The views expressed by the host on this show, documented to be almost always right, 99.6% of the time.
I, of course, am the host, the one and only the all-knowing, all-caring, all-sensing, all-feeling, all-concerned, even with an ingrown toenail, maha rushy.
Well, I do, and it's painful.
It's ticking me off here.
But of course, it's balanced by the fact that I am one of the few Americans who did know then what I know now.
Well, I have known for, I don't know how long, that liberalism does what it does.
I've known that socialism does what it does.
I've known who liberals are and what will happen when they're in power.
You have two.
You just some of you may not want to admit it.
Now, my knowledge, and what I knew then is the same as what I know now, goes far beyond politics as well.
You know, people have said, gosh, would I love to go back to high school knowing then what I know now?
I do.
Indeed.
Oh, yeah.
So one of the reasons why I've become the overwhelming profound success that I have become.
At any rate, as I mentioned, the telephone number, by the way, 800-282-2882, if you want to be on the program, Democrats fret aloud over Obama's chances.
I'll tell you what, this speech Thursday night's what did it to them at the New York Times.
That was Clown 101.
That was Barnum and Bailey.
You have a joint session of Congress, pass this bill now, and there's no bill.
And you give a campaign speech as a joint session, and you have up there a dreaded corporate CEO, Jeffrey Imel.
Now, maybe cool if there's some crony capitalism going on between Obama and GE, but still, the left hates corporations, except for their own.
Like, they love the New York Times corporation.
Yeah, and by the way, Forbes GE cuts offshore wind power plants.
I mean, this whole green energy thing is being exposed for what it's always been, a gigantic fraud.
General Electric, the U.S.-based industrial giant, leading manufacturer of wind power turbines, scaling back efforts to expand its presence in the offshore wind power market.
The rationale, there's no meaningful offshore wind market to speak of.
There's no business there.
This is Forbes.
I didn't say that.
I'm reading it.
Solyndra, there's no business there.
When I say there's no, I don't mean people have no business doing that.
There is not an active business in solar panels.
It just isn't there.
There's not a business in wind power.
I mean, you might see windmills out there.
And the windmills might be turning and the turbines might be making noise and birds might be dying.
But there's no business there.
Otherwise, corporate chieftains like Jeffrey Imel to GE wouldn't be shutting them down.
There is no meaningful offshore wind market to speak of, at least not yet.
General Electric is considering laying off about 40 employees in Norway as it scales back its offshore operations there.
Now, the New York Times, they see what's happening with Solyndra.
They see this clown speech on Thursday night.
And they assign three writers to a message-sending story.
Democrats fret aloud over Obama's chances.
This story is a wake-up call.
This is the New York Times calling for Obama to take the gloves off.
They want him to go gangsta.
They want him to go Goonion.
That's a combination, snurdily, of go-goon and union.
Go-goonion in his tactics, calling one's opponents the enemy, hostage-takers.
That's not enough.
They need to go farther.
All their talk about civility is only an effort to get Republicans to shut up.
They want Obama to be even more uncivil.
My favorite line from the article is this.
Polling suggests that the president's year-long effort to reclaim the political center has so far yielded little in the way of additional support from the moderates and independents who tend to decide presidential elections.
What year-long effort to reclaim the political center would that be?
Name one significant thing Obama has done to move to the center.
They're probably thinking going along with extending the Bush tax rates was a move to the center.
So here are the Republicans.
Honestly now, folks, the Republicans throughout the political spectrum are being told they need to be more moderate.
Even Republicans are telling people to be more moderate.
We've got Republican think tank artists telling me to be more moderate and to start learning the art of compromise.
Here's the New York Times telling Obama to go Gunion.
The New York Times telling Obama to go gangsta.
At Times says that the problem is Obama's accomplishments are not being conveyed loudly enough to ordinary people.
Obama's accomplishments are not being conveyed loudly enough to ordinary people.
The trouble is the vast majority of Americans strongly oppose his accomplishments because they have resulted in the loss of their jobs and their homes.
I'm sorry for yelling, but I'm amazed by this story.
Let me just get right to it.
Democrats are expressing growing alarm about President Obama's reelection prospects and in interviews are openly acknowledging anxiety about the White House's ability to strengthen the president's standing over the next 14 months.
The New York Times agrees with El Rushbo.
Who is it that's been telling you he's in trouble?
Who is it?
I'm not bragging, reminding, who is it that has been telling you that the internal numbers in the White House are devastating?
Their own polls, meaning the honest ones, not the ones that Chuck Todd says our pollsters are concerned about.
Elected officials and party leaders at all levels said their worries have intensified as the economy has displayed new signs of weakness.
They said the likelihood of a highly competitive 2012 race is increasing as the Republican field, once dismissed by many Democrats as too inexperienced and conservative to pose serious threat, has started narrowing to two leading candidates, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, who have executive experience and messages built around job creation.
Oh, now all of a sudden there is legitimacy in the Republican side.
Elected officials and party leaders at all levels now see legitimacy in the candidacies of Romney and Perry.
And that's a little backhanded slap, but still.
So now they're knowing, now they're starting to realize that this is an admission in the New York Times that Obama wasn't qualified and that these two Republicans are.
The Times is admitting Obama wasn't qualified and that he has not learned on the job because genuine executives and job creators pose his threat, greatest threat.
These are gut punches to Obama.
I mean, I read this.
And the first question, why are they doing this?
So I said, why are they writing this now?
They're guaranteeing this is going to be seen.
Sunday, September 11th, everybody's reading newspapers.
They are guaranteeing this is going to be seen.
Why are they doing this?
They're sending a message.
They are worried.
They know now they're dealing with somebody unqualified and inexperienced.
And in contrast with two people who are, who are generally genuinely associated with job creation and experienced executives.
Obama is looking bad.
And in a campaign cycle in which Democrats had entertained hopes of reversing losses from last year's midterm election, some in the party fear that Mr. Obama's troubles could reverberate down the ballot into congressional, state, and local races, as they did last November.
Peter DeFazio, Democrat, Oregon, in my district, the enthusiasm for Obama has mostly evaporated.
There is tremendous discontent with his direction.
So now we've got Democrats speaking by name on the record.
Let me translate Peter DeFazio here.
He says, in my district, the enthusiasm for Obama has mostly evaporated.
There is tremendous discontent with his direction.
You know what the translation is?
Paging Hillary.
Attention, paging Hillary, Hillary Clinton is what that means.
The president's economic address last week offered a measure of solace to discouraged Democrats by employing an assertive and scrappy style that many supporters complain has been absent for the last year as he has struggled to rise above Washington gridlock.
Several Democrats suggested that he watch a tape of his own job speech over and over and use it as a guide until the election.
What kind of idiot do they take Obama for and tell him to watch the speech over and over?
He's that inexperienced and he's got to watch his own speech over and over.
What in the world, what has happened out there to make the New York Times and Democrats think that next year's election number is going to be any better than last year's?
What's better in the country since the November 2010 elections?
What's better?
Nothing's better.
Nothing's improved.
We've had to have a new jobs bill, a new stimulus.
Everything is worse from where I sit.
So what makes them think that November portends even better results?
But that's what they say.
But a survey in two dozen Democrat officials of two dozen Democrat officials found a palpable sense of concern that transcended a single week of ups and downs.
The conversation signaled a change in mood from only a few months ago when Democrats widely believed that Obama's path to re-election, while challenging, was secure.
Now, this confirms what we already know, that the Democrats live in an echo chamber and they're tone deaf.
They actually, up until what, a few months ago, thought everything was hunky-dory.
I don't believe that for a second.
I think they've known since the November elections.
I think they've known since he was, give it six months after the election.
I think since the Tea Party bubbled up, they have known they're in trouble.
Why?
Very simply, because it is working.
Obama-ism isn't working.
There is no utopia out there.
There is no new kitchen, no new car.
The people making it like bandits are Wall Street and CEOs, the kind of people that Obama's voters think Obama hates like they do.
Obama's in bed with them.
The frustrations are real, said Representative Elijah Cummings of Maryland.
He's in the Congressional Black Caucus, by the way.
He was the state chairman of Obama's campaign four years ago in Maryland.
I think we know that there is a Barack Obama that's deep in there.
He's got to synchronize it with passion and principles.
So here's Elijah Cummings, good friends with Maxine Waters, who says, I think we know that there is a Barack Obama that's deep in there.
Deep in what?
Deep in doo-doo?
Deep in doo-doo, and you got to find a way to extract Obama from the deep and doo-doo?
What is Obama deep in?
These are on-the-record quotes, folks.
This is unbelievable.
We heard complaints last week the Republicans weren't giving the president the proper respect by not attending his speech and by not offering a response.
It's clearly the Democrats that don't respect this guy and they've lost all confidence.
At least the ones that are speaking on record here to the New York Times.
Get this.
It gets better as I go on.
There is little cause for immediate optimism with polls showing Mr. Obama at one of the lowest points of his presidency.
Remember now, this is even after they heralded clownish speech last Thursday night.
This speech was heralded.
He's back.
Howard Feynman, he exceeded my expectations.
This is three days after that great appearance.
His own economic advisors have quit.
The Times doesn't say that.
I did.
I threw it in.
This properly written should say, Obama's remaining economic advisors concede that the unemployment rate, currently 9.1%, is unlikely to drop substantially over the next year, creating a daunting obstacle to re-election.
What?
Wait a minute, folks.
Now, I thought the economy was saved thanks to Obama's latest spending spree.
I thought Thursday night's Job Act saved everything.
Another half a trillion dollars.
And you mean for another half a trillion dollars, the unemployment rate's not going to move?
For another half trillion dollars, we're going to stay at 9.1%?
This is what the New York Times is telling us.
And the Republicans are supposed to pass this?
Liberals have grown frustrated by some of Obama's actions, like the decision this month to drop tougher air quality standards.
And polling suggests that the president's year-long effort to reclaim the political center has so far yielded little in the way of additional support from the moderates and independents who tend to decide presidential election.
Again, that's my favorite part of this.
Reclaim the political center.
By being the most petulant, childish, angry, divisive president in history, by running the economy into the ground, by blowing up the deficit with insane spending, by not producing budgets, by lying about headwinds and bumps in the road, and we've turned the corner, by claiming that ATMs and earthquakes halfway across the world are responsible for the economy.
By the way, if earthquakes are the problem, they're over.
Why hasn't the economy recovered?
So Obama's excuses are tired.
Nobody believes a word he says.
New York Times is worried, and I'm still not through.
Bob Bach, Badoo, Badoo.
All right, taking a brief time off from the New York Times story for some folks.
I was really wrong here, but San Francisco Chronicle, there may be a business there.
Solar City gets $1 billion federal housing contract.
The federal government on Wednesday, this is from September 8th, this last week.
The federal government on Wednesday tapped San Mateo's Solar City for the largest residential solar project in history, a $1 billion effort to install panels at 124 U.S. military bases during the next five years.
Solar City will place solar systems on as many as 160,000 military housing buildings, base warehouses, and administrative buildings.
The first installations at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii are already underway.
The scale of this absolutely massive, said Lyndon Rive, Solar City's CEO, it's equal to all our solar the country's installed in the last 30 years.
Well, I would think, my gosh, I got a little tea business.
Imagine what would happen if I could get a billion-dollar grant.
Think about that.
I wouldn't have to be worried about shipping costs.
I wouldn't have to worry about revving up on big promotion days, buying a bunch of extra servers and so forth to handle the load.
I could just go out.
I wouldn't have to worry about business things at all.
Wouldn't have to worry about Cylindra because the government shut them down.
I'd have to know I'm next, by the way.
If all goes as planned, the solar's strong.
You know, the cylinder guys have to be asking, what the hell did we do wrong here?
You gave us $523 million and now our CEO's house is being raided.
You invite us in the meetings.
You, Obama, come out, you tout us as the future.
Now you've shut us down.
You give this clown here a billion dollars to start housing.
A military?
You actually want to help the military?
I thought we were cutting the military budget.
No, no, there's a little experimentation.
The military, as America's largest consumer of energy, has set a goal of getting 25% of its energy from renewable sources by 2025.
So they're actually forcing the military to do this.
That's what this is.
But there is a business there.
Billion dollars federal housing contract, solar panels, military base.
It's easy.
Okay, back to the phones here in just a second.
I want to finish with this New York Times piece because it's now, you know what?
I better take some calls because we've got three more pages of this.
It is a long piece.
It's filled with pithy, unique comments from me, plus the overall translation of why the thing has been written and published.
And the bottom line is that they are scared to death.
They know full well Obama can lose and lose big.
And what they know, folks, what they know is that it is their ideology that's on the line.
They know that liberalism finally is being understood in a mass way.
It's not just Democrats versus Republicans.
This is ideology.
The New York Times, they are fearful that people are waking up to the ideological failure that is liberalism, the ideological understanding of it.
And therefore, it must not lose.
And whatever it takes to win, they are urging Obama to do.
And they will support.
It doesn't matter.
Liberalism must prevail even if Obama doesn't.
It's no longer about him.
That's really what this story is.
They are telling him that, pal, it's no longer about you.
It's about who we are on the left and our triumphing and winning.
And if you don't do what's necessary here to win, we will.
They're admitting that he is land-slightable.
But to the phones, Chet in Pittsburgh, great to have you, sir.
Thank you very much for waiting.
I appreciate your patience.
Hi.
My pleasure from a previous Democrat who's been a longtime listener, and hopefully my whole family knows that I've called because we're all very proud of you.
It's interesting that you've stopped your previous section with the New York Times article.
And I want to circle back to the Krugman article, the game being a stinker yesterday.
I had a little bit of time to tool around the internet.
And what you didn't get to in that Krugman piece about the hijackers of 9-11, i.e. the Turks and George Bush and their response and Juliana's responses, at the very end, he states, of course, he's not going to permit any coasts, any posts on his blog, quote, for obvious reasons.
Well, the obvious reasons are exactly what you're talking about.
The liberals think they know more than us.
They think that the First Amendment should only apply to their views, not opposing views.
And here we are.
He is espousing these very hateful things, but nobody else could have an intelligent, contrary response to him.
That's liberalism at its height.
Yeah, it's true.
It's very true.
Krugman did say at the end of his piece in the New York Times on the web version that he was suspending comments.
He was not going to, because he knew what he was going to get.
He knows that his thinking is so small you could put him and everybody else that believes what he believes in a thimble, maybe a phone booth.
But it's not a First Amendment issue, I don't think.
It's not, he just doesn't want to deal with it.
He just doesn't want to see it.
He doesn't want to see the disagreement.
He doesn't want to deal with it.
He doesn't want to hear any backsass.
Pure and simple.
He did everybody a favor because who wanted to read it anyway?
We need more honesty from the left like that.
He told us frankly what he really thinks of 9-11 and the effort to keep the country safe.
He also told us, is it a liberal?
He doesn't care what you think.
He doesn't want to read what you think, and it doesn't matter to him.
All of you people paying to read the New York Times on the web, keep that in mind.
Don't care what you think.
Neil Matthews, North Carolina.
Hello, sir.
You're next to the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
Hey, listen, you wonder why there's record-breaking numbers in the NFL.
I'll tell you why.
It's not because people are looking to escape.
It's because people are looking.
They're trying to search for something that this country was founded on, and that is pure competition without somebody intervening every time somebody gets ahead of somebody else.
That's okay.
I can go for that.
Strength, traditional American values.
That's what they're seeing.
But it is an escape.
Don't for a moment think that it's not an escape from things.
Sports always is that, even in good times.
It's an escape from everybody's humdrum because everybody does have humdrum.
But I think you're absolutely right.
Just old-fashioned, unfettered competition drama.
Nobody knows what the outcome is going to be.
There will be efforts to cheat.
Some will succeed.
Some will fail.
The reps won't catch everything.
It's all there.
Well, if you were to take an example of your Pittsburgh Steelers, and I hate to say this, but at halftime, if Obama would have been the commissioner, he would have changed the rules so Pittsburgh could have come back and scored some more.
Well, what he would have changed, he might have penalized Baltimore somehow.
That is, well, it's not the regime's team.
The regime's team is the Chicago Bears.
The regime, Dan Rooney raised a lot of money and campaigned for Obama, and they gave him a jersey.
I got so sick when I saw that, but they gave him a jersey.
But nevertheless, the point is well taken.
Look, folks, you might, I know, Rush, are you serious?
You have to attach politics to everything.
I'm not attacking politics.
This is culture, folks.
This is culture.
I mean, I can, we've got the National Football League.
We've had the opener on Thursday.
We had a near-record viewer for Thursday Night Opener.
We had a 15-year record last night for Sunday night football.
And I got people writing me, I don't care.
Nobody cares about football.
Stick to the issues.
And the whole country is watching this stuff.
Yes, I saw, snurdily, I watched portions of every game.
What did I think of Philadelphia?
Well, it's hard to know yet.
They're playing the Lambs, and the Lambs lost their three key players.
One of the receiver, Amendola, for a year they know, but Bradford may not be able to pick up football for a while.
Stephen Jackson can't.
Philadelphia is going to be a good team.
There's no question.
I think they're going to have a good season.
Well, you know what the game of the day was?
I'm going to shock everybody.
The game of the day was the Carolina Panthers and the Arizona Cardinals.
That was the game of the day.
That was the nail-biter game of the day.
If you throw out Thursday night's finish, but on Sunday, the Carolina, Arizona game.
I mean, and here's this rookie Cam Newton that everybody throws over 400 yards and did not look like a rookie at all.
If you have a chance, if you have NFL Rewind or if you have a chance on the I think I'm sure that the NFL network will replay that game during the week.
If you have a chance, you should watch that one.
All right, ask it.
What's totally unrelated to that question?
Oh, how can you be, he's wanting to know how you can be a Tebow question.
How can you be so great in college and have problems in the NFL?
Totally different game.
His offense in college was Tebow left, Tebow right, Tebow up the middle.
And maybe if you have to throw it, you know, wind up and chuck it six yards.
But the National Football League is the Air Force.
And he's got a throwing motion that takes way, way too the vaunted Merino quick release.
Tebow just doesn't have it yet.
Nobody works harder than he does, but that's why people say, well, you like college?
No, I didn't go to college, so I don't have an alma mater, so I don't have it's a totally different game than the National Football League.
Nothing wrong with it.
I just, it just doesn't appeal to me.
I like watching the best.
I'm not into amateur anything.
That's why I'm not into the Olympics.
And the Olympics is never amateur because we're always against the Soviet Red Army and something.
East German women who were men.
The Olympics is always, as far as I'm concerned, been a joke.
That's why that hockey victory was so special.
We really was a bunch of amateurs that beat the Soviet Red Army in 1980.
Anyway, I'm just not, I've never been an amateur anything.
Who's next?
Arlene, and that's just me, and I'm not putting it down.
If you love it, that's fabulous.
I know people that just went nuts over the Notre Dame, Michigan game on Saturday night.
I saw, you don't want to know what I saw.
I don't care about that.
People loved it.
I don't want to burst bubbles.
Arlene in Chicago.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
Thank you, Rush.
I called about the Ponzi scheme, which it is for Social Security, but I do disagree.
The best game was the Bears.
And I wanted to come in quickly.
No, I'm talking about you're a Bears fan.
Of course.
I'm talking about the best game to watch.
It's a solid game.
People aren't going to believe this, the Arizona Cardinals and the Carolina Panthers, but it was a good game.
If you get a chance to watch it, watch it.
Anyway, that's not what you call it.
What'd you call it?
I did want to mention when I heard the president say about one day of service, I thought, what?
As a young girl, I was taught we do service for our country every opportunity because especially girls in some countries, we wouldn't live very long.
And so, therefore, I have done massive amounts of service.
And I do go to nursing homes every week.
And believe me, when the Bears were on, those guys, even though they're sick and half awake, they were awake for the Bears game.
And as far as the Ponzi scheme, it is I'm a senior.
I am living on, not living, but I do get Social Security because when I was a teenager, I was told my first job by a very astute person that I shouldn't depend, I will never be able to live on Social Security.
I should save my money.
And I listened, and if I didn't, I would be up a creek without a paddle right now.
Well, good for you.
That's a sign of a lot of people.
And you know, all these young people, and think about it, all those that were killed on September 11th probably put an average of 20 to 30 years into Social Security and didn't get a penny.
I've had relatives.
Their families did.
There was a huge family because they died before they even got a first chance.
No, their families did, though.
Yes, sir.
Now, let me ask you, I don't have much time here, but I got to know.
What do women do?
You said girls and women do things, service their country every day.
What did you mean?
Yes, PTA, Girl Scouts, go and help in nursing homes and hospitals if you can.
There's so many places.
Be a judge at election time because especially here in Chicago, it is so crooked.
So many bad culture.
Yeah, okay, that's true.
I mean, there's countless things you can do.
Well, I didn't know if you meant having babies or what.
Well, having babies and raising them.
That's a factor, too.
Okay, okay.
I wanted to know what we were talking about.
I'm looking.
Oscar Wilde said it, and it works for me.
I have simple tastes.
I am only satisfied with the best.
Try this.
A flash comment from a female listener about the guy calling about football.
Dear Maha Rushi, I think your caller is onto something.
I'm just, I mean, just tuning into any NFL game gives a viewer a shock of recognition.
Oh, yeah, this is what American kick-ass men look like, especially those of us immersed in watching politics.
One gets so used to seeing pansy pundits and politicians, especially those on the left, that it's just totally refreshing to see every second of the NFL, which with actual testosterone and physicality.
That was definitely my first reaction.
Oh, yeah, this is America.
I forgot.
Just catching a glimpse with all the American male-obsessed sports traditions, rules of the game, and just so totally reassuring.
America's still here.
And then you add on top of that, the NFL really did the 9-11 Memorial pregames well.
They didn't overdo it.
It wasn't maudlin.
It was just the right tone.
And I'll tell you, I was flipping around last night before the football game, and I caught a little bit of the pregame at the Mets, Mets Cubs.
And the Mets did a great job last night with their pregame.
Some people think it went over the top.
I don't.
I thought it was beautiful.
So I can understand people with this point of view.
It was Americana on parade.
That's why, I mean, I could pass for an NFL guy.
Mad one time, maybe.
Tony Edmonds.
Yes, I've still got the New York Times thing to go here.
Look, there's a lot to do.
We still got another hour sit tight.
Tony in Edmonds, Washington.
Great to have you on the EIB network, sir.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks.
I heard your talk about this billion-dollar contract to these Yahoos.
That's a solar city down there in San Mateo.
Well, it's just ludicrous.
I'm an architect, and I deal with this malaria.
My profession has drunk the Kool-Aid on the sustainable malarkey to the utmost.
And that's all these guys do these days is talk sustainable.
I ran the numbers on solar collectors.
There's a little program here in Magnolia, Seattle that is, you can buy a solar collector for $1,000 that'll generate a 0.34 kilowatt per hour.
You count that out.
Which will run what?
What will that run?
That will run, well, a 0.3 kilowatt.
So it'll spin your meter back, 0.3 kilowatts per hour.
Yeah, but what will it run?
A light bulb?
What will it run?
Well, I'm not sure.
I mean, a kilowatt, you know, if you take a 60-watt light bulb, it takes 60 watts, I guess, per hour to run that light bulb is how it works.
Okay.
Well, you're an architect.
You would know.
Well, so this thing is 0.3 kilowatts.
You count it out and you assume, say in Seattle, you get 260 days of sunlight for eight hours a day.
And that's a very generous assumption.
Probably it's more like 180 and maybe 6 hours per day.
I don't know.
But, you know, use that number of 260 days at 10 hours of sunlight a day, and you count it out, and you get essentially 16 years' payback to earn $1,000 at 10 cents a kilowatt hour.
Well, look at, we're talking marketing terms here anyway.
There is no such thing as renewable.
There's no such thing as sustainable.
There's no such thing as clean in terms of energy.
Is there?
You're an architect.
Well, no, there isn't.
What renews?
Well, Roger.
Maybe reverse osmosis with water, but what renews?
Well, I mean, supposedly sunlight just shines down and you collect the energy.
But you've got to clean these panels.
You know how your windshield gets dirty just sitting out in the room for a couple of days.
Why does it take a $1 billion grant from the government to some company to be able to harness that?
Enter the point there.
It doesn't work is the point.
Anyway, I got a break.
We'll be right back.
Don't go.
If you get the NFL network on your cable system, I know it's on Direct TV.
If you get on your cable system, NFL network is going to replay Carolina at Arizona Tuesday night at 9.30.
And it was a good game.
Might have been the game of the week just in terms of pure nail-biting football.