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Aug. 30, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 30, 2011, Tuesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 podcast.
So here we are starting a program, and I just now got our television service back because we're getting drenched down here at the EIB Southern Command.
I've been looking at black TV screens because the uh the weather had been blocking the satellite signal.
And literally seconds ago, the clouds, I guess, parted in such a way as to allow signals to be received.
There's Obama.
And he said the American Legion.
And he's talking about he's getting into a prelude to hear of uh 9-11 and uh what that means to him and what we ought to be doing as a nation on uh on 9-11, and it's it's all about uh uh unity and so forth.
Anyway, we'll get to that.
And interestingly, I have uh a couple things on that in the stack of stuff today.
And they're just my quirk of fate uh is uh is Obama.
So it's it's somewhat timely.
Great to have you here, folks, to kick off another day of broadcast excellence, hosted by me, one and only ahead of my time, all knowing, all caring, all sensing, all feeling, all everything maha rushy.
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Obama faces tight restraints in crafting jobs plan.
We have a we have an A piece.
Oh, by the way, uh, folks, Dick Cheney, oh, I should warn you.
One hour sleep last night.
If that was the weirdest, I mean, it was one nightmare after another.
I mean, it was just no don't worry, Dawn, I'm not gonna give details.
But I mean, it was just one nightmare after another.
And finally, I gave up trying to go to sleep.
It was more I mean that it was it was it was painful.
So I just got up.
I got about five o'clock and uh went to bed at three.
So somewhere in there I slept enough to have nightmares.
And when I don't get a whole lot of sleep, you know, things sometimes can get giddy.
So I just wanted to warn you, we got Vice President Cheney at one o'clock, uh, the second hour of the program today to talk about his uh his memoir, his uh his new book.
And really looking forward to that.
Now, AP, Obama faces tight restraints in crafting jobs plan.
And uh what what we have the AP very concerned here, folks.
They're making excuses for Obama even before he delivers the big jobs speech that's uh that's coming up sometime next week.
Remember how they used to do that for Bush?
Make excuses even before guess not.
In any case, um what this AP story boils down to is that the first round of stimulus is drying up.
And according to AP, that's why the GDP.
Economic growth is down to 1%.
Isn't that cool?
Economic growth is down not because of unemployment, not because Obama has targeted the private sector, not because he has shrunk the private sector while growing the government.
No, no, no, no.
Our economic slowdown is due to the fact that the first stimulus is now drying up.
So consequently, Obama now desperate for another round of stimulus in order to keep the GDP in positive territory and out of an official recession in an election year.
The trouble is that Obama can't spend much without raising the debt ceiling yet again.
As AP points out.
Hey, it's a real problem.
We just went through a debt ceiling fight, raising it another 2.1 trillion dollars.
And we can't go back to it too soon.
People didn't want the debt ceiling raised this time.
So the AP is wringing its hands, and they're all concerned over the constraints Poor Obama faces in announcing his jobs program.
The other problem is that the White House has to find some way to spend enough government money to boost the GDP to over 4% to lower the unemployment rate.
I mean, they actually say this.
We've got to find enough government spending to produce economic growth at 4%.
It is a stunning piece of work here.
It's by Jim Coonan, I think is how he pronounces his name, hamstrung by budget cuts and a tight debt ceiling, President of Barack Obama preparing a September jobs package with limited tools at his disposal to prime the economy and crank up unemployment.
At a minimum, the president's plan will call on Congress to extend current payroll tax cuts and jobless benefits, spend money for new construction projects, and offer incentives to businesses to hire more workers.
So I know that we're going to get a request for more stimulus.
And you know my number is 1.6 trillion.
That's what I put out there as a wild guess, but it's going to have to be more than the first stimulus because the first stimulus wasn't enough.
Didn't work.
Extension of unemployment benefits.
We all know how that stimulates the economy.
Oh yeah.
Money for new construction project.
Shovel ready jobs, which Obama now laughs about.
Yeah, I guess there weren't that many.
And incentives to businesses to hire more people.
Now we know what that is, too, a $2,500 tax deduction or credit for every new hire.
But if you do the math on that, uh only the stupidest businessmen, businessmen and women would think that's an attractive thing to do.
What's it take?
Hire somebody, just pick a round number $50,000.
Benefits, health care, what have you.
And you get a $2,500 tax credit for doing that?
The math doesn't work out.
So the AP is just beside itself.
They're wringing their hands.
What can poor old Obama do?
Because my gosh, it's limited what he can do.
He can't go back and raise the debt ceiling so soon.
We haven't even gotten to the blue ribbon congressional commission here and their decision, and we've got unemployment benefits that have to be extended and so forth.
It's just uh it's just a mess.
And what they really boil it down to here is that the AP says he's gonna have to up spending if he's gonna have any hope of being re-elected.
You know, it's fascinating to me.
I I I I it ought not be fascinating, but here we are three years into demonstrable.
Three years, everything that has been tried by this regime has failed to stimulate private sector economic growth.
Now, you and I uh both know that this regime had no intention of stimulating private sector economic growth, but they want people to think that's what they wanted to do.
And so here comes really a bunch of lapdogs at the associated press suggesting here that the only way to get this economy growing is more government spending in the in the middle of three years of failure.
You have a major news organization that's making the case for Obama in advance for more of the same, which is going to get us more of the same.
Smaller private sector, fewer jobs, um no salary or wage increases, uh, utter failure.
And yet they are promoting it.
They are making the case for it.
Well, both making the case for it and for him.
But the point is they've seen Obama must up spending to get re-elected.
He must upspend.
How many more votes can he buy?
How many more votes could he buy?
If if If this was the way to re-election, he ought to be at 70, 80% in the polls.
So I look at this and I just I chuckle, I laugh.
And then I sort of scratch my head because this is this is a major problem.
This story is going to run in newspapers and on websites all across the country, and a bunch of people are going to read it and think that it's the way it is.
I mean, it's the height of ignorance of being uninformed and journalistic malpractice at the same time.
In the meantime, Reuters is reporting consumer confidence crumbled in August to its lowest level in more than two years as the fallout from political wrangling over a budget deal took its toll.
Oh, that's why consumer confidence is down.
So here comes another myth.
Consumer confidence is down because there wasn't enough bipartisanship.
Get it?
Consumer confidence.
Consumers have no confidence because Congress didn't get along with itself.
Not because they don't have jobs, not because there's no prospect for jobs, not because it's because the Congress didn't get along.
That's why consumer confidence is there.
That's right.
It says right here consumer confidence crumbled in August to its lowest level in more than two years as the fallout from political wrangling over a budget deal took its toll.
So the first two stories, AP and Reuters, are embarrassments.
Literal embarrassments.
This is bordering on economic and political illiteracy.
Not to mention illegitimacy in the way all this is being reported.
The conference board, an industry group, said that its index of consumer attitudes sank to 44.5 from 59.2 the month before.
Now normally when consumer confidence is robust, the conference board numbers are around 100.
Maybe 101, 102.
Consumers outlook also deteriorated sharply as the expectations index plunged to 51.9 from 74.9.
Now, this is the first time I've heard of the expectations index.
And I'm I'm an expert on a conference board.
I have been following the conference board for as long as I've been doing this program, and I have never heard of the expectation index.
But whatever it is, it's bad.
The people's expectations are way down, but we know why.
Your expectations are way down because Congress didn't get along with itself.
During the debt ceiling deal, Heritage Foundation, morning bell, unemployment empty promise.
This is a it's their blog at the Heritage Foundation.
It basically is the scholarly evidence that the extension of unemployment benefits does not stimulate the economy.
A report by Heritage Foundation James Shirk and Karen Campbell, unemployment insurance actually leads to longer periods of unemployment.
Does not provide the promised stimulative effect.
Now, I'm happy to have the scholarly report on this.
But I didn't need it.
Common sense tells us all that the longer you pay people and not do anything, the longer they'll not do anything.
As I say, I'm very happy to have the scholarly report and evidence to back it up, but instincts suffice here.
You pay people not to work, and you extend the payment not to work, and guess what they're not gonna do?
They're not gonna work.
Now you add to this the fact that this regime from Pelosi to any number of people try to make the claim that unemployment benefits stimulate the economy.
Jay Carney even said, oh yeah, I mean it really works out there.
You put in money in people's pockets that they're gonna go spend, they're not gonna save it.
And so, yeah, it'll stimulate the economy.
Where does the money come from?
You have to take it away from somebody before you give it to somebody else.
It's a wash.
There is no stimulative effect of unemployment benefits.
None whatsoever.
Whether you borrow the money or print it or get it via taxes, you still have to take it from someplace in the private sector to give it to somebody else in the private sector.
It zeros out.
And probably is a net negative because it also has the added benefit of promoting laziness.
Slothfulness.
The longer you pay people not to do anything, the longer they'll not do anything.
Now, interestingly enough, the the Heritage Morning Bill piece mentions this, the uh president's new top economist agrees with all of this.
Yesterday the president announced that uh Princeton University economist Alan Kruger will replace Austin Goolsby as the White House chief economic advisor.
Kruger will play a prominent role in crafting Obama's economic strategy, but uh uh Lochlin Marque, the Heritage Foundation reports that Krueger's past research doesn't mesh with the White House's stance on the supposed stimulative benefits of extending unemployment insurance.
Uh back in 2002, Alan Krueger, who again is the new head honcho economic advisor in the White House, co-authored a paper for the handbook of public economics in 2002 that seems to undercut the economic argument for extending unemployment benefits.
The paper found that unemployment benefits tend to increase the length of unemployment by discouraging the search for a new job.
So Obama's own guy, nine years ago, concluded that uh unemployment benefits do not stimulate the economy, and what they do is promote continued unemployment.
Now, obviously, Mr. Kruger is going to have to change his mind.
Obviously, uh outside of me and the Heritage Foundation, you will never hear that Alan Kruger held this point of view.
But I wanted to get it out there.
Uh so that uh so that you know I gotta take quick time out here, folks.
We're just getting started.
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Ladies and gentlemen, I am holding here my formerly nicotine stained fingers.
A story from the Cybercast News Service.
Monday, August 29th of 2011.
I take that back.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, uh, ladies, August 29th, 2010.
What am I saying?
One year ago, yesterday, in an interview with Brian Williams at NBC, President Obama said that he would propose a plan for jobs and economic growth when he returned from his summer vacation.
One year ago.
I am not making this up.
Well, no, don't you think the way I just did that was pretty clever?
I sucked you all in, did I not?
Folks, we're getting instant replay here one year later.
August 29th, 2010.
For those of you in Rio Linda, that's last year.
Obama conducted an interview with Brian Williams at NBC and said that he would propose a plan for jobs and economic growth when he returned from his summer vacation.
The same claim that he made after returning from his vacation this year.
Now, they're out there saying that Rick Perry is dumb.
The politico had a story yesterday.
Rick Perry is dumb.
How smart is it for Obama to repeat the same pledge two consecutive years?
Actually one year apart, that he would have a jobs plan after returning from a Martha's Vineyard vacation.
He went to Martha's Vineyard last year.
He told Brian Williams he's going to have a jobs plan.
He's going to announce it to the nation when he gets back from vacation.
One year later, almost to the day, Obama says, I'm going to have a jobs plan when I get back from vacation.
So the question is, how did last year's jobs plan work?
In fact, does anybody even remember what it was?
It really is.
I don't know.
They really think we're a bunch of saps.
They really do.
Cybercast News Service.
Story from yesterday.
President Barack Obama in an August 29th, 2010 interview with NBC's Brian Williams said that he would propose a plan for jobs and economic growth when he returned from his summer vacation.
Same claim he made after returning from his vacation this year.
Last year, Barack Obama told Brian Williams, we anticipated the recovery was slowing.
The economy's still growing, but it's not growing as fast as it needs to.
I got things right now before Congress that we should move immediately, and I said so before I went on vacation, and I'm going to keep on saying it now that I'm back.
He said this a year ago.
He says a whole lot of measures that we could take, no single element of which is a magic bullet, but cumulatively we could start continuing to build momentum for the recovery.
One year ago, the the the exact I mean, we're in summer reruns here.
And last year's jobs plan was a lot like what this year's jobs plan is gonna be.
And the jobs plan two years ago and three years ago, and that is spend more government money.
That's the sum total of the Obama jobs plan.
Extend unemployment benefits, come up, and he just told this to the uh to the uh American Legion where he's speaking that he's got this great deal for businesses, some sort of tax incentive if they hire new workers.
That's recycled.
That goes back to the first stimulus.
This administration is just recycling everything every year.
There's nothing new.
They recycle it.
They know they've got a compliant media which will report it as new and uh and earth shattering never done before.
It's insulting and it's it's it's incompetent.
I I I'm I'm sitting here and I'm I'm literally close to speechless about this.
That's how incredulous I am.
Because the media is out there reporting, I mean, they're waiting, everybody with with with with the practically baited breath, breathlessly the media tongues are on the sidewalk waiting for the new jobs plan, and we're being scammed this year just like we were last year.
All we're gonna get is more stimulus, a bigger government, a shrinking private sector, all done on purpose, and yet the stated purpose will be to revive jobs.
We're down at a one percent growth rate, folks.
And we've got the economic wizards of the associated press saying we need more government spending if we're gonna get that growth rate up to two percent or four percent.
In the meantime, black leaders turn up the heat on President Obama.
If there's anything close to a political certainty in 2012, it's an Obama will get more than 90% of the African American vote.
But that doesn't mean that every black Obama supporter will vote for him happily, nor does it guarantee that turnout will approach the stratospheric levels of 2008, even though Obama needs a huge showing from his base to offset the expected loss of swing voters in states like North Carolina, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
With that in mind, prominent black leaders have turned up the heat on the nation's first black president, transforming all in the family concerns into open criticism of the president at a time when they had hoped the completion of a monument to Martin Luther King Jr. near the National Mall would bring a moment of unity.
The leaders are tired, they say.
Black leaders are tired of Obama.
Get this quote here: "Black leaders are tired, they say, of Obama dog-whistling his support for a broad black agenda, rather than explicitly embracing the kind of war on racism, poverty, and economic segregation embodied by King." What is dog whistling?
Obama dog whistling his support for a broad black.
By the way, I've got to find this.
This kind of pains me, but I do have to find this.
It's one of Martin Luther King's children at the dedication.
Okay.
Said that Abraham Lincoln signed the declaration.
Here it is.
Martin Luther King's daughter.
Folks, this is sad on several levels, and it all goes back to education.
At the dedication for the new Martin Luther King Jr.
Memorial in Washington on Friday, the civil rights leader's daughter made an interesting mistake regarding Abraham Lincoln.
According to Martin Luther King's daughter, Lincoln is best known for signing the Declaration of Independence.
Bernice King said, but as I close, I close with the recognition that Daddy is standing and Lincoln is seated.
Lincoln remembered for signing the Declaration of Independence.
Daddy being remembered as standing up for truth and standing up for justice and standing up for righteousness and standing up for peace and standing up for freedom.
Daddy is now standing on the National Mall in our nation's capital.
Martin Luther King's daughter at the dedication Friday said that Abraham Lincoln signed the Declaration of Independence.
The historical mistake could be simply an honest one that happens all the time when people speak in front of crowds.
She probably meant to say emancipation proclamation.
But it's curious that Bernice King, who has been labeled a conservative on some issues, would draw the juxtaposition that her father is now immortalized as someone who is standing while Lincoln is immortalized as somebody who's sitting.
So yep, Abraham Lincoln, Declaration of Independence.
Martin Luther King's daughter said that's what he signed.
Probably didn't mean to make it.
Don't forget that.
Barack Obama said he's been traveling to all 57 states.
Rick Perry's dumb.
That's what Politico says.
By the way, did you know that Obama did not ride on the bus during the bus tours?
I've got it.
To facilitate Obama's bus tour of Midwest America, the Secret Service bought two large buses and set about customizing them to fit the security needs of the president.
The buses have bulletproof black windows, puncture-proof tires, five-inch thick doors, and their own oxygen supplies.
And the Secret Service had to train agents specially to drive the buses.
Agents will be taught to back up at very high rates of speed using just the mirrors on either side.
Really takes guts to do that.
The press Secretary Jay Carney said the buses were necessary because the president needs to get out in the country and meet with real folks in real places.
But here's the thing.
Apparently, Obama only rode the buses for a couple of miles at a time.
He spent the rest of the time flying from community to community in Air Force One.
And what's more, the buses were flown from stop to stop as well.
It saved didn't save any gas.
It didn't save anything.
They put the buses on transport planes.
The whole thing was a fraud.
Obama's on the bus for a mile or two at a time.
There was no bus tour.
What do you mean what's the point?
Imagery.
Imagery.
Pure and simple imagery.
Getting out amongst the people, snerdly.
That's the whole point of this.
But he wasn't in the buses.
Well, no, no.
It wasn't a waste of money because one of the buses is going to be used by the eventual Republican nominee.
Whoever wins the Republican nomination will use one of the buses to do his bus tours.
And Obama will use the other one.
Folks.
Look, look, I know.
You have this story.
You got the story about Michelle's vacations.
Michelle leaves for Martha's Vineyard on her own airplane four hours prior to Obama leaving for Bartha's Vineyard.
And that's just, I mean, that doesn't even scratch the surface on the amount of money she's spending on her vacations.
Then you have folks.
You know, I'm I'm wondering if I'm still in the middle of a nightmare here because one year ago, Obama tells Brian Williams, I'm gonna have my big jobs plan when I get off vacation here at Martha's Vineyard.
I mean, we're in the Twilight Zone.
What is this?
It's Groundhog Day.
That's what it is.
Everything's just being repeated.
We're summer reruns that are not stopping.
Everything on the news, we've seen it before.
As though it's brand new.
Let's let's do get to something new, though.
Audio sound bites.
Let's go back to August 8th.
This program and me.
If you think that the Democrat Party is not thinking about Hillary Clinton as a primary opponent to Obama, you are not thinking.
I'm going to tell folks, if Hillary Clinton were president right now, and the same circumstances existed, they would be thinking about Obama primarying her.
Not marrying, primarying.
And I am here to tell you that deep in the bowels, and that's what they are, the Democrat Party.
They're thinking this.
Okay, so and you, if you were listening on August 8th, you heard me say that.
If you weren't, you just heard me say it on tape.
Let's go to yesterday afternoon, the White House press briefing.
Press Secretary Jay Carney took a question from Les Kin Solving about the 2012 presidential election.
Why is the president that Hillary won't run against him?
President's focused, uh, not on the any election.
He's focused right now on the job, grow the economy, create jobs, ensure that Americans who are in the path of this hurricane uh are taken care of.
I understand.
So he's running away from this question.
I mean, can you guarantee that uh I mean, are you sure that is not gonna run?
You'd have to ask her.
We're fairly confident.
Actually, it actually came up at the White House briefing.
So old El Rushmo puts it out there, and it ends up being discussed at the White House press briefing, and Jay Carney says, Well, we you'll have to go um, you'll have to go ask Hillary if she is running.
Yeah, that's we're at Jay Carney.
We're fairly confident she's not gonna run.
We're fairly confident.
And again, a reminder, Vice President Cheney at the top of the next hour.
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Fuck a new poll out there by CNN.
Now get this.
New poll by CNN and something called ORC International.
And the poll finds 27% of Democrats would like to see I mean, that's that's one in four.
Twenty-five, twenty-seven percent.
One in four Democrats would like to see their party nominate a candidate other than Obama.
2012.
I told you not I I told you this is going on in the bowels of the Democrat Party.
Twenty-five percent of Democrats wish somebody besides Obama would be on the ballot.
One in four Democrats would like to dump Obama.
Now we gotta be fair about this.
This poll was taken between August 24th and 25th, which is before Obama saved us all from Hurricane Irene.
So it might not be that high now, since he did such a great job of saving us all from Hurricane Irene.
Snerdily smirking at me.
Let's go to um Lenoka Harbor, New Jersey.
On the phone start with Mike.
Great to have you on the program today, sir.
Hello.
Hello.
Uh I wanted to know your opinion.
Did you happen to hear that Barack Obama's uncle was arrested for DWI?
Yeah, this is Omar uh on Yongo uh Obama with a social security number, illegal immigrant for 19 years.
Yes, I heard this.
Yeah, now how come how come it seems like remember under the Bush his daughters?
Whenever they were caught like drinking, it made like headlines.
Yeah.
And yet there seems to be like a complete blackout in the newspapers, and even on the on the news, there seems to be like a blackout of this.
Well, it's not a total blackout because you knew about it.
Yeah, but uh I mean, I'm talking about, you know, I've been scouring papers stuff.
I can't find nothing about this.
I I just thought it was odd.
Well, you know, Obama still has uh brother living in a hut.
You know, but I mean it's an illegal alien.
So I mean, you know, come on.
Well shouldn't he be?
Wait a second.
This guy's not the first, don't forget Ann Zetootti.
Oh, yeah, well, I I remember her, but I'm just saying, I mean, w how many other people are.
Let me tell you what's more interesting to me than I mean, I I I get your point.
I mean, here's a guy, illegal immigrant for 19 years, has a social security number.
Omar Obama is D-U-I.
My question is, how come this guy, you're right.
This is the first time we've ever heard of him.
This guy, and Zatuti, they're never invited to the White House.
You get rappers showing up at the White House, you've got all kinds of Hollywood people, you've got uh any number of uh uh people, but but the family, the family is uh is ignored.
Anza Tootie was almost deported.
I don't know what's gonna happen here to Uncle Omar.
Yeah, I'm I mean, you know, I I'm just wondering.
I mean, I I just find it kind of you know odd, you know, that you know, we're not hearing nothing.
Well, no, you're looking you you have a point.
This is August 30th.
Uncle Omar was arrested on August 26th, and today I think is the first I mean uh nothing in the American press about it until today.
Yeah, uh well, I just was wondering, but I thank you for taking my call.
Well, what uh what were you wondering?
Uh I mean, you know, I don't I I'm not like a conspiracy kind of person, but I mean, you know, this is like it's very odd that there's such a blackout.
If if it happened to say, be careful with your language there, sir.
Uh blackout, you've got to be very careful the way you I didn't mean it that way.
Well, I know, but uh you never know what's gonna be interpreted.
Yeah, well, my my point is uh, you know, had this been any one of the front runners, one of their right.
Well I can tell you is you would never hear the end of it.
Uncle well, that's exactly right.
Uncle Omar and Anne Zatuti are in Massachusetts.
Wasn't the family just there?
I don't even know if Hillary's wife would let her run, folks, so that's that's kind of a a moot point.
But you know, this Anne Zatti and Uncle Omar, they're they're both in violation of the law.
They have been deported, both have been deported and just refused to leave.
And when Uncle Omar was arrested, he called why he wanted to call the White House.
Just like when they run out of uh McNuggets in Port St. Lucie, they call 911.
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