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July 20, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 20, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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And we're back for the thrilling and final hour of today's excursion into broadcast excellence hosted by me, Rushlin Baugh.
Great to have you here, folks.
Telephone number, if you want to join us, I'm sure you do.
800-282-2882.
Email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com.
Hey, Snerdly.
We had a caller that, we had a caller that wanted to know what was Boehner and McConnell's playbook.
And I said, there's one word.
And then I changed and I said, no, it's actually three words.
I'll tell you what the one word was.
Duck.
No, no, no, no.
No, no, the word in the playbook is not cave.
It's duck.
Look, here's where we are.
We had a massive landslide election victory last November.
We sent a bunch of conservatives there.
We took control of the House of Representatives.
But the leadership didn't change in the last election.
The leadership is the same bunch.
The leadership is pre-Tea Party.
The leadership is still of the old screw.
And they still have the let's make a deal mentality.
We got to do a deal.
Got to do something.
That's the mentality.
We got to do something.
And they don't.
They really don't have to do anything.
And I don't think it's incorrect to say that until there is Tea Party leadership, you're not going to see significant change.
Why are we still sitting here worried about caving?
Why are we still, you know, why do I tell you at the opening of every program?
Republicans are very nervous.
Why do I?
Because it's the same leadership.
And...
And they are of the let's make a deal mentality.
If we had Alan West, for example, just to pick a well-known name for the Republican freshman class running the house, if we had the Tea Party Brigade, we wouldn't be anywhere near this deal the way we are at present.
It'd be an entirely different dynamic if there was different leadership.
Just the way it is.
It's just what happens.
You know, it doesn't really need to be complicated.
Ronald Reagan called them tax and spend liberals, and that's what they are.
That's what they'll always be, tax and spend.
You don't have to call them Marxists or communists or statists or socialists or doofuses or whatever.
They are all that, but they're tax and spend.
And if that's what you're for, they are your people.
Tax and spend.
So Moody's, or as our good friend Stuart Varney says, Moodis.
Moodis has just sided with the Doofus and said that McConnell's Plan B is a non-starter.
And the reason McConnell did Plan B was to get Moody's approval.
That's the irony here.
We're trying to get the approval of all these people who we want them to recognize that we are responsible adults when it comes to the debt ceiling, and we are not going to default.
And Moody's looked at McConnell's Plan B and said, nope, won't fly with the Doofus and so it won't fly with us.
Plain and simple.
The president who votes perfect, a president rather, who votes present on the $14 trillion deficit national debt, smitten.
He likes the Gang of Six bill.
He's smitten with a bill that doesn't exist because as I say, theHill.com, he Democrats, Gang of Six plan won't be ready for debt limit deal by August 1st, much less Ramadan August 1st.
Well, August 2nd, it won't be ready, and it won't be ready August 1st either, which is Ramadan.
At this stage of events, you'd almost have to conclude that Obama needs the crisis more than he needs campaign money.
You know, Goldman Sachs released what I think is bombshell news.
And here's their version.
Following another week of weak economic data, we have cut our estimates for real GDP growth in the second and third quarter of 2011 to 1.5% and 2.5%, respectively.
They originally were forecasting U.S. economic growth at 2% and 3.25% in the third and fourth quarters.
Second and third quarters, excuse me.
They say that their forecasts for Q4 and 2012 are under review, but even excluding any further changes, we now expect the unemployment rate to come down only modestly to 8.4% at the end of 2012.
That's the CHICOM growth rate at 9.5%.
We're talking about the United States of America, and these people are predicting a growth rate of 1.5%.
We're being outgrown by a communist country.
Folks, there's something else going on out there.
Dana Milbank in the Washington Post today and a number of other liberals are saying, you know, Reagan would have, Reagan would have done this deal in an instant.
Reagan raised taxes.
Reagan raised a debt limit.
Reagan signed on to Reagan did all these things.
My God, if these guys can't do this and they keep invoking Reagan, it is utter desperation.
You know when they start claiming the mantle of Reagan for themselves that they are desperate.
And as the Heritage Foundation Morning Bell says today, desperate to sell American people on a yet-to-be-determined plan to raise the debt ceiling, increase taxes, and avoid necessary reforms to rein in government.
Liberals are turning to an unlikely ally to make their case.
Former President Ronaldus Magnus.
Their utterly transparent tactic reveals a larger truth.
Despite all the rhetoric, liberals have failed to convince America that their way is the best way to move Washington forward.
The offending invocation of Reagan's legacy comes from the House Democrats in the form of a 54-second video featuring audio from a September 87 radio address in which the former president called on Congress to raise the debt ceiling, warning that the U.S. has a special responsibility to itself and the world to meet its obligations.
Quote unquote.
The House Democrats fashioned those words into a bludgeon aimed at Republicans attempting to lay the blame for Washington's failure to raise the debt limit squarely at their feet.
So now, Washington Post columnist Data Milbank parroted that message in a column today calling Democrats the new party of Reagan and claiming that conservatives' demands for restraining the growth of government is at odds with the policies enacted under Reagan's tenure.
But all of the clever rhetoric and recasting of history is designed to distract from the reality on the ground.
The U.S. government has racked up $14 trillion in debt for more than 800 days.
As a matter of policy now, by the way, the U.S. Senate has failed to pass a budget.
President Obama continues to call for compromise and shared sacrifice, all while insisting on tax increases to fund spending.
That's not how Reagan operated.
This is, again, the surest sign of desperation you could see when these leftists have to appropriate Reagan as their own.
You know, if I'm Barack Hussein Obama and I'm as egocentric as he is and I'm as narcissistic as he is, and I get up and I see that my media allies are trying to say that, you know, we're the new Reagan.
He spent his life, he wrote in his books that his life's work was to destroy Reaganism.
And now his own media and his own party members are invoking Reagan to sell this thing.
It remains true.
They're the ones who are desperate.
And to show you how desperate, here comes Clinton.
Clinton, hey, you know what?
I'd use that 14th Amendment without hesitation.
I'd go in there and I'd turn this thing around and I'd make them take me to federal court and sue me.
I'd make them sue me.
I make them go to courts.
I think it's constitutional clear.
I think this idea that Congress gets to vote twice on whether to pay for expenditures is appropriate is crazy.
And if they don't like it, they take me to court.
That's and by the way, I have little doubt that if it comes to it, Obama will invoke the 14th Amendment.
I think, as a good friend of mine pointed out, he's probably already got the paperwork ready to go sitting in his desk drawer.
If it comes to that.
Let me take a quick time out here, folks.
We will do that, be back before you know it with much more broadcast excellence.
I'm back serving humanity, El Rushbo.
How does that happen?
I show up.
It's just that simple.
Okay, I mentioned a heat wave earlier.
Ladies and gentlemen, do you know this heat index?
How old do you think that is, folks?
How long have you heard about the heat index?
What actually is the heat index?
Well, I don't research out there.
The heat index was developed in 1978 by George Winterling.
And he called it the humature.
It was a combination out there of the temperature and the humidity.
And in 1979, the National Weather Service under Jimmy Carter adopted it.
So some guy comes along and says, you know what?
There's a thing called a heat index out there.
Like the wind chill index, the heat index contains assumptions about the human body mass and height, clothing, amount of physical activity, thickness of blood, sunlight, ultraviolet radiation exposure, and the wind speed.
Significant deviations from these will result in heat index values which do not accurately reflect the perceived temperature.
So we move forward to today, and I look here at Drudge Stifling States of America, DC heat to 116.
Now, I saw that and I said, whoa, it's going to hit 116 degrees in Washington.
So I called up all my weather apps.
And what I found was this.
Today, high temperature, Washington 95.
I scratched my head.
I said, well, wait, okay.
Then I went to Thursday, 100 degrees.
Friday, 103.
Saturday, it's going to be 101.
Sunday, it's going to be, see, 96 and Monday, 93.
I don't see 116 here anywhere.
So I went to the Washington Post.
I care, well, if it's going to hit 116 degrees in Washington, they certainly will have the news.
And lo and behold, they did.
Here's the headline.
Shock forecast.
NOAA predicts heat index of 116 in Washington Friday, not temperature.
So the arbitrary, you're going to feel like it's 116.
But let me ask you, how many of you were anywhere where it was 116 in the last few years, months to know what 116 feels like?
Why not just report the temperature what it's going to be?
It's going to be 100 degrees.
It's going to be 103.
That happens every summer in Washington.
And now it's going to be 116.
It's going to be deadly hot.
Unprecedented heat.
116 heat index.
More manipulation.
You wait.
What's predictably to follow here?
Global warming stories.
I remember, I'd look at it.
I've got some stories here.
The 1980 United States heat wave.
Now, this is important because in 1979, Newsweek's story on the coming ice age hit.
You know, 1975, Time had one.
1979, Newsweek had a cover story of the coming ice age.
Now, I was working in Kansas City in 1980 for the Kansas City Royals.
And I'm telling you, in August, it was 104, 105 degrees.
And we all had to wear suits and ties.
Game day, game night.
My job requirements took me down to the field and the clubhouse and all kinds of pregame stuff with sponsors, clients, and grand poobahs of this and that.
Wearing coat and tie, it was hot.
It was that artificial turf at the time had three feet of asphalt underneath the carpet.
Players routinely in day games, after they come off the field, would have to go stand in blocks of ice because the cleats that they wore would melt.
This is so hot.
In other words, this is nothing new.
And when I moved to New York in 1988 in July, started there July 4th, actually.
This show started August 1st of 88, but I did a local New York show and a show for Sacramento for six weeks prior to there, three weeks, whatever prior, starting at July 4th.
And for three weeks in July, I had never experienced that kind of heat and humidity as it was in Manhattan.
The temperature wasn't all that high.
It was just, man, it was just oppressive.
I have never forgotten it.
It would rain and the rain felt like you were in a shower.
So this is nothing new.
And I'm sure you and your life can remember all kinds of examples of extreme heat throughout your life.
But man, this is new.
It's unprecedented.
Look at it.
116 degrees in Washington on Friday.
Unprecedented.
No, it is.
Let's go to Atlanta.
Rob, hello, sir.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call out.
I really appreciate it.
You bet, sir.
I love you, but I'm going to disagree with you.
Uh-oh.
I think we really are.
I'm going to disagree with you on what you said earlier about the Republican leadership.
You said that if we had just had different Republican leadership, things would be different.
And maybe that's right, but I don't think so.
And here's why.
I really think that us limited government types really are Charlie Brown trying to kick the football.
We elected Ronald Reagan.
Government grew.
We elected, we changed the House of Representatives under Newt, and we had a short timeout.
The government grew.
And now we've elected these Tea Party Republicans, and we're getting ready to fall on our back again.
And my point is that we have a systemic problem.
George Washington couldn't go there and fix this.
The way the government is operating itself is predetermined to spend money.
And that's my only point.
And all the talk about electing the right people and just calling them and writing them and making them do the right thing isn't going to fix the problem because it's a systemic problem.
And there's lots of reasons for that, I think.
But I think we should start talking about that.
Well, I have been all day.
The system is just another word for the ruling class.
Well, no, no.
The system is the way the Constitution is operating and is understood, and the way the political system is set up.
What is, for example, are you saying the Constitution is the problem then?
Well, not necessarily as it was originally founded, I don't.
I think, personally, I think that where the major turning point was was the 17th Amendment, I don't think that if we had senators who represented states, that we would have ended up with the Supreme Court that we have, which would allow the things that it has as far as interstate commerce and all the rest.
You're complicating this too much.
You said that we've elected a Tea Party and nothing changed.
If it weren't for the Tea Party, we would have caved.
If it weren't for the Tea Party, there wouldn't have even been a disagreement, even after winning the election.
If there were a Tea Party leadership, it would be different.
I have no doubt about that.
Yeah, we elected Newton to boys, and they did balance the budget for the first time in a long time.
At the same time, the doofuses of this country elected Clinton.
There's your system.
We have some interesting news.
Oh, what when four astronauts aboard Atlantis heading home?
When's that supposed?
When are they supposed to land?
Do you have any idea?
I'll find out.
Because I got this great tracking thing on Google Earth.
NASA put together the shuttle flight tracker.
And it's, we put the link up at rushlimbaugh.com.
Thursday.
I want to look at it.
I want to track the landing on this thing.
It's a 3D animation.
I don't have to be up early.
I mean, once it captures, I guess I could watch the launch today if I wanted to.
It just captures the whole thing and then it keeps it as a file.
Folks, big news here: Forbes.com.
Obama calls Democrat leaders to the White House at a meeting to take place shortly before 3 p.m.
In other words, Obama has summoned Democrats only to a post-Rush Show meeting at the White House.
Obama has told the Democrats in Congress of leaders, come to the White House for a meeting after a Limbaugh show.
That's what it means when you got a meeting that starts at 3 o'clock.
That means you're meeting after the Rush Show.
Now, what could their problem be?
You figure they got a problem.
They're not calling a meeting to celebrate, are they?
No, they're not going to not worry about combating the doofus thing.
The Republicans were supposed to have caved by now.
The gang of six was supposed to have been universally adopted, and it hasn't been.
See, they've got a Democrats have a problem, and Obama has a problem.
They all know, quote-unquote, Obama's a great leader.
He just cursed with bad followers.
So that's her problem.
What are they going to do?
We know we got a great leader here, but the followers are embarrassing as hell.
The followers are really bad people.
So we need better followers.
How are we going to get better followers?
It'll probably be what the meeting is.
Somebody asked me if I thought the previous caller who cited the 17th Amendment and said he was basically trying to say the system is the Constitution.
The Constitution is one of the problems where we are, 17th Amendment, and all that.
There is a group of people out there, folks, that want a constitutional convention.
And it'd be the nuttiest thing we could do because you'd just turn the whole country over to the left, the parasites, government operatives, that's who would take over, and they would rewrite the Constitution so that it would say exactly what they are doing and what they believe.
You know, the left fights on and on.
They really, when you look at how they operate, they don't look for knockout punches.
If they can find one, they'll throw it, but they keep at it and they keep it, just like the old Soviets did.
Soviets didn't have four-year plans.
They just had a plan.
They had an objective.
And however long down the road it took them to get there, that's and they were never deterred until they, of course, couldn't go on anymore because of their own implosion.
And they keep at it and they keep at it.
And we, the Republicans, over the course of history, have shown that we will surrender all the time.
And now we got people dumping on Reagan and knew it when he was driving the agenda.
We have to stay at this.
There's no option.
There's no choice.
Can't cave.
There's no other way out other to sit back and watch it all crumble, which is what that's the only option we've got.
If we do nothing, we sit back and watch it all crumble.
Reagan didn't have a conservative house.
The house was Democrat his entire presidency.
In the Senate, it was Republican a few years.
Then the Republicans lost it, but it was never a conservative Senate.
You think if Jim DeMint or Ron Johnson or Marco Rubio were leading the Senate, you think we would have had something akin to the McConnell plan offered by any of them.
There wouldn't have been a McConnell plan offered if we'd have had somebody like Rubio leading the Senate.
I'm not saying just change the GOP leadership and that'll fix things.
There's not a single act that's going to fix things.
I'm just making observations out there.
I just think we have to press the case at every level, every opportunity, every way.
Which is why I've just lost patience with people that want to capitulate and surrender at the first negative press report.
It doesn't fit my agenda.
By the way, folks, more on this heat wave business story from the Associated Press.
Headline says it all.
Heat wave hardest on nation's poorest communities.
I kid you not how similar, I mean, journalism has a playbook.
Women and minorities hardest hit.
Without fail, women and minorities hardest hit.
With much of the nation in the grip of a broiling heat wave, few people are hit as hard as the poor.
And few places are poorer than the ramshackle communities along the Texas-Mexico border, known as Colonias.
Of course, the heat doesn't bother the rest of us at all.
No, it only bothers the poor.
To which I say, take the food stamp, go get an air conditioner.
Well, poverty in this country today, I saw this.
Poverty now includes a big screen TV, air conditioning, and a car.
People in poverty have those things in this country.
Yes, it's true.
I saw it.
And in Fort Myers, Florida, great that you waited.
Nice to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Megan Dittos from the Gulf Coast, Mr. T. Thank you, sir.
Hey, you were speaking about the phony baloney polls that they're putting out saying that the American people favored a balanced approach and tax increases and everything else.
Yeah.
It got me thinking, which is one of your greatest contributions to society, as you get us thinking.
It got me thinking back to the healthcare debate and how it seemed to me that most of the polls out there seemed to indicate that an overwhelming majority of the American people were opposed to it.
But they didn't seem to care about the polls back then, did they?
Oh, no, of course not.
Exactly not.
You're right.
The people opposed the healthcare debate that when the people were opposed to immigration didn't.
No, no, no.
The people were that's what I mean.
Obama's a great leader with bad followers.
Exactly.
Exactly.
In the spirit of when opportunity knocks, you fling the door wide open.
Can I ask you another question about polls?
About polls?
By all means.
I know them all.
Go ahead and ask.
Well, I listen to you talk about them all the time, and many times you say that one side or the other is sweating because of the internals of the poll.
And I never was able to figure out what the internals are.
Well, the internals are actually polled.
When I say internals, some people call them across tabs.
Other people call them the charts, all the minutiae detail that accounts.
What I mean by internals, meaning private.
Obama has his own polling unit, and it's different from the ABC News poll or the CBS poll or any of the others.
When I say internal White House polling, that means the poll they are personally paying for, their campaign is paying for, is what I mean.
And their poll, those internal polls are usually privately commissioned.
Well, they are privately commissioned, and they're usually much more focused, and they spend a lot more money on them.
It's their, I mean, it is their sole business.
You know, polling data and campaigns go together like water and soap for most people.
Well, thank you very much, Rush.
That's why you have a lifelong student at the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies.
Appreciate that.
Thanks very much.
I appreciate that.
Hey, folks, you know, people ask me, was it really that bad in Joplin when you went to destruction?
I said it's worse.
The destruction, the devastation in Joplin cannot properly be conveyed with television pictures, which is weird, but it can't.
When you actually are close by and you see it flying low, getting ready to land, or when we took off leaving, it is amazing.
There are parts of Joplin that looked as much like the seventh century as I saw when I was in Afghanistan.
That's how bad the devastation was.
And it's just a reminder of the unpredictable and unstoppable power of Mother Nature.
Tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, whatever.
None of us are immune to natural disasters.
Chris in Henderson, Nevada, which is Las Vegas, essentially.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush, Megan, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas?
Dittos.
Thank you very much, sir.
Longtime listener, first-time caller.
I've got a theory that I think warrants your expert analysis, and that is that I think what's happening is we're seeing the progressives and the left, I guess, in general, is seeing their entire paradigm, their belief system, is being challenged the last two and a half years is evident of that.
What's happening in Europe is evident of that.
And so I think it's to be expected you'd get this kind of reaction.
I know I would react strongly if someone said, hey, your entire way of thinking is messed up.
What are your thoughts?
Well, I think it depends on which liberals you're talking about.
But I think rank and file doofus liberal believers are stunned.
They really do expect the utopia.
They really do expect fairness and equality and roses and all that wonderful stuff.
I think they are enraged and angry all the time anyway, but now even more so because they're seeing firsthand it doesn't work.
Liberal leaders are another matter.
They have known forever that they are governing against the will of people.
Now, in Europe, they've brought the people along to the point where the people have no choice anymore.
And they know human nature.
And they know that a majority of people can be made to be very lazy and become dependent.
But they're very patient about all this is my point.
They'll work on this.
They never give up an idea.
Once they decide the SUV is bad, at some point, the SUV is going to go.
Unless they're fought.
So I don't think there's anything mysterious about them.
And I think they know this.
They look at they have to lie in order to get elected.
They know they're governing against the will of people.
Obama knows it.
He just doesn't care at all.
I know it's hard to understand when you're talking about the president, but it's true.
Folks, one other important point about internal polls.
They're true.
A candidate needs the truth.
A campaign needs to know the exact lay of the land.
Internal polls, privately commissioned polls by candidates, are dead-on accurate, as accurate as polling can be, as distinguished from public polls.
Never forget that.
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