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July 20, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 20, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #2
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It's great to have you here.
I'm Rush Limboy, and uh this broadcast excellence, as you've come to know and love.
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So the Wall Street Journal NBC News poll.
Public tilts toward debt capomise independence have all of a sudden gone through a great awakening and are now demanding that Obama get what he wants.
Well you find out, you know, one of the one of the many lessons learned by those of you who attend class here at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies is that there are three kinds of lies lies, damn lies, and polls.
We live in a center right country.
So any time center left poll results are advanced by the state control media, beware.
Skewed polls are used to make news and then to shape opinion.
They are used to confuse issues, not to bring clarity.
And when it comes to the debt ceiling crisis manufactured by a president and his party who thinks leading means to vote present, which is all he's doing here.
Confusion is the only way that he can continue to advance his war on prosperity.
And John Pedoritz here writing it commentary says this is the big news today in Washington is this poll.
Oh yeah.
They're gloming onto this poll like oh my God, this is salvation.
Jesus has spoken is the way, except Jesus, any big deal to these people.
Um whoever.
Gaya, guy, whatever God has spoken.
And the poll shows a pox on both.
Your House's attitudes toward the president, but really, this poll is a poll of adults, not registered voters, not likely voters, adults.
Now, as a practical matter, a politician judges the danger to himself from a political stand based on how actual voters will respond.
In this case, the poll offers no guide to that.
Turnout in the 2010 midterm election that brought 63 new Republicans to the House was 41% of registered voters.
Turnout in the 2010 midterm election that gave us a landslide Republican victory all the way down the ballot was 41% of registered voters.
Registered voters make up 61% of all adults.
Therefore, the actual constituents to whom Republican House members must respond constitute something like 20% of the universe of adults who make up the respondents of this poll.
That is the way to put this in perspective.
Of adults in this poll represent people who vote.
That's it.
Now there are two reasons to do a poll of adults only on a complex matter.
In a non-election year.
One is cost.
It's more expensive to do a rigorous poll of registered or even likely voters.
The other is to skew the debate.
Which is what is happening here.
To skew the debate, pure and simple.
Let's go to the audio sound bites.
To show you how, just to illustrate how so little changes, November 3rd, 2010.
The Republicans won this historic election.
And I opened the program with a theme that is the buzzword of the debate we are in today.
What is all this talk about compromise?
This talk about compromise started last night and it's being given almost a full throated throttle today, and it's coming from both sides.
Compromise.
Ladies and gentlemen, losers.
Compromise.
Winners do not compromise.
The Democrats won nothing.
And that's how we started the show November 3rd, 2010.
That was, and the reason I did is because from the moment the election returns were known.
From the moment it was clear what a sweeping landslide victory the Republicans had.
The Democrats and the media immediately demanded compromise.
The Republicans, this proved it, they said.
This election proved that voters want compromise.
And I was illustrating how the game is played here at that time, and that's why I pointed out winners do not compromise.
Which is why I have been asking the Republicans in the House and in the Senate.
Don't cave.
You are the winners.
You hold the cards.
The public has not had a momentous attitude or opinion shift since November.
They have not.
This AB or NBC news poll is a phony.
But the Republicans are nervous.
And they get more nervous each and every day because this is tough to resist.
It's tough to resist.
It's tough to be vilified 24-7 for your entire life, but that's what they face.
Here we have a montage of state control media throwing all kinds of skewed polls at the Republicans trying to get them to fold.
The new NBC poll finds most Americans want to see compromise.
A new CBS poll finds two-thirds of people surveyed support a deal that would include spending cuts and tax increases.
Two-thirds of the people want Washington to compromise.
and raise taxes.
62% say the GOP should compromise and raise taxes.
All the polls now show the Republicans are seen as intransigent, not doing enough to compromise.
Wait a second.
Was that Al Sharpton in there?
We put Al we put Al Shopton in a montage.
Wait a second.
What am I doing is Al Sharpton have a show?
No.
Well, but no.
I mean TV show.
We don't, we don't, we don't do, we don't do montages of people on radio.
We don't.
Al Sharpton?
Are you kidding me?
MSNBC's gonna hire the guy.
Are you kidding me?
You know what?
Yeah, that's what I'm being told here that uh he's been doing, I guess uh auditioning for the past three weeks.
The 6 p.m. gig.
Al Sharpton.
Well, I guess the criticisms of all the whiteness over there at MSNBC must have got to them.
The All White Network is going to put Al Sharpton in there at 6 o'clock.
That's that's yeah, so that's why he's in the Montas.
62% say the GOP should compromise and raise taxes.
Well, he won't need the megaphone anymore.
That's the whole if he gets on.
Well, I take it back, yes, he still will need the uh megaphone, particularly being on uh MSNBC.
Now, folks, the House bill, here's the here's the uh frustrating.
The House bill is compromise.
It does raise the debt ceiling, the amount Obama is requesting.
It does do that.
The House bill raises the debt ceiling.
Isn't that compromise?
They are compromising.
Now you're you're well informed, right?
You you keep up with the news.
You You listen to this program regularly.
You probably know that Obama, for all his current protestations, voted against raising the debt ceiling in 2006.
But do you know how Harry Reid voted?
I'll tell you, he voted against raising the debt limit.
What about Chuck Yu Schumer?
Chuck U Schumer voted against raising the debt ceiling.
How about Hillary Clinton?
How did she vote in the Senate back in 2000?
Ah, she voted against raising the debt.
You believe Hillary Clinton was against raising a debt ceiling.
Let's see.
Dick Durbin.
Shazam, Dick Durbin voted against raising the debt ceiling in 2006.
How about Joe Bitmey?
Current vice president Joe Biden.
Guess what?
He voted against raising the debt ceiling in 2006.
All Democrat senators, every one of them still in the Senate, voted against raising a debt limit in 2006.
Every Democrat senator today who was in the Senate in 2006 voted against raising the debt limit.
And the media, while they didn't vote, they didn't go after Democrats or playing politics with our blah blah.
When the Democrats voted against raising a debt ceiling in 2006, was the media all over them about social security checks and veterans checks and all the other I don't remember that, do you?
Every Democrat, Obama, Schumer, Durban, Turban, Reed, Feinstein, you name it, they all voted against raising the debt ceiling.
In 2006.
Republicans have now passed their second bill.
Cut cap and balance this session that attempts to, and by the way, this is a this was a s this was good.
Cut cap and balance, that was sort of like a slap in the face at Obama and a okay, here it is, palette.
You veto it.
You go veto this.
Now over in the Senate, they're messing around with this gang of six thing, but the gang of sixth thing won't even be ready by Ramadan.
It won't be ready by August 3rd.
No, the gang of six bill will not be got it right here in the stack.
I'll get off to take a break here.
Here it is.
It's the next thing up.
Boy, did I prep this good or what?
From the Hill.com, Key Democrats, gang of six plan won't be ready for debt limit deal by August 2nd.
Key Senate Democrats on Tuesday said the gang of sixes, 3.7 trillion dollar deficit reduction proposal could not be included in a package to raise the debt ceiling by August 2nd.
Dick Turbin, a member of the gang of six, said Tuesday the group's plan is not ready to be attached to legislation to increase the debt limit.
So what are we talking about?
And by the way, a little history question.
Do you know where this gang of stuff started?
In our lifetimes at least, I'm sure that you know there have been gangs, the history of humanity.
But in the political realm, the original gang was the gang of four.
Mao Tse Tung's wife.
Mao Tse Tong's wife, a Chikom Broad, led the gang of four in an anti-something or other movement.
I don't think it was anti her husband.
It was, okay, that's right.
It was.
Yeah, Mao's big deal was a cultural revolution.
The way you translate cultural revolution, Chicom is murder.
The cultural revolution resulted in about well of deaths was close to that of Stalin and his fake famine.
Twenty million deaths.
So the cultural revolution equal murder, and Mao's wife, Mrs. Mao, led the gang of four against it.
So this gang of crap can be traced back to the original brutal murderous GICOMs.
And with that, I'll take a brief time out, be right back after this.
Don't go away.
The uh the gang of four, by the way, their main targets.
You know, you gotta be of a certain age, remember these names.
Joe and Lai, uh, which Joe and Lai was who Henry Kissinger and Nixon met when they reopened China back in the uh 70s.
Yeah, Premier, Joe and Lai.
Uh in fact, I remember John Chancelar, uh, who worked at NBC News then uh made it a point to pronounce his name Joe.
It's pronunciation changed all over the bandwidth.
There was Jiao and Lai, Zhou and Lai, uh uh uh John Chancel War just uh called him Joe.
Joe and Lai.
And at the time the soon to become head honcho Dung Xiaoping.
Those two guys that the Cultural Revolution, or that the gang of four tried to wipe out Mao's wife, and uh, I think Lin Piao was one of the others who mysteriously vanished, just one day wasn't there.
And then the next day we saw Mao, supposedly swimming in the river, but all we can see was his head.
And was there was a very transparent and open regime, uh, the uh Mao regime, just like Obama's is.
Okay, we're gonna go to the phones.
Where are we starting?
Fort Collins, Colorado.
Hi, Chuck.
You're up first.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, thank you, Rush.
I have a question.
If we can't service the debt on 14 trillion, how are we gonna service the debt on sixteen trillion?
Well, we can service the debt.
See, this is this is the you you mean how can we how can the country sustain all of this spending is what you mean, and we can't.
Now, when you talk about servicing the debt, this is this is crucially important because crucially important because servicing the debt is what we have to do to avoid defaulting.
We can do that.
We can we can pay the bonds as they come due.
We can pay them as they roll over.
We've got the income to do that.
Now we don't have the money to fund Social Security, Medicare, Obama care, or practically anything else we're doing, but but but that's not technically legally considered part of the debt.
But we're but we don't we can't sustain this spending much at 16 or 14.
We can't.
We've reached the brink now.
But their argument is we can't pay our bills when we have 14 trillion, and so we have to raise the debt ceiling.
But if we can't pay him to 14, then we can't pay to sixteen, right?
There's something wrong with that logic.
Well, not only that, they're telling us that we must raise taxes.
We gotta raise taxes three trillion dollars or one trillion dollars or two trillion.
We gotta raise taxes.
And even after we do that, we're not gonna be able to service the debt, or or what you'd mean by when you say service the debt.
I mean, it's it's here's here's another way of looking at this.
Here's Obama.
If Obama were honest, he would say, I did not spend my first two years solving the crisis because I spent that time creating it.
What Obama wants you to believe is that he hasn't been president the last two and a half years.
He's been there, but it was so bad.
What he inherited from George W. Bush was so bad that he valiantly fought it.
Oh my god, the tough decisions he made, the challenging steps he took, but he didn't know how bad it was.
Nobody told him the truth.
It was worse than anybody ever imagined, and so it's gonna take a lot longer.
Truth of the matter is, Obama didn't spend the first two two and a half years of his regime solving this crisis, folks, because he spent that time creating it.
there's an honest question for you.
If we raise taxes, does that mean we're not spending too much?
Doesn't, does it?
My point is, what does raising taxes have to do with the debt ceiling?
What is raising taxes have to do with this crisis?
Nothing.
If we even double the taxes we're paying, does that mean we're not spending too much?
Does that all of a sudden we raise taxes and we can keep spending?
Is that what they want us to believe?
Is that really what they want you to believe?
Are you really ready to commit to that?
Is that in the name of compromise?
You'll go along with a tax increase because that somehow means all of a sudden we're not spending too much?
Don't fall for that.
This is a full-fledged 130% spending problem.
We don't have a tax revenue problem.
Because we can't raise taxes enough to fix this.
We can't.
We could we could confiscate all the wealth in this country over $200,000.
You only do at one time, by the way, and we don't even make a dent in what we owe.
So that's not an option.
Honest answer is we are spending too much even if we triple taxes on everybody.
More tax money is not going to be it's in fact it's not even going to be applied to whatever is owed.
It's just going to be redistributed in order to make everybody poorer.
Staying with the telephone said Dallas, Texas.
Earl, I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the uh program.
Nice to have you with us.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Uh, I had a question for you.
Why are conservatives like you only considering endless cuts on programs folks like me use every day, but not talking about ending wasteful oil subsidies or taxing the banks that got us to where we are in the first place?
Um what you said because you're speaking too fast, trying to get some trick on me, and I couldn't care less because you're an idiot.
Um, where are we going now?
Ann in Houston.
Um Rush.
Hi, how are you?
Fine.
Rush, no one pulls the facts of history together like you do.
And then you know how to get the hay down where the goats can get it.
You can explain it.
All of us.
I like that in the goats.
Yeah, well, not we're goats.
Just call the audience goats.
Yeah, I love it.
Unless you hear TV talking heads talk about the consequences of not raising the limit.
And of course, there will be some negative uh consequences of freezing the debt limit.
The question is, will it be worse if we don't?
And the Republicans need to keep the focus on what happens if we don't freeze the debt limit, don't they?
Well, the debt limit's gonna get raised.
I I think I think that trains left station.
I I I think to sit here and try to hold on to that the debt limit not being raised is is to waste time because that's Boehner has said it.
They the argument here is what pain is gonna be inflicted on Democrats for raising the debt.
What is the compromise?
What are the Democrats gonna compromise on in essence?
So for the re I mean, we can have an interesting discussion.
It'd be it'd be fun to talk about, you know, what Republicans should do and what would be the result of not raising the uh the debt limit.
If you don't raise it, then serious cuts have to be made.
This is you and I, I assuming that you're with me on this, of course.
Think this is what this is all about.
That's what the election last November was all about, not spending any more money because we don't have it anyway.
Right.
Right?
So why have a debt limit if it doesn't matter?
And he's lied about everything.
So why would we think that that the consequences of what he says he's gonna do?
Well, look at that's a little question.
Look at if you go back and what we did.
You hear me read the stuff in the New York Times 1967.
Yes.
Okay.
There's another component to that.
What that means is is that our side has known Since 1967, what they're up against, and yet they still act blindsided every time it happens.
I mean, this is curiously suspicious to me.
We know, you know, just like I sit here and I can tell you before Obama is immaculate.
I hope he fails.
Because I know what liberals do.
Why why do our Republicans profess to be so surprised or ignorant about who liberals are and what they do and how they do it?
It's the most frustrating thing that you can ask yourself today.
This is we're up again, we fight this every day for since 1967 and even prior to that.
We fought this with FDR.
And so this is why it's all a game.
The ruling class has its techniques, and everybody in Washington, both parties has members in the ruling class.
This is how the game is played.
Because it is this we are not Charlie Brown, but we are.
The football keeps getting taken away from us every day for 40 years.
Even when we win elections, they convince us we lost.
We are naive.
No, we aren't.
Well elected offici maybe there's some naivete, but it's more it's it's more than that.
It's it's um what we're in in their eyes the dupes.
We really are.
And I must say, the more we talk about it in terms they set, the more we are acting like dupes, myself included.
The reason we fall for it is because I feel compelled here to tell people what we're up against and how they're being uh manipulated, and you gotta use the language that they're using in order to blunt it and to uh and to educate people, inform people about it.
It's like look at uh Chuck Hugh Schumer is being interviewed by Andrea Mitchell, NBC Neils in Washington right now, and shit's such an emergency.
She's left the confines of the studio, and she set up shop in the Capitol.
It's really big now.
It's really a crisis because Enrique Mitchell left the confines of the makeup room, the confines of the green room, and is at the Capitol talking to Chuck U Schumer.
And I guarantee you what they're saying, and I can't hear it, was said 40 years ago, in the same circumstances.
Just different people saying it.
Same urgency, same tone, same crisis, same everything.
And after a while, this is I tell you, sometimes it's the smart people who look at this say to hell with it.
I'm gonna go bowling.
I'm not gonna sit here and put up with this.
I've heard this every day.
These people are full of whatever.
Smart people, I think realize this.
This they said politics is phony baloney, plastic banana good time, rock and roll.
What we keep investing in is that our new electees are finally going to put the stop to the game.
This is what we invest in.
This is where our hope is every election that finally, when we elect a majority of people that we think are us, that all this is gonna come to a screeching halt.
And then when it doesn't, we threaten third party, or we're not gonna send the RNC any money, or yeah, but I'm fed up with it, Russia.
I'm not gonna play anymore.
See you later.
Whatever it is.
Meanwhile, the news media just laps it up.
So that's that's why it's all frustrating, because we keep thinking the people we elect are gonna be the stop sign.
And they better be this time.
It better be because we we're we're running out of road uh down which to kick the can.
So I've gone.
Uh thanks for the call.
Uh I uh uh appreciate it, I really do.
Thanks very much.
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Anyway, quick timeout, 2 if by tea.com.
Yes, Noodley.
That's it.
Uh after this, don't go away.
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Here on the EIB network.
Another way of saying making the complex.
Understandable.
This Charlie in Jacksonville, Florida.
Hello, Charlie.
Great to have you here.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Good afternoon.
You can address me as Mr. T, uh T E A as well, if you wish.
Mr. T, okay.
Mr. T. Thank you.
I was listening to Sean Andy's show on Monday.
John McCain was on.
Yep.
And I think you're right.
It's a done deal.
They're going to pass this thing.
But if we keep making sense...
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It's not a done deal.
It's not by any means a done deal yet.
What?
What?
Well, they need to stick to the guns on the cut cap and balance, and we need to play hardball.
I was I almost wrecked my truck because I was thinking to myself, I would walk in if I were the Republican leadership, I'd walk into Barack Obama's office and I'd say, look, if you try and veto cut cap and balance, we're gonna go to the American public and we're gonna tell them, take your money out of your 401ks now before it gets snatched.
If that's what he said on the radio, we don't want the American public to lose their money and their 401ks if we don't pass something.
And and it's just fear all over again.
It is.
It is.
And if they're just playing on our fear, Rush, we should take the offensive and I mean use blackmail you as every to get a balanced budget amendment through there.
I look at this.
I I know exactly if this is what we expect to happen every time our side wins elections, and they don't do it, and so we say, why?
And we end up ruling class, uh, you know, whatever, we get we get ticked off.
We think because you and I know that we hold the cards here.
We know that Obama couldn't get elected if the election were today.
We don't need to act like losers.
So what's the answer to this?
The answer is the DC establishment wants higher taxes, they want more spending, they want bigger government, and they want it redistributed.
And the DC establishment consists of people who call themselves Republicans but aren't.
People who call themselves Democrats but aren't.
They're they're they're not even they just call themselves that.
They are just statists, ruling class people, they just decide which party they're gonna belong to.
Um, all to keep us thinking in a certain way.
So all this illustrates.
You and I both know that if you strip away all of that gunk that we do, the Republicans are the conservatives, hold the cards here.
They're having to manufacture polls now to show Obama uh winning this.
It's it's all it's all a big lie.
It's all a giant smoke screen.
And the frustrating thing is it it gets played out day in, day out, for decades.
Anyway, appreciate the call out there, Charlie.
Thanks much.
This is Brian in Albany.
Welcome, sir, to the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Mr. T. Hey, thank you, sir.
Um, we know it's in the Democratic playbook.
My question rush is what is in the McConnell Baehner playbook.
Well, there isn't a playbook.
Uh see, this is the thing.
They're if there is a playbook, it's got one word.
Uh three words.
If there's a playbook, three words, wait and react.
Yeah.
So how do they find their way?
Fear.
Fear from their voters.
It's work.
Look at the voters stopped comprehensive, meaningful, comprehensive immigration reform.
The voters stopped it.
The voters stopped Harriet Myers.
The voters stopped.
The voters can intimidate elected officials.
Not every time, not every issue.
But it can happen.
So what is gonna happen with Mr. McConnell and Mr. Boehner?
I have no idea.
I'm we're like I'm like you.
We're waiting here to see.
Could I now, Boehner and McConnell are not on the same page.
No, they're not.
Could I ask you one more question?
Quick.
Yeah.
Um, nine Republicans voted against the cut cap and balance.
One was Michelle Bachman.
Why did she vote no?
Because it uh raises a debt limit.
Okay.
Good.
That's why that's why all nine voted again, because it raises the debt limit.
And they have promised.
Those nine have made uh made it very abundantly clear that they are not going to go along with any of raises a debt limit.
Okay.
Even massive spending cuts.
Five Democrats voted for it, by the way.
This is what you don't hear.
Five Democrats voted for cut cap and balance.
You don't hear about that compromise, do you?
We'll take a brief timeout here on the uh EIB network with Mr. T back after this.
Well, looky here.
Moody's.
Moody's.
Who appointed them?
But Moody's will not accept McConnell's plan B. A backup plan to raise the U.S. debt ceiling and avoid default could still lead to a negative outlook on the country's ratings, Moody's said.
That's McConnell's plan B. The backup plan offered by Senator Mitch McConnell would avoid any immediate downgrade to the coveted triple A rating, Moody's uh analyst Stephen Hess said, but in a long term, it doesn't accomplish anything.
So Moody's basically saying McConnell, you can take your plan B and you can put it where the sun don't shine.
Because it doesn't count.
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