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Sept. 10, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 10, 2012, Monday, Hour #2
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Don't doubt me.
Rushland Bois emitting vocal vibrations coast to coast all across the fruited plain behind the Golden EIB microphone.
Great to have you back, my friends.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program, and we will get to your phone calls in this busy, busy broadcast hour, 800-282-2882, the email address lrushbo at eibnet.com.
So I was just watching CNN during the break.
And Suzanne Malvaux is the anchor, and they got their reporter on the streets of Chicago covering the strike.
And she has this serious and pained look on her face.
Oh, this is horrible.
Oh, terrible strike, students.
And she throws to this reporter, and this reporter, I don't know his name, he says, Well, I hope they get this thing settled fast, Suzanne.
No one wants 400,000 kids on the streets of Chicago during the daytime and not in schools.
No one wants 400,000 kids on the streets of.
I don't know what they do in the summer.
I've never understood.
No one wants 400,000 kids on the streets in Chicago.
Some polling data, October 24th, 26, 1980.
Because I heard Britt Hume today say, by the way, folks, on this whole business of you being despondent and depressed, I don't know how many of you are, but I'm telling you, the conservative media out there is, they need the vapors.
They're about ready to toss it in.
You know, they live in this media bubble.
They live and work in it.
They consider themselves part of it.
And they're totally, they believe every poll that comes out.
And to the extent that you read them and access them, I just want to warn you, you're going to be hit with fatalism like you haven't seen before.
And it can't be true.
For example, Britt Hume said today on Fox Fourth.
You've got to keep in mind that a candidate who is ahead in the polls in mid-September rarely loses.
Well, anybody remember Carter and Reagan?
It wasn't until the week before that election that the polls started showing the truth of that election.
October 24th, 25th, 26th, 1980, Gallup poll had Carter leading Reagan by three among likely voters, eight points among registered voters.
Reagan ends up winning by 10 percentage points.
So Gallup was off 13 to 18 points just a week and a half before the election.
Two weeks.
Which shows to me how much Gallup wanted Reagan to lose.
Incumbent Democrat presidents usually aren't re-elected.
You know, Bill Clinton is the only Democrat president to be re-elected since FDR.
Did you know that?
Now, you might want to count LBJ being re-elected as JFK's second term, but obviously we're mitigating extenuating circumstances there.
And JFK, LBJ did not run for a second term.
He quit.
I will not seek and I shall not accept a nomination of my party to be your president.
Ladybird and I would rather go back and kick the Beagles, Texas.
Incumbent Democrats usually are not reelected.
And I don't even know Clinton, 1992, if it weren't for Perot, who knows?
Remember the Scott Walker situation in Wisconsin?
What were they saying about the Scott Walker recall election against Tom Barrett before the election?
If you remember, they were saying, this is too close to call.
It could be that Walker's going to lose the recall.
They were all up in the Drive My Media talking about this.
And yet, Walker won with 53% of the vote.
The loser, Michael Dukakis, had a 17-point lead over George H.W. Bush in 1988 after the Democrat National Convention.
On July 26, 1988, the New York Times said this was among the findings of a national public opinion poll.
948 registered voters conducted late last week for Newsweek magazine by Gallup.
Telephone interviews took place July 21st, which was the last night of the convention.
55% said they preferred to see Dukakis win.
38% said Bush.
17 points.
Bush ended up winning by eight.
Jimmy Carter led Reagan by four points after his convention in 1980.
If there's precedent here, it's not on Obama's side.
On the campaign trail, President Obama constantly talking about the importance of technology, but he met his match in an iPhone yesterday.
The president had stopped at a campaign orifice in Port St. Lucie to thank volunteers.
And then for the cameras, Obama was supposed to call a couple of campaign workers who were out working on his behalf.
When White House trip director Marvin Nicholson handed the president his own iPhone, Obama couldn't get it to work.
A reporter witnessing the scene said the president looked befuddled, didn't know what to do with it.
It's clear.
Actually, it's not clear the president knows how to dial on an iPhone, the reporter wrote.
Finally, Obama says, oh, I got to dial it in.
Hold up, hold up.
I can do this.
See, I still have a blackbird.
And even after figuring out where the keypad was, he had a little bit more trouble dialing.
The call didn't go through.
He blamed Nicholson for having an insufficient cell phone plan.
He never completed the call on an iPhone.
Mr. Hip.
The Washington Times is the only outlet to report this.
The Washington Times reporter was the pool reporter.
They are the only outlet to report it.
Drudge links to it, but nobody else reports this.
Wonder why.
I mean, the iPhone is clearly the it phone.
I don't know if Obama knows what a checkout scanner at the supermarket is or not.
And they eat everything Michelle grows in her garden.
So I don't know how much Obama buys.
Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, just some of these samples here.
Here's Politico, Jim Vanderhey, and Mike Allen.
State of the race, advantage Obama.
In fact, Politico pretty much calls the race for Obama in their piece.
And this is what the conservative blogosphere is responding to.
A lot of them are just caving, crashing.
George Will go to audio soundbites yesterday on this week at a roundtable.
Stephanopoulos said to George Will at Jobs Report.
That's probably the best news Republicans had in a couple weeks.
On the basis of these numbers, the Romney campaign slogan should be the title of Paul Krugman's book, which is Endless Depression Now, because these are depression-level numbers.
And if the Republican Party cannot win in this environment, it has to get out of politics.
If the Republican Party can't win in this environment, it has to get out of politics.
I'm going to ask the question again.
If Obama wins, how long do we have, folks?
I'm serious.
Before economic collapse, before economic implosion.
Now, what happens to the Republican Party if Obama wins?
I think it's serious.
The welfare state is collapsing all around us.
I don't think, and there are people that realize that we can't go on this way.
I'm not sure how many people realize how close we are to the collapse of the U.S. financial system.
Because we can't, we don't have the, we're spending a trillion dollars we don't have on welfare.
It's not that we're taxing producers and redistributing the money.
We're borrowing it.
We're printing it.
We don't have it.
Over a trillion dollars a year.
$5.5 trillion added to the national debt in four years, three and a half years by this president.
There just isn't the money for this.
At some point, and it's sooner rather than later, there will be a collapse.
And the Republican Party may end up being on the wrong side of it.
And there's going to be a new Republican Party if that happens.
And it's going to be led by Tea Party people.
Everybody's going to try to blame conservatives, and they will have had the least to do with any of the calamity if it happens that does happen.
And it has to happen, folks.
If Obama's re-elected, it will happen.
There's no if about this.
And it's going to be ugly.
It's going to be gut-wrenching.
But it will happen.
The country's economy is going to collapse if Obama is re-elected.
I don't know how long.
A year and a half, two years, three years.
California is going to declare bankruptcy at a certain point.
California is going to declare bankruptcy.
And you know what Obama will do?
He'll go to states like Texas or Arizona, Florida, bail him out.
That's what he'll do.
And that's going to precipitate this stuff.
California's showing where we're headed in every which way.
There's two Californias.
There's the rich, the elites, the liberals that do well along the coast.
And then there's the interior, Central Valley, San Joaquin Valley, where it is falling apart.
The glue that keeps the culture together in the interior of California is falling apart.
And on the coasts, they're blissfully unaware.
Where the wealth is pretty stacked, it's pretty high.
So if you go to California and you spend time on the coastal areas, I don't see any problem here.
You go to the interior where much of what California does, feeds the world and the country and so forth.
You'll see it.
But everything that is happening in California is slated is going to happen nationally, from the unchecked immigration to the massive indebtedness, inability to pay it off, rising taxes.
And when push comes to shove, where are they going to go in California?
They're going to go along the coastline where all the elites, suburbia, where all the money is, and they're going to start taking it.
It's the only place there is any.
California, Governor Moonbeam, not doing one thing to put that state's finances in order.
Not one thing.
Everything he's doing is making it worse.
And the same thing is going to happen eventually.
This can't go on, folks.
We are on an unsustainable course.
You simply can't pay people who aren't working.
You just can't.
You cannot pay them anything, much less full-fledged incomes, lifetime health care, and lifetime pensions.
You can't do it.
Even if you wanted to, even if that was your definition of fairness and equality.
So you can't do it.
The money isn't there.
And you might be shouting, well, but don't these people know it?
You have to keep in mind who these people are.
These are people who don't like the way this country was founded in the first place.
I used to think it's about time some of us found out what it's like to live in the rest of the world because of what we've done to the rest of the world.
Kyle Smith, New York Post yesterday.
Very interesting piece.
Explains that Obama is hanging on because people pity him.
They feel sorry for him.
I'll share with you some excerpts.
You're going to hear this.
In the meantime, it's time for another obscene profit timeout.
We'll come back and we'll get started with your phone calls.
So be ready.
We'll be right back.
Of course, folks, there are ways to avoid the economic collapse.
Of course, there are, but not if Obama's re-elected.
If Obama's re-elected and he continues on this course, among many other things of the welfare state, but also in this foolish green energy, the solar and wind, sorry, we're doomed if he continues this vendetta against fossil fuels, because that's our salvation.
You look at what's going on in North Dakota.
We're sitting on a boom.
We are sitting on energy independence, but not with him in the White House.
Elections have consequences.
We're sitting on more energy because of fracking.
We're sitting on more fossil fuel energy and some of it clean, natural gas, but we're not going to get it.
If Obama's re-elected and stays devoted to this green energy crap, they can't compete with it.
I mean, we're talking about a level of abundance of fossil fuel energy within our shores, within our boundaries, that just supply and demand.
Obama's, even with all the subsidies in the world that he wants to pass out, which we don't have the money for that either.
He can subsidize all the cylindras and all the windmills and all the solar energy companies he wants.
He can't compete with the abundance of energy, simple supply and demand.
They won't have a prayer.
But that voluminous amount of energy will be untapped nationwide if he's re-elected.
He opposes it.
You heard him talk against oil in his acceptance speech for the umpteenth time.
Nothing new about it.
Of course, there are ways to avoid this collapse.
Mitt Romney is the first thing you have to know to avoid the economic collapse.
Here's Kay in Fullerton, California.
I'm glad you waited.
Great to have you on the program.
Hi.
Hi, Rush.
How are you?
Very well.
Thank you.
Yes.
Rush, I tell you, I am so glad that you came on and you said that we have to stay steadfast and we cannot listen to the distortion and distraction of the Democrats.
This is the most amazing day of my life since I got married and had my kids.
And the next day is going to be the day that Obama is defeated.
And we have to stay steadfast in what we're doing.
Before he got elected, I was on a mission.
I knew what he was all about.
I understood what he was doing.
I understood that he was going to be disastrous.
And I tried to change minds.
And I've been doing it ever since.
Democrats, blacks, all kinds of people.
Where I work, I work with teachers.
And in my district, most of the teachers are conservative.
And I've been on a mission to change their minds, and I've been doing a very good job of it.
And I am so excited about this election.
We are going to win, and we have to stay steadfast in what we're doing.
Well, we can't fall prey, can't fall prey to the pessimism and the negativism that's out there, even about Romney, because most of this isn't about Romney.
Our base is going to show up.
Our base, just like in 2010, is animated by stopping dead in its tracks Obamaism.
And the only way to do that is vote for Romney.
You can't stop Obama sitting at home.
You can't stop Obama by not voting.
You can't do it.
And everybody knows this.
But the effort to suppress your vote and to depress you and make you feel like it's over is in full throttle right now.
By the way, Bloomberg News back on September the 7th had the following story.
The Obama regime's plan to tighten regulation of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas on public land may cost more than 20 times U.S. estimates.
Meaning that Obama, back in September, well, this is no, three days ago.
Why does this feel like, anyway, announced they were going to tighten the fracking rules, meaning limit how much it can happen.
Like the same thing he's doing with the coal industry.
Oh, you want to open a coal plant?
Well, you go right ahead, but you're going to go out of business.
Oh, taxes, whatever he's going to do.
We're sitting on energy independence.
North Dakota is the illustration of it.
We're sitting on it.
Real energy independence, folks, from the Saudis, from the Middle East, real energy independence.
He is going to make it impossible to tap.
The regulations are going to cost so much.
It won't be profitable for anybody to do it.
Therefore, it won't happen.
Hello, windmills and solar and all that crap.
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We go back to the phones.
Jeff in St. Louis.
Hello, sir.
Hey, Rush.
Small business guy here trying to survive.
Started my business because of the economy.
I couldn't find a job.
And my question is: if President Obama wanted to, what could he do to save America?
Because I don't see what he's doing.
Well, that's a two-part question.
If I understand your quote, what could Obama do to save America?
Yes.
Okay, the two parts are: what could he do?
And the second, does he want to save America?
Yes.
Because I'll tell you, as a small business guy here, I'm pretty sure.
There's one word answer.
Resign.
Quit.
Leave.
I'm not kidding.
If Obama wants to save America, resign and then renounce.
There is, look at everything that he has said that he likes that's happened this far.
He said, look, we need more time.
We haven't had the time to fully implement our plan.
He wants to do exactly what he's doing, only more of it.
He wants to prolong the depression.
I must be blunt.
I have to tell you what I think.
A lot of people still can't accept that, that we've actually elected a president who wants this kind of economy.
But there are ways to stop this.
There are ways.
He makes fun of them.
He spent time making fun of tax cuts in his acceptance speech.
He mocked them.
He made fun of self-reliance.
He made fun of entrepreneurism.
He made fun of all these Ozzy and Harriet things, a strong backbone moral culture.
He made fun of it all.
He made fun of everything that's worked in the past.
He made fun of the traditions, institutions that have defined this country's greatness.
He would have to totally renounce everything he says he believes.
He would have to renounce his support for the unions.
He would have to renounce his support for big government.
This is a guy who believes that he wants you to have a daily devotional relationship with government.
He wants that of the citizenry.
He wants the citizenry in a almost, I think it's sick, but he wants almost a perverted, literal attachment to government.
They government is the first thing people look to.
It's where they go for any problem to be solved.
It's what he wants.
And none of that is going to save the country.
So the answer to your question is: resign.
Does somebody want to disagree with me on this?
I mean, I'm welcome.
Anybody.
You want to disagree?
Tell me I'm wrong.
God, would I love to be wrong?
Don't know how I would love to be wrong about this.
You don't know.
I don't want any of this, but I know mathematics, and I know economics.
I know history.
I know socialism, statism, Marxism.
I know where it goes.
I know what happens at the end of it.
It's never, ever worked, no matter who's tried it, no matter how big their hearts, no matter how much they cared, no matter how cool they were, no matter how hip, even though they didn't know to use an iPhone, still hip.
It's never worked.
It has never provided abundance.
The only thing that's ever been in abundance is government power.
And there's give and take and everything.
The rise in government power takes place with the loss of individual liberty and freedom.
I think, though, he thinks he is saving America.
What's the question, Snerdle?
your problem in there?
Well, Snartley just said something rather provocative.
I'm not, he said the older Democrats, give me a name.
Okay.
Okay.
JFK has been a name mentioned here as I requested.
Snerdley says the old Democrats used to think of socialism the way we all think of it now.
Now, JFK did, he hated the Soviet Union.
I mean, he was anti-communist.
It was after JFK's death the Democrat Party went through this massive transformation and began a solidarity with worldwide communists, be it in Nicaragua, even the Soviet Union.
Ted Kennedy was constantly trying to warn the Soviets against Reagan.
We didn't know this at the time.
Many of us suspected it.
But it wasn't until the Berlin Wall fell down and all the documents of the KGB were released, and we found out there were numerous phone calls and letters from Ted Kennedy to various Soviet leaders warning them about Reagan.
I kid you not.
But you have to go back a long time to find Democrats as opposed to socialism.
But now this current crop of Democrats think they are the proper inheritors of all the previous failures, socialist and Marxist failures.
Obama thinks that he is saving America from itself.
He thinks America's flawed, my friends.
He thinks America is imperfect and that it can be perfected.
In his speech, Obama promised that he would pursue the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that FDR pursued during the only crisis worse than this one, the Great Depression.
Well, FDR, truth be told, FDR extended the Depression to ram through more socialist programs.
In the words of Rahm Emanuel, never let a crisis go to waste.
And like FDR, Obama realizes it's a lot easier to ram through socialist programs when times are bad than when they're good.
He wants a bigger government.
He wants more problems.
He wants government as the solution to the problem.
Therefore, he welcomes this.
Even people close to me don't want to accept that.
But you know as well as I do that it is easier to expand government when there's a crisis and people want fixes and want answers.
If you have the right leaders, I can fix it.
I can put you back your home and I'll get you a job and I can make sure that you eat.
Well, there's the guy.
And it gets worse.
The more fixes necessary?
Why?
The more government offered.
The more government promised.
This is an ideal recipe for what Obama wants.
There's no incentive to reverse any of this.
Obama thinks the country's imperfect and deeply flawed, and he is saving it.
It has been on the wrong course for 200 plus years, particularly the last 30.
And it's going to take a long time to put us back on the right course where everybody is on the same team and everybody's looking out for everybody else.
And they're shared this, and they're shared that.
This might be a good thing to bring up Kyle Smith's piece in the New York Post yesterday, Why Obama is Pitied.
I don't know if it happens to you, but when I share with it's not everybody, by the way, but there's still some people when I share with them my thought.
I just told you, he's benefiting from these crises.
He's benefiting.
He's growing government.
He likes this stuff because it allows him to offer more fixes, government programs.
He wants this situation.
It's how you grow government.
It's how you make it more involved in everybody's daily life to the point that they can't do without it, which is what he wants.
I still have people want to draw the line at him purposely doing it because they can't believe that we've ever elected a president with that attitude about the country.
They just can't believe it.
There are others who do, but they just feel sorry for the guy.
That's what Kyle Smith's piece is about.
I'll share with you some excerpts when we come back.
On the cutting edge of societal evolution, Rush Limboy having more fun than a human being should be allowed to have.
It's an interesting take, Why Obama is Pitted.
It's Kyle Smith in the New York Post.
He does movie reviews now and then.
He writes on Sundays.
Here's how he starts the piece.
Two hours after getting drunk on the rhetorical moonshine served up by Bill Clinton on Wednesday night.
Delegates and hacks won't stop believing there's a decent place to get a real drink in this dismal southern burgh of Charlotte.
So we're stumbling thirstily along South Tryon Street at 1:30 in the morning when a hunched lone figure is stopped by an excitable young woman.
Guy's dressed all in black, scraggly beard, greasy hair, tiny frame, so aggressively meek, he's got to be a celebrity of some sort.
Looks like the rough draft they threw out when they were making Johnny Depp.
Girls in iridescent cocktail dresses and freshly pressed hair have a better sense for these things than I.
They flock around the little guy, brandishing iPhones.
He poses without smiling and then moves along, hands in pockets, the weight of fame pressing his head downward.
Who was that, we asked?
Somebody says it was Jared Leto.
Jared Leto, a rock star, love object, monster, Obama supporter.
Then he moves on.
That's just how he began the piece, just to set it up.
In 2004, Obama said, We worship an awesome God in the blue states.
But a flock of the faithless thrice cried no at the convention when asked whether a single mention of God should be added to the party platform.
They booed when their voice vote was ignored, voice vote was ignored.
To put it mildly, booing, God doesn't look good when the world is watching, and the pundits were forced to hit pause on 30 years of asserting conventions or phony stage shows to admit that the Democrats had come up with something spontaneous and it was spontaneous combustion.
Who booz God?
Who makes a fuss over one harmless word?
Were they worried about offending the United Association of Satanists?
Does Lucifer have a back channel linked to Valerie Jarrett?
Obama didn't mention the Lord, except for the God bless you stuff at the end, but he did quote scripture.
Turns out the part he finds intriguing is the seven words that sound most like one of his campaign slogans: Ours is a future filled with hope.
But according to the speech, ours is a future filled with the past.
Thousands of worlds boiled down to three, more of the same.
Obama promised more unfunded investments in the poor, in health care, clean energy, education, regulations.
He issued prickly defenses of previous bailouts and handouts.
We reinvented a dying auto industry, he claimed, except he ignored Ford.
Biden runs out says we saved a million jobs in the auto industry.
The only problem is there are only 700,000 in the whole industry.
All auto manufacturing in this country combined employs 700,000.
Saving GM and Chrysler saved a million out of 700,000 must be Clinton arithmetic.
Nor would GM cease to exist, as Biden said.
Had it gone through an ordinary bankruptcy, simply would have restructured and shed more of the union obligations that are a hazard to its long-term health.
And far from thriving, Biden said GM's on top of the world.
GM's about to fall into third place.
Its stock has been about as attractive as Groupon's.
Taxpayers got the sticker shock of $25 billion, and for that, they didn't even send you a Malibu.
Why was the crowd cheering any of this?
There was an Obama backing pack emblazoned bus, and emblazoned on its side was an elaborately painted image of the president and the legend, stop disrespecting my president.
You see, people didn't feel that President Bush was them.
To put the goal of defeating Obama so bluntly, like singling out the nation's most successful black men, feel personal, felt like disrespect.
His point here is that Obama is still pitied because he's the first black president in a bad economy and people, Romney, everybody talk about getting rid of this guy and people feel sorry for him.
Obama is unlike any candidate in the way many millions of his supporters feel a personal connection to him, one that can be closely tied to race.
To many of them, any knock on Obama is a knock on all of them, the entire group.
Voters know or think they know that Obama means well, but they also know he's failed.
And Democrats know this too.
Even many white moderates who convene in focus groups speak in hushed tones of their personal fondness for Obama, or at least for his story.
Catering to them is a group of the most polite and delicate attack ads in history, in which ordinary people first praise Obama before announcing their support for his challenger.
They say he's trying, he's disappointing, but the fact of the matter is that Obama is pitied.
And Romney needs to tread carefully because of Obama's race.
He must not make things personal.
He must not indulge in name-calling of any kind, can't turn Obama into a victim.
Yet, in a sense, Obama is the nation's number one victim of the absurdly grandiose mythology that he encouraged.
I found it an interesting take that his real point here is that the majority of Obama's supporters do not rah-rah want more.
They just feel sorry for the poor guy.
It's founded in his apparent likability, and it seems like the world's ganged up on the poor guy, and so forth.
They just feel sorry for him.
And that's why Romney better not go.
That's why race is still a factor.
He's still the first black president.
Any criticism makes him a victim, and people in this country rally the victims.
I wish I had more time to develop this, but I've got to take time out here.
We'll be back and continue.
Michelle Obama with a fundraising email that says, maybe you should skip dinner at your favorite place and send the money to my husband's re-election camp.
First it was send your wedding gifts.
Skip those and send the money to me.
Now it's skip your pizza dinner.
I got it right here.
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