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Oct. 12, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 12, 2011, Wednesday, Hour #3
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How are you?
Welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence and Broadcasting Network, the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone numbers 800 282882, the email address, Lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
From the New York Times and a major setback for President Obama.
The Senate on Tuesday blocked consideration of his jobs bill, forcing the White House and Congressional Democrats to scramble to salvage parts of the plan, the centerpiece of Obama's push to revive a listless economy.
Now that's the New York Times, the AP.
The AP headline on this is exactly what we predicted.
Senate Republicans vote to kill Obama's jobs bill.
It was never intended to pass.
It was intended to get that AP headline.
Senate Republicans vote to kill Obama's jobs bill.
I mean, not even the New York Times thought they could get away with that.
Not even the New York Times thought they could blame the Republicans on it.
Okay, um, this is continuing to happen with greater frequency yesterday, today it will continue to happen unless I say something about it.
Now what's happening here is that uh people are calling, telling me that I have a duty because of the power that I have and the influence that I have, which of course both are considerable to pick someone right now among the conservative Republican presidential candidates.
Pick that person, get behind them and push him over the top.
Now each person that calls it very interesting.
Tells me I should pick their guy.
One guy says Cain, one guy says Perry, one guy says uh Bachman.
I do not endorse candidates until I'm ready to endorse candidates.
I felt comfortable endorsing someone right now, I would.
I do it when I personally feel like I can, and I've not decided who I support among the conservatives.
And when people call here who have already made their decisions and insist that I make a decision, what they're really saying is that they want me to back the person they like.
I understand that.
Now here's a fact for you, and I mentioned this at the top of the program today.
70% of the Republicans polled are split all over the map.
But they know that they do not support Romney.
The reason is simple.
Romney is not a conservative.
He's not, folks, but you can argue with me all day long on that, but he isn't.
What he has going for him is that he's not Obama.
That he is doing incredibly well in the debates because he's done it a long time.
He's very seasoned.
He never makes a mistake.
And he's going to keep winning these things if he never makes a mistake.
It's that simple.
But I'm not personally ready to settle on anybody yet.
And I know that neither are most of you.
And I also know that most of you do not want this over now.
Before we've even had a single primary.
All we've had are straw votes.
You know that the Republican establishment's trying to nail this down and end it.
You know that that's happening.
And I know that you don't want that to happen, and neither do I. Now, as for Romney, and you should know, by the way, that I've met Romney, I've not played golf with him, I've met him, and I like all of these people.
This this isn't personal.
Not with what country faces and so forth.
I like him very much.
I've I've spent some social time with him.
He's a fine guy.
Very nice gentleman.
He is a gentleman.
But he's not a conservative.
And if you disagree, I'm open.
The telephone lines are yours.
Call and tell me.
What do you think it is that makes him a principal conservative?
What exactly is it?
There's something that he has said that shows conservative principal leadership.
What did he say?
I'm open to it.
Now we're told that governors are better than legislators when looking for presidents for a host of reasons.
Legislators are filled with ego, they're surrounded by yes men, they're not executives, and they're one of many, and they buck never rose really stop with them.
Governors, it's just the exact opposite.
But when we look at the record, and we bring up Romney care, we're told, well, that's because he was a governor.
But as president, he wouldn't do any such thing.
What?
He did it.
The point.
He has positions as governor.
Make it obvious he believes in the concept of man-made global warming.
Yeah, but that was his governor rush as a liberal state.
He had to do things to get elected.
There's going to be a lot of liberal pressure on whoever our president is.
Media.
Democrat members of Congress that the media is going to fawn all over every night.
You have Harry Reed and Pelosi on camera commenting on what the new conservative president's doing is going to be all kinds of liberal pressure on whoever our next president is.
It's a Republican conservative.
The Romney care health care bill has individual mandates.
And they're wrong.
Individual mandates are wrong, whether they're imposed by a governor or a president.
Governor McDonnell of Virginia has not done what Romney did in Massachusetts, and neither have most other Republican governors.
Governor McDonald of Virginia is running a very small deficit budget surplus, in fact, I think.
Nobody talks about him for the presidency because he himself has not put himself out there for it.
But most Republican governors are not having to fall back on the federalism argument to justify what they did.
Well, states rights, you know, we're laboratories and we can do whatever we want to do.
I wouldn't do it.
Of course, at the federal level, I wouldn't have been a governor.
You weren't going to experiment with things.
and And the reason that they're not falling back on federalism is because as governors they didn't make terrible policy decisions that they didn't now have to justify.
So if we are going to look at a governor's record, what exactly do we find?
Then there's man-made global warming.
And Romney has indicated that he believes in it and he has supported laws in Massachusetts built on it.
The EPA, the environmental protection agency in the federal government, is out of control.
The EPA intends to use carbon dioxide to regulate industry in this country that's killing our economy.
And we don't need somebody who wants that kind of thing to happen.
We don't want somebody who thinks that the world is falling apart and the climate is crumbling because what we're doing is human beings and will sustain an EPA to get it under control.
That's what liberal Democrat presidents do.
We don't need to even go there.
Or to pretend.
I was right, Virginia does have a budget surplus, $545 million budget surplus in this economy.
So how does a president who believes in man-made global warming and presumably believes it needs to be regulated, cut back the EPA?
Rush, it's just that was Massachusetts.
Again, it's a liberal state.
He's got to get elected, and he's got to stay elected, and he's got to work with a liberal Democrat legislature.
Well, the same things are going to happen to a president.
There's some liberals in the country, and they're very loud and vocal, and they're going to be a lot of liberals in the Congress, and they are going to be making a lot of noise.
And he's going to have to work with them.
And see, that's the rub.
Isn't it?
When you get right down to it, we know aren't we tired of working with the opposition?
And aren't we tired of saying that the number one qualification for our nominee ought to be the ability to work with our opponents?
Isn't the point to defeat them?
Isn't that what the election results of 2010 were all about?
Didn't the American people send a signal loud and clear in November 2010, we don't want Obamaism.
We don't want liberalism.
We don't want to cross the aisle and work with these people.
There's nothing Chuck Schumer advocates that we want part of.
What's going to happen on immigration?
Right now, as we speak, Republicans and Democrats in the Senate are working together on a comprehensive immigration plan that they hope to be able to get past.
That will essentially be amnesty.
They're hoping to avoid that word being attached to it.
But what'll happen?
This isn't 30 years ago or 40 years ago where the deficit was too high and out of control.
We've we have reached a tipping point here.
Now I know that you, uh members of this audience, typify the American people.
And you are way ahead of the Washington establishment.
Let me ask you this.
The Republican National Committee.
When is the last time that you saw an ad or anything sponsored by them attacking Obama, what he stands for, setting the terms, defining the parameters of the upcoming election?
They haven't.
They're nowhere near caught up with us where we are and how we view the future of the country and the dangers that lurk not around the corner, but right straight ahead.
It's not the day for the politics of old where you just share power every four or eight years with the other party and act congenial with one another.
And that's the DC establishment.
They all live for the understanding they're going to win some, they're going to lose some, and uh so but the other side plays that for all it's worth.
They make us think that they're part of that mindset, but they're out to destroy everything we believe in.
They're out to destroy the people who personify politics what we believe in.
And I don't mean just destroy them at the polls, I mean they're out to destroy them personally.
Lives, character, you name it.
The evidence is there each and every day.
Ain't beanbag.
I just don't want a president that's gonna think the EPA ought to be empowered to act on a hoax.
Or that believes that government should have the ability to mandate that people go out and buy health insurance.
That's for the other party to do.
That's for the other party to lose on.
And they must lose on it.
Future of the country hangs in the balance.
Here's what Romney said back in June.
Uh and it's typical of his comments on global warming in general.
He said, I don't speak for the scientific community, of course, but I believe the world is getting warmer.
I can't prove it, but I believe based on what I read at the that that the world is getting warmer, and number two, I believe it humans contribute to that.
I don't know how much our contribution is to that because I know that there have been periods of greater heat and warmth in the past, but I believe we contribute to it.
And I remember having a cow that day when he said it, and I cringed.
And I was surprised this didn't come up last night.
This would some of this stuff makes me Think that the second tier really doesn't think they have much of a chance, and that they're running for president for something else.
You know, it's great to go on television after this campaign's all over with the moniker, former presidential candidate under your name, if you're guesting on Greta or some Fox show or anywhere else, former presidential candidate, Herman Cain.
It's uh it's a status element.
I don't you know there are only point is that there are vulnerabilities with Romney.
And they're not going after them.
Plain and simple.
Didn't come up last night.
Fully, fully.
If if belief in global warming, man-made global warming will have a huge impact on our economy if it is fully implemented.
If we have policies based on the prospect or the concept that that human being, that your car, your lawnmower, and your barbecue pit are causing global warming.
There's no difference in the current regime.
That's what they believe.
And meanwhile, the media establishment attacks Romney anyway for it for being too timid on the subject.
That quote of his I just read, that's too timid.
He's he's he's not fully committed here.
And then some of those candidates might be running for Romney's VP slot.
Some people thought that Romney really set Michelle Bachman up for that last night by asking her a real softball question that elevated her.
You thought that I think a lot of people thought that that was all about Romney knows he needs a tea party.
So get a tea party person on the ticket, maybe.
Michelle Bachmann, at least be nice.
Play nice and nice to Herman Kane, too, playing nice to Herman Cain.
So yeah.
Exactly right.
Just that's one way of looking at it.
It's just kicked it out of bounds.
Anyway, let's go back to the phones.
Wes in Sparks, Nevada.
Great to have you on the program, sir.
Hello.
How are you doing today, sir?
Good.
Very good.
I have two questions for you.
Um the first one, do you think that we just had our our first wag the dog kind of scenario with the Obama administration?
You mean with the uh Iranian plot to blow up the Saudi ambassador?
Yeah, if Obama knew about in June, we're just talking about it now.
I mean, I'm just surprised that Holder didn't come on and say we're not working on the B3 bomber.
Well, I I'm with this bunch, it's only natural to be suspicious, especially with the Fast and Furious going on, and ISIS sending a subpoena up to Holder.
The timing that press conference yesterday was very curious to me to uh try try to uh head off at the pass any uh any news about Fast and Furious.
He was asked the question about it, and he didn't like it.
Yeah, he walked away, right?
Walked away.
Yeah.
With this regime, it's a logical question.
It just seems too conspicuous to be an accident.
Um I know, especially since uh the one has known about it since June.
Yeah, yeah.
That's ridiculous.
What's uh what's the second question?
The second question actually is is more personal.
Uh I I know you're a huge Apple fan.
And I and I have uh a co-worker who has a playbook, and he's really fun of that.
That's the Blackberry machine.
I've been cut on the fence.
I know that uh Blackberry is having some severe server issues right now.
Yeah, BlackBerry's uh yeah, they're in bad service outages, maybe two-thirds of their service uh area.
But that actually might mean that the the unit itself has a price drop, which makes it a little bit more affordable, which is nice.
What, the Blackberry Playbook?
Yeah.
I don't even know what it is.
Well, it's a tablet.
It's a tablet.
There is no tablet other than the iPad.
I mean, they're they're Samsung, these clowns they may have one, but there's no tablet besides the iPad.
I mean, it's like 92% of the market.
But they're considerably lower in price, which is always nice.
Well, yeah, you know, Amazon has just uh announced their Kindle Fire, which is a seven-inch uh tablet for a hundred and ninety-nine bucks.
It's a loss leader gonna take a loss on it at that at that price.
I looked at that too, because you know, that's about what I can afford right now, and and that one's nice, but it doesn't matter.
You know what if I were you, are you how how eager are you to have one of these things?
I've been eager since the first one came out, but uh uh Well, I'm just well, I I read today, and this is just rumor, that Apple early next year is going to have a mini iPad, seven-inch screen in that price range.
That'd be awesome.
Now that's that comes from a Chinese publication called Digitimes.
And they're they're fifty their track records 50-50.
They get this information by monitoring the supply chain parts that go into Apple products.
But yeah, it it's what do you mean where do I find these things?
It's I read what I'm interested in.
I think I've been very reserved today.
Uh when it comes to Apple, I mean, this is a huge, huge day.
And I haven't said a word about what's going on, but I mean it's big.
They're dropping iCloud is live now, iOS 5 is live today, 10.7.2 for your computer, the new Lion Software Upgrade is live today, which puts iCloud on your computer.
All kinds of apps are being updated to work with iOS 5 today.
If your iPad or your iPhone, it is a huge, huge dump today from Apple on upgrades for uh and it sets up the phone coming out in a couple of days.
The uh iPhone 4S.
But if uh I mean you you care about I've been doing it all day long.
Well, I had a head start on some of the stuff.
But the newsstand stores now, the magazines and newspaper stand that store is open now and they're downloading magazines and newspapers to it on the uh on the devices.
The uh uh pages, numbers, and keynote apps are now set up for iCloud.
Uh it's uh there this is I used iCloud, I can't say if I've used iCloud.
Really shouldn't go there.
But uh Yeah, but uh I just gotta tell you uh there aren't any glitches with iCloud.
There aren't any glitches.
That's all I'll say.
Jonathan in Savannah, Georgia.
Welcome to the EIB network.
Hello.
Thank you for taking my call, sir.
I'm just going to say I'm getting tired of um the people calling in asking you to endorse the candidate.
I don't I don't find that that it's your job or your duty.
I think that they the duty lies on us to take the information that you you present us with and make the best decision.
What it is they have their candidate and they want me to move their candidate forward.
That's that's uh what it is.
Yes, I I don't know.
I mean, I I feel like you're there to educate us on the things that we can't, you know, we may not have time to find, and we don't have you know the resources, and and really the the duty lies on us as your listeners and the American people to get out and vote.
And and and to make the best decision based on the information that we gather, whether it's through your show or through other sources.
Well, you know what you're right about?
What you're essentially saying is that uh the the audience, people like you are not mind-numbed robots.
You make up your own mind on this stuff.
Uh and that I've always had that opinion of this audience.
When this show first started, this audience was accused of being, you know, just a bunch of uh mind numb robots waiting for me the Pied Piper to tell them what to do and think, and it's never been that way.
Uh so I appreciate appreciate your comments.
Thank you, sir.
I really yeah, and and it's important for me, by the way, to always keep in perspective uh what I do, uh who I am and who I'm not.
If you lose track of that, you get in big trouble.
Besides, picking the Republican nominee is Colin Powell's job.
Everybody knows that.
Colin Powell is in charge of that.
Not uh not me.
All of this reminds me of the of the saying nobody can make anybody happy.
That's your job.
You can only make yourself happy.
If you're depending on somebody else to make you happy, you are gonna make two people miserable.
There's no doubt about that.
It's the same way with politics.
You have to find your own bliss.
Speaking of that, you want to hear you want to hear disgusting.
Vice President Bite Me was in Flint, Michigan.
It's audio soundbite number 27.
He was at the downtown fire department.
He spoke to firefighters about the American Jobs Act that the Senate led by Harry Reid and the Democrats failed to pass yesterday.
In 2008, when Flint had 265 sworn officers on the police force, there were 35 murders and 91 rapes in this city.
In 2010, when Flint had only 144 police officers, the murder rate climbed to 65, and rapes, just to pick two categories, climbed to 229.
In 2011, you now only have 125 SHIELS.
God only knows what the numbers will be this year for Flint if we don't rectify it.
And God only knows what that number would have been had we not been able to get a little bit of help to you.
So rapes and murders are increasing in Flint, Michigan because the American Jobs Act was not passed by the Republicans.
That's Vice President Bite Me's disgusting message to police officers and firefighters in Flint, Michigan.
Oh, yeah.
Rapes and murders, they're claiming here, because we don't have enough money to hire more of you here in Flint because the Republicans killed the stimulus bill.
Well, hey, who's fear-mongering now?
Why don't we come up with a s with it with a stop rape bill?
Isn't that next?
Obama needs to wave around a piece of paper and call it the Stop Rape Bill, the Stop Rapes and Flint bill, and put that up for a vote.
Since when did this become the province of the federal government anyway?
And for all of you in Flint, Michigan, who might have uh been familiar with what Vice President Biden just told you.
It happened this morning in Flint, Michigan.
Let me just tell you that whatever jobs there were in this bill for firemen and police and teachers, they were for one year.
They were for one year, and after that, it would have been up to you in Flint to pay to keep them on the payroll.
It was nothing more than a scam from the get-go, and it was never intended to pass.
And it is disgusting for the vice president of the United States to head out to Flint, Michigan, and to blame rape and crime on Republicans not passing a bogus jobs bill that was never intended to be passed.
The jobs bill was intended to be defeated so that Republicans would be blamed for it.
It's a campaign tactic.
And who knew that higher taxes stopped rape anyway?
Because that's all this bill was.
By the way, I got an idea for you people at Apple.
I know you don't talk to me, but I got an idea for you.
If you do come out with this mini iPad, you remember when the when the the the iPad was first named, you remember what people thought of that?
IPad.
Okay, so you're gonna come out with a miniature of the rumor is there's gonna be a seven-inch iPad shortly after the first of the year.
So we need to rename the iPad and call it the MaxiPad and the new iPad the Mini.
The iPad mini and then the maxi pad.
Yeah.
Uh DJ in Gramercy, Louisiana.
Welcome to the EIB network, hi.
Yeah, dittoes, Rush.
Dittoes.
Thank you, sir.
Look, uh, I wanted to watch the debate last night, but it wasn't available on any of the channels on my TV.
I bet it was that you just couldn't quite you have cable?
Yeah.
Yeah, that might not be on your cable system.
Yeah.
So uh uh I was looking early in this morning in all the newspaper sources I had to try to find good coverage on it.
Yeah.
And I found it uh on the London telegraph.
Yeah, the you know, the U.K. press is doing a much better job than the domestic press on American politics.
They did a marvelous job on it, and they praised uh Hermann King.
I mean, a great deal.
And and he was in yesterday's paper also.
He was in the London Telegraph yesterday, also.
Yeah.
Somebody out there likes him very much.
Well, did it influence your thinking at all?
No, it didn't, because I was uh I'm already very much locked in to three candidates.
Who?
Uh Kane is one, Gangrich is the other, and Bachman is the third.
Well, so you are trying to choose between three conservatives.
And I like them all very much.
I would be pleased to vote for any one of the above.
That's great, DJ.
Well, look, I'm glad you called.
You're absolutely right.
The UK press runs rings around our people.
Including coverage of domestic politics.
They really do.
Even the even the liberal UK newspapers like The Guardian run rings around our people.
And it's it's not hard to understand.
They're not personally invested.
As the uh domestic drive-by zone.
Anybody ever considered they might be so many rapes in Flint, Michigan?
Because there's so many Democrats there elected by Democrats.
Anyone ever considered that?
And by the way, Detroit has the highest violent crime rate in the country.
How high are their taxes?
Remember, this was a tax bill.
This is not a jobs bill.
What is Biden going to next go to Detroit and give us crime wave statistics?
And try to blame the fact that Republicans oppose the president's jobs bill as the explanation.
That's disgusting.
Who's so are you, Mr. Limbaugh?
Disgusting to say that rape is up in Flint if they can simply become live there, vote for Democrats.
Right.
Yeah, maybe disgusting, but what other explanation could there be?
You want to try to tell me it's because some stupid piece of legislation was never intended to pass, didn't pass.
That's why there are higher crime rate, rape, and all that murder in Flint.
Everything Michael Moore might have something to do with it.
It's from there.
Susan Brown wrote a piece on Townhall.com.
Who is Susan Brown?
I don't know.
It doesn't say here.
But she found something interesting in the uh recent Gallup poll that we cited.
She says, odds are you haven't heard much about the results from the portion of the October 5th, 2011 Gallup poll that asked young people from the age of 18 to 24, 34, 18 to 34, the objective question.
Some people think the government should promote traditional values in our society.
Others think the government should not favor any particular set of values.
Which comes closer to your view.
With media hype surrounding these occupy protests, suggesting America is on the throes of revolution, this purported revolution being executed by young Americans speaking for a majority of their age group.
You'd be surprised to find in this Gallup poll.
53% of the young people participating in the Gallup poll said they believed government should promote traditional values.
Most intriguing is that Gallup found what appears to be a sure and steady climb toward traditional values over the past three years by the same age group that had overwhelmingly embraced the antithesis of traditional values when they backed Obama's hope and change campaign.
These are the relevant excerpts.
And once again, what it ill, this is, and it's hidden in the middle of Gallup poll.
I mean, it's it's it's not that Gallup's trying to cover it up.
It's just it was a political preference poll.
This question is thrown in there.
What it again illustrates, folks, we are the majority of this country.
We're not the minority and the oddballs.
The elite ruling class personify the uh minority viewpoint in this country on many, many things.
Fifty-three percent of people, 18 to 34, think the government should promote traditional values.
What is this?
General Motors announces the Chevy Spark, another fully electric car, CNN Money.com.
No, it's what it says.
GM, let me let me uh click on the link here real quick and see if I can get it to come up.
Uh Yeah, General Motors, maker of the Chevy Vault plug-in hybrid, will sell a small, totally electric vehicle car beginning, this is on Lucien.com.
In 2013, the Chevy Spark EV will be sold in limited markets in the U.S. and other countries.
A gasoline-powered version of the Spark is expected to go on sale early next year.
Amen.
So we got it we got the Vault and we got the Spark.
I don't know about you folks.
I have I have dreamed of wanting to own a car called Spark.
And now it truth can be told.
So we're gonna have a miniature vault, apparently a miniature version.
But but the gasoline version comes out not long after the EV electronic version comes out.
Back to wrap it up after this.
By the way, Obama is now appropriating the um Elizabeth Warren philosophy that uh none of us make it on our own.
He was at a campaign fundraiser in Orlando on Tuesday night.
He said, now I want to be very clear here.
Nobody wants to punish success in America.
Republicans talk about class warfare.
That's our goal.
Make everybody successful.
But none of us make it on our own.
And he cites Steve Jobs as not being able to do it on his own.
What that means is none of us can do anything without government.
More on this tomorrow.
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