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Sept. 26, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 26, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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And we are back.
Great to have you, Rush Limboy, here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network and the most listened to radio talk show in the country.
Hey, ladies and gentlemen, I am here and I am doing a credible and respond, well, far more than credible and far more than respond.
This is what you usually expect, but I am here fighting fatigue nevertheless.
Had a raucous great time in Indianapolis over the weekend for Steelers Colts.
Got in very early this morning, and I should not have gone to bed.
I actually, sometimes when you go to bed, you get an hour or two.
It used to be better to stay up.
But I went ahead and got the hour or two.
And gosh, it was a great weekend.
And I did have a chance, and I do this more and more now, talk about the Republican primary, the debates, trying to goad people, they're unaware I'm doing this, by the way, into being honest about what they think and who.
And this is from not just conservatives, but from across the spectrum.
And I have found that there are a lot of disaffected Democrats who like Romney.
They would, that's point.
And I found a lot of squeamish Republicans who like Romney.
And in both cases, they tell me, yeah, it's because Romney can beat Obama.
Now, who is it that's putting that thought out there?
What are they saying?
What they're saying is, yeah, the Democrats, I like Romney.
He's a centrist.
He's a moderate.
To a lot of Democrats, Romney is not the conservative.
But you start talking Santorum or Michelle Bachman.
Oh, those are conservatives.
Herman Kaine, those people can't win.
And it's those people who can and will win.
We've already gone the centrist route.
We've already tried.
The Republican establishment tries that every cycle.
They try to give us a Bob Dole.
God bless him.
I know him.
He's a nice guy.
But McCain, same thing.
Nothing's changed.
The Republican establishment, which is now trying to deny that they exist, by the way.
There is no Republican establishment.
Now, this is a little inside baseball.
Now, they're trying to co-opt the word conservative.
The Republican establishment wants you to think that they are conservatism today.
And of course, they're not.
The reason these people tout Romney and they follow it up and say, yeah, Romney can win.
Well, why?
Well, you know, he's a centrist.
He's not extreme and this sort of thing.
And those, I'm telling you, folks, those are the people that have the greatest likelihood of losing.
This country is, I'm telling you, this country does not want from the Republican Party a centrist or a moderate or any of anybody that is looked upon favorably by that group of people.
This is a time and a place that calls for unabashed, unapologetic conservatism.
And if such a candidate wins the nomination, this candidate could win the general election in a landslide.
The Tea Party is portrayed by both the Republican and Democrat establishments in Washington.
Tea Party is portrayed as, see, this kind of fringe right-wing.
A Tea Party.
If you wanted to say that there is a centrist position in American politics today, and by that I mean a majority position, Tea Party is it.
The Tea Party, conservatism is the majority position in America in terms of reflecting not only the way people live their lives, but the way they think.
It's hard for people to believe this if their primary exposure to media is with the three networks or either news or their primetime entertainment offerings.
I mean, the pop culture and the news culture dominated by liberals, and it makes it look like that's what the whole country is, but it isn't.
And we talk about this a lot.
It's an effort to stay confident, even circumstances like this.
But if there was ever a time to be confident, this is it.
The challenge remains, though, nevertheless, nothing in the Republican Party is different today than it was in 76 or 1980.
The conservative nominee is considered a threat to the Republican establishment, must be done away with.
I saw, what was it, the days run together.
It might have been Friday, the day that I was out.
Ken Langone, one of the co-founders of Home Depot with Arthur Blank, who was the owner of the Atlanta Falcons, by the way, Ken Langone is just lining up donors to do everything he can to influence Chris Christie to get in the race.
Now, Langone is a great guy.
You'd like him.
He's a take-no-prisoners Republican.
But he's not a conservative, although he probably thinks he is.
He's more of the, for example, I ran into him when I was not endorsing anybody back in 08.
I ran into him at a golf club, Clubhouse.
And he came up, look, you're going to get a McCain bandwagon.
I mean, we're going to need you.
You are going to be there, aren't you?
And I said, I don't know.
Certainly not in the primaries.
And I remember I had gone out to Palm Springs and I had was asked to address a group out there.
And McCain's, one of his chief money guys, was in the audience.
And I launched.
And I said, this is not how we're going to be.
Barack Obama is trying to make excuses for ourselves and go moderate, go centrist, go tippy-toe.
Like we have something to excuse ourselves for or to apologize for.
The Tea Party now represents the majority of thought, but it's like every other similar circumstance of the Republican Party.
Reagan, just for the simplicity here of explanation, Reagan was the equivalent of the Tea Party in 76 and 80, and the Republican establishment was as lined up against him then as they are against the Tea Party today.
The Republican establishment, which they hate being called that, by the way.
I'm since learning this.
They hate being called the Republican establishment.
But that's why they're trying to co-op the term conservative.
But regardless, there is an effort underway here to get Christie in this.
I don't know where Christie is where his thinking is.
I don't know that he's changed his mind from what he's said all along, that he's not ready.
He doesn't think he's quite qualified yet and all that.
He might be looking at the Perry situation.
Perry got in late compared to the others, and he might say, yeah, it's getting a little late.
Maybe I'll wait.
I think there are other reasons.
If Christie doesn't get in, there are other reasons why he won't.
But clearly, there's even within the establishment side, the fact that there is now an effort being made to get Christie in this means there's some nervousness about Romney in terms of his being able to win, and it's, I think, justifiable.
We've done the centrist route, we've gone the moderate way, we've gone with the guy who could cross the aisle and work with the other side.
Uh it, it.
It is never going to win.
This is particularly now.
Boldness fearlessness, while at the same time being filled with optimism and good cheer that's what's called for right now, more Americans, the one thing the Republican establishment does not get, and and I don't even think they think it, I don't think they think the country's threatened.
I don't think they look at it nearly the way you and I do in terms of the future for your children or grandchildren.
The fact you know, for example, that your grandchildren's lifetime income has been spent, not just what they would be taxed, your grandchildren's lifetime income has been spent the last two and a half years, the debt that this country is in, and you know that it's going to get almost insurmountably worse if Obamacare is fully implemented.
The Republican establishment is not of that mind.
It's government's always there.
It's always going to be big.
We want our turn to run it.
We're not interested in making it smaller, and we'll talk about it getting smaller on the margins, but we're not really interested in making it smaller.
We're interested in running it.
We're interested in having control of it, power over it, being in charge of it.
We want to be the ones that can buy votes.
We want to be the ones that can buy that.
That's and they trade off with the Democrats, and that's every four years, sometimes every eight years.
Whereas we are not interested in the seesaw of politics, we're interested in saving the country, because we think it needs to be the country's at risk.
So it's it still.
Efforts are underway to undermine those of us who think this way.
What was your question?
Uh Ill Snerdbo, you had a question for me.
If I had my way, yes.
which i'm not gonna fall for that question why do you want to set me up that way why you're just you're just you want to come in or you want to stir the pot snurdy just asked me if i could wave a magic wand if i could have my way and get rid of half the republican field who would it be Yes um, maybe down the road i'll clue you in on that.
The time will come for that.
It is already overpopulated, overcred.
But i'm going to tell you something.
What one thing that Perry did with his poor performance, elevate everybody else, everybody else.
Uh came off a little bit.
Santorum came off great, Kane came off great.
And you got previous debates.
They didn't stand out.
They did.
In this one it was well, I well see, that's not here's Perry, who everybody thinks is a uh, rock ribbed conservative.
And here he comes with the language of the left.
If you oppose my immigration bill, you don't have a heart.
What is that that's?
That's not about.
It's not about that at all.
That's.
That's the same as George W Bush back in 1980 says, i'm not gonna balance the budget on the backs of the poor.
You know we don't need to go out and use the language of the left.
I don't know.
I don't know why this is not big news to me, but there's a big drudge headline out there.
Taxpayers paid for Fast and Furious.
What don't we pay for?
Who else was going to pay for it?
If the taxpayers don't pay for Fast and Furious, who is going to pay for it?
It's from Fox News.
Not only did U.S. officials approve, allow, and assist in the sale of more than 2,000 guns to the Sinalawa cartel, the federal government used taxpayer money to buy semi-automatic weapons, sold them to criminals, and then watched as the guns disappeared.
Well, yeah.
Coursely, where is the government going to get the money if they don't print it?
This disclosure revealed in documents obtained by Fox News could undermine the Department of Justice's previous defense that Operation Fast and Furious was a botched operation where agents simply lost track of weapons as they were transferred from one illegal buyer to another.
But now the federal government used taxpayer money to buy the weapons that were then transferred to criminals, drug user, well, the drug cartel bigwigs.
I don't have any doubt in my mind that Fast and Furious was a backdoor way of sabotaging the Second Amendment.
There's no doubt in my mind that's what the regime had planned for it.
You know, talking about these debates and the Republicans, this is the way to look at this.
The Republicans are answering more questions about Obama's policies than he is having to answer.
Meaning they, the Republicans, are explaining in these debates and wherever, me, are explaining Obama's policies more than he's being asked about them.
The man most responsible for this disaster is the least available to answer for it.
He doesn't take questions about it.
Yet you go to these debates and the Republicans are put on trial as they're suspects and what they would do and of course anything they would do to ameliorate, fix the situation.
They're looked upon as suspects.
Meanwhile, the guy who's actually engaged in all this destruction never or very seldom has to answer any questions about it.
And it's going to be the same thing here with Fast and Furious.
He's not going to get any questions about this.
This happens to be a Foxnews.com story.
But the regime bought the weapons.
Up till now, the story was, no, these people were allowed to buy them.
The cartel was allowed to buy them.
Come across the border, buy them in the gun shops in Phoenix and everywhere, wherever, and then take them back across the border and so forth.
And we were going to track them.
We're going to track them down.
We're going to find out what they're doing.
That wasn't what this was about.
Now we find out the government bought the guns for the cartel.
The government paid for them, essentially.
By the way, folks, I mentioned to you earlier today, Rushlimbaugh.com has been revamped and reworked.
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It was nobody's fault.
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Here is Will in Amanda, Ohio.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Hey, I wanted to ask you, do you think the NFL and their collective economic wisdom is making a big mistake by requiring these homeland security-style searches before you get in the game?
No.
Well, how do you define making a mistake?
I mean, I'm sure they're irritating people.
Is it going to keep people away from the games?
Well, I mean, anywhere you go, Rush, you can't take your wife or your kids without worrying about them getting groped up by some stranger anymore.
And I think that we're losing the battle.
I think the terrorists are winning.
They're getting exactly the kind of society they hoped for.
Well, we're just getting used to it now before it actually takes place.
What was it that happened?
Something happened at some NFL stadium, and I forget what it was that prompted them to do this.
Somebody got past the security as it was.
Oh, somebody got a taser in New Metaland Stadium and started tasering fans in the stands.
Well, what do you think about, are they going to have the same policy as far as if you wear a burqa, you get a free pass from the screening?
Because if so, I got a business idea for you, Rush, but you'd have to handle the licensing ends of it.
We could come out with Dallas Cowboy Burkas and Dolphin Burkas and you name it.
Yeah.
Well, I myself might turn that particularly licensed merchandise area over to someone else and get myself some yeah, let Obama handle that one.
He's going to have to have some way of generating income when he leaves office.
And that, you know, might not be a bad idea.
Full body pat downs, the fine tasers and so forth.
I don't know.
I have not seen any complaints about it.
Not that there aren't any, just haven't seen any, in terms of the pat downs being similar to what we have heard happening at the airports.
Snurdley wants to know if I think that Vic, Michael Vick, has a point that he's not having penalty flags thrown when he gets roughed up.
Brady, Breeze, you so much as breathe on him, you get 15 yards.
Would Vic.
I don't think so.
I mean, Rothmusberger could make the same beef and doesn't.
I thought anytime somebody says, look, I'm not going to whine about it, and then whines about it, that's what he did.
Look, I'm not here to complain.
I'm just trying to alert the reps to what's going on.
I think, look, if you don't want to get hit, don't hold the ball so long.
If you don't want to get hit, don't run it so much.
Take your three-step drop and get rid of it.
If you're going to hold the ball in the National Football League and start dancing and running around, you're going to get hit.
Well, it could be the offensive line's fault.
I mean, if you want to say breakdowns in there.
Yeah, but I mean, it's, I just start complaining about roughness in the National Football League.
You ought not to be in the league.
You know, it's just the nature of the beast.
Now, there are a lot of guys, a lot of players, who think that the league targets others and ignores others.
The Steelers.
The Steelers, to a man, think that they're targeted.
And a couple of them have been very, very vocal in saying so.
But I don't think the way to go about it is to whine about it at a press conference, and that's how it came off to me.
Who's next?
Where are we going?
This is Will.
Nope, James, Las Vegas.
James, welcome to the program.
Nice to have you here.
Hello.
Rush, you ever notice that when the Democrats are in the White House, that it's always the government or Washington?
It's never the administration.
It's never like the Bush administration when the Republicans in the White House.
Even our own side doesn't say it.
Our own side, only Republicans say the White House.
They do.
They say the government or they say Washington.
I mean, when are we going to smarten up and start knocking the Obama administration and specify it's the Democrats, not just Obama, it's the Democrats that got us into this mess.
Am I the only one that remembers the 90s, 94 with contract with America and how we got Clinton elected?
Wait a minute.
Contract with America, what was that?
That was Newt Gingrich's contract with America.
The 100 days when we balanced the budget, Clinton said we can't balance the budget.
It'll take us till 2011.
Democrats said what's the big deal about the budget?
But no, we balance the budget.
It's the Republicans.
By crying out loud, we have Hannity giving Bill Clinton credit moving to the Senate.
He didn't move to the Senate.
He was dragged to the Senate.
He didn't do anything.
We have our own people saying that are given him credit for welfare reform.
Yeah, it's kind of like it's kind of like when's the last time you heard about hamburger flipping jobs or when was the last time you heard about homeless or when the Democrats are in there, you're right.
There's a whole different set of different languages homelessness, caused AIDS.
I mean, it's now in 2006, nobody brings up that George Bush in 2006 had 4.5% unemployment.
The stock market was at 14,000.
This is before the Democrats took over in 2007.
That's right.
It's after 2007 that everything that the debt really shot up when the Democrats took over.
Nobody brings it up on our side.
Nobody.
I mean, maybe you once in a while, but not enough.
No, look, once again, I can be assured Snerdley is going to give me a call like you at least once a week.
He's been doing it for 23 years.
Why do the Republicans do this or why don't they do that?
I'll tell you my latest theory, and I think it's a good one.
I think the reason why the Republicans don't use the language you want or they don't satisfy you is because I don't believe that the Republicans in Washington understand thoroughly and fully the new media.
I believe that they still operate under the premise that they have to get their message out through ABC, CBS, NBC, Washington Post, New York Times.
I think there's some exceptions, obviously.
You have members of the House leadership who will call and appear on new media programs.
But the leadership at large in both the House and the Senate believe that they've got to get their message out.
They've got to convince Brian Williams.
They've got to convince George Stephanopoulos.
They've got to convince, that's who they've got to get their message out.
And there's a certain way you talk to those people.
You don't want to make those people mad at you.
It's a mistake.
I'm not supporting it.
I'm trying to explain to you why it is that they say and do things differently.
Now, you know why the media does it.
You know why the media has different sets of terms, depending on who's in office.
But why don't the Republicans call they're not combative?
They don't think they're going to get a fair shake being combative with the media that hates them to begin with.
And they think they've got to get their message out through that media, and that's why they say or don't say whatever it is they say or don't say.
That's my latest theory.
Elizabeth in Allentown, great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Russ.
Just a thought or two, please.
Yes?
Okay.
I'm a registered independent.
And since February of this year, I have received eight mailings of two and three-page letters from Democratic National Committee, three signed by the president, who should be called the present, two signed by Pelosi, and three or four other men associated with that group, all asking for bread.
And it makes me think about what is in the letters, which makes me think about my raising as a kid.
My grand always said.
Wait a minute.
Let me ask you a question.
You're a registered independent.
I am.
And you're getting junk mail from Democrats.
Does that not tell you something?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
And that's why I'm thinking about regulatory.
Don't you think you should be getting junk mail from independents?
How in the hell are the Democrats getting hold of you?
Now, I've never gotten any contribution request from the Republicans or anybody else.
Right.
What does that tell you?
It makes me think of what my Graham raised me with.
And that was, you never get close to or be friendly with a liar because a liar will thieve and a thief will kill.
If that isn't the current administration, I don't know what it is.
Well, now, now, now, let's go easy on the thievery.
Go, yeah, go easy on the thievery.
Go easy on the thievery allegation.
Now, what fascinates me about what you're talking about here is, Elizabeth, I mean, you're not going to get away from liars if you're going to piddle around in politics.
But you are a registered independent and you're being inundated with Democrat stuff.
Now, what does that tell you?
Do you think you're an independent?
You sign up as a moderate, registered this or that, and who is bombarding you?
The Democrats are.
That's quite instructive.
In other words, who's getting hold of you?
You're a registered on the voting registration with independent and who's finding out how to reach you?
Democrats are.
Very interesting.
One more.
Tim in Minneapolis.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
Welcome to the program.
Well, Rush, thanks for taking my call.
You've been asking about Obama and the Jew-Janitor.
First of all, there's a lot of French words that start with J-E-U-X or J-E-O-U.
Maybe he was trying to wax provincial, but what I think was really going on is he was thinking the Jews and the billionaires are the same, and it just kind of slipped out.
But really, for a definitive answer, we have to check his teleprompter to see what was on there.
This sounded like he went off teleprompter.
I can't imagine him ever doing that.
That's a possibility, I suppose.
Well, it's happened.
No, he's gone off prompter before, and you can tell.
You can tell when he does.
All the great oratory ends and the stumbling around in vain search of coherence and even single thought is obvious.
But no, it's just the way it came out.
As I say, I don't know if he was pandering or attacking, pandering or accusing.
That's why I played the bite a number of times and to seek the input of those of you in the audience.
I appreciate the call.
Brief time out.
Back with much more right after this.
So Obama's out there in his town hall right now, and he just said about raising taxes.
It's a question of how we can afford to continue to make investments to propel American forward, to propel America forward.
So he's basically saying that it is government spending that propels American forward, America forward, which we know he believes.
It's just important he says it every day because it's not something most Americans agree with.
See you tomorrow, folks.
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