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May 31, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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May 31, 2012, Thursday, Hour #3
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Okay, so it's on the table.
Obama, he doesn't care about winning.
We're headed to an economic crash, and he doesn't want to be around when it happens.
He wants the blame going somewhere else.
There are many things wrong with this.
This is an interesting theory.
But in the first place, who writes history?
The media.
They are the immediate authors of history.
When do Democrats get blamed for anything?
Even now, all of this still being blamed on Bush.
This economic collapse that we're in now.
Obama says my predecessor, media carries the water.
The Republicans are going to get blamed for it no matter who's in the White House.
So why would any Democrat worry about history?
Democrats have escaped the consequences of their actions for over a hundred years because of the media.
So I don't see Obama or the Democrats worried about history.
Look at the look at the so-called fiscal cliff that we are facing at the start of 2013.
With Obamacare, tax Mageddon.
Look at all the new taxes.
Look at the further shrinkage of the employment base.
Look at the slowdown of the economy that is without question coming.
What part of that do the Democrats not want?
It's all happening because of them.
A Democrat named Arter Davis, black Democrat, the guy that seconded Obama's nomination 2008, quit the Democrat Party yesterday.
Arthur Davis said he can no longer be member of a party which is the architect of job destruction.
He doesn't want to be a member of a party which criticizes achievers.
He doesn't want to be a member of a party that targets achievement for punishment.
He's a down the line conservative.
Now some people are being cynical and saying, well, he's just doing a narlins.
He just switching parties because he knows he can't win as a Democrat.
I don't care.
I'll listen to what he's saying.
This is an African American who's setting himself up for Uncle Tom's status.
This guy's going to join the ranks of Thomas Sowell and Clarence Thomas and Shelby Steele.
He's going to be persona non grata in the Democrat Party.
Jesse Jackson, this guy opposed health care, Jesse Jackson.
Well, he didn't oppose it, but but he was voted for it, but the No, wait a minute.
I don't think he did.
I think he voted against health care.
Jesse Jackson said you cannot be black and oppose Obamacare.
You can't be black and oppose Obamacare.
So here's Arthis leaving the Democrat Party.
He knows that where we're headed is the result of Democrat architecture.
They wrote this.
They wrote Obamacare.
They wrote the stimulus.
They're the authors of high taxation and other policies which lead to economic growth declining.
This fiscal cliff that we're headed towards.
The Democrats are driving the car.
If they don't want us headed to the cliff and going over, they would change the direction the car is being driven.
But they're not.
They're doubling down on it.
What part of this agenda do the Democrats not want?
You hear any Democrat arguing against the Obama agenda?
Other than Arthis who's leaving the party, you don't.
So we got tax increases, we've got the deficit ballooning, massive cuts to the military right down the road here.
These are all part of the Democrat Party's wet dream for this country, folks.
What part of it do they not want?
If Obama and the Democrats don't want to be in Power during the forthcoming economic train wreck.
They would change their policies.
But they're not doing that.
They're doubling down on the speed, and it's full speed ahead.
Now, some interesting economic numbers here.
With today's quiet revision, we mentioned this the first hour.
Economic growth, first quarter originally reported at 2.2%.
Today, it was quietly revised down to a growth rate of 1.9%.
That's the robust economy that three and a half years of Obama have given us.
During the recovery, during the 80s, Ronald Reagan's recovery, the gross domestic product of this country averaged 6%.
We can't even maintain 2% with Obama.
James Pethacucas, who we cite frequently for the American Enterprise Institute, has posted the GDP under the five quarters since Obama's recovery.4%, 1.3%, 1.8%, 3%, and now 1.9%.
Those are the real growth rates.
During Reagan's recovery, the GDP averaged around 6%.
Arthis voted against Obamacare twice.
The only member of the Congressional Black Caucus to vote against it.
That was right, and Jesse Jackson said you can't be a black man and vote against Obamacare.
So my only point here is this is purposeful.
How can it not be?
Now some Democrats might be thinking we're we're on the right road.
We just got to be patient here.
And at some point, all this is gonna rebound and it's gonna come back and we're gonna be it's impossible.
With these policies, the the private sector where you and I live and work is shrinking.
There's no way it can grow with these kinds of policies.
Obama is taking money out of the private sector every day.
Obama is killing jobs in the private sector every day.
There's no way that the private sector can grow.
The government sector can and is, but it doesn't produce anything.
It feeds off of the private sector.
It doesn't produce a thing.
The public sector redistributes wealth, destroys wealth, but it does not create it.
Actually, that's not altogether true.
Obama tried to create wealth by giving money to Solindra, but it didn't work.
But they they they might say that they can create wealth by transferring to their donors.
But where we're talking of 25 or 30 people.
We're not talking about policy here.
Their policy cannot possibly create economic growth.
This is why I wanted it to fail.
This is why I've been maintaining from the get-go that this is purposeful.
Again, it's realville, and it's so simple it's hard to understand.
You cannot raise taxes, which is taking money out of the private sector and expect it to grow.
You can't raise taxes on business and expect them to have money to hire people.
Or to give existing employees raises.
You can't make credits so tight that people can't borrow money to grow and have growth.
It doesn't work.
This has never worked.
It's never worked anywhere it's been tried.
That's why I say Obama is a dinosaur.
Obama is 50 years ago.
Obama's still living in this mythical world where FDR almost had it right, but he just didn't spend enough money.
There's nothing forward about Obama.
There's nothing really progressive in the sense that we are in engaging in progress or having any or moving forward in that way.
We're going backwards.
And a guy in charge thinks that he's making a gigantic transformation for the good.
This is laugh laughingly, but it's not funny, incompetent.
It defies all logic.
Economic, political, common sense logic Is being stood unside its head upside down for you to believe that these kind of policies for anybody to believe are going to lead to private sector economic growth.
And by the way, the numbers are in, and we ain't growing.
1.9% is not enough growth to change the direction, which is downward that we are trending.
Now the UK telegraph of all people has a story in bit, by the way, I just saw it on Fox.
Take it back.
Wrong, wrong stack.
This is uh CNN has it.
Mitt Romney made a surprise campaign stop today at the shuttered headquarters of Cylindra.
Romney went and stood in front of the Cylindra sign for a photo op.
Cylindra, the failed energy company that he talks about a lot as a symbol of Obama's misuse of taxpayer dollars.
Now, folks, this is well played.
I have to tell you, at the beginning of the program, I told you I really like the fact that Romney is ignoring all these Democrat calls to repudiate his supporters.
Distance yourself from Trump.
He's a berther.
How dare you distance yourself from Limboy?
You have got to condemn these people.
You've got to put them away.
You've got to put them down.
You've got to give them.
And Romney's not responding to it at all.
Now, McCain.
He didn't wait for the Democrats to complain when he knew they were going to complain.
He took preemptive action and got rid of supporters.
And most Republicans do.
The media, the Democrats start stomping their feet and crying and moaning and demanding that you may repudiate them.
You made a num from limbo.
And the Republicans that go do it are applauded, but Romney to his credit is not.
So here's here's Obama running all these ads about how heartless and cold Romney is.
Bain Capital.
All they cared about is profits.
They hired people and fired them.
And they took over companies and they fired people and they shut them down and they're going to bankruptcy, but they got their profits out of it.
And so Romney has responded, oh yeah, well, you know, I've got an 80% success rate, Mr. President.
The companies that Bain Capital, using its own money, by the way, went in and rescued 80% success rate.
What's your success rate, Mr. President?
Zero.
Every company you've attempted to save or industry you've tried to give a boost to with taxpayer dollars, not even your own, are bankrupt.
And to personify this, to illustrate it, Romney goes to Cylindra today.
Bravo.
Well done.
I like this.
I don't care if Romney's not conservative enough.
I know some people, like Joe Scarborough yesterday on his show, said people don't know about Cylindra.
This is crazy.
Romney's wasting his time talking about Celinity.
American people never heard of it.
The American people don't care about Cylindra.
He said, You and I care about it, but nobody else knows about it.
Well, no, that's what he said.
And I'm I'm I'm sure I'm sure in certain circles inside the beltway.
I'm sure it is considered an inside baseball story that the average American doesn't know about and doesn't care about.
But see, that's what a campaign's for.
A lot of people are going to know about it now if they didn't.
And they are going to learn about it in context.
Because Romney's being hit for failing to save companies, but take profits out of them, firing people.
So let's go.
Let's go to the to the shuttered shutdown number one example of Barack Obama knowing how to do this.
Let's go to Cylindra.
A phony company with a phony industry, solar panels, solar energy, all this taxpayer money, and it's nothing.
It's shuttered, it's shut down.
If only Bain Capital had tried to save Cylindra, it might have been saved.
Not sure about that, because there's no business there.
Bain probably didn't want any part of it because there's no business there.
Cylindra was a bunch of Obama donors.
So the media, the media going out of its way not to cover Romney's visit to Cylindra.
Fox is covering it.
I just, well, I just saw it.
I just saw a brief picture of Romney at the Cylindra sign.
CNN is covering it on their website.
The Thursday visit kept it a tight secret by the Romney campaign, which told reporters they needed to travel in a campaign bus to an undisclosed location.
Romney advisor told reporters the campaign had concealed the event location for fear the regime would somehow prevent them from staging it.
Probably true.
Regime finds out Romney's going to Cylindra, regime owns it.
What's left of it, so you call some marshals and you'll let everybody in.
Asked how the regime could prevent an event stage on public property.
The advisor said there might be a way.
Look, he's only president.
I mean, they could work with town officials to deny us access.
Romney expected to give uh brief remarks, then take some questions.
Speaking of all this, audio soundbite number seven, Dick Morris.
Last night on the O'Reilly factor, there was a discussion of the presidential race.
Here's Dick Morris's take on Bain, Obama, and Romney.
You'd see the girl running around with a round one sign around the ring.
It's the end of round one.
And Romney won round one.
Obama thought that Bain Capitol would be a silver bullet.
He thought Romney walked around with a bullseye in his chest, and all he needed to do was pull the trigger.
And once he put the Bain Capitol stuff on, Romney would fall apart.
Didn't happen.
And now Romney is coming back with Cylindra, and Obama's dropping Bain and moving on to his record as governor.
That's huge.
When you're a political consultant and you fire your best bullet, and the guy's still standing and isn't hurt, that's very bad news.
Damn straight it is, and Bain was bullet point number one in this camp.
Well bullet point number two.
Occupy Wall Street and uh Romney care, and that's still to come.
Is the number one bullet point going after Romney care.
But this was number two, and it didn't work.
They finally had to drop it.
That is a that that good observation here by Dick Morris.
Move up to Soundbite Six.
You gotta hear this.
This is a segment from John King USA Today last night.
The guest was Time Magazine Deputy Washington Bureau Chief Michael Crowley.
And this is all about Wisconsin and Sky Scott Walker.
And John King, the host CNN, is is is just lamenting.
He's he's worried, is wringing his hands.
Why is it Obama going to Wisconsin?
There's real trouble in Wisconsin.
Why is it Obama going there to help save the day?
Unfortunately, I think that may be an indicator of what they're polling as telling them.
I think it doesn't look good.
So if it doesn't look good, you don't go.
That's courage.
Sometimes you just you don't want to board a ship that's gonna sink.
And the larger problem is that this could uh this could embolden Republicans.
I believe Republicans haven't carried Wisconsin since 1984.
And it will put some wind at their backs, get them some momentum, make them feel like that they can pick one off that the White House wasn't hoping to defend, so the White House might want to start that defense now.
But for the moment they don't want to be associated with what looks to them like a losing cost.
Okay, that's Michael Crowley at Time Magazine.
That's who you heard.
He heard John King say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, so you're losing.
It doesn't look good.
That's why you go.
Where's the courage?
Why the mom and giving up?
We're doing everything we can.
We've done everything we can.
We got the memo in Wisconsin, and we've done everything we can.
He won't even go help us.
Why?
Is he gunless?
Well, you know, you keep your powder dry.
John, we gotta get uh marshal our forces for a little bit later on.
don't want to be associated with what looks like a shellacking right now.
Let me grab a quick call.
Sandy Madison, Wisconsin.
Now, By the way, the Edwards jury is back with a verdict.
Don't know what it is yet, but we'll tell you.
Madison and Sandy High, great to have you here.
Hey, Rush, what a thrill.
Just talking about uh complacency of uh the possible complacency.
I think as equally uh dangerous is the fraud.
Um just with the past elections uh with the um uh Judge Prosser.
I truly believe that uh if those votes that had kind of been under the radar had been known, I think they would have found dead or whatever voters they had to get to win that election.
Wait a minute.
What are we talking about?
Well, just the recall election.
But what com what what fear?
Who's who's afraid of what in Wisconsin?
I personally, just with what is happening.
We have uh reports of high school teachers loading up high schoolers, taking them to uh the early vote, which is a lot of people.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, you say the fear is not complete.
You you're you're worried about vote fraud in Wisconsin.
Yes.
Oh, oh, oh, okay.
I got it.
Well, we'll talk about it when we come back.
All right.
Let's examine this.
Call her from Wisconsin, not complacent, she's frightened.
Voter fraud.
What is this based on?
It's based on well, first the realization that voter fraud occurs in the Democrat side.
There's no question about it.
The resistance to a photo ID to vote is all the evidence that you need.
And it's uh very true.
Tuesday, they've always said a Democrat said Debbie Blabbermouth Schultz said Tuesday is gonna be a dry run for a Democrat Party machines get out the vote fraud, too.
Now she didn't say that, but back she said two things in the same day.
When she went to C-SPAN, she's gonna be a dry run for the presidential race, and later that day she said, no, the the two are not related.
It is a dry run, and and the fear is because all of us know they cheat.
All of us know they engage in free, they use uh in in uh in fraud, they use early voting.
That's that's a recipe for cheating.
It's one of the reasons it exists.
But we always assume that they succeed at it.
Now, if this fear leads to a big Republican turnout, I'm all for it.
Normally I don't like fear because fear paralyzes.
And fear sometimes is an indication of pessimism and negativism.
And I think there may be some of that here.
Well, we can't overcome, uh, they're gonna cheat.
Oh, we don't have a chance, we can't possibly win.
I don't know there's enough fraud to overcome seven or eight points, but I don't I don't want to say anything.
If you're gonna if you're gonna believe that the Democrats are downplaying expectations on purpose, this is a theory that they're pulling the money out, and it's all part of a sandbag trick.
And their polling companies are jiggering the numbers, and it's not really as big an advantage or lead for Walker as the polls.
We're being set up big.
I know people that believe this.
That we're being set up in every way.
The polls are not true.
The Democrats have not pulled money out of there.
They're secretly engaging in early voting and other uh uh ways of vote fraud, and we're thinking we got a big victory already in hand and we're gonna get shocked, and then they're gonna have the biggest time in the media and are gonna make it out to be Obama gets re-elected in Wisconsin, it's all over, everybody depressed on our side.
I just folks do not think that they are that smart and that good.
And if we are capable of it of of knowledge like that, if we're capable of this suspicion, then we're capable of beating it.
But it can also work against us.
I just I I I just I reject the notion that they never make a mistake that even when they're losing by eight points, it's part of a grand plan that we're not smart enough to figure out.
Do I have a yes, I've got a gut about how it's gonna go.
Well, I'm not gonna sit here and predict it because I don't want to lead to complacency myself.
Look, the Walker people are not sitting down.
They're still raising money.
They're acting like they're a startup, which is good.
They're acting like nothing's in the bag.
They're doing the things right.
The Walker side's doing everything right in this.
They're not running around celebrating anything yet.
There's nothing to celebrate.
And I'm fully aware the Democrats could be sandbagging on all this stuff.
But then I live in Realville, and it is as bad.
There's there's there's How do you explain the Wall Street Journal story on union membership plummeting in Wisconsin?
How do you explain the low unemployment rate in Wisconsin in And a lot of other states run by Republicans, by the way.
How do you explain everything Walker's doing working?
Is that part of the Democrat plan too?
No, it's not.
The fear is the result of decades of conditioning combined with a lack of confidence in Republican leadership.
But I am profoundly confident of Scott Walker and the people he's got working on this.
So we'll find out.
Is that what it is?
Five days from now.
What legal question?
What?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, certainly wants to know if I think uh uh the Brett girl getting 30 years for whatever the charges are.
Does it seem excessive?
I haven't even thought about it.
I I really haven't thought about it.
All I know is that I said earlier today that this jury is taking a long time because they must like reliving all the evidence, and then lo and behold, here we got a verdict.
Again, the power of EIB.
All it took was for me suggesting the jury was enjoying this, and now look, we got a verdict.
And we should have it in uh in mirror in mirror.
I don't even know what the charge is.
Lied about the money.
You know, let me let me let me just he knew his supporter was paying off the mistress.
Of course he did.
He ordered it.
He asked this he asked his supporter to assume parenthood.
Paternity, and he had this melon babe, well.
And this melon woman who she had a crush on him.
I just look, folks, here we're we're in the jungle.
It's a snake city here in this uh in this in this this trial.
Um I'm not saying he should be guilty because he's a sleasebagger of snake, simply for 30 years for it.
I'm I'm um look at I'm gonna wait and see what happens here.
I don't think he's gonna get 30 years.
Um but you know what?
I want to move on here.
I I've got some sound bites, and I I want I want you people listen to this with me because I we've got Obama at the unveiling.
I just I want I want you to get your thoughts on that.
I may not hear what you think, you may not be able to get through and tell me, but I want you to listen to these anyway.
This is the portrait unveiling for George W. Bush.
Yeah, the Edwards charges misuse of campaign funds.
How come Al Sharpton's walking around free?
And Edwards faces 30 years.
That's what you're saying, snerdly.
It really is two Americas.
There's no question about it.
Umbe if he's exonerated, they can send him to Wisconsin to help out, you know, with the uh with the unions and stuff.
Career may not be over.
We'll see.
Okay, we've got uh we got three Obama bites, we got three Bush bites.
And we can do them, we'll do them three Obama to other three Bush, we'll do side-by-side comparisons.
Here's Obama number one.
The months before I took the oath of office were a chaotic time.
Uh we knew our economy was in trouble.
Uh our fellow Americans were in pain.
Uh but we wouldn't know until later just how breathtaking uh the financial crisis had been.
And still uh over those two and a half months in the midst of that crisis.
I don't President Bush, his cabinet, his staff, many of you who are here today.
I do went out of your ways.
George, you went out of your way to make sure that the transition uh to a new administration was as seamless as possible.
It's Mr. President you went out of your way.
It's not George, you went out of your Anyway, he couldn't help himself.
This is a day where all this is set aside, but he has to point out it was bad and it was worse than we knew.
It was worse than they told us.
But even two and a half months in the midst of the crisis, President Bush went out of their way to make sure the transition to us was seamless.
The months before I took the oath were chaotic, economy was in trouble, fellow Americans were in pain.
So let's just.
So you got Bush sitting there and let's camp.
The country sucked when I got here because of you, buddy, even though we're unveiling your portrait today.
And it was so bad we didn't know how bad it was until we actually got in here.
Am I overinterpreting this?
Am I hearing what I expected to hear?
Am I making too much of this or not?
Is it classless?
The months before I took the oath were a chaotic time.
We knew the economy was in trouble, but we wouldn't know until later just how breathtaking the crisis was.
Okay, here's Obama too.
All of us will always remember the image of President Bush uh standing on that pile of rubble, uh, bullhorn in hand, conveying uh extraordinary strength and resolve uh to the American people, but also representing the strength and resolve of the American people.
And last year when we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden, I made it clear that our success was due to many people in many organizations working together over many years across two administrations.
Oh.
That's why my first call uh once American forces were safely out of harm's way was to President Bush.
Okay, so Bush's greatest moment was passing power to Obama, even though he lied to him about how bad it was.
And in Bush's second best moment was when Obama called him and told him to kill bin Laden.
Is that right?
Or am I misgetting?
Am I misinterpreting this, folks?
Well, they did get he did give Bush some credit getting bin Laden here, but it was the highlight for Bush is getting the phone call from Obama.
Okay.
Um I don't want to.
I don't want to err on on the side of bias here.
I uh just here's Obama three.
One of the greatest strengths of our democracy is our ability to peacefully and routinely go through transitions of power.
Leaders and their families who are willing to devote their lives to the country that they love.
Uh this is what we'll think about every time we pass these portraits, just as millions of other visitors will do in the decades and perhaps even the centuries to come.
Right.
So if America lasts a couple more centuries, people will think about Bush passing power to Obama when they pass Bush's portrait.
Is that right?
That's what people think of.
Hundreds of years from now, people will think about Bush passing power to Obama when they pass Bush.
Mr. President, let me tell you something.
You probably piles of rubble.
What we're always going to remember, Mr. Obama, is the image of you standing on the rubble of the U.S. economy.
That's the image we have.
All right, we got a text from the courtroom.
Unanimous verdict against Edwards on one count.
I don't know what the verdict is, but it's unanimous, hung jury on the remainder of the counts.
Okay, Obama.
Even Bush's portrait was all about him.
The greatest moment was passing power.
Bush's greatest moment passing power to Obama.
Bush's second best moment was when Obama called him and told him bin Laden was dead.
And then in a couple hundred years, people will think about Bush passing power to Obama when they pass Bush's portrait in the White House.
He gave his stump speech.
He gave His stump speech at a portrait unveiling.
Let's listen to Bush, shall we?
They have three Bush bites.
Here's number one.
I am pleased that my portrait brings an interesting symmetry to the White House collection.
It now starts and ends with a George W. When the British burned the White House in 1814, Dolly Madison famously saved this portrait of the first George W. Now, Michelle.
If anything happens, there's your man.
A little dig, a little dig from Bush.
Here's Bush 2.
I am also pleased, Mr. President, that when you are wandering these halls as you wrestle with tough decisions, you will now be able to gaze at this portrait and ask, what would George do?
Oh!
Oh ho ho ho!
Another dig.
Mr. President, not Barack, did you notice?
Mr. President, when you're wandering these halls, you'll now be able to ask, what would George do?
Oh yeah.
And then here's Bush 3.
I am honored to be hanging near a man who gave me the greatest gift possible.
Unconditional love.
And that would be number 41.
His dad.
George H.W. Bush.
Okay, we still don't know.
At least I don't.
A verdict was reached on count three, which involves the misuse of campaign funds.
That's Bunny Mellon.
But I don't know what the verdict is.
And the rest of the counts, uh it's a well-hung jury.
Oh, the judge sent him back to deliberate more.
Okay, so the well-hung jury is going to be.
Okay, cool, cool.
So in in politics, you don't think it should matter whether or not a donor pays for the illegitimate child.
Where paternity is claimed by a supporter to hide the real paternity.
You don't think there's a crime there.
Okay, well, it's a campaign expense, is all it is, right?
Is this politics?
What the hell?
Okay, fine.
Well, they got a verdict.
We don't know what it is.
Hung jury on the rest.
We'll see you tomorrow, folks.
Open line Friday.
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