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June 15, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 15, 2012, Friday, Hour #2
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Hi, how are you?
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And it's Friday.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open live Friday.
And we will get to your phone calls in this hour as we always usually do.
Tell them number 800-282-2882.
Email Adras L. Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
Friday.
Special day.
Talk about whatever you want.
It's a golden opportunity.
I have to tell you, I don't think you people take advantage of it.
Every well, I probably shouldn't say this because it's whatever you want to do, but every Friday we get one or two calls that fill a bill.
Mostly it's like Monday through Thursday, which is fine.
It's Friday.
That's the whole point.
However, it manifests itself.
Of course, I don't know the calls that Snerdley's screening and not permitting to come in here.
So anyway, number again, 800-282-2882.
All right.
Sarah Jessica Parker and Anna Winter hosted this thing at Sarah Jessica Parker's house.
And the New York Post, I just want, here's the story.
Anna Winter was photographed with her daughter, Beach Schaefer, paying a visit to Parker and Matthew Broderick's West Village Townhouse.
By the way, he wasn't there last night.
He had a show, they said.
So Anna Winter, Vogue magazine dominatrix, Editrix, Editrix, and her daughter, Beach Schaefer, paying a visit to Parker and Matthew Broderick's West Village Townhouse, just as movers were hauling furniture in and out to prep for the $80,000 per couple fundraiser.
Sources said that Anna Winter was going crazy about the decorating.
She's having a lot of furniture removed, sending all of the Sarah Jessica Parker's tchotchkas upstairs.
Some of the stuff in the house was shabby chic.
And let's just say Anna wanted less shabby and more chic.
So she went in there and she took over Sarah Jessica Parker's house.
That's what the story implies.
Didn't like shabby chic.
Shabby chic is a form of interior design where furniture and furnishings are either chosen because they look old and worn out, signs of wear and tear everywhere, or they're either new items made to look that way.
Flaking paint, dents, little chunks taken out of the wood table in the kitchen.
Picture some of this stuff.
It looks like you'd run into one of Hatfield and McCoy's cabins.
At least to me.
At the same time, a soft, opulent, yet cottage-style decor, often with a feminine feel, is emphasized to differentiate it from genuine period decor.
Anyway, Anna Winter didn't like it, got it out of there.
So it's not even her house.
It's Sarah Jessica Parker's place.
Anna Winter shows up and she probably says, I'm not going in there.
I am not setting foot in this place.
I'm not having my picture taken a place like this.
So the story goes on, moved the piano upstairs.
They were spray painting stuff, washing doorknobs inside and out.
I mean, the making the place sound like a pigsty.
And while all this is going on, Sarah Jessica Parker and the kids are upstairs.
That's what the story is.
They're not around.
Had to take the kids upstairs.
And then there's this.
The AP, the Associated Press is reporting that during his speech to these people, $80,000 per couple.
Obama told the movie stars and fashion designers that were there last night, quote, you're the tiebreakers.
You are the ultimate arbiter of which direction this country goes.
They had people like Meryl Streep there, and I forget some of the others, but can you believe that?
You are the ultimate arbiter of which direction this country goes.
You're the tiebreaker.
Is that good to know, folks?
Movie stars and fashion designers, probably the only people on earth who are more out of touch than even Barack Hussein Kardashian is.
I want to thank the AP for not sitting on this.
I want to thank the AP for not spiking this.
I want to thank the AP for reporting that that's what Obama said, that actresses, actors, and fashion designers are the tiebreakers.
They are the ultimate arbiter of which direction the country goes.
Now, Meryl Streep was there.
Remember, she tried to destroy the apple industry once.
Went on 60 Minutes.
What are we doing to our children?
What are we doing?
Alar has put on apples to make them red.
She claimed it was poison.
Went after the apple industry.
In his world, they probably are the arbiters.
They're all living in make-believe.
Byron York has a piece at the D.C. Examiner: Obama's Amnesia about his first year as president.
This is kind of interesting.
What is it with Barack Obama in 27 months?
Listen to the president and his aides talk, and you'll soon hear claims that the regime has accomplished great things in the last 27 months.
The private sector created nearly 4.3 million jobs in the last 27 months, the president said recently in Baltimore.
We've created 500,000 manufacturing jobs over the last 27 months, Gene Sperling said on CNN Sunday.
We've had 4.3 million private sector jobs created over the last 27 months, said Stephanie Cutter in a conference call with reporters on Monday.
And there are plenty of other examples.
Beyond that, whenever Romney or some other Republicans attack the president's record, the regime sends out reams of rebuttal material pointing to economic progress all the last 27 months.
But the problem is that Kardashian has been president for 40 months.
So why do he and his supporters speak as if he's only been in the White House for 27 months, which would be March of 2010?
It's as if the first third of Kardashian's presidency just doesn't count.
Well, obviously, the president tried to make his record look better.
His first months in the White House saw devastating job losses and economic misery, and there haven't been 4 million jobs credits.
It's not possible.
Anyway, we've been through all that.
In fact, March of 2010 just happened to be the month in which the president's signature achievement, Obamacare, became law.
It came at a time when Americans were desperate for Obama to devote all of his attention to fixing the economy and helping create jobs.
What Byron York goes on to point out here is Obamacare was never popular.
It was never something the public wanted.
They wanted Obama focusing on the economy, jobs, the debt.
And he put it aside.
And this is one of Romney's points, that Romney, Romney says that Obama purposely let the economy go to help him pass Obamacare.
And he only talks about the past 27 months.
He doesn't talk about the 13 months prior.
And the reason why, and Byron York makes it very clear, they claimed during the run-up to Obamacare, all during the sales pitch, that it was a jobs bill.
In April 2009, speech, Georgetown University, in which he laid out the five pillars of economic recovery, Kardashian argued that an economic comeback would be impossible without passing his health care law.
He said, if we don't invest now in a more affordable health care system, this economy simply won't grow at the pace it needs to in two or five or 10 years down the road.
Six months later, October 29, the health care bill still consuming a Democrat Congress and his regime, Obama said, we know that reforming our health insurance system will be a critical step in rebuilding our economy.
January 2010, a headline on the political website said, Obama health bill will create jobs.
The president's Democrat allies were just as vocal.
The key issue in building a sustainable recovery is reform of health care, said Henry Nostrilitis Waxman, who was then chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
Pelosi said Obamacare will create 4 million jobs.
She said that February of 2010.
400,000 jobs almost immediately, she said.
That's why they don't go back to it.
They don't want people to remember that they touted health care as a jobs bill.
I had forgotten.
I can't remember everything.
I had forgotten that.
But Byron York is exactly right.
They were promising immediate job creation.
400,000 jobs immediately, Pelosi said.
Millions and millions.
And without health care, that wouldn't happen.
They were pitching it as an element, an important element in economic recovery.
So even as Kardashian and his team claimed that passing Kardashian care was the most important thing they could do to bring about economic recovery, they also promised that at some point in the future, they would pivot from healthcare to the economy.
It was a little confusing.
Why the need to pivot if Kardashian care was really about jobs?
But in the end, there would be no pivot until after the healthcare bill became law because it came first.
So next time, and they do, they talk about this 27 months a lot, the last 27 months, forgetting the first 13.
They also forget the stimulus happened the first 13.
They don't want to remind anybody of that.
By the way, why not?
Why not, yes, they propose a second stimulus?
I mean, we keep hearing about how great the first one was.
They do tout it.
They do.
They connect those 4.7 odd million jobs to the first stimulus bill.
Why not tout a second one in the speech yesterday if it's so hot?
All right, a brief timeout.
We'll get to your phone calls.
The soundbites coming up here.
Ladies and gentlemen, the media still continues to be upset over the speech.
And Gloria Borger says that while the media not happy with the speech, it doesn't matter because the voters aren't paying attention yet.
Really?
If the voters aren't paying attention, then why did we have catch-release vote announced today?
Why did Kardashians simply say we're going to stop deporting illegals?
800,000 illegals are not going to be granted work permits, not citizenship, but that's just down the road.
Catch-release vote.
Got to go.
I have to take a break.
If I don't, my synapses are firing on all neurons.
I don't shut up with discipline.
I'll never stop for a commercial break, and I have to do it.
We had amnesty announced today.
Amnesty was announced today.
Catch-release vote.
You tell me people aren't paying attention.
It happened today because people are paying attention.
And Kardashian wants to capitalize on it.
You know, by the way, Snerdley just said something during the break, and it's probably true.
It isn't going to be long before one of the Kardashian babes is asked about this.
And you know what their reaction is going to be?
You know what they're going to say is?
They're going to say, who?
Rush who?
They will not know who I am.
The looks on their faces is totally vacant.
$40,000 a plate at the Obama Anna Winter Sarah Jessica Parker fundraiser.
How many people do you know?
And by the audience, they're the tiebreakers.
They are the arbiters.
They're the ones who determine the direction the country is going to go.
How many people in this country do you know who could afford $40,000 for a plate of food?
Back when I was very young and naive, well, I'm naive.
I'm just ignorant.
I didn't know any better.
I was 10, 11, I think.
Whenever I really first started paying attention, I would read about back then, $2,000-a-plate dinners.
And I really thought it was for the food.
I didn't know the concept of fundraising.
And I always wondered, wow, I thought it was just like a King Henry VIII feast.
$2,000.
I thought it all went for the food.
I wonder how many people still think that.
Like in Rio Linda.
I did.
Here is Mel in Sarasota Springs, New York.
It's great to have you on the program.
Hi, sir.
Oh, yes.
Good afternoon, Rush.
Hold it.
Is it Sarasota or Saratoga?
Saratoga.
Saratoga Springs.
That's what I thought.
All right.
The horse racing capital of the world.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I've been there, but I'd never heard of a Sarasota Springs.
I thought it was a typo up there.
Right, no.
My pleasure to speak with you, Rush.
Thank you.
Please take my call.
As an African-American, former Democrat, now an independent for over seven years, I really don't, I really can't see myself, as I did the last time, to pull the lever for this president, this term, for the fact that his immigration policies are so weak and watered down and in one way,
leaning so far to the way of leniency toward our laws that this land that we live in is made up of, that he's willing to break the law to appease a certain segment of society.
By the way, Mel, you just nailed it.
That's exactly what's happening.
He's broken the law.
He has simply bypassed Congress.
Congress defeated this.
Congress defeated the DREAM Act, and Pelosi is out there today saying she totally supports this because of what the Republicans did.
Republicans are not allowed to turn back Democrat ideas.
And so having Obama basically sign this portion of the DREAM Act into law today, she's cool with it.
But you're right.
He's breaking the law.
He does not have the constitutional authority to do this.
Well, I just can't.
I don't have any other words that I can say, but I cannot.
I will not.
You couldn't put a gun on me and make me pull the lever for this fellow this turn.
But you did in 2008, right?
That I did.
That I did.
Were you an independent in 2008?
Yes, I was.
Why did you vote for him in 2008?
Well, the reason I voted for him was that I felt that we had an opportunity, as this country would always afford anybody an opportunity to prove that they are worthy of holding the highest office in this land.
That, well, here we are.
We have a guy who's already been there two terms.
Nobody else seemed to be a candidate that I could really put my faith into as far as trust.
But anyway, now, as Mitt said, he would build that pipeline, that Keystone pipeline himself if he had.
Yeah, yeah, that's Romney.
Romney is saying, well, he will build the Keystone pipeline himself if he has to get it done.
You hear what Mel said there wasn't anybody else.
Bush had two terms.
I didn't like McCain.
Fresh, new young guy.
I guarantee you, a lot of people voted for that and other things.
It had nothing to do with Obama's policies or anything of the sort.
And by the way, Obama himself admitted, we played the soundbite, he admitted this is illegal.
He admitted he doesn't have the power to do this years ago, but he did it anyway.
Here's Gloria Borger.
Grab soundbite number three.
I've just been touting this.
We got time to squeeze it in here.
This is Gloria Borger explaining why she thinks Obama get away with a bad speech.
No, I think it's still more of the same old, same old at this point.
And I think we may not know until the debates how the public really feels about the economy.
The question is, when does the public also start cementing in its views about how the economy is doing?
You know, Republicans tend to say they're going to do it right now and that this last jobs report was really important.
And Democrats I talk to tend to say, you know what?
They're going to wait till the fall.
They're going to wait till after the Olympics, maybe around the World Series.
Yeah, they're not paying attention now.
That's what the Democrats I talk to tell me.
The Republicans said they're not going to zero in on the economy.
Everybody's in pain, Gloria.
They don't have to wait for the economy to make an impression on them.
And Obama knows they're paying attention.
Why else do this DREAM Act thing now?
You know, folks, I hate to keep harping on this, but 40 years ago, Richard Nixon was hounded out of office, supposedly, for his illegal actions.
And I'm telling you, whatever Nixon did pales in comparison to just this move today.
Obama declaring amnesty for 800,000 illegals based on their Ute status.
Just the stroke of his pen.
It's not constitutional.
I want to go back and grab this soundbite.
It is number, I think it's number eight.
Played this earlier, and I want to play this again.
This is September 28th, 2011.
And Obama's at the White House, and they have it open for questions roundtable.
He's responding to questions from readers of Yahoo, MSN Latino, AOL Latino, Huffing and Puffington Post Latino voices.
And during the roundtable, somebody from the Huffing and Puffington Post said on the DREAM Act, this is a statement from New York City.
Mr. President, I'm an undocumented law graduate in New York City.
I'm just writing to say that your message that you don't have a dance partner is not a message of hope.
A real dance goes out on the dance floor, picks out his or her dance partner.
You're just waiting.
You got the facts.
You got the numbers.
You got the dollars.
You got the votes on the side of granting administrative relief for DREAMers.
We're doing our part.
It's time for you to do yours, Mr. President.
Where are you?
This notion that somehow I can just change the laws unilaterally is just not true.
We are doing everything we can administratively.
But the fact of the matter is, there are laws on the books that I have to enforce.
And I think there's been great disservice done to the cause of getting the DREAM Act passed and getting comprehensive immigration passed by perpetrating the notion that somehow, by myself, I can go and do these things.
It's just not true.
So he wouldn't do it back in 2011, September, but now in an election year, to hell with the Constitution.
I can do it on my own.
Look, Ma, I can do this myself.
I really can.
I can go out and do these things.
I just did it.
I see.
I remember hearing Watergate spelled the end of the imperial presidency.
That's what Watergate did.
No more of these presidents thinking they're bigger than the Constitution, bigger than the law.
Well, what's more imperial than President Kardashian declaring an untold number of illegals legal with a stroke of a pin?
And by the way, don't for a minute believe this 800,000 number.
And don't let them con you into believing this is only for kids.
That's what they're trying to sell.
It's for young children of illegals.
Come here.
This is going to apply to everybody 30 years of age and under who can claim to have been in the country for more than 15 years.
Not prove, but claim.
That number of 800,000 is probably off by a huge factor.
So by virtue of Obama's own words here, there are laws on the books he has to enforce that he is not going to enforce.
He just said, I'm not going to enforce that law, which is basically what he's doing here.
He's not going to enforce another law.
Meanwhile, he's suing states like Arizona for actually enforcing federal law.
And that's not all.
This is the Daily Caller, a couple stories from the Daily Caller.
Obama Energy Department awards $2 million grant to a solar company linked with Van Jones.
On Wednesday, Department of Energy began financing solar power installation research.
Every solar firm he has given money to is bankrupt, except but one.
This is not about solar power.
This is more slush fund money.
This time going to his buddy Van Jones, who used to be in the regime and had to be tossed out of there.
On Wednesday, Department of Energy began financing solar power installation research, a $2 million award to Solar Mosaic.
The solar energy research company has former Obama green job czar Van Jones listed as an advisor.
It also employed Rebuild the Dream, Van Jones' company, to do its PR work.
The grant money will be distributed to nine companies in four states.
Solar Mosaic got the most, $2 million, which is four times the amount of most others.
And another story from the Daily Caller, Harvard, the Harvard researcher behind a recent study correlating 2008 election results with racially charged Google searches, neglected to disclose ties to a former senior member of the Kardashian administration.
Seth Stevens Davidowitz, an economics PhD candidate, lists on his CV, publicly available through his website, that he was the research assistant of Peter Orsog at the Brookings Institution from August of 05 through August of 06.
Set to graduate in 2013.
Stevens Davidowitz entered the PhD program at Harvard in 2007.
Orzog, currently the vice chairman of global banking at Citigroup, headed the Office of Management and Budget as an Obama appointee between January 29 and July of 2010.
He was also the director of the Congressional Budget Office.
Another bogus story.
So, I mean, this regime is hiding all kinds of things, big and little.
Hiding, giving this disgraced Van Jones guy a couple million dollars, hiding a Harvard researcher with ties to the regime.
It just never ends.
Who's next?
Mike in Pennsawkin, New Jersey.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
Great to have you here, sir.
Hello.
Hey, how are you doing, Russell?
Good.
Thank you very much.
I'm an African-American.
I'm a conservative.
I'm also a combat veteran.
And I'm tired of people associating this immigration fight with civil rights.
It ain't got nothing to do with civil rights.
All right.
Barack Obama's policies do not mirror what black people believe.
All right.
So I'm really upset about that.
What about the notion that gay marriage is an issue that has roots in the civil rights?
Brother Obama ain't never done nothing for black people since he's been in office.
He gives the gays marriage.
He gives the Latinos their citizenship.
All he gave us was a music video.
And by the way, the music wasn't even that good.
And I want to say something to Americans that, you know, the next time they want to do a Jackie Robinson experiment, at least make sure that the guy is an American at heart.
All right.
That puts American values first.
Yeah, just to clarify what he said, next time America wants to do a Jackie Robinson experiment, make sure he's an American at heart.
At heart.
I got what you mean.
See, let me tell you something.
Mike, the reason why he's doing all this stuff, why you think he's not doing anything for blacks.
And by the way, you're probably safe in that assumption.
I mean, black unemployment's way.
He's taking you for granted, man.
He thinks your vote's going to be there no matter what he does.
They all do.
You know, they all do.
And I'm sick of that.
And American, black Americans should send him a message in November, a real message.
Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen.
I don't know whether to believe these polls in North Carolina that Obama has lost 20% of the black vote.
It might be true now on Election Day.
Well, it might impact turnout.
It might depress turnout.
You're right.
That could be a factor.
And a poll could be right today when the poll was taken.
20% of black voters in North Carolina could be telling pollsters they're not going to vote for him.
When the election day actually comes, when they head off to the polling place, and when they go into the booth, everything changes.
But I wouldn't think, just off the top of my fertile mind here, that amnesty for illegals would be popular with blacks.
See, I don't, and this number 800,000 young people, job seekers, that's the reason they're being made legal.
They're getting work permits.
They're not being granted citizenship yet, but they're getting work permits.
Where are the jobs for these people?
Well, we've got people leaving the labor force because they can't find jobs.
What's going to happen to the job market with this influx?
So I don't think these, they don't score things dynamically.
They look at things in a very static way.
And I don't think they have the slightest understanding the pushback there's going to be on the blowback there's going to be on this.
It may never, ever be recorded until the election.
But if they think that the American people are just going to sit around and ho-hum this, they've got another thing coming.
If they, if they're going to act ignorant of what the American people think, on a vast majority basis, of illegal immigration and amnesty if if, if they're going to ignore that, they're going to do so at their peril.
I don't care folks they do not have, they can add their coalitions together.
They don't have enough to overcome their opposition and I know this is catch-release vote, that that's, that's my name for what the real objective down the down the road for this is.
But he's shoring up a constituency that's not happy with him, Latinos.
He's shoring up every one of his constituencies is unhappy with him.
Anyway, I must go, but we'll be back before you know it.
Much more open line, Friday, right after this.
Folks haven't we been hearing over the last?
Uh, I guess it would be nine months to a year that illegal immigrants are leaving America because of the economics here, the improving economy in Mexico, that illegal immigration is is is down.
We've been hearing this right yes, we have.
We have been hearing illegal immigration is down, that people here are leaving because wages in certain parts of Mexico are better than they are in the Obama regime and the Obama economy.
That might also explain this.
You see, the Democrats let me go back and revisit Democrats need a permanent underclass.
They must have it.
They need a permanent underclass to keep the social safety net alive and kicking.
They always need very poor people, uneducated, in desperate need.
And the Hispanic, the illegal aliens were the new lower level that they needed.
This permanent underclass.
They needed it because prior to their impact on the economy, there was upward mobility and a number of other things.
And so when the illegals stopped coming in, I think the actual fact is that it's a wash.
I think I read where in a recent reporting period, a million and a half illegals arrived, but a million and a half or thereabouts left.
So it was a wash.
And so what was happening, the Democrats' permanent underclass was not being added to, and future potential Democrat voters who make up the permanent underclass were not sure.
They're aborting the future permanent underclass.
Most abortions are Democrats.
They are aborting themselves out of existence.
That has to be replaced.
And so I think part of doing this, obviously it's an election year, and obviously it's to shore up the Hispanic vote, which is lagging.
But it's also about the numbers.
It's also about the numbers.
This is going to make it more, what was the word, seductive to stay rather than to head home.
If you know that nobody's going to be looking to hunt you down to deport you, you'll be less inclined to be worried about that aspect.
I think it's all a sign that the Democrats are in trouble.
And I know people look at it as, oh, no, Rush, we're in trouble.
Oh, they're just adding to the illegal voter roll.
Oh, Russia, we're in trouble.
Oh, my God, we can't stop him.
He's been violating.
Do you remember what happened the last time this government tried amnesty?
I would argue that that may have been the spark that gave birth to the Tea Party.
And then when Obama comes along and the debt starts up, that was the second spark.
But I'll never forget it was the summer of 2008.
It was eight.
Might be seven.
Whatever.
It was when the Republicans in Congress, I think it was eight, Republicans in Congress finally took issue with George W. Bush.
They finally abandoned Bush.
And remember, everybody in this country was emailing and phoning Washington and were going bananas over it because illegal immigration was up and it was amnesty and McCain and all these sponsors were trying Kennedy saying it wasn't.
And you shut it down.
You kept that from becoming law.
And that hasn't changed.
Obama just lit another fire here today with this.
Doesn't know it.
I really don't think he does.
And if he does, it doesn't matter.
He did it anyway.
Here's Clint in Bismarck, North Dakota.
Great to have you on Open Line Friday.
Hi.
Hi, sir.
It's not only an honor to talk to you, but also to address this audience.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Very smart of you to realize that opportunity.
Been a big fan ever since the Ron Brown clip.
Thank you.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
That's what turned me anyway.
Hopefully my $10 phone is good and clear.
I'm calling about Measure 2, the property tax measure that failed here in North Dakota.
Yeah.
That's got two dynamics to it.
One is, you know, Western North Dakota was bit pretty hard by a boom and bust back in the 70s and 80s, and they see a very real threat in Obama, you know, and the EPA coming after fracking and things like that.
Right.
As far as the measure itself, the mechanics were really bad.
You had a lot of committed conservative people like myself who were opposed to it because it was bad mechanics because of the constitutional measure.
It wrote in that the state legislature has to come up with a magic formula to fund all the local governments and things like that, and it locked it into a measure so it couldn't be adjusted or tweaked.
And the fact of the matter is, it wanted to take all the local spending and put it in the hands of a centralized, you know, big for us state government.
And quite frankly, the state government, the legislature has been spending a lot, increasing spending, especially on higher education, which is a whole nother issue for quite some time.
Now, because of the influx of all the new money, they've spent it.
That's what governments do.
Well, it's good to know that stuff.
I've got a time constraint problem here, but I really am glad you called.
That's the first understandable explanation I've had of why this thing was opposed.
So that's, Clint, thanks much.
I appreciate it.
We're going to do back in a moment.
Clint there had a good point.
What if Obama's re-elected and just decides he doesn't like fracking and cancels it?
We know he doesn't like it.
What if he just decides to tell people in North Dakota, as of tomorrow, you can't do that anymore?
Bye-bye, boom.
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