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July 10, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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July 10, 2012, Tuesday, Hour #3
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Welcome back, folks.
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Folks, pardon me just a second.
When Ed told me 30, he blew me out.
I almost went into orbit, it was so loud.
The program audio I can barely hear.
I can barely hear myself now.
Nothing is constant.
Every syllable is a different level.
We're trying to fix the audio problems that we've got here.
Because they're highly distracting.
I want to go back to this thing that Obama said that that was that was incoherent.
I want to explain to you why it's incoherent and why it's also filled with bragged doshow and hubris that that that is breathtaking.
When he talked about the model, suggesting that there's a the the this this campaign is about a model of what got us here.
And specifically about what got us.
Obama wants us to believe, he wants you to believe, that what got us here is everything Bush did.
The Bush tax cuts, the war in Iraq, the war in Afghanistan.
That's what got us here.
Plus a couple of hidden tricks that Bush put in there that poor old Obama didn't know about till after he was immaculated.
The old, we didn't know how bad it was really here till we got here.
They didn't tell us how bad it was.
Same thing Clinton tried in 1993.
So we hear this phrase, what got us here, but we never hear the specifics.
It's just assumed that what got us here is Bush.
Well, I want to tell you it was not the Bush tax cuts that got us here, and it was not the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan that got us here.
And there's a very simple way of explaining this.
In 2006, we'd have the war going on since uh uh Afghanistan and Iraq since 2003, the Bush tax cuts since essentially 2001-2002.
In the year 2006, unemployment was under 6%, and the annual deficit was 160 billion dollars.
So clearly, what got us here had nothing to do or very little to do with George W. Bush.
What got us here, what got us where we are, is excessive government borrowing, artificially cheap and low interest rates.
The subprime mortgage mess, which did occur during Bush, but was created under Bill Clinton.
And it was fully fueled by Democrats who basically saw to it that people who had no business being lent money, got loans to buy houses, there was no credit check, there was never I mean it was perfectly clear the people that were being given mortgages had no way of paying them back.
They did not have the ability.
They were given the mortgage anyway because the liberals thought it was unfair that some people in his country didn't have houses while others did.
And so it's predominantly a program for the poor and for minorities to get them into the American dream.
And the banks were forced under pressure to make these loans.
Well, the banks are not gonna sit there and just willingly lose money.
So in an attempt, this is worthless paper.
All of these loans are worthless.
So in an attempt to get some of the money back that they had just literally thrown away in these subprime mortgages, they pooled these mortgages and then sold them to unsuspecting buyers who thought they were buying a phenomenal income stream with all of these pooled mortgage payments every month.
But there weren't any.
It was all on the cum.
You've heard the analogy.
You may not have.
There's a great analogy.
A guy owns a bar.
Thank you.
Everybody in there is an alcoholic.
One by one they lose their jobs, but they're in there every day, nevertheless, and they're buying booze.
And pretty soon none of them can pay for it.
But there's a built in clientele in there every day.
So the bar owner goes to the banks and says, look at this customer base I've got.
This place is full every day.
And the bank says, you know what?
You have got some future income out the wazoo here.
Okay, pal, here's more money.
So the bar owner borrows more money, but none of his customers can pay for the booze that they're buying.
But it's still looked at as an incredible income stream, and they keep investing in it.
They keep invention, finally the bar owner can't get any more money.
There is no income.
It all goes south, and everybody who's lent the bar owner money is out.
The bars this is exactly what the subprime mortgage was, with a couple of variations.
That's what got us here.
What got us here is the Democrat Party.
What got us here is liberalism.
What got us here is all of this incomparable spending by Obama, all of this debt, all of these mounting deficits, all of these economic policies that killed job creation.
In 2006, unemployment was under 6%.
The deficit was 160 billion dollars.
What happened between 2001 and 2006 is not what got us here.
What got us here is Barack Obama.
What got us here is the Democrat Party.
Now the Republicans, they have their own culpability in some of the spending.
But Barack Obama went along with every penny of it that was proposed when he was a senator.
He didn't oppose one penny of spending.
He went along with all of it.
But to try to say that what got us here is George Bush, what happened in his first six years or seven years is absolute BS.
Now, Obama is trying to capitalize on this is what got us here in this model.
And he said a fundraising email over his name.
And in the fundraising email, he says, and he and he's repeating this in the campaign stump, he's saying this election will be a test of the model that got us here.
We'll learn whether it's still true that a grassroots campaign can elect a president, whether ordinary Americans are in control of our democracy in the face of massive spending.
We will learn whether it's still true that a grassroots campaign can elect a president whether ordinary Americans are in control of our democracy in the face of massive spending.
The model that he's talking about is the grassroots campaign as opposed to massive spending.
Obama is pretending he's the grassroots campaign.
Obama is doing a 180.
This is why I think he's incoherent.
This is why I don't think he knows what he's saying.
If he does know, if this is a structured campaign, they have got to be fooling themselves if they think that they're going to sneak this past us.
Now, this mention here of the model that got us here.
What does that show you?
Obama is saying, what he's trying to convince people to believe is that if he isn't re-elected, democracy will have failed.
If he is re-elected, democracy will have succeeded.
Romney is not democracy.
Romney is the rich, Romney is Wall Street, Romney is anti-democracy.
Romney is powerful forces that overcome democracy.
It's just the exact opposite.
Obama is powerful forces that wipe out democracy.
Obama represents powerful forces that wish to stomp on and squish democracy.
What Obama is saying on the stump and in his fundraising emails is that if Romney wins, then control of our democracy will have been taken out of the hands of us, ordinary Americans, and taken over by the rich.
That's his campaign.
That's what this means.
I don't think, and I could be wrong about this, but I It's a function of memory, but I don't think that any president or even any presidential candidate has ever made such an outrageous statement, and he just tossed it off.
Just tosses this off.
We're going to learn whether it's still true that a grassroots campaign can elect a grassroots campaign is gonna send Obama packing.
A grassroots campaign is what happened at 2010 midterms.
A grassroots campaign is the Tea Party.
There isn't anything grassroots about Obama.
Obama is a Linsky.
Obama is a thug ocracy.
Obama is the Chicago way.
Obama is wiping out the playing field, not leveling her to this other happy horse manure.
He is pretending that his is the grassroots campaign.
And that Romney represents these powerful anti-democratic forces who wish to use their power to force themselves on you and on this country.
He's talking about this fundraising model, grassroots model, versus Romney's rich guys.
And this is because he's being outspent.
He's being outraised.
And he can't abide this.
Obama is the leader of the clique.
Obama is Mr. Popularity.
Obama is Mr. Loves and Adored.
He's Mr. America.
This nerd.
This 65-year-old dinosaur, this this nerd, this this absolute kook Romney's outraising me.
Well, that's just because of the rich.
His grassroots model versus Romney's rich guys.
That's going to allow Romney to outspend Obama.
That's what he's talking about here.
And all it means is that they are beside themselves.
They can't believe any of this is happening.
They can't believe Romney is outraising them.
They can't believe that all of these people are going that by the way, a lot of fat cats, these three fundraisers that Romney had in the Hamptons over the weekend.
At a couple of these places, a lot of huge Obama donors showed up.
Rich Obama donors who don't want any more of Obama want no more part of him.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting today that unions spent over 4.4 billion dollars on politics just in the six years between 2005 and 2011, which included one presidential election year.
Now, folks, this is astounding.
They are spending more than they're collecting in dues.
They're not collecting four billion dollars in dues.
They're spending, this is unprecedented.
4.4 billion dollars in politics in six years, which encompassed only one presidential race.
And they're still losing.
They're lost in Wisconsin.
I'm telling you, there is slapped upside the head bewilderment and panic on the Democrats.
All this money is supposed to be the equivalent of landslide victory.
And because they look at it that way, they are beside themselves that Romney is outraising them.
So Obama's not going to be outspent.
All of this crying and woaning about Romney outraising him, Romney is is not going to outspend Obama when when all is said and done here.
This is this is another Obama crying like a spoiled little kid over all this to his uh to his donors who aren't coming through.
He's got a fundraising note out there.
If you don't step up, why we're gonna lose.
Now I know that money is the mother's milk of politics, but folks, the reason there's so much focus on this is because Obama has nothing else.
He can he only has negative ads.
That's the only option he's got.
He cannot run on his performance.
He can't run on his record, he can't run on one aspect of his presidency.
There's not one aspect of his presidency that says to a majority of Americans four more years.
Not one.
Okay, I'm gonna take a timeout now.
We'll come back, and I promise we'll get to your phone calls.
Hey, People have been waiting here for a couple of days to get on this show.
It takes a lot of money, folks, to run away from your record.
It takes gazillions of dollars to run away from your record.
That's what Obama has to do.
Even the Washington Post in their poll story today, has this little uh passage, shall we say?
Quote, the challenge for President Obama may be trying to turn attention away from a stubbornly negative take on his performance.
No kidding.
The challenge for the president might be trying to turn attention away from a stubbornly negative take on his hey, Washington Post, why is there a stubbornly negative take on his performance?
Is it perhaps because his performance has been drastically negative?
There's nothing stubborn about us.
We live in Rioville.
Stubbornly negative take on his performance, despite everything we've done here at the Washington Post, to pass this guy off as FDR...
He still comes across as wily coyote.
Bunch of dumb voters.
He just said it again.
He's out there now.
He says, said it again to the to the kids at uh at a community college in Iowa.
He's uh he's out there decrying Romney and Republican policy.
So we tried it their way through most of the last decade and it didn't work.
We tried it their way.
It's three and a half years of his way, our way in 2006, unemployment under six percent, deficit 160 billion dollars.
We tried it their way.
That's the 2008 campaign.
We tried it their way.
Well, can you imagine if Obama's re-elected, can you imagine the mess he's gonna inherit?
And then who's he gonna blame that on?
I know the answer.
Here's Laura in uh Manalopan.
Uh uh is that New Jersey?
Yeah, welcome to the program.
Great to have you here.
Such an honor to talk with you, Rush.
I've been listening to you for so long.
Uh 20 years, this November.
Well, I appreciate that.
Thank you.
Um, you actually caught up with my thought, I think.
Uh, you were saying that when President Obama was saying uh this is gonna be a test of what got us here.
Originally you were saying he thought it was about Bush and what Bush did and the situation we're in.
But I was thinking, and I think you just caught up with that in the last segment.
I think it was more he was talking to his own people.
I think he was saying this is gonna be a test of your resolve of our grassroots movement, all that you did to get me here, and now let me see if you're all gonna do it again.
That's what I think he was saying.
You uh um you you you could be right.
Uh, and it's entirely possible I have to catch up with you today.
Well, I just you know, one other question I have.
Yeah.
Um something a little different.
Why isn't anybody ever go after Pelosi?
I always hear these phone calls coming in about how bad San Francisco is and the crime and this and that.
Why doesn't anybody ever zoom into her territory?
Because it's just a mess over there.
She really take her to task.
People in San Francisco don't think there's anything wrong.
That's Oakland that's in trouble.
San Francisco, nah, there's no problems there.
Hmm.
Well, just a thought.
I figured I would ask you.
Pelosi, nobody I think there have there have been uh you know, Cindy Sheehan ran against her.
Cindy Sheehan can't be Pelosi, nobody can.
Well, she's no, you know, she's no uh great person either, Cindy.
She has seems like they're all in the same bag.
Yeah.
Pelosi is is is uh uh just an untouchable.
There's nothing uh nothing is gonna change there until she decides to uh to retire.
Cindy Sheehan ran against her, lost in a landslide, and Cindy Sheehan was loved and adored by people in San Francisco.
Up until the time she challenged Stoneface.
And uh then she quickly lost favor, and they forgot everything they loved about her.
And she hasn't been the same since have you heard from Sheehan since that happened?
She she hasn't hasn't been the same.
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Back to the phones of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
Hi, Susan, great to have you here.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Uh, I've never had so much fun being on hold listening to all the Goldies but goodies.
Ah, glad you enjoyed them.
Um first I would like to say that although there are many things I disagree uh with you on, I do admire you for the fact that at this point in your life you could kick this all aside and just say to heck with it, if the American people want to be a bunch of leeches, let them have it and leave, but you don't you stick with it, so I do admire you for sticking with your principles.
Well, thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
Actually, trying to hold on to what I got so that the leeches don't get it.
Well, this is true.
Um I do disagree with you on several things.
One of them, as I told Mr. Snerdley was uh Mitt Romney, it's not just that he's dull and boring and awful, it's we can't stand him.
We don't trust him.
There's nothing there.
I mean, it might be politically incorrect to say it, but he's Obama minus the tan.
I mean, I don't see any difference, and I don't see it.
Now wait then, you can't now what you can't seriously believe that.
Yes I I I know that I know that that uh there there is a lot of distrust and uh lukewarm support for Mitt Romney politically on the Republican side, he's a placeholder uh for people.
But he's not I mean the one thing that that we know for sure is that he's not gonna continue what Obama has done.
But I think he will.
And I mean, just one example is and he, along with the rest of the Republican establishment, when they talk about health care, they're saying, well, we want to keep the thing about, you know, if you have a preexisting condition, you get insurance.
Well, right that right there is going to destroy the insurance market.
What we need is somebody who stands up like Reagan did for free market principles and say what we need in health care is less insurance.
Okay we need more freedom.
We need doctors and patients interacting directly.
Okay.
Let me let me accept your premise then, and I'm gonna ask you a question.
Okay.
What are you gonna do about it?
Oh that is the sixty f now.
I live in Oklahoma, so it really doesn't matter who I vote for.
I mean, it's a slam dunk that Romney's gonna.
No, no, no, no, no.
Not gonna let you off the hook that way.
No, no, no, no, no.
You are with the nomination is over.
It's all now official except for the convention.
Romney's the nominee.
Because nothing you can do about it.
I know.
So everything that you're saying to me is what we heard about Romney during the primary fight.
Okay, fine and dandy.
That's cool.
But he ended up winning.
I'm not arguing I'm just I re what what are we supposed to do now?
If Romney's no different than Obama, if if the Republican establishment's gonna do exactly what Obama's done, because they're all the same.
What do we do?
I don't know.
That's just it.
That's what's so frustrating.
That's why my sister-in-law and I, hi Janice in Bellevue, Nebraska.
Anyway, that's why she and I are always commiserating, because we can't escape.
We're about the same age you are.
We're not wealthy people, and when it all hits the fan, we're stuck.
I'm just hoping our children and grandchildren can get out before it all collapses around us because apparently the American people do want to live off the government, or we wouldn't have the people in office that we do.
It's very disturbing.
Well, I have to um express sympathy for that point of view.
I've always said that the American people get what they want.
However, there is There is one aspect of that.
A lot of these people tell bald face lies during campaigns.
I don't believe the American people have knowingly, willingly, in a majority way, voted for the welfare state that we've got.
Oh, I don't know about that.
You think that a majority of the American people have consciously desirously voted for the welfare state.
When it comes to their own particular form of welfare, yes, like I was talking about go to any farm state and see how willing the farmers are to give up their subsidies or go to any old coot and ask them how willing they are to accept changes in Medicare.
Which is another thing that really I get upset with you is when you doggone boomers, because I'm a baby boomer and we're the ones right now paying the exorbitant taxes to support previous generations.
I have been perfectly clear that the baby boomers are not a monolithic bunch of reprobates.
Thank you.
a lot of people seem to think they are well because i mean the one's left holding the empty bag we know we're gonna be the ones that the death panel for gonna come and put the old pillow over our faces and it's going to be all over i I understand that.
Unless you've got money and and can avoid the death panels and stuff.
I understand that fully.
Yeah.
Look, I I I uh uh this maybe uh too fine a point on this.
I know what you're talking about.
I I have people who are more conservative than I am, but they've got a twenty-four year old, just got out of college, can't find a job, and they want to be able to keep their kid on their insurance policy, and if a federal law does it, they're fine with it.
But they think they are the most ardent hellbent small government conservatives ever.
So you have a point when you talk about the welfare that individuals like.
Exactly.
But when you're talking about farm subsidies um that's that's not I I don't include that in the welfare state.
Farmers are still working.
Well, yes, but then you have I mean you have businesses like GE and and other things that you know.
So it's not the welfare state.
That's crony wait a minute.
That's not the welfare state.
That's crony capitalism.
Okay.
Okay.
That's not the welfare state.
I uh uh GE, yeah, okay, here's GE.
They're rolling in money.
What in the hell are they taking seven hundred billion dollars for from Obama?
For some stupid green in it.
Well, because the CEO is like anybody else.
If you spend somebody else's money, do it.
Exactly.
If the government's gonna give it to me, uh and I can show my stock price going up and make it work for me, I'll do it.
Well, going back to the welfare state, though, when you talk about food stamps, the poor people basically are getting the crumbs off the table.
They don't realize it.
The people who really benefit from the food stamp program are the big agricultural businesses.
I bet you anything if you truly try to reform the food stamp program, you'd have um supposedly conservative Republicans from farm states saying, Oh no, wait a minute, we have to take care of the poor.
When what they're really saying is we gotta keep buying government cheese or government corn or government wheat.
And it's the same thing with ethanol.
Everybody's got their face in the I have felt the wrath on the phone of Iowa Republicans when I have discussed ethanol.
They've called here and they have been enraged and they have said things like do you not care about winning elections?
Do you know what it takes to win Iowa?
I said, what?
Ethanol.
We have to have ethanol.
If we don't if the Republicans take it away, we're gonna lose to the Democrats.
I that's what the kind of stuff you're talking about, and I fully understand it.
And that brings me right back around to Ronnie, because basically what you and I've heard other talk show hosts saying is, well, he stinks, but we've got to vote for him.
So in other words, sacrifice your principles.
The guy is a total weasel, but vote for him anyway.
I mean, we're really in a bind here.
It gets keeps getting worse from the state.
So what are you going to do?
Oh, I don't know.
Start drinking heavily, does that count?
Well, you you are who are you gonna vote for?
I mean, you uh this is Well, I won't be able to vote.
I only have two choices because Oklahoma doesn't allow third parties.
So I probably just will not vote in the presidential.
I'll vote in all the down races.
Which is what I did last time.
I did not vote for McCain.
But then McCain won every single county in Oklahoma, so it doesn't, like I said, it really doesn't matter what I do.
Which is another feeling of, you know, people like me and my sister and I was talking about.
We're starting to feel hopeless, which is a terrible thing.
Hopeless and helpless, because there's nothing we can do.
We can see the greatest country in the world going down the tubes and becoming like a bigger.
Yeah, and you're really gonna fix it by not voting.
But I'm not gonna fix it if I vote.
Wrong.
If you don't vote, you're voting for Obama.
No.
Well, somebody's under my head to make me put color in that little book for a while.
You are you're telling me that you don't see any difference in the two parties.
None whatsoever.
No.
Um the Democrats are taking us to hell on a high speed rail.
The Republicans are taking us there on a freight train.
I like I said, I'm about your age, and all my life, my Republican parents, it was always, oh, if only the Republicans could be in charge of all three parts of government, you know, where both houses of the Senate, the House, and the presidency.
Then we get something done.
Well, what happened when we did that?
They spent like Democrats.
And that's why they got thrown out of office.
Yeah, so I guess votes matter.
Well, I don't know that they do, though.
We vote for force.
Well, that's they they got they got thrown out of office, and the Democrats got put in there, and what happened?
Yeah.
Did it not arguably get much worse?
Yes, but I don't think it's gonna get any better.
I think it's we're just taking these steps downward, and nothing seems to be slowing them.
Okay.
Well then let's you mentioned this at the beginning of the call.
Let's just pack it in.
It's over.
We're beyond the point of uh no return.
That's what I'm afraid of.
I'm really am afraid of that.
And it's sad.
Well, I you know, in in terms of the life span of the country, the Republicans have been in charge of all three branches of government for about a nanosecond.
That's true.
Well, I hope they've learned their lesson, and I hope there are enough Tea Party type Republicans, but you know, once they get to Washington, it's like I think it was Walter Williams who said, you know, people always ask him if he'd run for office, and he'd say, Well, what would happen to me the first time I stood up in front of the Chamber of Commerce and said, I'm not bringing home any pork.
Well, here's my my problem with this is multifaceted.
A and I don't please don't take this personally.
I'm I'm just gonna I'm gonna share something with with the whole audience.
I as a human being, I I don't it's a shortcoming.
I I really don't mean this personally.
I'm I'm I'm talking actually about myself here and being immigrant.
I don't know how to deal with people who complain.
I don't know what to say to them.
I I don't I I I I don't know if I should be sympathetic and agree.
I don't know if I should try to slap you upside the head and get you to focus.
I don't know uh if if I should be rah-rah and try to build you.
I don't know how to deal with whiners.
I I just don't I I'm thinking you're you're sitting here, it's all lost, and I am totally devoted to saving it.
You've given up.
I'm looking at Wisconsin, I'm looking at Obama being in trouble here.
I'm being realistic.
Yeah, Romney's not not the best we've got, but but there wasn't anybody that was the best we've got in the last choice choice of win.
But it's over now.
Oh, I know.
I don't understand what's gained by continuing to complain about it.
Somewhere my son is chuckling because he would agree with you a hundred percent.
Well, I did I don't don't don't take it, don't take it personally, but that's okay.
My son dogs on me all the time.
It's like continuing to complain that the Steelers won the Super Bowl in 1979.
Oh, I know.
I will.
I'm a cowboys fan.
All right.
Well, look, I have to run.
Um uh Susan, I'm I'm glad you called.
Thank you.
And thanks for spending so much time.
It's not as bad as you think.
It really isn't.
Not yet.
I'll tell you when it is.
I don't know if you all are heard this.
We got an audio son, but Obama's running around in the stump talking about his favorite summer vacation.
Have you heard this staying in Howard Johnson's?
Here, I want l this is the latest example in Cedar Rapids.
Uh it says here Colorado.
I guess it could be Kirkwood Community College.
Listen to this.
I remember my favorite vacation when I was eleven years old.
Traveling the country with my grandmother and my mom and my sister.
And once in a while we'd rent a car, but a bunch of times we just take Greyhound buses.
And sometimes we take the train and stay at Howard Johnson's.
And you know, as long as there was a little puddle of a pool, I'd be happy.
And you'd go to the ice machine and and the vending machine and buy a soda and get the ice.
And you were really excited about it.
It wasn't anything fancy, but you understood that you could spend time with your family.
They were cared for.
You had a sense of security.
Okay, it's Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Folks, where did Obama grow up?
We think he grew up in Hawaii, right?
We think we do.
Now did none of us stick with me on this.
So we know that there weren't trains and buses and stuff for the Howard Johnson's in Honolulu.
You know, didn't do that.
So this means that Obama and his mom and his sister had to somehow get to the mainland.
Now what he's trying to do here is uh is goose his lower middle class credentials.
Right.
Now you gotta have money to get from Hawaii to the mainland.
And then in other examples, he's talked about they've spent a month doing this.
Now, who, especially back then, took month-long vacations from Hawaii to the mainland, then get on on buses and trains.
I've yet to see a Howard Johnson's at a train depot.
He said sometimes we take the train and stay at Howard Johnson's.
Howard Johnson's.
You all see Blazing Saddles.
Howard Johnson, 56 flavors, Howard Johnson's.
Mad Men this season had an episode at Howard Johnson's.
And uh, it doesn't have anything to do with this.
I just I it all sounds wonderful, but don't you have to have some money to take a month-long vacation, leave Hawaii.
We think that's where he grew up, then go to the mainland and travel around on trains and buses and so forth, and the big kick is the ice machine at Howard Johnson's.
I'm sorry, folks.
I'm just I'm sorry here I'm not buying it.
I'm not.
Yeah, he did write about it in his book.
Month long vacation, Yellowstone, Disneyland.
Flew to Seattle in the buses and trains, month long vacation.
Which that's uh month long vacation.
Now his mother was the vice president of a bank, his stepfather was uh executive at an evil oil company.
So he's trying to pass himself off as as uh lower middle class qualifications, all that kind of stuff.
It's just it's more tomfoolery.
We'll see you tomorrow, folks.
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