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Aug. 18, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 18, 2011, Thursday, Hour #2
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A views expressed by the host of this program documented to be almost always right 99.6% of the time, according to the latest opinion audit from our opinion auditing firm in Sacramento, California, the Sullivan Group.
No, it hasn't changed in a while.
You really, when you're 99.6, to move it up a tenth of a point, you got to be right 100% of the time for six months to move it up.
We're going to be at 99.6 almost always, right?
I mean, for the foreseeable future.
I'm not expecting an uptick.
Although, although, although, if we could ever add more than one point for being right, what did I say in the previous hour?
What is the president's jobs plan that everybody's awaiting in September?
Just redo the stimulus.
Just double it.
The first stimulus was so good, it just wasn't big enough.
All those jobs that were created and saved, I mean, just do it again.
Especially since you know the Republicans won't go for it.
Remember the president's jobs program.
I told you this yesterday.
The president's jobs program is not a jobs program.
It is a campaign proposal.
Everything the BAMST does from here on out is about reelection.
It's not about substantive economic policy or foreign policy or anything of the sort.
Now, if, and I know I'm right about this, if the strategy is to not run on the record because they can't run on the record, but they want to, what they're going to do, they're going to run on how good the record would have been if it weren't for all the Republican obstructionism.
Now, they're going to have to work awfully hard to pull that off because we all know that Barack Hussain Obama had supermajorities in the House and Senate for the first two years of his presidency and were only at a little over two and a half years.
So for 2009 and 2010, he had 60 votes in the Senate until Scott Brown was elected.
He had supermajority in the House.
The Republicans did not have the numbers to stop him on anything.
The only obstructionism he faced.
In fact, there wasn't much Republican obstructionism.
The Republicans were scared to death to say anything critical of Obama for the first year.
The only obstructionism he got was from conservative media.
He didn't get any obstructionism from Republicans.
And he's not getting a whole lot now, but he is getting a lot of obstruction.
Nothing we can do other than talk, but conservative media is not rolling over and playing dead for the guy.
So he's going to come along and he's going to say, look, if it weren't for all that obstruction, on my record, we would be in great shape if it weren't for the Republicans.
But of course, they couldn't have stopped him.
Well, the tattler has learned that President Obama's new jobs program might be unveiled right after Labor Day.
The White House had gone silent for a long time while unemployment remains above 9%, economic growth slumps to 0.4%.
What could be his new imaginative idea?
Could it be stimulus two?
Today's Washington Post is floating a liberal trial balloon from White House aids that report, quote, President Obama has decided to press Congress for a new round of stimulus spending.
No dollar amounts were mentioned.
There it is.
Stimulus to minimum.
I'm going to say right now, minimum trillion dollars.
First stimulus on the record is 700 and what, 87,797, whatever it is.
He'll go for 1.3, 1.4 trillion.
And it won't be with the expectation of getting it.
He wants the mileage out of proposing it.
He wants the mileage out of the Republicans saying no to new jobs, no to a growing economy, no to tax increases on corporate judgment.
That's what he's setting up here.
We and everybody know it's coming.
Only now, instead of relying on the Republicans in Congress as the primary opponents, it's going to be the Republican presidential candidates who will be carrying the water, who will be articulating the opposition to this.
So while Obama is going to be trying to see, this is the pitfall, I think, awaiting the regime.
While they are going to be running against the Republicans for obstructing his wonderful agenda, the fact is the focus of attention is going to be on the Republican presidential nominee and the Republican presidential nominee, whoever he is, will have had nothing to do with anything Congress did, unless, of course, the nominee happens to be Paul Ryan.
Well, they're still floating that out there.
So this ought to be, folks, you know, it just is pure political sense.
This ought to be a slam dunk to swat away.
Here's a guy with the most publicly, openly seeable, viewable, failed economic record since Jimmy Carter.
The most profound public failure as a president in anybody's lifetime who is alive today, who is going to be running for re-election on how good things would be right now if it weren't for all the stuff the Republicans did standing in his way, except the Republicans in Congress aren't going to be running for president.
A different bunch of Republicans are.
And none of them had anything to do with whatever the White House is going to be accusing the Republicans of doing in terms of obstructing Obama.
This ought to be a piece of cake.
So he's going to come out.
He's going to propose this massive stimulus.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's double the size, 1.7, 1.5 trillion.
Why not go for the whole shebang since you know it's never going to get passed?
You don't want it passed necessarily.
I mean, you'll take it if it happens, but that's not why you're doing it.
You're doing it because of all the things you'll be able to say you want to happen because of it.
Massive new employment, unbridled economic growth, punishment of corporate jet owners, all of this if we could just get the new stimulus.
Yes, we've got this, the faction figures are in.
Our first stimulus was so wonderful.
It was so great.
Saved so many jobs.
If it's just too small.
Now we're going to make that correction.
We're going to make it twice as big.
What they're going to do.
What they're going to do.
They want to be able to say what will happen if it passes, what the Republicans are preventing from happening.
That's it.
It's so simple.
Folks, this ought to be one of the easiest things for the Republican Party in the history of campaigns to squat away.
All the Republican presidential candidates, even before we have a nominee, in the debates, campaign appearances, all they have to say is what I just said.
Just tell the American people what Obama's doing, that he doesn't really expect this stimulus to ever be passed.
That that's not why he's proposed it.
Just tell them.
Hit them between the eyes with the truth.
The president is not even focusing on jobs with this.
The president is not even trying to grow the economy.
The president knows he can't grow the economy with his policies.
His policies shrink the economy.
What Obama's trying to do is blame the Republican Party for what he has done.
That's that simple.
That's the message.
You tell that to every group you speak to on every television show you appear.
I myself will do it.
I, however, myself will not be the nominee.
I don't want to be, but that's going to be the message.
That simple.
I already have it figured out.
That is why I feel confident, since I've already got it figured out.
I know what they're going to spring on us after Labor Day.
I'm confident I can take my August recess golf trip in total comfort that I am already prepared for what I'm going to be faced with when I come back.
And I already have a strategy to deal with it.
And ladies and gentlemen, as I said in the first hour, the burdens of this office are always with me, whether I'm on the golf course or in the 19th hole or on a massage table.
They're always with me.
Brief timeout, open line Friday on Thursday.
That means that unlike most days where you have to talk about what I'm interested in because that's what people care about, today, if I don't care about it, that's fine.
It's a great career risk to turn over valuable content of the program to rank amateurs.
Lovable rank amateurs.
You're trying your best, of course, but it's always fun too.
So 800-282-2882 is the number, and we'll get at it, or to it, we get back at it.
Heading back to the phones on the EIB network.
Open line Friday on Thursday, and we are going to Troy, New York.
Joe, great to have you on the program.
Welcome, sir.
My wife comes up back on the phone.
You know, a few footies.
I don't.
I come from the street.
You know, I got racialists.
And my thing has always been, you know, I'll.
Not hot on a bad way, but.
You know, well, it's an issue.
Do what you got to do.
Yeah.
But my thing is, you don't want people to get aggressive with you.
Don't point your finger at somebody's eye.
Right.
Hey, they believe that, you know, they got the right to say what they want to say, but people don't got the right to respond.
I don't know where you come from.
Where I come from, you know what people slap the EU?
Don't promote.
My family believes they can do whatever they want to say, and you suppose it be is okay.
Respectful.
Okay.
We're all just listening, folks.
We just listened.
What's going on with this thing?
Okay, there we go.
Uh, dead silence on my, uh, phone for a second.
Stupid idiots.
Can't tell what's going on here.
Stupid bunch of idiots.
All right, thanks much.
I appreciate the call.
We'll move on.
Who's now?
Rita in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
It's an honor and a privilege to speak with you.
I've been a longtime listener, and I'm really disturbed by this whole administration.
My question to you today is referring back to the health care bill.
On pages 58 and 59 of the health care bill, it specifically states that the government will have access to our monies.
And that includes, I do believe, our IRA accounts, our 401ks, our savings, our checkings.
This is in the health care bill.
Why is this not being addressed by anyone?
It was prior to its being passed, but only on places like the show.
I specifically remember reading excerpts, pages as we learned of them.
There's over 2,000 pages in the health care bill.
Yes.
And I specifically remember talking about that day.
Basically, I think what that section is, if it's the one I recall, if you don't pay, they've got the right to go get your money.
So they're not going to go in and just take our money at their will like they did in the Ukraine and Russia and China.
Yeah, I mean, that's the provision they've allowed themselves.
Okay.
The secretary.
As the secretary shall determine.
Right.
Oh, boy.
And it also specifically states, this is Ms. Pelosi's little thing.
I think if once you reach the age of 73, you are no longer a candidate for cancer treatment if you have cancer.
So, I mean, this is the health care.
And I just can't not being able to go to the physician I want to see and being denied care.
And the Republicans that are running, I don't think anybody's even addressing this health care bill.
Really?
Really?
We have a lawsuit.
Rita, hang on a second.
It's very tough.
Folks, we, I must tell you again, we cannot have a conversation with anybody on a cell phone because they cannot hear me.
It's not that they are rude, but it is that I sound really ticked off trying to make the phone system work.
Now, Rita, sounds like you're just learning this, and I share your frustration.
The Tea Party people basically came into existence because of this.
There were a number of people during the debate that the Democrats were trying to keep all of this hidden.
This is when Pelosi was saying we have to pass the bill to find out what's in it.
There were people who had read the bill.
There were people who were reading it, reporting on it.
Your observation that people 73 years of age who have cancer will not be treated.
Yeah, hello, death panels.
Sarah Palin warned about it and they went on, no, there are any death panels in here.
This program trumpeted as loudly as possible that what they're heading for is there's going to be a Department of Health and Human Services series of panels or committees, and they're going to assess every case that comes before them.
And they're going to decide whether to treat or not treat based on the value of the investment.
So if you're 73 and you show up with cancer, they're going to say it's not cost-efficient to treat it.
You're not going to live long.
Actuarial tables say so.
We're going to save the money and treat younger people.
Sayonara, take a pill.
Obama even told a woman this on an ABC town hall from the White House.
She wanted to know.
I still can't forget this.
This was a televised town hall on ABC, and an American citizen showed up and actually asked the president of the United States if he would allow her 95-year-old mother to get a pacemaker or a hearing aid.
Well, one of the things pacemaker.
And she wanted to know if the government would be taking into account a person's spirit and will to live.
And Obama said, no, we really can't take things into account like spirit and will to live.
At some point, I'm paraphrasing, we're just going to have to say, here, take a pill, meaning a pain pill, zone out, and try to spend your remaining days in space.
And I remember watching that show, and this is not the country I grew up in, where a citizen asks the leader of the regime if her mother will get treated by a doctor.
And yet, that woman knew what was in the health care bill.
Read it.
All kinds of people knew what was in this.
My point, the Republicans couldn't stop it.
Elections have consequences.
They didn't have the votes to stop it.
Now, when Scott Brown, little history, remind people, when Scott Brown finally won the Senate seat in Massachusetts vacated by the death of Senator Kennedy, that took away the 60-seat supermajority that the Senate, the Democrats had.
That's when they started talking passing it through budget reconciliation.
Remember, they did this over the Christmas holidays anyway.
They were going to get this passed.
They were going to deem it to be passed, if you recall, without even taking a vote on it.
The Republicans didn't have the votes to stop it.
Now, you're asking me, didn't anybody say all kinds of people were saying things.
The only hope rested in convincing just two Democrats in the Senate to vote against it.
But there was no way that was going to happen.
In the House, I mean, it was, we had numbers that were equivalent to what we had in the 70s and 80s, 135, 150.
We couldn't stop anything if we were totally unified.
So I'm glad you called.
Provide an opportunity to revisit recent history.
This is just a year ago, a year and a half ago that all this happened.
You're just now finding what's in it, and you're wondering why nobody stopped it.
Nobody could.
Nobody could because a bunch of people made a stupid mistake and voted for an image in 2008 rather than knowing what they were doing.
I went back here during the break.
That call from Rita, you know, she's reading from page 58, 59 of healthcare bill about the government's access to our bank accounts, and she wanted to know why nobody's talking about it.
I told her everybody did.
That quote from myself, August 4th of 2009, just a little over two years ago.
Quote, the federal government will have direct real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer to pay.
Yes, my friends, the federal government will have direct, real-time access to all individual bank accounts for electronic funds transfer, meaning from your account to them, they will be able to debit your account for health expenses.
That's on page 59.
Go get the bill.
I'm summarizing here for you.
And this resulted, by the way, the White House was attacking Drudge for reporting certain aspects that were in the health care bill.
And in the process, they called attention to what they didn't want anybody to see.
So, again, Rita, I'm really glad you called.
It's a golden opportunity to remind people.
And of course, we've got the tune-in factor here is nuts.
There are people listening now that weren't then who are just probably learning this and hearing about it for the first time.
Because since it did pass, there hasn't been nearly as much focus on it.
On those kind of details, the focus has been on all the waivers.
What are we up to?
Over 2,500 waivers the regime has granted now to various companies, large and small, who would be out of business if they had to play by Obamacare law right now.
Can't have that before the election.
If this thing isn't repealed or if it isn't defunded after 2012 or 2013 and 2014, when it really starts to hit, people have no idea.
What has happened to this country up to this point is nothing compared to what's in store for us with just this one piece of legislation.
I got to tell you a little story.
I had a meeting after the program yesterday with a regular advisor who helps me in a certain aspect of my life.
I have been working with this guy since 1989.
He came in and he said, you know, I've always liked you.
But I thought you're a broadcaster and you have to embellish and you're really, you know, a little over the top on a lot of things.
But you know what?
You've been right.
He is scared to death over the spending.
He started talking to me about the fear he has for what kind of life his kids are going to have simply because of what tax rates are going to have to be to support what's on the books to be spent in the out years.
Northeastern guy, not particularly political, believes in the ebb and flow.
Republicans are going to run the show then.
Democrats are going to run the show now.
When the Democrats run the show, you do this.
When the Republicans run the show, you do that.
Nothing ideological about this guy at all.
It just, he manages his life and his business.
Okay, if the Republicans in power, this is what I do.
Democrats in Paris, what I do.
And I know in a couple, four, six years, it's going to change.
And you just ride the seesaw.
And now he told me he feels like he's on the ground on the seesaw and he ain't getting back up.
And I said, if you'd have just been listening to me for these last 22 years, we could have used you.
How many people are there like that?
They're not ideological.
They don't.
I think the mindset is the country's so strong, the country is just so powerful that no one guy can come along and really transform and change it.
And the people who run around say that are kooks.
So, and I told you the night before I went to had dinner with another friend who's much the same way, grew up in the Northeast, had a business, and he had to deal with whoever was in power, Republicans and Democrats.
So, you know, he did what he had to do based on, and he didn't care who won or lost.
He just had to make sure he had a plan to deal with whoever did win.
And now, all of a sudden, he's looking at things differently.
And these guys are in their 60s.
But all of a sudden, I think this is happening all over the country.
This is, by the way, these two guys, although they're not Tea Party, this is exactly why and how the Tea Party has come to exist as a state of mind.
Because there are people all over the country who's just, wait a second, this is not doable.
This simply won't work as America has always operated, as America has always been.
And both these guys, I hadn't seen them in a while, one of them in like nine months.
And the attitude was quite flat, flatter than usual.
There's a general malaise among people who are now in their quest to understand why they have to now consider ideology.
They have to consider.
These guys, for the first time, I think are actually facing an understanding what liberalism is.
And I think a whole lot of people are.
And I, frankly, folks, as I said, the election were held today.
Obama loses in a landslide.
Now, there's a story here.
Where's this from?
BC, where is this story from?
I can't find this.
Weekly Standard.
GOP Biggs push Paul Ryan to run.
A Wisconsin congressman.
Paul Ryan comes to a final decision about running for president.
Several top national conservatives are encouraging him to join a race.
You want to know who they are?
Mitch Daniels, Jeb Bush, John Boehner, Jim Jordan, Bill Bennett are among those urging Paul Ryan to run.
What does that tell you?
What does that tell you?
They're scared to death of Rick Perry.
So-called conservative leaders are scared to death of Rick Perry.
They're not asking Paul Ryan to get in there because of Mitt Romney.
Because Romney's been the frontrunner.
What, you think Mitch Daniels and Jeb Bush and Boehner and Bennett know where the strippers are?
That have been in contact with Perry.
See, people don't understand what that is.
They missed the first.
There's an Austin alternative newspaper that a Ron Paul supporter is running a full-page ad.
Have you ever had sex with Rick Perry?
He's trying to find barmaids and hotties and floozies that have had sex with Rick Perry to come forward.
So Ryan's in there saying, oh, maybe these people know who the floozies are, Boehner, Mitch Daniels, Jeb Bush, and Bennett.
When Mitt Romney was the sole frontrunner, there was no pressure on Paul Ryan to get in there.
Rick Perry.
All about Rick Perry.
They're just worried about Rick Perry.
Several top national conservatives encouraging Ryan to get in the race because they don't like the conservative Rick Perry.
Yes, my friend.
It's fascinating, utterly fascinating to track all of this.
You know, it is dawning on people.
I think the most intelligent way to explain my meeting with a guy yesterday and a friend I had dinner with the other night, I think it's finally dawning on some people now that the problem in this country is at the root political.
You know, a lot of people hate politics.
They don't want to get involved in it.
They don't want to understand it.
It just frustrates them to no end.
It makes no sense.
They think it's all crooked.
They think it's all bought.
It's all lobbyists.
It's all special interest.
I mean, even wealthy, accomplished achieve people want no part of it.
The closest they get to it is making donations as protection racket type things, and that's it.
But they're now dawning on, it's dawning on them that what is happening in the country is political, meaning that there are specific political policies that have been put in play that are causing this.
That's what's beginning to dawn on people.
Okay, let's see.
Yep, got to take a break here, folks.
We'll be back and continue much more on the EIB network right after this.
Princeton, Illinois.
We go back to the phones.
Open line Friday on Thursday.
This is Joe.
Thank you for waiting, sir.
Great to have you here.
Hey, it's great to talk to you, Maharashi, and it's really an honor.
I appreciate that, sir.
Thank you very much.
Listen, I live in Princeton, Illinois, and we're about 32 miles east of Atkinson, Illinois.
Oh, yeah, the president drove through.
Very white community.
I was here yesterday, and I heard a couple of retired teacher women that had gone to see the president.
Yeah.
And one of them actually got to talk to him.
And these two ladies, they were like teenage girls, goo-goo gaga over what a great guy he was, how charming he was, how much they thought that he was really just a good Midwesterner kind of guy down to earth, really connected with the middle class, that he's a middle class guy, and all the stuff.
Well, see, that's it was the white like me tour.
Yeah, yeah.
It was so depressing to actually hear them talk that way.
Well, it's just too biddies.
You said they're retired?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wouldn't worry about it.
Yeah.
I mean, you can look at that's that's pure anecdotal, and you can find, I guarantee you, worse than that on that tour.
Yeah.
Now, one of them actually said that she wishes that he'd be more like Reagan.
And that, you know, like when he fired the air traffic controllers, you know, well, you know, you need to, you know, she wants him to be tough with people and say, hey, either you do this or this is going to happen.
Like, who does she want him to fire?
Well, she just, well, I don't know.
Maybe if some teachers were on strike, she'd want him to fire them.
So these were retired teachers that you said.
They're retired teachers.
I guess the point is.
Well, come on, look at teachers.
They're probably members of teachers union.
Long time.
They're probably Democrats from the get-go since they've been churning butter.
Yeah, it just blew my mind how sucked in they were in, you know.
Well, look at, I mean, they still got 39% approval.
You just happen to run into a couple of them in a 39%.
I guess.
Yeah.
I guess so.
You can't.
Look at.
Do you realize, Joe, everybody can't be as smart as you?
I would be insane if I had that as a demand.
Everybody can't see life the way you do.
They're not going to.
And, you know, it just, it's good that you run into that.
It helps you keep things in perspective.
It helps you understand what we're up against.
Those two ladies, I mean, look, we should be more like Reagan.
They like him?
That makes no sense.
It's impossible.
Does it make any sense of that at all?
But I'm glad you called.
I'm glad you reported it.
Chip in Fort Worth.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Ditto from Fort Worth, Rush, first-time caller, long-time listener.
Happy to have you here, sir.
I wanted to ask you what your thoughts were on these Department of Justice.
You've got your two field supervisors, your deputy directors of the ops in the West, all getting promotions and sent up to Washington in this Fast and Furious gun debacle.
My thoughts on Fast and Furious have been pretty consistent from the beginning.
And the detail that you just mentioned, I think, confirms for me that I think this thing all started out as an effort by the regime to gin up anti-gun sentiment in America.
And it went wrong.
It went haywire.
I think they tried to secretly get all of these assault weapons in the hands of Mexican drug lords.
And then knowing full well what Mexican drug lords would do with them.
They start gunning people down.
Then the news would hit that Mexican drug lords were using American-bought weapons.
And how did they get them?
Why, they just crossed the border.
They went to a gun show in Phoenix or they went to a gun shop in Phoenix.
Look how easy it was on there killing people.
But then something went wrong with the whole plan.
It was learned that the government actually arranged for the guns to end up in the hands of the Mexican drug lords.
So all you can do is speculate here, but with some of these people getting promotions, it's a way of keeping them quiet, or it's a way of saying job well done, what have you.
It's also a way of making sure that there's always a cloud of doubt about was the government really involved in this?
Was the regime really behind all of this?
But I'll just, if this is one of those stories, if this were a Republican president and something like this happened, front-page news impeachment would be shouted on the front pages of newspapers.
How dare this man imperil American lives?
What a harebrained scheme.
Barely gets any attention in the drive-by media.
Did you know, by the way, I'm going to give you a little facto into here.
Fast and Furious only tracked one gun and then for only half a day, then they lost track.
Do you also realize that Fast and Furious to a whole bunch of people in this country is a bunch of automobile movies?
Cybercast News Service says that Obama's politically charged, but taxpayer-funded bus tour through the Midwest turned into a bust.
Yesterday, his approval rating dropping back to its all-time low of 39% in the Gallup poll.
So that couple's here with one in five American children now living in poverty, according to a new report.
And that news is in the UK Daily Mail, not in the American media.
And all of this, of course, all of this is going to be blamed on the Republicans starting the day after Labor Day, whenever Obama starts announcing his new jobs plan.
Be on the lookout.
We'll be right back.
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