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July 6, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 6, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
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Maybe I'll play some audio of this later.
I don't want to spend a whole lot of time on this.
But I got to tell you, I had a ball last night watching the media go nuts over this verdict.
I just had a ball.
They were literally going insane.
They were beside themselves.
They couldn't understand it.
They had all predicted the gallows for this babe.
And now this babe has really upset them because this babe says she, the first thing she wants to do when she gets out of jail is have a baby.
And now they're just beside themselves.
I know it may be a.
No, no, I'm not kidding.
Oh, no.
No, I'm not kidding at all.
She has sent letters to friends saying that when she gets out, she wants to have a baby.
But I must tell you, maybe it's a small personal failing.
We all have them, even I.
I must tell you, I've enjoyed watching these people in the media just go bananas because they've been wrong.
I got a slogan.
I think, you know, Florida tourism is down is the number of problems, the economy and so forth.
I got the perfect slogan.
I'd like to throw it out there for them.
In fact, it gave me a new bumper sticker campaign.
If you can't do the time, do the crime in Florida.
Can you imagine that bumper sticker?
If you can't do the crime, the time do the crime dash in Florida.
How are you today, folks?
Wonderful to have you with us.
Some of the hosts of the cable news shows are really taking this verdict hard.
They really are.
They're taking it personally.
Their personal credibility was on the line.
They all had her convicted, and they're all talking.
They're trying to say, well, it's a sign of how the system works.
There's a great piece today.
Eric Erickson has a blog called Red State.
And I don't remember who posted it, but there is a great piece.
I sent it to Catherine when she says, Catherine and I have been talking about this.
Catherine's been absorbed.
It does not even know it.
But this blog post is awesome.
It says, this does not say one damn good thing about our system.
This is an example of our culture and our society falling apart.
Here you've got a dysfunctional, insane lunatic family lying through their teeth.
And this woman gets off and everybody's pretty.
Well, the justice system worked.
Justice system may have worked, but our culture is rotting, is this guy's point.
And it's pretty good.
I have it printed out here.
I may share with you excerpts.
But back to the host.
Some of the hosts of the cable news shows, you know, what I don't understand about it is they're all card-carrying liberals.
When does the death of a child bother them?
I've never seen them get so upset over the death of a child.
If the child had died, what, two years earlier in the womb, this woman would be a star.
She'd be a hero.
And folks, I don't think that that's a cliché to say.
And I don't think it's a cheap attempt at humor.
I think that while it may be uncomfortable to hear, one of the reasons it's uncomfortable to hear is that there is an element of truth in it.
You people in the media, if you really, really think she's guilty and you want to feel better about this, just tell yourselves that she just waited a couple years to get an abortion and you'll feel better.
Yeah, you're feeling uncomfortable, right?
Snerdley, even Snerdley winced a little bit at that.
Why did you wince, Snerdley?
It's brutal to hear.
Exactly right.
It's brutal to hear.
So is abortion.
Abortion is brutal, never characterized that way.
And the reason it's brutal is because there's an element of truth in it.
I just wanted to put it out there.
Pure and simple.
Nothing more, plus my bumper sticker idea.
If you can't do the time, do the crime dash in Florida.
As Geraldo so eloquently said yesterday, we got rid of the grotesque old sparky, the electric chair that they used to use in Florida.
Now it's just lethal injection.
I have a question.
I want to play an audio soundbite here, President Obama.
And by the way, what is this?
Obama sends a request out, summons members of Congress to the White House tomorrow for a hearing or a conference on the debt limit.
Didn't Mitch McConnell six days ago invite the president?
What Mitch McConnell ought to say is, thank you, Mr. President, for accepting our invitation.
We're happy to meet you at the White House.
And I'm going to tell you, Republicans, something right now and right here.
And if you know anybody who's an elected Republican, I want you to pass this on to him because this is key.
At this meeting tomorrow, Obama is going to do everything he can to get these guys to raise taxes.
Now, in the Senate, he might not have much of a problem.
In the Senate, there might be some Republicans that go along, and I don't think the majority of them.
But the House Republicans are not going to sign anything that raises taxes.
They just aren't.
And so, Republicans, you have got to go into that meeting tomorrow fully aware that the president is the one who's going to have to cave.
The president is the one who can be made to cave if you hold firm on not raising taxes because that's all he cares about and that's all the Democrats care about.
I don't care whether they try for a temporary debt limit increase, a permanent deal, whatever they call it.
It's all going to be about you Republicans agreeing to a tax increase and don't do it or you are in big trouble when it comes time to get your own self re-elected.
Now, either Clinton's out there prodding Obama not to blink.
Clinton's out there saying the House will cave.
Clinton's out there saying, hey, hey, hey, hey, Barack Buddy, I've dealt with these people before.
You know what I mean?
I smoked them in that budget deal, 1995.
I can tell you they're going to cave these guys.
They so desperately want everybody to think that they can get along with you.
All you got to do, just hang tough out there, buddy.
It's the other way around, and you Republicans don't doubt me.
You can make Obama cave.
You must, in fact, make Obama cave.
We don't raise taxes at 9.1% unemployment.
Forget about revenue and all that.
It's what we believe.
It's what we know in terms of reviving this economy.
We do not, you do not raise taxes in an economy like this.
I don't care what kind of taxes they are, and I don't care if it's only said that they are just 1%.
You don't do anything that at the end of that meeting tomorrow, they can say Republicans agree to a tax increase.
You do that, and you're in deep doo-doo.
And what Obama wants, I'll tell you right now, one of the reasons that Obama does not want a temporary deal and why we're having this completely artificial August the 2nd deadline.
He does not want you Republicans going home for your August recess to get an earful from your constituents.
He is afraid that they will remember why you were sent to Washington in the first place.
And it wasn't to raise taxes, no matter what they're calling them, meaning taxes this week.
But Obama knows that the August recess is coming and he's all for a temporary deal.
Well, it doesn't want a temporary deal because what he doesn't want is for you going home and being reminded and getting hell from your constituents.
That's what he's trying to avoid.
He's trying to avoid a repeat of Tea Party meetings.
He's trying to avoid a repeat of Tea Party town halls.
The Democrats took it in the shorts when that happened last time, and he doesn't want a repeat of it.
So that's one of the objectives that is taking place.
First time around, Obama basically told Mitch McConnell to go play with himself.
What he said to me, they said, hey, it was Zeb Chaffetz, the author of the book about me, Army of One.
He went and talked to Axelrod, talked about me and maybe Obama getting her plate of golf, a game of golf, and the round of golf, and the message came back from the White House, go tell Russia, go play with himself.
That's what Mitch McConnell was told.
Last week, Mr. Claire Shipman, the White House spokesman, went out there and basically said, we're not going to talk to somebody that's got the wrong deal and the wrong idea, so we're not going to talk to them.
So I think let the Republicans put off this deal until they go home for their August recess, you know, so they can hear from their constituents.
This is a key element here.
You remember what happened when the Republicans went home and heard about Obamacare during the August recess?
That's not what Obama wants a repeat of.
Do not raise taxes.
I don't care what they are called.
I don't care how seemingly little it is because it is Obama who will cave.
And I know that Obama will caved because you got Clinton out there trying to tell Obama that it's the Republicans who will cave.
They know, they know full well, and they're relying on the power of the presidency, the power of being in the White House.
They're going to try to instill fear in the Republicans that the American people want us to work together, blah, blah, blah.
The American people don't want any more of Obama-ism.
And certainly Republican voters don't.
Time to make him cave, and he's ripe for it.
Now, I have a question also, based on the soundbite that I have from Obama, late yesterday afternoon in the at the White House.
It was during the press briefing, and Obama spoke about these debt negotiations.
And this is a portion of what he said.
To get there, I believe we need a balanced approach.
We need to take on spending in domestic programs, in defense programs, in entitlement programs, and we need to take on spending in the tax code, spending on certain tax breaks and deductions for the wealthiest of Americans.
This will require both parties to get out of our comfort zones and both parties to agree on real compromise.
Now, I'm going to get to this concept of spending in the tax code in a second.
We've heard that actually before.
He believes that the tax code is just another arm of government spending.
For example, the mortgage interest deduction is government spending to him.
But that's not what I want to focus on right here.
Why does Obama even get a chance at claiming fiscal responsibility?
Why is it after Obama and the Democrats spend all this money after they run up all this debt, after they have put us in generational threat?
Why does he get to pretend to have anything to do with fiscal responsibility?
He is the culprit.
We are the chickens, and he is Colonel Sanders, and he has wiped a bunch of us out for his restaurants, and he's inviting some more chickens up there, and he gets to talk about our lives.
This is the guy and his party who have imperiled this nation with all of this irresponsible, on-purpose debt and spending.
And now he gets to talk about the balanced approach.
And we need to take on spending in domestic programs and defense.
Yeah, after he's wrecked everything, after he's gotten all this spending that he wants, he now wants the mantle of fiscal responsibility.
He can pretend all he wants.
He can warn about the risk of defaults with what seems like genuine concern.
He can smile, he can scowl, he can lecture, he can chide, he can talk about the full faith and credit of the United States and the dollar.
But on the reality side of life, he's saying all this stuff after he spent all the money and committed the money for years to come.
The debt ceiling debate is not about money the left wants to spend.
It's about money that's already been spent.
That's what the debt limit debates about.
It's already been spent.
We're trying to get a handle here on responsibility.
They just want to spend more.
And he comes to us and claims he has the mantle of fiscal responsibility when he's been the wrecking ball.
How does he get to do this?
When Obama spent over $800 billion on his stimulus, frittered away $800 billion on a money laundering scheme.
Did you ever hear the word fiscal responsibility, debt limit, full faith in credit?
When all that was going on, when all this spent, TARP, stimulus, porculus, all the other spending, did we ever hear about fiscal responsibility, full faith in credit of the U.S.?
Did it ever come up?
No, not a word.
When Obama rammed Obamacare down everybody's throat and said it will cost only a trillion and lower premiums, $2,500 a person.
We all know it's going to cost more and lower nothing.
We ever heard anything about fiscal responsibility, the debt limit, and what was happening.
No, not a word.
Now, after it's all spent, we have to talk about responsibility with him taking the leap.
Sorry, folks, I don't buy it.
Here's Obama laying the groundwork yesterday at the White House Daily Press briefing for blaming the Republicans on the upcoming debt ceiling negotiations that are slated for tomorrow.
I've heard reports that there may be some in Congress who want to do just enough to make sure that America avoids defaulting on our debt in the short term, but then wants to kick the can down the road when it comes to solving the larger problem of our deficit.
I don't share that view.
I don't think the American people sent us here to avoid tough problems.
That's, in fact, what drives them nuts about Washington when both parties simply take the path of least resistance.
And I don't want to do that here.
I, again, must stress he says all of this as the responsible one after destroying the U.S. economy, after creating generational debt, after record spending, after paralysis of the U.S. economy, 9.1% unemployment.
He comes along as Mr. Fiscal Responsibility.
He comes along and talks about what the American people don't want.
Issue by issue by issue, the majority of American people disagree policy after policy after policy with Obama's agenda.
It would have been honest if Obama had demanded Obamacare and then an increase in the debt limit at that time to cover it.
But of course, no, no, no, no, we're going to do that.
So after blowing everything sky high, he comes along.
We've got to be responsible about this.
American people want us to work together.
Don't want to do a temporary deal.
That's because he doesn't want you going home in August and catching hell from your constituents.
But that's good.
If you do the wrong thing, Republicans are going to catch hell at the August recess anyway.
And the right thing here is very simple.
You just don't cave on tax increases.
Hi, PerryU.
Welcome back, Rushlin Boy, and the fastest three hours in media.
So here's the Reuters version of what's going to happen tomorrow.
It's by Steve Holland, Obama to meet Congress leaders Thursday on debt.
Obama rejected proposals on Tuesday for a short-term deal to raise the U.S. debt limit, pressured congressional leaders to reach a broad agreement within two weeks to avoid a government default by August 2nd, which we will not default by August 2nd.
There are revenues, sufficient revenues flooding Washington each day that are sufficient to service our debt.
Obama invited Democrat-Republican leaders to the White House on Thursday to take stock of the stalled negotiations to reach a deal on budget cuts that would give Congress political cover to raise the $14.3 trillion debt ceiling that caps U.S. borrowing.
Now, other media outlets like the New York Times are reporting that Obama has summoned Republican leaders to the White House.
But it was Mitch McConnell that sent the original invitation out.
Regardless, the great man has finally condescended to meet with these lowly beings from Congress.
Reuters here is claiming that a rough agreement's already been reached, but they say it only includes billions in spending cuts.
The New York Times, David Brooks, has claimed that the Democrats have offered $3 to $4 trillion in cuts.
Meanwhile, we haven't heard any details about any of these supposed cuts.
But here's the important thing here, and this is what's been missed by most everybody.
Obama, the Democrats want to ram this thing through.
Again, I cannot emphasize this enough.
Obama and the Democrats want to ram this thing through before the Republicans go back home for their August vacation, get an earful from their constituents.
That's probably why Obama's rejecting the mini deal.
Because he knows that this is his best chance to get his way.
No, what I mean is this is when the Republicans are at their weakest, potentially, the way he would look at things.
I'm not saying that the Republicans' spines have weakened and become linguini.
I'm thinking the way Obama looks at it, get it done now because after they go home and head our town meetings, when they get back, they're going to be men of steel.
They're going to be loaded for bear, and they're going to have heard another mouthful from their constituents, their voters, at town hall meetings.
Obama wants whatever he can get done here before that happens, because this, in his view, is when he thinks the Republicans are at their weakest.
This is his best chance to get his way.
Now, Harry Reid, the always despicable Harry Reid, intends to hold a meaningless vote on a sense of the Senate, a resolution calling for millionaires to make a more meaningful contribution to the deficit.
What a miserable demagogue Dingy Harry is.
He's got this sense of the Senate resolution thing, that he's out there calling on millionaires.
No, Snerdly, I don't think this is...
They're saying that the White House is trying to get the deal done by July 22nd to soothe market fears and give Congress time to approve.
Do you think Obama cares about the market?
It cares about anything as far as it relates to his reelection.
He's trying to get the Republicans at what he thinks is at their weakest.
And again, folks, don't misunderstand here.
There's no evidence that Republicans are weak right now.
I'm not suggesting that.
Some of the Republican presidential candidates are saying some odd stuff, but we're talking about the Republicans in the House right now.
I swear, every time Mitt Romney opens his mouth, I have no, I think he's running against me.
Well, ethanol, global warming.
What's the latest that he came out?
He's the guy that can work with Democrats.
It was Romney who said that.
One of the Republican presidential candidates said it.
I'm not talking about those guys right now.
I'm talking about the members of the House.
Now, to put this in further perspective for you, why is Obama engaged in debt ceiling negotiations anyway?
You see, I thought Obama already solved all these issues.
He had his deficit commission.
He had irksome bowls out there, and he had Alan Simpson, babe.
And they went out there and they had their long, year-long meetings.
And they met in December and they presented their findings.
And Obama said, let me do that better.
He said, pss.
All their ideas.
He just threw them out.
You know, an irksome bull said, what the hell did I do here?
And Alan Simpson Babe said, well, hell, that's his belly up to the bar and we'll talk about it there.
A full year.
They put their heart and souls into it as far as they're concerned.
Obama just rejects.
Now all of us, he's got all the answers, deficit reduction, all these things.
I thought he already had a plan to deal with the deficit with spending and growth.
He put all this on a bipartisan commission.
Their charge was to solve all these problems Obama created in his first year in office.
So why does Obama have these endless meetings and commissions and summits?
This is what leading from behind looks like.
And again, after he spends all the money.
Oh, yeah, it was Romney's out there praising unions now in New Hampshire.
That's what it was.
That's the latest thing.
Is that Romney's out there praising unions?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I sent a note to my brother.
I said, David, I think this guy's running against us.
I'm trying to, yeah, Snerdly, I know.
I'm trying to figure out what it is that these, and Romney is raking in money.
He's in London today raising money.
He's dwarfing everybody in fundraising.
I mean, it's not even close.
And out there to the side, you have Rick Perry still toying with the idea of getting involved.
This is it's not a fait accompli, whoever the nominee is going to be by any stretch of the imagination.
Anyway, my point here, I don't want to get too distracted.
My point is this meeting tomorrow is, while substantive, trying to get the Republicans to cave here, it's still political theater.
The president looking for the most opportunistic way to advance his campaign for reelection.
He's put off making any tough decisions because he doesn't have any answers.
He's just looking for short-term bragging rights.
He's looking for the headline.
He needs a football to spike.
He's looking for Obama saves the day headline.
Obama brings the two sides together.
Warring factions unable to progress on their own after meeting at White House, Obama, blah, blah, blah.
That's what he's looking for.
If Republicans come out of that meeting, we had a really great meeting with the Republican with the president, and we've really worked together hard on this.
The president gets it.
If I hear that, I'm going to feel poorly about it.
And the president also says, let's leave ultimatums at the door.
Meaning, the only ultimatums will be his because he's already in the door.
So he's telling Republicans, leave ultimatums at the door.
They can't bring theirs in.
His will be the only ones on the table.
But I wonder if that means that he's open to not raising the debt ceiling.
Does that mean he's, is there going to actually be an exchange of ideas here?
Or is Obama going to go in and say, okay, look, guys, this way it's going to be.
I won.
That's the way it's going to be.
Now, if you really are serious about no one at tomorrow's meeting having any ultimatums, let's demonstrate that by holding the debt ceiling meeting in John Boehner's office.
After all, if a debt ceiling agreement can't be reached, the president is going to blame it on House Republicans.
If Republicans truly have that much power, if everything rests on their shoulders, if you can't take responsibility for the debt you demanded that we incur, I'm talking about Obama.
This is a key point, folks.
After all the spending, he sets himself up as the adult who's going to get all these children who can't control themselves to behave.
He is the problem.
His policies have led us where we are.
Republicans have not contributed to them.
Yet he's a spectator all this time.
Now he's going to bring these little kids up and he's going to teach them how to get along with one another and how to finally act responsible after two years of letting them run amok.
Finally, the adult is going to assert himself.
Is that the image that he's trying to pitch here?
So if everything, I'll tell you what, Mr. President, if everything rests on the Republican shoulders, if you're bringing them up, you're going to make them assume responsibility for all this.
If you can't take responsibility for the debt that you demanded that we incur, that you authored, then let John Boehner run the meeting.
And let's put it on C-SPAN.
Oh, yeah.
Let Boehner run the meeting.
Let's put it on C-SPAN.
That way we will know that the president isn't using these last-minute debt ceiling meetings that the Republicans had to be badgered.
Obama had to be badgered to attend, by the way, as political theater.
That is laughable here for Obama to pretend to be the only adult in the room regarding this issue is a joke with no punchline.
So, Mr. President, and I also say this to you, President Clinton, no more make-believe.
Let's stop the make-believe.
Let's televise these meetings.
This is such a historic moment where taxpayer dollars are at such great risk, where you say the Republicans are nothing more than a bunch of lazy, misguided adolescents.
Let's put you on TV so we can see all the experience and your characterizations for ourselves.
And don't leave this knee-jerk ultimatum.
No, leave your ultimatums at the door.
Now, I want to warn you people, whatever happens tomorrow, we know who we're dealing with in terms of the media covering this.
Obama's going to be portrayed as the winner.
It's a given, no matter what.
You want some sample headlines?
Obama solves debt ceiling riddle.
Obama leads grand compromise.
Obama saves economy.
Dot, dot, dot.
Again, President Obama eclipses Clinton's historic welfare reform legislation.
Obama now shoo-in for re-election.
First, Osama bin Laden.
Now this, Obama pulls economy from brink.
Hello, Mount Rushmore.
We're going to get headlines like that, no matter what happens.
I got to take a break.
Be right back.
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To the phones we go.
We're going to start in Weehawk in New Jersey.
This is Ryan, your first today.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hey, thanks for having me on.
I just had a quick kind of rhetorical question point.
If Obama in saying he's cutting spending in the tax code, if that's cutting the tax breaks and loopholes and the deductions, doesn't that kind of assume that all the income is the government to begin with?
Yep, I'm glad you reminded me of that.
I said I was going to get to that later.
You're exactly right.
And what it illustrates is the view in Washington that all money is theirs, that it all starts with them, and that they decide who ends up with what.
They are in charge of determining the outcomes in life.
It's exactly the kind of people Obama, these current crap of Democrats are.
You're right.
And when are people going to realize that even if you tax them, big corporations either pass those taxes onto the consumers or they take their ball and go home.
How old are you?
36.
36.
I'm 60.
I used to be 36.
I learned what you know at 36 when I was 36, maybe a little earlier than that.
I've been asking myself that for 24 years.
When are people going to figure it out?
Right now, we have 48% of Americans who do not pay income taxes, therefore who don't care.
They don't have skin in the game.
We have an ever-increasing percentage of our population that believes the purpose of the government is to equalize outcomes.
The purpose of the government is to make sure that people who don't have enough, whatever enough is, get enough, whatever enough is.
Now, I actually think that more and more people than you think realize where we are.
The November elections of 2010 showed that, as will the presidential race in 2012 showed that.
You don't see it reflected because of the media, of course.
I think more people are very much aware now of what liberalism does and what socialism does, and they don't want any part of it.
You see the mass exodus of independents from Democrats in the November elections of 2010.
So, and I think the more Obama tries this kind of stuff, he's going to be trying it on the rich, and he's doing the class envy game, and there's still enough people that fall for that.
But even as you pointed out before, if they take all the riches' money, it's still not going to make a dent in the national debt.
No.
You could confiscate every dollar the rich have and run the government at current spending levels for a month or two, and then you'd be done.
And you can only do it once because you've taken their money.
After you've taken their money, there's no way they're going to earn the same amount every year.
It's see, but you're right again here.
It's not even about the revenue.
It's about the demagoguery.
It is about making people think.
And the control.
Exactly.
Exactly right.
Spending in the tax.
We are listening to how a statist speaks.
We're listening to how an authoritarian views the people of a country and their income.
It's his, it's governments.
When you start talking about the spending that's in the tax code and you use the mortgage interest deduction as an example, well, yeah, that's the government shortchanging itself.
That's money the government could have, but it's returning to people because they're subsidizing home purchases, mortgage interest deduction.
So they're going to count that on the spending side.
It's a way Obama just tried to capitalize on the magic word right now is spending.
Nobody wants more of it.
So he's trying to increase taxes by calling them spending cuts.
That's what he's hoping the media will help him convey is happening.
You know, if Hugo Chavez stays sick, if Hugo Chavez keeps losing weight, we're not going to be able to tell any difference between him and Obama.
And by the way, folks, and snurdy, you back me up on this.
I told you years ago, before the 2008 election, I told you Obama would never, if he wins, get out of Iraq.
I told you the Democrats would never get out of there.
And guess what?
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