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June 14, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 14, 2012, Thursday, Hour #2
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You know, it does seem that way.
Seems like George Bush is being blamed more than all the reasons there are for global warming.
Anyway, greetings and welcome back, folks.
Great to have you here.
It's El Rushbo, America's real anchor man.
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Yeah, I did.
I watched Dallas last night.
I loved that show back in the 1980s.
I even watch periodically, I haven't done it recently, but I go back and I got every episode.
And I go back and I watch them.
I love nostalgia.
You know, the older you get, the more fun it is to go back and remember where you were at times when you were enjoying certain things.
But this is going to be good, I think.
Try this.
Bobby Ewing owns South Fork now.
JR is in a nursing home with clinical depression.
Bobby owns it, and his mother, Miss Ellie, had a provision in her will that no oil drilling would ever happen on South Fork.
No oil drilling ever would happen.
The show opens with JR's kid striking oil on South Fork.
Now, the question I had, wait a minute, Bobby Ewing owns a place.
He lives there, and his brother's son has got an oil rig and a Derek and a crew out there, and he doesn't know it on his own ranch.
And it's out there long.
It's a strike oil and big time, like 2 billion barrels worth of oil.
So Bobby decides, well, I can't have this.
This is JR's kid doing this, Miss Ellie's will.
So he makes a deal with a conservancy group to sell South Fork to Conservancy Group.
What he doesn't know is, maybe I shouldn't be talking about this.
Some of you people probably T-Bo'd and haven't watched it.
Anyway, let me just this.
Bobby's kid, Christopher, has sworn off oil.
It's horrible.
It's filthy.
He's Obama on oil.
And he's into alternative energy.
And his alternative energy is extracting methane from the ocean floor.
And during the first episode, it is learned that his company has caused an earthquake in Japan in the process of extracting methane from the ocean floor.
JR's kid, who hates Christopher now, has spies, and he figures this out.
And that's just, really, I thought it was going to be cheesy and modernized to the point that it wasn't going to be any good.
But it is.
It was a two-hour premiere and it zipped by.
Yeah, you can frack underwater.
Oh, that's what I mean.
And they got it right.
They have the oil industry properly represented.
Of course, I think Dallas on television is the only place you can actually watch oil drilling in this country anymore.
It's like it's like a science fiction thing.
But I enjoyed it.
I can't wait till the next episode's next week.
Okay.
Obama's big speech is this hour.
He's in Cleveland.
This is the big reset speech.
This is the speech.
There's going to be plenty of blame for Bush because there's a Gallup poll out that says 68% of the American people hold Bush more responsible for this than they hold Obama for it.
I kid you not.
52% blame Obama, a combined, to one degree or another, blame Bush, 68%.
That will be a home run for Obama to run with that and Europe.
But I want to give you some things to keep in mind during this blamethrower speech that's coming up.
As you listen to him complain, as you listen to him blame, as you listen to Obama whine, combined with all the progress we're making.
But it would be even faster if it was not for that dreaded Bush and how horrible he was.
Keep in mind, what Obama is really doing is telling us he doesn't have what it takes to fix what Bush did wrong.
It's stunning.
You take this out to its most logical conclusion.
And what we're hearing from Obama is this Bush guy was so bad, I can't fix it.
I've been at it three and a half years and I can't fix it.
And there's no reason to re-elect me.
I've shown I don't know how to fix it.
That's what he's saying.
He doesn't know it, but that's what he's saying.
And that's what I'm going to continue to remind people he's saying.
But you keep in mind when you hear this speech or when you see highlights of it, whenever you see it, he chose to run for president.
He chose to accuse Bush of being unpatriotic for increasing the deficit.
He chose to promise that he would cut the deficit in half by now.
He chose a nearly $1 trillion shovel-ready stimulus that was nothing more than a slush fund for public employee union members.
He chose trillion-dollar budget deficits every year.
He chose to jam Obamacare down our throats.
And that destroys our indebtedness situation.
He chose to go to war against the fossil fuel industry.
The thing to keep in mind, everything that is happening in this country that has gone wrong, he chose to do it, starting with choosing to run for president.
You keep that in mind as you hear him blame other people.
And even if he doesn't blame other people, he's still going to whine because he's a baby.
He's really nothing more than a childish baby who grew up pampered and one of these people, self-esteem left and right.
You're special.
You're wonderful.
The world could not survive without you.
The world is a better place with you in it, little Barack.
It is not in him to be humble.
Humility and Obama are strangers.
He doesn't, he can't even fake that, I don't think.
Barack Obama cannot escape his choices.
The Democrats took over Congress in 2007.
Barack Obama never tried to trim one Bush budget while he was in the Senate.
He voted for every spending measure that Bush set up there.
He voted for every spending measure the Republicans or the Democrats in the House initiated.
As you listen to him today, you remember this, please.
He chose everything that's happening, including to run for president.
He did not oppose one penny of spending.
He said that he had a plan for the country when he ran for office.
The American people gave Barack Obama a Democrat Senate and a Democrat Congress for two years to execute his plan.
He had majority control over the executive and legislative branches for two years.
The Republicans couldn't stop anything that Obama and the Democrats wanted to do.
They didn't have the votes in the House of Representatives and they didn't, of course, anywhere near the Senate.
They didn't have the chance to stop anything.
The Democrats could have got everything they want for two years.
Obama baked massive deficits into the cake starting in his first year.
And they, with that stimulus fund, that slush fund, the baseline was expanded by nearly a trillion dollars, guaranteeing trillion-dollar deficits every year after that if nobody did anything.
Now, the Republicans in the House since 2011 have slowed Obama's spending urges.
There is gridlock, and this is one of the greatest illustrations of the value of gridlock: Obama has been thwarted, but he baked a bunch of deficit expansion into this budget the first two years that nobody has been able to do anything about.
Every year, Obama submitted budgets, and his budgets were so outrageous that not even the Democrats in the House or Senate voted for it, not one.
So Obama baked all of this deficit expansion and all of this debt into the cake the first two years.
It's his signature.
It's his cake.
It's his recipe.
George Bush was nowhere around.
Obama also baked massive baseline spending increases into the cake, regulatory increases.
And along with all of this came massive uncertainty, which has paralyzed business in this country.
Business is paralyzed, the standpoint of investing in itself because they don't know what's ahead.
They fear what's ahead if Obama's re-elected.
They're sitting on what they've got rather than invest it in a losing economy and a losing proposition.
You keep all this in mind as you listen to him because everything that has happened has been his choice.
Everything that he's done has his signature on it.
It's his recipe.
It was his kitchen.
It was his oven.
And it was his cake that he baked with all of these things in it.
He made his choices.
In November, we will make ours.
Barack Oblamo, Barack Kardashian Oblamo, claims that people aren't listening.
Just this week, he said they're not following the ups and downs, the ins and outs of the campaigns too soon.
Why is he giving a speech today then if people aren't paying attention?
Let us use our intelligence guided by experience, shall we?
When you say things are fine, when things are fine, things are operating in a normal manner.
Do you pay attention to them?
Do you inspect your refrigerator condenser coil or fan when everything's okay?
Do you schedule a doctor's appointment when you're feeling good?
No.
When things are going right, you don't notice it because that's what is.
That's what should be.
When everything's normal, you go about your business.
It's when things aren't working, when things aren't right, that you notice them and things aren't right.
And they haven't been right for many, many moons.
And they are getting worse.
And I think the fact that Obama is going to go out and make a speech today is a tantamount admission that people are paying attention, which is not good for him.
Here, grab, I'm changing my mind.
Grab soundbite number five.
We have the forehead here last night on CNN with Anderson Cooper.
Who said, what's your take on what Carville had to say about Oblamo's message being off?
He's my best friend for almost 30 years now.
And also, I advise the pro-Obama super PAC.
At the same time, I think James has a point.
Elections are always about the future, not the past.
It is very difficult for incumbents to understand that.
I know the president has actually stopped the Bush Depression.
I know he's created 4.3 million private sector jobs.
If you go out there and say that, though, to those 25 million Americans who are hurting and 100 million Americans who are worried, you're not going to be well received.
So I do think the president's got to make this much more about the future.
Yeah, he can't make it about the present or the past.
He's nailing shut his own coffin.
But this 4.3 million jobs is a bogus number.
How do you lose over 2 million people from the labor force and create 4 million jobs out of that?
There's so much smoke and mirrors going on here.
Certainly isn't any truth.
So even the foreheads say, don't talk about, all these people are hurting and 25 million out of work.
You don't talk about the private sector being fine.
See, if the economy is not doing fine, and it isn't, unemployment's over 8% for the longest period since the Great Depression.
It is.
We got Tax Magedon months away.
It's been said if nothing's done, the economy might collapse because of these tax increases coming.
If Obamacare is left in place and you lose your insurance, and many people will, would you be following the ups and downs, the ins and outs of this campaign?
Were the voters in Wisconsin paying attention?
You know, Obama lying to himself, telling me, well, people aren't paying attention now.
It's too soon.
They're not following the ups and downs.
The ins and outs of the campaign.
People of Wisconsin are paying attention.
People in Indiana were paying attention.
People in Utah are paying attention.
They're paying attention everywhere.
If people aren't following current events that affect their lives, why are so many people who were once obsessed with Obama now so disinterested?
Why has he lost 20% of the black vote in the polls in North Carolina if people aren't paying attention?
Why would all these emphatic, slavish idolizers of Obama change their minds and go ho-hum if they weren't paying attention?
Why are so many polls showing major shifts in voting preferences?
Why have so many Jewish voters in New York bailed on Obama again, according to the polls?
Because they're not paying attention.
Why have so many young voters, Scott Walker, got the lion's share of voters under the age of 25?
Why have the youths become so unenthusiastic about the one?
Could it be that they're paying attention to the fact that they can't find jobs?
Could it be that they're paying attention to the rising student loan debt that they are incurring?
Let's stop all this nonsense.
Obama's always going to minimize his problems.
It's the way he's wired.
His narcissism won't allow him to be critical of himself, and he doesn't have any humility.
So, blame Bush.
Blame Europe.
The Politico has an excerpt, they say, from the Obama speech.
Not much of one, but here's what the Politico says the president will say.
This election offers the American people a chance to break the stalemate between two fundamentally different visions of how to grow the economy, create middle-class jobs, and pay down the debt.
This election offers the American people a chance to break the stalemate between two fundamentally.
I think what the American people want to do is stop this version, this vision, the Obama vision.
Everybody sees it with 2020 vision.
Don't want any more of it.
That's why he's making the speech.
Let's go to Theodore, Texas.
Hi, Carolyn.
I'm glad you called.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hello, Rush.
It's a great honor to speak to you.
Thank you very much.
I ponder a lot of things that I listen to all the time.
And one of the things that's come to mind, well, I have a couple of points, if you'll bear with me.
The first one is that I think all the super PACs need to get together and slam Obama over this do-nothing Congress.
Thank God we have a do-nothing Congress.
If you can see where we got to 2010, imagine where we'd be right now if they still got everything through they wanted.
Yep, that's exactly right.
Well, you'll be happy to hear that Sheldon Adelson, who is a big Las Vegas casino gaming tycoon, he was funding Gingrich's campaign for a while, has donated $10 million to Romney Super PAC.
Yes, sir, I understand that.
Well, that ought to make you pretty happy out there.
Well, yes, sir, it does.
But another point I'd like to make is that you were speaking along these lines a few minutes ago when you were talking about our whiner of a president.
And I think, number one, we need common sense in these offices.
And number two, anybody would be better than Obama because it is so painfully obvious that he has absolutely no experience in dealing with anything.
And to that extent, I think a lot of abuse of power in the way that he's...
See, you've hit on something.
For what his intentions are and for what he intends to do, he doesn't need any experience.
Everybody keeps looking, and I'm not criticizing you.
Everybody keeps looking at this guy through the traditional lens of politics.
Yeah, he's got to have a deficit reduction program.
Yeah, no, no, no.
This guy, for what he intends, he doesn't need any experience.
Just needs the will to do it.
This guy is out to transform our country, not fix anything.
And the reason for blaming Bush is to set the table for his continued reconstitution of this country.
So President Oblamo saying that we need to vote for him to end the stalemate.
There's a stalemate here.
Two visions to fix the economic mess.
And we need to vote for him to end the stalemate.
Now, the problem with that approach is he is the problem.
He's the reason for the stalemate.
People are trying to stop him.
That's why there's a stalemate.
He thinks if he wins, the message will be sent that people are supporting what he wants to do and everybody will bow down, get out of the way, let it happen.
And you couldn't blame him for that interpretation if he does win.
You go back to Ronaldus Magnus.
Ronaldus Magnus won because he ran on fixing Carter's mess.
That's what he said he was going to do.
He was going to fix Carter's miss, and he succeeded.
And then he was re-elected after doing that before.
Now, this stalemate business, I made a big point mere moments ago, and I want you to work very hard remembering this.
For two years, Obama was and had a juggernaut.
The Republicans could not stop him.
That's why, if you recall, the election of Scott Brown to the Senate, Massachusetts, was so noteworthy.
It kept the Senate from having 60 votes.
They couldn't be stopped those two years.
Obama ran on the promise he was going to fix Bush's mess.
He's made it worse, blaming Bush for it.
He's admitting he doesn't have what it takes to fix what Bush did wrong, and yet he wants four more years to try, theoretically.
But Obama had a Democrat House and a Democrat Senate.
So if he couldn't do it then, if his vision couldn't at least begin to turn things around in two years with unstoppable power, what difference is a reboot going to make?
I hope the Politico is right.
I hope that that's the theme of the speech, because that theme can be fitted for a cement swimsuit and put on him.
I'm telling you, two competing visions.
We've had two years of unobstructed Obama juggernaut power.
They couldn't fix it.
They made it worse.
Oh, and get this.
After Obama's speech, Axelrod is going to handle Q ⁇ A about it on Twitter.
Now, who is the candidate?
Oh, an Axelrod.
Let me find the audio soundbite of this.
I know it's in here somewhere.
Let's see, where is it?
Number nine.
Grab audio summary number and grab number 12.
Our buddy Bob Wutz is back.
Jim Ramot, here's Axelrod this December 21st, 1994, in Chicago on a TV show called Chicago Tonight on WTTW Eyeball News TV.
And he's talking to the host then, a guy named John Calloway, and they're talking about the economy as a campaign issue in 1994.
One of the interesting things about this is that as you cite these statistics that say the economy is improving, you almost do political damage to yourself.
If you stand up and claim great progress, you're only frustrating this alienated middle class more.
And that was the key.
The other thing is I think Bush tastelessly did it often from the Ninth Hole and from the cigar boat and other places.
And the impression you got is that he was out of touch with the experience of the city.
I don't like to beat up on Bush.
It's the only thing we have left.
Yeah, Bush was out on the golf course, Axelrod says, out on the golf course and he was in the cigarette boat.
It's a cigarette boat, not a cigar boat.
Yeah, and he was talking about the economy coming back.
It was 1994 and Bush doing this stuff.
Well, it was Bush before the campaigns he's talking about.
But Bush was on a golf course.
And it's out of touch.
Here's a guy who played more rounds of golf in two years than Bush played in four.
I'm talking about 41.
So you can take all this stuff.
You can throw it right back at them.
They're not the super smart, infallible team, Axelrod and Pluff, that everybody thinks that they are.
And here's our buddy Bob Lutz.
He was on with Laurie Kudlow last night, a Kudlow report on CNBC.
Kudlow said, you believe that business believes that Romney will be really much better for business.
Business has been very profitable under Obama, some of them.
I know they're not hiring.
I know it's anemic economy in terms of growth rate, but business has made a lot of money under Obama, Mr. Lutz.
All of the businessmen I talk to are worried about this administration, worried about where the country is going, and they're solidly behind the Republican Party.
Why did Kudlow seem uninterested in that?
What's Kudlow talking about here?
Holy business is doing great under Obama.
Anyway, Lutz, former General Motors vice chairman, blaming me for the failure of the vault, says that all the businessmen he talks to are worried about this administration, worried about the economy, solidly behind the Republican Party.
Back to the phones.
This is Richard in Arlington, Texas.
Richard, welcome to the EIB Network.
Thanks for calling.
Thanks for taking my call and enjoy your show.
Thank you very much.
You're talking about fossil fuel, and I was reading about our discoveries of methane on Titan, the moon of Saturn.
And it causes me to think that perhaps fossil fuel is something that they pulled the wool over our eyes.
Hydrocarbons is probably what we should be saying.
Oil and natural gas and coal.
The Earth is just made out of it.
And the notion of fossil fuel is the idea that it comes from plants and animals somehow, and we're going to run out of it.
And that's a notion that we were taught as kids.
Yeah, but we've got hundreds and hundreds of years of the stuff left.
Apparently, maybe even more.
Yeah.
Because if it's just part of the Earth, and it's just going to, it's just there.
And we're never going to use it up.
It's someplace harder to get than others.
But allowing the liberals to get us to talk in terms of fossil fuel as opposed to renewable energy is a false.
Renewable energy is a crock.
Would somebody show me some?
There you go.
And exhaustible energy.
I can give you renewable energy.
How about cow poop?
What are we talking about renewable energy?
The problem with renewable energy is what it conjures up in the minds of people like in Rio Linda.
Gasoline becomes gasoline after you use it.
That's what they think renewable energy is.
Renewable energy is one of these terms the left throws around.
It sounds like magic.
And he said, We're on the verge of discovering it.
It's just like Biden out there.
Yeah, elect us, and we're not going to need soil or water or fertilizer to grow crops if you just elect us.
So they start talking about renewable energy.
And I guarantee you, most people start thinking magic that after you use the electricity, somehow you can go get it and use it again.
After you use the coal that produces the electricity, somehow you can renew it.
You can get it to renew itself.
That's what they think.
But what is it?
Now, Richard, are you still there?
Richard goes, I don't understand what his point was about the methane on Titan.
Oh, he's counting methane as a fossil fuel.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
Okay.
Well, and he may have a point.
Here's the thing.
He was pointing out here that they on one of the moons of was it Saturn, Saturn Titan, that they have found lakes of methane.
And what Richard's basically, well, where the hell were the dinosaurs there?
I don't know about you, folks.
I know some of you people grew up thinking that some of the blood in the human body was blue.
I didn't, I was never taught that.
And I only learned that people were taught that in large numbers in the past month on this program.
I forget how it came up, but Snerdley and Dahl were both taught that blood is blue and you can see it.
The veins.
Veins are blue.
There's blue blood in there.
And I could not believe that they grew up thinking there's blue blood in the human body.
I said, have you ever seen anybody bleed blue blood?
Hits the oxygen, turns red.
Is that what they told you?
Hits the oxygen, turns red.
So instantly turns red.
The blue blood.
They're telling me now they were taught that.
Okay, so I was never taught that.
And if somebody had tried to tell me that, even when I was a young skull full of mush, there's no way I would have believed it.
There is no way I would not have believed that there was blue blood because I had never seen any.
I would have smirked like you can't believe.
I can't believe you thought that blood was blue.
And I can't believe that you bought the silly notion that the instant it hit oxygen, that it turned red.
Just like that.
Not gradually, just like so that it never appeared blue except when you looked at the vein.
Well, by the same token, let me run something by you that I was taught.
And I think probably you were too.
Oil is only there because it's what the dinosaurs used to be.
You were taught, and plants, but mainly I was dinosaurs, the dinosaurs, and they fossilized and compressed in years and years of mystical scientific forces turned fossilized dinosaurs into oil.
Now, I'm going to tell you what I, when I first heard that, my mind could not get my arms around how many damn dinosaurs that would take.
And I was skeptical of that from the first time I heard it.
And then I said, you mean to tell me that most of the world's dinosaurs were in freaking Saudi Arabia in a desert.
And in the equatorial areas and all of the hot, humid tropical places where you figured the dinosaurs were, there isn't any oil.
So there's no oil where the dinosaurs were, but there's plenty of oil where they weren't.
That was my reaction.
In addition to how many of the damn things would there have to be to produce this much oil?
Well, I bought it, but I had doubts at the same time.
And what old, what was his name, the last caller?
I can't remember his name.
What his point was, oh, yeah, you got methane up there.
Lakes of methane on the moon Titan, Saturn.
Dinosaurs?
Plants?
Where the hell did the methane come from?
Cows farting?
Where are they?
I mean, that's the primary source of methane that most people know about.
Cows creating global warming, greenhouse gases, so we have to stop eating McDonald's.
Well, where are the cows on that moon?
So his point was, all this stuff is just there anyway.
You know, I could get into real controversy here if I were to posit the notion that the Earth is still making oil.
It has to be.
It has to be.
But then there aren't any more dinosaurs and there haven't been.
What was the last excuse we read?
We just had it within the past couple of months and I've forgotten.
It'll come to me in a minute.
What was the reason the dinosaurs went extinct?
Was it their own farts?
We had a story.
Something had to cause their extinction.
It was not a meteor.
Coco, do a website search and find this.
I'm curious because it was ridiculous.
It was some stupid thing that caused the dinosaurs to vanish.
I got to take a break.
I'm way long.
We'll be back.
Here we go, folks.
My memory.
Something to behold.
Dinosaur flatulence, comma, belching may have contributed to warming the earth and killing them off.
It was May 7th.
It was an Associated Press story, and it was a result of research published in Current Biology.
Suggested the large dinosaurs made a significant contribution to greenhouse gases and the effect way back then.
They methaned themselves to death.
They burped and expelled gas to the point that they wiped themselves out.
And they're serious.
I swear.
And that stuff gets, that ends up in the curriculum.
Stuff ends up being taught.
Cody, Seattle, Washington, as we head back to the phones, welcome to the EIB Network.
Hi.
Good morning, Rash.
How are you doing today?
Very good.
Thank you.
I just started listening to you guys a couple months ago, you know, Michael Mendez, and I appreciate there's actually people out there who actually have some common sense anymore.
You're 25 and you just started listening three months ago?
Yeah, about three, four months ago.
How'd you find the program?
I've heard about you, you know, the whole time I've been growing up, rush, rush, rush, rush.
And why didn't you tune in then?
Because I just, I wasn't very politically, you know, I didn't know too much about politics.
Right, it didn't seem to interest you much, but then something happened.
You got interested in it.
Exactly.
I've been, you know, I'm just the average Joe.
I like to work.
As soon as, you know, I heard all about that stimulus.
Wait a second.
That's not average.
Not anymore.
You're special.
I know, I know.
And I just got special because, you know, we heard about the stimulus package.
I worked in construction.
Yeah.
And I've worked construction ever since I was 18 years old, and that's pretty much all I know is construction.
And so I depend a lot on these major projects.
So you were probably all excited when Obama announced the stimulus.
Very excited.
I was looking forward to working on the infrastructures, the bridges, roads, everything.
Right, but what happened?
About as soon as it got past, work stopped.
I mean, completely stopped for almost three years.
Never heard it put that way.
I love it.
I mean, you know, as soon as it got past high.
As soon as it got past, work stopped.
Yep.
Oh, well, I'm sorry to be laughing.
You're a funny guy.
I mean, it's the way you said it.
I'm laughing with you, Rush.
I'm totally laughing with you.
Well, look, you're not an average.
Let me say this.
You want to work.
You're part of that group of people that I say make the country work.
Look, hang on here, man.
I've got more to ask you, but I don't have any time.
I ask you to hang on.
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