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Sept. 16, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 16, 2011, Friday, Hour #2
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You know, I'm beginning to think all this talk out there about Obama being depressed may well be true.
But if he is, he's not the only one.
I think the drive-bys are depressed.
I really do.
I think the media is depressed.
I think they are among the chief Obama supporters who are just beside themselves.
This is not how it was supposed to be.
And now they've thrown their integrity to the wind and they've thrown every ounce of credibility they once had, because they're doing nothing but trying to prop this.
Any other president with this kind of record and they would be in the process of destroying it's friday.
Let's continue.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny south Florida.
It's open line friday telephone number to reach me at the EIB Network, 800-282-2882.
And I know we try to take a call in the first hour on open line friday.
We didn't get to it but we will in this hour, I promise you.
Now, if Obama's depressed, why would he be depressed?
Well uh, he's a liberal.
Liberals are never happy, they're incapable of it, but with Obama, if he really is depressed, it could be a little bigger.
He has had he has had people paint on his little black blank canvas all of his life that he's wonderful awesome smart historic change-making, handsome.
Whatever anybody wanted him to be, he was the one.
He was the messiah.
Greek columns, he bought this.
He has been treated in a in a special way all of his life.
This is a new life experience for him.
Only 38 like me, only 42 approve what i'm doing.
It can't be.
He's finding out.
He's not all that.
You know he said these narcissists hit the brick wall of reality folks.
You uh, you know you want to scatter out there that that could be very depressing, kind of like all those students, all those kids in Atlanta who, for a decade, took all the tests.
Remember the teachers were phonying up the results.
The teachers were giving them grades much higher than they deserved, just so the teachers would look good and, as a result, all these kids in Atlanta thought they were really smart and that they had learned a lot of stuff.
Then they find out when the scandal broke, they hadn't been taught anything or very little of any value, found out, the teachers had changed their answers and they really weren't so smart and I frankly, was uh heartened by their reaction.
They were upset about they.
They felt like they'd been short-changed and they had been back.
When I went to school, if you got an a, you didn't care how you take it and move on and count the days till you get out.
The Obama regime moving to finalize as many as 15 loan guarantees for renewable energy companies before the stimulus program ends on september 30th, and Republicans are questioning whether that could lead to more failures like Solyndra.
Well, how could that be?
How could rushing through questionable loans to a failing industry be a problem?
How could speedily, quickly, irresponsibly rushing through 15, 15 more highly questionable loans to a non-existent solar industry be a problem?
This article is from the Associated Press.
They quote Fred Upton, the guy who supported the incandescent light bulb ban.
He's a Republican.
They quote Fred Upton as saying the U.S. government shouldn't be acting like venture capitalists.
That's true.
But the problem is that the regime is acting like crony capitalists.
In fact, better than that, the regime is acting like the Politburo.
They're out there picking which companies are going to win, which companies are going to lose in the next five-year plan.
This AP story also notes how the Democrats claim the failure to invest in the solar industry will be a death sentence for our country.
Just, it's amazing.
Obama and his policies are the death sentence for America, and the investment in a non-existent business, the solar industry business, is precisely emblematic of this failure.
Tell it to Spain.
Spain preceded us.
Spain has tried all this.
Spain is in a whirl of hurt economically with unemployment.
Everybody's worried about ChiComs, the solar panel business.
Oh, yeah, ChiComs.
Do we really have to worry about the ChiComs cornering the market on sunlight?
I mean, it's not as though the sun only shines on the ChiComs.
But still, there's no business there.
And yet we're funneling all this money to them.
White House is worried about the Solyndra default.
This is from another, again, a mildly concerned AP.
But AP's concern is about the effects on Obama's reelection campaign.
Matthew Daly, the stenographer here, White House officials discuss the political ramifications of a possible default by Solyndra.
According to newly released emails, emails released last night show that Obama regime privately worried about the effects of a default by Solyndra on the president's reelection campaign.
Official from the OMB wrote in a January 31 email to a senior OMB official, the optics of a Cylyndra default are going to be bad.
The timing will likely coincide with the 2012 campaign season heating up.
So you see, folks, it's not the waste of a half million dollars of taxpayer money that bothers them.
It's the optics.
Might hurt Obama's re-election chances.
I can't have that.
No, no, no, no.
AP says, even as Obama praised the company's plans to hire more than 1,000 workers, warning signs are being sent from within the government and from outside analysts who question Solyndra's viability is a going concern.
Look, the question comes frequently here.
Are they just amazingly incompetent or are they just corrupt?
Or maybe a combination of both.
Because this Solyndra story is getting bigger.
Now you even have the Treasury Department investigating Solyndra.
I know.
I know it's got to be depressing to find out that you're not universally beloved.
Got to be when you genuinely believe that you are universally loved and then you find out you're not.
I mean, it's a huge blow.
Whatever, you know, Obama's approval numbers and the fact that nobody's fainting at the town halls, nobody's swooning anymore, that's a blow to a wildly inflated self-esteem.
You know, I wouldn't mind, folks, I wouldn't mind us throwing away $500 million on Cylindra if we learned something from it.
If we learn that green technology was a fraud, just like, by the way, there was a story in the UK Guardian yesterday.
Some guy watched Al Gore's 24-hour presentation, his new PowerPoint presentation, and he said, oh, I couldn't, it made me sick.
It was so bad.
Oh, Jesus.
And he starts speaking.
Has Al Gore become a problem for the climate change movement?
Has Al Gore become, because he's now so polarizing, is Al Gore now a problem for the global warming movement?
They were all depressed after watching Al Gore's new PowerPoint display over this.
Apparently, it's a doozy.
It's just filled with wild claims by people from all over the world that they're not backed up by anything.
See, if we throw $500 million down the drain in Cylinder, if we learn, if we be honest with ourselves and learn that green technology was a fraud and that Obama funneled tax dollars to his contributors,
if we learn that what this is, that what liberalism results in, among many other things, is the central government picking losers rather than winners, that the sun is great for growing plants, but a lousy substitute for gasoline.
If we would learn that capitalism redistributes money much smarter than socialism, then there'd be a silver lining to this.
But that doesn't appear to be the lesson.
Oh, we got unspent stimulus money.
We've got to ram that through there before the stimulus ends on September 30th.
Let's grab a phone call.
Open line Friday.
I promised.
And here we go.
Anita in Howell, New Jersey.
We start with you.
You're up first.
It's great to have you with us.
Thank you.
It's a great speak to you.
I'm a longtime listener and a first-time caller, so I'm a little nervous.
You don't sound nervous, and it's great to have you here.
It really is.
Thank you.
I am not, you're happy with Perry.
You seem to be happy with Rick Perry.
And you also seem to be happy with Chris Christie, if he were running.
And I live in New Jersey, obviously.
And I hate to tell you this, but I don't agree with you.
Personally, I'm voting for Mitt Romney.
But my problem with Rick Perry is that he's for in-state tuition for illegals.
I'm very much against it.
Well, first off, I haven't endorsed anybody yet.
I haven't made a choice.
So you might be assuming, given when you listen, there's some days we talk about what is happening.
Rick Perry might be in the news for doing things.
I talk about it.
You might infer endorsement type support or enthusiasm.
The same thing for Christie.
I don't even think Chris Christie is a full-fledged conservative.
And, you know, Perry, they all have defects.
They've all got, like Perry, he's not totally anti-government, but he is anti-federal government.
But if you look at him as governor of Texas, he's been fully willing to use the power of the state government to advance his beliefs.
When it comes to the federal government, he wants no part of them.
Don't know how he would be when he ends up there if he ends up as president.
Romney's got his own problem.
You cite illegal immigration as a flaw in the in-state tuition for Perry.
Romney care is an albatross around Mitt's neck.
Yeah, but Mitt Romney, this has been going on forever with Mitt Romney and Romney Kier.
I mean, he was dealing with his state with Massachusetts.
Yeah.
Well, so is Perry.
He's dealing.
You know, Texas, that's a whole different dynamic than, say, in Nebraska or even in New Jersey when you're talking about immigration.
Oh, we're a sanctuary state, which everybody, you know, come on over, especially the illegals.
Now, with Chris Christie, I still prefer, even though everybody has the flaws that they have, I still prefer Mitt Romney, and I think he's the only one that could beat Obama, regardless of Romney Kier.
Well, I disagree with you there.
I don't think he's the only one that can beat Obama.
But look, I'm not going to get drawn into ruling anybody out right now.
I want to keep focus on Obama.
Well, did you see, by the way, Barry Manilow has endorsed Ron Paul?
Barry Manilow said that he agrees with everything Ron Paul said.
I wonder if they played any Barry Manilow tunes to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed during the enhanced interrogation technique.
Ladies and gentlemen, I was just told during the recent obscene prophets I'm out that Mr. Snerdley stopped attempted sabotage on this program.
Our next caller is a nice woman from Greenville, South Carolina named Vicki.
Snerdley tells me that the replacement stenographer today, Wendy, was going to attempt to pick up the phone and tell Vicki, you really don't want to do this.
I have never dealt with attempted sabotage like this before.
Snerdley shut it down, but Vicki's still there.
No, no, she did.
She just hung up.
You know what?
That's probably my fault.
I probably, she's probably listening on hold.
She heard me say that a member of my own staff was going to warn her not to do this, so she hung up.
She was a nice, what would you guess her age is, Snerdley?
We're not going to 40-ish, 50-ish in South Carolina.
She's liberal, and she was going to very politely ask me, why are you talking about our president like this?
It's wrong for you to talk about our president like that.
And I said, yeah, I'm nice and polite.
Was this about any specific all the time?
It had nothing to do with the gawker New York Times speculation that Obama might be depressed.
Nothing to do with that.
She wants me to stop talking about Obama.
Okay.
Oh, give him a chance.
Oh, now I wish she wouldn't have.
I really wish I could have had her stay on the phone.
Say that to me.
Give him a chance.
Okay, well, let's push Obama aside for a while.
Let's talk about something else here.
What do I have?
Ah, here we go.
Celebrities are gabbing about it openly.
Vicki, this is for you in South Carolina.
Celebrities are gabbing about it openly.
A growing number of grooming products cater to it.
And a recent TV commercial hails it as the cradle of life and the center of civilization.
The vagina is becoming big business.
A generation that grew up with more graphic language and sexual images in the media is foregoing the decades-old practice of tiptoeing around it in favor of more open dialogue about it.
To reach digital age 20 and 30-somethings who have shortened attention spans, marketers are using ads that are edgier, more frank, sometimes downright shocking.
Generation Y people are more relaxed about their bodies, so there's more attention to products that people would have been embarrassed to talk about before, said Deborah Mitchell, the executive director for the Center for Brand and Product Management at the University of Wisconsin screwal of business.
Part of this trend of women saying, hey, we're not embarrassed to talk about this.
So the AP has a story.
The vagina is becoming big business.
In fact, I didn't know this.
The term Vejay became popular after Oprah began using it on TV in 2007.
Did you know that, Snerdley?
It's the first I've heard of it.
Okay, so we didn't talk about Obama for a minute and a half in honor of Vicky from South Carolina.
Well, you know, if the vagina is becoming big business, clearly, let's look at the left.
The left's going to want their share.
The left's going to want their fair share of the vagina business.
And then Obama is going to have to find a way to tax it.
He can probably consult with Elliot Spitzer on that.
Here's another one, folks.
Democrats slam Obama for going AWOL on mortgage crisis.
This is thehill.com.
And name names again, ticked off leftist Democrats on the record, upset that Obama doesn't seem to care about any of the pain and suffering that he's caused.
Joblessness, the mortgage crisis, the general devaluation of homes in the country.
He's out trying to rev people up against the Republicans by showing up at bridges and so forth.
Here's the thing.
If you look at all this, starting yesterday with the New York Times, Going to all these Democrats who oppose Obama's jobs bill, thehill.com, any number of other places in the media quoting Democrats, doing stories on Obama.
We've got legitimate, apparently a legitimate investigation in the New York Times about whether Obama's depressed or not.
It does seem to me, and I say this with reservation, and I say this with my antenna fully raised.
I say this, the red flag's up, so don't misunderstand.
But the outward appearance here is obvious, that the White House has totally lost control of the Democrat Party.
You've got Harry Reid and Democrats in the Senate promising that this jobs bill isn't going to go anywhere.
The only place you're hearing any signs of cooperation with the White House from John Boehner and Eric Cantor.
And you got this Bloomberg poll, which says this cockeyed.
54, no, 45% of the American people blame the Republicans for all the discord, and yet it's Republicans who keep winning elections.
And you've got James Carville.
Let's go to James.
James Carville is now going verbal to back up what he wrote, CNN.com.
This is last night when Wolf Blitzer on the Situation Room.
Blitzer said, James Carville, you created quite a stir in this article you've written for CNN.com.
What are you talking about, sir?
We lost two elections Tuesday night.
We lost 65 elections in November.
The economy is sliding out sideways.
If anything, you're sliding back.
Macroeconomic advisors say there's one-third chance for going into another recession.
You look at how crazy the opposition party is, cheering death and everything else, and you say, hey, we've got to change direction here.
We've got to do something different.
This is not working, not politically, not economically, not anything.
So bring in a new team and indicate to people that you get it.
They understand that you were dealt a very tough hand, but you just keep playing the same hand over and over again.
It's not working.
It's not working.
Carville on a rampage, and he wasn't through.
Blitzer said, you've got two specific recommendations in your CNN column.
Fire somebody and indict people.
Well, let's talk about both of those.
What do you mean, fire somebody?
Who should be fired?
We lost all the seats in 1994.
A lot of us got fired.
That's what happens.
That's what President Reagan did in 1980.
How many generals did Lincoln fire?
Even Rumsfeld lost his job.
The Republicans fired Newt Gingrich.
When things are not going well, I'm sorry that the coach, the manager, we're both sports fans.
You've got to do something.
You got to try to change direction here.
He's not going to fire himself.
He's not going to fire the vice president.
So who does he fire?
You're right.
The president can't fire himself.
He's not going to fire the vice president.
But he's got to signal to people, I know that what we're doing here is causing a lot of hardship.
We keep losing elections and we keep having the same people.
I'm telling you, folks, if you listen to this, this is your father's Democrat Party speaking.
They are, look at Carville understands.
He's a legitimate consultant.
He's right.
They lost 65 elections.
They are losing them in droves.
They lost New York nine.
That is so huge.
I cannot overemphasize it.
So is losing the New Jersey governorship along with Virginia.
The midterms in 2010.
Well, the problem is he can't fire the economic team.
They all quit.
They did.
Goolsby was the last one out of there, or maybe he's still there, but the economic team has all quit.
No, I'll tell you what.
I'll tell you what, Geithner's the only one left.
And Geithner wants out, and they're not letting him leave.
But the point is, no, no, Carville recognizes they are heading down a sinkhole.
You know, you throw this stupid Bloomberg poll out, most Americans blaming Republicans for the Discord in Washington.
People aren't concerned about the Discord in Washington.
And Obama clearly, he either has no desire to actually create jobs in this country, or he doesn't really have a clue.
And at this point, it doesn't matter what the answer to the question is.
What Carville knows is that there is no way.
Look at Carville got Bill Clinton elected with the motto, it's the economy, stupid.
Carville capitalized on economic circumstances that were one-tenth, if that, as bad as this.
Economic circumstances in 1992 that were nothing compared to this.
And he knows how easy it was to beat George H.W. Bush with an economy that was heckily in recovery back then.
This is a disaster.
You've got Obama and the Democrats have run the show for two of the three years or two of the two and a half years of the Obama regime.
He knows he's trying to warn everybody.
I think fire somebody, indict somebody.
I think that's just flailing away.
He knows that firing anybody isn't going to make any difference because the guy that really is the root cause of this is Obama.
Yeah, well, you could.
You could take one of his $100 bills and go running through a trader park and wave it around and see what you get and put them on the economic team.
If they would accept the job, here's one more.
Blitzer said, well, you want to name names, people that ought to be fired or indicted.
Maybe there's a deputy secretary.
I have no idea.
That's really not what I'm trying to say.
I'm not trying to get into the details.
Somebody somewhere, no, more than somebody.
I talked about the Battle of Salembridge, but I was not certainly advocating this, but, you know, in a Tea Party drainage Russian colonel in the 64th Division just started shooting every 10th person.
Now, I don't know he's losing it here now, but this is what I said yesterday.
What is Carville doing?
He's clearly panicking.
So, you know, he and Mary packed up the kids and they moved to New Orleans because they figured it's a better place to raise kids.
They figured Archie Manning raised their kids there.
They turned out pretty well.
So let's go back to New Orleans.
So Mary goes to bed.
Kids go to bed.
Carville's still up by himself.
Poor's little maker's mark, maybe Knob Creek.
Sits there.
What does he think about?
What would Stalin do?
That's where he is.
What would Stalin do?
Stalin purged everybody.
Well, now, this isn't sitting well with Bob Shrum.
Bob Shrum, who has never run a successful political campaign.
He ran Kerry's campaign, presidential campaign.
He may have run other campaigns where his candidates won, but he's not ever succeeded as a presidential campaign consultant.
He was on with Andrea Mitchell in B.C. News, Washington, this afternoon on her show on PMS NBC.
And she said that Democrats, as you point out in your latest column, Bob, are going after each other on the president.
You call it the Democrats' self-defeating crybaby chorus.
What is your advice to Democrats?
The president is vulnerable.
I don't think it's helpful, for example, for James Carville, who's a friend of mine, to suggest the president fire everybody who works for him.
A, he's not going to do it.
And B, I seem to recall that in June or early July of 1992, Bill Clinton was running at 22% in the polls, third place behind Perot and Bush.
Carville was running the campaign.
He didn't panic and he didn't fire himself.
All right.
So I know a lot of you think, Rush, you're missing it, and you shouldn't be.
You should be the guys warning us.
This is all a trap.
They're acting all this out.
Not all of this.
There's genuine discord.
Genuine, genuine discord.
There is, I mean, there's no masking this.
There aren't a whole lot of Democrats going to run for re-election 2012 who want to tie themselves to this record.
You know, they got what they wanted, but it didn't turn out the way they thought it would.
They got all this spending, and they thought that would lead to utopia and vast new jobs and wealth and so forth, where people had never had it before.
They're staring point blank into the reality that their ideas are utter failures.
Okay, so in the case of Obama, he may be happy about what's going on, chip on his shoulder about this country, thinks that we have to pay a price for all of our illegitimacy as a great nation.
Who knows?
These guys that have to get reelected, no, they can't run on this record.
That's a far cry from 2008 when they could run around saying they were best friends with Obama and all that.
They're only part of him.
So there's a genuine problem out there.
What that does not do and none of what's going on with the Democrats has any effect on who we nominate.
And I'm going to tell you something.
That's crucial.
The opportunity that we have here is once in a generation, the implosion of the American left, the implosion of liberalism, obvious to everybody now.
Some people like it, some don't.
Some people are always going to be supportive of leftist causes.
Some will move out of it.
But the point is, no longer is it just a bunch of people trying to tell Americans, you know, look, if you elect these Democrats, this is what's going to happen.
Ah, no, that can't happen.
Now it is happening.
Despite what anybody says, it's happening.
People are living it.
They're living the loss of their job.
They are living the prospect of not finding one anytime soon.
They're living the loss of the value of their home.
They're living the loss of the value of their 401k.
They're living all of this.
They are living now the inflation of the dollar.
They are living all of this.
They don't need to be told.
On the other side of that is the fix, the repair.
And the repair is not a rhino in the White House.
The repair is not a moderate Republican in the White House.
The repair and the golden opportunity here is a conservative, a movement conservative.
Somebody's proud of it, somebody who can proudly exclaim it, explain it, articulate it happily, cheerfully, confidently, doesn't have to have notes, doesn't have to have a teleprompter, doesn't have to be reminded what to say because it's in his or her heart.
So regardless what all's going on with the Democrats and whether all this is a giant Game or whether it's real, whether this discord in the party with Obama's real or whether it's made up, but a tactic doesn't matter.
Cannot allow ourselves to be distracted from what we have to do.
It's not enough that they took action that might result in them defeating themselves no matter what we do.
What does matter is that we end up nominating the right person and electing the right person as president and get similar type people leadership positions because this is the first of many elections that are going to have to be won.
Even if Obama loses big, and if it were today, he would lose in a landslide.
Don't forget the bureaucracy and the judiciary and federal level, state level, still populated with career leftists who will revel in undermining and sabotaging anything that a new Republican or conservative president would want to do.
There's a lot of hard work to do here, regardless of what's happening and the fun it is to watch all this.
But we still have to stay focused on what our move is and what will best bring about this landslide.
And we, you and I, know what it is, and that is a genuinely conservative candidate.
Got to take a break because I'm long.
We'll be back in a second.
It's Open Line Friday, Rush Limbaugh.
Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
This is James in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
James, hello.
Yes.
Hi, Rush.
I want to be the first to offer you Giga Dittos.
That's much bigger than mega dittos.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I appreciate that.
Yes.
I wanted to bring to people's attention the recent resignation by Ivor Gaver from the American Physical Society.
Ivor Gaver is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
He got his Nobel Prize in 1973 for work that he did on tunneling of electrons in superconducting states.
Right.
I've read the paper.
And he is, you know, he is, you know, he went on from the General Electric RD Center where he did his Nobel Prize-winning work to become a professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic.
And so far as, first of all, I was at the RD Center back in 73 when he got his award, and he was a straight-up guy.
Okay.
He was not an activist.
He was not a political, you know.
No, he's not political at all.
That's why what he's done.
Folks, if you haven't heard, Dr. Ivor Gaver has resigned.
He's resigned his whole involvement over global warming, the anthropological or anthropomorphic, man-made global warming.
It's not there.
The warming that's happened is minimal, and there's increased happiness in all this.
He hadn't used the word hoax or scam, but he wants no part of it.
Yeah.
Just quoting one sentence from his resignation email to the American Physical Society.
In the APS, it's okay to discuss whether the mass of the proton changes over time and how a multi-universe behaves, but the evidence of global warming is incontrovertible.
You know, question mark.
And, you know, he basically says, you know, you guys are, you know, it's just.
Right.
Now, what's important to remember about this is that the pro-global warming crowd, they're out there, so 98% of scientists agree.
And these deniers and so forth, It's nowhere near a 98% consensus.
We've been through the whole notion of consensus anyway.
But here's a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who has rejected all of it.
Not being paid to do so.
Integrity intact.
Not a Koke.
Just every day or every week, new things happen to confirm what a fraud and hoax this whole man-made global warming effort has been.
James, thanks for the call.
Appreciate it.
We'll be back right after this.
Okay, that's it, folks.
Another exciting hour.
Busy broadcast hour is in the can.
The fastest three hours in media.
I don't know about you.
I feel like I just sat down here.
I got swamped here within 30 seconds of starting a show with a bunch of stuff.
I still got 80% of what I prepared for this show still to go.
So there's still plenty of stuff out there.
Plus your phone calls.
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