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July 2, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 2, 2012, Monday, Hour #3
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And looky here, folks, from the CyberCast News Service.
Obama contributor, who helped enact assault weapons ban ran Fast and Furious.
Did you hear that?
Let me repeat that for you.
Cybercast News Service, Obama contributor who helped enact the assault weapons ban ran Operation Fast and Furious.
Dennis K. Burke, B-U-R-K-E, who, as a lawyer for the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee in the 90s, was a key player behind the enactment of the 1994 assault weapons ban and who then went on to become Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano's chief of staff and a contributor to Barack Obama's 08 primary campaign, and then a member of Obama's transition team focusing on border enforcement issues,
ended up in the Obama regime as the U.S. Attorney in Arizona responsible for overseeing Operation Fast And Furious.
But wait a minute.
Obama didn't know anything about Fast and Furious.
And Eric Holder didn't know anything about Fast and Furious.
The Democrats tell us this.
The media tells us.
Obama says it.
So Dennis Burke, who is as close to Obama as anybody can get, ran the assault weapons ban in 1994, worked for Janet Napolitano in Arizona, Obama's primary campaign in 08, transition team in 08, ends up as the regime's U.S. attorney in Arizona responsible for overseeing Operation Fast and Furious.
From 1989 to 1994, Dennis Burke was a counsel for the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee, working in that capacity for several years on an assault weapons ban, which was finally enacted on September 13, 1994 as the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act.
It expired September 13, 2004, and they have been trying to get it back ever since.
A lot of people, and I'll throw my hat in this ring, think that's what Fast and Furious was all about.
Jay Carney, the White House spokeskid, says it's absurd to think Fast and Furious is about gun control.
But Obama's lead U.S. attorney in Arizona oversaw the program.
Every day, every day, it's a new threatening disaster that strikes this country.
Hi, folks.
We are here on the EIB network, Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Great to have you here.
Telephone numbers 800-282-2882 and the email address lrushbow at eibnet.com from Fox Business.
Supreme Court ruling means bigger, more intrusive IRS.
This is a very long story.
I am not going to by any means share it all with you, but I have enough salient excerpts here.
IRS officials on background have told Fox News that the U.S. Supreme Court ruling on health reform gives the IRS even more powers than previously understood.
Yeah, I guess we had to pass it, find out what was in it.
Are you ready, folks?
The IRS now gets to know about a small business's entire payroll, the level of their insurance coverage, and it also gets to know the income of not just the primary breadwinner in your house, but your entire family's income in order to assess and collect the mandated tax.
Now, this won't start until 2014 or 2015.
So from now till November, we're going to have stories like this.
This is headed your way.
But if people look at us, it's just a bunch of out of shouting, doubting Thomas.
Nobody's going to believe us because it isn't going to happen until 2014 or 2015.
So all we can do is say, I'll tell you, once this thing gets fully implemented, folks, the IRS is going to have a free look at your entire family financial, not just the breadwinner's tax return, everybody in the house, so that they can accurately collect, assess, and collect the mandated tax.
The IRS will also, after it learns, no, they don't have the right to know all this now.
Your tax return is what it is, and they audit you if they do, and you have to prove and confirm what's on the return, but they can't ask you to turn over your kid, your 25-year-old still living with you.
For example, in addition to being able now to learn all about every penny involved in a small business, the IRS will then, because of this law, be able to share all of that information with all sorts of government agencies and insurance companies and employers.
And that's just a tip of the iceberg.
An IRS official said we expect even more lean and levy powers or levy powers.
Even the taxpayer advocate is deeply concerned.
That's capitalized taxpayer advocate.
The IRS army will increase in size as well.
The IRS is going to add new agents to hunt down tax cheats.
It's been budgeted to spend $303 million building a new system, 4,000, 5,000 new agents and so forth throughout.
Yeah, they have the authority to – well, I don't know if you don't pay the fine to have the authority to put a lien on your business.
He just says even more lean and levy powers.
They're not specified here in the whole story.
Maybe put a lien on your business if you don't pay the fine.
But I don't know that you're going to even have a choice to pay it.
It might just, if you're an employee, it'll just be deducted.
If you're self-employed, you, of course, will have to pay it.
And if you don't, I don't know.
For example, will the self-employed small business types be double charged?
One for not buying insurance and two for not providing insurance for your employee, you.
If you're self-employed, if you don't buy insurance, are you in trouble?
And are you also in trouble for not providing insurance for your employee, which is you?
I don't know.
These are – look, I have to think that any question we have that has in any part of the question, can the IRS do X, the answer is going to be yes.
That's the only way to look that's point of the point of the story here.
Nina Olson, who runs the Taxpayer Advocate Office, a federal IRS overseer, has warned that the new health law may require more IRS intrusions on taxpayer privacy to determine whether individuals got appropriate health coverage and whether small business provide affordable coverage, all of which defined by the government.
I don't know why you're so surprised in there.
What do you think this bill is?
The IRS, there are 16,000 new agents.
What are they for?
They're going to determine whether you have this.
You don't just have to buy insurance, folks.
You have to buy the right kind.
The government will determine how much you need based on your situation.
And then they'll determine what that costs.
Oh, you're under the impression you get to keep your coverage if you like it.
Oh, no.
Maybe 20% of the people will.
If you like your coverage and doctor, no, no, no.
That's the secretary shall determine.
Obama lied about that.
Let's say you like your plan.
Don't you understand that the whole point of this is to get your company to give up the plan?
How can you keep what your employer no longer provides?
That's just one instance of how you will not be able to keep your plan if you like it.
The tax advocate, tax advocate office, which I guess a government institution that oversees the IRS, the tax advocate overseer, has noted that Americans must now tell the IRS under the new law, one, all of their insurance plan information, including who is covered under the plan and the dates.
You must tell the IRS the costs of your family's health insurance plans.
You must tell the IRS whether a taxpayer had an offer of employer-sponsored health insurance.
You must tell the IRS the cost of employer-sponsored insurance and whether a taxpayer received a premium tax credit and whether a taxpayer has an exemption from the individual responsibility requirement waiver.
The tax advocate warns this is different from the type of information the IRS typically deals with.
Some taxpayers may feel uncomfortable about sharing it with the IRS.
They have warned that the IRS may not have the necessary skill sets or budgets or staffing to adequately enforce the new law.
She notes that the federal tax code is already so complex that even the IRS makes numerous mistakes in administering.
What that all adds up to is that they're going to have the leeway of being wrong in assessing, and you're going to have no recourse.
The final authority.
Look, snerdly, nobody knows better than I. If you're under 30 and you're listening to me, even if you're under 40 and you're listening to me say all this, I know exactly what you're doing.
Are poo-pooing it, and you're thinking that I'm just some hell-bent right-wing partisan trying to scare you and make all this stuff.
I assure you, I have no desire for you to doubt me.
I have no desire to be wrong.
There's nothing in it for me to mislead anybody about anything, particularly this.
If you're under 30 or under 40, you might not even be cognizant of the concept of a big and growing government as a problem.
You might think it's cool.
You might think it's going to level the playfield for everybody.
It's going to be fair.
Everybody's going to get insurance and treatment.
And you might, the whole concept of the impact of all this on your freedom, you might think is a joke.
You might think people who worry about losing their freedom or their liberty are just a bunch of outlier fringe kooks.
You might think that.
I mean, that's what you've been taught.
That's how you've been educated.
You've been raised and educated to believe that the only word that adequately describes government is benevolent.
So as far as you're concerned, I may be from the Florida militia, some little kook here trying to scare you, but none of that stuff can ever happen.
Rush, this is America.
You're so eager to get rid of Obama.
You just don't like Democrats so much.
No, I'm just telling you what the IRS has told Fox News.
Pure and simple.
That's what the IRS is saying.
I don't have the ability to make this up because I don't think of controlling people this way.
I couldn't write this script.
I don't think this way.
I don't even for a second of any day ponder how I can exert power over people.
I have no desire to.
Don't know how.
Not something I want to do.
And nor is it something I want to have happen to me either.
But it is what it says.
If the IRS finds that you've fallen short of the law.
Remember, we just heard that they're understaffed and a lot of people there don't even know what they're doing and don't understand the tax code.
There's not a probably not a single person alive who does, from cover to cover, understand it.
If the IRS finds that you've fallen short of the law, it would hit you with a penalty tied to your household income, which may be that of an individual or several family members.
In order to determine what your household income is, they're going to have to know about every dime of income in your family to properly assess what you owe.
This is just on the healthcare in the process of finding all this stuff out.
Now, what if they think that you've lied to them in previous years?
You know what?
We're going to have to audit you here based on what we've just learned.
We've gone back and we've looked at your tax returns and you're not reflecting any of this.
I don't know if you've ever been audited, folks, but you're always guilty on day one, and you have to prove that they're wrong.
The assumption is you're lying to them.
The assumption is your return is filled with untruths.
And you have to go about proving to them, in my case, 14 different ways.
I have to show them where I was or wasn't every day of the year.
New York State.
14 different ways.
Credit cards, computer IP addresses.
It's cockeyed.
It's crazy.
Anyway, let's take a brief timeout.
We'll do that and come back and be back El Quicko and roll right on.
I know it's a rhetorical question.
I still want to ask: why are there 16,000 new IRS agents if Obamacare is not a tax?
I know.
I'm just being difficult.
By the way, there is non-court news.
Wall Street Journal reporting manufacturing has slowed in America for the first time in three years and, in fact, is at a point, I think it's as low a point as it's ever been during the recession.
It's in bad shape.
Manufacturing and prices are plummeting.
Now, on the consumer side, price is plummeting to an extent is good, but it's not good.
It's deflationary.
If people can't sell what they're manufacturing for a profit, they're not going to make it.
It makes no sense to make something if you can't sell it for at least if you can sell it for what it costs you.
There's no reason to stay in business.
Now, the left thinks that would be ideal.
That's right, Mr. Limbaugh.
I think Apple should make an iPhone and sell it to us for exactly what it cost them to make.
That would be fair.
Why would they do that, Mr. Dew Castrati?
To be fair, so that everybody would be able to enjoy the benefits of the iPhone, Mr. Limbaugh.
Why should they have to make any profit doing it?
It's gouging people.
It's screwing people.
No, it's how they, I don't even want to waste my time with you, Mr. New Castradi.
Anyway, price is plummeting okay to a point, but if they get to the manufacturing costs, then they're going to stop being made altogether and we got nothing.
Anyway, it's just more bad economic news.
It's the private sector we're being told is doing great.
Everything's fine there.
It isn't.
Folks, even though we're questioning it, after last week's healthcare decision, we still are the United States of America.
We are still one nation under God.
We still admire our founding fathers, and we are doing everything we can to defend and protect our brilliant Constitution and Bill of Rights.
Now, this is one of the reasons that we started two if by tea, one if by land, two if by tea.
It's a spin-off of Paul Revere's one if by land, two if by sea.
The British are coming warning in our founding days.
And now more than ever, we need to scream.
The liberals are coming there everywhere.
Now, our small American-made, American-run company, 2F by T, we are extremely proud of this country.
American exceptionalism.
And we are forever and will always remain proud of those who fight daily to defend our freedoms and beliefs.
And we've got Independence Day coming up, 4th of July on Wednesday, as we celebrate our nation's birthday.
And we're going to really celebrate all of us just because what's going on.
And in honor of this special day, I want to tell you about one of our where-in-the-world is 2F by T stores.
You may recall, we recently started allowing mom-and-pop stores to purchase 2F by T at wholesale prices to be sold in their stores because we got so many people asking for this.
We've always liked to maintain a direct line of contact between you and us.
No middlemen.
We like to be able to have that direct line of communication to you, all of our customers.
The mom and pops wanted the tea.
So we set up a place on our website where mom and pops could get hold of us and said, we want to sell it.
We want to sell it.
And we call it Where in the World is 2F by Tea.
And you can find the location of these stores at the shop page at 2FIT.com under Find a Store.
There's a map.
It's got the store addresses.
One of them is in Naples, East Naples.
It opened in 1964, Dell's 24-hour store.
It's a family-run business, quintessential American store, been open 24 hours a day, seven days a week for 48 years now, almost.
And they have everything there from bait to diapers to bread and now 2F by T.
And Dell and his Nancy work, I mean, hard, day in and day out to make their small business run.
And they're doing something special for the 4th of July.
And we want to encourage everybody in the Naples, Florida area to stop by.
I'll tell you what Dell's has going on when we come back after this obscene profit timeout.
Don't go away.
Anyway, 2ifbytea.com is our website.
Like I said, all these mom and pops out there, not just mom and pops, but that's what we focused on.
A bunch of people wanted us to make the store, the tea available to them at wholesale.
And we liked having the direct contact with the customers, being no middlemen.
But it was so many people that asked, we set up the system called Where in the World is 2F by Tea, and there's a place where mom and pops can advocate, beg, whatever, ask us to make tea available.
And as I say, one of them is Dell's 24-hour store in East Naples in Florida.
They've been around 48 years.
And it's a guy, Dell, and his wife, Nancy, and they day in and day out, 24-7, 365.
They're doing something special for the 4th of July.
And as I say, they've got everything, bait to diapers.
I don't know if they got contraception in there or not, but they've got everything plus now 2F by tea.
And what they're doing on the 4th of July is serving grilled hot dogs and 2F by tea samples and giving out gifts and posters with the purchase of 2F by Tea.
And after the cookout, Dell and Nancy tell us that fireworks are going to be seen on both sides of the store.
So you'll want to stick around for that.
So, I don't know.
A lot of people don't have their plans finalized for 4th of July.
If you want, you're in the Naples, Florida area.
Dell's is at 2802 Thomason Drive in Naples.
And all this is going on from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
And they are ecstatic, and so are we.
Because this little tea business, I'm a tea expert now.
I know what happens to tea.
I know how to make it stronger.
I know how to do everything with it.
Make it taste great.
Best tasting iced tea in the country is 2F by Tea.
And Dell's in Naples, 24-hour store, free hot dogs.
Well, no, serving grilled hot dogs and free samples of tea.
Now, we know that not everybody can get to Florida.
Not everybody's in Florida.
So we want to give everybody an American-made present in honor of the 4th of July, your continued support of 2F by Tea, because that equals continued support of the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation.
So all you have to do, just go to 2FBT.com right now.
And if you buy two cases of tea, everybody that gets or buys two cases, any flavor, will automatically receive one of our premium patriotic gift sets.
That includes two oversized handmade white ceramic mugs with the Rush Revere logo and a bag of Ronald Reagan's favorite jelly beans in a nice gift box.
And it's free.
Free.
No strings attached.
No handling, no shipping of this.
Well, shouldn't speak so fast.
I think it's totally free.
The mug and the jelly beans for two purchases or two cases of tea.
And that's us and our 4th of July for you at 2fbit.com.
The gift sets are great.
They were great over holidays and we've re-upped on them.
It's all explained at 2fbit.com.
Get this.
This is from the Sacramento B.
A new bill in California would allow a child to have more than two parents.
State Senator Mark Leno is pushing legislation to allow a child to have multiple parents.
The bill brings California into the 21st century, recognizing that there are more than Ozzie and Harriet families today, said the San Francisco Democrat.
Now, folks, this is an example of what we were just talking about.
By the way, you will not run into situations like this over at Dell's in Naples when you show up for hot dogs in 2FIT.
This is the kind of thing that we used to be mocked for saying could happen someday.
You tell me what it is.
How does a kid have more than two parents?
We made back when their family was being redefined.
And remember when people wanted to start talking about gay marriage, change the definition of marriage.
I know this is going to irritate some of you, but I'm going back in time because we made this prediction.
Marriage is a word.
Marriage is an institution.
It has a definition.
It is the union of one man and one woman.
That's what marriage is.
Now, some people think that it is discriminatory because two women can't get married or two men can't get married.
So we're going to change what marriage is for whatever reasons, economic, hospital visits, benefits, whatever it is.
So marriage is now going to be not a union of a man and a woman.
It's going to be between two men, two women.
Well, since we're changing the definition of marriage, what is to prevent three people from getting married?
We made this pretty.
What if somebody wants to marry their pet dog?
Once you change the definition of the word, you know, words mean things.
And I remember some of the opposition to gay marriage was no more than that.
Sure, there was the concern for the institution and the tradition involved, and can't take that out, but also just etymologically, marriage means something.
Two means something.
Five means something.
But now we're going to change it.
Well, once you change the definition, where does it stop?
Under the same, what if somebody says I'm being discriminated?
I want two wives.
Or I want my ex-wife when my current wife and all the kids under one family roof is one family.
And I remember talking about this and people with the usual criticism and mocking and scare tactics, fear-mongering, all this kind of thing.
Here it is.
It's happening.
Or at least it's being considered by supposed real-life legislators.
Under this guy's bill, his name is Mark Leno.
Under his bill, if three or more people who acted as parents could not agree on custody, visitation, child support, a judge could split those things up among them.
Examples of three-parent relationships that could be affected by this bill include a same-sex couple who asked a close male friend to help them conceive and then decided all three would raise the child is an example of the kind of family this guy is talking about, where a child can have more than two parents, or the surrogate.
You know what.
It's actually my child, but you sign a contract.
I don't care, that's my child, that's my flesh and blood and I want a relationship with that child.
This guy's bill says okay, we'll find a way if, if all three involved here can come to an agreement.
Then Chowles said to me, have three parents.
Well, I don't know.
I'm being asked if polygamy is legal.
I don't know that the bill legalizes polygamy.
I think this is more of assignation rights.
You're going to assign parenthood to somebody who wants it, or you could have, as I say, an ex-spouse long gone wants to come back and join the new couple, custody and and and this kind of thing.
Here I'm gonna, I'm gonna read to you from the archive of this program, back in 2005 I warned you people of this exact thing happening.
I said quote, where would the line be drawn?
Where would the liberals draw the line on the right to privacy.
I mean, if you can marry somebody of the same sex, can you marry a third person of the same sex?
Can you have a marriage of four people?
If you're going to destroy and blow up the definition of marriage, then it can include pretty much anything, if it, if it occurs under the rubric of the right to privacy, if you can do this under the right to privacy and fairness and non-discrimination, then where does it end?
August of 2005 is when I ask that very very very, very question.
So now a California bill would allow a child to have multiple parents because California needs to be brought into the 21st century.
There's more than Ozzie and Harriet families out there today.
Three or more people who acted as parents could become parents of a child.
And if, under the bill, if three or more people who acted as parents at any time during the child's life couldn't agree on custody and visitation and child support, a judge could split those things up among all three of them, not just two parents, and an example given, same-sex couple who asked a close male friend to help them conceive,
then decided that all three would raise the child.
That would then become the law in California so that California can move forward into the 21st century.
And we don't even want to contemplate the IRS looking at that family to assess the health care insurance penalty.
Okay, I mentioned it one more time.
I checked the email and some people missed the address for the 4th of July celebration over at Naples at our new mom and pop selling 2FIT.
It's Dell's 24-hour store.
The address there is 2802 Thomason Drive in Naples.
They're going to get mobbed.
They're going to get mobbed, but it's worth it.
You've got hot dogs.
You've got 2FIT from 11 to 5 fireworks.
And a proud bunch that's been out there in business 24-7 for 48 years.
Dell's 24-hour store.
And it's on Thomason Drive, 2802.
Now, listen to this.
This bill in California, this guy from San Francisco, Mark Leno, the multiple parents bill.
It's called Senate Bill 1476.
It stemmed from, are you listening to this?
You may need to write this down to keep track of it.
Stemmed from an appellate court case last year involving a child's biological mother, her same-sex partner, and a man who had an affair with the biological mother and impregnated her while she was separated temporarily from her female lover.
That is what drove the bill.
That circumstance inspired the, again, SB 1476 stemmed from an appellate court case.
Wait till John Roberts gets this one.
An appellate court case last year involving a child's biological mother, her same-sex partner, and a man who had an affair with her biological mother and impregnated her while she was temporarily separated from her female lover.
The child needed all those people as parents.
The law didn't allow for it.
Here's another one.
Ellen Pontak, a Davis, California gay rights activist, said that she and her wife, Shelly Bales, each had two children when they began their relationship 38 years ago.
Government should accommodate changing times, she said.
I just think that people should be able to create their own lives.
There you have it.
And CNN, Anderson Cooper has come out of the closet.
He has admitted that he's gay.
Fact is, I'm gay.
I always have been, always will be, couldn't be any more happy.
It's an AP story.
Now, wait a minute now.
It worked wonders for Obama's fundraising.
It may be the best ratings move CNN's made, and I don't know how long.
Well, I don't know how out it was.
A lot of people knew, but now the stamp of approval is now official.
Yeah, for those that didn't know, it might give CNN a ratings boost.
We'll find out.
Yeah, maybe $120,000 up from 115.
Who knows?
They'll take them.
Well, what a program.
Every day, folks, just the news of the day, just the top news of the day, is a chronicle of the country literally coming apart at the seams.
No guardrails, no anchor, it seems.
Everything that we thought we could count on as a guardrail, as a bulwark, doesn't seem to be working.
And as has been said, everything's now up to us.
This healthcare bill, Obama tax, if it ever is fully implemented, this country is going to change in ways people never thought possible and dreamed.
And we really do have to stop that from happening.
And the only way to even give ourselves a shot at that is November.
I got to take a break.
We'll be back and wrap it up right after this.
Don't go away.
We are going to do Open Line Friday on Tuesday tomorrow because I finally decided, folks, we're going to take Thursday and Friday of this week in addition to Independence Day on Wednesday.
So tomorrow, take those days off, Thursday and Friday off.
So tomorrow, Open Line Friday and Tuesday, it'll make Snerdley's Day.
He loves hearing that.
I do too.
We'll see you tomorrow.
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