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Feb. 23, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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February 23, 2012, Thursday, Hour #3
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Here's a headline in the UK Daily Mail.
You will never see this headline in the American Drive by Media.
Half of Americans don't pay income tax despite crippling government debt.
UK Daily Mail.
Only half of U.S. citizens pay federal income tax according to the latest statistics.
In 2009, just 50.5% of Americans paid any income tax to the federal government.
Lowest proportion in at least half a century.
A decreasing number of taxpayers threatens government revenue as it can also cause resentment from those who believe that welfare recipients are taking money out of the economy.
You never see a headline like that in the American Drive My Media.
You just never will.
Another green energy company down the tubes.
By the speaking of that, did you see what'll happen if you go out and buy a Tesla?
You know what Tesla is?
Tesla is an electric car.
It's uh it's a roadster.
There's uh two or three different models.
And there's a website out there called Jalopi.org or some such thing.
Oh, that's interesting.
If you let the battery of the Tesla totally drain, the car is bricked.
It's destroyed.
You can't even push it.
It takes 11 days from a full charge.
If the battery is fully charged, and sometimes even if you have it plugged in, if you have it plugged into a using a long extension card that a cord that won't carry the current.
There have been five.
This website says five examples of Tesla owners' cars totally bricked.
The battery dies and the car locks.
The car has to be sent back to the manufacturer.
The battery has to be replaced.
Minimum is $40,000.
Minimum $40,000 to uh to make this work.
Also, General Electric is forcing its employees into Chevy Volts.
A memo leaked to Green Car Reports, lays out General Electric's plans.
This crony capitalism 101.
A leaked memo lays out GE's plans for their new fleet of volts, and as expected, has some people crying foul.
By the way, source here is Gas2Org, Gas2.org.
The memo sent to employees of GE Healthcare America's team explains that all sedan crossover and minivan purchases in 2012 will be replaced by the Chevy Vault.
Only field engineers are excepted from having to drive a company vault.
GE will offer estimates for installation level two charging stations, though all gas use will be allowed when there's no electric option.
Any employees who opt out of the vault program will not be compensated for their expenses.
So if you have a company cart, GE they're gonna force you into a vault.
If you don't want it, you have to go buy your own car at your own expense.
Twelve thousand Chevrolet Volts, I think is the number that GE is going to um see 12,000.
Here's the last paragraph.
It's a bold move to be sure.
It'll hopefully prove to be a boon to the volts flagging sales numbers.
GM had hoped to sell as many as 60,000 volts this year.
They didn't drop that number to 45,000.
Will they even make that number though?
Hard to tell, though, GE's business will go a long way towards giving the vault Some sales momentum.
Now, Jeffrey Imelt is head of Obama's uh private sector job creation panel, or what have you.
And this is crony capitalism.
I mean, just out the wazoo.
Uh and this is payback.
This is payback for what Obama is has sent GE's way in the form of grants for green energy.
Uh exploration and uh invention.
So ML's, okay, we'll buy 12,000 volts and make them company cars.
And how how wonderful of GE to allow Vault drivers to use the all gas option only when they've run out of electricity.
Which's the mileage they get with the all-gas engines, like 600 miles, I think.
I'm guessing it's either 329, 529, something like that, versus 40 miles to a charge.
Anyway, Michigan Capital Confidential is the blog in the nine months since David Price Dash was named the chief financial officer of A123 Systems, a battery manufacturer to receive $390 million in federal and state subsidies.
The company has laid off 125 employees and had a net loss of 172 million dollars through the first three quarters of 2011.
A123 Systems also learned earlier this month that the company that was to be the main purchaser of its batteries, Fisker Automotive, had its federal funding cut off for missing milestones and had to lay off its own employees.
A123 Systems had invested 23 million dollars into Fisker.
We have it seems like every week now a story, at least one story of outright failure by the regime regarding green energy, and these stories never make it into the drive-by media like this is from Michigan Capital Confidential.
In the old days, I wouldn't have even told you what was in something like Michigan Capital Confidential, because I never heard of it.
But it's the only place you can find out news, that and the British press.
This next is delicious.
Last night, ABC World News tonight.
Correspondent Cecilia Vega was reporting about gasoline prices.
She had this exchange with the anchorette, Diane Sawyer.
Diane, take a look at this.
It's almost too unbelievable to believe just while we were on the air during those two minutes of that story.
The gas prices here at this station went up by ten cents.
It was 499.
Now it's 509 for a gallon of regular gas here at this station in downtown Los Angeles.
It went up ten cents.
Don't blink at the gasoline station.
It went up ten cents in their two-minute report.
Did you hear?
It was almost too unbelievable to believe.
Too unbelievable to believe.
That was the report from the infobabe.
Cecilia Vega.
Diane, this is almost too unbelievable to believe.
Just while we were on the air went up 10 cents.
10 cents.
Remember Diane Sawyer was over in Japan shortly after the earthquake over there, and she was shocked at what she saw.
This is a shelter.
Some of these people here for days.
And look, it's recycling.
Organized for recycling.
Plastic, combustible burnable, canes.
This is recycling.
Ha ha!
Recycling!
Organizer recycling.
I mean, they just had an earthquake.
And they have the presence of mind and the and the social conscience.
It's recycling.
Look!
Ten cents a gallon.
Don't blink at the gas.
Yeah, it's too unbelievable to believe.
And again, grab audio soundbite number eight.
This is after the earthquake in Japan.
This is a shelter.
Some of these people here for days.
And look, it's recycling.
Organized for recycling.
Plastic, combustible barnable canes.
Oh gasmic recycling.
Oh.
Oh.
Recycling.
Meanwhile, President Obama was uh on CNBC's Your Money on June 10th of 2008.
And John Harwood, the chief Washington correspondent for state-controlled CNBC, said these high gasoline price.
And then this is 2008.
This is during the presidential campaign.
Obama is still a center, uh senator, and the most prominent thing in his political record has been his support for infanticide at this point.
And John Harwood says, uh, any chance these uh high gas prices could help us?
Can you imagine that question being asked George W. Bush?
Mr. President Hi, John Harwood here from CNBC.
Any chance these high gasoline prices could be helpful?
And of course, what Harwood means the way these high bass prices can gas price help your campaign.
And here's what uh uh candidate Obama said.
I think that I would have preferred a gradual adjustment.
The fact that uh this is such a shock to American pocketbooks is not a good thing.
Uh but if we take some steps right now to uh help people make the adjustment.
First of all, by putting more money into their pockets, but also by encouraging the market to adapt to these new circumstances more quickly, particularly U.S. automakers.
I would have preferred the price got to $4 a little more gradually.
That's what the price was back then at the time of the soundbite.
Yeah, we wish the price would have gotten a little more gradually, got there pretty quick, but we can always get people at tire gauge.
That'll help uh keeping the tires inflated and in putting some more money in their pockets.
We'll do that by taxing the rich.
And if we can't do that, we'll print it.
If we can't do that, we'll borrow it from my buddies at Chicons.
That's what we gotta do.
And this is back August 5th in 2008.
This is in Youngstown, Ohio, at a campaign event.
Uh, Obama talking about Senator McCain.
Instead of offering a real plan to lower gas prices, the only energy uh energy plan that he's really promoting is more drilling.
This is what he talked about yesterday.
I want to drill here, I want to drill now.
I don't know where he was standing.
I mean, I think he was in a building somewhere.
What a funny guy.
What a funny guy, Barack Obama.
Anyway, mocking McCain and Palin at the time.
The campaign slogan was uh drill here, drill now.
Drill, baby drill.
Brief time out, more of your phone calls coming up when we come back recycling.
You know, I I w I really wish the liberals in the media would stop talking about the social issues.
They really do.
What do we have?
This judge the other day who said the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.
Why can't they just keep their noses out of our business?
If people voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, and some federal judge in San Francisco says unconstitutional, hey, the left, they just keep meddling in the social issues.
And then what was the uh oh, this woman, this Georgetown student, is ABC Radio News lead story about how she wasn't allowed to testify before Congress on the contraception hearing.
The left just won't stop talking about social issues.
And then there's this.
Uh CyberCast News Service, John Holdron, and this guy is dangerous.
He's one of Obama's czars.
John Holdron, big man-made global warming official.
I mean, he's one of the leaders of the hoax.
John P. Holdern, the top science advisor to President Obama, wrote in a book that he co-authored with population control advocates Paul and Ann Ehrlich, that children from larger families have lower IQs.
That dovetails with a study I once saw back in the 70s at Tufts University.
It's in Boston, and they they they found that the larger the bust size, the smaller the IQ in women.
So now this guy, Holdron has found that the larger the family, the smaller the IQ of the children.
The book is called Human Ecology.
Problems and Solutions argued that the United States government had a responsibility to halt the growth of the American population.
Now, if you don't think that this is the Democrat Party and the President of the United States getting involved in social issues, I don't know what is.
And this is chilling.
If these clowns get their way, we're going to be headed down the pike to a one child per family policy, just like they have with the ChICOMs.
The book, Human Ecology, Problems and Solutions, authored by this John P. Holderin guy, argued that the United States government had a responsibility to halt the growth of the American population.
Well, that might explain why they're so interested in massive government-funded birth control and abortion.
Paul Ehrlich has been living off false claims of dire consequences with population growth since the 70s.
He's thoroughly discredited yet remains a liberal icon.
And now Obama's science advisor, one of his czars, is warning about the dangers of large families.
Included the fact that children from larger families have lower IQs.
He said, Surely is no accident that many of the most successful individuals are first or only children, wrote Holdren.
Nor that children of large families, particularly with more than four kids, whatever their economic status, on average perform less well in Scruwel and show lower IQ scores than their peers from smaller families.
Holdron and the Ehrlichs published the human ecology in 1973.
In June of 2000, a study published in American psychologists debunked the notion that children in larger families have lower IQs.
When Holdron appeared in the Senate Commerce Science Transportation Committee in 2009 for confirmation hearing on his uh appointments around the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, he continued to argue for the benefits of smaller families by making other points.
In human ecology, Holdron and the Earlics concluded population control absolutely essential if the problems now facing mankind are to be solved.
The authors questioned the values of parents who have large families.
This guy wrote the book in 73 with Ehrlich, and he is Obama's science advisor.
I'm gonna get I'm gonna get the book on this guy, his resume.
Some of the claims that he has made regarding global warming and other science issues is simply outrageous.
But they're talking about social issues.
They want to be a guy who wrote a book about large families being stupid is now a prime advisor to President Obama.
And this is Tyler in Toronto.
Tyler, great to have you on the EIB network.
Hi.
Hey, Russ, thanks for taking my call.
You bet, sir.
I just want to make a comment on the media and how it shapes our opinion and our mood.
I went away to university this year, and when I went away from home, I watched very little TV.
I listened to your show online.
I checked Drudge every now and then, but that's about it.
I've noticed that since I stopped watching the news, my mood has been better, and I've been more optimistic about America and its future.
And I'm quite happy with the Republican candidates because the media has not been able to depress me about them.
So if I had any advice to conservative America and the country as a whole, it would be to turn off the non-Fox media, as Ann Coulter called it, because they're trying to depress you into thinking that conservatism is in the minority and that your candidates are crazy.
But the truth is conservatism is the mainstream.
And I remember you saying back in the Bush years when the media would never stop reporting bad news about the economy.
Just said turn it off.
And you'll be happier.
And I think that's great advice.
I love our candidates.
I'm not embarrassed to be supporting this team.
I am proud they're doing a great job.
Gingrich is a great political mind, and that's a whole package if you ask me.
Well, I'm glad you did that because it happens to me too.
When I go on vacation and I I swear off of it for three or four days and just use my own life as a guide to how I feel, I really feel good.
You should try it if you haven't.
Hey, we're back.
This is Thursday, right?
That's unbelievable to me.
Oh no, I'm not disappointed.
The more days go by, the sooner we are to the new iPad, but still, I can't believe it's already Thursday.
I did.
I worked on President's Day, and it still seems like it's uh lickety split week.
Who's next?
David, in Oklahoma City.
I'm glad you waited, sir.
You're next on the Russian ball program.
Hello, Rush.
My uh my opinion is on the Santorum equivocation.
He just needs to cut equivocating.
He needs to apologize.
He's a politician, just apologize.
Everybody else on on the you know, running as a candidate for the nomination is a politician, just apologize.
Romney has not even acknowledged his responsibility, his culpability in Obamacare, much less apologize for it.
I respect, you know, someone who does something that is pragmatic to get a job done.
But I also have a problem with doing things against conservatism.
He just needs to apologize for being a politician and let that be it.
I would support that.
That's only going to compound the problem.
For example, Romney, very deftly, is out today building off of Santorum's I took one for the team comment.
Romney's line today is I wonder which team he was working for.
I'm working for the American people.
That's his on my team.
I'm not working for a bunch of Washington insiders.
For Santorum to come up.
Yeah, I'm a Republican.
I look at it, the team is Republican right now.
The team is America in the general.
Right now it's primary time.
I want to know who I'm going to support come Super Tuesday.
And you know, the equivocation is not going to help.
Uh who is equivocating?
I'm not disagreeing.
I just want to know who you're talking about.
He's not equivocating for why he made votes as a senator that are not conservative.
You want him to explain it?
No, I don't need to explain it.
Apologize.
Oh, politician.
Just apologize apologize for being a politician.
I'm a cynical.
I I'm very cynical.
I I've been alive long enough to know that politicians are politicians.
And attorneys are attorneys.
But you think attorneys ought to apologize too?
Well, I do.
My wife's an attorney, so I'm not gonna I'm not gonna go that far.
I'm usually at fault, so your wife's an attorney, so you don't.
Oh man, you get hit with a double whammy.
Well, I I I mean, she's an exception.
I know, but what now seriously now what what uh what would possibly be helpful for Santorum to apologize for being a politic.
He'd have to he'd have to follow that with look.
I um Rick Santorum and I read a debate last night.
I want to apologize to being a politician.
Then what does he say?
Well, you know, you can you can have your your campaign advisor write up why you're apologizing and how it affects you know how what you're doing.
But the simple fact of the matter is whenever you equivocate for voting for pork barrel spending and doing things that are against conservatism, it doesn't you're gonna get booed.
I don't support that.
I don't want to hear that.
I know why politicians do what they do.
I have a friend who's a politician, and I know why he has to do some of the things, and I don't necessarily support those things that he does, but he's a member of the Republican Party as well.
But you know, I don't I don't necessarily like that.
It's it's the sausage thing.
You don't want to see what goes into it.
Yeah, whatever it's whenever it's laid out there by the media and by your opponent, you need to address it, you know.
I'm sorry.
I I I did do that.
I'm a politician.
All right, let me run this by it.
These calls.
Let me let me David, let me run this by you.
I want I want to see if I want to see if something would work.
I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna pretend to be Santorum.
And for you, Romney people, chill out.
I am not doing anything here but getting in to just a think piece exercise here.
Uh I want you to listen to me as though I'm Santorum and I'm doing everything you want me to do.
I'm not gonna say I'm sorry, because I don't think that would help, but I'm gonna tell you what this is all about.
And I want to tell me, I want you to tell me how you hear it.
How it affects you.
I know that last night a lot of people think that I really stepped in it by saying I took one for the team.
I want to explain what that means.
We had a president who was under constant assault by the Democrats and the media.
He was engaged in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan to attempt to protect us from further attacks after 9-11.
The Democrat Party and the media would not let this man rest, and yet he was doing what he thought was best for the country at each and every turn.
There are some things that he proposed that I wasn't crazy about, but he's the president, he's the leader of our party.
I'm the whip in the Senate.
One of my jobs is to see to it, the president's legislation passes.
Sometimes, you know, I don't get everything I want, and I don't agree with everything that I have to support, but that's the nature of the job.
And I didn't like it when it was happening, but that's what I had to do.
I took one for the team.
At some point, there were there were a lot of things that President Bush stood for, wanted to do that a lot of us uh opposed, but if we had stood up publicly and openly and opposed President Bush, it would have caused problems like you can't believe for the party, the media would have jumped all over it, divided Republican Party, the president would have been effectively cut off at the knees, and it was a real tough balancing act.
No child left behind.
I was not at all in favor of, but it was his piece of legislation, and we just we're we're duty bound to follow our president.
And I've learned from this, and I don't want to be in that position again.
And that's why I'm running for president, and I'm gonna understand that there are people that might have to go along with it and don't want to, or whatever.
I understand how the process works, but this is all like life is a totally fulfilling educational exercise as well as everything else.
I can admit to you here that I made a mistake doing this.
And I'm not happy about it, but I but uh this is why, and this is what I meant, and I don't think that there's anything wrong with being loyal to my party.
I think that would that would work, and he needs to follow it up with, and whenever I'm the president, I will expect the whip to stand by me.
The executive sees more than the legislative.
The president knew more than I knew, but whenever I'm the president, I will know more than the Senate.
Well, I don't know.
The problem with all this, it doesn't erase the fact that Senator Santorum said he disagreed and did not approve of the legislation that he eventually supported.
No child left behind.
Well, okay, and let me say if I say this to you, and look, I want you to I want you people to know this is the business we're in.
This is politics.
This is how things get done.
Now we get tired of hearing you complain and whine and moan about how we don't govern as we campaign, but this is the way the business operates.
And grow up and understand this is how it happens, and when we make mistakes, we're gonna do our best to fix them and learn from them.
Would that work?
Would that propel him down the road to the nomination?
I'm asking.
I'm not a supporter of any of them, but I'll vote for any one of them over the president.
And come super Tuesday.
Right now, really, that's at the end of the day what is going to end up happening here.
And all of this right now is gonna be ancient history by the time we get into conventions in August and September.
David, I'm glad you called.
I gotta run real quick.
We'll be back and continue after this.
So there's Obama.
He's down in Coral Gables, Florida.
University of Miami.
American Energy.
WWW dot White House dot gov. And there's Obama saying he's not gonna walk away from clean energy.
I don't care how scandalous it gets.
I don't care how bankrupt the companies are.
I don't care how crony the capitalism is.
I'm not walking away from clean energy because it's a way to cut this country down to size.
I'm not walking away from clean energy because there isn't any such thing as clean energy.
But I'm gonna lie to people and I'm gonna make them think just like I've made them think the economy's coming back and roaring back I'm gonna make them think that there's clean energy.
And by the way, when it comes to all that fracking out there in South Dakota, let me tell you something that's fracking's going on but it wouldn't have happened if I hadn't let it happen.
That's right Obama is claiming the government was behind fracking.
The oil boom in South Dakota way.
Well, there he is.
I will not walk away from clean energy.
We'll have the sound bites of all this tomorrow if they are worth the time.
Craig in Richmond, Virginia hi.
Rush Bo, 15 year ditto my friend.
Well thank you.
Thanks very much Craig, great to have you out there, buddy.
Yeah I've been laughing and learning the whole 15 years.
While I've been on hold you have a brilliant team that puts these things together when everyone else hears a commercial I'm being entertained brilliantly.
Well thanks very much they do uh they do a great job.
I know I'm up against the clock here two quick points.
Did I miss you go on about Lindsay Grahamisty uh forgiving Newt he now understands I mean he should ask Newt to forgive him.
Uh he talked for an hour Newt's not bitter wait a minute I mean now he understands what he was up against.
Craig hold on out there old buddy O'Pell what is this Lindsay Gramnesty is uh You missed it Rush he was he was being interviewed and uh I think it was ABC one of the m Sunday morning shows and I just like wow I can't wait to hear Rush talk about it.
What did he do?
What did he do, Craig old buddy Opel?
Well he he said that um Newt Gingrich uh the the coup to oust Newt was launched in his own office and that if he wishes he could take that back because he recognized pulling my leg.
Oh no I'm not yeah I I am not you gotta Google this I mean I need to take back what I said about your team my goodness nobody told you about this rush I mean well that's why when you were going on and on praising them you heard I was a little reserved there.
But they got to dig this up for for tomorrow.
The um he said that he recognizes that Newt was up against it that there was a he was up against a very brilliant politician in Bill Clinton and the things that Nute got done were just so amazing to look at it uh from hindsight of now he's had all these years to govern uh he had no right to be angry at Newton say one thing and he'd come back from the White House and he'd have something totally different and but he now he understands.
Craig I appreciate the heads up on this it's very rare it's very rare that a caller informs me of anything of this nature don't go there snurterly Craig you won't believe this.
You want to hear how the staff is trying to excuse the fact that they blew this you know what they're saying to me now they're saying come on who cares about Gramnesty that's not the point.
I might I might care about Gramness.
Gramnesty forgiving Newt, saying he's sorry he ran the coup against him that's newsworthy.
Craig I appreciate the heads up we'll um we'll dig it up out there and I'll Have it for you tomorrow.
If after I look at it, I judge it to be worth anything.
I appreciate the call.
Charles in Philadelphia got one minute, but I wanted to get to you, sir.
How are you doing, Ross?
Listen, I love your humor, and I catch it in a Democrat stone.
Uh first of all, that woman that called in there a little while ago.
You know what?
Snurley and them guys need to ask uh I think she's a Democrat operative.
And they need to ask these people, what do they think of the Patriot Act?
That's how you sniff out uh uh the cone heads.
I mean uh the Romney supporters are all mad.
I mean, they gotta get behind whoever.
Well, how would you fare it out?
Okay, how would you ferret out if you're Snurdly a Romney supporter?
What would you ask a Romney supporter?
Just say, uh, what do you think of the Patriot Act?
Oh, a Romney supporter too?
What will go April?
Yeah, yeah, I would just, yeah, if you think that someone's a Democrat, you just gotta say, what do you think of the Patriot Act?
Okay.
But uh, I mean, that's just a little little uh Well, okay.
I'll have Snurdley do.
You think you've got a Romney seminar caller.
You ask him either about the Patriot Act or um uh are they cool with Ron Paul being a vice president?
You ask him either of those.
And then uh for seminar caller uh liberals.
Uh Patriot Act might work there too.
Anyway, I uh uh appreciate that.
See, this is how this works.
That woman gets through, caused me a lot of grief.
I ended up yelling at her.
She deserved it and so forth.
But see how it works?
Snurdley's to fall to blame for it.
It's his fault that it happened.
That's what Tomorrow's Friday.
That means it's open line Friday.
Tomorrow ought to be a barn burner.
Something just tells me that we're gonna be smoking tomorrow.
Look forward to it, folks, in 21 hours.
Thanks for being with us today.
Really appreciate it.
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