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Aug. 8, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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August 8, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Half my brain tied behind my back just to make it fair.
Rush Limboy, as always, talent on loan from God.
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I mean, that's that just isn't done.
I mean, the expectations of this audience are sky high anyway.
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The uh email address, Lrushbow at EIBNet.com.
I love getting emails like this.
I got an email from a friend of mine, Kansas City.
I just I forgot to mention this to you last week, L Rushbow, Angie's list.
A guy signed up with Angie's list.
One of our great sponsors.
He's Angie's list sent out a note to uh members in Kansas City that a highly rated plumber was running a special offer.
You know how Angie's list works.
Whether you're new to a community or not, uh in this day and age, if you're gonna have work done inside your house, odds are you're gonna check with somebody to get a recommendation.
That's what Angie's list does for practically every kind of work that you would need done inside or outside the house.
So in Kansas City, they had sent around this note that a highly rated plumber and highly rated by all the Angie's list members was running a special offer.
So my friend writes, not only was the price great, but he is the best smartest plumber I've ever dealt with.
I'm not exaggerating.
He's my new guy.
And I signed up after they became a sponsor on your program, and I just wanted you to know.
And I have a lot of people also uh thanking me about the Reagan.com email address opportunity, especially with some of the security breaches that are happening.
I'm not gonna detail them, but I'm just I'm gonna tell you something.
Amazon, Apple, Google, you need to start doing some things like life lockdown.
For example, there's a there's a big story out there.
Some guy that used to, I guess it wired, I forget his name, he just got blown up by hackers.
His iPhone was wiped, his iPad was wiped, his MacBook Pro was wiped.
Somebody took over his Twitter account, they took over his iCloud account.
I mean, literally destroyed it, and it was all done without cracking a single password.
Not one password was cracked.
All the hackers did was call Google and and a couple other places and pretend to be the guy, and they got away with it because they knew the last four digits of his credit card and his email address on his on his account and one other bit of information.
None of it was hard to find.
Now, what what what needs to happen is something like that, uh, I don't care who it is.
Google, Apple, uh, uh, Amazon, whoever you deal with.
If somebody calls them, they bef and and tries to make really substantive changes in the account, they ought to send out an alert to the account holder and say, somebody just called here, you got 24 hours of call back and tell us it was you.
You know, Apple does this on a lot of things.
Like I was using a new computer today, and I had to uh I had to download some software on a new laptop that I'm using, have one dedicated to this desk, and I had it, and and they went email nuts.
A computer not registered to this account is just downloaded.
If that was you, you don't have to do anything.
But if it wasn't you, you better call us.
Let's assist what lifelok does.
Somebody starts trying to open a credit card account with your number or check a bank account with your number.
You get an alert, and you can stop it.
That and if this guy had simply this guy that got blown up by the hackers, if any of the people he'd that that were hacked, had simply sent out an alert.
Uh a lot of this could have been stuffed.
Anyway, the the Reagan.com email address is not subject to this.
People are having uh a lot of fun with that too.
And I just I appreciate all the notes about that.
I wanted to take some time here to um acknowledge it and and spread it around.
From the Washington Times, immigrants lag behind Native born Americans on most measures of economic well-being, even those who have been in the U.S. the longest.
This, according to a report from the Center for Immigration Studies.
And they argue that full assimilation is a more complex task than overcoming language or cultural differences.
The study, which covers all immigrants, legal and illegal, and their U.S. born children younger than 18, found that immigrants tend to make economic progress by most measures the longer they live in the U.S., but they lag well behind Native born Americans in factors like poverty, health insurance coverage, and home.
Well, why would you need a survey for this?
All you need to know is that the Democrat Party is sponsoring this.
Once you know that, you know everything.
Once you know that immigrants are lagging behind everybody, that's exactly what the Democrat Party needs.
A continuing, a continually replenished and growing permanent underclass.
John Schneider, Papa John's pizza.
He told shareholders in a recent quarterly conference call, earnings recall, that Obamacare's changes in the law set to go into effect in 2014 will result in higher cost for the company, which they're going to pass on to customer.
words, Schneider went out there and said Obamacare is going to raise pizza prices.
And I thought – he's a Romney guy.
He doesn't make any bones about it.
He's even a donor.
He's a fundraiser, too.
So get everything out on the table on that.
But what a smart way to say it.
Now that might matter to people.
You go out and you know pizza's gonna get more expensive because of Obamacare.
You might think, oh gosh, that's awfully simplistic.
Folks, it might actually work.
I mean, that might actually reach the people who need to be reached.
It's like telling them, you know what?
Your Netflix bill is going to go up 20% because of Obamacare.
Oh, you want to cause a panic.
And next you tell them they're going to start charging you to watch eentertainment to pay for Obamacare.
And then you go out and then you tell them movie tickets are going to go up by five bucks because of Obama.
One of the ways to get the pop culture people is tell them how Obamacare is going to make all of the things they love more expensive and place them more out of reach.
Am I surprised I don't hear you?
Is that my what am I surprised the NBA I didn't know the commissioner was.
I thought a bunch of players were David Stern, the commissioner of the NBA doing a fundra.
The only thing well, I'm not disputing it.
The only thing I saw in the story was they're they're they're selling Michael Jackson's gonna be there.
That you could come in and if you donate enough money, you might be able to shoot some hoops with the NBA guys and Michael Jackson's one.
Huh?
Jordan that's what I said.
Michael Jordan, that's what I meant.
I'm and uh that kind of surprised me in a way because Jordan stayed away from this stuff because you know Republicans buy Nike's too, ostensibly.
Uh but I didn't know the commissioner was gonna be uh part of it.
I guess look at no, I'm not surprised.
The commissioner's a big lib.
I I I happen to know this uh uh I just happened to say no.
It doesn't surprise me at all, whatsoever.
The NBA commission to be part of it.
But I did I did not see that as uh as part of the story.
And since you told me snerdily, I still don't believe it.
Okay.
Um I'm just just kidding.
Here's more Romney from Des Moines campaign event this morning, continuing to pound Obama on ripping the work requirements out of welfare reform.
It was an extraordinary success.
Back at that time, then Senator Obama was opposed to putting work together with welfare.
Now he's president.
And just a few days ago, he uh he put that original intent in place with a very careful executive action.
Yeah.
He removed the requirement of wealth from welfare.
Yeah.
It is wrong to make any change that would make America more of a nation of government dependency.
We must restore and I will restore work into welfare.
Right on, right on right now, the regime is really upset about this.
I I don't I don't understand why they're this upset about it.
I can understand being ticked off that anybody would dare challenge them because they're their messiahs, but they are really off the deep end over this.
And this is pretty mild.
I mean, this this was pretty vanilla, what Romney said.
And I don't think we should have a dependency society.
When I get in there, I'm gonna put the work requirements back.
And they're livid.
By the way, it was more than just the work requirements that were taken out of this.
Republican welfare reform that Clinton signed into law back in the 90s included other changes.
There were stricter conditions for food stamp eligibility.
There were reductions in immigrant welfare assistance.
Both of those things have been taken out as well as the work requirements.
It's not just the work requirements that are gone.
It really toughened up the law and it worked.
The welfare roles were cut in half.
That's not insignificant.
Welfare revolves were welfare re uh assistance roles were cut by 50 percent.
And uh I just this got the regime just fit to be tied.
Here.
Uh here's the Romney ad, by the way.
This this is the ad that they're calling racist, as racial undertones.
They are angrier about this ad.
I'm not kidding.
They're angrier about this ad than you and I are about their ad accusing Romney of killing the guy's wife.
In 1996, President Clinton and a bipartisan Congress helped end welfare as we know it by requiring work for welfare.
But on July 12th, President Obama quietly announced a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements under Obama's plan.
You wouldn't have to work and wouldn't have to train for a job.
They just send you your welfare check.
And welfare to work goes back to being plain old welfare.
They are f they are over the moon angry at this.
And maybe they're upset because he's talking about all the bipartisans of hell.
I don't know.
I I think that's the least important factor in all of this.
But still, here's uh here's the spokes kid Jake Carney.
Yesterday afternoon a White House QA reporters said Romney campaign came out of a new ad accusing the president of gutting welfare reform, said the administration has turned welfare into a blank check for states without any work requirements.
Now, from a policy standpoint, spokeskid, does the White House feel that offering states this flexibility has somehow undermined the work requirement?
This advertisement is categorically false, and it is blatantly dishonest.
This administration's policy will strengthen the program by giving states the opportunity to employ more effective ways to help people get off welfare and into a job.
Under this policy, governors must commit that their proposals will move at least 20 percent more people, more people From welfare to work.
This waiver policy that we're discussing was specifically requested by two Republican governors, Governor Herbert of Utah and Governor Sandoval of Nevada.
Now they're they're they're fit to be tied, but Obama did all this in secret.
If this such a wonderful thing, why didn't he call a press conference?
And or at least, if not a press conference, a big event in the Rose Garden, and signal this and tell everybody all these wonderful benefits.
And lay this off on these two Republican governors who wanted waivers from this.
Why not do it instead of doing it under the cover of darkness on a weekend where nobody could see it, and you announce it later that it's done.
Axelrod was calling it racist.
Now he's calling it blatantly dishonest and an attack.
So the um uh I mean they got people fanning out all over the place on this, and Piers Morgan last night, the guy who's lost over 70% of Larry King's audience, and it was no great shakes to begin with.
Piers Morgan talking to uh Obama campaign press secretary Ben LeBolt, not to be confused with Usain Bolt.
Did you hear what do you see what he did, by the way?
The track guy.
The guy got to run the hundred meters in five seconds, faster than you can send a text on your iPhone.
He ran the hundred meters in in under ten seconds.
Anyway, he was being interviewed by some sports babe, and the national anthem starts at an anthem, a medal ceremony somewhere else at the other end of the track, did not involve him, and he stopped.
He's from Jamaica, he stopped, put his hand over his heart, faced the flag, stopped his own interview for our national anthem, Usain Bolt.
Obama wouldn't do that.
So this is this is Ben LeBolt, and and Piers Morgan said, apparently, you're um you're you're dishing out all sorts of handouts to people that don't deserve it here.
You're expanding welfare to basic giveaway program.
What about that?
This latest attack is false and it's hypocritical.
The entire purpose of this program is to move more people from welfare to work.
If there's a state that can design a more effective program and prove to the federal government that they can move 20 percent more people from welfare to work, uh, will act on it.
The governors who requested this are Republican governors in the states of Nevada uh and Utah who said they could design more effective programs.
The problem with this is Obama doesn't want put people back to work.
Obama wants to overwhelm this country with welfare recipients.
That's the fastest way to bring about the transformation that he wants.
Over on CBS this morning, Jan Greenberg up, Jan Crawford, and her report on uh the Romney welfare reform ad.
Romney's message is part of a broader theme that campaign will be hitting hard in coming weeks, arguing that President Obama is in fact changing America by making more people depend on big government to take care of them while hardworking taxpayers foot the bill.
Now, in a campaign that's already tenished with class warfare and attacks on Romney's wealth, this could be a potent counter message with independence in these key swing states.
So could be a potent message, really hard-hitting message, I could really go out there and change the minds of the independents.
So that's they're going nuts over this, no matter where you go.
Over Romney's little welfare reform ad.
And I got to take a break.
Time goes by, we'll be back and continue after this.
This is an outright lie that Jay Carney is telling that these two Republican governors have requested waivers of the work requirements.
It is not true.
Uh, folks, Barack Obama doesn't want to expand state power.
He doesn't want the states to have more power.
He sues states who attempt to assert themselves.
Robert Rector, who is my all-time favorite think tank guy, and he's at the Heritage Foundation, expert on poverty and related subjects.
And back on July 19th, Robert Rector wrote the governor's letter requesting these waivers.
Makes no mention at all of waiv requirements under the temporary assistance for needy families program.
That's welfare reform.
In fact, the legislation promoted in the governor's letter, the personal responsibility and individual development for everybody act, the Pride Act, actually would have toughened federal work standards.
Here the Republican governor's letter proposed raising the mandatory participation rates imposed on states from 50 to 70% of the adult TANF caseload.
They did not ask for waivers from the work require requirements.
Jay Carney, LeBolt, and the regime are lying fully about this.
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Zero mistakes.
Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation said the governors of these two states, Jay Carney, uh Utah and Nevada lying, but they did not seek waivers of the work requirements.
The Obama administration is just lying about that.
And by the way, it's a little bit it's a little bit disconcerting to me to keep hearing Bill Clinton get credit for this.
You know who wrote welfare reform who actually wrote the legislation?
Santorum.
Rick Santorum was the primary author of welfare reform.
And Bill Clinton out there getting the credit for it.
Back in the 1990s, President Bill Clinton working with the Republicans in Congress and bipartisan fashion welfare reform or create work requirements for freeloaders out there sitting on their butts all day.
Clinton was dragged kicking and screaming to this.
Bill Clinton wasn't the author of welfare reform.
He never got close to writing it.
He detested it.
Including the day that he signed it into law.
And now the guy who actually wrote Centaurum is uh is never even discussed.
Here's Terry Dayton, Ohio.
We go back to the phones.
Great to have you here.
Hi.
God bless you and Catherine Rush.
I love you.
Thank you, sir.
Rush, is there really this huge group of undecided out here?
I don't if you had to vote tomorrow, I think most people will know who they'd vote for.
What who benefits by the speculation that there's this large group of undecided and the classes so close besides the advertisers.
Um you've got what do you think?
Answer your own question for me.
Who does benefit?
Well, I think advertisers definitely benefit the news, you know, and all it's it's a close race, and there's a lot of people haven't made up their mind yet.
But wait a minute.
Are you the money?
Are you are you are you trying to tell me that advertisers are telling news people to continue to project this thing as undecided?
There are a lot of undecided so that people will watch the news programs.
Oh, geez.
I don't think it's I don't think it's happening that way.
I th I the thing I saw yesterday, if I can remember the numbers, I was confusing when I looked at them the first time.
It's a number of voters for Obama that are abandoning.
I think he's lost forget that 14%.
14% of people who were going to vote for Obama are not going to vote for him in a poll that I saw yesterday.
Uh I might not be 14%.
Yeah, it was for Obama lost 14%, but the Republicans lost some too.
It was weird, weird thing.
Um the GOP candidate lost 7%.
In other words, 7% who voted Republican last time said they're not going to this time.
14% who said they voted for Obama in 08 Are not going to this time around.
Now, this phenomenon, see, this guy, Terry is out there, he's like me.
How can you be undecided in the midst of this?
I know common sense rears its head and you say, how can anybody be undecided?
I take it a step farther.
How can anybody vote for Obama?
I No, no.
I understand all the reasons people vote for Obama, Democrat loyalty, all that.
I'm just in a perfect world, and I still dream of one, not utopia.
I'm just more common sense.
And where real village where most people live, not just a few.
Sometimes it's a it's a it's a frustrating uh thing.
I w the welfare reform ad that Romney, we're still not through with soundbites on this.
It's soundbite 17, Bob Schiefer talked with Charlie Rose today on CBS on the CBS This Morning Show about this ad.
And Charlie Rose said, it's getting hotter out there, isn't it?
Now they're talking about Romney's ad.
They're not talking about Obama's ad accusing Romney of killing the guy's wife.
No, no.
They're talking about Romney's ad accusing Obama of taking work requirements out of welfare.
Charlie says, Boy, really getting hot out there, isn't it, Bob old Buddy O'Pal.
Do you see where Mitt Romney is going here?
I mean, if you look at these new battleground polls that are out, he does best with uh white working class men.
And this is aimed directly uh at that group.
But I think it's quite interesting how vehemently both the White House and Bill Clinton are denying this.
Bill Clinton is pointing out that, you know, it was Republican governors who were asking for these waivers, and he points out that when uh this uh welfare law went into effect, Mitt Romney himself, as a governor asked for some waivers in order to make adjustments in the work requirements.
Yeah.
Well, again, uh Robert Rector Heritage Foundation says that all this gobbledygook about Republican governors requesting waivers from these very stringent work requirements, it just isn't true.
And here's Clinton carrying the lie forward.
I am playing these sound bites for you just to illustrate for uh some odd reason this Romney ad has got these people turned upside down.
Um I want you go back and grab the ad, grab number 13.
I I have to tell you, Snertley's one know you know everything, Rush.
You have every political answer.
What is it about this ad that's got the Democrats and the media so out of sorts?
And right now, I don't know.
Here's the ad again.
You tell me what is in this ad that has caused Obama and Jay Carney and Ben LeBolt and Charlie Rose and Bob Schiefer and everybody else in the media to go absolutely bad uh batty.
In 1996, President Clinton and a bipartisan Congress helped end welfare as we know it by requiring work for welfare.
But on July 12th, President Obama quietly announced a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements under Obama's plan.
You wouldn't have to work and wouldn't have to train for a job.
They just send you your welfare check.
And welfare to work goes back to being plain old welfare.
Mitt Romney will restore the work requirement because it works.
Now, one of the only things I can figure is that the thing that drives them the craziest is when you tell the truth about them.
And this ad does tell the truth in the sense that Obama's gutting the work requirements of welfare reform.
And I know full what Obama is doing everything he can to grow the government while making it look like he doesn't want to and isn't.
He's doing everything he can to create more and more dependency in the American people while he's saying he wants to do the opposite.
So the fact that that Romney's just telling a simple truth that Obama is on the side of the takers.
A simple truth that Obama is against the producers.
I don't know what else it is.
I literally can't figure out, because there's nothing defamatory in it.
There's nothing untrue about it.
It doesn't even approach Obama killed that guy's wife.
Doesn't get anywhere near that, and yet they're doing damage control on this like I haven't seen them do damage control, except on, except on you didn't build it.
You didn't make that happen.
It took them a while to get up to speed, but after they figured out that they were reeling from that, then they went nuts on that.
And this is basically the same thing.
Except the Obama Obama camp does not, uh the Romney camp does not tie them together.
I'm doing that myself.
The Romney ad does not say, for example, and last week when President Obama said you didn't build that small business, you didn't do it on your own.
Now he's but they must be afraid of the linkage.
Because Obama did go out and say, you didn't build that, you didn't make that up.
Your small business, you had nothing to do with that.
Other people built other people made your business happen.
You didn't do that.
Roads and bridges.
And here comes a couple weeks later, an ad in which Romney basically says, Yep, Obama is on the side of the freeloaders.
Obama is making it easier on the freeloaders to freeload.
Obama's make it easier on the takers to take.
Obama's on their side.
Obama is against the producer.
If it's not that, and I I maybe it is that, and the fact that the other thing got so much traction when they hit Obama so hard on you didn't bullet, this is just essentially a continuation of it without Romney establishing any linkage.
If it's not that, folks, I don't know what has them up in arms.
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Joe in Montgomery, Minnesota.
Thank you for the hold, sir.
Great to have you on the program.
Thank you, Rush.
Uh, just want to make a quick point here with uh Jerry Reid's comments on uh Romney's taxes.
Uh if that were the case where Romney hadn't paid for the last ten years, isn't that an epic failure of the IRS?
Um by all means.
Uh theoretically, uh Romney would have been tracked down in ten years.
Um exactly.
You know, and I mean, again, this is the same IRS that Obama wants to have, you know, in charge of our health care.
So I mean if they can't catch somebody as high profile that's been running for you know the presidency for all of at least the last six years.
If they can't catch someone that high profile, yet you put them in the back.
The people who are moved by this, the read the reason it works is because the people that Obama runs that ad for already think the rich get away with that anyway.
The rich aren't paying their fair share, remember.
And now here's Romney hadn't paid his tax for ten years.
Most those people are not gonna say, well, the IRS had never miss me.
The IRS they're not gonna say the IRS sucks.
They're gonna think, yep, typical.
That's how the game's played.
The rich get away with murder.
Why the Democrat Party had been warning me of this for 50 years, and so here's Romney hadn't paid taxes in in in in ten years.
Yeah, that's what the rich got away with.
You'd be surprised.
I'll bet you'd be surprised the number of people who think it's true, and how many rich people don't ever pay taxes, no matter what statistic you throw at them.
I bet I'll bet you'd be surprised.
The vast majority of people are not uh not the vast majority.
A lot of people, we don't know that it's a majority yet, are not gonna look at it with the logic and common sense that you and I look at it.
They're not gonna say, oh, come on, Romney hadn't paid taxes ten years, the IRS is gonna not find that, ha.
They're not gonna say that.
They think the game's rigged anyway.
And if the IRS didn't catch Romney, Obama didn't, it makes him a good politician.
That's why he's a good president.
He's Making sure the rich don't get away with this stuff anymore.
And that's how these imbeciles look at it.
Hey, it must be because it works.
And we know it works because they keep doing it.
Year after year after year.
This has been 30, 50 years of their playbook.
They've been doing this kind of stuff.
I talked to somebody the other day, a conservative, who said, is there any way of replacing Romney?
I said, why?
Well, that foreign trip his was a disaster.
This guy's not fit to be president.
And I look, I couldn't believe it.
The only people said he goofed up on that trip was the media.
This guy's one of us.
Thought Romney had to go because of a bad foreign trip.
This stuff works, is my point.
Just enough time to say thanks for being with us today, folks.
It's been fun, and back tomorrow we will be.
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