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June 15, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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June 15, 2012, Friday, Hour #3
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Well, who could believe this?
Obama is late to his own amnesty announcement.
His own amnesty, what was it, 1.15?
Supposed to go in an amnesty like 50 minutes ago?
I know he's always late, but I mean, this is bordering on an hour, unless it was 1.45.
I thought it was 1.15.
Anyway, he's got like cable nets holding on, breathing.
Tongues on the sidewalk, breathlessly waiting.
Meanwhile, this program stops for No Man and his amnesty.
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Internal Revenue Service is expected to use $881 million of taxpayer money to implement the first four years of Kardashian care.
That includes about $500 million of the Department of Health and Human Services diverted to the IRS.
According to a federal audit, the IRS implementation costs are expected to total $881 million from fiscal years 2010 to 2013.
Of the $881 million, $521 million will come from the Health and Human Services Health Insurance Reform Implementation Fund, which the Republicans call the slush fund.
$881 million to the IRS.
This is a healthcare law.
A health care loan, we know that it requires, I always get confused.
Is it 4,000 or 16,000 IRS agents?
For some reason, I get, I got two numbers in my head.
Whatever it is.
Brand new, thousands of new IRS agents, and now $881 million in implementation costs for a health care bill.
Now, we know what this is all for.
This is to establish and set up the systems of fines and collections for those of you reprobates who decide not to get health insurance and try to get a free ride on everybody else's back.
The IRS will be gunning for you.
You remember that guy, Joe Wilson, who shouted, you lie to Obama during a State of the Union show?
It was because Obama said that Obamacare would never cover illegal aliens.
And Joe Wilson said, you lie.
And they took him to the woodshed.
And now, what?
You think these 800,000 aren't going to have health care?
Ha!
Thank you.
Here's President Kardashian just came out.
Now he finally made his own amnesty press conference.
Our microphones are there.
And if anything of any note is uttered, we'll have it for you.
P.J. Tatler, Pajamas Media site here, the Solyndra debacle just grows and grows.
Now a local Oakland, California investigative site, The Bay Citizen, filed a Freedom of Information Act request to discover that Solyndra lied when it said it was only firing 1,100 people at the time of its bankruptcy.
Documents show that nearly 1,900 people lost their jobs as Solyndra closed down.
So Solyndra hid the scale of those layoffs.
It was almost double what was reported, and it was a slush fund from the beginning.
President Obama's big economic speech in Cleveland failed to impress one endangered House Democrat, Representative Mark Critz of Pennsylvania, as a Democrat, took him to task for his economic and energy policies.
He said President Obama and others in Washington need to realize that we can't spend our way to prosperity and that in order to create jobs, we have to address unfair trade deals that ship jobs overseas, enact policies that allow us to take advantage of our vast natural resources like coal and natural.
Anyway, so it's a Democrat defector from Obama and his policies and somebody going public here, not liking Obama's speech in Cleveland.
Rasmussen, we're a long way from November.
The election day, by the way, is November 6th.
We're a long day from it.
But Rasmussen's latest polling of likely voters in states across the country shows that Romney currently leads Obama in electoral votes.
In fact, if the nine key swing states were each to go according to Rasmussen's latest polling, and if the 41 other states plus Washington were to go as they would be expected to go, according to polling, Romney would have 269 electoral votes and Obama 243.
Now, that 269 electoral votes, that's enough for a tie and an almost inevitable victory in the House of Representatives where the 50 state delegations would each cast one vote to determine the president if it ended up that way.
Because 269 is not enough.
And if you read this piece, one thing that stands out in these tallies of Rasmussen is the importance of Wisconsin.
It's the only Democrat-leaning state in which Romney is currently leading, and it pushes his tally to 269 despite merely being tied with Obama in Republican-leading Virginia.
So no matter where you turn, it's panic city for the left, and that's why Obama is out right now announcing amnesty for young illegals.
Catch, release, vote is the name of the program.
Back to the audio soundbites.
Matt Wauer was on the Today Show today with David Gregory, the host of Meet the Depressed.
And they were having a discussion about the presidential race.
And one of the things that point that we made yesterday, they reflect here.
You know, here's Obama.
He goes to Cleveland.
He doesn't have to go to Cleveland, wherever he blames Bush.
What he's really doing is saying he doesn't have what it takes to fix the Bush mess.
He's been working at it three and a half years.
And it hadn't gotten any better.
By Obama's own admission, his three and a half years have been worthless.
Okay, so you want to lay all this off on Bush?
You can't, but he does.
Lay it all off on Bush.
Worse than we thought it was going to be.
My predecessor made all of it.
Well, you've been trying to fix it for three and a half years.
Reagan got us out of a recession in two years in the 80s.
Obama's out running around, well, these recoveries need 10 years sometime.
Look at Europe.
So these guys at NBC, I don't know if they were listening yesterday or not, but they're picking up on this theme way we framed it yesterday.
If you haven't fixed it yet, why should you get four more years to fix it?
Here's how the discussion went.
How does Barack Obama go out there on the campaign trail and say, I can do in the next four years what I have failed to accomplish in the last three and a half?
I mean, if it comes down to that, Matt, it's a bad day for him.
Mitt Romney is running the campaign he wants to run, which is just a referendum.
You're not happy about the economy.
This guy's been there for four years.
Vote him out of office.
You need an alternative.
What the president's got to do is say, hey, don't forget about George W. Bush.
And Matt Wauer then continued.
The question is, three and a half years into an administration, do you think that strategy works, the blame Bush strategy?
Or do people want you to take ownership of this economy at this stage?
They want you to take ownership.
I think the argument is that they've got to prevail in providing context, saying, look, it's not about blaming the previous president.
It's that the hill was so high to climb.
And we're making some progress, but the hole is still so deep.
Oh, give me a break.
You people are embarrassing yourselves the way you're going out of your way to make excuses for this guy, because the truth of the matter is Matt Wauer and his first observation.
Oh, you want to lay it all on Bush?
Okay, you've had three and a half years, and by your own admission, you can't fix it.
So why should we give you four more years?
And Gregory, who probably hadn't heard that perspective, said, oh, oh, no, man, if it comes down to that, that's a bad day for Obama.
It's been a bad three and a half years for America, Mr. Gregory.
You're worried about a bad day for Obama or a bad week or a bad two weeks.
But it's a legitimate question.
You're going to lay it all up on Bush.
You're going to blame him.
You've got the fixes.
You're the guy we should invest in.
But by your own admission, you can't.
Three and a half years.
Bush so screwed it up, you don't have what it takes to fix what Bush did.
So why give you four more years?
Okay, so that conference, that's Matt Wauer and David Gregory, and it's traditional Friday.
They bring David Gregory on to tout, to promo meet the press on Friday.
On CBS, they do the same thing.
Charlie Rose has his weekly gaggle with Bob Schieffer of Slay the Nation.
And so Charlie Rose said to Bob Schieffer, Bob, where are we now in terms of how you see these two competing proposals for fixing the economy?
Where are we, Bob?
President, on the one hand, saying, I need more.
How many people in this country do you think are wandering around yesterday and last night saying, well, I can't wait for CBS tomorrow for Bob Schieffer to tell us how to fix the economy?
How many people?
Well, no, I asked the question because the world these people live in, the world they must live in.
Here's Charlie Rose got Schieffer on.
He's going to get Schieffer's expert, right?
Schieffer.
Okay, Bob, where are we in terms of how you see these two competing proposals fixing the economy?
Where are we here?
So I'm just wondering how many people, even people that watch CBS, do you know anybody who last night couldn't wait to get up this morning to hear what Bob Schieffer had to say about how to fix the economy?
Nothing against Bob Schieffer.
Don't misunderstand.
I'm not.
Well, these guys obviously think a lot of people are waiting around for it.
Why have Schieffer on?
I'm going to promote Slay the Nation.
People will watch that.
When you went to your blogs, did any of you happen to see anybody saying, oh, wait a minute, we should wait to offer our opinions here until Bob Schieffer tells Charlie Rose tomorrow what's really going on here.
Did anybody see that?
You didn't, Brian?
Well, then, it wasn't there.
Brian didn't see it, it wasn't there.
And yet, here's Charlie Rose.
Bob Schieffer in a promo, Face the Nation on Sunday, says, Hey, Bob, where are we here in terms of how you see these two competing proposals for fixing the economy?
The president, on the one hand, is saying, I need more time.
On the other hand, saying if Romney's elected, it means Bush policies.
On the other hand, Governor Romney says the president's had enough time to fix it, and he hasn't.
And so here is Bob Schieffer with the breathless, exciting whatever we all should take away.
The country is very divided.
We know that.
People are, I've never seen in all the time I've been in Washington that the gap is so wide.
But people get locked into these positions.
We used to elect people not just because of their general principles and because we agreed with their principles, but we elected them because we trusted their judgment.
People have to change.
People have to make compromise.
There you have it, folks.
So that's what's ahead for the economy and the two competing visions.
You were waiting until today to find out what was in store.
There's your answer.
We'll take a brief time out and come back right after this.
Don't go away.
So Obama's giving his amnesty speech there in the Rose Garden.
Apparently, somebody yelled a question at him, violating protocol.
It wasn't a QA.
It was a statement.
Somebody yelled a question at him, and he got mad.
Kardashian got mad.
And MSNBC is reporting that reporters are chasing the guy now.
The reporters there are going to chase down whoever it was that asked Kardashian a question, and they are going to mete out the punishment.
The reporters, not security, not the Secret Service, not whoever.
The reporters are chasing the guy who yelled.
Here's John in Orlando, Florida, as we head back to the phones on Open Line Friday.
Hello, sir.
Hi.
Been a long time.
Well, welcome back.
Welcome, period.
I got a funny story.
When you were giving away tithes on your TV show, I set up my TV camera and it didn't work.
I sent it out to get fixed and I never saw it again.
But anyway, back to the thing.
I was working when Obama was elected.
And when my boss and all his friends.
Well, let me ask you, you're not working now, but you were working when Obama was elected.
Yeah.
Did you quit or were you laid off?
Well, he got elected in April.
My wife died and I never worked again.
But that's beside the point.
I'm sorry to hear that.
Yeah, well, I left work because of that.
But he never took me back because him and all his friends, they were rich jewelry manufacturers.
They knew what Obama, Pelosi, and Reed were going to do with this economy.
And they were scared to death.
And they said, we're never going to be as big as we were before.
And they all quit hiring.
It wasn't the economy that did it.
These people are scared.
Well, but then it was the economy.
I mean, they were scared what was going to happen to him.
You said, wait a minute, just want to, you said jewelry manufacturers.
Right.
Yeah, okay.
But you were right when you wanted Obama to fail.
You wanted him to fail, too.
Thank God.
Because they knew what he was going to do.
And he's done everything he said he was going to do.
Yeah.
He's going to transform this country.
Can he?
And he is transforming this country.
And it's a place nobody likes.
You know, I'm just glad to be here in Florida.
I'm only a few hundred miles away from you.
Really?
But I'm here with my grandchildren, so I'm happy.
Well, that's that's you know, that's what it really gets down.
It really gets down to family.
Yeah.
If you're happy with your happy with your grandchildren, that's great.
That's it.
Nice to be here.
Well, thanks.
Thanks for calling out there, John.
I really appreciate it.
All right.
All right.
I'm sorry you lost your camera.
I can't explain that.
He took pictures.
So during a TV show, everybody on TV needs a signature.
Mine was my ties.
Anything I could do to distract people away from my face.
So I had these loud, colorful ties.
Ended up being so popular, we sold them.
We had no boundary ties.
And apparently, John liked them and took some pictures.
And he sent the camera away.
And the inference here is that whoever got his camera liked the pictures so much, just kept his camera.
Well, he said it needed to be fixed, didn't he?
Said his camera needed to be fixed.
See, Snur, see, you would just go buy a new camera.
You can't relate to somebody who would need something fixed.
You just buy a new one.
That's where you lost track with this guy.
Apparently, the person who asked Kardashian a question was a reporter from the Daily Caller.
Reporter was Neil Monroe of the Daily Caller.
And he had the temerity to ask Obama a question.
He got batted down by His Majesty.
You're not supposed to ask questions at these things.
And he did, violating protocol, and he ran away.
I don't know what the question was.
Daily Caller is Chatsworth Osborne Jr.'s website.
Tucker Carlson.
We'll get the cookies working on it.
We'll have it for you here in a second.
In the meantime, Paul in Enterprise, Alabama.
Hi.
Welcome to Open Line Friday.
Great to talk to you, Rush.
Thanks for all you've done for the country and for these charities that you work for.
Thank you, sir, very much.
I just wanted your opinion.
I thought I know we need to get rid of Barack Kardashian, but Harry Reid scares me almost as much.
He seems as large a threat to the Constitution as Obama does when he won't let bills come to the floor.
The Republicans get blamed as do-nothings.
I'm going to tell you something, Paul.
I want to actually thank you because you are dead right about this.
Harry Reid, what really needs to happen here, regardless, you know, outside the presidential race, the conservatives need to get control of the Senate.
Republicans second, but conservatives need to get control of the Senate, and Harry Reid has to go.
And you are exactly right.
And I want to just assure you, one of our sponsors, Freedom Works, has that as one of their objectives.
And they're a Tea Party aggregator, if you will, or Tea Party Bunch.
And that is an active part of their agenda.
And you are, you could not be more right than you are about that.
And I'm glad that you permeated the noise and got through with that today to remind me.
So President Obama went out today to Rose Garden and basically announced amnesty for young illegals.
And what many people are calling a jobs program for illegals.
But he basically rewrote immigration law outside of the Constitution, outside of Congress.
Here's some soundbites.
Set it up.
CNN's newsroom.
Anchor Wolf Blitzer speaking with Chief White House co-respondent Jessica Yellen about the regime's announcement that it's going to stop deporting illegals who come to the country at a young age.
That's 30 and under.
Blitzer says, this is not a formal executive order that the president will sign.
It's more of a policy order coming from the Department of Homelands.
What does that make it okay, Wolf?
Is that how you rationalize make it okay?
Kardashian not really doing it.
He not really signing an executive order.
No, he's going to have big cis do it.
Jana Napolitano, here's what Jessica Yellen said in response to the probing question from Wolf Blitzer.
There is an election this year, and we all know that the president and his campaign are working to not just win the Latino vote because he does already have significant support among Latinos, but energize the Latino vote because he needs Latinos who already support him to be passionate in their support to come out and vote because that margin could make the difference for him on election day.
And so we could see this through that lens and that this is one step in trying to tell this community, look, I'm doing something for you.
I do not believe what I just, well, I do, but I don't.
She didn't even try to disguise the fact that she works in journalism.
She just came out and said in a fully supportive and enthusiastic way, it's about votes.
The president needs support from Hispanics.
Now, the predictable, let's do the reversal.
George Bush announcing this.
And if they thought it was for votes, do you think they'd rake him over the coals for going outside the Constitution, for being so selfish, for threatening U.S. immigration policy for his own selfish desire for vote?
Here we have this woman actually enthusiastically supporting this, explaining it to the audience in a way that she hopes they will support this.
And CNN wonders why they've got 50,000 viewers in the 25 to 54 demographic.
What?
Which one?
Well, it was Jessica Yellen.
Well, what does it matter who it is?
It says, CNN Info, Babe, were you not listening?
But this is, I'm going to play this again.
This is here you have a guy who is violating the Constitution.
He's going outside the law.
He is writing immigration policy himself.
He is implementing amnesty.
And Wolf Blitzer says, well, it's really not a formal executive order.
I mean, it's more of a policy order from the department.
So he's trying to excuse it.
At least Wolf knows.
And he's trying to cover for the press.
Well, it's not an executive order.
He's making Janet Pantano do this reporter in explaining this comes out here and basically tries to explain it in a way that would engender support for the.
Well, he needs votes, Wolf.
He's got to get re-elected.
We want him re-elected.
She didn't say that to Shimmy as well.
We want him re-elected.
Wolf, he's got to do this for the votes.
He's got to hear.
Listen to this again.
I'm going to go to the next store.
There is an election this year.
And we all know that the president and his campaign are working to not just win the Latino vote because he does already have significant support among Latinos, but energize the Latino vote because he needs Latinos who already support him to be passionate in their support to come out and vote.
Because that margin could make the difference for him on Election Day.
And so to some extent, we could see this through that lens and that this is one step in trying to tell this community, look, I'm doing something for you.
And by the way, if you don't understand what he's saying, listen to me.
I will help you understand what he's saying.
I will help you vote for Obama.
Well, I know that that's what her mind said.
I know my expectations are not high.
But this is blatant.
It's about votes.
It's fine.
If he needs the votes, it's fine.
I don't care what it is, is what she's saying.
Wolf, doesn't matter what he's saying.
He needs the votes from these people.
Don't you understand, Wolf?
So it's fine.
It's okay.
He needs the votes.
No concern for the country.
No concern for the Constitution.
No concern for anything other than this poor guy needs the votes.
And they wonder why they got 50,000 viewers.
Okay.
I had my fill of that.
Now let's go to some Obama soundbites from the actual Rose Garden ceremony.
Secretary Napolitano announced new actions my administration will take to mend our nation's immigration policy to make it more fair, more efficient, and more just.
Specifically for certain young people, sometimes called dreamers.
Now, these are young people who study in our schools.
They play in our neighborhoods.
Friends with our kids.
They pledge allegiance to our flag.
They are Americans in their heart, in their minds, in every single way but one.
On paper.
No, according to the law.
So Big Sis is going to announce it, not me.
I'm just telling you what she's going to do on behalf of my regime.
They're Americans.
They're Americans in every way you can.
They say the Pledge of Allegiance.
They hopefully vote.
They study and they play in our neighborhoods with their friends and our kids and they pledge allegiance.
So you see, it's not right, folks.
It's not right that they can't vote.
It's not right that they can't stay.
It's just totally unfair because they're really, they're citizens.
Now, what happens if Obama wants to deport me?
Because he thinks I'm not a good citizen.
Big sis would be happy to oblige, and the left-wing bloggers fear would probably pay my way out.
So what we're hearing today is government trumps the rule of law, getting out the vote.
Trump's the rule of law.
These 30-year-olds are playing in Obama's neighborhood.
30-year-olds playing.
I thought kids stopped being kids at 26.
So one more.
This is Kardashian assuring us this is not amnesty.
Effective immediately.
The Department of Homeland Security is taking steps to lift the shadow of deportation from these young people.
Over the next few months, eligible individuals who do not present a risk to national security or public safety will be able to request temporary relief from deportation proceedings and apply for work authorization.
Now, let's be clear.
This is not amnesty.
This is not immunity.
This is not a path to citizenship.
Then what the hell is it?
And let me tell you what's next.
Up next is forgiving student loans, and after that, forgiving certain home mortgages.
You watch.
That's what's coming next.
As I said at the top of the broadcast, I'm just a little surprised that they're doing this now.
They're spending their political capital awfully early.
This is something you normally would save for closer to November.
Oh, the home mortgage thing, they'll both happen this summer.
Student loans and home mortgage will happen this summer before the new iPhone comes out in September.
POT will be legalized.
That'll happen.
That'll be the last thing to go, if necessary.
That'll happen in October, legalizing marijuana.
Yep, so those are the three things to come.
I'm not kidding, folks.
I am not kidding.
Forgiving student loans or something very much close to it.
And same thing with home mortgages and then legalizing pot for the Ron Paul vote.
That's all he's got.
It's either that or beat up Romney or that and beat everything.
Now, here's the bite where the reporter Neil Monroe, the Daily Caller, interrupted the president with the question.
This is a temporary stopgap measure that lets us focus our resources wisely while giving a degree of relief and hope to talented, driven, patriotic young people.
It is the right thing to do.
Excuse me, sir.
It's not time for questions, sir.
Not while I'm speaking.
The question that Neil Monroe asked is, is it the right thing to do for American workers?
That's why Obama didn't want to answer the question.
Plus, the whole thing scripted on a teleprompter.
He didn't want to go off prompter.
But the question was, is it the right thing to do for American workers?
Because Obama had just said it's the right thing to do.
So Neil Monroe of Daily Caller is the right thing to do for American workers.
And he started, I mean, he asked the question, fled the scene, and reporters gave chase.
You think the reporters have a dungeon somewhere for those that stray from the supporting of Obama path?
I'll tell you something.
Mark Krikorian points this out, National Review Online.
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services is the agency that will have to process all these people.
And they are already dealing with people who are in line legally for green cards and so forth.
So what's going to happen is, in order for these new youthful illegals, well, it's going to be more than 800,000, in order for them to be processed, the people in line already are going to have to be set aside.
And apparently, this is a fee-only agency.
They don't get any money appropriated.
You have to pay.
Once you get in line, get a green card.
You have to pay.
These people are not going to pay anything.
Obama's giving them amnesty.
So who's going to pay to process all these people?
You know, Brian's raising a we all are.
Yeah.
Anyway, they're going to be some logistical problems.
They said, Obama's, doesn't he care about it, hadn't thought about it.
That's not the point.
As Jessica Yellen told us, he needs the votes, folks.
He needs a vote.
Jessica Yellen's report, CNN today, vote Obama.
Her report should have been followed by, I'm Barack Obama, and I approve of this news report.
Joe Biden, where was he?
He's in Orlando, Florida, 2012 annual meeting, U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Just listen to this.
Just listen to it.
If I blindfolded Americans and took them into some of the airports or ports in China and then took them to one in any one of your cities in the middle of the night just so they could see it and then said, which one is in America and which one is in your city, in America, and which one's in China, most Americans would say, well, well, that great one is in America.
It's not.
Joe Biden just told an audience at the U.S. Conference of Mayors that the great ports, the great airports are in China.
That if he blindfolded you and took you to a bunch of ports in China and America and asked you which one was the best, you didn't know where you'd been, you would have identified the ones in China.
That's a hell of a reason to re-elect these people, isn't it?
Three and a half years in, and if they blindfolded you and took you around, you would think the best airports and ports are in China.
This guy's running for re-election.
Got to go.
We'll be back and wrap it up after this.
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