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May 25, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 25, 2012, Friday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 Podcast.
Friday!
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I'll tell you what.
I'll tell you what, folks, I really, really hope the Republicans, the Republicans in Congress, the RNC, uh, anybody, super PAX, I hope they are writing down everything Obama is saying about how he has cut spending,
how he wants to cut spending, how he has not spent it all, because when the next debt deal comes up, guess who is not going to be talking about cutting spending?
That's right.
Barry Obama.
Barack Hussein Obama is going to be moving for the debt limit to be expanded, to raise, be elevated.
Why?
So we can spend more money.
I'll tell you, there is panic out there, folks.
I told you, I've been telling you I don't know how many months now.
There's real panic.
There is panic over two things.
The Bain attack on Romney isn't working.
And all of these Democrat consultants, and all the Democrat cable TV hosts, and the Democrat media people, they are beside themselves.
It isn't working.
They are also very worried that Obama is doubling down on it now.
In the midst of it not working, he's doubling down on it.
Amidst stories, we've now got a private equity Democrat voter for Obama who's leaving him.
We've got the audio sound bites.
One of his primary campaign managers, the former mayor of Denver, Pena, is in private equity.
Big Democrat.
He is buying companies and he's laying people off.
He's doing everything Obama is accusing Romney of having done.
He's doing it as we speak.
He's a private equity guy.
He runs Obama's campaign in the West or some such thing.
It's backfiring on them left and right, and the Democrat consultants and the media people can't believe Obama will let it go.
And then they rated Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz and they asked her about it.
She says, There is no plan B. Our plan is to attack Mitt Romney as an evil capitalist when he ran Bain.
There is no plan B. And guess what else I'm seeing all over the place?
Everywhere I turn now, every television network I watch, somebody quotes me without attribution.
Saying Obama, the first president they've ever seen to run against capitalism.
I said that earlier this week, and it's being picked up all over the which is fine.
Don't misunderstand.
I don't care.
I get stuff lifted from me all the time.
If I worried about that, I'd be going nuts.
Instead, I'm happy it's getting out there.
In fact, it's getting out there in many ways and very distorted ways.
What happened earlier this week on Fox and Friends?
Gretchen Carlson.
So you agree with what Rush Limboss is asking Romney.
You agree with what Limbaugh said about Obama running against capitalism, and Romney agreed.
Last night on current television.
That's Al Gore's Network.
Yeah, we do.
We sometimes we run tape on current TV.
Yeah, it's still on with the Elliott Spitzer show.
Do you know their ratings are very close to CNN's now?
Well, They are.
Current is trending up by a couple people a week.
And CNN's trending down.
So we decided we'll roll tape on current.
And this is the Elliott Spitzer show.
It's called Viewpoint with Elliot Spitzer.
He had a guest.
The Nation magazine campaign correspondent, Ben Adler, talking about Romney and me.
And the fill-in host, I guess I guess Spitzer had an appointment.
Client number nine, not on last night.
They had a fill-in host by the name of John Fugel saying.
So John Fugel saying and the and the Nation magazine guy had this little chat.
I want to start off with uh a question about Governor Romney's appearance on the Rush Limbaugh Show and parroting Rush Limbaugh's comment that Barack Obama is attacking capitalism.
Is repeating whatever Rush Limbaugh says part of a strategy to actually make the far right like him more?
Yes, definitely.
Mitt Romney has deferred to Rush Limbaugh before.
If you look at uh climate change, he used to believe in climate change.
Romney did to appease him, dial that back and say he's not sure about climate change.
So, yes, I think that that is definitely part of his strategy.
Well, Romney has not appeared on this program.
Romney did not parrot me.
Romney was asked by Gretchen Carlson.
You agree with Limbaugh that Obama's running is capitalist.
That's sticking out there.
Point is these two doofuses don't know what they're talking about, but it's still sticking, is the my point.
It's out there now.
Obama running against capitalism.
And it must have hit a home run because these people are very defensive about it.
Remember, the way to make the left act like a stuck pig is tell the truth about them.
That's what they can't deal with.
Now, in addition to everybody on a Democrat side being really beside themselves over the fact that the Bain attack backfired.
Now let me explain this.
Take you back to last fall and last winter during the Republican primary, and just remind you, I told you back then that the regime wanted Romney.
That's why Occupy Wall Street was created.
They were going to run against everything they thought Romney personified, typified.
Wall Street, wealth, excess, and all of the horrible things that go along with that.
And I was right.
And now it's falling apart.
Everything they're doing is aimed at Romney and Bain and wealth and Wall Street, and it's not sticking.
And in addition to these it's a big this is a it's their primary campaign thrust.
It's their primary idea, plan A. And it's not working.
And in the middle of it not working, Obama's doubling down on it, and that is making them nervous.
And we move over to the politico, which is basically the White House stenographer pool.
And according to the political, all of the inside beltway cognizante, the best and the brightest, are anxious.
They're nervous over how Obama has stumbled out of the gate.
And by that, they mean how his campaign has been going since he formally announced his candidacy three weeks ago.
The writers of the piece are Mike Allen, Jim Vande High, and they even admit that they are upset because, quote, Obama, not Romney, is the one with the muddled message, and the one who often comes across as baldly political.
And the reason that they're feeling this way is because they've been living a pipe dream.
They've been living an illusion.
They have been living the idea that Obama is unlike any other politician.
He's better.
He's more competent, more qualified, he's the smoothest talking.
He's that they they've fully bought into all this.
Remember the left lives in a cocoon.
They don't know what we think.
They don't listen to this program.
They don't read concerns.
They don't know what we think.
They're not, they are not prepared, therefore, to do intellectual battle with us.
They've never heard what we think.
They're not exaggerating.
And these people bought the notion and they're still living it, that Obama is unparalleled in the Business of politics.
There's nobody better.
There's nobody smoother.
There's nobody more intelligent.
There's nobody more intelligent sounding.
There's nobody more qualified.
Nobody smarter.
All of these things, all these mythological characteristics.
Uh and the messianic stuff, they still believe it, and now they're shocked.
The Bane thing isn't working, and Obama looks like he doesn't know what he's doing, and Scott Walker's winning big in Wisconsin.
Their world is upside down, and they don't get it.
And now they've got to go out there and try to claim because of some off-the-wall incompetent piece at market watch that Obama's not a big spender.
And they're they're grasping at such straws that they're latching on to that.
Well, I went back in time.
I've got story after story.
Obama administration defends higher government spending.
Obama administration defends higher government spending.
I've got these stories from the time he was inaugurated up to now.
About all the spending Obama wanted to do.
They're living a lie, and they're gonna, and they've already gotten caught in it.
Nobody believes that Obama is not a big spender.
That's why the Tea Party exists.
So their world is upside down.
Now he appears to be stumbling out of the gate.
And I don't know about you folks, but every war, I mean, you'll be almost feel their pain.
Every war that Obama has launched, the war on women, the war on the rich, even his war on dogs.
He launched a war on dogs by trying to criticize Romney for having his dog ride on the roof.
And everybody figured out Obama wants eight dog.
Who wins that one?
I mean, you look at the family pooch, what are you going to do?
Eat it or put it on the roof of the car, which is the there's no there's no question here.
It's all backfired on the one.
Obama's problem is not that his message is muddled.
The problem is his message is all too clear.
This is what always does the left end.
They think they're not getting their message.
How many times, thirdly over 25 years have we talked about the left complaint, their message isn't getting out.
Every election cycle, without question, the left says a Democrats say, well, you know, we just didn't get our message out.
No, you did.
You are getting it.
When I when I did election night coverage, 2002 with Tim Russert and Brokov, after that shellacking, they lost the midterms.
The narrative that night from the network position was that the Democrats just didn't get their message out.
So what do you mean they didn't get their message out?
What about the Wellstone Memorial?
They did get their message out.
We know who they are.
The problem is that Obama's message is all too clear, and people aren't as easily bamboozled as they used to be.
And once you, when you start off as the Messiah, there's nowhere to go but down.
Well, really, when you enter office as an earthly Messiah, and Nowhere to go but down.
Well, I'm not, it's just logic.
Human nature, logic.
He did deliver.
He gave him health care.
He gave them the stimulus.
He gave them everything.
The only thing he didn't get was card check.
They didn't get single payer health care.
He did deliver.
He has destroyed the economy.
He did deliver.
This is the point.
It's clear as a bell what he's done.
There's nobody wanted it.
Look at folks.
I have noted before.
That undoubtedly the two worst scourges of modern history have been the scourges of communism and Nazism.
Untold millions of people had their lives destroyed because of communism and Nazism.
And what was communism?
What is it?
Simply put, communism is an attempt to whip up a war between economic classes of people.
And what's Nazism?
Nazism, ultimately, was an attempt to whip up a war between the races.
an American presidential campaign that seems to be trying to do both these things.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
We've got a president that's encouraging class warfare.
He's promoting class envy.
We have a president who does not mind at all this war between the races.
Oh, if I had a son, look like Trayvon.
A D.C. school, by the way, is having Trayvon Martin Day.
Have you heard about that?
I'm not kidding.
I'm not making it up.
Teachers at a Washington D.C. elementary school have declared today to be Trayvon Martin Day.
According to the ABC TV affiliate in Washington, teachers at Malcolm X Elementary in Southeast D.C. are using the unfolding case to teach children about social injustice and race relations in the U.S. All right.
I could just hear you castrati say, what do you mean Mr. Limbaugh, the president of the war on race?
How dare you think the minute?
Trayvon Martin Day.
Duke LaCroix.
I'm telling you, we've got a presidential campaign.
To me, it is it is undeniable what is happening here.
A presidential campaign that seems to be trying to both whip up a war between the classes, the economic classes, and whip up a war between the races.
And if not, whip up a war certainly creates some friction and discontent.
And it's not working.
This is the thing that has them discombobulated.
As I have said countless times, Democrats always stumble.
It's Obama's stumbling out of the block.
Democrats always stumble when they tell us what they really want to do, when they show us their real and true intentions.
I mean, after socialism is so damn popular, it wouldn't have to be imposed and maintained at the point of a gun all over the world.
If socialism was so popular, it wouldn't require dictatorship to enforce it.
If socialism was so popular, it would not require a massive expanding central command and control government to keep everybody in line if it was so wonderful.
This may be the funniest line in that Politico article about Obama stumbling out of the gate.
Some key Democrats say that they have been dismayed watching Obama become a divider, not a united.
Now that's just laugh out loud funny.
Where have these Democrats been for the last four or five years?
Obama's not been a uniter since his first national speech back at the Democrat convention in 2004.
But that's what I mean.
They're living in their cocoon.
Living amongst themselves.
Buying and believing the hype with the reality of total mystery.
Now take a break.
Be right back.
Don't go away.
Open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh, cutting edge societal evolution.
Where we make it so simple that it's sometimes difficult to understand.
I have a lot of people sending me email.
What do you mean, Rush?
I thought you made the complex understanding.
That's what I do, I do.
But sometimes things are so simple, it's hard to understand.
All that means is that sometimes the least conspiratorial, the least complicated answer, explains something.
And it's thought to be so simple, it just can't be.
Gotta be more complicated.
Oftentimes it's not.
And liberalism of the Democrat Party is so simple to explain that sometimes it's difficult to understand it.
But I look at I look at Obama's Bain attack, and it makes total sense, everything we knew and suspected last fall about the regime desperately wanting Romney.
They wanted Romney for two reasons.
They wanted Romney because of Bain and Wall Street.
That's what Occupy Wall Street was all about, created and manufactured, and they wanted Romney because of health care.
I think that the regime and the media and the Democrats, I think, folks, they're a little paralyzed.
I really do.
This is a movement, liberalism, Marxism, whatever, Democrat Party today.
They are party-driven by events.
And I think they are in a state of near paralysis over their fear the Supreme Court is going to overturn Obamacare.
That's going to be the biggest room in his presidential library.
It's just about to be declared unconstitutional.
I think that's their fear.
I think they're paralyzed waiting for that to happen in part.
Thank you.
Barack Hussein Obama running for re-election by running against capitalism.
Rush Limbaugh.
Let me expand a little bit on what I was just talking about before we get into this really, really, you're going to backfire.
This Bain business.
So many Democrats don't talk about private equity, Barack.
We like private equity.
Not only they like it, they're in it.
They're getting rich in private equity, and they are laying people off when they buy businesses.
Obama's own campaign managers.
I will spleen this in mere moments.
I want to expand here for mere moments on a point that I made right before the break.
The stumbling out of the gate.
And why?
Why are they what why is the Bain thing backfiring on him?
Why are all of these problems happening?
Why is the Messiah seem to be muddling through?
Why does he seem to be so blatantly political?
Why is he so uncool and unsmooth now?
How is it that Romney looks like he knows what he's doing and Obama knows?
This is what they're asking themselves.
And I don't think most people realize the importance of the Obamacare decision on the campaign.
Forget whether or not they know the decision.
Because even if they've been told what a vote was, I they may know it, but let's put that aside for a second.
What they do know is that the oral arguments were a disaster.
They know that every argument made on behalf of Obamacare that the public was able to learn about was horrible.
An absolute train wreck.
It was a disaster.
Because there's nothing to say about it.
That's why they had to pass the bill before telling anybody what's in it.
They don't want people to know what's in the health care bill.
And because of the oral arguments, the court people got an idea, didn't like it.
They didn't like it going in.
Instinctively, a majority of the people didn't want it.
Now, Obama's campaign is organized around events.
And the reason for this is they have no record that they can run on.
There is no mythological characteristic about Obama.
He's not larger than life anymore.
Now he's a guy who plays golf too much, goes on vacation all the time, his wife goes on vacation all the time.
There is a new reality about Obama.
He's no longer the empty canvas that you can paint whatever you want him to be on it.
And so they're organized around events.
A typical event, Osama bin Laden's death.
That's an event.
That's an event that they point to.
It's an event that's driven much of their campaign.
It's an opportunity to talk about something other than the jobs numbers or the housing market.
And it's events like this that drive the campaign and of course the news cycle.
But there isn't anything that approaches a level of Obamacare.
And the big event in Obamacare is the court decision on whether or not it's constitutional.
This idiotic column by this guy Rex Nutting, saying that Obama is not the big spender we all know him to be.
That event seized upon.
And that horse is going to be ridden till it dies of exhaustion.
And Obama's out there still trying to ride that horse.
Guess what?
There was a story in the paper the other day that said I'm not a big spender.
And you know what?
I'm not.
Thank you.
I mean, there's a joke.
And but they're hanging on to that one with their fingernails, too.
Obamacare, however, defines Barack Obama.
It's the cornerstone of the forthcoming Obama presidential library.
It's his place in history, and it is where he gets to transform this country.
He's out there saying America has never worked.
He means capitalism has never worked, and it's health care.
It is Obamacare, fully implemented that gives him the slam dunk opportunity to finally in his mind remake this country, transform it into what it should have always been.
But it, in their minds, is hanging in the balance.
They are not confident about that.
This was his victory over America, folks.
Obamacare was the victory over America.
Obama at war with the America that was founded.
Osawatomi, Kansas, he said this year it's not working.
It's never worked.
America, capitalism.
And Obamacare.
That was the death knell.
His victory over America, his victory over free markets, his victory over the Constitution.
He has received countless toasts, tributes, congratulatory notes since that abysmal law was shoved down our throats.
Obama's care, Obamacare's passage was nirvana for Obama.
Now the campaign's frozen.
The Bain thing's backfiring.
This story by Rex Nutting is quickly becoming a joke.
The point of the story is a joke that Obama is the most responsible president in terms of spending since Eisenhower.
I mean it's a joke.
Nobody believes it.
It's not believed.
The Democrats don't even believe it.
And as I say, I've got stories from the past three years, I'll treat you the headlines to show you Obama has desired more spending.
So now the regime is consumed with planning how to handle the next event, and that's the court decision on Obamacare.
Now, if it's unfavorable to Obama, that's going to require his team to massage his ego and his feelings.
They're going to have to be managed.
Some other huge event will be necessary to make him feel better about himself.
Give the state control media a reason not to talk about the health care decision for months.
I know if they lose it, they'll turn it into a big campaign event.
Exactly.
Everything is an event with these people.
I know what the campaign's going to be.
If the court overturns this.
And by the way, there have been a couple stories this week already aiming at Roberts.
I know Pat Lahey went nuts, but there are a couple of journalist stories, columns, Washington Post, every guy, where doesn't matter.
Really talking of the legacy to court, and if Roberts makes this a 5-4 decision, then the court may as well pack up its reputation forever because it's going to be worthless.
Well, they're trying to intimidate Roberts.
they think Roberts is the place to go, not Kennedy.
They think Roberts is the guy.
He's the chief.
They think Roberts is the one malleable.
They think Roberts can be humiliated and shamed into honoring the court's reputation at the expense of the law.
That's what they think.
The reason they think that is because they behave that way.
They will put themselves ahead of the Constitution.
They will put themselves ahead of the law.
Hell they're doing it.
The Senate's not authorized to spend money, but Dingy Harry's doing it.
All spending bills have start in the House.
They're aiming at Roberts.
But if the decision goes against them, you know what the campaign's going to be.
Five Republicans have taken away your health care today.
They still have theirs.
Five Republicans today took away your health care, and it's going to be a huge campaign event.
And there's a part of me that thinks the regime might not mind if that happens.
But still waiting on this to happen.
They are a little discombobulated.
I don't know that they're so worried.
I don't know that they're obsessing about it.
But it is the next big event, and they are stumbling.
Nothing is working.
The unions are not going to beat Scott Walker in Wisconsin.
In fact, they may be turning Wisconsin into a state for Romney.
The Bain thing isn't working.
The Obama is not a big spender thing, isn't working.
Obama isn't.
Obama's out there.
You know this cow pie joke he made.
That's akin to John Kerry going into that place in Ohio or Iowa, wherever it was, and looked like Johnny Carson's character make when he made fun of a hunter.
Is this where I get me a hunting license?
John Kerry said.
Well, here's Obama.
Probably had to be told what a cow pie was when they gave him the joke.
Take a brief time out.
We'll get to Bain and the hilarious backfire this is turning out to be.
Start with audio soundbite number two, and we'll go to number three.
This is last night in Des Moines, Iowa.
We're welcoming you back by the way to open line Friday, Rush Limbaugh here behind the Golden EIB microphones, the Iowa State Fairgrounds and Obama.
And by the way, the people who work in these firms will tell you that's not their goal.
Their main goal is to create wealth for themselves and their investors.
When maximizing short-term gains for your investors, rather than building companies that last is your goal, then sometimes it goes the other way.
Workers get laid off, benefits disappear, pensions are cut, factories go dark.
Now, that may be the job of somebody who's engaged in corporate buy-ups.
That's fine.
But that's not the job of a president.
That's not the president's job.
There may be value for that kind of experience, but it's not in the White House.
Exactly right, because when you do it in the White House, every business you'd underwrite goes bankrupt.
Cylindra, every green industry, you know, Obama doesn't know what he's doing.
Only government can do this kind of stuff, right?
Only government can create jobs.
Only government knows what it's doing.
We're gonna go through a list of private sector companies Obama bankrolled or lent money to or otherwise funded, and find out what happened to every one of them, and none of them created any jobs.
But that's for later.
A little blurb here from a website called Complete Colorado.
I had never heard of this website.
Human events and Fox News have picked up the news here on this website.
It's been validated and confirmed.
Obama national co-chair venture capital vampire.
President Obama continues to hammer Mitt Romney on his record with Bain Capitol in a fundraiser on Wednesday in Denver.
Obama continued To push the venture capital vampire theme, saying what Governor Romney doesn't seem to get is that a healthy economy doesn't just mean a few folks maximizing their profits through massive layoffs or busting unions.
Well, we wonder if former Denver mayor and Clinton Transportation and Energy Secretary Frederico Pena happened to be in the audience and if he agreed.
Because Pena has been a partner at private equity firm Vestar Capital since 2000.
And while President Obama has been giving private equity a bad name, both Federico Pena and Vestar managing director James Kelly have made recent contributions to Obama's reelection efforts.
Furthermore, Peña's record as a venture capital investor dates even back to his 2008 days when he served as Obama's national campaign co-chair.
So when he's running Obama's campaign, he's also in private equity.
Let's examine the recent humanitarian record of Vestar Capital.
In March of 2011, Vestar acquired 100% of Del Monte Foods through a leveraged buyout.
2011, a little over a year ago.
Two weeks ago, Del Monte announced the closure of a plant in Kingsburg, California, slashing 1,000 jobs.
I'm extraordinarily disappointed by Del Monte to make this decision, said the Kingsburg mayor, Bruce Blaney.
It's a major blow to the local economy.
Roughly eight years ago, Vestar Capital purchased the Solo Cup Company.
It's Obama's national co-chair that runs the thing.
According to a 2007 report, the Solo Cup Company, with Vestar as a parent firm, shut down three U.S. factories as early as 2010, with Vestar still as the parent company, Solo Cup announced plans to shut an 80-year-old factory, cutting more than 540 jobs.
In 2002, Vestar acquired frozen food giant Bird's Eye Foods.
You've heard of all these companies, right?
You've heard of Del Monte.
You see solo cups every time you go to a ballpark or a concession stand, and you've heard of Bird's Eye Foods.
2002, Vestar acquired Bird's Eye.
Four years later, they laid off approximately 500 workers.
Some of them were employed at Bird's Eye for 15 to 30 years, according to Channel 7 KGO San Francisco.
If the president intends to make this election about Romney's record at Bain, then his buddy Democrat Federico Pena and James Kelly had better come clean about the layoffs at Del Monte, Solo Cup Company, and Bird's Eye Foods.
If not, Mr. Pena might not be available to stand on the campaign stage with Obama at his next Colorado rally.
So in a nutshell, what we have here is Obama blasting the vampires at private equity firms for laying people off.
And meanwhile, his 2008 national co-chair, former Denver mayor, Federico Pena, has been a senior partner at a private equity firm since 2000, and Pena's firm has been laying off workers.
If vampire capitalists, by the way, Solo Cup Company's still around.
And bird's eye food is still around, and Del Monte is still around.
Probably because of Vestar.
The dirty little secret is these are all troubled companies, the most part.
That private equity firms buy.
They're already in trouble.
If they weren't purchased, if they weren't rescued, everybody that works at these companies would eventually be fired because the companies will go out of business.
The venture capitalists come in and attempt to save the company.
If the risk pays Off, they are rewarded.
Part of saving a company is cutting expenses, and that is labor, it's number one expense anywhere.
But if vampire capitalists are destroying the country, why is Federico Peña co-chairing Obama's campaign?
And why is Obama holding a $35,000 ahead fundraising dinner at private equity firms like BlackRock?
And why are all the private equity Democrats telling Obama shut up about this?
And all the mayors and all the governors say, shut up about it.
So it appears the Democrats are trying to turn Bain Capital into haliburt.
That's what they know.
That's what they're trying to do.
The problem is too many people know what private equity does.
It's not going to be as easy.
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