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June 11, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 11, 2012, Monday, Hour #3
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The Obama Doghouse must be getting crowded.
Chicago Mayor Ram Emmanuel did defend Obama's handling of the economy on Sunday, but he also said that the economy is not growing healthy.
It's still growing, but it's not growing healthy.
Not exactly what you would want to hear from the Hill.com divisions in the Democrat coalition have burst into view, endangering both President Kardashian and his party colleagues in Congress as November's election nears.
Democrats disagree over the wisdom of Kardashian's attacks on Mitt Romney's private equity background at Bain Capital.
And they are split over the proposed construction of the Keystone Pipeline.
The divides are opening just as Republicans appear more unified, which underlines a danger for Democrats, highlights an abrupt reversal in the two major parties' fortunes.
When you ever see a story like this, Democrats divided.
You don't see stories like that.
But it's true, ladies and gentlemen.
It's true.
They are drifting apart.
And this private equity thing is one of the greatest illustrations.
Here's Obama talking about an Axel Rod, we want more cops.
Here, listen to Axel Rodd.
We've got him from CNN with Candy Crowley yesterday.
They were having a discussion about Obama's statement on Friday, the economy, private sector doing fine.
She asked Axel Roddy.
Here's what he said.
The private sector, we need to accelerate job creation in the private sector.
One of the ways that we can do that is putting teachers and firefighters and police back to work because those are good.
That's the public sector.
But that'll help accelerate the recovery.
She even said, Candy Crowley, CNN, state-controlled media.
She even said, that's public sector.
And Axel Rod, well, that'll help.
That'll help.
That'll help accelerate the recovery.
Oh, there you go.
Accelerate the recovery.
Just get more people working.
Now, we don't care how.
We don't care whether the jobs mean anything.
We don't care whether everything's produced.
We don't care whether there's economic growth.
Just more jobs, just more jobs.
Go hire cops and teachers and fire for them.
Yeah, just go create more crime, get more cops.
Create more illiteracy, hire more teachers.
Start more fires, hire more cops.
That's what we got to do.
That's exactly what we need.
And that's going to give us a growing economy.
These people are standing in quicksand.
By the way, Obama's back again.
There is a new ad out there attacking Bain Capital.
I don't know if I've got this in the soundbite roster yet, but if we don't, we'll get it eventually.
Bottom line is they're out there attacking Bain Capital again.
And Obama said they're not letting go of that.
No matter what Corey Booker says or anybody else, they're not letting go.
Lanny Davis, Mr. White House during the Clinton years.
Lanny Davis, Mr. Democrat.
I mean, you couldn't have a more loyal Democrat, a more loyal foot soldier than Lanny Davis.
I'll tell you, if any Democrat ever got in trouble, there is nobody better they could hire to have them being defended on television than by Lanny Davis.
Lanny Davis kept Clinton in office.
The truth can be told.
Lanny Davis was indefatigable.
Lanny Davis was omnipresent all during the Lewinsky scandal.
Lanny Davis did everything he could, and he did it above board.
You know, he didn't, he didn't do the, you know, they sent Carville out to try to characterize Ken Starr as a sex pervert.
Lanny Davis didn't touch that very often, if at all.
Lanny Davis, you ever get in trouble and you're a Democrat, you want him on your side.
By the same token, you don't want Lanny Davis not on your side.
And that might be happening.
Lanny Davis was on some obscure radio show on Friday.
And whoever was hosting the show said Republicans are smiling from ear to ear, saying that President Clinton received the Corey Booker treatment.
Then we get out of the New York Post this morning word that a senior administration official, some of the folks in the campaign headquarters, Chicago, were saying Corey Booker's dead to us.
That's a quote they're attributing to the Obama campaign because he had a moment of honesty on Meet the Press, defending Bain Capital, defending private equity, and saying how he hated politics descending to this depth.
And this was Lanny Davis' reply.
You have vicious people who are working for the president, not the president, who are saying that Corey Booker, one of the great supporters of President Obama's policies, is, quote, dead because he's giving the president good advice, disagreeing with the Kool-Aid drinking people in the campaign who think the way to win the presidency is to trash the other guy rather than to defend your own guy's record.
Vicious people, Lanny Davis, vicious people working for the president.
It's not the president, he said.
Okay, we'll let him have that.
But you and I both know that people in the campaign are simply reflections of Obama.
You don't have accidents get hired.
You don't have people off the wall get hired by the campaign.
They're vetted.
They're saying things Obama wants said.
Obama's out there ripping Bain Capital.
He's ripping private equity.
And he's everybody else doing it too.
And here's Lamnie Davis, Mr. Democrat, talking about how vicious.
So you've got Lanny Davis going off on Obama AIDS.
Now, I'm going to tell you, folks, Ralph Nader, let me just, Ralph Nader, former Green Party presidential candidate, Ralph Nader told a Daily Caller that former President Bill Clinton is undermining for Hillary Clinton's presidential run in 2016.
Clinton recently told CNN that Republican candidate Mitt Romney's business record at Bain is sterling.
People who do that kind of work are good people.
We don't need to be criticized.
He defended, he practically endorsed Romney, if you recall.
So Ralph Nader says he's laying down the groundwork for Hillary running for president in 2016.
Everything she's doing and everything he's doing argues they want to run Hillary for president in 2016.
Yeah, well, here's what's not being said.
They want to run Hillary against Romney.
That's because we, folks, we have known.
You and I have known for the longest time that the Hillary campaign was underway.
That's what this is.
When Bill Clinton's out there ripping into Obama and defending Romney, that's the Hillary campaign.
Now, where I think a lot of people made a mistake was that they assumed that this was for 2012.
A lot of people assumed that what was really on the agenda here was trying to get rid of Obama at the convention, put Hillary in there.
A lot of people in the Democrat Party, as you know, not happy with Obama.
The unions feel slighted.
The economy's in a toilet.
We're about to get flushed.
There's no end in sight to this.
Obama's losing his popularity, likability, and all this kind of is not holding together.
Worst week Obama's had in three and a half years was last week, ostensibly.
So everybody assumed that what Bill was doing was trying to set Hillary up for this year.
But I think, now with Lanny Davis out there talking about how vicious the Obama people are, I think, and Ralph Nader gives me a little hint here.
I think what they're setting up is Hillary in 2016.
And I think that they've made a calculation that Hillary has a better shot against an incumbent Romney than against whoever a re-elected Obama would choose as his heir apparent.
And it wouldn't be Biden.
So I stand by what I said last week.
I think Clinton was endorsing Romney.
I know he's walked it all back now.
I know he's been taken to woodshed.
I know he went on seeing it and he apologized and all that, but it doesn't matter.
It's like saying something in court that you shouldn't say.
You're objected to, and a judge tells the jury, forget what you just heard.
They never forget it.
It's on the record.
It's in there.
Maybe taken off the record, but it's still there.
The jurors heard it.
Well, everybody heard Clinton's endorsement of Romney.
Everybody heard is a defense of Romney.
And I'm just, I'm going to stick with it here.
I think what's going on, they're setting Hillary up for 2016.
We know the Clintons went back in there bad.
It's an unfinished bunch of business.
Hillary's turn in the White House.
It was going to be hers in 08.
We all know what happened.
But they're not angling for 2012.
They're angling 2016 against Romney.
Lammy Davis is a Clintonite.
Lamni Davis now talking about the vicious people in the Obama campaign who are being critical rather than defensive of their own record and so forth.
So we'll see.
Time will tell.
But I think I'm right about this.
And welcome back.
Rush Limbaugh.
Talent on lawn from God.
And to the phones, we go to Ben Woodbridge, Virginia.
Welcome to the EIB Network.
Hello.
Sir, I would like to say that, you know, when you talk about these residents not wanting to cut off their property taxes, I couldn't help but think to myself, didn't Obama publicly come out and say he wanted to kill the coal industry?
So I can't help but think that maybe they may anticipate that he wants to go after the oil industry as well.
So why not?
He's already going after the oil.
I understand the point that you're making.
He's already going after the oil industry.
It's called a Keystone Pipeline and the drilling moratorium in the Gulf of Mexico.
He's doing everything he can to hamper big oil.
Now, this story that he's talking about property taxes here, this is out of the Wall Street Journal.
An energy boom has flooded North Dakota's coffers at a time when almost every other state is struggling to make ends meet.
But when its fiscally conservative residents get the chance tomorrow to vote themselves a big tax cut, they're expected to say no.
At issue is a referendum for a proposed constitutional amendment to eliminate local property taxes, requiring the newly flush state government to make up the difference.
They got plenty of money because of this boom.
It's an oil boom, and the residents have a chance to get rid of property taxes.
Public union, public unions, employee unions are leading the charge to oppose eliminating the property tax.
They want it maintained.
Basically, what we have here, proponents, a loose group that includes people ranging from progressives to Tea Party members, say the state can afford it thanks to as much as $3 billion in expected revenue from taxes on oil and natural gas production in the current and next fiscal years.
They also cite sales tax revenue jumped 86% two years ago because of an influx of new residents and business because of the boom.
But the measures many opponents, including the Republican governor Jack Dalrymple, and organizations ranging from the North Dakota Chamber of Commerce to public employee unions, fear that eliminating property taxes is too risky a bet on prosperity that might not last.
They point out that state government already is pumping more money into local communities that's helping to reduce property taxes.
And they say the proposed amendment doesn't explain clearly how it would cover the loss of what's estimated to be $810 million that counties and towns and other local entities receive annually from property taxes.
Likely voters oppose the measure by nearly three to one.
So they're worried here that the boom won't last.
And what Ben here is saying is they might have a fear, since Obama is telling the coal industry that they're toast, that he might also tell these people he might outlaw fracking, might make the way they are extracting oil illegal.
Shut it down.
Now, the story does not allude to that.
But it's an intelligent thing to suspect, given Obama's track record on other conventional sources of energy.
But the oil industry is on Obama's kill list, just like coal is.
The kill list is not just terrorists.
No, no, no, no, no.
The kill list is not just terrorists, big oil and a number of other private sector businesses and industries.
Now, we know that Obama hates fracking.
Obama, this is the thing.
Anything that's new, you mean, well, what do you mean, Russia's for electric cars?
That's not new.
Do you realize how old the electric car idea is?
Would you like to take a guess?
How old?
When was the first electric car idea proposed?
You're going to be stunned when I tell you.
109 years ago.
109 years ago.
That's how old the notion of an electric car is.
109 years.
You could say that people have been working on this for 109 years and we've not gotten past the golf cart.
In practicality, everything Obama's doing is looking backwards.
He's against fracking, a new way to get more oil.
We've got more oil deposits in this country than the Saudis have.
Now, we can't get it the conventional way.
It takes new techniques, which are now viable, which are now profitable.
Big insurance is on the kill list.
Big pharmaceutical, big sugar.
And not just Obama's, but practically every liberal Democrat has these industries on the kill list.
So in a way, you can understand the people of North Dakota.
They know property tax funds certain things and afraid that Obama might just come shut down the source of all the revenue because he doesn't like private sector revenue this way.
He doesn't.
All right, folks, this North Dakota business, I want to tie that to Scott Walker.
After Scott Walker successfully turned back the recall, we have Chris Christie of New Jersey and Mitch Daniel, Indiana, a number of other governors.
Hey, look at this.
Need to take some lessons here from Scott Walker.
You other Republican governors, Mitt Romney, you got some things to learn here.
True.
All true.
Why is what's going on in South Dakota also not being touted as something to learn from?
You know, in this story, and I zoomed through it pretty quickly, in this story where the residents tomorrow are going to vote, according to polls, to turn down the chance to get rid of their property taxes.
Did you hear me say that sales tax revenue is up, 80 revenue is up 83 or 86 percent?
The story is all about how North Dakota is flush with money.
Now, granted, they've discovered a bunch of oil.
There's a boom there, and there's fracking going on.
But so what?
Why is that not a lesson for any other state?
Why are we not being told that that should be emulated in the old pre-Obama America?
People would be making a beeline for North Dakota, figure out how to do that in their state.
This governor up there, Dalrymple, would be guest number one at Republican governors' meetings describing how it's done.
How do you, in other words, if you can raise sales tax revenue 86%, you have solved a lot of state fiscal problems.
And they did it, of course, without raising the sales tax rate.
There's just all kinds of new economic activity going on.
There's a whole lot of commerce going on out there, and it's being taxed at existing rates.
And the revenue that it's creating is climbing.
It's just the same effect as lowering tax rates creates more jobs, more taxpayers, more tax revenue.
Works every time it's tried.
Obama hates it, doesn't want it because that grows the private sector.
He doesn't want to grow the private sector.
He doesn't like the private sector.
So why aren't we looking to North Dakota for inspiration elsewhere?
Well, one of the reasons is we've got a president who wants to shut North Dakota down if he had his way.
But forget that.
We know that we have great lessons to be learned there.
How do you increase sales tax revenue?
How do you increase tax revenue without raising taxes?
Raising taxes depresses the amount of revenue that's collected, actually.
There's a whole lot of capitalism going on in that state.
There's a whole lot of private sector entrepreneurism.
There's a whole lot of getting rich going on in that state.
And that state could provide a lesson for a whole lot of states, just like the Scott Walker lessons are going to be repeated state by state.
I want to go back to me on this program last Wednesday on this program.
The unions going down the tubes yesterday.
That's the lesson.
Every Republican governor ought to now have a spine of steel.
And Walker, even Time magazine made this point.
Walker did it by what?
Not compromising.
He didn't compromise one time with anybody on the left.
He stood fast everything he believed.
Yeah, I got 38% of union households.
He didn't compromise the Republican establishment technique, the Republican establishment handbook.
Reach across the aisle, compromise, get the independence.
Scott Walker said to that, and he wins by seven points.
Walker did not compromise at one thing.
Every Republican governor in this country now ought to have a spine of steel.
The Republican establishment should have learned something major.
Let's go to Sunday morning, Fox News Sunday, Mitch Daniels, the governor of Indiana.
Chris Wallace said, is this some sort of watershed that we're seeing right now?
Are voters across the country giving state and local officials the green light to go after or at least curtail public unions?
You know, there's a reason that defenders of labor from Franklin Roosevelt to George Meany to many others always said that unionism had no place in the public sector, that it was a necessary freedom in the private sector, but that it was a bad idea in government.
Are you saying that you would like to see no public worker unions?
I think really government works better without them.
Hear, here, and all it took was one election.
Nothing against Mitch Daniels, and I don't know that what I'm going to say is true, but would he have said that had this recall not happened?
Now, obviously, he wouldn't have said it if Walker had lost.
My point is, if the fight hadn't occurred, if somebody hadn't paved the way, would this line of thinking even be articulated?
You think there's anybody out there in Republican circles with the guts enough to say in a vacuum, we've got to get rid of these state employee unions.
They're killing us.
Now, once Scott Walker beats them back, now it's Katie Barthador.
Now we can all join the chorus.
Now we can all join the club.
This is exactly what I predicted was going to happen.
Newfound spines of steel.
And it wasn't just Mitch Daniels.
Let's move forward to Chris Christie.
This is the Conservative Political Action Conference in Illinois, in Chicago, Rosemont, actually.
And here's a portion of his remarks.
It is an outrage to have the President of the United States stand up and say to hardworking governors, Republicans and Democrats around this country, that state and local government hiring is moving in the wrong direction.
And we're to blame because the economy's not growing.
He's the one who put forward an ineffective, wasteful stimulus plan that did nothing to help this economy.
He's the one who saddled us with all these federal rules and regulations that don't allow governors to have the freedom to do what we really want.
And then he has the audacity to stand up this morning and say that it's the nation's governors and the nation's mayors who are driving our economy down by not hiring enough people for government work.
Well, there you have it.
So Chris Christie is now suddenly out of the Obama's just a nice guy over his head school.
He's gotten out of that.
Now taking Obama on.
He's not just saying, oh, he's well-intentioned.
He's a nice guy.
Now the gloves are off.
Exactly as I knew would happen.
And there will be other governors join this parade.
There will be other Republican governors join this parade.
Scott Walker is going to be, well, he's already a hero.
He's going to become even a larger one.
But the left, you can read it, you can hear it, they are worried that the entire institution of state municipal union workers is going down the tubes.
And Wisconsin, again, is the test tube for this.
One of the least commented on things about the entire recall in Wisconsin, one of the reforms was that Governor Walker left it up to union members to join a union or not.
Prior to his form, the state withheld union dues as they withheld all other taxes from a union member's paycheck.
After the reform, the union member could say, I don't want my union dues withheld.
I'll be in charge of whether I pay dues or not.
And 60,000 of them decided they weren't going to pay dues anymore.
And that is the number by which the union shrank, 60,000.
So Obama, the left, the Democrats, are in panic mode.
And that's another reason why Obama and Axel Rod all weekend are running around saying that private sector growth equals hiring more cops and more teachers and more firefighters.
Because those are the people, those are the jobs that are not going to be unionized.
Mitch Daniels had it right too.
FDR, George Meany, big labor guy way back in the 30s.
We don't want government workers unionized.
It pits groups of citizens against one another.
It's not right.
It's not going to have a happy ending.
And they were both right.
Now, on that score, FDR didn't know what he was talking about, according to modern-day liberal Democrats.
Everything else he did, he was God.
But on this one, of course, you know, selective idolatry and admiration for FDR.
So they're on the ropes.
And I'm just trying to make a little correlation here between that and what's happening in North Dakota with this oil boom.
It's an economic boom and it's oil.
And North Dakota is not the only place in this country where there's a lot of oil that could be brought to the surface via fracking.
There's a lot in Pennsylvania.
There's a lot in Montana.
Utah.
And it's all over the northern shelf, as it were.
Well, I don't know if you can frack in the ocean, but Obama don't want you fracking anywhere.
Okay, so the oil fracking in North Dakota, the way the libs are playing this, like all kinds of headlines at the MSNBC website, oil boom brings wealth and waste in North Dakota.
And they found a guy who thinks there's more pollution on his little plot of land because they're giving oil there.
And it's a focus on how the state's being polluted horribly.
It's an effort to get people opposed to the boom that's happening in North Dakota.
It's like Scott Walker.
After the Scott Walker recall debacle for the Democrats, what is the Democrat headline?
What's the media headline?
Romney is going to cut public sector jobs.
That's the way they're trying to instill fear.
Yep, Romney saw that.
Romney sees he's going to cut public sector jobs.
Now, the Democrat National Committee strategy this week is to attack Romney because he might cut government jobs.
And they think this is a good tactic for their side.
Even after the vote in Wisconsin, the Democrats think that it is a winning argument to say we need to expand government and hire more government workers.
They are so on the wrong side of history.
It's not even funny how they're missing this.
Scott Walker recall was supported by people all over this country, including in Wisconsin, obviously.
And the message was clear.
And the Democrats are out warning that that's what Romney wants to do nationwide.
And they think that they are helping themselves.
And now the spokeskid Jay Carney is out blaming the news media for taking Obama's comments about the private sector out of context.
I would say these people are, they are so out of context and out of touch.
This bad week last week, it's continuing.
It's going to end up being a bad two weeks if I'm not careful.
Let's go to Bridget, Creedmoor, North Carolina.
I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
I'm really honored to talk to you.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
I'm 17 years old.
I'm definitely my mom and dad since before I can remember.
And you've definitely helped with shaping how I perceive the world.
And you basically taught me how to think.
Well, not like indoctrination, but how to have critical thinking skills.
I appreciate you saying that.
I'm not sure what people are saying.
Like, I remember asking my mom about censorship one day after you'd mentioned how censorship was killing the country.
I was like eight years old or something.
It was just really intense to have a discussion like that at eight years old and then later in life in high school to be able to discuss it on a very intelligent level.
That's amazing.
Eight years old and you're discussing censorship with your folks.
Yes.
Amazing.
I'm actually leaving for basic training with the National Guard tomorrow.
So I was excited to get to talk to you before I left.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
Hold a minute.
You said you're 17.
Yes.
My parents signed a permission form basically stating that I could join the military back in January, and I've been training ever since to leave for basic training.
I'm going to Fort Sill.
You're going to Fort Sill for basic training for the National Guard?
17.
Yes.
God bless you.
That's, you are, you're incredible.
Thank you.
When did you decide that you wanted to do that?
I decided I wanted to join the military shortly after joining junior ROTC in high school, my freshman year.
Junior ROTC.
Why, your parents must be proud of you as they can be.
My mom looks like she's about to burst.
I'm not surprised.
I'd be about to burst too if I was your parent.
Thank you.
Yeah, I think we, yes.
By the way, Bridget, thank you so much for the call.
I can't tell you what it means to me when people like you call and say things.
And Bridget, let me tell you something.
You are definitely special.
Don't listen to these teachers that tell you you're the same.
You are definitely special.
There is no question about it.
Thanks so much.
Bridget, I appreciate it.
I really do.
Wow.
17 years old, National Guard, basic training, discussing censorship with her parents at eight years old.
Yeah, she thinks it's me, but it's actually her parents.
It's actually her parents.
You know, they've got to be proud of her.
Have some late news from the New York Times.
Family net worth.
Family net worth drops to the level of the early 90s, according to the Federal Reserve.
So yeah, the private sector is doing just fine.
Family net worth drops to the level of the early 90s.
Okay, folks, that's it.
And now I can move on to the real news of today, the new announcements from Apple, which I'm going to spend the next three hours absorbing.
Since you don't want to hear about it, I won't mention any more about it.
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