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June 29, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 29, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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The views expressed by the host on this program make more sense than anything anybody else out there happens to be saying.
And that's because there's nobody else but me saying it.
I think that's well, it's because there is no other me.
I know people wish there were, but there isn't.
Great to have you.
What are you frowning about, Snurdly?
Don't tell me.
Is he dealing with another malcontent in there?
Welcome back, folks.
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There's a story here, ladies and gentlemen, along the lines of this whole theme that we've had today of Obama.
Hell bent on raising taxes, dealing with the debt limit, so forth and so on.
It's by somebody named Connor Doherty.
Higher taxes lift state collections.
Now, stick with me on this, because this is there there's a concerted effort underway here.
It seems to imply the state and local tax collections rose in the first quarter as an expanding economy and tax increases passed during the recession eased city and state budget woes.
State and local tax revenues grew 4.7% to uh $321.6 billion the first three months of 2011 compared to the same period a year earlier, according to the Census Bureau, state revenue grew 9.3% in the quarter.
Far better showing than that of a local governments where revenue fell a little over half a percent.
That's because the states have cut spending, have cut taxes, uh, and that increases revenue over all the cities are lagging behind in that model.
Now, here's what's going on.
The story here is that trying to imply that the economy is recovering, and that one reason the states are better is that they raised taxes.
And that is not the case.
Because I've got this companion story, Bob McDonald, who is the governor of Virginia.
Now, this state by Connor Doherty uh takes uh all states as a whole.
Uh and the results of the Republican lead states are are kind of messing with the results here.
Uh because it's the Republican states that are leading the way.
The only way you can say states nationwide are doing better is because the Republican states are included in this.
Democrat run states are not raising revenue.
They're not increasing their circumstances.
They're not bettering themselves.
I mean, Texas's results alone could could account for this story.
But but there's no way that New York and California, Michigan, and Illinois are seeing this kind of growth that this guy in this story reports.
So, I mean, there's a full-fledged effort here, folks, to mislead everybody as to why certain states are doing well.
It's because of them raising taxes.
When you factor in the Republican states doing well, they're covering for the poor uh poor performing Democrat states.
Bob McDonnell, Governor of Virginia, Wall Street Journal today.
Democrats say otherwise, but Republican governors and their records will be a major asset to the GOP in 2012 in New Jersey.
Governor Christie's monumental achievement this week in passing a bill to reform his state's public employee benefits is a prime example.
As Governor Christie said Friday, underfunded pension and health care obligations are the core problems of government spending in the country.
This is the kind of leadership Americans want right now.
Straight talk about the fiscal mess that we're in and a plan to solve it.
The good news is that Governor Christie is not alone among Republican governors.
When I became governor of Virginia in 2010, we faced two historic budget shortfalls totaling six billion.
The proposals to close these shortfalls span the philosophical spectrum.
Shortly before leaving Orifice, my predecessor, the I, Tim Kane put forward a massive one and a half, eight billion dollar income tax increase as one of his solutions.
Well, I knew, writes Governor McDonald, that in an economies struggling to recover, raising taxes was a non starter.
So we set forth on a different path.
We balanced Virginia's books by reducing state spending to 2006 levels, putting in place a hiring freeze in state government, making conservative revenue estimates, and incentivizing state employees to save taxpayer dollars.
The result was a budget surplus just a few months later, without a tax increase.
And this is happening in every state run by a Republican.
Rick Perry, for example, in Texas.
This is happening out there.
And so this guy, this previous story I read talking about all these states doing well raising taxes is a bunch of bowunk.
Because the states that are raising taxes are harming their states.
It's the high performing Republican states that are lifting the whole national average when you look at how the states are doing up.
Since February 2010, 67,400 new jobs have been created in Virginia with a Republican governor.
Our unemployment rate has fallen to six percent in Virginia.
Virginia's unemployment rate is more than a full three points below the national average.
A majority of Virginian surveyed now believe the state is headed in the right direction compared to 31% who think the country's moving in the right direction.
The results can and will be duplicated in other states.
This year 18.
New Republican governors took orifice, and many confronted budget deficits similar to or worse than what we faced in Virginia last year.
In Ohio, Governor Kasich is on the verge of passing his jobs budget, which would close an eight billion dollar budget deficit while preserving an income tax cut for all Ohioans.
In Wisconsin, Governor Scott Walker plans to sign a budget this week, and it'll turn a $3.6 billion deficit into a projected $300 million surplus.
In Michigan, Governor Rick Snyder has reformed the state's tax structure, eliminating the anti-competitive Michigan business tax.
In Florida, Governor Rick Scott vetoed a record six hundred and fifteen million dollars from the state budget, enacted a corporate income tax cut, added millions to the state's rainy day fund.
In politics, it's not where you are that matters, it's where you're headed.
My experience in Virginia, along with the similar experiences of leaders like Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels and former Michigan Governor John Engler, suggest that the hard choices Republican governors have made this year will pay off at the polls.
Look no further than growing and diverse Texas, a state the Democrats targeted in 2010, where data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics reveal that under Governor Rick Perry's leadership, Texas has created more jobs over the last decade than the rest of the states combined, and they don't even have a state income tax.
That's a that's a record of job creation the Obama regime can only dream about.
Next year, Obama will have to campaign on his record trillion dollar deficit, skyrocketing debt, massive tax increases that have failed to adequately rein in on employment.
Meanwhile, Republican governors will have delivered balanced budgets without raising taxes, and the entitlement reforms they made will have actually saved jobs.
The low popularity of Democrat governors facing reelection in 2012 tells us quite a bit about how the public regards the policies and work done by the president's party in the state capitals.
Washington Governor Christine Gregois, or Gregory, I don't know how she pronounces it.
I've never heard it pronounced, sorry, announced last week that she would not seek re-election after being dogged by dismal approval numbers.
North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue's approval rating bogged down around thirty percent.
That's not a good sign for the Democrat ticket in the state.
The Obama regime is declared a top priority.
There's a reason that no Republican governor seeking reelections lost A general election since 2007, while three Democrat governors have fallen in that same period.
It's what I said earlier, folks.
You get a conservative Republican president of the White House and a conservative Republican Congress, and we can start reversing this debacle overnight.
It can happen.
It will not happen if we stay status quo.
If we stay glued to the same failed policies of the socialists Obama and his fellow Democrats who are purposely engaging in policies that will end up in one thing larger and larger government.
More and more power for them.
The states are increasing revenue because they're cutting spending as well as lowering taxes.
How many states have raised taxes?
Illinois.
And look what look at them.
California desperately wants to, but I mean they're having trouble resisting themselves, kind of like the movie Dr. Strange Love.
Dr. Strangelove himself just desperately trying to salute Hitler.
Democrats in California just say they want to raise taxes so bad, but something's stopping them.
And look at Governor Humo in New York.
You throw out the gay marriage business is a whole other topic, but Governor Kumo's financial, his fiscal policies in New York, they're not like a Republican.
He's not raising taxes.
He's he's afraid of people running away from the state with continued high taxation.
I know he's got a 57% approval rating among Republicans.
Governor Kumo does and be, and that's because of fiscal policies.
I mean, the answer's there.
The alternative is clear as a bell.
Anyone can see it who wants to uh look at it.
Oh, but look at there's no question a governor Kumo wants to run for president.
And because he wants to run for president, he is not gonna raise taxes.
Talk about the you know who it is gonna be next to Hillary Schmillery, it's gonna be Governor Kumo.
Andrew Kumo gonna be in there.
He's gonna be the Kumo to reach the White House.
I mean, and in the in the in the dream.
So as such, you know, he's not gonna sit there and raise taxes.
He is right, it's damn straight.
He in order to get elected in order to run for president, he needs conservative fiscal policies to revive that state of New York.
How else are you gonna you think somebody presiding over a failed just in horrible shape New York ever going to get elected president?
It ain't gonna happen.
How does any Democrat in trouble get to the solution?
They go conservative.
They just do.
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Senate Republican leaders yesterday reiterated their opposition to tax increases in a deal to raise the debt ceiling.
The minority leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, in his first public comment since his meeting with Obama at the White House on Monday, said that the Democrats' insistence on raising taxes was holding up progress on a deal.
A path forward seems to be blocked by an insistence on raising taxes in the middle of an economic slowdown, McDonnell or McConnell said, pointing out that the Democrats, including Obama, have argued against raising taxes during the lame duck session in December.
Most of us believe the economy is not any better today than it was in December.
We think it's a job-killing step that should not be taken, and Republicans are not interested in going that way, and that's exactly right.
If the economy was such that we couldn't raise taxes last December, certainly isn't any better right now.
So it appears that, Snurdly, you may be right.
Republicans sound like they're going to hang tough in there.
Now, Dingy Harry said Republicans are living in a fantasy world, accused them of wanting to force the country to default in order to fulfill their long-held dream of denying social security checks to see That's all they've got.
Republicans want to keep social security checks away from senior citizens now.
That's all they've got.
Republicans are sabotaging the economy.
And now they don't want social security recipients to get their checks.
Republicans don't seem to care about the consequences for middle class Americans, said Dingy Harry.
Dingy Harry, you know, there hardly is a middle class left because of you.
There's a story in the New Republic today.
The debt ceiling, why Obama Should just ignore it.
It's by Matthew Zeitlin.
He's an intern.
The new Republic has actually published a story by an intern.
Why Obama should ignore the debt ceiling.
With a Republican controlled house demanding large cuts in present and future spending in exchange for an increase in a debt ceiling, the possibility the federal government will have trouble financing and issuing new debts becoming more frighteningly likely each day.
But given that that's BS.
There is a revenue stream called tax collection.
For crying out, folks, I just wrote a check for it.
I don't tell you, but let me just tell you there is revenue pouring into Washington, D.C. There's tax revenue pouring in there.
There's enough to service the debt.
But barring a timely resolution to the standoff, could President Obama simply ignore the debt ceiling and keep making good on the country's obligations?
As the deadline grows nearer, the question's been popping up on law blogs and other forums, and according to a number of legal experts with whom I spoke, and I'm an intern.
The answer surprisingly appears to be yeah.
And it's conservative justices who've played the biggest role in making it possible.
Yeah, yeah.
So according to this intern, conservative justices don't believe that presidents should obey the law or that Congress should control the federal government spending.
So Obama should go ahead.
Nobody can stop him.
It's why I asked earlier.
Why even have a debt limit?
If every time you get to it, you have to blow it up.
Why even have one?
Now, this is what's passing now for persuasive journalism.
The debt ceiling.
Why Obama should just ignore it?
Because conservative judges say, hey, law doesn't matter.
That's what they want us to believe.
Radio makes Britons happier than TV and the internet.
Over 1,000 people in Great Britain were polled via their smartphones, asked to record what media they were consuming at a rate their mood and energy levels while doing so.
Radio came out on top, beating both TV and the web in the study called Media and Mood of the Nation.
Respondents recording a 100% lift in happiness and a 300% boost to their energy level when listening to a radio show versus not consuming any type of media at all.
Folks, it may be a UK survey, but I don't doubt for a moment that it's true of you as well.
I mean, I could I could spend the next five minutes proving it to you.
Well, not proving it, but I could use data accumulated just on this program and compare the way this business operates to say an internet business or television cable, what have you.
There's no doubt that this is true.
There's no because people listen to Radio art that what we call active as opposed to passive.
You see, television provides you the picture, so you don't have to devote all of your being to it.
You can sit there and you can just be a mind-numbed sponge, soaking up pictures on TV.
But on radio, there isn't a picture.
The host paints it for you, or you do it yourself, and that comes from being actively involved and actively involved in something that you connect to makes you feel better.
Makes you feel happy.
There's no question about it, it's true.
Radio is one of the greatest things that ever happened.
It's why God invented it.
And me.
Poll numbers continue an alarming trend for Obama.
This is from our buddy Pete Weiner quoting a McClatchy Marist poll.
Only 37% of a registered voters approve of Obama's handling of the economy his lowest ever.
This is McClatchy Maris.
This is not a bunch of flyby nighters.
By nearly two to one, 61 versus 32% voters disapprove of how Obama's handling the budget deficit.
58% of voters disapprove of Obama's handling of the economy, comprising 60% of independents, 31% of Democrats, and 91% of Republicans.
And yet he comes out with this mess of a press conference today that is just uh an utter state of denial.
Utter denial is where they find themselves.
Putting heat on the tanning bed ban, new government ban in California, sure to leave teens pale and overprotected.
According to a recent report in the AP, the state of California is considering banning teenagers from tanning beds.
Youth under the age of 14 are already banned from artificially tanning in California.
You believe this?
California.
California.
Home of the beach boys.
They are banning tans for youths under 14.
Ute's under the age of 14 are already banned from artificially tanning in California.
Youths under the age of 18 must have parental permission.
However, State Senator Ted Liu argues that the mandate's still not strict enough.
Therefore, a ban is being proposed to protect teens from tanning.
The war against tanning beds heated up when the Obama regime made a last minute decision to tax tanning as part of a new health care law.
The decision disguised as an attempt to limit tanning and promote a public health was really just a strategy to help fund a massive expansion of government into the health care market.
At any rate, this leads to a list here, folks, at the end of the story of other things banned by governments in America.
You cannot pump your own gas in New Jersey or Oregon.
Now, you knew that, Snurdly, because you're from New Jersey.
Well, frankly, I don't care.
You know, I never liked pumping my own gas anyway, so I kind of need gas in New Jersey.
I actually don't mind.
and I can't remember the last time it happened, but it it has once.
You cannot swim without a life vest in the state of Washington.
You cannot swim without a life vest.
Plastic bags are banned in LA County, California.
Soda is banned from being sold in vending machines on city property in San Francisco.
New fast food chains are banned from opening in southern Los Angeles neighborhoods.
The EPA approved and ban a dry cleaning solvent in California.
Federal mandate bans flavored cigarettes, and a bill in Nevada, if passed, will ban air fresheners and candles from public places.
You believe that?
No candles in public places in Nevada if the bill passes.
So reading a story on Huntsman, by the way, John Huntsman.
his it's a it's actually a story on his dad, John Huntsman Sr., the patriarch, and how you better be nice to my boy or else it's one of those kinds of stories.
You don't do right by my boy, then better be prepared to deal with me.
You've seen these kinds of stories.
The old Joe Kennedy stories.
I didn't know I knew that John Huntsman Sr. was an industrialist and a self-made man, and so what I did not know, this is fascinating.
What I did not know that one of the largest uh elements or the the one of the major contributors to his wealth.
You know what this guy invented?
He invented the clamshell container that they put Big Max in.
His company is a it's it's diversified.
He's a chemical company and a number of other things, but they invented, think of all those things that they sell.
Just that alone.
And of course, it's been expanded now to include more than just uh Big Max, and it's every other kind of sandwich in the world that these clamshell containers are used for.
Obama did not pay any attention to generals on Afghanistan.
Is anybody surprised by that?
No.
Petraeus is out admitting it.
Uh George Will.
Let me find this in the audio soundbite.
George Will.
Uh echoing me on John Huntsman.
Let's see, remember cut 13.
It was last week.
We were talking, you know, we had that great juxtaposition of sound bites with Huntsman at the Statue of Liberty.
I am not going to criticize a reputation of my civil.
I'm going to be able to be like Ronald Reagan.
So on Sunday mornings this week, with the Christiana Monpoor at a round table, George Will was asked a question by Christian Amonpoor.
What about John Huntsman?
In almost every cycle, there's a Republican who appeals to people who don't really very much like Republicans.
Mr. Huntsman's announcement that he would take the high road had a whiff of moral arrogance about it.
And uh we will see.
I mean, he said, I'm not going to run down my opponent.
He stood there where Ronald Reagan stood.
And when Ronald Reagan stood there in 1980, he said this about his opponent, Jimmy Carter.
A litany of despair of broken promises of sacred trusts abandoned and forgotten.
That's politics.
Hmm.
Hmm.
Well, George Will's right.
That's exactly what Ronald Reagan said.
We had the soundbite.
So George Will's point is that John Huntsman is for voters who don't really like Republicans.
He's a Republican that people who don't like Republicans could vote for.
Mitt Romney, fresh off saying that he thinks human beings are created, created global warming, is now touting his record of working with Democrats.
Romney is out saying that he's the guy who can work with Democrats.
I heard him say this, and I said, what are we in a time war?
What in the world?
Didn't we do that in 2008?
And don't we know how that works out?
I'm the guy that can work with Democrats.
This is not easy for me, L. Rushville.
I know Romney.
I haven't played golf with Romney, but I've had some personal time with Mitt Romney and as a as a guy I like him, but I do not understand this.
George W. Bush claimed he can work with Democrats.
He didn't, and then but that that was when he was governor of Texas.
But people don't want Republican primary voters, do not want to work with Democrats.
They want to beat them.
My point is, where is the thinking here?
Romney says he can work with Democrats.
Keep a sharp eye on Rick Perry.
I'm going to tell you there's a I don't know anything.
I don't I know nothing.
But there's an undercurrent there that uh you know and Michelle Bachman.
They are going after her left and right.
Well, you know that Chris Wall, I think she should have accepted his apology.
I I you know he he um he he said, are you a flake?
And he he blew it and he admitted that he blew it and he he he apologized for it.
Um I don't think he should have asked the question in the first place.
He wouldn't ask that of any Democrat, obviously.
But anywho.
St. George, Utah, David.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Good afternoon, Mr. Lembaugh.
I'm a United States Navy retired, and I am a corporate pilot.
Uh listening to Mr. Obama's speech today, the guy just does not understand the con unintended consequences about um bashing corporate planes and corporate jets.
Those guys that own those planes and jets, they support me.
They support the maintenance guys, the fuel people, all the people at the uh FDOs, a huge industry.
And I just don't understand why this guy just bashes them.
Yeah, I that's why he says parasite.
He's a he's a literal parasite.
And there's, you know, in a way we can't blame the poor SO son of a gun.
He doesn't know.
He just doesn't know.
Well, I'd like to do that.
It's like it's like what we're having one of our dogs, poor Wellesley, cutest little sheepdog puppy.
It's just she just no matter what we do, I'll you know, I'm sitting on the couch, and uh, Catherine will uh come home and and and the dogs go nuts when Catherine comes home, and this dog, I'll be so I'll have the iPad and I'll be flitting around on the couch to do, and it should just attack.
She's gonna start licking me and and do what and and I put my arms up to protect myself.
No, Wellesley, no.
And Catherine says she just doesn't know.
She just well, Obama just doesn't know.
He just doesn't know.
He got it seems he thinks that attacking corporate air travel and corporate air manufacturing happens in a vacuum.
He gets away with criticizing it.
He gets his class envy uh advantage out of it.
What harm takes place is if any, it's deserved.
In his mind.
Uh on the other hand, on the other hand, he is a wrecking crew.
A one-man wrecking ball on the on all this.
And there's a greater sophistication on the part of the American people as to just how big a wrecking ball and parasite this guy and his party are.
That's it, folks.
It's over.
Sadly, it's over.
It's the end of the program today, but I know, you know, even if Obama knew the damage he was doing, he wouldn't care.
And that's really the problem.
It's great to be back with you, folks.
It always is great to be back.
We'll see you here again tomorrow.
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