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Sept. 28, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 28, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Let's say one, two, three, four, five, six.
You get six sound bites, four from the speech, and I think a couple here from the QA.
Now, I'll just give you a little hint.
Start out.
I thought the speech in a performance sense was a little stiff.
The QA was four Grand Slam home runs.
Christie just has it in that off-the-cuff, speak from the heart, speak from the gut sense.
I mean, I don't think there's anybody out there right now that's better.
Contrast that with Obama.
Obama, great with the prompter.
You get him off the prompter.
He's lost.
Just lost.
Anyway, let's go to the audio soundbites.
Here's Governor Christie on American exceptionalism last night.
Lots being said in this election season about American exceptionalism.
But for American exceptionalism to truly deliver hope and a sterling example to the rest of the world, it must be demonstrated, not just asserted.
They will be more likely to follow our example and lead if they see what we're doing and are allowed to emulate it.
Unfortunately, through our own domestic political conduct of late, we have failed to live up to our own tradition of exceptionalism.
Today, our role and ability to affect change has been diminished because of our own problems and our own inability to effectively deal with them.
Okay, folks, there's a lot there.
I mean, there's a whole lot there in that 42-second soundbite.
Do you want to hear what I think about this or not?
That's a foreign policy comment.
And everybody says, foreign policy?
Wait a second here.
You're the governor of New Jersey.
The only reason you would bring up foreign policy is if you are setting the stage for a presidential run or maybe being selected as a VEP.
Because as governor of New Jersey, you really haven't spoken out much on foreign policy.
That's not required.
But he spent a lot of time on things that could be construed as foreign policy last night.
And this bite changed a lot of foreign policy.
Also, in this bite, coupled with other things I heard in the speech, Christie's unhappy with the partisanship that exists in the country today.
That's what this all means here.
We're getting any American exceptionalism going on because we're not demonstrating any.
There's nothing for anybody out there to emulate because we're not doing anything very well.
Our domestic political conduct, we've failed to live up to our own tradition of exceptionalism.
I'm sorry, folks, but My definition of American exceptionalism has nothing to do with how the Republicans and Democrats get along with each other in Congress or in Washington.
I just, I have a whole different concept of American exceptionalism, which I have explained and defined on this program countless times previously.
Here's the next bite on what Ronaldus Magnus would do.
If Ronald Reagan faced today's challenges, we know exactly what he would do.
He would face our domestic problems directly with leadership and without political calculation.
We would take an honest and tough approach to solving our long-term debt and deficit problem through reforming our entitlement programs and our tax code.
We would confront our unemployment crisis by giving certainty to business about our tax and regulatory future.
We would unleash American entrepreneurship through long-term tax reform, not short-term tax gimmickry.
Oh, I can tell Cookie is for Christie.
She left in more applause than she usually does.
You can't fool me, Cookie.
Cookie is the producer of the audio sound bites.
And, you know, there are several dictates under which she operates from me.
One is no bite can be longer than 60 seconds unless I approve it and cut the applause just for the sake of brevity.
Well, normally we get a second and a half of applause, maybe a second if we're lucky.
This we get three seconds of applause.
I know Cookie lives in New Jersey or grew up there.
So she's responding now on the instant message.
Damn right.
Love him.
He'll smash it, Democrats.
Love him.
It's in all caps.
Okay, so that's a pretty good bite there.
What Ronaldus Magnus would do.
Here, Christie calls Obama a bystander in the Oval Office.
We continue to wait and hope that our president will finally stop being a bystander in the Oval Office.
We hope that he will shake off the paralysis that has made it impossible for him to take on the really big things that are so obvious to all Americans and to a watching and anxious world.
Each and every time the president lets a moment to act pass him by, his failure is our failure too.
The rule for effective governance is simple.
It's the one Ronald Reagan knew by heart.
It's the one he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War.
When there is a problem, you fix it.
That's the job we've been sent to do, and you cannot wait for someone else to do it.
Okay, now this bite's interesting to me.
I myself have referred to Democrats and Obama specifically as a spectator.
Now, what I've meant is here's Obama.
Let me give you a great recent example.
Obama, with porculus and TARP and all the spending, has added $4 trillion to the national debt and then goes out and makes a speech about how we need to get our financial house in order as though he's been just a spectator.
The Democrats, the same thing with Katrina.
The Democrats were in charge in New Orleans, in Louisiana, in Washington.
It was they who were supposed to fix the levies.
Money was appropriated to fix the levies.
The levies didn't hold after Katrina.
The Democrats get to act like spectators, demand hearings, demand investigations.
They want Bush strung up.
They want Mike Brown of FEMA strung up.
They want everybody else strung up.
They're the ones who were to blame.
They're the ones who didn't get the job done.
They get to act like spectators, demand all these investigations, hearings, everything else, when they were the architects of all the problems.
Now, that's what I mean by spectator.
I don't know what it, maybe Christie doesn't mean that when he says bystander, but I think he does.
I think Obama basically trying to make it look like none of this that's happened has anything to do with what he's done.
And now he wants to set himself up as the repairman who wants to bring a little sanity to this.
He wants to be the adult in the room.
But I paralysis.
Obama's not, I'm sorry, Obama's not paralyzed.
This guy has been on steroids attacking the private sector.
Obama has been on human growth hormone in attacking the private sector and destroying job opportunity.
Obama's been taking steroids and shooting up HGH when he goes out and does everything he can to grow government, take money and capital out of the private sector.
I don't see him as a bystander in that sense.
I see him as a very pro.
He's got all these czars who knows what the hell's going on that we are not being told by all these czars who are not accountable.
They don't have to be confirmed by the Senate.
It's a grandstander.
There's no question about that.
Was FDR a bystander?
Was LBJ a bystander with the Great Society and all that?
This guy's been pretty active as far as I'm concerned.
Here's the one more bite.
This is Christie saying that Obama came to divide.
President Obama prepares to divide our nation to achieve re-election, telling those who are scared and struggling that the only way their lives can get better is to diminish the success of others, trying to cynically convince those who are suffering that the American economic pie is no longer a growing one that can provide more prosperity for all who work hard, insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American dream.
That may turn out to be a good reelection strategy, Mr. President, but it is a demoralizing message for America.
What happened to state Senator Obama?
When did he decide to become one of the dividers he spoke so eloquently of in 2004?
All right, right on with this.
We all know that Obama came to divide.
He didn't just start dividing with this latest iteration of his campaign.
Obama showed up dividing.
Obama's intention has been to divide.
But that's just me.
I don't think Obama's divisive character is recent or new.
I think he's just doubling down on it.
He's doubling down on it because he's in trouble.
And again, it goes back to the fact.
I had somebody tell me that, you know, life never escapes high school.
That we all never escape high school.
That, you know, I was analyzing what Tina Brown's mid.
The theory is, as expressed to me, look, Obama came along and made all these people the most popular kids in New York, the most popular kids in Washington.
Comes around, he wins, and everybody, they're the big click again.
And now he's destroyed that.
Nobody wants to be in the click.
Everybody is running to get the hell out of the click.
Clinton did the same thing.
Clinton was able to hold on to it for eight years.
Clinton still has the ability to do that.
Obama has squandered it.
He's making their side look bad.
Now to the Q ⁇ A, and this is the woman who begged Christy to run.
We can't wait another four years to 2016.
I really implore you, as a citizen of this country, to please, sir, to reconsider.
Don't even say anything tonight, of course.
You wouldn't go home and really think about it.
Please.
Do it for my daughter.
Do it for our grandchildren.
Do it for our sons.
Please, sir.
We need you.
Your country needs you to run for president.
Ah, three seconds of applause there.
Cookie left it in a little bit longer than the directive.
Here's Christy's reply.
I'm just a kid from Jersey who feels like I'm the luckiest guy in the world to have the opportunity that I have to be the governor of my state.
People say to me all the time now, why don't they just leave you alone?
You've already given your answer.
Isn't it a burden?
What I say to you tonight and say to everybody else who's nice enough to applaud what she said is that it isn't a burden.
Anybody who has an ego large enough to say, oh, please, please, please stop asking me to be leader of the free world.
It's such a burden.
If you could please just stop, it's extraordinarily flattering.
But by the same token, that heartfelt message you gave me is also not a reason for me to do it.
That reason has to reside inside me.
I know, without ever having met President Reagan, that he must have felt deeply in his heart that he was called to that moment to lead our country.
He was.
Reagan was called to run for president.
He really was.
That's the famous Reagan kitchen cabinet.
An arrangement that, because of election law, would be illegal today.
However, you know, the thing about Christie saying, I don't know, I just don't think I'm ready.
I don't think I'm qualified.
I've never run for office.
I've never had the desire to.
There's one thing about it that I think I do understand.
And that is you have to really want it.
And if you don't, then don't even get close to it.
This is not something you do without a full-fledged, 150% self-commitment.
This is a life-changing, a forever life-changing event to run for president.
And if you go and get the nomination to actually be your party standard bearer, it changes your life forever.
And it's something that you have to have an ego that says country and world cannot survive without me.
That's almost what it takes.
It is so arduous, the media anal exam you're going to get as a Republican.
So if he really is being truthful when he says he's not into it yet, that he doesn't think he's ready, you ought to be listened to.
Otherwise, he would know.
The fire in the belly, you know whether you've got it or not.
And if you don't have it, this is not something you do on, let me give this a shot.
This is something that you have to be full-fledged and 150% committed to.
Besides, the leader of the free world job is actually taken.
I have it, titular or otherwise.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Before we go to the phones, I got a couple more bite.
Well, one more bite.
Sarah Palin last night was on Greta Van Susteren's show.
And Greta said, well, it's sort of interesting.
Always the people who are not in the race.
Sometimes they get a lot of encouragement from others, a lot of glowing reports.
And Christie's certainly been pushed by many Republicans.
Many Republicans, but also just many in the media, because for many in the media, this is like a reality show.
I think Newsweek, an article that came out the other day, really nailed it when they said that there are media outlets that kind of create this reality show, this intrigue, and who's going to be the next flavor of the week.
And they prop somebody up in order to crush the person, it seems, later on.
So Sarah Palin says the media is building up Christie just so they can crush him later on.
I think there's something to that.
But again, I'm going to tell you, the Republican establishment, you're going to get mad at me if this, but the Republican establishment is looking for anybody who can see to it that a conservative, a genuine conservative, will not be nominated.
But Rush, but Rush, are you saying that Christie is not a conservative?
As far as the Republican establishment's concerned, yes.
Herman Kaine is a conservative that worries them.
Perry is a conservative that worries them.
Bachman is a conservative that worries.
Santorum, a conservative that worries.
Reagan was a conservative that worried the Republican establishment.
Christie is not.
Now, some people say that, well, Christie's more conservative than you think, Rush.
He's just governor of New Jersey.
He has to say certain things.
I mean, look at who the voting base is.
They're a bunch of lib Democrats.
He's got to work with a Democrat legislature in that state.
I mean, he's governor of a liberal state.
He's got to say some things to appease those people.
So if he ever broke out of that, you'd see the genuine, full-fledged, 100% conservative Chris Christie.
Okay, that's fine.
That's what we want to do.
Roll the dice that that's what we're going to get when he breaks free of New Jersey.
Let's go to the phones.
And we're going to start in New York City with Bob.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
Thank you, Rush.
Yeah, I feel Chris Christie would be a great candidate.
I saw his speech.
Better than Obama.
Don't anybody misunderstand me here now.
Any one of these people over Obama any day with no thought.
Right, right.
Okay, but I saw his speech.
Yeah.
And he said exactly why Obama has to be eliminated in 2012 and for all the reasons sane Americans know he has to be.
And, well, to get aggravated, I must be a masochist.
I turned on the view.
And, of course, Whoopi Goldberg said Christie did nothing for New Jersey, which is wrong.
Then they got into a big discussion about how he might be too fat to hold the office.
And Joy Behar, of course, had to mention that if he got into the White House, he could get plenty of Krispy Kremes.
And, well, I guess the bottom line to me is, as with Sarah Palin, he will be crucified should he get into the race by the liberal media.
And really, the other thing I was going to ask you, too, Rush, is that if you would explain your earlier comment about if he does get in, I was confused when you said you might be concerned that he would become John McCain.
Well, all this talk of compromise.
I'm sorry.
Reagan, you know what Reagan's definition of compromise was?
What?
We win, they lose.
Reagan's definition of compromise was we not all end up getting along at the end of the day.
And I just heard way too much talk of bipartisanship and compromise last night to make me comfortable.
I don't want the compromise.
What is there?
Somebody tell me, give me one issue.
Obamacare, spending, debt, taxes.
Tell me where is the compromise with the Democrats on any of those.
When I hear people on our side talk about compromise, I also hear them say, I'm the guy I can cross the aisle.
I can work with the other side.
I'm the only one who can.
I can make the media with me.
I'm sorry.
We've been there and done that.
Ladies and gentlemen, let's turn back the hands of time.
Earlier this year, you will recall during the continuing resolution debate, the funding of the budget, the raising of the debt limit, I was urging from behind the golden EIB microphone, John Boehner, the Republican leadership, to force Obama to cave.
That we were the ones who held the position of strength, cutting off the 2010 midterm elections, which was a landslide shellacking.
The Democrats lost 63 seats in the House.
Well, it's the net number that the Republicans have now in the leadership, in their lead.
All the way down the ballot, state and local issues, the Democrats just took a bath.
And I said, winners don't compromise with losers.
Losers compromise with winners.
At the end of World War II, in Japan, on the USS Missouri, we did not compromise with the Japanese.
We gave them the terms of surrender and they signed them.
Ditto in Europe in World War II.
Winners do not compromise with losers.
Now, I remember when I said that, state-controlled media and the Democrat establishment literally had a cow.
They called me and they held those remarks up as a single reason why this country was never going to go anywhere.
Because I.L. Rushball was not going to permit the Republicans to compromise.
When I hear Republicans want to compromise, I immediately say, with who and where?
Where do we want to compromise with Obama?
Do we want to say, okay, we'll give you health care in 10 years instead of next year?
Or, okay, you can have half of the tax increases.
Where's the compromise on tax increases?
Where's the tax or the compromise on government spending?
Where's the compromise on stimulus bills?
There isn't any compromise.
I don't, there's nothing of that agenda.
There's nothing of the socialist agenda that I want to have as part of mine.
We're not competing in elections here to win them and then compromise with the people who lost them.
You can't compromise.
How are we going to attract the independents?
Who is it that gave us landslide victories in the 2010 midterm elections?
It was independents.
Independents abandoned the Democrat Party and not because of anything the Republicans were doing to attract them, because the Republicans were scared of their own shadows.
The Republicans weren't saying anything.
That was a flight from socialism.
That was a mad dash away from liberalism and socialism.
And the only place that you can go in this country where you don't want socialism is to the Republican Party.
Pure and simple.
Now, the Republicans live and believe this myth that if they don't compromise and if they are too critical of the Democrats, that these independents are going to run right back to the Democrat Party.
And it's a lie and it's a myth that has been perpetuated, created by the media and the left precisely to stifle Republican comments, conservative behavior, policy, and everything else.
It is designed to make us live in fear of being who we are.
It's perpetuated by Republican political consultants who live and work with that 20% of the electorate that's said to be the undecided every election.
The independents, the moderates.
That's where they make their money by telling candidates, I know how to get those voters for you.
Here's what you can't do.
You can't run out there.
Don't say Obama's middle name.
Don't call him Barack Hussein, but you do that.
You're going to send them running right back to him.
And all that kind of malarkey.
And they end up muzzling Republican and conservative candidates.
And then they say, you better talk about compromise.
You better talk about wanting.
You better talk about bipartisan.
The American people want these two parties to get along.
Really?
How does the math on that work?
One party is abject, no doubt, socialist.
The other party is conservative, constitutional conservative, small government, lower taxes, entrepreneurs, all that stuff.
Where is the middle ground there?
Where all these wizards, the independents, where do they want the compromise?
Where do they want the bipartisanship to be?
As far as I'm concerned, they have told us with their votes.
They don't want any part of what Obama is.
They voted out of guilt.
They voted to be part of history.
And some of them probably voted thinking if Obama won, there wouldn't be as much shouting and yelling.
If they would have listened to me, I would have told them, or they would have heard me say that racism is going to get worse if this guy wins.
Because virtually every policy disagreement with him is going to be chalked up to racism.
Lo and behold, I, as I usually am, have been born out right.
And nothing unifying about this guy.
There's nothing unifying about socialism.
Socialism has to be imposed on people.
Freedom doesn't.
Socialism, Marxism, liberalism has to be imposed on people against their will, which is exactly what this party has been doing.
A Democrat Party has been governing against the will of the people for years.
Obama just been doing it on steroids.
And these independents and others figured it out.
They saw it.
Their home values cut in half if they still have one.
Jobs don't have any.
And what are they told?
Sign up for more unemployment compensation.
That'll stimulate the economy, Pelosi said.
That's not what they want.
Some people do, but not the people we're talking about.
You can't compromise with people who want to turn this country into a socialist state.
Actually, you can.
See, the problem is it's way too easy, but you shouldn't.
Not if you want to keep America America.
I said yesterday, the word, the single word that has been used to create the most damage in this country is compassion.
And that's why it's easy to compromise with these people, because everybody on our side seems to want to be considered compassionate.
And compassion is defined by the left.
The bigger government is, and the more people it's taken care of, the more compassionate you are, the bigger heart you have.
Well, I've always preferred Jack Kemp's definition of compassion.
We consider compassion to be the result of how many people no longer need government assistance.
Compromising with socialists is how we got where we are.
Compromising with Democrats is how we got where we are today.
It's why Europe is falling apart right before our very eyes, because socialists were compromised with.
You know, to me, it's preposterous.
It's preposterous that we even should even be considering compromise with socialists when we have Europe staring us right in the face.
Somebody, as I say, point out to me, you tell me, call me right now, send me an email.
Where in today's Democrat Party agenda is compromise?
Tell me where you want to compromise with them.
Really preposterous that this should even be a matter of discussion with the state this country is in and the condition Europe is in.
So that's why red flag went up.
People are sending me, well, Rush, look, you're being a little bit too hard here.
You know, Christie, like Rudy, they talk moderate on issues, but when they get elected, they crush Democrats.
Yeah.
Let me ask you a question, folks.
When in, I want you to really think about this.
In modern electoral history, when do you remember people first, political people, consultants, candidates, media, first even talking about independence?
When did the group know that independence, when did that become a primary matter of import, a major subject matter?
Where were you?
What were you doing when you first heard of independence?
Maybe you won't remember, but see if you can.
But you look at Europe.
Everything that real, genuine, intelligent conservatives have been warning about for 60 years is happening right before our eyes in Europe.
And we're on the same road.
We have people in the Democrat Party who think Europe is utopia because the smart people are in charge and run everything.
The elites are in charge of everything.
14% unemployment, but that's okay.
The state takes care of them.
They can't defend themselves, but that's okay because we don't believe in war.
And if we're attacked, we'll just call the United States.
And after they defend us, we'll complain and whine and moan about their militarism, their imperialism.
But we'll take it.
Obama's trying to turn us into Europe as fast as he can on steroids.
I don't want to become Greece.
I don't want to become Spain.
I don't want to become the UK.
That's where we're headed.
And it's utterly predictable.
So somebody tell me, where do you want to compromise with Harry Reid?
Where do you want to compromise with Nancy Pelosi?
Where do you want to compromise with Barack Obama?
Where do you want to compromise with Dick Durbin or John Kerry or Chuck Schumer?
And then tell me why.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Okay, we're going to go back to the phones here, folks.
But first, Obama just came on television.
Imagine that.
On MSNBC, he's delivering a back-to-school speech in Washington.
Now, you're probably saying, so what?
Folks, I am telling you, this campaign is in bad shape.
Every person sitting behind Obama is black.
That doesn't happen.
You go back, you check anytime Obama does a personal appearance anywhere.
The vast majority are white.
It's diverse out there.
You're going to have some Native Americans.
You have some gay, lesbian, transsexuals.
You'll have, you know, but the majority of them are white.
And now they're all black.
You just don't see that.
Rush, why are you even noticing things?
Because this is a presidency devoted to optics.
That's why.
All right, where are we going?
This is Jan in Palm Desert, California.
Hi, Jan.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
How about hi, Rush?
I'm a longtime listener, and you asked to see what we thought of the speech last night.
Yes, ma'am.
Okay, well, I turned it on, and I got a little late in it, and the first word I heard out of his mouth was the word compromise.
I thought, he's out, and there's no point in listening to one other word he says.
So that was it, and we went back to Wheel of Fortune.
Yeah, he was on at six o'clock out there.
Well, we're on the East Coast.
We have direct TV, so we can get it anytime.
Oh, that's right.
Okay, okay.
Well, I'm, you know, I'm sorry to steal your thunder because that basically was my monologue prior to your calling.
I'm, I'm, I'm, same way.
I don't see what there is or who there is to compromise with.
Now, I'm not talking about grinding these people into the dust and stomping on them with the heel of the boot.
I'm talking about electoral defeat at the ballot box.
And then after you win, after you beat them, then you start implementing what it is that you ran on.
This is not complicated.
I'm not talking about being mean.
I'm not talking about being rigid.
Look, if they want to compromise with us, I am more than happy to welcome them.
But to me, gone are the days where the liberals and socialism is what's normal in this country.
And you and I are the oddballs, and we're the ones that have to make the adjustment.
These are the people that are in the minority.
These are the people that are doing things harmful to this nation.
They, if they want to be in a ballgame, they're the ones that are going to have to moderate.
Not us.
We've been moderating for years and years and years, and we've elected, take it back.
We have nominated people who promised that they would do all these things.
They get up there and they start moderating and compromising.
And we end up with Jack.
And that's it.
When we win, there's no reason to compromise with the losers.
Pure and simple.
I appreciate the call.
Jan, who's a Suzanne in Blunts Creek, North Carolina.
Hi.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Thank you so much.
What an honor it is.
I think the Chris Christie speech was just a tease.
Why did they go to all this pomp and circumstance just to announce that he is not running?
And I hope someone gave Ann Coulter a heads up before all of this.
Somewhere she's crying.
But anyway.
Well, you know, what about this is a possibility?
Okay.
You think he is running?
That's what this all means?
No, I don't.
I don't know.
I don't.
I'm saying, why did he go to all of this trouble?
Yeah.
He thanked Nancy Reagan or invited him.
He went to all of, I mean, it took money and time to set all this up.
Right.
And just to say he's not running.
Well, you got to go kiss the ring.
If you want to matter in Republican politics down the road, look at how about this as a possibility.
How about just throw it out there?
Okay.
Just likes the attention.
Likes people saying, please run.
Likes the hero notion.
Maybe, maybe, we don't, if somebody, I have found that if somebody's not going to run, in large part, it's because they don't think the time is right or that they can't win at that moment.
Yeah.
And I think maybe he's just surveyed the land.
He's like, okay, I can't win it this year.
This is not my year to win it.
But I'm going to put my toe in here and I'm going to drop an anchor.
I'm going to be a factor in this from now on out because in future years I might want to run.
You?
Would you run?
Would I walk on?
No, no.
No, no.
Pay cut.
No way.
Have we been through this?
No way.
I just, folks, we did, I, the guy that invented the word feminazi, the first campaign ad.
Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do.
And we're back.
Great to have you with us, Rush Lindboy, here on the cutting edge of societal evolution, where we are having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
Remember, in the next hour, I'm going to take it.
It's not going to take long, but I need to fill you in on the whys and wherefores of what's going on with Obamacare.
The regime lost an appeal at the 11th Circuit Court.
Well, see, that's the, they lost, but they also won.
And they decided, you know what, we're not going to appeal here.
We're not going to ask for the full 11-judge panel at the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to hear this.
We're just going to go straight to the Supreme Court.
People say, well, they must be really confident.
What they're trying to do is slow walk this.
They want as little of this to happen legally.
Supreme Court is a great way to slow things down.
But we beat them to the punch.
Our side's already filed an appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court.
And I'm just going to explain what this is all about, why this is happening.
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