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And so are you.
And it's working great.
It's been working great for 23 plus years.
It's going to work for 23 more, however much longer I want to do this.
When I figure I've saved a country, then I'm out of here.
Somebody else can take over.
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You know that first caller.
I don't want any of you to get distracted by his reference to the communists.
A lot of people, even to this day, even with noted communists as czars in Obama's administration.
What would you call Van Jones?
I mean, you're sitting there laughing, he's no longer a czar, but he was, he's a communist.
There are there are a bunch of communist-leaning sympathizer types.
They're Obama's czars.
Well, I'll just tell you, you know what?
Here's a good way to picture this.
Have you seen any video interviews with people say it occupy Oakland or occupy Wall Street or these young, just foolish ignorant idealistic people?
That's who is Czars are.
People like that are who the czars are.
Precisely, I mean, these people would no more get confirmed for a post in government than uh than the roadrunner would.
So he makes them czars are not accountable, but they're they're they're pure idiological.
Anyway, I don't want you to get distracted by the guy.
It's still even now, uh, when you mention the word communist and the associate it with an American politician, you lose people.
They just tune it out, they don't want to ponder it, they don't want to consider it, they and normally the person leveling the charges, a communist over there is considered the kook, and whatever they say is is therefore relegated to being irrelevant.
Now, the point is that he wanted to make was that far from being the great advocate and supporter for the middle class, Obama, the Democrat Party are just the opposite, and that is true.
We in America had the largest middle class in the world, and the middle class is the key to greatness in this country.
That's where it all came from.
Contrary to what some people think, the rich are not born.
Well, a few of them are, the Kennedys and others, but but the vast majority of the rich are made.
Hard work, you name it.
We had the largest middle class in the world, and it's under assault from practically every direction.
Look at the destruction of home values.
The family home was the largest asset most people in the middle class have, and it's being destroyed after being talked up for generation after generation after generation.
American dream equals owning your own house.
The mortgage came along, a 30-year loan to be able to afford a house.
You got to deduct the interest on your mortgage to make it even more affordable.
Clearly, homeownership, synonymous with the American dream, the middle class, upward mobility.
What's under assault now?
Home values.
The number we've got yet another magical program from Obama to fix it.
After repeated Obama programs to fix the foreclosure problem, the housing problem in general.
All it's done is worsen.
Middle income jobs, middle class jobs are the jobs that are being destroyed.
Education.
Education within the reach of the middle class, been dumbed down or practically destroyed.
Upward mobility of the middle middle class is what accounted for the growth of this country.
Upward mobility of the middle class is what gave birth to the whole concept of American exceptionalism.
Well, it didn't give birth to it, but it epitomized it.
Middle class upward mobility is what set this country apart from every other country in the world.
And now, where is middle class upward mobility?
It has been targeted.
There is so much debt via spending per man, woman, and child in this country, that getting out from under it will forever retard upward mobility in the middle class.
And that suits the left and the Democrat Party just fine because then rather than the middle class becoming self-reliant, they remain dependent.
Now, I wouldn't expect any liberals or Democrats to get behind any of the Republicans'new tax ideas.
I'd be nervous if they did.
The last thing that the Democrat Party wants is upward mobility within the middle class.
What the Democrat Party wants is continued dependence.
Look at the cost of living overall for people in the middle class.
You've got rising energy costs, higher taxes, are of a direct assault on the middle class.
The rich don't have to worry about the price of gasoline.
The rich don't have to worry about the cost of their taxes.
The rich don't have to worry about going out and buying a stupid electric car.
The rich can make these vanity choices and say, look at me, I care.
I'm driving an electric car, I'm driving a Prius, or I got a ribbon on my shirt here.
But the middle class has always been the best kept secret of this country in terms of its meaning.
The middle class is where the people who made this country work live.
It's where they are.
And it's the middle class that's under assault by all that Obama has done.
Mr. Lumbaught, the third, the middle class is made up of first responders and firefighters and teachers and policemen, of course, the president doing everything he can to support.
Yeah, that's not the kind of middle class that we're talking about public sector employees paid for by the middle class.
That's another expense the middle class is having to occur, incur.
They're having to pay higher taxes to employ all these public sector people.
And Mr. New Castrati, one more time.
If you think Obama loves teachers because he loves teachers, you're a fool.
If you think Obama loves cops because he loves cops, you're an idiot.
If you think Obama loves firemen because he doesn't like fires, you're an idiot.
He likes those people because they're members of unions because they pay dues, which means the money going to come back to the Democrat Party.
That's why he likes private sector job.
What he really thinks of those people is they're bitter clingers.
When things aren't going well, they cling to their guns and their religion, a bunch of hayseed hicks.
The truth of the matter is the Democrat Party has an ongoing arrogant contempt for the middle class.
Because they're beneath them.
You don't see the middle class invited to the White House when he stayed dinners.
It just crying shame.
What is what is happening to the great American middle class?
Look at these Republican proposals and I know exactly what they're intended to do.
Take money back out of Washington and redeposit it into the private sector.
The only way there's going to be upward mobility for people is if there is money circulating, capital that's being invested, spent, what have you, equaling growth where the middle class lives and works.
It cannot be an accident that everything Obama does takes a piece out of the middle class.
You look at Cloward, Piven, you look at Alinsky, Jeremiah Wright, all the mentors of Barack Obama.
What was their objective?
Their objective was to starve the middle class.
To so frustrate them, create so much chaos that they had no choice but then to engage in civil disobedience and violence against a sitting government.
In this case, what they're imagining it being against the Republican Party, not themselves.
And basically, just have everything collapse on itself, and then you start all over.
And you rewrite the Constitution.
You set yourselves up as the dictators.
And you do this with the full-fledged support of the middle class.
That's why you've tricked them into thinking you are doing everything you can for them, you're destroying them.
You're giving them no other option, other than tearing down what exists and starting all over.
Under the guise of it all being fixed.
It's no different, folks, than what happened in Hurricane Katrina.
The government sends money down there.
The people are supposed to use it to make sure the levies will hold during a flood.
And instead of using the money for that purpose, they use it for their own purposes.
I don't know.
Going to the movies, buying booze, buying a bigger house.
And the very people responsible for it do what?
Blame the fact there wasn't enough money spent.
Blame the fact that government was too small.
Blame the fact government didn't have enough power.
The very people that caused it act as spectators.
Like they had nothing to do with it.
Same thing happening here.
The very people whose policies by design are taking out the middle class are now acting like spectators and bystanders and pointing fingers of blame at people.
When in fact it is they who are responsible for it.
So occupy Wall Street now?
Good.
More of it.
More chaos.
More upheaval.
More anger.
More frustration.
Because what's the Occupy Wall Street crowd doing?
They're asking for more government, aren't they?
They're not asking for more money returned to the private sector.
They're not asking for more prosperity.
They're asking for more government as the answer to their wants and needs.
They're not looking to themselves.
They're not looking at the country as people did in the past, the golden land of opportunity.
Just the opposite.
So the more middle class unrest, the more middle class poverty, the more middle class joblessness, the theory goes, the more those very people will clamor for government to do something.
And then Obama can say, well, you know what?
You're right.
I hear you.
And the Congress isn't doing anything.
So I'm just going to do it on my own.
The Congress won't pass my jobs, bill, so I'm just going to do it myself.
And I'm going to do a bus tour, and I'm going to go to Las Vegas where I told everybody else not to go.
I'm going to go to Las Vegas, and I'm just going to do it.
Except Obama can't.
No president can make your life whole.
Only you can do that.
Now a president can redistribute wealth and take it from other people, and they're going to help you.
You think Steve Jobs just died.
He left a fortune of about, what did I read?
Two billion.
Two to five billion.
And all these people are running around, well, we got to have a death tax.
Okay, fine, so the debt though.
Listen to the debt tax 55%.
So the government comes and gets 55% of jobs as a state.
You people going to get any of that?
How's that work?
You end up with some of jobs' two billion dollars?
Is that how the because you know you're not going to end up with any of jobs' money.
So what's the point of it?
Well, the point is punishment.
You've been conditioned, not you, and you in this audience, the people I'm talking about have been conditioned to feel happy when they think somebody else is hurting.
That after it all's over, you're still miserable, and you're still in need of free diapers from Rosa Deloro.
Nothing's changed.
Except Your opportunities continue to shrink.
And you continue to clamor for government to do more.
I give you black America for 50 years.
They have been clamoring for government to do more.
And every four years the government promises they're going to take care of it.
After 50 years of it, they're still complaining and clamoring for fixes.
Fixes never happen.
It's now the entirety of the middle class that faces that same circumstance.
Oh, it's even better.
Jobs fortune now $8.3 billion.
Okay, so 55% of $8.3 billion's wife gets all of it.
She'd have to.
But let's just say, for the sake of argument here, that the jobs estate, $4 billion of it is taken by the government.
And there are people Warren Buffett and other people.
Yeah, that's fair.
That's fair.
We have to take money away from that family.
That family, they don't need it anymore.
Jobs is dead.
Doesn't matter.
He earned it.
That doesn't matter.
We need to we need to redistribute that money to the people.
Yeah, how's that going to work?
That $4 billion, who's going to get it when you start redistributing that money?
Who's who's actually going to get it?
You got one names.
Give me the names and addresses of people in Cupertino, California that are going to get some of that $4 billion.
I want to know how this works.
Because we all know it doesn't work that way.
The people of Cupertino are not going to see a penny.
Quick timeout.
We'll get to more of your phone calls after this.
Don't go away.
Don't go away.
From the Washington Examiner, it's a story here by Con Carroll.
Last week it was a bus tour in North Carolina, Virginia, specifically pushing the aid, the state's portion of his second stimulus.
At the same time, the Democrats were pushing for a vote in the Senate.
That failed.
This week, while Senate Democrats push the infrastructure portion of his jobs plan, Obama will ignore Congress and launch a we can't wait campaign, highlighting executive orders that he's making to turn the economy around.
So basically, Obama has abandoned his jobs push now.
Since the Democrats and the Senate wouldn't vote for it, he's abandoned that.
Now he's moving on to the infrastructure portion.
And he's out there telling people on the stump, you know what?
Congress won't do it.
I'll just do it myself.
We'll just do it with executive orders.
In Las Vegas, Obama focusing on new rules that he's initiating that'll make it easier for homeowners with a little too negative equity in their homes to refinance through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mack.
Then, after fundraisers in Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Denver, is going to make a second speech in Colorado announcing a program that'll make it easier for borrowers to pay off their student loans.
In the weeks thereafter, the White House plans to announce one new initiative a week.
But the New York Times is reporting officials acknowledge that the coming policy changes, executive orders, and agency actions are generally less far reaching than the legislative proposals now before Congress.
So what makes Obama look less weak?
Continually failing to get even a majority of Democrats to vote for his second stimulus or continually announcing a series of measures that no one believes will help the economy.
Which one makes him look less weak?
Now, by the way, here are the five changes in Obama's mortgage plan.
Five ways that Obama is changing federally backed mortgages from the National Journal.
Number one, eliminate the ceiling.
Currently, borrowers can owe no more than 125% of the value on their home to qualify for refinancing under Obama's plan.
The new requirements will eliminate the ceiling.
Well, that's gonna really work.
No equity requirement.
There will be no equity requirement whatsoever.
No new property appraisal Will be required.
They will extend the term of the program and they will invite competition.
Those are the five things.
Now, to me, those five things sound like some of what got us into trouble in the first place.
Making loans to people who couldn't pay them back.
Pretty much the same thing as eliminating how much money you can eliminating the ceiling on how much you can borrow.
There's no limit on what you can borrow to fix your problem.
And you don't have to have any equity in the game in order to borrow all this money.
No, you don't have any income or assets.
None of that.
All this is going to be backed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac.
This is this is just a repeat of what got us into this mess in the first place.
It's not a fix.
It's continued destruction of the whole problem.
There's a food fight going on out there, ladies and gentlemen.
A huge food fight.
It's between Paula Dean and Muchell Obama.
You know who Paula Dean is?
Oh, come on, you know Paula Dean.
Paula Dean's got this great Southern Southern cooking restaurant, Savannah.
And she's on, is she on a cooking network, a food network or some such thing?
Anyway, Muchell Obama is livid because Paula Dean called her out on what she eats.
Oh yeah.
And it's in no greater resource than a national inquirer.
First Lady Muchell Obama is fuming as Paula Dean dishes on her unhealthy eating habits, despite her new book, American Grown PR Blitz.
Muchell Obama, now furious with Southern Cooking Queen Paula Dean for crowing that the first lady pigs out on fattening foods.
While plugging her new book, Paula Dean's Southern Cooking Bible, she took a shot at Muchell for gorging herself on greasy French fries, fatty hot chicken wings, and sugary deep fried stickers bars.
Deep fried snickers.
Have you ever had a deep fried Snickers bar?
You've heard about it?
I have never had a deep fried Snickers bar.
Anyway, I've heard of a deep fried Twinkie.
Have you ever looked at the expiration date on the Twinkie?
They outlast no, it's outlast cockroaches.
A twinkie would outlast a nuclear blast.
You get a Twinkie on the shelf 35,000 years.
At any rate, I sidetrack myself.
Michelle, according to National Inquirer, is very, very mad.
She thinks that Paula Dean is trying to smear her and her family just as the 2012 presidential election swings into gear.
Now the trouble first began when Barack Obama was elected president in 2008.
Muchell made a guest appearance on Paula Dean's Popular Paula's Party TV show and revealed that fried shrimp was her family's favorite meal.
Then, in an interview after filming the program, Paula Dean quipped Muchell would be serving high-fat, greasy and sugary foods in the White House if Obama won the election.
Now, Paula is rehashing those attacks on Muchell in an attempt to plug her latest cookbook to offset Muchell's new book.
And Paula Dean says she's no different than the rest of us.
She probably ate more than any guest I ever had on that show.
She kept eating even during commercials.
You know what the Obama's favorite foods are?
Hot wings.
You know those kinds of foods that aren't necessarily top of the list healthy foods.
Muchell now deeply regrets ever doing Paula's show, added the source.
There are a lot of digs that she'd have been able to brush off, but portraying her as a high calorie gorger during her crusade for healthy eating is crossing the line.
So there's a little food fight going.
Now I read all of this, and nowhere do I see Muchell getting around to denying what Paula Dean is saying?
All Muchell's upset about is that Paula Dean is saying it.
But Muchell's not denying liking all that food.
Just mandat Paula Dean saying so.
But of course, with the Obamas telling the truth, that's crossing the line.
Remember what Maureen Dowd did when she talked about Obama's big ears.
That uh that was a that was a no-no.
But let me get serious here for just a second.
By what measure or standard is Michelle Obama qualified on these subjects.
So she's first lady.
That means she's qualified to tell everybody else how to eat, what to eat, when to eat, and where to eat.
And not just food advice.
Muchell is now giving parenting advice.
What makes her think most parents in this country need lectures from her about parenting?
I mean, the arrogance of these people, folks, is just astounding.
And she's cheered for what she's doing.
She cares.
It's just a wonderful project, the first lady has.
She's got her garden and she's earning healthy eating.
Maybe she should talk to her husband about the poor example he's setting for children in this country by not taking responsibility for his own mistakes.
He's acting like a whimpering little child every time he goes someplace.
Bush did it.
Uh worse than I knew it was going to be.
Well now I got a predecessor did it.
Maybe she ought to be warning America's kids, say, be careful of my husband.
He lies repeatedly.
He blames and makes up stories about other people like Republicans.
I think I think Muchelle Obama would be better off writing about the lavish lifestyle of Martha's Vineyard than she would be writing about healthy eating.
Now that she's an expert in.
Or maybe culinary delights while on a five-day vacation in Spain.
Or maybe write a book how you take your own Air Force jet three hours before your husband flies Air Force One to go to the same place.
Because you don't want to fly with him that day for some reason.
Maybe you write a book on all the designer clothes that you are praised for setting new fashion standards by wearing.
Knows a great deal about that.
Okay, but we're supposed to take eating advice.
Why should we take eating advice from Bloomberg?
It's no different.
Anyway, back to the phones, I promised that.
And we're going to start this half hour Chicago.
Hi, John.
Thanks for waiting.
It's great to have you here.
Oh, I wish I could say the same.
It's very frustrating, Rush.
Oh no.
It's it's uh, you know, I've been a listener of yours since 92.
And you know, you open the show talking about the conservative intelligentsia that's sold out uh with presidential candidates uh from the Republican Party and and how they missed the Arab Spring and all this kind of stuff.
But you know, you shit the left really hard, but you sort of soft pedal this criticism of these liberal Republicans, and it just frustrates me to the core.
You know, I've since since 92, you you you've been very good, but the landscape's changing, and I'm really concerned that you're not changing with it.
If we don't beat back these liberal Republicans, the country's gonna be gone.
We know who the Democrats are.
We know how socialist, how big government they are.
But you know, I really break my neck in grassroots activism trying to beat back these liberal big government Republicans that campaign calling themselves conservative, using that adjective conservative.
Oh, and so conservative elect me, and I'm not uh the liberal guy vote for me.
You have nowhere else to go.
And wait a minute.
You're saying that I'm being too soft on liberal Republicans.
Oh my goodness.
You know, Carl Rove hasn't been on your show in a while.
But you know, if it's not him, Ken Melman, who long before Barack Obama ever announced his interest in the presidency publicly, uh, Ken Nelman was quoted in a number of articles saying it's only inevitable that the health care system in the United States is gonna be taken over by the federal government.
And with with Republicans like this, They're gonna they're gonna destroy the country.
It's not gonna be the liberal Democrats.
They can't do it without liberal Republicans.
And I want to see you take your hammer to the Liberal Republicans as hard as you do to the Liberal Democrats.
And I don't think you do that.
And it is hugely frustrating.
Boy, you picked a strange day to call and lodge this complaint.
Well, it's hard to get through.
I uh I have uh it makes me wonder if you're even listening to the program today.
No, I'm not sure.
The whole first hour today was doing exactly what you say.
What name names, Rush?
I need names.
You know who we're talking about.
You know who we're talking about.
What is the conservative intelligence in media?
We've named the names on this program constantly over and over again.
You know what we're talking about.
Proudhammer will let's get some guys who seem to be conservative that really aren't.
Well, I don't know where else you're gonna go to find this criticism.
I spent the first hour of this program pointing out that these people haven't gotten anything right yet.
Particularly that said it is an example of the Arab Spring of a giant outbreak of democracy.
There's no accountability for these critics.
They get to say this stuff and then it's forgotten, and when it turns out to be wrong, nobody ever points it out, and they're the ones telling us Herman Cain and Bachman are not qualified in foreign policy.
I don't know what uh really uh John, all you gotta do is listen.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
I I I understand, I I appreciate hearing the sediments of um of people.
And I know why Snerdley put you on the air.
I know exactly why Snarly point the I just I just I just do.
I know exactly why you put him on the air, Snerdly.
Pure and simple.
Anyway, I'm moving on.
Here's Brian No, no, sorry, Samantha in uh Cincinnati.
Great to have you, Samantha.
Welcome.
Hi, Rush.
Thanks for taking my call.
Yes, madam.
Um I'd like to get your opinion as to why you think the media, with rare exceptions, give Mitt Romney a pass.
I think his record is just as dysfunctional as anyone else's, if not more in certain areas.
And I'd like to get your thoughts on that.
Why is the media giving Romney a pass?
Yes.
Uh well, I've I I've I've I've said uh as recently as yesterday, of course this got me in huge trouble.
It's gonna get me in trouble again.
Uh I said yesterday that uh it I think the White House wants to run against Romney.
There's part of me that thinks that, and there's another part of me that's not sure about it, but I know that the White House is eager to run against Romney the way he's running around defending Romney care.
They're out there saying that Romney care is the foundation of Obamacare.
And uh that's a problem for them.
Uh but if if the architect of Obamacare is the Republican nominee, they like that.
If they think they can make that case.
But Romney's, you know, 2008, Romney caught hell from the media over being Mormon, a number of other things.
It's not, it's Cycles change.
And there are there are uh uh more conservative Republicans running for the nomination this time around than were in 2008.
In 2008, Romney was probably the most conservative that was running.
You had Giuliani who backed out, never was really serious about it.
McCain, not conservative.
Huckabee really wasn't, and that got me in all kinds of trouble saying that.
And you had Huckabee teaming up with McCain in West Virginia to take out Romney, and you had Charlie Christ, who's not a conservative endorsing McCain of Florida.
Now Romney is the least conservative of all of these candidates running, and therefore the what the one thing that scares liberal Democrats is conservatives.
That's who they know they lose to.
That's what's so frustrating about this.
And you have the the establishment of Republicans on our side who also don't want a conservative nominee.
Because they won't be part of any conservative nominees' administration unless they're gonna worm their way in there somehow.
Like they did in the second term of Reagan.
Anyway, every cycle is uh is different.
Are you Samantha just won't understand?
You're not a Romney supporter right now.
No, I am currently not a Romney supporter.
Who are you supporting right now?
I like Herman Cain.
I like um I like Michelle Bachman.
Okay.
Uh I You know, I'm still vetting the candidates.
It's, and I think you touched on this.
When there are, you know, five or six candidates, and you hit someone that has fundamental, fundamental view differences.
Um, for instance, like Romney Kerr, you know, you can go to the next candidate.
Yeah, I'm done vetting at that point, although, truth be told, I've been vetting Romney since 2004 when he started making noises for 08.
Um, and I think a lot of people, um, I think a lot of people on the ground, the people who knock on doors, um, are kind of coming around to uh to the reality of of his record.
Well, that's the Tea Party.
You're talking about the Tea Tea Party is another new dynamic that wasn't around in uh in 2008.
The Tea Party has shown what's possible, 2010.
That's another reason they're going after conservatives.
We'll be right back.
Don't go away.
It was uh it was Mark McKinnon that we railed against here on this program.
He was running McCain's campaign, and he had run Bush 41, uh Bush 43, both of his campaigns ran the media for Bush 43, highly acclaimed.
Mark McKinnon came out and said he is going to quit the McCain campaign if they went after Obama.
Because a candidacy was too historic, and he didn't want to be part of that.
Now, McKinnon is now part of the new labels or the no labels gang.
Which is basically a bunch of liberals that don't want to be identified as such.
They want to be thought of as the great unwashed, the independence uh uh great moderates.
But the difference in 2012 and 2008 is actually what happened in 2010.
You see, for those of you in the Washington establishment, either party, Republican or Democrat, the November midterm elections in 2010 showed us what's possible.
The Tea Party.
A landslide election down ballot to the point that it affected state wide structure.
It wasn't just a big sweep for Republicans in Washington.
Republicans swept Democrats out everywhere on the ballot, even down at town council in some places.
It was massive.
Now the establishment types and the media want everybody to forget that.
That's why there is so much attempt, there's so many attempts now to say that the Tea Party, it's no, they don't even exist anymore.
Tea Party frustrated.
Occupy Wall Street.
That's a big that's a big money mover now.
That's what's uh the game changer.
What Tea Party polling data that show you that um well the voter sentiments have changed from 2010 to the present.
What's changed?
The economy hadn't gotten any better.
The circumstances that led to that landslide defeat for Democrats in 2010 have not changed.
There is no reason for the Tea Party to have dissipated.
There's no reason for the Tea Party to have lost energy, and they haven't.
But every effort is being made to make people think so.
That the Tea Party was a one-election wonder, and now they're back to their mom in the shop, mom and pop stores, and uh had their one little fling with politics, and now it's over, and the Tea Party didn't exist.
And everybody, that's wishful thinking, but it isn't the case.
And so the days of conservative Republicans settling are over.
2010 showed what's possible.
Twenty ten massive landslide election based on what?
Opposition to liberalism.
Opposition to Obama specifically.
The 2010 midterms were a direct rejection of big Washington, big government, big liberal, big Democrat, what have you.
The 2010 midterms were not an endorsement of the Republican Party.
The Republican Party was not out there saying vote for us because of the Republican Party got the votes by default.
People were opposed to what's happening.
That's why this is so damn frustrating.
We could have the landslide twice that big.
If we would give voters defecting from the Democrats added reason to join us, other than defection.
Just waiting there to be had, to be taken to the landslide bank.
Steve Wynne unleashed again from Las Vegas on Pharaoh Obama.