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Sept. 26, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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September 26, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #2
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Now documented to be almost always right, 99.7% of the time.
If I'm if I'm right, I'm going to make a prediction.
If I'm if I end up being right about these polls, I'm going to shoot up to 99.8 by the time we get to December.
Because I haven't been wrong about anything.
You'll be right a long time to move it up even a tenth of a point when you're already up at 99.7, almost always right.
Anyway, happy to have you back, folks.
L Rushbow here at the Excellence in Broadcasting Network at the Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
The telephone number is 800-282-288-2.
The email address L Rushbow at EIBNet.com.
Now this poll that we dissected in the previous hour.
That's just the New York Times CBS Quinnipiac poll.
And as we have noted before, I can't repeat the first hour.
I've got too much to do.
If you missed the first hour, go to Rushlinbaugh.com and relive it.
If you missed it, it's too bad.
You are going to want to hear it.
These poll numbers, as as we've pointed out, these poll numbers do not reflect the party affiliation in the country as found by Rasmussen on August 31st.
Rasmussen found nationwide.
People ID themselves 37.6% Republican, 33.3% Democrat, that's Republicans plus four.
You go conservative liberal, it's 40-20.
40% say they're conservative, 20% say they're liberal.
29% say they're independent.
And yet the polls are oversampling the Democrats by 8 to 10 points.
11 points in Pennsylvania.
11 points.
And again, based on what they're projecting the turnout to be in November.
And of course, folks, it's a rub some salt in the wound here.
I mentioned the Rasmussen poll that has Romney and Obama tied today, 46% each.
If you include leaners, people that are undecided but do tell the pollster they're leaning in a particular direction.
Romney goes up by two.
If you include leaners in the Rasmussen poll, then you get 4846 Romney.
So in this poll, in the Rasmussen poll, anyway, Romney is leading the race by two points.
And Rasmussen was the most accurate in two point in 2008.
And I have a story, the list, which presidential polls were the most accurate in 2008.
Number one was Rasmussen, number two was the Pew Center, number three was UGO.
Number four, Harris Interactive.
Number five was Lake Torrens.
Number six, um Diego Hotline is where's uh Marist was 18.
And that's the CBS poll.
No take it back.
Quinnipiac is a uh yeah, Maris Quinnipiac, same thing.
Yep, 18, CBS 19 in 2008.
Gallup was number 20, Reuters was number 21, CBS New York Times number 22, Newsweek was number 23.
Fox was number 13.
CNN was number eight, tied with Ipsos McClatchy.
Number 11 was AP.
Number 12 was the Democracy Corpse, Fox 13, as I said.
The Economist was number 14.
NBC Wall Street Journal, 16.
Rasmussen was number one.
They got Romney up by two, factoring in leaners.
These are the people most accurate in 2008.
So this poll.
CBS New York Times, which is um uh Quinnipiac.
It has Obama up by nine in 9 in Florida, 10 in Pennsylvania, 10 or 12 in Pennsylvania, 10 in Ohio.
These guys were 18th and 19th in accuracy in 2008.
Okay, so yeah, I I I love throwing a little cold water on these guys with the with the Rasmussen poll.
Now there's one more here.
And this from the Washington Post.
It's by Dan Balls and John Cohen.
President Obama threatening Romney's best route to victory in the electoral college, grabbing a significant lead in Ohio, a slender edge in Florida, according to two new polls by the Washington Post.
The presidential race.
Obama hit a Romney in Ohio 5244 city.
Washington Post has it eight points.
Likely voters.
In Florida, it's four points, Obama, 51-47.
You know, gloves are really coming off here for I think they're trying to wrap this all up before the debate.
I think they're trying to wrap this up before the debate.
They're going all in for Obama now.
But you notice that in Ohio, Obama is only leading Romney by eight, even when they oversample a Democrat.
In this poll, by the way, are you sitting down?
In the ABC Washington Post poll, if it is uh they oversampled Democrats by 17 points.
How in the world, if I'm reading this right, how in the world do you do that?
They oversampled Democrats in Florida by 10 points.
It's just it's unbelievable.
Imagine what the real numbers must be.
There's no way that there's going to be 10% more turnout, or 17 of Democrats over Republicans.
So those are the two poll stories out today.
I'm sorry, 7%, not 17.
And I was reading that wrong.
It's 7% that Washington Post oversamples the Democrats in Ohio.
10 points in uh in Florida, seven points in Ohio.
I just remember I would love to repeat some of stuff in the first hour, but I must move forward.
But there could be a lot of reasons for this.
Voter suppression, voter depression, uh set up the possibility of allegations of voter fraud.
They have all these polls with Obama running away with this and they say Romney wins, and guess what happens?
People blow a gasket on the left.
There's also early voting going out going on right now.
And we know that this stuff is not reported to reflect opinion.
They're trying to shape opinion with uh with these polls.
Now, also, folks, in the uh in the first hour.
I actually was talking about Obama and his propensity to lie to everybody routinely and regularly, and I got sidetracked for an hour in that by this polling data.
But I want to get back to this because I I think that this stuff needs to be out there and it needs to be said.
It's it's it's time to call Obama out on all this.
He gets away with all these lies or misstatements or exaggerations or or what have you, and the press doesn't call him on it.
And I just decide I'm not gonna sit here and figure out or assume that everybody in this audience at least knows it's B.S. I'm not gonna take the chance.
I left off with I think it was contraceptives and this this notion that Obama's setting this election up for women.
He claims that he's going to ensure that women will have access to birth control pills.
He's making a big deal out of this so-called war on women.
And yet nowhere in this country is it impossible or even difficult for anybody to get contraceptives.
It doesn't matter who the president is.
It doesn't matter who the president is about abortion.
There's no president can stop abortion.
There's no president that can or will ban birth control pills.
You remember how this all started, this war on women thing.
It was back in January, and it was a Republican primary debate.
And George Stephanopoulos asked Romney if he thought contraception should be banned.
And Romney didn't know what the hell he was talking about.
Nobody's ever suggested George.
Well, should a state be able to if it wants to, Governor?
Well, George, uh uh yeah, I but uh d nobody's talking about, but that didn't matter.
Now it was out there.
And Romney had talked about banning contraceptives.
Stephanopoulos put the question out, Romney answered it, therefore the narrative was complete.
They could then say in the media, Romney talked about banning contraceptives.
That's how dishonest they are and how they work.
And it had to be coordinated because not long after that, here came this whole notion there's a war on women out there, where Republicans want to deny women birth control pills.
Everybody said they're scratching their heads.
What in the world is this all about?
Nobody ever thought about denying birth control pills to anybody ever.
There's not one Republican who thinks about that kind of thing.
And certainly not in a political sense, not a political issue-wise.
But it was there, Stephanopoulos asks.
He had to ask it two or three times because Romney was so stupefied.
But all Romney had to do was just say anything, just answer the question, and the press had the narrative.
Romney talked about banning contraceptives last night.
And that got the whole war on women thing going.
And in the campaign, even now, Obama's running around and he's trying to make women think that Romney is going to be standing in the aisle at Walgreens, and they walk in there to get their birth control pills and Mitt Romney's gonna be there, hiding them and telling them they can't have them.
And you and I sit as a who in the world is gonna believe this.
And sadly, apparently there are some who do.
Remember, he's trying to coalesce in the moron vote.
Here's another one.
Obama claims to represent Hispanics in this country.
There are between 30 and 40 million Hispanics in America.
Now let me ask a simple question.
Exactly what has Obama done for 30 to 40 million Hispanics in this country?
Has he made it easier for them to get a job?
Has Obama made it easier for Hispanics to save money?
Has Obama made it easier for Hispanics to own a home?
Has Obama made it easier for Hispanics to start a business?
My point here is that Obama's disastrous economic policies.
No.
No race or ethnicity.
Obama's economic policies are not targeted to groups.
They are hurting everybody.
There is no group.
There is no group that's being assisted by Obama.
Even his plans to help people, like the mortgage assistance program, all that none of it worked.
It was all a bureaucratic nightmare and none of it worked.
The Hispanic unemployment rate is 10.1%.
The nationwide unemployment rate is 8.1%.
Just what has Obama done for these 30 to 40 million Hispanics?
And why do they think that Obama is their answer?
Obama's economic policies are damaging everybody, and his policies don't know if you're Hispanic, black, white, green, Martian, bisexual, trisexual, quadrosexual, they don't know who you are.
All they know is his policies are destined to hurt everybody.
Unemployment, again, with Hispanics, 10.1%.
It's rising, it's on the way to 11%.
And Hispanics do not have some special exemption from the economic conditions that Obama has unleashed on this nation.
All of you Hispanics are thinking to vote for Obama, but what's he done for?
He hasn't done anything for you.
All he's done is what he's done to everybody else.
And that's damage the economy and damage economic opportunity for everybody.
And you Hispanics and you women and you blacks and every other group that Obama's talking to rather than America at large, none of you have an exemption from his disastrous policies.
None of you have a boundary or a shield around you that will protect you from his policies affecting you.
His policies affect all of us.
His policies are destroying this economy.
And we don't even have half of them in place yet.
Obamacare kicks in next year and the year after.
His tax increases kick in.
His spending continues.
We're looking at a financial collapse.
If you think that you're going to survive on what you get from the government, there isn't going to be anybody producing enough to be taxed enough for the government to redistribute anything.
They're going to have to print it or continue to borrow it, but there isn't going to be any economic expansion or growth.
There isn't going to be real growth in the job market.
It is not mathematically or policy-wise possible.
Not with the policies Obama's put in place.
I would ask any of you, whether you're Hispanic or black or female or what have you.
What has Obama done for you to date?
What's he done for you?
How's your life better?
It isn't.
Your life isn't anybody.
He hasn't done anything for you.
But yet for some reason he's been able to convince some of you that Romney's going to make it really hard on you.
Three and a half years of a record matters.
We have a president running for re-election who will not run on his record, who will not, it's big achievement, health care.
He's trying to act like it hadn't happened.
He doesn't want you reflecting on it.
He doesn't want you realizing that rather than a $2,500 reduction in your premiums, say hello to a $3,000 increase.
He wants you realizing this after the election when there's nothing you can do about it.
After he's re-elected, that's when all of this fully kicks in 2013, 2014, when it's too late to do anything about it.
Do you wonder why he doesn't run around and tout all his great achievements?
He's got two.
Killed Osama, save General Motors.
Big whoop.
Nothing to write home but General Motors, sadly.
But you you all, everybody in this country, you need to ask yourself, you've got a president who's claiming he's looking out for you, he's helping you.
Jobs councils, all these what has he done for you?
Hasn't done anything for you.
There is nothing that is any better.
Nothing that has improved since he took office.
Let me be frank about something else.
All of this talk about Obama being the first black president, plight of inner city children in this nation has not changed.
In fact, Obama is the single biggest obstacle to school choice and options in our cities and minority communities.
He's the obstacle.
He's standing in the way of improvement, inner city kids.
It's Barack Obama.
Race has nothing to do with it.
He's a liberal.
He's a Democrat.
His policies stink.
They're not helping anybody, and they haven't helped you.
And for all this talk about the first black president, what do you think black unemployment in the country is?
How's he helping you?
He isn't.
You know, my guess is, my sense is if you could talk to people privately and individually in the African American community, you would find a vast majority of them puzzled that things aren't better off for them.
I'm sure they had much higher expectations than the reality they got.
You know they had to.
First black president.
You remember the first town halls.
I want this, I want that.
I mean, they they they they bought into the fact that years and years and years of what they perceived as unfairness and discrimination, what it was gonna be fixed, is gonna be dealt with, and what had been rightfully theirs but denied them was gonna be given to them, or they were gonna get it somehow to Obama was gonna do that.
It had meaning.
First black president was not just something historical, It had substantive meaning.
He hadn't done anything for anybody.
He hadn't done anything for Hispanics.
He hasn't done anything for women.
He hasn't done anything for anybody.
He hasn't done anything for small business.
He hasn't done anything for health care.
He really hadn't helped General Motors, gave it to the unions.
He hasn't done anything, folks.
The plight of inner city, and by that I mean African American school kids.
It hasn't changed.
Those schools are still dilapidated.
There's no change on the horizon.
In fact, it's Obama that took away school choice from any inner city parents.
Remember when he took office, there was a program in Washington where black parents could send their kids to Sidwell Friends or the equivalent.
It was Obama who really he stopped the program.
He took away the opportunity from black parents to choose the schools.
It was a voucher program.
He took it away to protect the teachers'unions.
Now, when when emotions are put aside, when race baiting and gender politics are put aside, and that's all Obama does, race baits, gender politics, that's all that war on women, this stuff.
You put all that aside.
When you look at the facts, when you look at the record, we look at the substance of this administration the past three and a half years.
We have a president who has failed.
Majestically failed.
Overwhelmingly failed, and he has failed all the people of this great nation, including those he claims to champion.
He has failed everyone.
He is helping no one.
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Do you know how Obama ended the voucher program in Washington?
He just defunded it, took it out of budget.
Took the money away from it, allocated it somewhere else.
He's not doing anything for you.
If you're African American, if you're Hispanic, if you're female, if you're what he's not doing anything.
In fact, he's actually doing things to people.
This is not a cool, nice guy.
This is a cold, ruthless, very typical politician.
Let me ask you this.
Fox 2.
Seriously.
What exactly have you heard from Obama or from David Axelrod or from David Plough or anybody in the campaign or anybody at the White House?
What have you heard that Obama's policies he will put in place in the next four years that will reverse what's happened here?
What?
What exactly are the Obama policies that he would put in place in the next four years that would reverse what he's done?
He's out there running against what has happened.
He's running against the deficit he created.
He's running against the debt he added five and a half trillion to it.
He's running against all these things that happened.
He's out there telling the Univision people he can't fix Washington from the inside.
That's one thing he's learned.
He wants to stay inside, though.
So what exactly?
I want you to stop and think.
What exactly are the Obama policies that he would put in place in the next four years that would reverse what he's done?
Let me get specific.
How will Obama grow the private sector?
What have you heard him say?
Where are the announced policies that you have heard from Obama that will expand employment that will grow the private sector?
What taxes is he planning on cutting?
There will have to be Some tax cuts if there is to be economic growth.
Some of you may not like hearing that, but the truth is the truth.
Have you heard him detail what taxes he's planning on cutting?
Have you heard him detail what regulations he's going to repeal?
I'm just, I want you to stop and ask yourself, what's he going to reverse?
What have you heard him say that he is going to put in place that will change the direction of this country?
No.
He says he's going to get the deficit under control.
I want to know what are the policies that are going to do it.
What policies have, of course he's going to get the deficit under control.
How?
Have you heard him say for three and a half years you've heard him say he's focused laser like on jobs?
We keep losing them.
For three and a half years you've heard him say we got to get the deficit down and we're going to get the deficit down.
If we're going to stop all this spending in the debt, has it done anything but continue to grow out of control?
I'm not asking you what you've heard him say he wants to fix.
I'm asking you what are exactly the policies that you have heard that he will put in place in the next four years that would reverse what he's done.
How will he reduce the deficit?
How will he reduce unemployment?
What taxes is he planning on cutting?
What regulations is he's going is he going to repeal?
Oh, you've heard him say he just needs more time.
More time for what?
Oh, the policies that he's put in place to work just need more time.
Real.
We're trending in the right, is that we're trending in the right dire uh trending in the right.
Um 55% of small business owners would not start their company today.
This is from the Washington examiner.
55% of small business owners would not start a company today.
They blame Obama and his policies.
Just last week we heard because the Census Bureau data that more people are moving, that the economy, we're in a recovery now.
But every day that there are new government statistics, the there is no recovery.
So he wants more time, fine.
But I want you to seriously consider if he wants more time for his current policies to work, if they haven't worked in three and a half years, why will they work next year or the year after?
If the stimulus of 2009 has not created jobs, and if he has admitted since that there really weren't any shovel-ready jobs, then what pray tell will another two years accomplish with the same policies?
Oh, we're gonna have more green jobs and renewable energy, huh?
How's that been working out now?
Every solar company that he's gone into business with has gone into bankruptcy after making sure that some of the money that he gave them has been sent back to him in the form of campaign contributions.
My point here, there are no fiscal policies that Barack Obama's gonna pursue that will result in more credit being available to future entrepreneurs.
He has not got one single policy that he has announced or that he believes in that will reduce the size of the federal government, that'll reduce the size of the debt.
There's not one Obama policy that is going to reload the private sector with capital, make it available to entrepreneurs and individuals to grow businesses and to hire people, his policies are gonna continue to take money from people, transfer it to government where he will redistribute it to people for the express purpose of getting their vote, not for economic growth.
My point is that there are no Obama policies that he will put in place in the next four years that will reverse what he has done.
And he's admitted it.
He doesn't have it.
He's sticking with what he's done, needs more time.
What will Obama do to help American companies compete with foreign companies.
Will he lower the corporate income tax rate?
It's the highest in the world in this country at 35%.
If he's not going to do that, how does he expect to create jobs and prevent what he calls outsourcing?
I'm just I'm just asking.
These are legitimate policy questions based on the record of a man who's been in office for three and a half years and has been very active in implementing the policies he believes in.
But none of these policies grow the private sector.
None of these policies create wealth.
None of these policies expand the opportunity for people to create wealth.
And I don't mean get rich, I mean hire people for growing businesses.
What policies will Barack Obama put in place to lower the prices of electricity, gasoline, and oil.
I mean, that affects everybody's pocketbooks and wallet.
The price of a gallon of gasoline has gone from $1.85 to under $4, just under $4 during his presidency.
This is a man who has said that electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket as he takes the coal industry offline and replaces it with all this newfangled green energy, new whatever.
The point is that Barack Obama does not have a single policy that will lower the price of electricity, that will lower the price of gasoline, that will lower the price of oil, and it affects everybody's pocketbook.
He does not have one policy that will reduce the cost of energy.
He doesn't have one policy that will expand the amount of energy that we have.
In fact, his policies do just the opposite.
Now I'm asking these questions.
These are real questions, and they matter, the answers have real consequences for everybody.
We have a man campaigning on the notion that the first 200 years this country were unfair and unjust, and he's here to fix it.
And while he puts his fixes in place, everything is being broken, destroyed, ruined.
I see in the Ohio poll today that CBS poll that people in Ohio think Obama's better suited to run the economy than Romney.
I want to know on what basis?
On every question I have just asked, somebody named for me one Obama policy that improves anything in our economy.
And you can't.
In fact, as far as his second term is concerned, Obama hadn't even announced a policy for anything.
He just said, need more time for my brilliant plans of the first term to finally take root and take hold.
That will just prolong and expand the current crisis.
How will Obama improve the housing market?
You know, January 1st comes, massive tax increases are coming up.
Income tax increases, business tax increases, capital gains tax rate is going to go up.
When people have less income and are giving more of their income to the government, they have less to spend to buy homes or spend on their kids or families or what have you?
I just I'm asking in a pure policy sense here.
Can anybody tell me?
And I'm asking specifically, I know there are people in this audience that support the president you want to vote for him.
I'm just trying to get, I'm trying to understand why.
Throw out the fact that these historical first black presidents, throughout the fact he's a Democrat and you've got party loyalty, throughout the fact is I is the improvement in your life?
Where are the examples of things this man has done for you?
And he has set himself up as a man who's going to do things for people.
Where are they?
How has life in America improved in the last three years?
And what have you heard from him That's going to make it get even better.
What about health care?
Obama and Obamacare.
He said we'll reduce the price of insurance premiums.
He said insurance premiums are gone around $250.
As soon as Obamacare became law.
Well, have you noticed the cost of health insurance premiums is skyrocketing?
Because of Obamacare.
In other words, pretty much everything he said about Obamacare has turned out to be a hundred and eighty degrees out of phase.
Untrue.
Totally untrue.
He has lied, folks.
He has lied to us for three and a half years.
He brazenly continues to lie that you get to keep your doctor and your insurance plan that you have now, if you like it, you will not be able to.
Yep.
You'd be able to keep your private policy.
Because of Obamacare.
Now it's because of Obamacare, you're going to lose your private policy.
Because of Obamacare, you're going to lose the doctor you've got.
It's Obamacare that brings the changes that affect you in such ways as losing the doctor and plan that you have.
If Obama didn't do anything, if there was no Obamacare, you wouldn't be losing your doctor or your plan.
Now, what of health care?
Obama said that Obamacare will reduce the price of premiums, cost of premiums everything, and your health care would improve.
But millions of you are going to lose your current health care coverage.
What are you going to do?
You can join government exchange program.
If you don't do that, you'd be fined by the federal government.
Obama's not going to fix any of this, folks.
He's the cause of it.
He's not fixing anything.
He's making things go wrong.
He's the cause of what's going wrong.
Millions of you are going to lose your health care coverage.
What are you going to do?
You're going to be fined if you don't go out and join an exchange.
I got to take a break.
A little long, be back in a sec.
We're going to get to your phone calls, folks.
I promise.
Everybody it's on hold.
If you just, if you just hang in there and be tough.
I'm going to get to your phone calls.
But I have to finish this.
I have to ask these questions.
Because none of this, none of this mess that we're in is in any way going to be fixed.
There's not one policy that's been announced.
There's not one policy in this man's mind that will fix what he has caused to break.
He's not doing anything for you.
I don't give your female, Hispanic, black, African American, Asian, whatever you are.
Life hasn't changed.
The only person looking out for you is you, and if you're not doing it, believe me, he's not.
Wants you to think so, but he's not.
He can't.
Nobody can do for you what you can do for yourself.
Not possible.
Now, Obama's out there posing, and I mean posing, as the leader of the middle class, the guy who cares about working people, the voice of women and minorities.
But when you implement policies and laws that drag down a country and make it poorer, that destroy enterprises, incomes, jobs, opportunities.
You don't represent any of the people of this country, regardless of who they are.
None of us, folks, are being represented.
None of us are being looked out for.
We are all fighting what's coming out of this government.
This government Is an obstacle now.
This government is in people's way.
And this is what needs to be understood.
From street to street, community to community.
The middle class is not being represented.
The 1%'s not being represented.
The only people we looked out for are the people that donate money to Obama.
He does take care of them.
Which he's not alone.
That's politics.
But seriously, Obama, the leader of the middle class?
What's he done for you?
Where are all the jobs?
These job summits, we've had deficit summits and commissions, and so where is all this stuff?
You realize not one thing, folks, has happened to improve the economy of this country.
Nothing.
You're being inundated with millions of dollars of propaganda called Obama political ads.
All over your TV, radio, social media, the internet, all designed to distract you, target your emotions, create false narratives, rewrite history, do a host of things aimed at manipulating you based on your gender, your race, your income, and mostly you are being lied to over and over and over again.
Nobody's looking out for you, and you are not finding your life getting better, and there's nothing Obama's doing that will improve your life.
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