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Feb. 10, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 10, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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Now, speaking of Planned Parenthood here, ladies and gentlemen, just a quick question here.
If insurance companies are now mandated by Obama to provide free birth control and morning after pills, sterilization services, if insurance companies are mandated to do this, why does the government need to fund Planned Parenthood anymore?
Live from the left post at our satellite studios in Los Angeles.
It's open line Friday.
And one busy, exciting broadcast hour remains from Los Angeles.
We always have a great time here in Los Angeles.
Telephone number 800-282-2882 and the email address, Lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
Now, when this program, well, when I was planning the program, and I went out to dinner with some friends last night, we went to my buddy Stan Schuster's Grand Havana Club.
Place was packed.
I was happy to see it.
People in there smoking cigars, sometimes two at a time.
I just, I just, just jamming it down this, yeah, at the Grand Havana Club.
It's over, it's in Beverly Hills on Canaan Driver Cannon, as pronounced, Cannon, Canaan.
And I'm telling you, it's a gorgeous place.
Big TV is all over the place for watching sports.
We weren't doing that.
But I was in there with Joel Cernow and Howard Gordon and Jeff Benson, who's Cerno's agent.
And Howard did Homeland.
And I'm trying to get out of him what the next season's plot line is.
But it was just great.
The place is jam-packed.
Some people smoking two cigars at once, just jamming it right down the throats of the health Nazis.
And I asked Stan, I said, how's it doing?
It's never been better.
Business has never been better.
He said the same thing about the Grand Havana Club in New York City.
He says, I can't keep Rudy Giuliani out of the place in New York.
Not that I want to, but he loves it in this.
So anyway, these guys, it got to be 9 o'clock.
They asked me, what are you going to do about show prep?
I said, well, I really need to get.
I spent four and a half hours, the ear doctor yesterday afternoon, and I haven't had a chance to do any show preps.
I really need to go.
So I left about 9.30 or 10 o'clock.
And it turns out all the work I did last night, I mean, I haven't even gotten to 90% of it because of Obama's stupid announcement this morning.
And I found out about two hours, an hour and a half before the program started.
And I was going to say I intended today to have a lighthearted, laid-back, last day in LA, open line Friday, lots of phone calls.
And then the guy starts the day by robbing us of more of our liberty and freedom while people on our side think that he's caving away.
So I had to deal with that.
And it's a slow way of getting to the fact.
I apologize, you people on the phone.
I really meant to flood the zone with calls today.
And it just hasn't happened out there.
So try to squeeze more phone calls in this busy broadcast hour.
MSNBC just ran a graphic, employers to offer birth control without co-pays.
Making it sound like it's their idea.
Obama has just mandated it.
For God's sake, pardon me.
Obama has just mandated it.
And now MSNBC is making it look like employers have come up with the idea on their own.
The purpose there is to insulate Obama from what's happened here.
And that is the exercise of unconstitutional authority.
So MSNBC trying to make it look like it's employers' idea with the insurance companies to provide free of charge contraception, birth control pills, you name it.
This next story, this is laugh out loud funny, I think.
I don't know about you.
I still mail my monthly bills.
I have never taken the five hours it would take to set up electronic payment.
I just have, I haven't done it.
As much as I love computers, as much as I love playing with computers, I haven't taken the time to do that.
And I don't let anybody else do it.
So Kath and I do it ourselves.
That's it.
Nobody's so.
We just haven't taken the time to do this.
I still mail bills.
From thehill.com, eight House Democrats yesterday proposed legislation that would require companies to consider bills as paid on the postmark date because the post office is so lousy at delivering mail.
The post office can't do its job.
The post office is so bad and it's government run.
It's union staff.
So now we have to have a law mandating that your bill is paid the date it's postmarked, not when the company gets it.
And the law is a piece of legislation that will mandate that companies make this change, that you get credit for paying your bill on the date it's postmarked rather than the date they receive it.
Representative Steve Cohen, Democrat Tennessee, the lead sponsor of the bill, said the Postal Service has announced service cutbacks that would eliminate the chance of next day mail service for letters dropped in home mailboxes and would slow down all first-class mail.
He said his bill would make it easier for people to avoid late fees when they choose to mail their bills by treating these bills as paid as soon as they're received by.
See, this is how your brilliant government solves its problems, acknowledges a failure and then pays for it.
Acknowledges the failure and then subsidizes it.
Santorum made his speech today at CPAC.
He also from thepolitico.com, I got this, this was, in fact, last night, some of the show prep that I was doing.
He said something about the global warming issue that just, I just, it made, I'll tell you, it made my heart sing.
He said, you hear all the time, the left, oh, those conservatives, they're the anti-science party.
Santorum said, no, we're not.
We're the truth party.
The left is always looking for a way to control you.
They're always trying to make you feel guilty so that you'll give them power so they can lord it over you.
They do it on the environment all the time.
It was a speech, remarks he made about how the energy wackos distort the truth.
And he's so right about this.
They call people that don't believe in the global warming hoax deniers and so forth.
And he's doubly right.
The way they get people to drive these little electric cars, the way they get people to accept tax increases, and the way they get people to do all this silly stuff to save the planet is to blame them for it, guilt them.
You have caused climate change.
Not your fault.
You didn't know.
All those big cars and all the pollution and all the other things, the food that you're eating.
One of these guys I mentioned the other day, one of former big believers in man-made global warming, a participant in the UN's IPCC bunch, the International Panel on Climate, whatever it was, or is, he's written a book saying he feels duped by the whole movement now.
And one of the examples he gave when I read that the United Nations, no, when I read that some blogger made a point on a blog and the United Nations accepted it as science that we need to stop eating beef grown in Argentina because it's contributing to global warming, he said, I'm not going to be a fool here.
I am not going to keep my name attached to this kind of insanity.
Yet, how many people, well-intentioned, duped people believe that eating beef leads to man-made global warming?
That's part of the left's attempt to guilt you into accepting blame so that you will then become part of the solution to be a good person, raising taxes, giving up some of your freedom and so forth to save the planet.
Santorum is dead on right.
I hope he keeps talking in this vein.
I hope he keeps talking this way.
Because it's in addition to being right, it is also confidence inspying among voters.
Now, there's one other story here.
Here it is.
As you know, we got in trouble on this program for making fun of school dinner in Memphis.
The local Memphis media got ticked off, started running reports of what I was saying, essentially laughing about what they were doing.
But this, the Huffington Puffington Post.
You've heard about free scruel lunch and breakfast, but how about school supper?
In California, dinner is now being served to students at 200 scruels.
These California scruples are joining a new federally funded effort to provide three meals a day to children from low-income families who also attend after-scruel programs across the state.
When Congress passed the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act near the end of 2010, the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, because folks, a survey in 2010 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture found that 15% of American households were food insecure.
Right there.
15% of households are food insecure.
Yet at the same time, we got Muchello Obama worried about obese.
Do you hear what she did?
She went to the millage.
She went to some military place.
She's getting on the military for being obese.
She's telling the military to stop.
How can you be obese and be in the military?
That doesn't compute.
Anyway, she's doing that.
So now, school dinner at 200 California schools.
Well, that's right.
They're throwing away kids in California at school lunch and earnly are refusing to eat the healthful stuff.
They're throwing it all away.
Part of the story here is that, folks, honest to Pete, in this story, they whine and moan.
A child will not eat an apple because the child was told that the peel is bad for you and doesn't know how to peel an apple.
So they spent time in class showing students how to peel an apple.
And that wasn't even anything about abortion or contraception or condoms.
That was just how to peel an apple so the students would eat it because too many students were eating fruit packed in fructose syrup, all kinds of sugar.
It's insane.
It's literally insane what's going on in the American school system today and how education is being bastard.
Back to the phones.
As promised, Michelle in Starr, Idaho.
Thanks for calling.
Thanks for waiting.
It's great to have you here.
I've been talking, listening to you since 1988, since I graduated from high school.
My mom, Mary Beth, introduced my boyfriend at the time.
He's my husband now.
And we've listened to you ever since.
We just love you.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you.
You're a lifer that.
You've been around since the very beginning, 88.
That's right.
My mom found you, and we graduated.
And I feel like I didn't go to college, but I feel like I did go to your university.
And you speak my mind.
So you are the man that speaks my mind.
See, that's it.
We validate on this.
We don't create my number.
She already agreed with me before she even knew me.
Exactly right.
I do want to agree.
The bigger issue is the assault on our Constitution.
But I do want to address the Catholic Church issue.
I know it's a side issue.
That's an assault on the Constitution.
It's all wrapped up in that.
Oh, it is.
It is.
And I think that it's just a real shame what the Catholic Church has done to itself.
I think that when you look over time, they basically are reaching what they sow.
There's consequences to their actions.
And with their schools, their hospitals, and their universities, they started accepting state and federal funds.
And so you can see the deterioration across the board.
You can go into a Catholic school, and those children are not even learning church history.
My son goes to a classical Christian school, and he is learning all about church history, about America's history, world history, medieval times, everything.
And he's in fourth grade, and he just learned about St. Thomas and how he became a saint and how he was standing up against the king.
And how history just is repeating itself.
And it's just a real shame what the Catholic Church has done.
I was baptized Catholic, raised Catholic, and I have to say I've left the church when I was burdened with a child.
I decided, you know, first and foremost, the most important thing to me was his education.
And luckily, I was able to find a school that is teaching him all of this and reinforcing our values and our principles.
But yeah, the Catholic Church, I think they really dropped the ball when they, you know, when they started also on other issues like illegal immigration, when they let our borders stay wide open and did said nothing and took these people into the hospitals, it's created this problem we're having with the health care system and the cost of everything.
Yeah, you know, this is an interesting point.
Once you accept federal Monday funding, federal money, they, by definition, are going to have, are going to assert government will, some say so, or some control.
In fact, a great illustration of this, the school lunch program.
When schools accept federal funds for the school lunch program, the feds then turn around and use that as the linkage to the curriculum.
The feds say, if you're going to take money for the school program, we're going to tell you what you can and can't teach.
This is how the feds insert themselves via the yeah, so and it's the same thing.
Half the population, we had the story yesterday about the rising dependence.
It's not just the Catholic Church.
The Democrat Party has set out to purposely enslave as many people as possible to federal money and as much of their lives as possible paid for by federal money.
So they'll constantly vote Democrat and entrench Democrats in power.
Now, I'm not saying that people end up being corrupted by it.
I'm just, you know, follow the money and you'll find an answer to practically every question that you ask.
And it's an allure.
You know, this giant stash of money from the federal government, they offer it to you.
Everybody needs more money.
Everybody wants more money.
They come along and offer it to you in legislation.
When you're a Catholic church, Catholic school, whatever, you take it.
And the feds will use that as a way inside your door.
It's a tough thing.
I don't know.
The solution is more people like me.
And it's easy for me to say.
I don't know when this happened to me.
I don't know when it was sometime early in my life when I was not able to totally provide for myself.
I've been fired to something, and I just hated that.
I vowed one of my goals in life was I was never going to be dependent on anybody for my needs.
Because I figure when you're dependent on people for your needs, they own you.
It's over.
And I vowed that that was going to be something that I would never experience again.
And people, when I say that, well, you know, easy for you to say, well, no, I mean, it hasn't been easy.
That's the point.
Now, those social Darwinists, it's called social responsibility, social Darwinism, natural selection, all that garbage.
This is, you know, Darwin was full of it.
One of the biggest problems culture has is that Darwin is considered an authority on things.
But that's for another day.
I appreciate the call.
The whole notion of accepting federal money is, as far as the Catholic Church is concerned, is an accurate thing to say.
It does provide the federal government a way in.
Folks, the $25 billion settlement with the banks over foreclosure abuses, this is story Bloomberg has it today.
It's pretty big out there.
It may result in a wave of home seizures inflicting short-term pain on delinquent U.S. borrowers while making a long-term housing recovery more likely.
But the new foreclosures that are going to take place with Obama funding, this is going to have an immediate deleterious effect on the housing market.
A lot of concern about it.
We'll be back.
Don't go away.
Okay, audio soundbite time.
I promised Mitt Romney soundbites from CPAC, and here we go.
We have one, two, three, and eighth page.
I've got four of them here.
And we'll just run them here.
I'm not going to, I will comment on them as warranted.
As conservatives, we're united by a set of core convictions.
Not everyone has taken the same path to get here.
There are college students at this conference who are reading Burke.
And my guess is some of you got here by reading Burke and Hayek.
When I was your age, you could have told me that they were infielders for the Detroit Tigers.
Whoa, that doesn't sound like it went over very well.
Now, what Romney's doing there?
He's acknowledging that he hadn't been a conservative from conception or birth and that he has arrived at his conservatism via his own path.
And by the way, I'm told anecdotally, I haven't seen pictures myself, but that the crowd at CPAC this year is huge and that it is large.
I don't know how many of them are Ron Paul butts, but nevertheless, that could account for some of the Utes who are there.
But Burke, of course, fundamental to understanding conservatism.
So is Friedrich von Hayek.
And Romney said, look, I'm one of you.
I'm a conservative.
I just didn't get here the way you did.
Back when I was your age, I didn't know who Friedrich von Hayek was.
And I know some of you, when did you learn who von Hayek was, Lindsay Moore?
When did you learn?
That would be from National Review, William F. Buckley's magazine.
In fact, I'll tell you a little story.
Short little story.
Back in the 70s, I heard about National Review, and I thought you had to have permission to subscribe to it.
I mean, I know that sounds stupid, and it sounds, and it was, and it was silly.
And I remember I kept hearing about it, but I'd never seen it.
So I thought it was very exclusive.
I never saw it on a newsstand.
I never saw anybody that had it, but I heard about it.
So I got the guts one day to call them.
And I'm sure I sounded very tentative and nervous on the phone.
I even realized I didn't know if I had the permission to even call.
So the operator answered, hi, National Review.
I said, hi, I'm calling from, I was in Kansas City at the time.
I'm calling Kansas City.
Is there anything special I have to do to subscribe to the magazine?
She said, yes, pay for it.
Is that all?
I don't need permission.
She was dumbfounded that I was asking permission to subscribe.
So anyway, I subscribed to it and I started reading it.
Next up was the American Spectator.
And it was, I don't even remember who wrote the picture.
It might have been Mr. Buckley himself talking about Hayek taxation.
And I was enthralled immediately.
And I said, I never heard of this.
Who is it?
Began to learn everything I could about Friedrich von Hayek.
And the two primary books are The Road to Serfdom, which the Heritage Foundation has given away to people in this audience for a time who joined the Heritage Foundation.
And then The Constitution of Liberty, which is a really, that's deeper than The Road to Serfdom.
But they're brilliant books.
They're definitional.
They're defining.
And all Romney's saying here, I didn't know who Hayek was.
It almost might be just dropping the name now, in fact.
Don't know that he's read Hayek von Hayek.
I mean, wants people to think that he has.
Here's the next bite, and we will analyze as warranted.
In business, if you're not fiscally conservative, you're bankrupt.
I mean, I spent 25 years balancing budgets, eliminating waste.
By the way, keeping as far away from government as humanly possible.
I did some of the very things conservatism is designed for.
I started new businesses and turned around broken ones.
And I'm not ashamed to say that I was successful in doing it.
So there, he's explaining how his business experience brought him to conservatism.
And you heard the applause.
It went on and on a little longer.
We've added it for brevity here, but again, making the proclamation that he's not ashamed of his success.
Here's the next bite.
When I am president, I will defend the Defense of Marriage Act.
And I will fight for an amendment to our Constitution that defines marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman.
During my term in office, I also stood up to those who wanted to call into question the very definition of life.
I vetoed a bill that would have opened the door to cloning and to embryo farming.
I vetoed a bill that would have allowed young girls to obtain access to abortion-inducing drugs.
I fought for abstinence education in our schools.
My state was a leading indicator of what liberals would be trying to do across the country and are trying to do right now.
And I fought against law and odds in a deep blue state.
But I was a severely conservative Republican governor.
I've, well, you look, I don't want to make anybody mad here.
It's the end of a really hectic and busy week here.
And I've, you know, I'm not a complainer.
You people have no idea of the distractions that each program has had this week that I've had to fight through and try to ignore because I don't complain.
So don't get me, I may be a little giddy here.
I have never heard anybody say I'm severely conservative.
Don't get, I'm not, I'm not, I'm not, I'm, no, I've never heard anybody say it.
I'm just, I'm no, I'm not challenging his claim to be conservative.
Don't miss.
I don't want to get inundated here by Romney Sport.
I'm not putting him down.
I'm just observing here.
I've never heard it said.
Yeah, I'm a severe conservative, but I know what he's trying to say.
Now, I should add something here.
Remember, last year, during the early days of the campaign, before the votes even began, before any primaries had taken place, I successfully, correctly identified for you what the Republican establishment strategy was.
They were running a primary campaign 180 degrees out of phase from normal.
The way you normally run a primary campaign, either party, is you, and this is conventional wisdom, you, to get the base of your party's votes, you pander to them.
You speak to them.
You just go, in this case, Romney's be conservative.
And then after you win the nomination, go to the general election, then you move to the center trying to get the moderates.
That's the formula.
I frankly reject it, but that's the formula.
I hate formulas, period, that involve people.
There's too much dynamism there for a formula to be constantly applicable.
Nevertheless, this year, the Republican establishment did it the exact opposite.
They tried to secure the moderates first.
That's why there was such an effort to get this nomination wrapped up for Mitt Romney before the votes even took place.
You may have forgotten, but going back through last fall and into the last Christmas holidays, full court press.
Let's get these primaries going.
Nobody else had a prayer.
They wanted Romney nominated and have this thing done with.
And they were doing it, running not for the conservative vote, for the moderate independent votes.
And I'll tell you what that's resulted in.
This morning, before his speech, Romney, or maybe it was yesterday, had a meeting with conservative leaders to assure them that he is one of them.
He had a private meeting in a presidential suite in a hotel to assure various leaders from the NRA and other such conservative groups that he is conservative.
Severe conservative.
He had a meeting to Shea.
He's a severe conservative.
Well, I don't know if it was a severe meeting.
I wasn't there.
But I don't know.
Let's just go on to the next Romney sound bite.
You know, we, and I've lost my place.
Where are we?
Oh, severely conservative.
Here is the big finish.
This is the last Romney bite that we've got.
We believe in the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence.
We believe in life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
We know the brilliance that suggested that individuals pursuing their own dreams would make us the most powerful nation on earth, not a government trying to guide our lives.
This is who we are.
This passion we must take to the American people.
This is our moment.
This is why we're conservatives.
The task before us now is to reaffirm the convictions that unite us and go forward shoulder to shoulder to secure the victory that America so desperately needs and deserves.
Let's do it together.
Thank you, and God bless America.
Thank you.
Right on, dude.
Right on.
I mean, that's what you think of that, Snurgly.
Did you like that?
That was severe.
It was.
That was severely conservative.
You know, I'm just going to get beat up so bad for this.
And I just don't mean anything by it.
Talent on lawn from God.
Great to have you with us, folks, the EIB network.
Also, I'll tell you, I haven't had a chance, obviously, to watch much of what's gone on at CPAC, but apparently, so for all the speeches that people telling me about it, all the speeches they have seen have been excellent.
Positive, uplifting, especially the Republican candidates and their supporters have, for the most part, stuck to laying out their vision for conservatism rather than sniping at each other.
If that's an accurate representation of what's going on, that's a good thing.
Newts up this afternoon sometime.
And that'd take care of the candidates for the most part.
Paul in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
Great to have you on the program.
Hello, sir.
Yeah, great to speak with you, Rosh.
Listening to those clips by Mr. Romney, I have to say that it's going to take some kind of a Jedi mind trick for him to convince those of us on the conservative side of the party that he's a conservative.
But anyway, the last question.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hold a second.
So you the soundbites we just played did not convince you.
Romney did not convince you of his conservatism there?
Not at all.
If you look at his record and what he's been saying so far in the campaign, they're almost polar opposites.
But what I want to do is get to...
Okay, wait, wait, no, no, no, no, no, you...
You'll have time.
I just want to make sure I get this.
So you didn't think that that speech that you heard, the sound bites from the speech, alleviated any fears people might have over the record that you think he's got.
That speech didn't make you think, okay, that's the past.
This is the real Romney.
Now this is the guy and I can go forward.
That didn't work like that with you.
No, it's a wonderful speech.
He presses all the right buttons.
He says all the right words.
But the problem is, we know what he's been doing in the past.
He has a record.
He has to say that.
Okay, so is there, for you, is there anything he could do to change your perception of it?
In my case, no.
Okay.
That's fair.
I'd like to speak for a moment by May about the last true conservative in the race, Senator Santorum.
And you played some clips of his speech at CPAC earlier.
And not only is he giving strong speeches at CPAC, but he's also winning primaries.
On Tuesday, he won three primaries, two caucuses, one in Colorado, Minnesota.
He beat Romney 45 to 17 in the Minnesota caucus, a 28-point win.
And in the Missouri primary contest, which was actually a presidential preference primary, he beat Romney by 30 points, 55 to 25.
And what was particularly notable about the Missouri contest was that on the Democratic side of the House, Barack Obama was at the head of the ticket and received 64,405 votes.
And Mr. Romney on the Republican side got 63,826.
So the president outscored Mr. Romney in the Missouri presidential preference primary contest.
More bad news for Mr. Romney.
The Secretary of State of, I'm sorry, the Department of State of Florida released the final statistics in January 31st, Florida primary, which reveal that although Mr. Romney won the overall contest with 46.4% of the vote, he lost almost all the northern counties, which is, since we both live in Florida, that was somewhat expected.
And it's also expected that Newt and or Santorum are going to do better in the southern state primaries Super Tuesday than Romney.
That's not unexpected.
It's not the slam dunk for Romney that they thought it was going to be.
There's no question about it.
The not Romney, somebody still continues to surface in that role right now at Santorum.
Folks, to sum up here, from the top of the program here to the conclusion, major focus today was Obama supposedly caving on the Catholic Church providing abortion services, contraception.
The problem with all of this mandate stuff is what was never birth control.
The problem with it was never really abortion.
It is the loss of individual liberty and freedom, government control, asserted unconstitutionally by the president.
It continues.
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