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August 31, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Well, welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to EIB Network, hosted by me, Rush Limbaugh, where I never get tired of being right.
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Well, the media, folks, the media is starting to get all excited about Obama's jobs program.
We have audio sound bites to illustrate this.
And I'm thinking maybe we might just start a countdown here.
You know, a la Wolf Blitzer, it's 3 p.m. on the East Coast.
Okay, so what has the president said?
Obama's going to give his World Historic Jobs speech shortly after the September 5th holiday.
Now, presumably, that would mean on September the 6th.
And he usually, Obama usually makes his speeches around 12 noon to coincide with the start of this program, run up against our big show here.
So let's just, I mean, it's a pretty good guess that Obama's jobs program will be announced at 12 noon on September 6th.
So counting down from 12 p.m. today until 12 p.m. next Tuesday is 144 hours.
We ran the numbers on this.
So it's 12 noon Wednesday, August 31st, and we're starting the unofficial EIB countdown clock, the President Obama's job-creating economic plan to get the economy off the recession cliff speech.
And it starts now.
In approximately 144 hours, we will hear Obama's plan to save our economy and his chances for reelection.
Naturally, we'll be, we'll do what the media does.
We'll give hourly and half-hourly updates on this historic event, the countdown.
Like in 22 minutes, it'll be 133 and a half hours from Obama's speech.
I want to beat Wolf Blitzer to the punch here, folks.
Well, I've got audio soundbites there already starting with this eager anticipation of the Obama jobs speech.
And we'll get to that in just a second.
First, ladies and gentlemen, how many of you have ever heard of a member of the Congressional Black Caucus, Andre Carson?
Andre Carson, Democrat from Indiana.
He is the Congressional Black Caucus chief vote counter.
He is also, I believe, the second Muslim to serve in Congress, Keith Ellison from Minnesota being the first.
And Mr. Carson, member of Congressional Black Caucus, Indiana, says that tea partiers on Capitol Hill would like to see, this is from the Politico, by the way.
Mr. Andre Carson says that tea partiers on Capitol Hill would like to see African Americans hanging from trees.
And he accuses the movement of wishing for a return to the Jim Crow era.
We have audio soundbites, in case you doubt me.
In case you think I'm making this up, this is a new civility of the Democrat Party.
This is August 22nd, so basically nine days ago.
It's taken that long for this to surface.
Nine days ago in Miami, during a Congressional Black Caucus Town Hall, the whip, Congressional Black Caucus Whip, Andre Carson, Democrat Indiana, spoke.
Now, this is a cheap, cheap microphone, and I think this is internet quality, but here's what he said.
This is the evidence that we're seeing of Jim Crow.
Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens.
Some of them in Congress right now, that it's a Tea Party movement, would love to see you and me.
I'm sorry, Jim Crow, hanging on a tree.
So he said it.
We have, this is the new civility of the Democrat Party, actually had a member of the Congressional Black Caucus suggest that Tea Partiers in Washington would like to see blacks like him hanging from trees.
Now, I wonder, I wonder if Mr. Andre Carson is probably unaware, Mr. Snoodley, that blacks in the South were hung from trees by Democrats.
Do you think he knows that?
You think Andre Carson knows that it was Democrats who did the lynching?
You think Andre Carson knows that it was Democrats who hung blacks from trees?
You think he knows that?
You really do.
Well, that just makes it even more disingenuous.
Well, if you didn't know it, folks, it is true.
Blacks in the South were lynched by Democrats largely because they might have voted Republican.
You could, if you were black, you could get lynched.
You could be hung from a tree by Democrats if you voted Republican.
In fact, white Republicans were the first targets of Southern lynch mobs, especially a terrorist arm of the Democrat Party, which was known as what?
A Klan.
The Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democrat Party.
The Democrats terrorized white people who tried to help black people.
The Democrats of the South were the ones doing all the lynching, Mr. Carson.
Meanwhile, ridiculous to have to even point this out.
No evidence that the Tea Party's lynched anybody.
This is how discombobulated these people are.
And of course, you hear the audience reaction, yeah, baby.
Yeah, baby.
Language of jihad.
Well, you mean, because this guy's the second Muslim in, well, it does sound like jihadist language if you look at it in a certain way.
Now, they went to Carson.
They went to Andre Carson.
Do you really mean this?
And Carson staff said, yep.
A congressman stands by his remarks since the Tea Party has gutted nutrition services for the poor.
That's what he said is the reason for the comment.
Now, you and I all know that not one nutrition program has been gutted, much less even cut.
According to the General Accounting Office in 2008, the federal government had 18 separate food programs that spent $62.5 billion every year to feed the poor, and they have been hugely expanded by the Obama regime.
And in fact, somewhere here in my stack, ladies and gentlemen, the federal government's in an outreach plan.
If your food stamps were wiped out by the flood, here's where you go by the hurricane.
Here's where you go to get them replaced.
If you went out and bought food with your food stamps, and if your food happened to get flooded, along with your flooded food stamps, this is where you go.
New York.
Okay, this is where you go to have it redeemed.
Meanwhile, we have a genuine loco weed.
I mean, this is your Democrat Party, folks.
This is your congressional black caucus.
They lost the House of Representatives.
They are in panic.
Their president is losing ground.
He's at 38% approval.
Unemployment in the black community is over 20%.
And now they're noticing all of a sudden, Maxine Waters says the Tea Party go to hell.
And now this guy's out saying the Tea Party wants to lynch people.
And this is the group that independents are going to run to if Republicans say the wrong thing?
Well, I think Snurdy just said they won't get mad at Obama about no jobs.
I think they're starting to get mad at Obama about no jobs.
I think, well, some of them are.
I've got it somewhere here.
There's some unrest out there at Obama over the Tea Party hasn't done anything to this guy, except the Tea Party is winning.
The Tea Party won the Congress.
The Tea Party had a landslide electoral victory a year ago.
That's what's got them all discombobulated.
Anyway, you got Maxine Waters out there, Tea Party go to hell.
This guy says the Tea Party wants to lynch people.
And I want to make this point, folks.
These are the people that we're told the independents are going to flock to if the Republicans say the wrong thing and make them mad.
This is the kind of pure, unadulterated hatred, extremism, mean spirit, whatever, however you want to characterize this, insanity.
This is the kind of stuff the independents are going to flock to if we say the wrong thing and make them mad.
And in this story, by the way, no, you haven't heard the worst of this yet.
Politico in this story, in an attempt at balance, cites two examples of Republicans saying things.
Oh, yes.
And you know what they are?
Listen to this.
Carson is hardly the first lawmaker to use heated rhetoric.
Representative Joe Wilson, Republican South Carolina, yelled, you lie at Obama.
And Representative Randy Neuberger, Republican Texas, yelled baby killer at former Representative Bart Stupak as abortion was being discussed during the healthcare debate.
So we are to believe, according to the Politico, that shouting, you lie is on a par with someone accusing the Tea Party of lynching blacks.
Carson is hardly the first lawmaker to use heated rhetoric.
Joe, by the way, who wrote this at Politico?
Jake Sherman.
Jake.
Last I looked, Joe Wilson was right.
Obama did lie in what he was saying in that speech.
House of Representatives.
But even so, shouting, you lie is not quite like accusing somebody of lynching blacks, especially when it turns out that Wilson was exactly right.
Now, Andre Carson represents Indianapolis, second Muslim to ever serve in Congress.
I wonder if this guy, snurdly, do you think this guy, Carson, has any idea of the history of Islam and black slavery, which continues to this day?
You think?
You think Andre Carson might not know about that, but you are convinced that Andre Carson is aware that Democrats were doing a lynching down in the old South.
Yeah.
Okay, well, this is our start.
Up next is Nancy Pelosi going nuts on the rich while out in San Francisco.
I mean, literally going nuts.
Now, even as we speak, folks, what do we have yesterday?
We had a story.
Jeffrey Toobin, even as we speak, the media and the rest of the Democrat Party are preparing another attempt to lynch Clarence Thomas.
High-tech lynching is being planned for Clarence Thomas because of his potential role in repealing Obamacare.
So sit tight.
We've only just begun.
Carpenter's 1969 Sit Tight.
Stop complaining.
A little dead air never hurt anybody.
Dead air, we use that strategically, ladies and gentlemen.
Dead air is a magnet.
You got the radio on and you're expecting to hear something.
And when there's nothing there, your attention is, you turn the radio up, something wrong, you turn it off and on, but you don't tune out.
And we strategically throw dead air in there a lot of times just to use it.
Probably shouldn't even have given away the secret.
You know, I really have an observation for you African Americans in the audience, and I know that there are a lot of you there.
This Andre Carson guy, Maxine Waters, James Clybern, all these people, Barbara Lee, they have been, the members of Congressional Black Caucus, they have been entrenched in their districts for years.
They never lose.
They're incumbents after incumbents after incumbents.
Why, with all of their power, and now you've got the first black president of the White House, why with all of their power and all of their seniority?
And they got a lot.
Why?
Are their districts the ones that are hardest hit?
Why is Maxine Waters' district in California one of the hardest hit in terms of jobs and general economics?
Same thing with Barbara Lee, James Clybert.
Why are their districts the ones with the greatest amount of suffering going on?
Why?
After decades of Maxine Water being in Waters being in Congress, there are still no jobs in South Central LA.
No matter where you go, Congressional Black Caucus districts, there are no jobs.
Why?
And crumbling infrastructure.
Why?
Lousy economic circumstances overall.
Why?
By the way, ladies and gentlemen, the regime has formally requested a joint address to Congress for the president to announce his jobs plan on September the 7th.
No, wait a minute now.
September the 7th, folks, and he wants an 8 p.m. nationally televised address, joint session of Congress.
It is the night of a Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Library.
Yes, it is.
And everybody, everybody, all the news agencies now are confirming.
Now, Boehner can decide these things.
Can you imagine if things are reversed and Pelosi's the speaker and Bush says, you know, I want a joint session of Congress speech on the night of a big Democrat Party debate.
You think Pelosi would go along with it?
Boehner can tell Obama no.
Give him a different date.
Here's Robert B. Reich, former labor secretary.
This morning on MSNBC Live, the host Craig Melvin said, look, if he rolls out this big jobs plan, twists arms away, hits the road, tries to sell it to Americans, but doesn't get it through Congress, then what's next for this president?
The president ought to be very bold, have a bunch of proposals that really are large enough to deal with the problem, tie them together, ask for Congress an up or down vote.
If the Republicans say no, then he ought to campaign on it.
He ought to fight for it, mobilize and energize not only the Democratic base, but a lot of independents and many Republicans.
That is the plan.
Whether Rice knows it or not, the plan is to propose something outrageous in terms of spending.
And we're getting details that it's going to be an extension of unemployment benefits.
I've got some of the details not right in front of me, but in due course.
And it's going to be big.
It's going to be something the Republicans will reject.
And then Obama's going to run around and campaign on their rejection.
Whether Reich knows this or not.
By the way, AT ⁇ T and T-Mobile, AT ⁇ T wanted to buy T-Mobile.
They wanted to merge out there.
One of the reasons is that AT ⁇ T's 4G network ain't all that hot compared to Verizon's.
So they want T-Mobile.
In the process of AT ⁇ T, listen to me on this now.
In the process of AT ⁇ T buying or merging with T-Mobile, AT ⁇ T was promising to bring 5,000 wireless call center jobs based abroad back to the United States.
Today, the regime, the Eric Holder, the Justice Department, opposed the merger.
The regime, the Obama regime, an official position opposing the creation of 5,000 jobs in America.
If the DOJ comes out against your merger, it pretty much isn't going to happen.
Brief timeout.
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Okay, so September 7th, jobs program.
Obama has requested a joint session of Congress to make his presentation.
Also happens to be the night of a Republican presidential debate.
In fact, Rick Perry's first Republican presidential debate at the Reagan Library.
So if we're going to do our countdown clock, we have to reset it here.
That would mean, let's see, what would it be?
176 hours instead of 144, 176 hours from noon today.
Obama's historic jobs address.
Now, let me tell you about this jobs address.
And this is not cynicism.
Obama's plan, no matter the details and no matter how he tries to dress it up, the only purpose of his jobs plan will be to announce an increase in government spending to keep us out of a technical recession.
We are at a 1% growth rate.
Our economy is growing at 1%.
And the GDP, economic growth, includes government spending.
Without government spending, we would still be in an official recession.
And that's what Obama wants to avoid.
He wants to get enough spending approved to get the GDP up in an artificial way.
The larger percentage, the larger percentage of the GDP represented by the government, the worse it is for people who want to have traditional jobs in the private sector, who want to try to build a nest egg, amass wealth, leave something for your family.
You don't do that at government.
Government takes that opportunity away from you.
The more money that government sucks up from the private sector, the less opportunity there is for everybody that's left in the private sector.
None of that matters to Obama.
What Obama wants to do is gin up enough government spending to keep us technically out of a recession.
So let's say that Obama increased government spending by X percent of our entire economy.
Our GDP would go up by whatever that percentage is.
And that's what Obama, the Democrats, are desperate to do.
And that's why they want to do this in a national primetime address.
They want to increase spending enough to keep us from having two negative or two, yeah, two quarters of negative GDP in an election year.
This is not cynicism.
I'm telling you the truth.
The last thing on Obama's mind is creating jobs.
The only thing on his mind is re-election.
Again, AT ⁇ T wanted to merge with T-Mobile.
They promised to bring 5,000 wireless call center jobs, which are currently based overseas, bring them back home to America if they were allowed to proceed with the $39 billion acquisition of T-Mobile.
Now, the main reason they want T-Mobile, they want T-Mobile's 4G network.
They just don't have the capacity.
And one of the reasons they don't have the capacity is the iPhone.
So many people buying iPhones and so many people using iPhones, AT ⁇ T is challenged with their network capacity.
So they want to buy an existing network rather than take the time it would take to invest and build their own up.
Now, the DOJ, the Department of Justice, come out and said, nope, we're not going to go along for this.
We oppose it.
Pretty much means that AT ⁇ T's merger with T-Mobile is going to happen.
It also means that 5,000 jobs are not going to be brought home.
So you could accurately say that the regime is not interested in creating jobs.
The regime is interested in government spending.
The regime is interested in government spending so that they can use that as a way to ratchet up economic growth since government's percentage of the economy is a factor.
That's what's at stake here.
And Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, just said that the Republican presidential candidates debate next Wednesday is not enough of a reason to change the timing of the presidential address.
There was no presidential, the date of the Republican presidential debate has long been set.
It's Obama that's coming in and intruding on the Republican debate.
The way Carney says this, hey, look, that Republican debate next Wednesday, that's not enough of a reason to change the timing of the president's address.
As though the president's address has been scheduled for months, the president's address got scheduled today.
By the way, one more thing on this ATT-T-Mobile merger.
ATT has also promised, as part of the merger, to increase its U.S. infrastructure investment by more than $8 billion.
There was a study by EPI.
The Economic Policy Institute projected that the investment would create up to 96,000 new U.S. jobs.
And here comes Eric Holder and the regime opposing the merger, basically standing in the way of roughly 100,000 new jobs in America.
And they're doing it in the guise of protecting consumer.
And they'll probably get away with it.
Because you know what they'll say.
We want to do everything we can to preserve consumer choice.
And if ATT is allowed to swallow up T-Mobile, that gets us back closer and closer to a sole monopoly for ATT, one less competitor out there, and therefore one less option for consumers, and ATT will be able to go rape them price.
That's the reasoning from the DOJ.
Class warfare kind of stuff.
And no, of course monopolies doesn't stop the regime with their own healthcare plan.
No, they're all for a government monopoly when it comes to healthcare plan.
At any rate, that's what's happening here.
And it's not ah, folks, I'll tell you, it's so obvious to me.
It pains me that it's not obvious to everybody what's going on here.
But hopefully we will make it obvious what the purpose of Obama's joint appearance or speech before a joint session of Congress is.
And I told you, Pelosi, let's go back audio soundbite number two.
This August 21st, so basically 10 days ago, Andre Carson, the sound bites we played about him saying that Tea Partiers want to hang or lynch blacks.
That comment was made August 22nd.
It took nine days for it to surface.
Pelosi's comments, she was at a Democrat brunch San Francisco back on August 21st, 10 days ago.
And we got, I think, one, two, two soundbites from Pelosi.
Here's the first.
What more do they want?
They have, I'm homes, bigger the yacht, the bigger the, the taller the mast, the whole thing.
They have museum quality art.
They want immortality.
They want so much money that their names are for prestige.
Could never get any other way they could buy with endless money.
Because what else could you possibly want?
What more do they want?
They had a number of homes.
The bigger the yacht, the taller the mast, the whole thing they.
She's talking I don't know whether she knows it or not about Democrats.
Now her husband's very wealthy and said this, so Pelosi, by virtue of marriage, is very wealthy, but for now this, this largest mast business.
I'm probably going to get myself into trouble here.
I don't know if this is still true, but there's an author out there, author by the name of Michael Lewis, and he wrote a book called the next big Thing or the next big big thing or something like that.
It was a story of Jim Clark who founded Netscape, which no longer exists.
I read the book and a large and Jim Clark.
I've met Jim Clark.
He lives here.
I was at a dinner once with Jim Clark where he almost left.
He's like I can't believe i'm in the same room with Rush Limbaugh.
This book was about Jim Clark building the biggest sailboat in the world with all of his wealth from Netscape and about the trials and tribulations of building this sailboat and the limitations of where it could go, because the mast is so high and some bridges, of course, are not high enough.
For the method thing is apparently huge, took years.
They had problems with all the electronics on board.
The sailboat Pelosi is talking about, at least at the time the Democrat, a Democrat had the largest sailboat in the country and I don't know if he still has a largest sailboat or somebody's built one bigger or not.
Then this business of um, they want immortality, so much money that their names for prestige they could never get any other way.
They're buying.
What is she talking about?
Putting your name on the wing of a hospital, for example, donating to a hospital and getting your name on a wing.
That's the kind of stuff she's talking about.
Now I don't know what the breakout is here, but I will guarantee you it's not all Republican names on the names of hospitals in New York City, I just guarantee you.
And if you go to the state of West Virginia, you can't find anything in that state not named after Robert Bird from rest areas on the interstate to the interstate, to the sign on the interstate, to the museum, to I mean, there's so many things in that state named after Robert Bird.
It's, it's a joke and she wants to do.
We have three soundbites actually, and here's the second of the three, clean air, clean water, food safety, reform on Wall Street, protections for consumers.
You name it, forget about it.
They're defunding every initiative in that regard.
You wonder, do their children breathe air?
Do they drink water?
Why do they?
They not care, but they don't.
But they don't.
We don't care about clean water, clean air, clean food.
We don't care about any of that.
Want our children to die.
Nancy Pelosi.
To a Democrat brunch in San Francisco on August 21st, here's the last one.
In the first 100 hours, we raised the minimum wage.
It was the first time the minimum wage was raised in 11 years.
Now, listen to this.
It was kept down for the purpose that people would not be able to live on that.
They'd have to borrow against home equity loans or against their mortgage, their this or that.
They'd have to live on credit cards.
And what are they doing when they do that?
They're paying fees to the banks.
They're paying fees to the banks.
So it was a contrived dependence on private credit for millions, tens of millions of working people in our country.
Keep people dependent on paying fees to banks for the use of their own money.
Okay, so the Republicans kept the minimum wage low so that poor people have to borrow more money from the bank so that Republicans could get rich.
People on minimum wage would borrow against their home equity.
People earning minimum wage would borrow against their home equity and enrich the bankers.
The Republican bankers.
Last time I looked, all these bankers are voting for Obama.
Let me get serious here for just a second, folks.
Speaker Boehner must say no to this request.
He can say no to this.
It's up to the Speaker of the House.
The president just can't say, I'm showing up.
Put everybody in the audience here.
I'm coming over to make a speech.
Boehner can say no to this.
He should say, what are you shaking your hand at?
You don't think Boehner will say no?
What Boehner ought to do is say no and offer the president September 6th, September the 8th, September the 9th, September the 10th, whatever.
But he doesn't get September the 7th.
He should do this.
It's very simple.
He says to the president, you did not consult me before you publicly issued the date.
You were obviously trying to disrupt the plans at the Reagan Library.
You're going to have to learn that if you really want to work together, as you repeatedly claim, Mr. President, I'm going to show you how it's done.
Here are the dates that you can have.
September 6th, 8th, 9, or 10.
You pick one.
Otherwise, no joint session.
I'm serious, my friends.
This is not a sign of disrespect.
What Obama's doing is a sign of disrespect.
Obama's the one who's saying we've got to get rid of the politics as usual in Washington.
We've got to start working together here.
Well, Boehner's got a clear road.
Mr. President, you didn't inform me of this.
You didn't consult me before you publicly issued this date.
We know that you're trying to disrupt the plans, the Republican candidates debate, the Reagan Library on that same date.
So no, no joint session.
In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Obama's purposely setting that up, hoping that Boehner will say no.
Then the Democrats and the media will have all kinds of fun.
Well, what are the Republicans afraid of?
Why, the president just wants to come talk about jobs?
And here's Boehner refusing to listen to what the president has to say.
This is no different than the whole campaign tactic for reelection, which is to propose things that are so outrageous.
Stimulus of $2 trillion, whatever it is, something the Republicans would never go along with, and then run around a campaign on Republican obstructionism.
Obama claims his plans bipartisan.
His jobs plan's a bipartisan plan.
Press would say, Would Boehner have told a white president no?
That's right.
Would Boehner have said no to George W. Bush?
Would Boehner have said no to Bill Clinton?
Is Boehner only saying no because Obama's black?
Well, yeah, I'm fully aware, folks, that all of that is probably part of the stratagem in this.
And it's easy for me to sit here and say that Boehner should still say no, but he should.
Hey, it's for real here.
This is about the 2012 election.
And we're not just supposed to lay down.
Let it happen.
Got to take a brief time out.
We'll be back and continue right after this.
I'm telling you, folks, do not be defensive about this.
Obama's not this smart.
This is amateur politics.
It's not going to work.
So expose it and block it.
Boehner would not have to say no to Bush or Clinton because neither of them would ever try this.
I don't care what if they say Boehner's racist.
I don't care whatever they say.
Do not let this happen.
This is intended not only to disrupt the Reagan Library debate, but to make Obama look bigger than the Republicans and to be bigger than politics.
And they can't.
The Republicans, if they have any hope of winning the 2012 election, have got to put this guy in his place using this as their opportunity to do it.
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