cutting the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency?
How about cutting some of the bloated salaries of the czars, the bloated federal workforce?
How about cutting all the subsidies to the left-wing groups, the Planned Parenthoods, PBS, ACORN, and all the rest of them?
There's plenty of bloat we could get rid of.
Starve left-wing activists who have no business getting federal taxpayer dollars in the first place.
How about getting rid of Obamacare?
You want to talk about something that's going to destroy the country?
Start there.
Just end that.
Obama says the Republicans want to kill the weather service.
Well, if he said it, it must be true, right?
So we're tens of trillions of dollars in the hole.
Obama and his brain trust think this is going to scare you, that you're going to flood the phones at Capitol Hill now.
They want you, they think you're going to call Capitol Hill and say, don't cut the weather service.
Don't cut the weather service.
I need my hurricane warnings.
I need my daily forecast.
Do you know that the National Weather Service is 80% of the Commerce Department?
Damn straight it is.
The National Weather Service is 80%.
The Commerce Department, 80% of it is the National Weather Service.
So other than slashing defense, where did Obama specifically say he was prepared to cut anything?
Anybody actually believe the guy who did more to destroy this economy and grow the government is bringing a balanced approach to governing?
It's like asking the burglar to give interior design tips on the house he just burgled.
We don't need, nor do we want, interior design tips from Obama.
We want him to stop stealing from us.
We want Obama to stop stealing from our children, and he refuses, as you would expect.
He's a burglar.
All liberals are burglars.
All liberals are thieves.
That's what they do.
It is who they are.
Corporate jet owners.
What about the yachts?
What about people's large homes?
What about exotic cars?
What about five-star hotels?
What about five-star restaurants?
What about diamonds and pearls and gold and leather shoes?
What about silk ties?
What about top-of-the-line wine?
What about first-class travel?
How about 65-inch widescreen TVs?
What about all the other things?
And there are so many more.
They should be taxed too and regulated and destroyed out of existence so that we can pay for more government.
Of course.
Why just focus on the jets?
Why not go after everybody's widescreens, particularly 3D now?
Let's really hit the iPads.
You know, that's a luxury.
Let's go after the iPad 3 is coming out.
The iPhone 5, let's hit them up in advance.
Let's hit up everything that's a sign of progress in this country and tax the hell out of it so that it ceases to exist.
Let's just tax ourselves back to the seventh century so the Muslims will be happy in Al-Qaeda.
You leave it up to Obama, we won't need to be defeated by Al-Qaeda.
We'll end up in the seventh century on our own.
Jobs are going to be affected.
Not those who mine the resources, work in the factories, work at the retail shops.
No, no, no, no.
Just the rich are going to be punished, right?
In the meantime, Michelle Obama will wear her designer dress.
Barack will fly Air Force One and all will be well.
and he'll end up flying around getting away from her anytime he can, eating greasy cheeseburgers and french fries, while telling everybody else to go out and eat watercress vinaigrette.
There's a great piece by Bob McDonnell, governor of Virginia, about Republican governors and their records, and how they are solving problems in a Wall Street Journal.
Here's a pull quote.
There's a reason that no Republican governor seeking re-election has lost a general election since 2007, while three Democrat governors have fallen in that same period.
Voters expect their state executives to make tough decisions with future generations, not weekly polls in mind.
That's exactly what Republican governors have done and what President Obama has failed to do.
In states all over, when conservative fiscal policies are implemented, the results are nothing short of miraculous when compared to what's happening at the federal level.
The blueprint for Obama is in the states.
It's already working on reducing deficit, adding jobs, and lowering taxes.
That's where it's happening.
Even finding oil via fracking.
New natural gas discoveries are taking place in the states in spite of Barack Obama.
And yet, he wants to learn from none of it.
He wants to extrapolate none of it.
So I have to conclude that Obama wants must have failed.
And thehill.com for Obama, silver linings in dark clouds.
If you look at this, this story ties into what I have been talking about.
It's a hopeful drive-by story.
Obama having a horrible start to his summer.
Commander-in-Chief under siege from Congress on his Libya military intervention, taking flak from both sides over Afghanistan.
But there's a silver lining in the dark clouds that have haunted the White House so far this summer.
No matter how it seems this summer, with possible Republican candidates for president emerging each week, your presidential election is not until next November.
Obama still has a year to turn things around.
The debt ceiling talks represent an opportunity for the president to lead.
This is the strategery.
They are banking it all on Obama coming in and being a deal maker on this debt ceiling in this presser today was step one.
It's their only real card to play because they got no record to run on.
Hence the sob stories that we are going to soon see.
If the Republicans don't raise the debt limit, Obama, the big hero, sit tight.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away.
Okay, let's grab the phones, my friends.
We'll start quickly.
Where are we at?
Boston and Ronnie.
Ronnie, nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Oh, Maha Rushi.
It is such a pleasure to speak with you.
I'd like to share with you and your audience a quick 2FIT story and then ask you a question about President Obama, if that's okay.
Sure, go ahead.
One of the things I love about my dad is that he loves to be the first to try anything.
And he's always been like that, whether it was when McNuggets first came out, whatever it is.
So I wanted him to be one of the first to try 2FIT.
He is a staunch, a staunch-get progressive Democrat, just like my mom.
And I thought it would be fun for him for Father's Day.
So I ordered the case.
It arrived in two days, just like you promised.
I brought it over to him.
He opened it up and he said, Rush, Limbaugh, you got to be.
And he took the tea out, and he laughed.
He loved the cover of the tea with your big rush head and rush revere and the little stubby legs and the look on your face.
And he laughed and laughed and laughed.
And he was on his way to a board of health meeting.
So he said, I'll put it in the fridge and after my meeting, I'll try it and let you know what I think.
And he called me that night.
He said it was the most delicious tea that he ever had.
And my mother loved it too.
Loved it.
And the color is incredible.
Just when you look at the bottle, you just want to drink it.
Yeah, well, that's great.
It's fantastic.
He noticed every detail about that we intended.
The taste is revolutionary.
Oh, it's absolutely fantastic.
And my mother said it was one of the best tea she's ever had, even if you made it.
Well, it is.
And I, but Catherine and I did.
I got to say, and it holds up.
You pour it over ice.
We put it through every test.
We put it through the hot test.
We put it through the room temperature test, the refrigerator test, the over-ice test, and it holds up.
And no matter the sweetness level and the raspberry flavor, you still get the tea in there.
It's not bad.
I just wanted a I wanted to let your listeners know that that tea is every bit as delicious, as you say.
The packaging, the color, everything, the shipping.
My question about President Obama before I go is that when I hear him speak and I take a real good look at this progressive agenda, you know, when I hear Obama speak, I get the feeling sometimes that he never plans on not being president.
And I wanted to ask you that if he wins the second, you know, a second term, because like you said, he'll campaign on demonizing Republicans and FIA, not on his record, because his record's so awful.
But if he still gets in a second term, do you see them making a push for him to be able to run a third term?
Because I just don't see the Democrats letting him go.
You know, we thought this about Clinton.
People had this fear.
This is something rooted in fear.
It's a fear rooted in people's genuine understanding of what liberals would do if they could get away with it.
If they could do away with elections, they would do it.
This is what everybody knows.
That's why that fear is a legitimate and genuine one.
But I don't think it's going to happen.
That's he's not going to win the second one.
There isn't going to be a third one to win, and don't doubt me.
Back to the phones, Tallahassee, Florida.
This is John.
Great to have you on the EIB Network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, hello.
Thanks, Tick McCall Rush.
Thanks.
What are you doing?
You bet.
I heard the president complaining this morning at his press conference that tax rates were the lowest in his lifetime.
And first off, any president who was actually concerned about the prosperity and the well-being of a nation would actually celebrate that if it were true.
Obama is complaining about it.
And secondly, he might also want to know that when those tax rates were put into effect back in the mid-2000s and such, you know, we had the highest tax revenues to the government's history for about 10 years.
Oh, I know.
You're absolutely right.
You know, that's an excellent observation on your part out there, John, that he spoke of the tax rates being low with resentment.
He was complaining about it.
You are exactly right, as though that was something to be irritated and agitated about.
Excellent, excellent point.
Appreciate it.
By the way, some more Obama soundbites on the tax business here.
And the third one I have here, this is the Biggie to prove what I wrote, what I thought was going to happen in this press conference.
Did we have three of them?
Let's see.
This is during the QA, the Wall Street Journal.
We're, by the way, 35, 36, 37, Mike, Wall Street Journal, White House correspondent Laura Meckler.
In the debt talks, would you like to see some sort of tax breaks aimed at stimulating the economy, even though it would add to the deficit itself?
What we did in December during the lame duck session when Democrats and Republicans came together and we said, you know what, a payroll tax cut makes sense in order to boost the economy.
Unemployment insurance makes sense in order to boost the economy.
All that stuff puts money in people's pockets at a time when they're still struggling to dig themselves out of this recession.
And so the American people have an extra thousand dollars on average in their pockets because of the tax cuts that we initiated.
It makes perfect sense for us to take a look at: can we extend the payroll tax, for example, an additional year and other tax breaks for business investment that could make a big difference in terms of creating more jobs right now?
What is that?
See, he didn't even answer the question.
Out of one side of his mouth, he claimed the tax cuts he championed in the lame duck have helped the economy.
And then today comes out there and says these tax cuts are ruining the economy.
But then she says, is it worth having a tax cut even if it would add to the deficit?
A tax cut would not add to the deficit.
This is the.
Anyway, that's not the point.
The point is he's talking out of both sides of his mouth.
Jessica Yellen, CNN chief White House correspondent, is August 2nd a yellow light or a red light on the debt limit?
August 2nd is a very important date.
You know, Malia and Sasha generally finish their homework a day ahead of time.
Malia's 13, Sasha's 10.
They don't wait until the night before.
They're not pulling all-nighters.
Congress can do the same thing.
If you know you've got to do something, just do it.
They're in one week, they're out one week, and then they're saying Obama's got to step in.
You need to be here.
I've been here.
I've been doing Afghanistan and bin Laden and the Greek crisis.
And if you stay here, let's get it done.
Man, oh, man.
Did you hear that?
I've been here.
I've been doing Afghanistan.
I've been screwing that up.
I killed Bin Laden.
I killed bin Laden.
The Greek crisis.
Everything you're doing is getting more mucked up each, every moment of the day.
A guy who plays golf every weekend and is always on vacation.
That's kind of pathetic.
Here's the end of the press conference.
This is where he previews the parade of victims coming our way.
I get letters from folks all around the country who show incredible resilience, incredible determination, but they are having a very, very tough time.
They're losing their homes.
Some have lost their businesses.
Some have lost work and have not been able to find jobs for months, maybe a year and a half, and they feel some desperation.
These folks are counting on us.
They desperately want to believe that their leadership is thinking about them and not playing games.
And I think that if all the leadership here in Washington has the faces and the stories of those families in mind, then we will solve this debt limit issue.
We will put in place steps like a payroll tax cut and infrastructure development.
You know, it's hard for me to contain myself in the face of such lying.
I don't do well with it.
They've lost their homes.
They've lost their businesses because of you, Mr. President.
They're angry at you, and they're not looking at you for any solution.
They're asking you not to do any more damage.
I mean, they really don't want to be paraded in front of people as examples.
If anybody needs to be paraded as an example of failure, it's Barack Obama.
If you want to have a parade, if you want to have some sort of a public display to illustrate what's gone wrong, you have a one-man parade Barack Obama in any main street in this country.
I wonder if Obama ever gets letters from people who complain about paying too much in taxes.
And he hasn't been involved in the debt ceiling negotiations at all.
He never gets involved in this stuff.
All of this stuff's a crock.
And we're back.
Who's next?
Bunell Florida.
Hutch.
Great to have you on the program.
Welcome.
Hey, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Obama's proposal to own the oil company tax increase or taking away their tax credit is a joke.
It's an absolute joke to all consumers.
All companies, Rush, work on a profit margin.
That profit margin remains the same.
Any increase in operation cost of that company is always passed along to the consumer.
Doesn't matter what the increase is, the consumer bears the blunt.
A tax increase or the taking away of their tax credit will result in an increase of operation cost to that oil company.
As a result, it will result in higher gasoline prices to the consumer and a further drag on the economy.
The whole thing is smoke and mirrors.
We, the consumer, ends up paying the bill on all of this stuff.
As it always has been the case.
Yes.
Has always been the case.
Well, you see, I appreciate your analysis of this on the merits, but Obama doesn't care about any of that.
For Obama's purposes, it's corporate jet versus kids.
It's big oil versus college education.
He's pitting groups of Americans against each other.
The fact, you know, the real world facts in terms of dollars and cents and money and what ends up costing people things, that's not relevant to him.
He's in re-election mode, and he cannot run on his record.
No one with his record could.
He's not going to run on his record.
He can't run on his record.
He can't say, re-elect me and get four more years of this.
He's got only one card to play, basically two.
Republicans are mean-spirited, you know, everything are racist, sexist, bigot, homophobes.
They don't care about your kids.
Republicans only care about corporate jets.
Republicans only from the guy who practically lives on the biggest corporate jet in the world.
So it's just, it's dishonest.
It's disingenuous.
Of course, the middle class will have to pay for any increases in corporate taxes or any increase in taxes on oil.
Now, where's Joe Bite me in the middle of all?
Joe Biteme is supposed to protect the middle class.
The middle class is in the crosshairs.
You want to talk about who's killing the jobs?
Obama was lecturing us all about the importance of job creation as though he knows anything about it.
Believe me, folks, he doesn't.
This isn't just talk show ranting.
He doesn't know, folks, about job creation.
He doesn't have, he has no training in it.
He's got no experience in it.
He doesn't, he's a parasite.
He's like all liberals.
They're parasites.
They wait for everybody else to do the work and then they feed off of it.
And they assume, like all parasites do, that the host is always going to just be there.
And the host is always going to be growing and doing what it does to be fed off of.
We're just looking at a man and a party that are a bunch of parasites.
What he doesn't understand, I don't know what he understands, but he is destroying the host, per se.
He's destroying the domestic oil business.
He's destroying the coal industry.
He's causing electricity rates to skyrocket.
He's blocking oil drilling in the Gulf and Alaska, the continental shelf.
His minions are killing nuclear power.
And now he's pushing for increases in taxes on oil.
And we never hear a single news report about all the jobs that are being destroyed because of his policies.
All we hear about is, gee, will this work for Obama in his re-election?
I'll tell you, it's near criminal.
The kind of things that are happening.
I was told of a new tele from Memphis.
I was told of a new television show to start watching on TNT.
It's on Tuesday nights at 9 called Memphis Beat.
Sort of like an upscale justified.
I T-Bo'd it last night.
Haven't seen it yet.
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