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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.
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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 each.
Folks, those buses cost more than my cars.
$1.1 million each.
Normally, you just go out and rent some buses.
You decorate them inside, whoever you want them to be.
$1.1 million.
The Politico reported on their planned purchase back in April.
$2.2 million for Secret Service's new armored buses.
It was Josh Gerstein doing the reporting.
He's a right-winger.
You don't hear much from him these days.
But he is.
From the article, it 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 service will do so in this instance as well.
So these buses were purchased back in April.
Did they know back in April they're going to be doing a meet the public tour in August?
Well, they might have.
There's a lot of pre-planning.
Okay, I mentioned honestly at the top of the program, rarely have I been this out of it.
6 p.m.
Literally, I told you on the Air Friday I was feeling feverish and so forth.
And I finally at 6 p.m., a whole weekend, had a whole weekend planned in LA.
I was going to play golf on Saturday, had a couple of nice places, going to take Catherine to dinner with some friends on Friday and Saturday.
The whole thing blown.
I was so ticked.
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 of it.
I 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 we've got some sound bites of Perry's announcement speech in Charleston, South Carolina.
So let's just, you probably have heard this.
I haven't, and I need to.
So let's just start here.
We have one, two, three, four, 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 Obama onto recovery.
Now we're told we're in recovery.
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, 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.
All 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 been requested to go to Texas to do a fundraiser.
Now, as you most of you know, I do not do fundraisers because if I do one, the floodgates open.
And I try to keep my distance.
However, this request I could not and would not turn down.
So the minute it was determined, the minute it was known that I, El Rushbow, was going to Texas to do a fun, it was not for Perry, it was for a 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 K. Bailey Hutchison, Texas gubernatorial campaign.
And these emails are coming in from a lot of different people and from a lot of different places.
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, what, what?
You 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 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 courtyard of a typical Texas mansion.
Well, it was a fundraiser.
What do you expect?
But it was, it was, and the crowd loved him.
I mean, acres was it on?
I don't know.
I didn't count the acres.
No, no, no, no.
No, drove in.
No, didn't helicopter in there.
But I just, it was, it was, he was good.
He was, he was amiable.
And he made some remarks himself that were very right down the line, right down the middle conservative.
I thought 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, 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 Polini gets out over the weekend.
Newt's still there.
Huntsman is still there.
Santorum is still there.
Let's see.
Herman Kane 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 don't like him.
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, of 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 a newsletter, and I forget what it was.
I think we did one on the air, too, for a book.
Other, I've never spoken to her.
But she's a dark horse.
If she gets in, then, folks, that's going to be something to see.
And 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 of policy questions.
She said, yeah, hang on.
I got to meet this heifer first.
He said, you got to meet the heifer first.
Yeah, I got to talk to the heifer.
Bachman, Bachman is just poised, is unflappable.
She looks great.
She sounds fabulous.
She's got, I think, great command of things.
A lot of people are, 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 on State of the Union yesterday on CNN.
Candy Crowley interviewed 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 supported by the Tea Party, they don't compromise.
Where have you compromised in your legislative career?
Well, 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 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 setup question.
This whole notion of compromise equals 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, lest we forget Michelle Bachman had wanted to run for Speaker of the House.
Everybody laughed.
Everybody laughed.
Here she is with 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.
But wait, 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 time.
If I can just finish the question, 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 it badgers her.
That's his mission.
Berate 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, who 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 say you don't do that.
You don't mess with the full faith and credit of the United States.
Would you vote 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 got to take a break.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away.
Here is one more Michelle Bachman bite answering David Gregory.
So public opinion will be the sole determination of how you vote on a particular issue.
Bachman, is that what you're telling us?
Obviously, President Obama's 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.
Gregory gave it his best, but she held her ground.
Having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Rush Limbaugh in 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 camp?
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, one of the most telling parts of that Gregory and Michelle Bachman exchange, all the people out in America said don't raise the debt ceiling.
That's the problem with Washington.
They're not listening to the people.
And Gregory fired back.
Well, 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, why 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 know it's not election season yet, but I just have to mention the debate 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 $5 of spending cuts for every $1 of increased revenues?
Who would take it?
Everybody said no.
They said, how about 10 to one?
$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.
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.
Rinaldus Magnus learned that.
George H.W. Bush learned that.
A lot of Republican presidents have learned it.
The cuts never happen.
The tax increases do.
But 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 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.
They are 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 Kane.
Do you realize that this man has degrees in math and physics?
And of course, we have heard that the reason somebody didn't give him a straw vote because he didn't have, ran out of pizzas.
I mean, that's ridiculous.
I believe that actually Kane, like 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 anybody running for office.
You ask, why is he being ignored?
You know, the media is a bunch of prostitutes.
And a black conservative is just damn right.
They're prostitutes.
Just like, 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 going to ignore.
It's a shame, actually.
But, you know, it's the case.
You know, this 10-for-one deal, maybe Obama can tell us what spending has been offset by cuts according to PAYGO, which has been the law of the land since 2009.
When did Pelosi push that?
Was it 2007, 2001?
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 PAYGO?
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 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.
Because 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 cuts.
Period.
Yeah, it was February 12, 2010.
Obama signed statutory PAYGO rules into law.
So it's been two years.
Well, a little almost two years, a year and a half.
And PAYGO 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 are the cuts that have occurred as you have run up $4 trillion new debt?
Where are the cuts?
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.
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 uncorporated, well, 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.
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.
Let me go through the numbers.
There are 8,000 Americans, 8,200 and some odd Americans, who have an income of $10 million or more.
If you took it all, you'd have $240 billion.
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 an effective rate when all the deductions are settled at 25%.
They raise 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.
You already tax 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 send you the web link where you can do it, but leave me out of it.
My taxes are not the problem.
Norm, I am not being coddled.
I know Warren says I'm not being coddled.
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 the money?
What would Obama do if he robbed a bank?
What would he do with that money?
What would he do if he went to the Fed and said, print me $25 zillion?
What would he do with that?
He'd go out and buy 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 on 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.
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 primary, gubernatorial 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 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 independents leaving the Tea Party.
There's no way to document this because the Tea Party is a state of mind and it's more than anything else.
So, you know, let them go ahead.
But I can tell, as far as you're concerned, there's no dispiriting.
It's going to take place.
You are loaded for beer.
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?
And now 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 are here to even it out each day.
Back at it tomorrow.
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