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January 25, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #1

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	Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
	Yeah, greetings, folks.
	How are you?
	Welcome back.
	Got to make a quick note here.
	Show prep still going on.
	Nobody ever respects the fact that the show is starting.
	Okay.
	It's a wonder I'm even here today, folks.
	Well, I'll tell you what.
	And by the way, greetings.
	Great to have you.
	Rush Limbaugh, the EIB Network.
	So I had a long, long, long day yesterday, and I'm arriving back at about, what was it, 9.30.
	I'm landing in 9.30.
	I've been watching the State of the Union show, that campaign speech for half hour.
	And folks, every email I'm getting.
	Well, that's it, Rush.
	We can't win.
	This is over.
	We can't top this.
	It's finished.
	My God, it's over.
	We don't have a prayer.
	This is so good.
	It's giving away the store.
	Americans are such idiots.
	You're going to fall for it.
	I had to shut down my email.
	I had to shut because I'm listening to the most vacuous, empty, filled with lies speech.
	It was boring.
	It was actually boring.
	And I actually watched some of the post-debate analysis, and I actually was surprised to hear some of the Fox people say that.
	I thought the Fox people are going to be praising this speech to the hilt as Obama's back.
	Because that's all I had gotten from my friends.
	I was pulling what little hair I have left out.
	I said, Jesus, for crying out loud, this is, why are people such pessimists?
	Because this is not what that speech was.
	This is not a, it's over, we can't beat this guy kind of.
	This speech was a recycled fact, the GOP, the RNC, somebody's put together a short video to show he uses exact phrases from state of the union show to state of the union show to state of the union show.
	Anyway, we'll get into some analysis of this.
	We've got some audio soundbites.
	Great to have you here.
	Telephone number is 800-282-2882.
	The email address, lrushbo at eibnet.com on the Republican campaign trail.
	Newt Gingrich, there's a story here at a place called PostonPolitics.com.
	Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich came out swinging this morning when accused of being a hypocrite for blasting Clinton for having an affair at the same time he was cheating on his own wife during a wide-ranging interview.
	And there are only wide-ranging.
	I've never seen a narrowly focused interview of you.
	At least described in the media as a narrowly focused interview, not a wide-ranging interview.
	I think that's a, what do you just have to type the letter W and wide-ranging macro.
	During a wide-ranging interview with the Spanish language television, Univision, Gingrich said he wasn't criticizing the sex.
	I wasn't knocking the sex in the Lewinsky story.
	I was knocking Clinton lying under oath.
	Okay.
	So the I know the hot GOP quasi frontrunner.
	No, I wasn't knocking the sex and Lewinsky.
	I was upset about lying under oath.
	Then you go over to the Romney campaign, you get this.
	Mitt Romney advisor.
	Not friend, not acquaintance, not long-lost buddy.
	Mitt Romney advisor.
	Norm Coleman, former senator from Minnesota, says the Republican Party will not repeal Obamacare, even if a Republican candidates defeat Obama.
	You're not going to repeal that thing in its entirety.
	You maybe see major changes, particularly if there's a Republican president, but you can't hold cloth throw it out.
	So, Newt, there's going to be a draft limb ball movement before this is all over.
	So, Newt says, no, no, the Saxon Lewinsky stuff, hell no, no problem.
	I was worried about lying under oath.
	Romney advised, Romney's out there.
	The first thing he says in every debate, and I'm going to repeal Obamacare, I'm going to get rid of it.
	It's the last thing we're going to have.
	It's destructive.
	It's going to tear the country apart.
	Every debate, every campaign appearance, every speech.
	He probably dreams it.
	I'm going to repeal Obamacare.
	Romney advisor, no, we won't be able to repeal Obamacare.
	No way.
	You're never going to be able to get rid of it in its entirety.
	Then, you know, the response to the State of the Union last night is getting more positive reaction than the State of the Union speech itself.
	Mitch Daniels, and I have to tell you, other than his opening, when he started, I said, oh, no, no, no, please.
	Then I started thanking God that nobody was watching because it's a response that's 15 minutes after the State of the Union speech.
	But after he got through the open, it was good.
	It was really, really good.
	Mitch Daniels was really, really good in his response last night.
	Take away the first minute and a half.
	I was having a panic attack in the first minute and a half.
	No, I've got it here.
	I don't remember specifically.
	Oh, talk about how much we have to respect and love the presidency and respect and love Obama and the nice guy and all that sort of stuff.
	But then after getting that, that was perfunctory, as it turned out, and getting that out of the way.
	He was called an extremist.
	He was called, didn't use the word liar, but Mitch Daniels called Obama a liar in the classiest way I've ever heard it done, called him pro-poverty.
	He articulated conservatism pretty well.
	He really did.
	And at the end of it, I knew this was going to happen, too.
	I knew this is going to happen.
	It went to the Fox All-Stars, and they went to Dr. Krauthammer of KrauthammerOnline.com or Krauthammer Review, whatever it is.
	And he said that there are no doubt people sighing with desire or something after watching Mitch Daniels.
	And I know this is true.
	I guarantee you that out there in the Republican establishment, there were people, oh, kind of like what Madonna was doing when JFK married Carolyn Miss said, oh no, what if, if only me.
	I guarantee you, their Republican establishment is right now trying to figure out a way to make it happen.
	Remember, and before the State of the Union show, we had a story on Monday.
	The headline story was establishment hoping to find a way to get Mitch Daniels back in the game.
	Well, I know his wife said no, but things change.
	I'm not predicting it.
	In fact, the conventional wisdom is that it can't happen.
	It's unlikely to happen.
	It's way too late now anyway, as a matter of law.
	Within the party, party rules, not so much law, party rules.
	The delegates are pledging this, but there are people holding out hope.
	There were people holding out hope.
	There'd be anybody but Romney or Gingrich before last night.
	Now, in Mitch Daniels' response, I got Cookie working on putting down some bites for you in case you'd missed it and didn't hear it.
	So there's a lot on the plate here today, both about the state of the...
	I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time on it.
	I could.
	But folks, I have to tell you, I was telling Snerdley today that speech, yeah, it was a campaign speech.
	And yeah, it was this and that.
	It was a repeat and so forth.
	It was chock full of lies.
	It was fantasy land.
	There were, no, it didn't soar.
	It was boring.
	It was an hour and a half long.
	There was nothing to set it apart.
	Nothing about it that's going to be memorable in a positive way.
	But General Motors, the number one car company in the world again, it just isn't true.
	None of the economic news is true.
	He tried to paint this.
	He did two things.
	He lied.
	He tried to paint the economy as back.
	But we are back, except where we're not back, and that's Bush's fault.
	But we are back.
	He also used the usual trick of speaking about events in America as though he's running for office for the first time.
	He's running against things that are happening that are his policies that he is pretending he's had nothing to do with.
	He knows full well he's not going to be called on that by the by the media.
	There was one offhand, less than casual reference to Obamacare, which you would think in a state of the union with a socialist doing the remarks, making the remarks that he would be singing the praises of that piece of legislation and talking about what a game changer it is and how it's the best thing that ever happened.
	Not a word of substance about it.
	In fact, there are a lot of facts that were omitted in a state of the union speech.
	He didn't talk about the 13.1 million unemployed Americans.
	He didn't talk about the 5.6 million unemployed Americans who have been on unemployment longer than 27 weeks.
	He didn't talk about 8.1 million involuntary part-time workers.
	He didn't talk about the falling civilian labor force petition.
	A participation rate was 64%.
	The number of jobs, the universe of jobs shrinking.
	Didn't bring that up.
	Didn't talk about the national debt, 15.2 trillion, 5 trillion of which is his.
	Do you realize one-third of our entire national debt as a nation over 200 years, one-third of it is his, his alone.
	Of course he didn't bring it up.
	Didn't talk about the Keystone Pipeline.
	This speech was so filled with contradictions.
	He talked about teamwork is what made America great.
	Teamwork?
	Do you know, ladies and gentlemen, how wrong that is?
	Do you know what our founding documents are about?
	The rights and freedom of the individual versus government.
	There's nothing about teamwork.
	There's nothing about compromise and getting along and working together.
	The whole point of this government, the whole point of this country, the whole point of this founding was to champion the power and the rights and the civil rights and the freedoms and the liberty of the individual over government.
	I'm going to tell you this.
	If anybody on our side running for office anywhere, Senate, House, President is on their game, this is an immediate, I mean, they have just, Obama unwittingly has tossed a softball with the bases loaded.
	This is worth two grand slams.
	This whole concept of teamwork when this country was premised on the power, the rights of the individual, on the uniqueness of all of us, that we are different, that we all bring different things.
	Then there was this, that we got to have whatever we do, we got to have fairness.
	There must be fairness.
	That's a code word for class warfare.
	Fairness is in the liberal dictionary, and it gives them the opportunity, the right, the power to redistribute wealth.
	That's what fairness is.
	And another example of hypocrisy.
	Obama starts off his State of the Union address by thanking the military while at the same time he is slashing the Pentagon budget by a trillion dollars and firing 80,000 soldiers.
	Opens up by praising an element of government that he is slashing to shreds.
	And he closed it too.
	You know, I'll tell you what's also obvious here.
	This speech, it was a lie from front to back, and it was an attempt.
	It was Obama's attempt to align himself with America's greatness.
	And it didn't, folks, it didn't work.
	Now, for those of us who know Obama, it might have worked for some of you.
	For those of us who know Obama, it was pitiful.
	We know he didn't mean it.
	He's talking about American greatness all night.
	He doesn't believe that.
	He doesn't believe what he said.
	What we learned last night is how much trouble he's in.
	We learned what he thinks he has to say in order to win reelection.
	We learned, we had it confirmed.
	He cannot run on his record.
	He cannot run on the current condition for most Americans in this country.
	He can't run on life as it is in America.
	He has to join the platitudes of this country.
	He has to make it appear as though he is one of us and has the same love for the traditions and institutions that made this country great, but it came off as phony.
	It came off as empty.
	And then there was this.
	On the day I took office, our auto industry was on the verge of collapse.
	Some even said we should let it die.
	With a million jobs at stake, I refuse to let that happen.
	In exchange for help, we demanded responsibility.
	We got workers and automakers to settle their differences.
	We got the industry to retool and restructure today.
	General Motors is back on top as the world's number one automaker.
	When did I miss that?
	In terms of, yeah, okay, in China, that's who's buying the cars.
	Okay, cool.
	Chrysler has grown faster in the U.S. By the way, I'm not going to believe any set of such numbers this regime puts out this year.
	I'm not going to believe the unemployment number.
	I don't believe this General Motors number.
	That was an absolute crock.
	Anyway, After talking about all the wonderful, great, miraculous things he did with General Motors, then what did he say?
	It's time to apply the same rules from top to bottom.
	No bailouts, no handouts, and no cop-outs.
	An America built to last insists on responsibility from everybody.
	Now, maybe I'm a bitter clinger, but the car companies appeared to have received a bailout to me.
	The UAW got a bailout to me, and the UAW was handed General Motors and Chrysler, if you ask me.
	Now, I don't know what that is if it's not a bailout.
	So he spends a whole speech talking about no more bailouts.
	We're not going to do that.
	No handouts, no cop-outs.
	And then he gives as his greatest example of American prosperity, a company he bailed out.
	Who wrote this thing?
	This speech was an embarrassment.
	I got to take a break here.
	We'll be back.
	I've got more to go here.
	By the way, the Romney campaign is distancing itself from Norm Coleman's comments.
	The Gingrich campaign is not distancing itself from the sex.
	Hey, the sex is cool.
	Sex, no problem.
	That's lying under oath.
	And a Coleman went out there and said, yeah, I'm an advisor for Romney.
	Let me tell you.
	This is almost as bad.
	By the way, the Newt people, folks, I'm sorry, I have got so much going on in my mind.
	I'm really, this is a classic overload day, and I'm doing my best to edit myself.
	If I did stream a consciousness, you'd want to commit me.
	I wouldn't be finishing sentences.
	Every word would remind me of something else I wanted to say.
	Bear with me today.
	I really, every neuron, every synapse is firing overtime.
	There is literally so much.
	The Coleman's out there says, hey, yeah, I'm a Romney advisor.
	Ain't no way healthcare is going to be repealed.
	Campaign spokesman Andrea Saul said via email from the Romney campaign, with all due respect, Senator Coleman, he's wrong.
	Governor Romney can and will repeal Obamacare and is committed to doing so.
	P.S. Who was Norm Coleman?
	Newt has an ad.
	Well, Newt's Super PAC has an ad, and it is being universally praised.
	This Newt Super PAC ad is going bonkers.
	It's aimed right between Romney's eyes.
	You remember we had a story.
	Well, we told you about the story in Forbes magazine.
	Two Romney advisors are out there saying they were called by the White House for assistance in putting together Obamacare.
	And two of the people that helped put Romney Care together went to the Oval Office and Obama was there.
	Forbes had the story and advised them on how to do Obamacare based on Romney care.
	This is one of the reasons Tea Party Republicans have problems with MIT.
	So Gingrich has an ad.
	Well, the Gingrich Super PAC has an ad that's titled Meet the Men Who Gave Us Obamacare.
	And it's a direct recitation of the meat details of that Forbes story.
	That way, remember when there was a debate that night when that story came in?
	I was stunned that nobody in the Republican side mentioned that story?
	It's been a couple of months now, but it's finally out in an ad.
	All right, sit tight.
	We'll be back.
	You did blow it.
	Snerdley is stunned, is stunned at the first call that we have today.
	I may as well take this call.
	This is Mindy and Van Doris.
	Snerdley is stunned.
	He cannot believe this, but this does not surprise me.
	Mindy, welcome.
	Great to have you on the program.
	Hi.
	Hi, Rush.
	What's up?
	Well, I'm just calling because I'm completely surprised that you haven't brought up the attire of the Democratic women versus the GOP women on the campaign trail.
	I was going to get there, Mindy.
	In fact, we were just sitting here talking about Muchel's dress last night.
	When I saw her, when they introduced her walking down the aisle to her seat, I said, does she think she's in Davos?
	Is this a cocktail party?
	We found out it's a $2,400 cocktail dress purchased.
	Well, that's what it costs anyway, if you go buy it at Barney's in New York City.
	So she shows up at the class warfare rally last night in the House chamber wearing a $2,400 cocktail dress.
	Well, it was completely inappropriate to be wearing to a State of the Union a dress in my life.
	Well, who's to say what's inappropriate?
	She's Muchell Obama.
	Then you have Hillary in the headband trying to make it look like she's 22 years old.
	Didn't she learn from 1992 that she shouldn't be wearing the headband?
	I don't know.
	Mindy, I appreciate the call.
	Thanks for what Snerdley couldn't believe is the first call he got today was somebody wanted to talk about female fashion.
	And when I told him, oh, I got emails about that last night.
	Snerdley was stunned.
	Snerdley's our resident female expert.
	But this is not his day.
	Because he missed Muchel's cocktail dress, Hillary's headband, and stunned that women would notice what other women were wearing.
	When did you forget that that's what, well, that's all.
	What do you think women notice about other women?
	First, hairstyle and what they're wearing.
	And it's daggers.
	It's always, who does she think she is?
	Does she really think she'd get away with you?
	We're driving.
	I'm 10 years old.
	We're driving down Broadway, Cape Girardo, Missouri.
	My mother's sister, my aunt, was in the car, and there's some buxom blonde walking down the sidewalk, and my aunt gets all bitter and vicious.
	Okay, blonde.
	Okay.
	You think you're better than us?
	Okay.
	Why don't you take the blouse off and show them to us?
	And I'm 10 years old.
	And I said, what is this?
	I told my dad.
	I said, what's they said?
	They hate each other, son.
	I mean, they get jealous as hell when the dress, it doesn't matter.
	You got to learn.
	That's all that matters.
	So it didn't surprise me that the cocktail dress, that was so, the color, that was so noticeable to me last night.
	Folks, seriously now, I yeah, and then Warren Buffett's secretary.
	That's a whole nother subject that I've got to get to here.
	Making no, I don't know.
	Warren, no, no, Warren Buffett's, I've stepped in it now.
	Well, I almost stepped in it.
	Look, folks, I really want to beg your indulgence here today.
	I can't tell you how fast my brain's working.
	I can't physically mouth articulate everything I'm thinking.
	And I can't tell you how frustrated because I'm thinking some of the greatest stuff right now.
	I'm thinking some of the funniest stuff, and it'll eventually come out of here.
	You just got to hang in with me.
	I mean, literally, this is one of those classic overload days.
	And I have become an expert at overload, at weeding out the unimportant, editing out the stuff that really doesn't matter.
	But today, it's a veritable smorgasbord.
	It's a buffet.
	It's a gold mine out there.
	So just hang in there with me.
	AP did a fact check story.
	The original headline on this story, Obama Pushes Plans That Flopped Before.
	State-controlled media.
	AP.
	That was the headline.
	Obama pushes plans that flopped before.
	I don't know how long it lasted, but it's gone now.
	And about the number of people that watched, this is a good way to put it in perspective.
	The Sunday night football game on Fox was the highest-rated NFC championship game in 17 years.
	That game had nearly double the audience of last night's State of the Union, which aired on all networks.
	The championship game, the NFC championship game aired on one network on Fox Sunday at 6.30, and it had twice the audience.
	Actually, it wasn't a State of the Union.
	It's actually a class warfare rally last night in the House chamber on every network.
	To put this in perspective, so the magic, the Messiah, the Hope and Change, all that, it's gone.
	The magic, all that stuff, it's gone.
	Last night was deadbeat city.
	It really was.
	And we have put together, because who wants to actually sit there and listen to 90 minutes of that?
	So what we've done, we have done an honest abridged version of last night's class warfare rally on the House floor.
	And there you have it, folks.
	Two and a half minute abridged version of last night's Occupy Wall Street rally hosted by the President of the United States.
	I mentioned Mitch Daniels earlier, and let's listen to some Mitch Daniels soundbites.
	He did the response.
	This has created, oh, you can't, you cannot imagine what's going on in the Republican establishment since last night into this morning and up to the present.
	There is, don't quite know how to describe it, not quite buyer's remorse.
	There's just, oh, what if, oh, if only.
	And then how can we maneuver things to get rid of these guys that are currently running and get this guy to say yes?
	There is such a mixture of disappointment, yet anticipation and excitement about what could have been.
	It is, it's near orgasmic on the establishment side.
	This, if we only ran, well, but see, they don't look at, no, no, no, it's not as if we only ran a conservative.
	I'm talking about the Republican establishment doesn't look at Daniels as a conservative.
	It's why the speech was good, but they don't look at him as a conservative.
	They look at him as one of them, a moderate.
	They see him as a moderate.
	He's strong conservative on budget matters, but outside of that, no, no, he's not an extremist, racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe who appeals to the NASCAR hicks who are pro-life.
	Well, he called Obama an extremist, but he did it in a polite way after praising Obama first.
	Now, here's how Mitch Daniels opened.
	We don't have that.
	I'm going to read that to you.
	And when he started, oh, no.
	Oh, no.
	But when he got this out of the way, it turned around.
	Here was his open.
	He said, the status of loyal opposition imposes on those out of power some serious responsibilities to show respect for the presidency and its occupant, to express agreement where it exists.
	Republicans tonight salute our president, for instance, for his aggressive pursuit of the murderers of 9-11 and for bravely backing long overdue changes in public education.
	I personally would add to that list admiration for the strong family commitment that he and the First Lady have displayed to a nation sorely needing such examples.
	I said, and you're probably, if you haven't heard the rest of it, you're probably thinking, oh my gosh.
	Rush was right.
	The Republican Party actually thinks the only way they've got to win this thing is by praising Obama, because the Independents love Obama, and he's personally popular.
	He's revered and loved, and if we criticize Obama, the independents are going to...
	So, that paragraph that I just read to you, that was the outreach to the independents.
	And what followed was anything but what you just heard.
	Take a brief timeout and let you hear what I'm talking about when we get back.
	Folks, once again, I apologize.
	I feel like this program today has been a series of half sentences.
	Now, I'll say half a sentence, think of something else, and move on to it.
	If it seemed disjointed, I apologize.
	By the time it's over, it's all going to make sense.
	Let's go to the Mitch Daniels soundbites.
	Now, remember how he ended his open.
	You could say that this is a slap at Newt Gingrich.
	I would personally add to that list of admiration a strong family commitment that the president and the first lady have displayed to a nation sorely needing such examples.
	That is what has made some Republicans think that Mitch Daniels might actually be changing his mind and that that was a slap at Newt.
	So, we'll see.
	So that you heard me read the open, here is some of what else Mitch Daniels said.
	As Republicans, our first concern is for those waiting tonight to begin or resume the climb up life's ladder.
	We do not accept that ours will ever be a nation of haves and have-nots.
	We must always be a nation of haves and soon-to-haves.
	Here he rips Obama's extremism.
	The extremism that stifles the development of homegrown energy or cancels a perfectly safe pipeline that would employ tens of thousands or jacks up consumer utility bills for no improvement in either human health or world temperature is a pro-poverty policy.
	It must be replaced by a passionate pro-growth approach that breaks all ties and calls all close ones in favor of private sector jobs that restore opportunity for all and generate the public revenues to pay our bills.
	That means a dramatically simpler tax system of fewer loopholes and lower rates.
	A pause in the mindless piling on of expensive new regulations that devour dollars that otherwise could be used to hire somebody.
	It means maximizing on the new domestic energy technologies that are the best break our economy's gotten in years.
	The extremism that stifles the development of homegrown energy cancels a perfectly safe pipeline that would employ tens of thousands.
	He called that extremism.
	Jacks up consumer utility bills for no improvement in either human health or world temperature is a pro-poverty policy.
	He actually, he called Obama a liar in one of the most creative ways.
	He said, the president has to know what he's saying tonight isn't true.
	After praising him for being great on family values, he says the president has to know that what he says tonight just isn't true.
	And he said it very effectively.
	Here he defends a Republican Congress.
	It's not fair and it's not true for the president to attack Republicans in Congress as obstacles on these questions.
	They and they alone have passed bills to reduce borrowing, reform entitlements, and encourage new job creation, only to be shot down time and time again by the president and his Democratic Senate allies.
	Who else is doing?
	Who's defending the Republicans in Congress?
	There's nobody.
	They don't even defend themselves.
	Mitch Daniels did last night.
	And here he calls out Obama for dividing the nation.
	No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.
	As in previous moments of national danger, we Americans are all in the same boat.
	If we drift, quarreling and paralyzed, over a Niagara of debt, we will all suffer, regardless of income, race, gender, or other category.
	If we fail to shift to a pro-jobs, pro-growth economic policy, there'll never be enough public revenue to pay for our safety net, national security, or whatever size government we decide to have.
	And here he says Republicans stand for the individual against the state.
	2012 must be the year we prove the doubters wrong.
	The year we strike out boldly, not merely to avert national bankruptcy, but to say to a new generation that America is still the world's premier land of opportunity.
	Republicans will speak for those who believe in the dignity and capacity of the individual citizen, who believe that government is meant to serve the people rather than supervise them, who trust Americans enough to tell them the plain truth about the fix we are in and to lay before them a specific, credible program of change big enough to meet the emergency we are facing.
	That's Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels and just some of his remarks in his response last night.
	The whole thing, front to back in continuity, was really good.
	And one of the things that he counters here, this individual against the state, I can't tell you how important it is with Obama out there saying teamwork is what made this country great.
	Teamwork?
	Man, that is one of the biggest openings the Republican president, well, any Republican has had to run against Democrats in a long, long time in an instructional, educational, factual, informative way.
	This country was established so the individual would triumph over government.
	It limited what government could do to constrain individual liberty and freedom.
	And Obama just spits that aside.
	No, no, no.
	Teamwork.
	Government working with people.
	Okay, first hours in the can, folks, on the way over to the future Limbaugh Broadcast Museum, although the virtual museum up and running, at RushLimbaugh.com.
	If you haven't seen it, you really should.
	We got a brief time out here.

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