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March 28, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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March 28, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
And here we are back at it already Wednesday, ladies and gentlemen.
Great to have you.
Rush Limbaugh back behind the golden EIB microphone.
And once again, the distinguished and prestigious Attila the Hun Chair here at the Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882 and the email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
I'm a little distracted here today, folks, but I want to try to make some sense out of what's going on here at the Supreme Court, because there's so much of this punditry and the predictions just all over the ballpark.
And I keep falling back to one crystal clear reality to me.
And I even yesterday I found myself getting caught up in this whole game.
The whole game.
Look at what we're doing here.
I I know a number of you people agree with me here.
I've talked to a number of you and my friends.
We're losing this country.
I mean, it's it's it's dangling over the precipice here.
And yet, we're all succumbing, and it's hard not to, don't miss this is not a criticism.
We're all succumbing to play in the standard game every day and talking.
For example, here we have the constitutionality of Obamacare.
And the narrative and the template for discussing it is set.
And it boils down to one thing.
How's Anthony Kennedy gonna vote?
Can you believe that?
That's where we are, that that's where all of the punditry is going.
That's where all of the prognostication center is.
What is Justice Kennedy going?
It's not a criticism of him by any stretch.
But here we are, a nation of 311 million people.
By the way, there's something else that you need to know.
There aren't 50 million uninsured.
There aren't 42 million uninsured.
There aren't 30 million uninsured, and there never have been.
There's an AP story today.
I found it in the Las Vegas Review Journal, but you know what the total number of people without health insurance is?
When you factor the fact that everybody gets treated at the emergency room by law anyway.
The number of Americans out of a population of uh just north of 300 million is 15 million people.
We're doing all of this for 15 million people.
And those 15 million people are young or wealthy and have chosen not to buy health insurance.
And we're doing all of this.
We're about, if we're not careful, we are going to lose this country, and we are going to we're going to shred the Constitution in ways that it can't be put back together.
And that is the objective of today's leftist movement and its members of the Democrat Party.
That's the objective is to shred this Constitution, get rid of it once and for all.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg over in Egypt telling people that putting together a constitution there that don't look at ours.
Aren't enough human rights concerns in there.
There's not enough, there are not enough provisions in our constitution for what government can do, because government's all good, government's all powerful, government's all benevolent, and they're nothing in the U.S. Constitution for you.
So we have this legislative debacle, this monstrosity, this worthless piece of legislation that is going to rip the fiber out of this country, all for 15 million people who have chosen not to have health insurance.
Not because the country's unjust and unfair and has millions of people who are dying to get medical treatment but can't.
That's such a crock.
You need medical treatment in this country, you get it.
Even if you can't afford it, you go to the emergency room or a walk-in clinic or what have you.
And then furthermore, everybody's trying to prove how smart they are by predicting what Anthony Kennedy's going to do.
One guy.
This whole case, this whole case hinges on what one guy does.
And then after this one guy votes.
And the reason I say that one guy, because there's a lot of people think John Roberts are going to go with the fact that it's constitutional, based on what he said yesterday.
And a lot of people think Kennedy is going to vote against it.
A lot of other people think Kennedy's going to go vote for it because Kennedy signaled he'd go either way on it yesterday.
At the beginning of the oral arguments, that's when the left was panicking, calling it a train wreck at the end of the proceedings yesterday.
Wait a minute, Eric Kennedy, he could flip here.
Kennedy said some things that I just find it ridiculous we're caught up in it this way.
And it's I don't know.
It's also a little discouraging, disconcerting to me that so many people are so caught up in it and enjoy being caught up as though it's nothing more than an intellectual exercise.
And that when it's all over, what's at stake here is who can say I was right and I predicted it when it's wrong, who can say you blew it, you didn't know what you were doing.
You weren't as smart as I am.
In the meantime, what are we talking about here?
We're talking about the country going in a direction that you and I never envisioned it going.
Something else that struck me.
I made a note to myself yesterday.
I sent it to some friends of mine.
Something I didn't expect to happen is happening.
This case, as it's being discussed and argued according to this template and narrative that I just described, is providing an opportunity to illustrate the genuine intellectual vacancy, corruption, and immorality of liberalism in general.
This case, and be because of the punditry, and because of all the commentariat, both on the air and in blogs and on print, is demonstrating the abject ignorance and stupidity of people on the left.
Some of the questions asked by Justice Sotomayor yesterday are mind-bogglingly.
Why can't we just let Congress decide that?
They did.
That's what this is all about, Madam Justice.
What do you mean?
Why can't we let Congress decide?
They did.
What do you think you're doing?
Ginsburg, our Constitution is not worth anything anymore.
We need the emerging nations, no need to look to the U.S. No, no, no, no.
It's defective.
Elena Kagan.
I'm going to rein myself in there.
I don't I don't want to make any of this personal.
These people, she hasn't lived in the real world.
They don't, other than when they were student, they students, they don't have any relatability to people outside of academia or demia, which academia, which is where the utopians are.
Academia is where the utopian statists are, the theoreticians, the people who sit around and look outside the academy, think, boy, how dumb those people are.
How backwards, what a bunch of hicks and hasties.
And they sit around, talk to each other, theorize how they were in power, how they'd make everything fair and everything just and everything proper and all this gobbledygook that never worked anywhere in the world, and then they go home, put on their Che Guavera t-shirts, and we go, oh my God, what's happening to the country.
I just I I marvel all of these legal minds on the left, be they network experts, law professors, or whatever, who, up until yesterday,
apparently never even considered the possibility that the individual mandate in the commerce clause is unconstitutional.
They never even considered it.
And now, when they hear oral arguments that for the first time apparently hit them upside the head that it might be unconstitutional, they are literally flabbergasted.
Not surprised because they're disappointed.
They are genuinely, they haven't considered this.
They're stymied, and I think what kind of mind do you have to have, and how closed must it be to be shocked to your very core by the possibility that the Supreme Court might find this law unconstitutional.
Here's the my point is that so many of us, and myself included, but I I try to distance myself from it and try to get not succumb and get caught up in the daily narrative and template of whatever the issue is that's being discussed.
But these are not the smartest people in the world.
In fact, they're not even half as smart as the people who make the country work, and yet they are considered to be intellectual elites.
And so even the intellectuals on our side grant them an intellectual level that they don't deserve.
They are not that smart.
And this whole episode's demonstrating this to me.
This whole episode, just one day yesterday, and gosh, I hope people are really paying attention.
I don't know how many are.
I don't know what the odds are that a lot of people are.
I have no clue.
But it is paramountly obvious that the so-called smartest people among us are not even C students in life.
They're not even C students in getting up and making things work.
And our side engages them as though they're smarter than we are, and we have to, and I'm talking about the intellectual elites on our side, and what is their objective?
Their objective is to impress these people.
Their objective is to is to uh well.
I gotta make sure I'm not considered one of these far right wingers.
I'm gonna make sure I criticize Beck or Limborn, Levin, whoever, so that these intellectual elites on the left will not think I am one of them.
And I have come to the conclusion that they aren't worth impressing.
You can't anyway, they're so arrogant.
You can't impress these people.
Remember yesterday I told you that I was surprised to learn some years ago how the Supreme Court does not operate.
I learned that the justices do not sit in the room and debate each other and try to persuade each other.
Everything's done in writing.
And when I learned this, I was shocked.
And it's from a very inside source, it's right in that room source.
I was shocked.
I said, I actually thought that you guys sat around and after you voted, you'd discuss these cases.
Maybe not debate them, but you discuss now.
I'm not gonna waste my time.
They're not gonna change their minds on this.
They're not gonna change their minds on anything.
I'm not gonna try to change their mind.
And I tell you that only the illustrating and the arrogance that exists.
We, of course, are open to changing our minds.
We are open to showing how open-minded we are.
They don't care a whit about demonstrating that they're open-minded.
They can't demonstrate they're open-minded because they're not.
Everybody going out of their way on our side to try to impress these People who are being demonstrated, demonstrating themselves to be unworthy of the kind of respect, or awe, I should say, that some on our side grant them.
This really is an opportunity to demonstrate how totally out of touch with reality.
All of these people on the left, legal experts, media commentators, whoever they are, are out of touch.
They're not even 25% as smart as they think they are.
And it's what frustrates me about people on our side who accord these people high intellectual status in dealing with them.
And so what we have now is basically a classroom exercise going on, but not in a classroom.
It's happening in the country.
But in the classroom, the outcome stays there, and all it ever is is an intellectual exercise.
This is real life that's being tampled with here, trampled with here, or tampered with.
And it's all apparently going to come down to one man in a constitutional republic of 311 million people.
Then the smartest people in the room are trying to prove that they're the smartest people in the room by predicting which way this one man is going to go.
Well, I want to take it a little farther.
Three potential outcomes here.
And two of these outcomes I can see as big wins for the left and for Obama.
When you look at what they want.
What is it they want?
They don't want a mandate.
They don't want the mandate to be said to be constitutional.
I mean, they'll take it, but that's not what their objective is.
Their objective is the abolition of private sector health insurance as an industry and the creation of a single payer health care system with them in charge.
Nowhere for anybody to go to get health insurance but to them.
And in so doing, they can regulate every aspect of our lives.
That's what they want.
So you have to look at it from this perspective.
If they lose this case, if the mandate's found to be unconstitutional, how does that move the ball forward for them?
There is a way.
There are a couple of ways, in fact.
I'll explain when we get back.
Here's another example of what I'm talking about.
Sort of.
Politico, breaking news.
Today, by the way, the court was dealing with severability, and that's key, by the way, in determining how can Obama and the Democrats get what they want by having the mandate determined unconstitutional.
I think, frankly, I think we ought to listen, James Carville.
James Carvel's telling us what the Democrats were.
They don't they won't mind they lose this mandate.
That just speeds them along even faster to single payer.
Breaking news.
Politico.
The Supreme Court struggled Wednesday with the question of how much of President Obama's health care law to salvage if justices throw out the individual mandate.
Most of the justices appeared opposed to tossing out the entire law, but their views of how much to keep in place were murky and didn't break down along conservative and liberal lines.
Okay, so we're gonna go now from one person determining whether or not the mandate's constitutional to the tyrant bunch of nine telling us what part of the law they think's okay and what parts aren't.
And everybody's breathlessly waiting like a bunch of starved dogs waiting to be fed.
Oh, it's the reality that we live in.
I I'm not.
I'm just observing.
I'm not complaining about it per se, because it's been this way for a long time.
I just things are different now.
The nation hangs in the balance of what happens here with these nine people.
So the justices, if they throw out the mandate, now they appear opposed to tossing out the whole thing.
But see, it can't survive without the mandate.
The mandate is the funding mechanism.
So if the judges don't, or if the judges throw out the mandate but leave enough of the law in the Democrats who run Congress, if they're still going to run it, are going to have a simple solution to this.
Medicare for everybody, single payer, done and over.
Ladies and gentlemen, we simply cannot be defeated in the arena of ideas.
So in my point from the get-go, we're up against a people who are not nearly as smart as we think they are.
We're up against a bunch of people who are not nearly as important as they think they are, and we certainly are not up against a bunch of people upon whom the rest of us can rely.
We, you, let me tell you, you are the people to make this country work.
The people that we're talking about can't get anything done unless they have the force of government behind them making it happen.
We are up against the forces of tyranny.
And when the forces of tyranny start tasting the solidification and power, then anybody who opposes them has become an enemy, must be silenced, must be shut down.
and how with the full force of government.
This is a truism that remains.
And that's who we're up against.
These people cannot defeat us without first securing the power of government to give them the strength to actually squash us.
Take them away from that hold, and they can't compete with us.
In the arena of ideas, in an open discussion of policy, debating issues, or what have you.
As this oral argument stuff is demonstrating here.
This this uh state or the the uh solicitor general, a government's lawyer.
You ought to see some the liberal blogs dumping all over this guy.
Uh White House is going both ways.
The White House is defending him, and in other places that they're dumping on him.
He's incompetent, he was he was stumbling, he didn't know what he was.
He can't, he's got something that's indefensible here.
This uh this Varilli guy is trying to defend something that's intellectually indefensible.
The only way he can defend this is to manufacture a number of white lies about what the intent was and what the ultimate objective is.
He this is not anything anybody could look good trying to do.
Or very few could.
We have these people outnumbered, and we have them outbrained.
And But nobody knows it.
Nobody thinks it.
And so the attitude incumbent with the confidence that derives it is simply missing.
Take a look at what's happening.
We we have an economy that is in tatters.
We do not have any economic growth to speak of.
Certainly not one that designates a recovery taking place.
The job creation that's happening is a myth.
We have lost two million jobs since Obama was inaugurated.
I don't care how many they claim they're adding week to week.
We have lost two million jobs that we have not replaced them.
We're in a net negative situation, and it's not changing.
We have the president driving this country into debt, investing in worthless, unproductive technologies that are going bankrupt.
We have a president claiming credit for the Keystone Pipeline, which has not happened.
We have Spike Lee tweeting a wrong address, supposedly where George Zimmerman is, but a couple in their 70s live there, and they've had to flee their homes because the new Black Panthers have a bounty on George Zimmerman that's now up to 28 or 30,000.
Nobody's saying anything about this.
But let somebody on the right utter something that's simply disagreeable.
And here come the forces of tyranny.
Shut them down.
There's no attempt to quell any of this really powder keg situation in Florida.
Remember how hysterical everybody was after Gabrielle Giffords was shot in Arizona.
You remember that hysteria?
They blame Sarah Palin.
They blamed me.
They blamed talk radio in general.
They talked about all the words that people were using that might have incited this gunman.
They talked about all the conservatives and their words that no doubt incited this guy.
We got presidential speeches on civility.
We were told that we had to start respecting each other and getting along with each other.
We had to stop this incendiary language, which wasn't happening.
There was no incendiary language that preceded the shooting in Arizona.
Now, oh, and where was it?
A um Obama supporter, what was it, tried to take out Joe Arpayo?
Some self-proclaimed Obama fanatic had plans to take out the sheriff in Maricopa County.
Not a word from the drive-bys about the lack of civility, not a word about Obama responsible for a potential assassination of Joe Arpao.
word.
The new Black Panther Party with a bounty that's now into its fifth or sixth day, and there hasn't been a word from the administration or the Justice Department or anybody in authority to stop it.
And Not a word.
Our president has failed to speak out and put a stop to this illegal and depraved bounty on an American citizen who hasn't been charged with anything yet by the new Black Panther Party.
Obama has said nothing about Spike Lee tweeting out a street address to help the Black Panther bounty hunters hunt down and kidnap an American citizen.
He hasn't said anything about Spike Lee tweeting the wrong address.
Spike Lee hasn't withdrawn the tweet.
It's a 72-year-old couple who don't even know what's going on.
who were being terrorized by people showing up at their house.
The elderly people are at present hiding out in a motel.
It is said in fear for their lives.
Obama has said nothing about Harry Reed, who proudly failed to pass a budget in the Senate that he controls despite our $16 trillion budget.
Obama, nor anyone else has said anything about Obamacare costing at least twice as much as he claimed when he first sold it.
Nor has he been challenged with evidence that the CBO's estimate that Obamacare will cause three to five million people lose their employer provided health insurance.
Everything he said wouldn't happen is going to happen, and nobody's asking.
Mr. President, you said premiums go down 2500.
Mr. President, you said if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor.
Mr. President, you said if you like your health insurance plan, you get to keep no questions.
All those are going to go by the wayside.
No questions.
No demand that he explained when he hadn't done a thing wrong, George Bush was harangued for 45 minutes of a one-hour press conference.
Are you going to apologize?
Are you going to apologize, Mr. President?
Are you going to admit your mistakes?
President Obama, President of the United States of America, has not spoken out against the riots, the rapes, the arson, the other assorted crimes emanating from the Occupy Wall Street encampments that he, in fact, is all but endorsed.
We have genuine lawlessness, chaos, and within the confines of Occupy Wall Street, genuine anarchy.
We have pestilence disease.
We have people dropping feces on police cars, and not a word is said about it.
Not a word from any quarter is said about it.
No, we're to understand this is the real power, we're told.
A Tea Party, they're the hooligans.
The Tea Party, they are the depraved.
These Occupy people, that's a genuine grassroots movement, we're told.
It's supported, it's promoted, Democrat Party, the media, White House, you name it.
And I don't understand one American wanting this man re-elected.
I do not understand it.
I don't understand how Barack Obama even has a chance.
But he does.
And that tells us where we are.
It's no wonder that the Democrats blocked voter ID laws and push for legislation allowing felons the right to vote because they know if the election were held today, he doesn't stand much of a chance.
Nobody will tell you that.
I will.
That's how bad it is for him.
But you're not allowed to know that.
And the people who know it are not dare gonna say it.
And that's why we're not hearing any criticism of the new Black Panther bounty, of Spike Lee's tweet forcing innocent 72-year-olds out of their homes in fear for their lives.
We're not going to hear about it because normally these are the kind of things that happen in the country, this kind of unrest, festering effervescence, boiling over, usually end up at the doorstep of the White House.
That can't be allowed to happen this time.
But Fox News has got to be shut down.
All the advertisers of this show, Fox News, they've got to be intimidated into walking away.
Small business, perfect.
Destroy them.
Don't let them advertise.
Don't let them advertise their businesses, their wares, their services.
Forces of tyranny here at work.
And now I circle back to the Supreme Court and the oral arguments over this health care law.
And what I want to know is, particularly from our side, where is the outrage it's even gotten this far?
Where is the attempt to tell the American people what's in store for them if this thing actually gets fully implemented?
Where it's not an intellectual exercise, my friends.
This is this is not a classroom assignment, a classroom game where when it's all over, we leave the classroom and head on down to McDonald's.
This is going to fundamentally, foundationally change the relationship that each one of us has with government.
And the first thing that will vanish is individualism and freedom.
That's going to be the nature of the change, the relationship between a citizen and government.
And that's what today's Democrat Party wants.
The media, the American left, the worldwide left, the United Nations.
Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, that's what they want.
Joe Biden was right.
One time in his life, when he when he said Obama cares a BFD, he was right.
Got an email recently from a relatively new friend.
Lives overseas.
And knows only of the Sandra Fluck incident by virtue of the media.
See, sometimes you can be so angry, and I know that's not who you are, went the email.
I wrote back, I'm not angry.
I'm scared.
I am seriously frightened for the future of my country.
And I am a target because I desire to maintain the country as founded.
I have become a target for that reason.
I'm scared.
Not for myself.
I'm scared for the country.
I'm scared for every freedom loving.
Blessed by God, decent citizen in this country, I am s I'm frightened over where we're headed.
Not mad.
Damn well ought to be.
Here's Jeff Toobin, by the way.
He's even worse shape today than he was yesterday.
Yesterday's a train wreck, today it's a plane wreck.
He's on CNN.
They didn't put him on with Wolf Blitzer.
I think Wolf Wolf needed smelling salts after today.
So they put him on with Don Lemon, another anchor, who said, You uh you've been referring to the uh healthcare argument, Supreme Court's a train wreck, possibly now a plane wreck, saying the whole law is in jeopardy.
What's going on, Jeffrey?
The question is, does the whole law go?
And there are clearly people on that court, Antonin Scalia and uh Justice Alito, who think the whole law should go.
Chief Justice Roberts and certainly all the liberals were at least trying to keep alive the possibility that some of this 2700 page law would stand.
But um there is considerable sentiment on this court that it's it's just all one big package and uh it needs to be gotten rid of altogether, which is a stunning turn of events.
It it Jeffrey, it is one big package, 2700 pages.
You notice how surprised he is, genuinely intellectually, IQY, surprised that anybody could find this thing objectionable.
He's literally bowled over.
He never considered that people he considers to be his intellectual equals would ever see this as anything other than utopia.
He really is beside himself, and he's not alone on the left.
He might throw the whole thing out.
No.
But the question still, Jeffrey, where are you on the substance of this bid?
Do you even care?
Jeffrey, do you even know what the substance of this bill is?
Because as smart as you think you are, you ought to be among those who understand this thing is terrible.
For the United States of America, I know you're looking at it whether it's good or bad for Obama, but what about for the country?
Have you Jer Jeffrey, have you looked at it, have any of you people really looked at this and understand exactly what a disaster in the making it is.
Have you ever asked yourselves why you're defending it?
Why do you hope it's constitutional?
Is it so that Obama prevails?
Is that reason enough?
2,700 pages so Obama prevails?
What about the country?
What about your own freedom?
Does it not matter to you, Jeff?
That's what I don't understand about these people.
Now I'm going to explain a little further what I mean about Obama maybe winning by losing this thing on the mandate.
If he loses the mandate, but the rest of it's maintained.
I can see how that's a big win for them that they might not want anybody to think is a big win for them.
I'll expand on all this and we uh when we get back.
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