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Oct. 3, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 3, 2011, Monday, Hour #3
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hang on there just a second.
Okay, grab, let's say grab summit 25 and 26.
And this should be 22 and 23.
So 25, 26, 22, 23.
Greedies, great to have you back here, folks.
Rush Limbaugh doing what I was born to do and doing it so well, I even impress me.
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The email address, lrushball at EIBNet.com.
General Motors has repeatedly claimed a sales target for 2011 of 10,000 Chevy Volts.
10,000 of them.
Nine months into the year, they have shipped 3,895.
And September sales numbers released an hour ago.
General Motors sold 723 volts in September.
They had a goal out there of 10,000.
They're at 3,900, basically, and 723 this month.
Just passing on the information.
How many of you use inhalers for asthma?
A lot of people do.
I never have, but a lot of people do.
I know people who do.
I don't use one, but this story, this is a very serious issue.
In a macro way, this goes right to the just oppressive, overall insensitive power of the federal government.
And then the micro view.
What are so many people going to do who rely on this?
On January 1st, a new federal rule meant to make the air cleaner is going to make it much harder for millions of Americans to breathe.
The Food and Drug Administration is waging war on asthma inhalers because they emit trace amounts of greenhouse gases.
Global warming, climate change.
It's a hula.
It's a fraud.
Do the EPA care?
No.
This is the regime.
It's power.
They haven't even acknowledged that it's a hula.
They continue to create policies to deal with global warming, climate change, greenhouse gases.
Last month, the FDA announced the ban of over-the-counter inhalers that use CFCs to deliver medicine based on the concern that they might poke a little hole in the ozone layer.
Three million asthmatics who prefer these inhalers are now going to have to pay triple the price to get prescription devices just so a bunch of bureaucrats in Washington can sit around thinking they're doing something to save the planet so asthma sufferers who buy over-the-counter inhalers are destroying the climate they don't pay for it they have to pay for it
There are different kinds of inhalers.
The FDA is targeting primatine mist devices, which use CFCs to shoot epinephrine into the lungs.
Epinephrine provides instant relief to people during an asthma attack.
The government-preferred device doesn't offer epinephrine, forces people to take slow, deep breaths from their inhaler, which might be hard if you're wheezing.
So this is just more evidence here of the kind of people that we're dealing with.
But look at the FDA can just unilaterally ban a product.
And millions of Americans depend on this.
Then there is the insult to our intelligence that people with these inhalers are destroying the planet.
No different than aerosol hairspray and deodorant, creating an ozone hole.
By the way, I have a story here.
I haven't printed it out, but I've got a story.
I panic specific.
I can find it here real quick.
It is the ozone hole is being caused by cold weather.
I'll find it during the break.
Ozone hole being called by Coz.
So they don't know.
It's a hoax.
All of this is a bunch of gunk.
Vice President Cheney says that the Obama administration owes the Bush administration an apology.
Cheney yesterday called last week's CIA drone strike against al-Qaeda operative Anwar Olaki, a validation of the George W. Bush administration's terrorist fighting strategy, said that Obama should apologize for his past criticism of these policies.
We've got audio on this.
Dick Cheney was on State of the Union on CNN with Candy Crowley, who said, I guess what I'm asking, isn't the proof in the pudding, hasn't this administration waged a successful war against terror?
If you got the president of the United States out there saying we overreacted to 9-11 on our watch, that's not good.
You'd like an apology, it sounds like.
Well, I would.
I think that would be not for me, but I think for the Bush administration, and that he misspoke when he gave that speech in Cairo two years ago.
Right.
It's something else.
Something else.
Here we have the regime with drones or whatever wiping out an American citizen.
No due process, no charges, no evidence, no nothing.
Just here's a drone.
You're dead, Olaki.
What?
Wait a second, though.
And liberals are applauding this.
Liberals are like, you see, Obama is tough on terrorism.
Right.
Liberals are applauding.
But waterboarding is an act of war.
Well, waterboarding is a crime.
Waterboarding is a crime.
Waterboarding is something that we should have these victims allowed.
A trials that run down this country in New York City for two years.
You can't waterboard these people.
You can't put them on a waterboard and sweat the truth out of them and find out what they did.
But boy, you can sure bomb them to smithereens.
We liberals will let you do that, but you can't waterboard them.
Go ahead and kill them.
But if you waterboard them, we're going to try to put you in jail in international court.
Liz Cheney got in on this too.
Candy Crowley said, Liz, do you feel that Obama wronged the Bush administration?
I think he slandered the nation, and I think he owes an apology to the American people.
Those are the policies that kept us safe.
They're the policies, frankly, that contributed the enhanced interrogation technique.
Know now Leon Panetta has said some of the intelligence we gained through that program helped us identify the location of bin Laden.
So I think the president knows every an apology, frankly.
Yeah, well, and they know it's not going to be forthcoming.
There won't be one, but they're out there making the point.
And Cheney, by the way, did endorse the killing of Anwar Olaki as justified, despite Olaki's U.S. citizenship.
He suggested that the Obama White House is being hypocritical when it approved a deadly strike against Olaki while condemning waterboarding, so-called enhanced interrogation.
He's exactly right.
I mean, there's it's more than just irony.
Either way, a question, ladies and gentlemen.
Drudge has a headline up here.
Bankruptcy fear, Rocks Street.
American Airlines bankruptcy fear rocks Wall Street.
I have a question.
Will the regime buy American Airlines?
They bought General Motors in Chrysler.
What do you mean they don't need an airline?
What do you mean they don't need an airline?
He didn't buy General Motors to have his own car.
He bought General Motors to control the auto industry and to save the union.
Now, there's a lot of unions at American Airlines, aren't there?
Now, you know, Obama, sure, he's got his own airplane and it's not American Airlines, but he could, in fact, he could buy American Airlines and make them start flying around to whatever the airplane equivalent of the Volt is.
You know, it's the biggest disconnect that I've seen in a while.
Obama's still out in public.
I want this bill back.
I want this bill signed now.
I want this bill signed this month, in October.
So Obama's out there demanding that his bill be signed this month.
Meanwhile, Democrats in the Senate are saying, we're going to put it off.
We don't have the votes for it here.
No way we can pass it.
Dick Durbin said last week, I just don't have a number of senators who don't want to vote for it.
It's a tax increase.
They're running for reelection.
They just don't want any part of a tax increase right now.
Nobody's sponsored in the House yet.
Nobody's sponsored in the House.
And Dingy Harry's name is the only one that's on it in the Senate.
And it's buried over there because I don't care what Obama says, this is the disconnect.
There's no intention for this thing to ever get a vote.
I mean, he'd love it if it did, don't it?
If he could get all these tax increases passed, no, he would love it, but he knows it isn't going to happen, is the point.
Double dipping, the well-established practice of public workers collecting government pensions and salaries at the same time, has become a hot topic for lawmakers struggling with strained budgets.
Even as some states have begun curbing the practice, a review by the Associated Press found that tens of thousands of state and public school employees are drawing government salaries and their pensions at the same time.
In five states, California, New York, Texas, Florida, Michigan, at least 66,000 government retirees also receive taxpayer-funded paychecks.
Their salaries?
No, they don't do this in the NFL.
It's a great question.
Friend Tarkaton has pointed this out.
You don't get your pension and your salary at the same time in the NFL.
And folks, we don't have the money for this.
One of the people, one of the 66,000 government retirees double dipping is an engineer named Mari Ruse, R-O-O-S.
He retired from the California Department of Water Resources with an annual pension of more than $113,000.
And he returned part-time within weeks.
He says he uses extra money to go to engineering conferences, and the state gets an experienced engineer.
Right.
So much fraud, waste, abuse out there.
Who's next?
Lance, Gulf Breeze, Florida, you're next on the Rush Limbaugh program.
Hi, sir.
How are you doing, Rush?
Very well.
Appreciate it.
Actually, I'm ticked off here.
I've been doing a slow burn all day, but you wouldn't have known it had I not told you, right?
Well, I'm angry, too.
I'm an asthmatic inhaler using asthmatics, so dittos.
You use primatine mist?
No, I have an albuterol inhaler.
Oh.
I don't know what the difference is, but if that's what I'm saying.
Well, I don't know about albuterol, but primatine with the fedrin, epinephrine rather, is going to be banned in January, and you're going to be wheezing out there unless you cough up prescription inhalers for three times the money.
Is that what you got you ticked off?
No.
I just heard that when you, that was what I was waiting to get on the phone here.
Every day, every day, the regime is launching assaults on public freedom, privacy, you name it.
Yeah, I know it's a new thing every day.
What I was really calling about, though, to start with, was this soldier asking the question at the convention down in Orlando.
I was the delegate down there last weekend, not this last, but the weekend before last.
And during the debate, when this happened, everything I've heard about it since then is totally distorted.
I mean, especially, of course, I'm not surprised by what Obama's saying.
He distorts everything anyway, but what happened was two or three people, I can't be sure exactly, nobody knows, but it wasn't many, just two or three people, out of about 5,000 people who were in that auditorium, booed, but they didn't boo till, like your audio tape showed, it wasn't until after the guy finished asking the question, and they weren't really, so obviously they weren't booing him, and nobody around me thought that.
What they were booing about was the fact that that was a loaded question, and everybody there knew that it was a loaded question, and anybody who listens to that soundbite knows it's a loaded question for a GOP candidate.
And that's what they were booing about, you know, two or three people.
The rest of the people just sat there and were silent.
But, you know, that's what bothers me.
Yeah, well, one way or another, no matter how you slice it, they're booing the question.
They were not booing the guy because he was gay.
Right.
They weren't.
They were booing the question because it was a loaded question.
They didn't like it.
Right.
Well, I'm going to tell you what this is.
This is no different than the Duke LaCrosse case.
You have stereotypes that fit in liberal holes.
In the Duke La Crosse case, you have a poor, out-of-luck, put-upon, disadvantaged, bright, intelligent young African-American woman so victimized by the unfairness of this country.
She had to strip.
She had to show up and do parties, taking her clothes off and act like a slut in order to live in this unfair, rotten to the core country.
And who hired her?
Oh, yeah.
A bunch of rich white lacrosse people.
La Crosse and elite sport, rich white parents, rich white guys hiring this poor, brilliant single mother victimized by this country.
So whatever she says happened had to be the truth.
If she says they raped her, then the seriousness of the charge is all we need.
We don't need any evidence.
Same thing here.
What do you have?
Gay soldier stands up, asks a question about don't ask, don't tell two people in an audience of 5,000 boo.
The liberal stereotypes kick into gear full speed.
Republicans who are homophobes were booing this brave, courageous soldier who showed up in the midst of the enemy, the Republican Party, at a Republican Party debate.
Yeah.
They were booing him because a bunch of homophobes.
So exactly what's happening here.
Nature of the evidence, irrelevant.
Seriousness of the charge, all we need.
They are doing essentially the same thing with Rick Perry and this death penalty question at the CNN debate.
They were claiming out there that the Republican Party, the audience, was bloodthirsty.
A bunch of practically vampires.
A Republican audience is bloodthirsty.
It doesn't want the killing.
They love state executions.
They love putting to death innocent minority people, greatest people on earth, never did a thing wrong except be born in this country, victimized by the white-run world.
So all they're doing there is claiming that the Republican audience is a bunch of bloodthirsty killers reveling in the death of others when in fact they were supporting Texas enforcing its laws.
The reason there was cheering in that debate for Perry.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Yeah, I got a couple of Warren Buffett bites here.
That's what 20.
Let's see.
I can find 22.
Let's see.
There we go.
Warren Buffett.
Folks, a couple of things.
You know, Warren Buffett showed up, hosted a fundraiser for the regime in Chicago, actually, and in New York at the Four Treasons, the tycoon Warren Buffett, headliner of last night's fundraiser for the regime, for Obama at the Four Treasons in New York, reiterated his advice for a tax on ultra-rich people who are paying very low tax rates.
And by the way, last week, Buffett clarified this, and he made it clear that what Obama wants to do is not what he would do, and he started distancing himself from what Obama is calling the Buffett rule.
The Buffett rule is about this nameless secretary of his who supposedly is getting sulked by the tax code while Buffett skates off easily.
And Buffett made clear, look a minute.
Now, if you're on television, this is what he said.
If you're on television and you earn $50 million a year, you're not affected by what I want to do.
If you're an athlete and you make $50 million a year, my plan is not going to affect you.
What I'm trying to get at is people who have that kind of money who are not paying a legitimate income tax rate.
He has no quarrel with the income tax rate.
You understand what I mean when he says, if you're on television, you're earning $50 million a year, my plan won't change you.
I don't have any problem with you.
If you're an athlete making $50 million, whatever, I have no problem with you.
But if you have that kind of money and you're getting away with paying something at capital gains rate, not the earned income rate, then I, Warren Buffett, want to join Obama and come nail you, USOB.
Why are you confused?
What's so hard to understand about that?
No, no, no.
No, no.
He's saying if you make 50 million and you're paying taxes, he's got no problem with that.
That's what he's saying.
It's if you have 50 million and you aren't paying taxes.
But he's assuming that if you're making 50 million by appearing on TV, that you're on somebody's payroll.
So the deduction is happening and you're not a problem.
And if you're an athlete making 50, you're on a payroll.
Your taxes are being deducted at the appropriate rate.
You're cool.
But if you're running around, monkeying around with it, and your secretary, like my secretary, he's saying, is paying a higher rate than I am, then so basically Warren Buffett says we distance himself from from Obama a little bit.
See, Buffett's old-fashioned.
He doesn't realize that billionaires only have to make $200,000 a year to be called billionaires.
That's in Obama's world.
You're a billionaire and have a jet if you make $200,000 a year.
He's uncomfortable about taxing them.
But here's the thing.
He hosts this big fundraiser at the Four Treasons last night for Obama.
But the turnout was quote-unquote disappointing.
It was $10,000 a plate.
The turnout was disappointing.
Let's see.
Obama fundraising insider said the campaign has been getting resistance from some Wall Street donors from 2008 over the Buffett rule.
Buffett said, hey, the event went okay.
I was there.
That's all anybody cared about.
Well, he didn't say that.
I'm just, you have to know how to read these stories.
So here is Buffett.
Let's go to CNBC last Friday.
Squawk on the street reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin is interviewing Buffett.
Sorkin said, hey, let's talk about the Buffett rule for a moment, talk about how it came about in terms of the White House getting in touch with you and you putting your name to this.
Gene Sperling called and said, can we use your name?
And I said, yes.
Are you happy with the way it's been described?
Is the program that the White House has presented a million dollars and over your program?
Well, the precise program.
I don't know what their program will be.
So yeah, go ahead and use my name.
Well, I don't know what your program is going to be.
Gene Sperling called and said, can I use your name?
Sure, go ahead.
But he doesn't even know what the program is.
So the next question came.
No, Buffett, it was a different place.
It's in Bloomberg on a program called The Loop with Betty Liu.
And she said, the Buffett rule, I know that you've had some pretty strong political and social views in your lifetime.
You've expressed very publicly.
But this, though, the Buffett rule, it's become this hot-button issue.
Why step out so much in the public this time around on this?
Well, it isn't to have the rich pay more taxes.
It's to have the ultra-rich who are paying very low tax rates pay more taxes.
Now, there's all kinds of ultra-rich who pay normal taxes, but there's a small segment, but you can find them very easily, who pay very low taxes, including me.
There you have it.
So it was in that context that he said he doesn't care about the athlete making 50 million, the TV host making 50 million.
He's not targeting them.
He's targeting people like himself.
Warren, why don't you turn yourself in?
Why do you have this massive program to go find people like you?
You know where you are.
Just turn yourself in.
These people amaze me.
Who's next?
Martha in La Clacinta, California.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
It's always such an honor to speak with you.
Thank you very much.
I'm a very involved conservative, and so I was somehow mistakenly put on SEIU's robocalls and conference calls.
And this last call was very enlightening.
SEIU is changing the subject from Obama administration's scandals and his economic policies to active class warfare.
They are supporting, they're part of the group of activists that supports Occupy Los Angeles, an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street.
You know what's crazy about these people?
What?
These are the people that marched on the Brooklyn Bridge over the weekend and so forth.
You know how stupid these people are?
Incredibly.
These people are out.
They're out marching for big government.
They are advocating for Obama's reelection.
They are marching against Wall Street.
Who's in bed with Obama?
Wall Street.
These people are tools.
They are abject tools.
They are an embarrassment.
I mean, the Vietnam War crowd is embarrassed at this bunch, how stupid they are.
And then to be steered under the Brooklyn Bridge where they can then be charged with a crime for obstructing a roadway?
I know they pose a great threat.
How did you end up, by the way?
How did the SEIU end up with your phone number?
Well, I was working for Meg Whitman, her campaign for governor.
Oh, yeah, she's the CEO at Hewlett-Packard.
Right.
And Meg Whitman was our only chance at getting the governorship back.
Yeah, McCain loves her.
That's right, I remember.
You know, and you know, after what Brown or his people called her, and nothing was done about that.
Nothing was done about that.
But somehow, I mistakenly got on their robo call, and I have been getting calls since last November, and it's really amusing because you can find out what the other side's doing.
Well, yeah, we sign up routinely to, like, I got a guy who signs up as Biff on some of the White House website stuff and ACLU, people of the American Way.
We know exactly what they're doing.
We're on their list, too.
Well, I would get their phone calls because I don't answer the phone.
Well, I was really surprised, too, that they're involved with the voting machines in Nevada.
I never knew that before.
What do you mean, involved with the voting machines?
Do you mean rigging them?
With the servicing and the, yeah, yeah.
In Nevada.
I mean, that was shocking to me.
No, why should it be shocking that a bunch of union thugs involved with voting machines and servicing voting machines?
Look, if they run around accusing the manufacturer or us conservatives of tampering with the machines, that's a tantamount admission that they are tampering with the machines.
That's how they work.
So, anyway, well, you keep learning What they're doing is it's a way to keep because they're upfront and honest.
I mean, how do you think Dingy Harry won in Nevada?
Sorry, Nevada.
These protests, I'm just telling you, I have to laugh.
They're such doink rank amateurs, and they think they're so tough.
They think they're so powerful.
The establishment that they hate is just using them like client number nine used his, whatever.
I'm telling you, it's fascinating to watch these people as they go out and they protest the very thing that they're voting for.
And Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton wants more credit.
Politico.com from September 30th, Bill Clinton thinks he deserves more.
He was in Arkansas, I think, at the library and massage parlor, opening a new room in the massage parlor section.
And he said he thinks he deserves more credit for reforming welfare and balancing the budget.
He says, I tell you, I go crazy every time I read the conventional wisdom.
Part of the Republican narrative out there is that I was safe for myself by the election of Republican Congress.
It forced me to do welfare reform and made that balanced budget possible.
I wasn't a softie.
I cracked down on welfare and I cracked down on spending and I'm sick and tired.
I'm not getting the credit I deserve.
It's actually saying it.
And I keep reading how this is a Republican idea.
Just because President Reagan had a good story about a welfare queen in a Cadillac, it didn't exist.
Yeah.
Well, your El Camino and the AstroTurf did exist.
We remember that.
Snurdly's asking me about iOS 5, which is the new software operating system for the iPhone, iPad.
Now, what's going to happen is every time you plug your iPhone or iPad into an electrical outlet to charge it, it will automatically sync wirelessly over Wi-Fi with your iTunes on the computer that your device has made it to.
So any apps or songs or whatever that you have bought on either device will show up on the other device.
So if you've got a bunch of, well, here's another thing: iCloud.
This is cool called PhotoStream.
You take a picture on your iPhone, and within five seconds, it's on your computer in iPhoto and on your iPad, and vice versa.
So they're adding pictures to the way contacts, email addresses, that sync.
But software upgrades, you'll never have to connect to the iPad or iPhone to your computer ever again.
As long as it's on a Wi-Fi network.
And you can also sync it manually in the general preferences.
There's a pain where you sync manually.
You have to wait to plug it in if you don't want to, but it does it automatically every time you plug it in to charge it.
And that's been out in beta.
iCloud's going to be big too.
Nobody's talking about that much, but that's going to be as big as the phone.
Anyway, who's next?
Brian Gulf Waite, Texas.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Hey, Rush.
I just wanted to express my extreme thanks for helping me understand area of politics a lot more.
I started listening to your show probably about three months ago.
Three months ago?
Where have you been for 23 years?
Well, actually, I'm 25, but.
Oh, okay.
Well, I explained part of it.
I always just went with what my grandmother said because I was never really interested in politics.
What did your grandmother say?
Well, she's extreme Democratic liberal, so.
But what did she say?
Did she tell you not to listen or something?
She always told me that you were a liar and not to listen to you.
Yeah.
Your little old grandmother told you that I was a liar and that you shouldn't listen?
Yes, yes.
Well, you've been listening for three months now, so you obviously think your grandmother was wrong.
Yeah.
I just talked to her the other day, and I realized exactly how brainwashed she is on the whole aspect of politics because I asked her who she was voting for next year, and she said that she was voting for it's just been in her family, and it was just handed down to her, probably their DNA and so forth.
I've got a project for you, Brian.
Have her listen with you someday.
Just start slow, half hour.
Gradually add five minutes every day.
You'll be up three hours before you know it, and you'll have a brand new relationship with your grandmother.
Obama's answering questions somewhere from the press.
He said, I don't regret holding up Solyndra as a model.
People felt it was a good bet.
We have to keep encouraging clean energy companies.
Encouraging them?
You mean funding them under the table so the money comes back to you and to your donors?
Taxpayer money is being used to make his donors whole.
That's why he wants to keep it going.
It's not that he's maybe a little bit of a slow learner.
Anyway, back in 21 hours, folks.
Be here.
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