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July 28, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 28, 2011, Thursday, Hour #2
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Look at that graphic up on MSNBC.
McConnell says he is shocked by the Democrat opposition.
There it is.
There it is.
Look, Reed is the Democrats can incorporate elements of their bill into the Boehner bill.
There it is.
Reed is now saying it.
McConnell saying he's shocked that the Democrats are so opposed to the Boehner Bill.
He's shocked that Reed just said it.
Democrats could incorporate elements of Boehner Bill in the Reed Bill.
Gosh, this is one I told you I hoped I was wrong, but I'm not.
Welcome to the home of ideological purity.
Ill Rush Ball behind the golden EIB microphone here, the Limbaugh Institute for Ideological Purity, the advanced conservative studies place.
Folks, I must tell you, I am being bombarded from all quarters, all four corners of the earth.
I'm being bombarded rush.
Take a look at this brilliant piece by Thomas Sowell, who says the Boehner bill is great.
Not great, but it's the best we can do.
We've got to go for it.
I know you love Tom Solrush, what do you get this?
Other emails laying out various scenarios, rationales for accepting the Boehner bill.
What do you think of this rush?
Why not the pressure's on out there, ladies and gentlemen?
But the truth is now apparent.
The Democrats, the White House say no to the Bahner bill, but it gets over there if it passes the House, and then Dingy Harry's gonna start making changes to it.
That's the plan.
And the White House now adopting this whole notion that the Republicans are spoiling Christmas.
The Boehner bill recreates the debt limit fight all over again during the holidays.
I did get an email explanation from this from uh Jack Ramirez, who is a subscriber rush 24-7.
Rush, the new Boehner bill has fewer dollars in it.
917 billion, where the first version was over one trillion.
The bill, though, wants the cuts to exceed the debt ceiling increases.
Therefore, under the new Boehner bill with lower cuts, the ceiling will increase uh ceiling increases lower and expire sooner, sometime late this year instead of next year.
That's Jack's explanation of how the Christmas is uh is relevant.
Now, remember uh, ladies and gentlemen, on this program earlier this week, Speaker Boehner appeared, and after he explained his bill, I asked him a question.
I said, So the way it works is the president gets his one and a half trillion dollars in new spending immediately.
But the cuts are spread out over ten years.
And the speaker paused and said, Rush, rush, it's uh it's hard work here.
Basically confirming it.
My friend Andy McCarthy posted a uh relevant piece to this National Review Online yesterday, in which he basically says, hey, you know, I'm all about compromise.
Well, what about this?
If we have to accept spending cuts in dribs and drabs, why can't Obama get his debt ceiling increase in dribs and drabs?
Giving the money to Obama in trillion dollar tranches helps him since it minimizes the chance that he'll have to go through this debate again with America gawking at what he spent before the election, but does it help us?
Why can't we propose to increase the debt ceiling as real spending cuts happen?
Where is it written?
In other words, that the spending cuts are phased in over ten years, but the spending happens immediately.
Well, that's just the way Washington works.
Uh be it tax cuts or spending or whatever, the spending always happens right now.
And of course has to happen right now because the debt limit.
We got we got it.
We got to raise the debt limit.
Triple A rating is in jeopardy, all of that.
But the cuts They're in the out years.
And of course, they are so far down the out years that future Congresses don't even have to abide by them.
Each Congress passes its own budget.
So why can't we propose to increase the debt ceiling as real spending cuts happen?
Now, we understand that doing this on a dollar for dollar basis may be impractical, but even if we proposed to give Obama two or three dollars of raised debt for every dollar of real cuts, as the real cuts actually occur, it'd be a lot better than the proposals on the table.
We'd be able to show that we're not unwilling to raise the debt ceiling, but we'd be ensuring that it was raised no more than is necessary to give the government breathing room on pending obligations.
It would also keep the focus on spending.
And it would force Obama, who claims to be for deficit reduction, but hasn't produced any actual plan to tell us what he would cut.
If he wants the ceiling raises, he's got to come across with the cuts.
I think that's a very smart idea, and it would be a real compromise.
Thank you.
Because we don't want to raise the debt ceiling at all.
The principle of matching the ceiling rise to spending cuts has been generally accepted.
What we're talking about would just ensure that there is reality on both sides of the equation.
Real raises only upon real cuts.
So if you want to increase spending, sort of like pay-go, Nancy Pelosi's famous paygo, which doesn't exist either, but it's a matter of law.
You have to pay for what you're spending at that moment.
And if you and if you don't have it, you have to cut spending somewhere else.
But if we're going to grant Obama all this new spending authority, and we're going to get spending cuts as part of it, why not time them to happen simultaneously?
Okay, we're going to cut 100 billion here, so Mr. Obama, you get spend $100 billion.
In other words, why wait to 10 years for the spending cuts?
Why can't they happen as soon as the spending happens?
So it's folks, it's it's it's it's pressure mounting out there.
It's clear what's uh what's on the table in terms of where this is headed.
If the Democrats get their way, the Republicans will pass the Boehner bill.
It will go to the Senate where it'll immediately be pronounced dead on arrival.
And then Dingy Harry will say, but there's enough here.
You know what?
We can work with this.
We didn't really realize all that was in this.
Some stuff in here that yeah, yeah, yeah.
So the Reed will say, I'd take parts of my we'll just plugging these things from my bill into this, and maybe I can get some Democrat votes on it after all.
And then miraculously, miraculously, the prince of compromise, Harry Reid steals the day by compromising with just an outrageous debt on a rival bill, gets all kinds of credit for hard work, rolling up sleeves, and that magic compromise, and then sends that back to the House.
Okay, Republicans, balls back in your court.
Here's your bill with a few modifications.
Now it's too late for this now, because the Boehner bill is being voted on this afternoon after the markets close.
Well, maybe it's not too late.
I will advance the idea.
Everybody's talking about revenue and a balanced approach.
You know, Obama and the Democrats desperately want revenue, meaning tax increases in their definition.
Okay, well, here we come, live and direct from reality heights.
Boehner should send his bill over to Dingy Harry with a 20% corporate tax rate cut And a 15% capital gains tax rate.
I mean, send a bill over there that cuts the corporate tax rate from 35 to 20, cuts the capital gains rate to 15%, and say, here it is.
You wanted revenue in the bill, here it is.
Revenues will be enhanced with this modification.
Balance has been achieved.
Send the bill over there with some tax cuts in it, because everybody knows.
That's why Obama did not expire the Bush tax cuts last December.
He knew that it would be a tax increase on people.
So we send a bill over there that's got a corporate cat uh tax rate reduction, a capital gains tax cut, and say, here's your revenue enhancement.
The revenue enhancement canard, I mean, this is a big deal of Democrats.
So let's address it.
Let's not lose the war of words here.
American people should know that there's not going to be any capitulation on the English language.
A lie is a lie.
Charts and graphs can prove that tax rate reductions enhance revenue.
Tax cuts create revenue, particularly in an economy like ours.
A balanced approach would require tax cuts, the only proven way to raise revenue and create jobs.
It's a little late for this, perhaps an opportunity lost, but I'm throwing it out there anyway.
Throw it out there.
Put some tax rate reduction.
You want to raise revenue?
That's how you do it.
The Democrats are talking about raising revenue, raising revenue, revenue enhancements.
Give it to them with tax cuts.
Put it in there.
We'll take a break.
I promise your phone calls are coming after this.
And we're back.
Rush Limbaugh, the cutting edge of societal evolution from the National Journal.
Hotline people, Republicans argue Boehner's bill is the only option for averting default before the August 2nd deadline to raise the debt ceiling.
Republicans say that Boehner's bill is the only option for averting default.
If we don't do it, we go to default.
We get blamed for it.
Country's in bad shape, blah, blah, blah.
Reed, here it is again now, folks.
This is from the National Journal.
Reed intends to amend the Boehner bill with aspects of his own.
Alternative proposal, send the bill back to the House.
He will need help from Senate Republicans, in particular Mitch McConnell, to alter the bill.
Now, McConnell has touted his support for the Boehner bill.
AIDS acknowledge that McConnell's been talking to Joe Bitney, the vice president, who's attempting to broker a compromise about the debt ceiling.
McConnell's office said the two men are not negotiating an endgame, but a Democrat aide disputed that claim.
It sounds, folks, like Reid's only real complaint is the timeline.
As we've said all along, they want to keep their spending from being an election issue.
Here's what Reed said today.
This again from the National Journal.
No Democrat will vote for a short-term band-aid that would put our economy at risk and put the nation back in this untenable situation a few short months from now.
So the grand compromise, I'm just speculating here.
The grand compromise might be to increase the amount enough to push the second step back a year beyond the 2012 election.
That's that's what the Democrats are aiming for.
It's what Obama wants.
That's his lifeline to re-election.
Okay.
Phones.
Ocala, Florida.
Hank, you're up first today.
Great to have you with us, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Russian bitters to you.
Thank you, sir.
A long time to talk to you.
What's going on now is just it's crazy.
And what the American people and the Republicans are sitting there watching.
And this would be the second time that they fold it now.
And the people are just not going to show up to vote again if they just keep doing this.
It's just crazy.
Boehner's doing the two-step, and they're going to waltz Obama right back into the White House.
Well, I don't know.
I don't know what to think.
We'll have to wait and see what happens.
And it's easy for people to sit here and say, if they do that, I've had it.
I'm out of here.
I'm gone.
Because there still is a very uh profound heartfelt opposition to Obama.
And when November 2012 comes along comes around getting rid of Obama at the ballot box, that's still gonna be uh something uh people are gonna want to accomplish independent of what happens now.
I know the Republicans are are counting on that.
But the Tea Party is a wild card.
I uh d the uh uh everybody's really afraid of what they might do.
They really are.
I mean they Republicans rip 'em and criticize them and and so forth around election time, they romance and wine and dine them.
It's just like the old um uh moral majority or the pro lifers.
They were despised except once every four years.
Then they were loved, respected, wined and dined.
But I don't care how you slice it.
Obama and the Democrats are poison for America.
Look at what they're doing here.
They are literal poison for this country.
Sean in Beeville, Texas.
Hello.
Hello there.
Good afternoon to your turn.
You bet, how are you?
I'm doing fine.
Good.
Hey, I was telling your guy there that I heard Jay Carney referred to the Baylor bill during his White House press briefing as the Obama Bahner bill.
Really?
Yes, that was about an hour and a half ago.
The Obama Boehner bill.
Slip of the tongue.
I I don't think that means anything.
Okay.
And my other thing is I had the thought the other day that Obama reminds me of the Richard Trump of politics.
He's he's a union boss and the Democratic uh party is the biggest union in this country, and he's got the biggest corporate jet.
Yep.
Yep.
No question about it.
Sarasona, Florida.
Ted hello, welcome to the EIB network.
Yes, how are you doing today?
Very good.
Thank you.
Yeah.
What's your intake on uh the Norwegian massacre?
Well my original take on this I was told not to utter.
Why I I was I was I was told not to tell anybody what my original thought on the Norwegian massacre was.
What is it?
Well, that's why I said I shouldn't tell you.
I mean nobody's changing.
What is your take on it?
My take is that we have to watch for extreme Muslims as well as extreme right wing extremists.
Extreme Muslims as well as extreme right wing extremists.
Yes.
Are there any extreme Muslims?
Yeah, a lot of them.
A lot of them.
And and there are a lot of extreme right wingers.
Is this guy's a right winger?
Yeah.
You don't know that?
Well, I didn't know they had right wingers in Norway.
I mean, that's that's I I thought Norway was all leftists.
No, no.
He he was he he claimed to be a Christian fundamentalist.
Oh, a Christian fundamentalist.
That's what he claimed to be.
Well, now I remember after 9-11 happened, our State Department convened a uh symposium or uh uh a meeting which they said we must find out why they hate us so much.
We must do everything we can to understand the kind of rage that would result in this kind of uh of act.
So would it be inappropriate to say that maybe we ought to have a meeting to figure out just exactly why this guy is so enraged and try to understand it.
Yeah, that's what they're doing in Norway right now.
They are?
Yeah.
You mean they're really trying to figure out why this guy's so upset and maybe understand it?
Yeah.
No, they're not.
They want to put the guy away for life forever.
Yeah, but they try to figure out why he he's so weird in this motives.
No, no.
No, no, no.
That's not what I mean.
That no we weren't trying to figure out why the Muslims were so weird.
We were trying to figure out what was wrong with us that would make them it's nothing wrong with us.
Well, no, that's you're missing my point.
After nine eleven, our State Department got together, put together a symposium.
What's wrong with us?
What's wrong with the American?
Why do these reasonable people hate us so much?
So I'm simply saying they just hate us because they hate us.
And that was the same thing with uh Brayvick in Norway.
Uh yeah.
Well, I'm just I'm just trying to make a point here.
I'm not he hates the democratic society, and he wants to enforce a um Western European Christian society that's a very good thing.
Well, maybe we ought to listen to him.
Maybe we ought to listen to him.
The State Department said maybe we ought to listen to the Muslims and see what they have to say.
I'm just pointing out where is the consistency here.
And we're back.
Rush Limbaugh, the big voice on the right.
Look, this guy in uh in Norway.
I've been waiting for that call.
I have been waiting for that call.
So let me answer the call full fledged.
What do I think of this crazed right wing extremist?
I knew what the caller was trying to do.
The media, the media is out there calling this guy a Christian extremist, a Christian fundamentalist.
This guy is a lunatic.
He's against everybody, not just Muslims.
He was a he was a racial purist.
He says he did this in the name of Christianity and Western civilization.
There's nothing particularly new about that, but he was not a Christian.
He's a neo Nazi.
The guy is your average run of the mill neo Nazi.
And there's nothing new there.
Those guys are all over the place.
Now look.
Obama, after 9 11 said he had empathy for the terrorists, that we needed to try to figure out what would cause them to fly planes into our buildings.
And voila, we came up with an answer.
Our policy with Israel and their poverty.
It was our fault.
The State Department, that was the reason for that stupid symposium.
Why do they hate us so much?
Not why are they irrational, but what's wrong with us?
Why do they hate us so much?
This guy is not particularly Christian, no more than most neo-Nazis are.
They use the term over there Christian to mean non-Muslim.
If you're non-Muslim, everybody's everybody's called a Christian.
This guy, what was it in Brevik?
He had a manifesto.
Like the unibomber.
In fact, he lifted whole sections of the unibomber's manifesto for his own 1,500 page manifesto.
And that's a detail we haven't heard too much about.
This supposed extreme right winger is a plagiarist of the unibomber who loved Al Gore.
Oh, and by the way, speaking of Al Gore, this fraud that took all those pictures of the polar bears on on melting ice is being called on it and may have his scientific credentials stripped for engaging in fraudulent science.
All those pictures of these poor polar bears on three square feet of a remaining glacier.
When polar bears play on those things constantly, they can swim 60 miles.
This guy may have his scientific credentials, whatever they're worth, stripped.
The Virginia Tech Kook.
That terrorist also wrote a manifesto.
And we didn't hear much about that.
But suddenly, this lunatic in Norway has a manifesto, and it's supposed to be very revealing.
The Unibomber Manifesto.
New York Times published it when they found out later that the guy was an acolyte of Al Gore.
Oh, let's forget the manifesto.
This guy's an lunatic.
Here's our president, Barack Obama, September 19th, 2001 edition of the Hyde Park Herald.
And I quote, even as I hope for some measure of peace and comfort to the bereaved families of 9 11, I must also hope that we as a nation draw some measure of wisdom from this tragedy.
Certain immediate lessons are clear, and we must act upon those lessons decisively.
We must also engage, however, in the more difficult task of understanding the sources of such madness.
The essence of this tragedy, it seems to me, derives from a fundamental absence of empathy on the part of the attackers.
An inability to imagine or connect with the humanity and suffering of others.
Such a failure of empathy, such numbness to the pain of a child or the desperation of a parent is not innate.
Nor history tells us is it unique to a particular culture, religion, or ethnicity?
It may find expression in a particular brand of violence and may be channeled by particular demagogues or fanatics.
Most often, though, it grows out of a climate of poverty and ignorance, helplessness, and despair.
So they were blameless.
And he said, Finally, we will have to devote far more attention to the monumental task of raising the hopes and prospects of embittered children across the globe.
Children not just in the Middle East, but also in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and within our own shores.
Now I ask you, has there been any reaction like that to this lunatic in Norway?
I'm just going to tell you, folks, if there were consistency, you know what would be happening right now?
The government of Norway would be asking this guy, okay, where do you want your church?
Well.
What?
What?
What would you what?
We're gonna have, we were gonna have a public years-long trial for Khalid Sheikh Muhammad.
We were gonna pay 200 million dollars a year in security, and this guy was gonna have a U.S. courtroom, the mastermind of 9-11 was gonna have a U.S. courtroom to unload on the United States of America, Western civilization, Western culture, and everything else.
Because there are elements in this regime who think that somehow that would be helpful.
And then along came this request to put a mosque at ground zero.
And a lot of people said, Yeah, we must understand that they if they want a mosque, we must okay.
Some people opposed it, of course.
The racism, so what happens if this lunatic neo-Nazi, after all this some time passes, is he wants to build a church at the site of his crime.
What do you think the reaction would be?
Universal.
No way, pal.
Universal you think this guy is going to be offered a year's long trial to spew whatever it is he thinks.
No.
Damn right, if they could bring the death penalty back on this guy, they would do it without a trial.
So I've been waiting for that question.
I've been waiting for that call.
And I knew right before the break in the last half hour, maybe we should listen to him.
That's all Obama said.
Maybe we should listen to them, find out what's bugging them.
That's what our State Department said after 9-11, maybe we should listen to him, find out what's bugging them.
Now you watch Snerdley is in full-fledged panic over the media it headline that's going, probably being written now.
All right, we're rolling on it.
There's a press conference.
Boehner and the leadership are um calling their press conference, and there's canter Boehner is saying after our vote today, the Senate will have no excuses.
Boehner says, Nobody in my caucus thinks the bill is perfect, but after today, the Senate will have no excuses.
So it's clear what the thinking is.
We're gonna get this off our desk.
We're gonna get this passed.
We're gonna send it over there, and it's their problem.
We have done our duty.
We have done what the American people want.
We have avoided the credit rating problem.
We have raised the debt limit.
We have no tax increases in our bill.
We've put a good bill.
We're gonna send it over there.
And if the Senate opposes it, it's their problem, and they're gonna be the ones who are seen as the obstructionists.
That's obviously what the Republican leadership thinks.
They're essentially saying so.
Now cookies rolling on all this.
I didn't want to jip it, because they're all speaking.
But we'll get the salient points of all this.
Uh and play those for you as sound bites.
Quick timeout now here on the EIB network.
We'll be back before you know it.
Stay with us.
Like I think what the Republicans are doing here, uh, folks, just Boehner wants his bill passed to end the crisis.
That's what they think is going to happen.
They passed the bill in the House and they end the crisis.
Boehner and Cantor said the Republicans have brought two bills to the Senate.
So they can pass.
Or they can pass cut cap and balance, those are the two bills, or they can let the country default their choice.
That's what they think.
I but for the life of me.
Ah they oh, this is this is just I just heard it.
They really do think that they've got Reed over a barrel here.
What well they want us to think that's what they think they got.
They think that Reed's is gonna sit there and feel flummoxed.
They think that Reed's gonna think, oh my God, they beat me.
Oh my god, that's in my oh, gee, all this is on my shoulders now.
Here, grab somebody twenty-nine.
Dingy Harry this afternoon on a Senate floor, before the recently concluded Republican press conference.
Today the House representatives will vote on Speaker Boehner's short-term plan to raise the debt ceiling.
As soon as the House completes its vote tonight or this afternoon, the Senate will move to take up that message that they sent to us.
It will be defeated.
No Democrat will vote for a short-term band-aid approach that would put our economy at risk and put the nation back in the untenable situation that we are in today, just a few short months from now.
It's time for the Tea Party Republicans to stop resisting compromise.
He must join Democrats and Republicans of goodwill to put the economy ahead of politics.
So it's time for the Tea Party Republicans to stop resisting compromise, join Democrats and Republicans of goodwill to put the economy ahead of politics.
So what's what what's gonna happen?
We're gonna defeat Boehner.
We're gonna defeat it.
But then you watch what happens.
Anybody want take any bets that there's a press conference tonight.
Harry Reid calls a press conference, and he strolls to the microphone, and he says, I want to apologize to all Democrats, members of my party, because I got totally snookered today.
I didn't realize...
That by voting against the Boehner bill that now all of this is on my shoulders.
Default, so forth.
Boehner's really outsmarted us all here.
We we now really we're at a loss.
We don't know what to do.
We can't vote for this, but looks like now we're gonna get blamed for no debt ceiling increase, and we're gonna get blamed for the do you think.
Well, that's the Republican plan, Snertley.
That's what they just it's all on, it's all on the Democrat shoulders now.
They their options.
I just heard Rich Lowry say, Rich Lowry loves this.
Rich Lowry just said, yeah, boy, oh, they don't have any option now.
They can either do they gotta they gotta defeat it or they have to pass it, they have to ignore it, or what.
Um let me grab a phone call before I. Thank you, Russia.
Very kind.
Uh, I want to get right to my point.
It's very, very important to me, and hopefully to your listeners.
The last two times I've called you, you've you've been pretty hard on me.
You've come down on me pretty hard, and I've gotten under your skin for some of the things I've said.
I was a Republican for 20 years.
I left the Army in 89, listening to you.
It was given an education by you.
You were a mentor to people like me.
Uh-oh.
And school.
Well, here's what it comes down to.
And I need to give you a quick example, and you'll understand it like your baseline budgeting example yesterday.
You have a lot of money.
Good for you.
I am damn proud of you for amassing the amount of money that you've made over your career from where you uh began.
I began in the same circumstance in trouble a lot as a youth, pulled myself out of it, and I have a decent life today.
But I don't have your money.
What I see is the Republican Party is a much bigger problem today for me and for tens of millions of people like me, working people, regular working stiffs in this country today, because of the betrayal of the Republican Party, the about face attitude these people took in 2004 and 6, which is why they were voted out in eight and ten.
Yet today you still support these people.
See, the the Congress can take Rush 75% of your money, and you're still gonna live well.
But what about people like me and where taxes are going and cost of living and gas and food and inflation?
The Republican Party did something to this country six and eight years ago that the Democrats never did.
The Democrats always spend money.
We know that devil very well.
But with people like McCain and Boehner and Graham and this old guard, we will never move forward.
But every day, you champion the cause for the Republican Party.
Now the conservative party.
Have you been listening today?
Every single day I have listened.
Every single day.
I am beating these people over the head.
They are calling this program to try to get my mind right.
I what do you mean?
I am not supposed to be Obama every day, but you only bloody the lip of the Republican Party.
Do you think that what I am doing today is supporting what Boehner's bill is?
No, you've called a spade a spade today.
I can understand that.
But it's just Well, what about last week?
What about for the last two years?
I'll say this, Rush.
I think you're poisoned.
But you do we don't need the Republican Party for what they are today, Rush.
We need people that are new and fresh.
Look at this old guard that you go after every day, and and thank God you do.
McCain's as worthless as an old shoe.
An old shoe with holes in it.
Boehner is no better.
McConnell is just the old guard as well.
And by the way, Boehner and McConnell spent money like Democrats, but they're still in the Congress.
They're still in the House, in the Senate, they're in leadership positions.
What do they do for people like me, Rush?
Uh I don't understand where you think I am.
And you think I. It's a hard question.
You survived.
You think that I am championing the ruling class cause?
You think I am championing the establishment Republican cause?
No, but we need a new Republican cause, and maybe that's what I'm trying to channel you toward.
And do you think I am supporting I'm a Tea Party person?
Well, thank God for that.
And I hope.
And by the way, you may sit there and think that after they finish, I'm still going to have enough.
That's not how it works.
That's not how the mind works.
I'm telling you, I do not sit here.
If I fought that, if that's the way my mind worked, well, whatever they do, I'm still going to have a lot left.
I would have resigned.
Or retired.
For crying out loud, I uh what is being done to this country is breaking my heart for the exact reasons that you describe.
These people are destroying the opportunity to create wealth.
It bugs the hell out of me.
What is happening to the country?
By the Washington ruling class.
We're all being played for saps.
I said so yesterday.
Holy smokes!
Welcome back, ladies and gentlemen.
You're tuned to the most listened to radio talk show in the country, hosted by me, L. Rushbow.
I have enough.
No matter what they take, I still have plenty.
Right.
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