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Dec. 26, 2011 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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December 26, 2011, Monday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24 7 Podcast.
Come on, man, it's not because the Super Committee didn't do anything.
That's not why the stock market's down about 300 points.
Everybody knew the supercommittee wasn't going to do anything.
And by the way, there are no spending cuts.
Even with sequestration.
There are no spending cuts.
It's just reductions in the rate of growth.
It's the same old thing.
Spending is still going to go up.
It's just like everything else with a U.S. budget, it's said to be a cut because it's not going up as much.
But defense spending with sequestration will still go up 16%.
There are there's no spending cuts here.
Zilch zero nada.
But anyway, uh, folks, the the market's not down because the supercommittee is going to admit failure.
Everybody knew this was gonna happen.
Nobody expected the supercommittee come up with a are you still confused?
It will not be hollowed out.
There will be no spending cuts.
There are no spending cuts in sequestration or anything else.
You know how the current services baseline budget works.
The current services baseline budget projects an increase of, let's say 23%.
Just picking a number.
Okay.
Well, it's as it is.
It's the same the year every year.
When's the last time the budget went down in anything?
It doesn't happen.
Ask yourself.
It of course everybody bought it.
It's simple when you're when you're beat over the head with it for two weeks about all these drastic draconian cuts.
So if something's supposed to go up, spending go up 23%, and it's only gonna go up 16%, they wail and moan about a 7% cut.
But defense spending is going up even with sequestration.
This deal, this this the reason the market's down because Obama's back in the country.
It has nothing to do with the with the supercommittee because nobody thought the supercommittee thing was ever going to amount to hilla beans.
And especially the last two weeks, these people on the market are not stupid.
They know that Obama's campaign is based on a do nothing Congress.
That's who Obama's running is.
I never heard of the guy, do nothing Congress, but he must be pretty powerful because that's who Obama's running against.
So the Congress cannot be allowed to do anything.
Otherwise, an investment of a billion dollars, that's what Obama's gonna spend on his campaign, um, uh would would would be out the window.
Anyway, how are you, folks?
Hope you had a great weekend.
We're back, El Rush Ball in the air chair, the distinguished and prestigious Attila the Hun chair at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Snerdley was totally snookered.
You see how easy it is.
You are in the no.
You understand the current services baseline budgeting.
You under and even you are shocked to realize now that there is no real cut from a baseline of zero in defense spending, and there will not be a cut in Medicaid or Medicare spending.
There will be a reduction in how much it was supposed to be increased, and that reduction from how much it was supposed to be increased to what the actual spending will be is what's called the cut.
But there is no below zero, below the bottom line cut in spending in anything.
Now, Newt Gingrich back in uh what's what was this back in um well this past summer?
There was a Fox News debate this past summer about the time the idea of the supercommittee was being discussed, and Newt summarized it, he explained it, and he dissected it.
And he did so spontaneously, called it a truly dumb idea.
And it was uh I have the transcript here.
Brett Baer said, Mr. Speaker, why are you shaking your head about the supercommittee?
I mean, this is an important question.
Gingrich said, Look, I think the supercommittee's about as dumb an idea as Washington has come up with in my lifetime.
And there was applause.
And remember now this is last summer, and Newt, by the way, is not alone here in understanding that this thing was a joke to begin.
Look, You've got 535 members of Congress.
This is your typical blue ribbon committee, just like they assign a bunch of people to do base closures to take the heat off of themselves.
You get 535 men and women in the United States Congress, the House and the Senate, and they pick what 12 are going to sit here and do some dirty work?
And we expect those twelve are going to come up with an idea that the others are going to vote for?
It was never meant to be.
Newt says, look, this past summer in August, I think that this supercommittee is about as dumb an idea as Washington has come up with in my lifetime.
I mean, if you look for a second, you know, I used to run the House of Representatives.
I have some I have some general notion of these things.
And the idea that 523 senators and congressmen are going to sit around for four months while twelve brilliant people, mostly picked for political reasons, are going to sit in some room and brilliantly come up with a trillion dollars or forced us to choose between gutting the military and accepting a tax increase is irrational.
They're going to walk in just before Thanksgiving.
Newt said this in August.
They're going to walk in just before Thanksgiving and say, all right, we can shoot you in the head or we can cut off your right leg.
Which do you prefer?
That will be our choice.
What they ought to do is scrap the committee right now, recognize it's a dumb idea, go back to regular legislative business, assign every subcommittee the task of finding savings, do it out in the open through regular legislative order and get rid of this secret phony business.
Everything being done in Washington where the budget is concerned for the past year or two has been in secret, be it Boehner and Obama talking about the debt ceiling or the Super Committee.
Do you realize do you know when the last full meeting of the Super Committee was?
Meaning when every member of it attended a meeting.
November 1st and November 3rd, what one of them, and I don't have the date right in front of it.
That was the last time they all got together.
November 1st and November 3rd.
And it's all it's a it's smoke and mirrors.
Folks, it was never intended to come up.
You put 12 partisan Democrats on this committee who have as their number one objective re-electing Barack Obama, and I will guarantee you that there is no way that this problem's going to be solved.
That's not the Obama strategy is to solve the problem.
The Obama strategy is to exacerbate the problem and then get together with the media and blame the Republicans for it.
Now, how can they do that if they move toward a solution?
They can't.
It's just that simple.
Sometimes it's hard for people to understand it, recognize it.
Fury, I don't know if you've seen this or not.
I don't know how you could have missed it if you've been paying any attention.
But from the UK Daily Mail online, drinking water does not ease dehydration.
This from the European Union.
The European Union has ruled, I'm not making this up that anybody who says that drinking water will ease dehydration can face two years in prison if they disagree with this.
Now look, you ought to see my staff on the other side of the glass window.
They are laughing themselves silly.
It sounds totally ridiculous.
Is it beyond stupid?
It's almost beyond description stupid.
The decision that water does not ease dehydration after three years of discussions on the subject.
Results from an attempt by two German academics to test European Union advertising rules, which set down when companies can claim their products reduce the risk of disease.
The academics asked for a ruling on a convoluted statement, which in short claimed that water could reduce dehydration.
Dehydration is defined as a shortage of water in the body, but the European food standards authority decided the statement could not be allowed in advertising.
The ruling was announced after a conference of 21 European Union appointed scientists, scientists, folks in Parma.
Which means that bottled water companies now cannot claim that their product stops dehydration.
And that was given final approval this week by European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.
Now, yesterday, a member of Parliament, Roger Helmer, Tory, said this is stupidity writ large.
The Euro is burning, the EU is falling apart, and yet here they are worrying about the obvious qualities of water.
If ever there were an episode which demonstrates the folly of the great European project, this is it.
Under British law, advertisers who make health claims that breach European Union law can be prosecuted and face two years in jail.
This decision was being hailed as the daftest Brussels edict since the EU sent down laws on how bendy bananas should be allowed to be.
How much bananas can bend.
Now, now, folks, um it's a perfect example here of what I'm just gonna tell you.
This is not only big government bureaucracy seeking for a reason to exist.
These people are liberals.
Now I've maintained throughout my star-studded career that understanding what's happening to you, to us, what's happening in the world of politics is as simple as having the courage to understand and admit to yourself daily what liberalism is and who liberals are.
Once you do that, once you are able to comfortably and with ease and without guilt do that, everything else falls into place.
It's fascinating for me to make a friend, somebody six, seven years ago, who wasn't particularly political, and But then having gotten to know me, becomes more so.
Now, this person six, seven years ago, and I've more than one, believe most of what the mainstream media says of this person being apolitical, the mainstream media has credibility, particularly if they're reporting what scientists say about it.
You don't question it.
Just happens.
Then, after five or six, seven years being exposed to me, these people start to see evidence of media bias, and it really starts to tick them off.
But they never saw it on their own.
They never realized it on their own.
Then when I lower the hammer, so well, this is what liberalism is.
I can see a little resistance because they think themselves they are liberals, certainly not conservative.
A little resistance to it.
But then as time goes on and things become much more obvious, and explanations are sought for what is obvious, and the answer being, well, that's just who liberals are.
That's just what liberalism is.
Media bias equals liberalism.
As you're seeing it, yeah, there's right-wing media bias too, but that would be conservative media bias.
And the problem is that the people on the right don't deny it.
Don't deny that they're conservatives.
They don't deny that this is the belief system, the principles, the core beliefs that animate them.
They're proud to say we're conservative.
People on the left deny it.
Claim they're objective, claim they're middle of the road, claim that they don't have any opinion on anything.
Now, I'm telling you, when you have a bunch of people who study for three years and conclude that water does not solve dehydration.
And then prevent water companies from advertising.
That water promotes a healthy, hydrated lifestyle.
I'm sorry.
These are liberals.
They're insane, they're stupid, they're crazy, whatever else you want to say, but it is important and it matters to understand and accept the ideology that makes these people do and believe this kind of absolutely insane thing.
And see, once you understand, once you come to grips and accept that liberalism permits this kind of corruption and bastardization of basic common sense and science.
Then imagine what else it's doing in other areas of life, culture, politics, sports, you name it, wherever liberalism is dominant.
You have perversion, you have corruption, you have destruction.
Look at in Spain, conservatives have come to the right wing to a landslide electoral victory throughout the country.
It only took the liberals and the socialists seven years to practically destroy Spain.
It only took them seven years.
And what was it?
How long ago?
Wasn't that long ago that they elected this far-left government after 9-11 because the terrorists blew up a train station.
And the leader of the Spanish country wanted the leader of Spain wanted to cave and give the terrorists whatever they wanted to make sure there were no more terror attacks on the train station or anything else.
Yeah, it was a rebuke to Bush.
It was a rebuke to Bush.
So the people of Spain elected this far-left fringe government.
In seven years, less than seven years with a green jobs economy.
It was one of the foundational building blocks of the new socialist regime, green jobs.
They created 21% unemployment.
They did exactly what Barack Obama's trying to do here.
Obama's on a faster, faster pace than the uh leftist government of Spain.
He's been less than three years and look at the destruction.
Took the government of Spain seven years, but the people of Spain said no masymore.
Voted in mass for conservatism.
I got to take a break.
Don't poo-poo it.
The people who tell you that water does not solve dehydration are liberals.
And they believe that and say that and proselytize that for an ideological reason.
It is ideological that they say water does not solve dehydration.
We'll be back.
Not making it up, folks.
Three years of study with 21 academics, meaning 21 professors at universities.
And the conclusion is that water does not solve dehydration.
Now, I was asked if they specified what does ease dehydration.
No, and but see, this is not the point.
This is an attack on an industry.
It's an attack on the bottled water industry.
It's it's the only way that these leftists can get at them is to prevent them from advertising.
What they're accused of doing is violating advertising law by making false claims.
So what happened to the leftists, the European Union who don't like capitalism and who do not want private sources of water available, looking to put these people out of business, deny them the opportunity to advertise, but it's not that they think water doesn't dehydrate or solve dehydration, is that they're trying to put a private sector entity out of business.
So they concoct a bunch of lies and phony advertising rules.
And they get some academics to go along with it.
Now, folks, this is who liberals are.
These are the same people.
And this is the same technique that is used to promote man-made global warming.
Same people.
Same thing.
I'm not trying to get people to poo-poo this.
I want people to take this very seriously.
This is who liberals are.
I've the world would be such a better place if liberals were a genuine, if their power represented their genuine minority status in this country.
Because they're truly a minority in this country.
If their power was commensurate with their numbers, we wouldn't be in any trouble at all, or not nearly the trouble that we're in, particularly economically.
So this is right here, in a nutshell, what I've been trying to inform and educate people on for 23 years, what liberalism is, how it operates, who they are, what they will do, the lengths to which they will go.
Water does not solve dehydration as a means of attacking a private industry.
To prevent them from advertising in the European Union.
Now that election in Spain was in 2004.
The reaction in Spain to 9-11, that election was in 2004, and that's when the leftist Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero was elected.
Seven years ago.
He surrendered immediately on the war on terror.
This last election.
The socialists that had destroyed the country ran on a ticket of raising taxes on the rich.
The conservatives, the right wingers, ran on a platform of cutting taxes.
The opposition people's party won a crushing victory in Spain's election yesterday as voters vented their rage on the ruling socialists for the worst economic crisis in generations.
Spain went from boom to bust in seven years, led by a green energy economy sponsored by the socialist government.
Does it sound familiar?
The socialists conceded a humiliating defeat as the official results showed the People's Party projected to take an absolute majority of 187 seats in the 350 seat lower house.
The Socialists under Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero had led Spain from boom to bust in seven years, in charge of the Eurozone's fourth largest economy.
Boom to bust in seven years, uncontrolled socialism and liberalism and the people of Spain sent them packing.
Which is what is going to happen here.
I don't care what oh, but rush, 48% don't pay taxes.
You know, Obama's got this all ripped.
No.
Country doesn't have a majority of people that want to give up.
Our country is not populated, a majority of people who want.
A country which can provide nothing.
Let's move from uh, well, no, let's actually stay in the UK.
From water does not solve dehydration to this.
British National Health Service introduces a 1,500-pound talking plate, which warns fat families about their eating habits.
Doctors have a new weapon in the battle to beat obesity, a talking plate that tells people not to eat their food so fast.
The mandometer monitors the amount of food leaving the plate and tell users who gobble, please eat more slowly.
The 1,500 pound Swedish device is to be used in a national health service initiative to help hundreds of obese families lose weight.
Monitoring For food guzzlers.
Kid you're not.
So if the British government judges that you or somebody in your family's obese, you must go out and get a 1,500 pound plate that measures how fast food is disappearing from the surface of the plate.
And the plate talks to you.
And this will solve obesity.
And this again.
Well, uproariously funny and ridiculous, stupid and all that is nevertheless considered brilliant and compassionate and caring by the British left.
It's none of the sort.
It is nothing more than intimidating control.
Authoritative intimidating control.
And it's these kinds of things that are being voted out of power every chance people have in the European Union.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, let's go to the audio sound bites.
It was in Homestead Florida yesterday.
Muchell Obama at the Homestead Miami Speedway.
Along with Dr. Jill Biden, the second lady of the United States.
They were the ceremonial grandmarshals of the Ford 400.
And here's a portion of the PA announcer's introduction of Muchell and Jill Biden and the crowd reaction.
And now, please welcome our grand marshals, Sergeant Andrew Barry and family, First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama and Dr. Jill Biden as they deliver the most famous words in motorsports.
Oh, why do we cut that off?
We always cut.
They booed.
They were booed and booed and booed.
We cut the meat of that out.
I'll never understand why.
Nevertheless, the media.
We have a montage here of the media trying to understand this.
They can't decide if Michelle Obama was actually booed, and they're trying to talk themselves and their audiences into believing no, no, no, no.
She really wasn't booed.
was something else.
Road Rage, a NASCAR crowd boos the First Lady before the last race of the season.
Wasn't the warm welcome they were expecting.
Wasn't exactly the warm welcome the first lady and Dr. Joe Biden were expecting.
Apparently greeted with a chorus of boos by NASCAR fans.
The White House is downplaying the reception that First Lady Michelle Obama received at a NASCAR event on Sunday, where it appeared that she was booed by fans.
It's a little bit of a controversial moment at NASCAR season finale, and there's been some talk about the the boos that happened there.
The way that First Lady Michelle Obama and Joe Biden were received by the crowd, it seemed to us that she got booed.
It is a sad statement of our political discourse if the booing was indeed directed at Mrs. Obama and Dr. Biden.
Of course, the White House, though, is downplaying us.
They're saying this was a chaotic event with a lot of noise.
Not clear what the boos were.
Right.
Well, sounds to me like the media is pretty sure that she was being booed.
Uh I I don't know what's so hard to understand about this.
I well, here's the thing, though.
I'm sorry I misled you.
Since in my transfer, the media can't decide that Michelle Obama was booed.
No, they're pretty sure she was booed.
Uh they're just not happy about it.
Uh now, ladies and gentlemen, let me try to explain this.
Uh the the seems to me that we've got three things here that we've led the program off with that's scratching their heads, so it just doesn't make sense.
What is this?
Water does not solve dehydration, and we're gonna have this talking plate.
If you're a fat pig and you eat too fast, the plate's gonna tell you to slow down, and now the wonderful, the admirable inspiring First Lady of the United States goes down to homestead and gets booed.
What's going on?
Maybe it is.
I've thought about this.
Why would people boo the first lady media can't believe it?
But I can.
People don't like being told they're lousy parents.
And Mrs. Obama has done that.
People resent Mrs. Obama's bizarre need to tell us what to eat and how much to exercise.
She also has, let's not forget her husband, Mrs. Obama has a husband that runs around and apologizes for this country that he was elected to lead Australia the latest example.
He went over there and basically apologized for the worthlessness of American students.
Thank you.
I'm also pretty sure that this crowd is not eager to go out and buy a car that you have to plug in order to drive.
This is a fast car kind of crowd.
This is not a Prius volt leaf, plug it in and charge it for 40 miles crowd.
Also, I might point out people that go to NASCAR races are the very people her husband called bitter clingers.
When things aren't going well, what do they do?
Why, they cling to their guns and they cling to their religion.
Oh, and there was that trillion dollars for Obama's union and green energy contributors, all of this money that Obama has given to people like Celindra and all these uh screwy expenditures, not to mention the fact that her husband has bankrupted the U.S. economy.
Oh, and what about Obamacare?
You think that people at the NASCAR race might be among the crowd among the 65 to 70% of the country that wants no part of her husband's health care bill?
That Muchell campaign for?
What is so hard to understand about this woman being booed?
Only in media capitals could you scratch your head over the fact that the first lady gets booed.
What are they at media capitals?
Are they still of the belief that the Obamas have 90% approval, that they're loved and adored by everybody, that they're still considered Mr. and Mrs. Messiah.
Bottom line, we don't like being told what to eat, we don't like being told how much to exercise, we don't be like being told what we've got to drive.
We don't like wasting money.
We don't like our economy being bankrupted.
We don't like 14% unemployment.
The question is, what the hell is there to cheer for when Ms. Obama and Ms. Biden show up.
NASCAR people, as are most people in this country, are mature tolerant people who fully understand when they're being insulted and condescended to.
And they remember being called bitter clingers.
They know that in their hearts the Obamas don't like them.
We've taken notice of this, as has, by the way, Chris Matthews and a lot of congressional Democrats are also fully aware that the Obamas just don't like a lot of people.
And they don't like hanging around a lot of people.
I'll tell you something else.
We don't like paying millions of dollars for Mrs. Obama's vacations.
The NASCAR crowd doesn't quite understand why when the husband and a wife are going the same place, the first lady has to take her own Boeing 757 with family and kids and hangers on four hours earlier than her husband who will be on his 747.
NASCAR people understand that's a little bit of a waste.
They understand it's a little bit of uppity-ism.
First ladies have not been known to hop their own 757s four hours ahead of their husband when they're both going the same place.
The NASCAR people and the rest of the country not so hip to 12 and 15-day vacations in Spain with 35 people along for the ride.
While they can't get work.
While they can't get raises, while the price of gasoline is going up and the price of jet fuel and airline tickets, the Obamas are flying around like nothing costs them anything.
Well, it doesn't, sorry.
And by the way, those of you in the media, this is the woman, Michelle Obama, who famously said about three years ago that the first time she ever been proud of her country was when her husband was running for the presidency.
Not when he was in the Illinois Senate, not when he was a community organizer, not when she was at Princeton.
No.
She was never proud of her country until her husband was running for office.
Well, the NASCAR people love their country and they've been proud of it since they were born.
What is so hard to understand about Miss Obama being booed?
What do you and the media not understand about a 42% approval rating?
What do you not understand about the fact that they are not Mr. and Mrs. Messiah anymore?
Really?
NASCAR people, the rest of us, we do not like being told steak and arugula.
We do not like being told that we can only eat what's being grown in her garden.
She comes off as a public figure who doesn't care for the people who are paying for her outlandish lifestyle.
She doesn't appear to be appreciative of any of it.
The grand life that she and her husband are allowed to live, they don't appear to be appreciative of any.
They appear to disdain it.
And it's just not often that people get a chance to tell her.
So she shows up at a World Series game and gets booed.
She shows up at NASCAR gets booed.
What's hard to figure out here, media?
Hey, media, I tell you something else about Muchell Obama getting booed at NASCAR.
Maybe people are getting fed up and sick and tired of not being able to escape people campaigning.
They want to go to a last automobile race and they have to sit there and listen to the first lady be introduced.
They go to NASCAR to get away from that stuff.
You ever think of that?
There's a whole host of reasons to explain why the first ladies might get booed anywhere they go.
In fact, President Obama mocked candidates going to NASCAR races in his book, The Audacity of Hope.
He called it political stagecraft.
Said he wouldn't do it.
He mocked candidates that went off to NASCAR.
And there's his wife.
You think these people don't know this?
You think people only know about Obama what you have told them?
Believe me, there's a whole world of Barack and Michelle Obama media that the people of this country know that you haven't bothered to tell them.
And you may not have even bothered to find out yourself.
But I could continue to go through this list about why it might be understandable that she would be booed.
But I want to move on.
Rand Paul, this is from State of the Union on CNN yesterday morning, the host Candy Crowley, said to Rand Paul Senator, Republican Kentucky, so you are willing to have cuts in the Pentagon budget that the defense secretary has said will be devastating?
The interesting thing is there will be no cuts in military spending.
This may surprise some people, but there'll be no cuts in military spending because we're only cutting proposed increases.
If we do nothing, military spending goes up 23% over 10 years.
If we sequester the money, it'll still go up 16%.
Suspending is still rising under any of these plans.
Dirty little secret once again.
This is instructive, too.
When I mentioned this at the top of the hour, even Sturdly, who is as big a student of this stuff as anybody, Nothing.
Nothing, nothing gets past snerdily.
If it got past Snerdly, if Snerdley spent the weekend thinking it was sequestration, the failure of the Super Committee, the defense was going to get really whacked.
I can imagine.
People who um are not nearly as informed as Snerdley, what they thought, same thing.
But folks, budgets don't get whacked in Washington.
We actually need for some budgets to get whacked.
That's what doesn't happen.
There really never are genuine spending cuts.
There are only reductions in the rate of growth or spending amounts that are less than projected, which then equals a cut from what was expected to be spent, but cut from zero?
A zero baseline?
There is no such thing.
The current services baseline prevents real cuts.
No Medicare cuts, no defense budget cuts, whatever happens with the Super Committee.
You know, John McCain had a Wall Street Journal.
Wait, it was quoted in the Wall Street Journal, it might have been an opinion, I forget which, but those of us back this past summer who thought the Super Committee idea was a lame brain idea.
Remember McCain called all of us hobbits.
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