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Aug. 15, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 15, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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And back we are, Rush Limbaugh from the EIB Southern Command, the most listened to radio talk show in the country, often imitated, never duplicated.
This program exemplifies the old saying success has many fathers, and failure is an orphan.
You would not believe a number of people who um to this day claim that they have a role in this program's existence today and its founding, which we take is a supreme compliment.
We're happy to be with you.
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All right, these buses that Obama is using.
CBS actually, CBS News underreported the cost of the two new Obama buses.
They were 1.1 million dollars each.
Folks, those buses cost more than my cars.
What?
1.1 million dollars each.
Normally you just go out and rent some buses.
You um, you decorate them inside, whatever you want them to be.
1.1 million dollars, the political reported on their planned purchase back in April.
$2.2 million for Secret Service's new armored buses.
It was Josh Gerstein doing the um reporting.
He's a right winger.
You don't hear much from him these days.
But he is.
From the article said the final cost of the two new buses will exceed 2.2 million because the Secret Service prefers to add its own aftermarket security features to vehicles.
The uh service will do so in this instance as well.
So these buses were purchased back in uh see in uh in uh April.
Did they know back in April they're gonna be doing a meet the public tour in August?
Well, they might have.
There's a lot of uh pre-planning.
Okay, I mentioned honestly at the top of the program.
Uh rarely have have I been this out of it uh six p.m. uh literally, I told you on the Air Friday I was feeling feverish and so forth.
And I finally at 6 p.m.
The whole weekend had a whole weekend planned in in LA.
I was gonna play golf on Saturday, had a couple of nice places gonna take Catherine to dinner with some friends on Friday and Saturday, the whole thing blown.
I was so ticked, I I can't tell you how ticked off I was.
Anyway, finally gave up 6 o'clock Friday, went to bed, and I got out about woke up at about actually 9.30 Sunday morning and managed to get out of bed at noon to leave the hotel at 2 o'clock for the airport.
So I missed Rick Perry's announcement.
I missed everything that happened on Saturday.
And so what we've got here is uh we got some sound bites of Perry's announcement speech in Charleston, South Carolina.
So let's just uh you've you probably have heard this.
I haven't, and I need to.
So let's just start here.
We have one, two, three, four, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, but uh, four.
Yep, four of them, and here we go.
Here's number one.
What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone from any background can climb to the highest of heights.
As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work, and their personal responsibility.
We reject this president's unbridled fixation on taking more money out of wallets and pocketbooks of American families and employers and giving it to a central government.
Spreading the wealth punishes success while setting America on course for greater dependency on government.
And here he hammers uh Obama onto recovery.
Now we're told we're in recovery.
Yeah.
But This sure doesn't feel like a recovery to more than 9% of the Americans out there who are unemployed, or the 16% of the African Americans, 11% of the Hispanics in the same position, or the millions who can only find part-time work, or those who have even stopped looking for a job.
One in six work eligible Americans cannot find a full-time job.
That is not a recovery.
That is an economic disaster.
Now we edited the applause.
The applause went on and on and on.
We edited it, of course, uh for brevity.
For nearly three years, President Obama has been downgrading American jobs.
He's been downgrading our standing in the world.
He's been downgrading our financial stability.
He's been downgrading our confidence and downgrading the hope for a better future for our children.
That's a fact.
It's time to get America working again.
To get our citizens working in good jobs and getting the government to working for the people again.
You know, page one of any economic plan to get America working is to give a pink slip to the current residents in the White House.
Right on, right on, right on.
Here's a final bite that we have.
America is not broken.
Washington, D.C. is broken.
I will not sit back and accept the path that America is on.
Because a great country requires a better direction.
Because a renewed nation needs a new president.
It is time to get America working again, and that's why, with the support of my family and unwavering belief in the goodness of America, I declare to you today as a candidate for President of the United States.
And there you have it.
That's Rick Perry announcing on Saturday in Charleston, South Carolina.
I have met Governor Perry at least once.
By the way, the Washington Post fact-checked Perry's announcement speech.
You remember how they fact-checked Obama's announcement speech.
Well, that's because they didn't.
That's why you don't remember it.
I don't remember it either.
This is kind of a funny story.
This is probably two years ago now.
And I have uh been requested to go to Texas to do a fundraiser.
Now, as as as you most of you know, I do not do fundraisers.
Because if I do one, the floodgates open.
And I I try to keep my distance.
However, this request, I uh could not and would not turn down.
So the minute it was determined, minute it was known that I, L. Rushbaugh, was going to Texas to do a fund.
It was not for Perry.
It was for congressional candidate.
I started getting emails from people warning me, Republicans, warning me that Rick Perry was going to try to sneak into this thing and have his picture taken with me.
For the purposes of his own campaign, he was at the time being opposed by Kay Bailey Hutches.
Texas gubernatorial campaign.
And these emails are coming in from a lot of different people and from a lot of different places.
Thank you.
Warning me not to let this happen.
Do not let yourself be used.
So a little confused by this, I called my host, and I said, Well, what?
You uh uh is there something I ought to know about what's going on at this thing.
No, no, no, no, no.
Everything's fine, and then don't worry about it.
Everything's cool.
And so I went.
And Governor Perry was there.
And not only was he there, but he was the one who introduced me.
And I have to tell you, it was one of the most thorough and uh concise introductions of me that I can recall that was on a spur of the moment kind of thing.
This is a bunch of people hanging around in a in a courtyard of a typical Texas mansion.
Well, it was a fundraiser.
What do you expect?
But it was uh it was, and the crowd loved him.
How many acres was it on?
I don't know.
I didn't count the acres.
No, no, no, no, no.
Drove in.
Didn't helicopter in there.
Uh but I just, it was, it was, he was uh good.
He was he was amiable, and then he made some remarks himself that were very right down the line, right down the middle conservative.
I thought I was uh I was I was duly impressed, which is why I said, I don't know how long ago it's been, a month or six weeks ago, but six weeks.
I saw there was something I saw on the web that Perry was thinking about getting in, and I said if he does, he's going to shake it up because he can talk the talk.
And lo and behold, here he's in it now.
So the conventional wisdom now says it's a three-way race.
It's Perry and Romney and Bachman.
That's what the conventional wisdom is.
Tim Pollenty gets out over the weekend.
Newt's still there, Huntsman is still there.
Uh Santorum is still there.
Uh let's see.
Uh Herman Cain is still there.
Yeah, it was May 18th.
May 18th, I said that Rick Perry scares the hell out of the D.C. establishment.
He does because they hate the elites in the Northeast hate Texas anyway.
They don't like it primarily because of Bush.
But whatever, they don't like Texas.
And when they hear Perry, they think they're listening to Bush.
That just ties them in knots.
They just uh they don't like him.
So he's then, and of course, the dark horse out there is Palin.
Now I happen to think, and I don't know of, I mean, I've all the people on the conservative side who know Palin, I know her the least.
I've spoken to her twice, both in short little interviews, one for uh uh uh uh newsletter, and I figured we did one on the air, too, for a book.
Otherwise, I've never spoken to her.
But she's a dark horse.
If she gets in, then uh, folks, that's gonna be something to see.
And I I have absolutely zero knowledge about it, but she's taunting the media.
She's showing up at the Iowa State Fair, and they're chasing her around.
And Jake Tapper runs up to her and says, Hey, I got a couple policy questions.
She said, Yeah, hang on, I gotta meet this heifer first.
He says, You got to meet the heifer first?
Yeah, I gotta talk to the heifer.
Bachman, Bachman is just poised, is uh unflappable.
She's uh she looks great, she sounds fabulous.
She's got uh, I think great command of things.
A lot of people are are uh uh I don't want to say surprised.
But way back a year ago, when People would call here and start talking and asking me about nominees.
Her name wasn't mentioned.
So she's a surprise.
In fact, here she is.
This is uh on State of the Union yesterday on CNN, Candy Crowley interviewed uh Bachman and said, Can you name me a big piece of legislation that you were a part of that you compromised on?
I mean that you voted for that was a compromise for you, because I think the impression is Tea Party people or Tea Party activists, or those who are supportive of the Tea Party, they don't compromise.
Where have you compromised in your legislative career?
Well, I I stand on a core set of principles, but you want to continue to move in a positive direction.
Sometimes you have to take steps, interval steps, to get to where you want to go, and that certainly you do that.
And I've done that throughout my legislative career.
On big issues, I don't compromise.
I don't compromise my core sense of principles.
That's a great way to answer the question because it's a set up question.
This whole notion of compromise equals what compromise is exactly what these libs want to hear.
Okay, where will you give up?
That's what compromise means to them.
Where will you give up?
You know, unless we forget Michelle Bachman had wanted to run for Speaker of the House, everybody laughed.
Everybody laughed.
Here she is with uh David Gregory badgering her on the debt ceiling.
This is on Meet the Press yesterday.
He said, Let me ask you about the debt ceiling, Bachman.
You were adamantly opposed to raising a debt ceiling.
You voted against it.
There are a lot of people who said that was an incredibly reckless thing to do for our economy.
Let me just take you through it.
It wasn't just the President of the United States.
It was also the chairman of the Federal Reserve.
It was the Treasury Secretary.
It was your entire thing.
The entire Republican leadership thought that was the wrong thing to do.
Major members of the business community in this country thought that was the wrong thing to do.
Why should we trust your judgment that that was the right thing to do and not a reckless act on the part of a Congresswoman?
Okay, so badgers her, that's his mission, Barate Bachman on the debt ceiling.
He can't wrap his mind around the notion a ruling class could be wrong and the people could be right.
Here's her answer.
That's the judgment of the people of this country.
The people of this country would love to weigh in, and they would love to say, Tim Geithner, Treasury Secretary, you're wrong.
Mr. President, you're wrong.
But this is why we have elected representatives, Congresswoman.
We actually know the true financial impact of a step like this.
Maybe people are against raising the debt ceiling, but the reality is bipartisan agreement in the business community.
Saying you don't do that.
You don't mess with the full faith and credit of the United States.
Would you have voted the same way if you were the deciding vote?
That's right.
You don't mess with the full faith and credit of the United States.
That's why I introduced the bill that I did that would have prevented any form of default.
It's President Obama who failed to put any sort of a plan forward.
That's what led to uncertainty.
I gotta take a break.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away.
Here is one more Michelle Bachman bite answering uh David Gregory.
So public opinion will be the sole determination of how you voted a particular issue.
Bachman, is that what you're telling us?
Obviously, President Obama's uh policies are failing the economy.
We took the biggest punch to the gut this week that we have seen in our economy.
This was a very bad week.
But Congressman, if you were the deciding vote on the debt.
Let me finish.
So the wrong thing for the president to do, number one, is to come out and blame earthquakes, blame the Arab Spring, blame everybody but his own policies, and instead, what did he do?
The president called for more of what doesn't work.
We've got to spend more money we don't have.
We've got to increase taxes.
He clearly doesn't have the result.
That's why the markets are roiling right now.
Because people see that this president is flailing without a plan.
See, Gregory gave it his best, but uh she held her ground boob and having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have Rush Limboy and the excellence in broadcasting network.
So you notice how rude the reporters are to conservative candidates.
I mean, Gregory was just flat out rude.
intolerant and rude.
They would never talk to Obama or Hillary that way.
Never.
Who's paying for Obama's bus can't The taxpayers are.
The taxpayers are funding Obama's campaign tour.
That's been established.
Nobody's disagreeing with it.
The regime is acting proud of it.
You know, they one of the most telling part of that Gregory and Michelle Bachman exchange.
All the people out in America said don't resident that ceiling.
That's the problem with Washington.
They're not listening to the people, and Gregory fired back.
Well, why does that make why does that make it the right thing to do?
The most telling part of that exchange.
Michelle Bachman says, all the people in America said don't raise it.
And Gregory says, Well, what does that make it the right thing to do?
The people are stupid.
People don't know what they're doing, what they're talking about.
Here's Obama this afternoon in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, town hall event, part of the taxpayer-funded bus tour.
Audience member says, I'm hoping that you and your colleagues will do everything possible to make certain that confidence is restored to the country and that we have a bright future.
You know, I I know it's not election season yet, but I just have to mention.
You know, the debate uh the other party candidates were having the other day when they were asked to reduce our deficit, reduce our debt.
Would you be willing to take a deal where it was five dollars of spending cuts for every one dollar of increased revenues?
Who would take it?
Everybody said no.
They said, how about 10 to 1?
$10 of cuts for every dollar increase in revenue.
Are you saying that none of you would take it?
And everybody raised their hand.
None of them would take it.
Think about that.
I mean, that's just not common sense.
So Fox News can be proud.
They managed to ask a question of a Republican debate tailor-made for the regime.
For Obama to run out there and quote.
Now, actually, the answer was very smart.
Those, like I said Friday, while suffering the ravages of an unknown virus.
That's the biggest setup question on the face of the earth.
All you all whoever, any Republican on that debate panel said, yeah, I'll take the deal.
He is finished.
It's a Republican primary.
You don't start raising taxes, especially in one of these X number of dollars in cuts in exchange for X number of dollars in tax increases, because the cuts never happen.
Ronald's Magnus learned that.
The cuts never happen.
The tax increases do.
But uh that this is that that's one of the questions, by the way, why the mainstream media gave such high marks to Fox for their debate questions.
Here's uh here's Eileen in Chicago.
Great you called.
Great WLS.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush.
And you are on the mark regarding the media.
I mean, they're such arrogant, well, I won't say what follows that.
Uh there, a bunch of copycats, they get their talking points, spread it around.
That's right.
And I believe they're a bunch of racists also.
They are completely ignoring Herman Cain.
Do you realize that this man has degrees in math and physics, and of course, we have heard that uh the reason somebody didn't uh give him a straw vote because he didn't have ran out of pizzas.
I mean, that's ridiculous.
I believe that uh uh actually Kane, like uh Savage says Kane is able.
He's the only one to get the Chicago politics out of the White House.
Well, it's up to him to get noticed.
You know, this is the case of any anybody running for office.
And you ask, why is he uh why is he being ignored?
Um, you know, the media is a bunch of prestitutes.
And a black conservative is just it.
Damn right, they're prestitutes.
Just like, and by the way, up there on Drudge, oops, changed the headline.
He had up there our magical misery tour.
You know, we went through our list of names.
I still like debt man driving.
But he added up their magical misery tour.
Now it's worst week.
Obama wiping sweat off the brow.
Not going well out there in Cannon Falls, whatever it is.
It's up to these candidates to get noticed.
And in terms of the prostitutes on the left, a black Republican.
They're just they're going to ignore just it's it's a shame, actually.
But it's the case.
You know, this this 10 for one deal.
Maybe maybe Obama can tell us what spending has been offset by cuts according to Pago, which has been the law of the land since 2009.
When did Pelosi push that?
Was that 2007, 2008?
Whenever.
It's been the law of the land for quite a while.
Can Obama tell us what spending has been offset by cuts according to Pago?
Just name one cut.
There isn't one.
There has not been a cut.
The question ought to be.
When we get around to these debates, after we have a nominee, we get the actual presidential debates.
I would hope that if Fox gets one of these debates, that one of the questions would be, President Obama, before we get the $1 in tax increases, can you tell us what $10 in spending cuts you'd propose?
Let's go about this the other way around.
Everybody always says, would you go for a 10 to 1 ratio cuts for every dollar increase in revenue?
Would you would you do that?
Let's hear about the cuts first.
What $10 in spending cuts would you propose for every dollar in tax increase you got?
Then we can talk.
You folks at the White House aren't cutting anything.
No, there are no cuts in your bus tour, no cuts in your trip to Martha's Vineyard, no No cuts, period.
Yeah, it was February 12, 2010, Obama signed statutory pay-go rules into law.
So it's been two years.
Well, a little almost two years, a year and a half.
And pay-go is exactly what it says.
You pay for what you do.
You either raise taxes or you cut something if you're going to spend something new.
So, Mr. President, what what what what are the cuts that have occurred as you have run up $4 trillion in new debt?
Where are the cuts, Ms. Where's the pay go?
That law isn't even paid attention to.
Pure and simple.
Here's Tim in Salem, Oregon, back to the phones we go.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you very much, Rush.
You being here when we need you the most.
Thank you, sir very much.
If taxes are increased on the rich and the corporations, what will Obama do with the additional revenue?
If taxes are increased on the rich and on corporate, well, he'll he'll redistribute it.
He'll spend it.
How will he spend it?
Well, like he spends it now.
So we won't gain anything or any benefit?
No.
No.
Oh.
The money's in, it's out the door the minute it gets in the door.
No, it's there's not enough.
Well, because we talk about this so damn much.
There's you let go through the numbers.
There are 8,000 Americans, 8,200 and some odd Americans, who have an income of 10 million dollars or more.
If you took it all, you'd you'd have 240 billion dollars.
But you don't take it all.
Let's say you take 30% of it.
You raise taxes because their aggregate rate on it right now, the way it's figured with the IRS, those people are paying a effective rate when all the deductions are settled at 25%.
The raise their 35 35% of $240 billion.
That's what you'd get.
It's not enough to matter.
That's not where the money is.
That's just class envy.
That's just class warfare.
That's that's already taxed the rich.
Our problem is we don't have enough rich people.
You want to be honest about this.
We need new wealth.
We need an expanding economy.
We need people amassing new fortunes.
That's what we need.
We don't need to be going after those that have already existed.
And Warren Buffett.
Stop it.
What are you doing?
There's a practical, if you want to pay more taxes, I can I can I can send you the web link to where you can do it.
But leave me out of it.
My taxes are not the problem.
Nor I am not being coddled.
I know Warren says I'm not being coddled in it, but we need more millionaires.
We need more wealth being created in this country.
It's not a dirty word.
It's the way things grow.
It's the way the country expands.
It's the way people end up getting jobs.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
Did I really sound that shocked at the question?
What would we do with money?
What would Obama do if he robbed a bank?
What would he do with that money?
What what would he do if he went to the Fed and said, Print me 25 zillion dollars?
What would he do with that?
He got five votes with it.
He would create more dependence.
He'd destroy more lives.
He'd take us toward London.
That's what he would do with it.
Guy's a menace.
Kyle in Olive Branch, Michigan.
Welcome, sir.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Rush, Olive Branch, Mississippi, but no big deal.
Greetings.
How are you?
Very well, sir.
Thanks much.
Good.
I just wanted to take the opportunity to lay out what I'm sure are going to be three of the bedrocks that we're going to hear from now and the Democrats between now and election day.
That is politics of envy.
You're going to hear racism, and you're going to hear, especially if Perry is the nominee, we're returning to the birthplace of the architect of the economic disaster that we're in right now.
Oh, yeah.
George W. Bush and yep, yep, they can't wait for that.
Yep, and as far as the Tea Party is concerned, I hope they take us lightly, because we are still out there and we are still really ticked off, and we will vote.
We just had a uh uh primary, juvenatorial primary, and usually when I've gone to these things, you can drive up and vote at any time you want.
I had to park three blocks away to vote in a gubernatorial primary because of this current state of affairs.
We'll be there in November, so let them take us lightly.
We'll we'll be around.
They are not taking you lightly.
They're trying to dispirit you by telling you that your influence is on the wane.
And I know that they can't dispirit you.
But they're trying.
All is Rasmataz about independence leaving the end uh leaving the Tea Party.
There's no way to document this.
Because the Tea Party's a state of mind.
And it's it's it more than anything else.
So, you know, let them go ahead.
But uh I I I can tell, as far as you're concerned, there's no dispiriting going to take place.
You are loaded for bear.
You're basically saying, come on, boy, come on, come at me, come at me.
I'll drive over four of Obama's buses to get to the polls if I have to.
I hear you.
I'm glad you called Kyle.
Thanks very much.
By the way, even in his speech today, Obama blamed a Japanese tsunami for our bad economy.
Even out there in Cannon Falls, Minnesota.
He blamed the Japanese tsunami.
Well, whose fault is that?
No, no.
Serious question.
Whose fault is the Japanese tsunami?
Who promised to lower the sea levels?
If the guy who promised to lower the sea levels Had indeed lowered the sea levels, there wouldn't have been a Japanese tsunami.
So the Japanese tsunami is Obama's fault.
That's the answer.
Okay, so Bachman wins the straw poll.
I just saw a story.
Is it all going to her head now?
Is she surrounding herself with bodyguards and all these secret service types with wires and speakers and stuff coming out of their ears?
Uh and and now there's does she have the gravitas?
They ever asked that about Hillary after New Hampshire or Iowa?
And they're jumping all over both Bachman and Perry's bizarre Christian beliefs, bizarre to them.
Just like the way they got on Obama for being a member of Reverend Wright's church.
I mean, it's such a stacked deck out there.
But we're here to even it out each day.
Back at it tomorrow.
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