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Oct. 31, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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October 31, 2012, Wednesday, Hour #3
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Okay, let me ask you a quick question.
I was just watching the Fox News channel and a story about people in New Jersey and New York who are driving 50 miles to pick up a few gallons of gasoline.
And a picture showed a long line of people standing in line with little gas cans to fill up to take back to wherever.
There was not a line of automobiles.
It was a line of people standing in line.
Now my question to you is this.
Those people standing in line for a gallon or two of gasoline.
I'm an open-ended questioner.
I'm not leading you.
I don't have a conclusion here in my mind that I'm trying to lead you to.
I'm just asking the question for you to think about.
Are those people to the extent thinking about the election are thinking, well, this is really cool.
I'm voting Obama.
Or do you want to change when you're in a situation when you're standing in line and you got a uh like a uh I don't know what they are, two and a half, five gallon can, and you're waiting to put gasoline in it, your house, maybe you can't get to it.
Maybe you don't have it anymore.
I mean, it's flooded.
What are you thinking?
In terms of if you're thinking about the election, well, boy, really, it's cool.
I haven't vote for what's happening now.
I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna vote for the status quo.
Are you thinking, you know what?
This has got to change, because this isn't any different really.
Readings in Welcome back, Rush Limbaugh 800 282-2882.
The simple fact of the matter is, and I guess it's a good analogy, by the way, is I have been, I've been a little bit too reasonable here.
I've been pointing out as far as Obama being helped by this, because there's all kinds of fear that he's being helped by it.
Helped by this storm.
Uh how?
He can't fix anything by election day, which is all that matters to Obama, right?
Believe me, it's all whatever he's doing is calculated for that day only.
And there's nothing he can do.
He can't rebuild anybody's house, he can't get the flood waters out of anybody's house, he can't repair roads that have been destroyed, can't rebuild houses that have burned down.
There's nothing he can, he can't open an airport that's still closed.
He can't do anything by Tuesday.
Snerdley pointed out, you're being too reasonable because all of that was demanded of George Bush during Katrina.
Where's the FEMA trailers?
Where's our where where's our our debit cards?
Where's our giveaways?
Where's where's the repair to the roof of the superdome?
Where's our where's our house being rebuilt?
Bush doesn't care.
And he's right.
They put all these immediate expectations and demands on Bush and Brownie and FEMA and tried to illustrate, because Bush didn't do anything in the first five days, that he didn't care.
Well, we can say, well, Obama doesn't really care.
What's been fixed here, folks?
Not only that, folks, sorry to yell, I'm trying to.
If any of you really, I don't know, maybe some of you think Obama's gonna get you back in your house in three days.
He hasn't been able to fix the economy in four years.
What makes you think he fix your house?
He hasn't been able to do anything about rising gas prices in four years.
What makes you think he can do anything about it now?
He hasn't been able to create jobs in four years.
What makes you think that he can fix this in three days?
He hasn't been able to do anything about the Iranians and their acquisition of nuclear material in four years.
What makes you think that he can fix anything here in three days?
You can't fix New Jersey anyway.
I mean you just you can't fix New Jersey.
Not just this, you just you can't fix that state.
It's perpetually unfixable.
But my point is, there are people that have these expectations.
There are I don't know if there's still any left.
But I see if this storm had happened the first six months of Obama's term, they would have expected this federal teams would have been in there already.
Checks would have been written.
People buy new houses.
This is what they thought Obama was going to be able to do.
And I don't think anybody thinks that anymore.
But for all of you who think this is going to help Obama, he hadn't been able to help the economy in four years.
Why is this going to help him?
As to Governor Christie, there's a question.
No, that is an observation that needs to be made.
He said in that sound bite that we played, he called me at midnight last night.
Obama said Christ uh uh Christie said Obama called him.
Now we know that Bloomberg said Obama called him.
Bloomberg told him no.
Bloomberg has also endorsed Romney, by the way.
Bloomberg told Obama no, so Obama's making these phone calls.
Obama is looking for somebody to play the role of a Greek column today, and he found Governor Christie willing to do it.
Now let's examine the rest of this tri-state area.
Has Mayor Bloomberg requested time and assistance from Obama?
Nope.
Has Governor Kumo in New York, Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo, has he asked for Obama to come and stand side by side with him so that they can have a joint photo up of fixing New York.
Have either of them spoken of Obama the way Christie has.
They haven't.
I didn't think so, because I haven't heard it.
I haven't heard Cuomo pra Cuomo, sorry, Jesse Jackson pronounced it Cuomo.
I have not heard uh Andrew Cuomo praising Obama.
I haven't heard Bloomberg praising Obama.
I haven't heard there's uh uh Governor Virginia McDonald, McConnell.
I haven't heard him.
McDonnell.
Uh Governor Connecticut.
I haven't heard of Governor Connecticut praising Obama.
Haven't heard of Governor West Virginia praising Obama.
I haven't heard, haven't heard of Governor of Ohio praising Obama.
Tennessee got hit to haven't heard the governor Tennessee praising Obama.
Hey, Bill Haslam, he's a Republican.
He well, so's Christie.
What am I talking?
Uh uh.
Chris Christie's the only Republican enterprise.
I mean, not just praising Obama.
I mean, it's it's uh.
Let's just put it this way.
Is it wrong for one man to love another man?
But that man love out there, it's it's uh isolated state of New Jersey.
Well, telling you what I have observed casually with my busy broadcast eyes and my cochlear implant aided ears.
Here is Doomberg, by the way.
This is uh yesterday's City Hall in New York.
What I pointed out to him is that uh uh we'd love to have him, but we've got lots of things to do.
I'm not trying to diss him, but uh I know uh he had uh planned a trip to New Jersey, and I said that's fine, it represents the whole region.
People understand the storm, and he doesn't have to uh he's got a lot of things to do, and uh I was flattered that he offered to come.
But I think the thing for him to do is to go to New Jersey and uh represent the country.
Now Doomberg, Doomberg's endorsed Romney.
Don't that he Obama call him?
He sounds pretty uncomfortable there, but he made it plain he doesn't want Obama there.
But part of the reason is when the president shows up, that's why Bush did not go to New Orleans.
President shows up and every resource has to be devoted to the president's security, transportation, and and all the relief efforts just come to a screeching halt.
And Doomberg says, I don't want to give this guy a photo up.
But Christie has said, not only am I going to give him a photo up, I'm gonna be in it.
And here's Doomberg, let him go to New Jersey and represent the country.
I don't care about it.
I'm not on the ballot.
I've endorsed Romney.
I'm not gonna do anything to help Obama.
That's what Doomberg is saying.
But then you've got again, Governor Cuomo, i i you you I guarantee you Obama called him too.
If he's calling these guys, he calling Cuomo.
See, Obama knows he's got to get out of the White House.
He can't, he didn't win this staying in the White House with photos out of the situation room.
He probably called Christie thinking there's no way.
And he's sitting on the phone.
Hello, Governor.
Barack Obama.
He puts the phone down, expecting Christie starts shouting at him.
Instead, Christie starts kissing the phone, and as egg, you know, come at Obama.
Oh, I'll be uh I'll show up in Air Force One.
I'm bringing the big plane.
So everybody sees me right.
So um, where is Obama again?
Where were they going?
I hate to keep bringing this up.
They're going to the shore.
They're going to the one percenters.
It's uh wealthier people that have the means to live on the ocean to uh live on the water.
Uh let's go back.
This is what the governor of New Jersey has welcomed to the state.
We're up to sound bite number 10.
If you got a business, you didn't build that.
Somebody else made that happen.
You didn't build that house.
That house.
That wouldn't be here for him in a road.
And that bridge.
Well, there used to be a bridge there, but it's gone.
But you didn't build that either.
Bill Clinton.
Yesterday in Minneapolis.
In the first debate.
The triumph of the moderate Mitt Romney.
You remember what he did?
He ridiculed the president.
Ridiculed the president for his efforts to fight global warming in economically beneficial ways.
He said, Oh, you're gonna turn back to seas.
In my part of America, we would like it if someone could have done that yesterday.
Oh my god.
I Joe Freak, I just I'm not believing that.
Did you hear what he just said?
No, forget uh uh you know, in my part of America we'd a like if somebody could have turned back those seas yesterday.
Mr. President, there's only been one man that could have done that.
And he ain't alive.
At least not on Earth today.
Ain't you and it ain't Barack.
What is this?
So Clinton defending Obama's promise to lower the sea level.
At least he would have tried.
That's right, Limbaugh.
At least he at least he he he was if he could have, he would've.
That's the difference.
Romney would not have if Romney saw Rise of the Sea Level, he could have stopped, he'd have left the sea level go ahead and rise and flood everybody out.
Romney hates people.
You know it and I know it.
Obama, he loves everybody.
He wouldn't want the sea level to rise.
And here's Andrew Cuomo, by the way, speaking of the governor of New York, he had a press conference to talk about Hurricane Sandy yesterday.
There has been a series of extreme weather incidents.
Uh anyone that's not a political statement, that is a factual statement.
Anyone who says uh there's not a dramatic change in weather patterns, I think is denying reality.
Well, I'll I'll say it because you can find similar storms to this back in 1962, Governor.
And you were alive that well, yeah, you'd have been close to being alive.
There's a storm just like that.
Nor'easters happen.
There were two or three of them when I lived in New York.
That's why they're called nor'easters.
Anyway, here you have this devastating storm.
Who's trying to politicize it?
Who's trying to turn this into his global warming event?
What the hell is that?
I told you yesterday, global warming is political.
And you got the governor of New York in the midst of all this.
You make people I talked about earlier standing in line for five gallons of gas care.
What does it matter to them?
Global warming.
Anyway, I must take a um a brief obscene profit timeout, but we'll be back and continue in mere moments.
Don't go away.
Okay, back to the phones in Joe in Ocean City, New Jersey.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush Megadiddo's from Ocean City.
How are you?
Thank you for very much.
I'm doing well.
Doing well.
Thank you.
Uh did it put not a big enough word to say how much we love you here.
But I also wanted to quickly point out that uh a lot of the one percenters, uh, us rich people, which I'm not really rich, but uh come from Pennsylvania uh now.
I must ask you, you g you live in Ocean City.
You live on the uh on the uh on the beach.
I I'm like two blocks from the beach.
I wish I was on the beach.
I'm on my way down the road.
Well, now wait, wait, wait, wait a second.
I don't understand.
Your point part part of your point is that hey, you're not rich.
You live close to the beach, you're not rich.
You don't want anybody to think that everybody living on the beach or close to it's rich.
That's one point you want to make, right?
Correct.
Okay, but I must ask you a personal question.
If you don't have to, if you don't want to answer it, you don't have to.
Okay.
But you don't think you're rich.
But I'll lay you a dollar to a donut Obama does when it comes to taxes.
Does your house cost more than 200,000?
Yeah.
Oh, well, you're rich, bud.
Well, it's my second home, actually.
But I'm only 34, and I built it myself.
I did build that at the same time.
Second home at your second home, and you're denying being a one percenter?
Not in Obama's world.
You you got a second home that's one more than you need.
No, I'm not kidding.
That's I know.
Well, that was gonna be my point.
I was gonna say Obama doesn't care about rich people, just like that guy, uh Kayan Patometh or whatever, who say when Bush when uh he was saying about Bush, you know.
I I think it's ironic that uh that Obama's uh poor and touring the coast of rich people, but it's not really really rich people.
And I think Christie, I think to his thing, I mean, I I'm I'm kind of not happy with Christie either, having voted voted for him the way he's uh you know, voting at the Red Clark.
But I think he's he's sort of a a lawyer too, like kind of government guy himself in his own right.
You know, I mean I voted for Dun Forrester in the primary, and I've been happy with Christie, but you know, I I don't know.
I I'm I'm not gonna totally throw him under the bus yet.
I think he's honestly just trying to get the most money for a state, which us capitalists can't understand how this politics thing works where you just say no, I think he's just happy that government's actually.
But look, there's no there's no other, there's no other governor saying the things about Obama that Christie is.
One week before the election.
Look, this there are just certain things here that you cannot ignore.
And with credibility, you just can't gloss over.
Cuomo's not saying this about Obama.
Bloomberg isn't.
No other governor is.
Democrat or Republican.
No other governor is.
I will allow that Christie's emotional, devastated by what's happened to his state.
and But isn't one of the things wrong here?
That the first move anybody thinks needs to be made is turning to Washington in a disaster.
Isn't that in fact one of the things this election's about?
I I think uh it it might it might help us.
Ladies and gentlemen, to try to for those of you worried about whether what Obama's doing here, even with Christie's assistance, whether Obama's helped by this.
I was talking to people last night about it.
I said, look at the fundamentals of the fundamentals.
I don't know how else to say it.
Obama hadn't fixed the economy in four years.
And people are riled up about that.
This this enthusiasm for Romney is based on two things.
It's it's based on opposition to Obama, and there has been lately some actual support for Romney that's that's dovetailed with this.
There's a it's actually been a reversal.
There are people now that are really gung home, but Romney.
You've put those two things together, there's nothing that's happened the last three days going to water that down or change that.
Ask yourself.
You know full well you can't wait for Tuesday to go vote for Romney.
Is what's happening today gonna change your vote?
I know you're worried about independence and maybe changing our minds and being susceptible to the media and all this.
Uh but I don't I don't recall what Texas was burning last year.
I don't recall Obama ever visiting.
The floods in Nashville, I don't recall Obama showing up there.
Um you remember Obama went to the Gulf after the hurricane during the Republican convention, only after Romney went?
And then Obama decided to pack up the family and show up and go.
You remember after the BP oil spill.
Go talk to Bobby Jim Gindle, the governor of Louisiana about the kind of assistance he got from Obama during the BP oil spill.
He didn't get much.
In fact, his whole purpose there was to excoriate and punish BP.
Which many people might have thought needed to happen.
Well, did Obama go down there?
Who did he send down there?
Who did he sent, he sent um big sis or somebody from Homeland Security or something was really odd.
But what really ticked off Obama was when Gindle went public with his criticism of how little Obama was doing.
That's what ticked Obama off.
This is uh this all politics, everything with Obama is pure all politics.
He made that call to Christie and to Bloomberg and probably who knows who else, hoping against hope that somebody give him a stage, and lo and behold, Christie has.
Because he knows sitting in the White House with photos, situation room when he didn't do anything in Benghazi isn't the answer.
And welcome back.
It's great to have you here, Rush Limbaugh, a cutting edge of societal evolution serving humanity just by being here.
I mean, just by presence emitting vocal vibrations.
I want to try to explain to you in a little different way.
I'm why this whole sandy business, I don't think has any to do with what this election's about, except as a microcosm in one way.
And it's the...
I said to people last night, and I've tried today, too...
When I talk about fundamentals, there's a reason why Obama didn't have any momentum.
There's a reason why the momentum is all wrong.
There's a reason why Obama is flailing.
He's been a lousy president.
He people wonder well, what can we do here, Russia in three days with Hurricane Sandy?
What can Obama?
He can't do anything.
He hadn't been able to do anything about unemployment for four years, folks.
He hasn't been able to do anything about the economy in four years.
He hadn't been able to do anything about gas prices in four years, except make it worse.
He has not been a good president, and there's nothing that can happen in these three days that changes that.
There's nothing that can happen here.
I don't you want to say, well, it can make it look like he feels or he cares.
That people know that.
They're think that anyway.
As for, well, it gives him a chance to look presidential.
He's supposed to.
He is president.
He's not going to get points for looking presidential.
There's the reasons Obama's in trouble are too deep.
They aren't shallow.
In fact, this whole Sandy and its aftermath is, you can almost portray it as a microcosm of why Obama's in trouble.
New Jersey and Queens and all that.
They're going to be rebuilt.
But not because of a president.
Not even because of a governor.
They're going to be rebuilt, not because of any politician.
These areas are going to be rebuilt because of people.
The people who make the country work.
Local communities.
Neighbors helping neighbors, churches, you name it.
Individuals and families will pick themselves up.
They won't wait around.
There are not very many people in place in this country or people to wait around for the government, but New Orleans was One of them.
Well, that's what liberalism does to people.
They wait.
They don't take charge of their own lives.
This is not going to happen here.
This disaster illustrates what a president cannot do.
This disaster illustrates what a government cannot do.
And to me, that's what this election's all about.
Government's become way too big, way too important, way too big a factor.
People have, way too many people have shucked their own responsibility.
They've they've set aside their own ambition and ability in exchange for government coming along and doing something to help.
Way too many people in that circumstance.
And it's a disservice to those people that they think that, that they've been led down that path.
Churches, synagogues, other faith-based organizations, local communities, people, families, that's what's and by the way, the private sector profit motive is going to play a large factor in stuff getting rebuilt.
Don't think that it won't.
There are insurance companies.
New Jersey's gonna get rebuilt.
Just like San Francisco rebuilt after the earthquake.
And just af just like any other community has after a hurricane, the area is going to get rebuilt.
Queens, all these areas, they're gonna get rebuilt because that's what Americans do.
It's what Americans have always done.
Politicians come and go.
Communities, neighborhoods, cultures are permanent.
Obama can't wave a magic wand.
There isn't one.
He can't do anything.
Not substantively to fix this.
And nor can Christie, and nor can Doomberg.
It's not how it's going to happen.
The fix for this.
And it doesn't serve any purpose to run around like Governor Cuomo's doing and blame it on global warming to try to further another plank of liberalism and politics.
I don't.
I don't believe that people really sitting in New Jersey and Queens, I don't think most of them really think that they can just sit around and do nothing and it's gonna magically get fixed.
They built it in the first place.
Nor did Obama, nor did Bloomberg, nor did Clinton.
And just like the people, in fact, after the BP oil spill, what did Obama do?
He put a moratorium on drilling for oil and further hammered the region.
If you want to talk about what he did for the Gulf, he handcuffed him even more.
*Sigh*
I just am of the opinion here that rather than look at this three-day interval here in fear, oh my God, how's this gonna help Obama?
What this is doing is illustrating what Obama can't do.
This is illustrating what Obama can't do.
No president can do, and that's what this election's about.
Too many people have turned over too much of their lives to government, thinking government's the answer, government can give them health care, government can give them this, a government can't.
Look at the welfare numbers.
We're spending sixty thousand dollars a year on every welfare recipient in this country, and we still got poverty.
How does that happen?
Seriously, stop it.
How does that have sixty thousand dollars per person below the poverty line?
We've still got poverty.
How is that possible?
And we do it every year.
And we've been doing it since 1964.
How is that possible?
You think it might be because the people living in poverty don't do anything but get that money from the government?
You think maybe that wasn't the purpose for the Great Society and LBJ and the Democrat Party to begin with to create this level of dependence?
They've done a good job at it.
I just think we got a great lesson here to teach everybody.
You that picture on Fox, these people standing in line to get gasoline.
You know what they're trying to get?
Gasoline for to power their generators.
Now note that they weren't waiting at home for somebody to deliver it.
They knew that if they if they wanted that generator up and running now, they were going to have to go get the fuel because there isn't any fuel going to be delivered.
Obama can't make it happen.
Bloomberg can't make it happen.
Cuomo can't make it happen.
Christie can't make it happen.
No politician can make it happen.
They had to do it themselves.
They had to be what?
Self-reliant.
How many disasters have we had since Obama's been present?
I mean, natural acts of God disasters.
And tell me just what the hell has he done to warrant all of this hope that he can do something about this guy can't fix an economy in four years.
He can't do anything about gas prices in four years.
He can't reverse the job market in four years.
He can't do anything about the Iranians and nukes in four years.
You name it, he hasn't done it.
In terms of positive repairs, fixes, even changing direction.
So these expectations are wildly out of proportion and not based in any reality.
It's the people who make this country work.
It's the people who make things happen.
And I'm going to tell you, you get, the only thing a government does is shackle people.
The reason why conservatives are better for people is because they get government and regulation out of the way.
I'm going to make a prediction.
If Romney does win this, you just, you're not going to have to wait for his inauguration to see a major uptick in economic activity for the good.
You're not going to have to wait.
People are going to instinctively know that shackles will be removed, regulations.
Punishment for succeeding won't happen.
Mark my words.
And people thinking that way are not going to have whatever happens here in these three days have their minds changed.
The realization that Obama's in over his head is incompetent or worse, it's it's too subtle.
It's too deep.
Too shallow.
My thinking, I could be dead wrong about this.
I just don't think that that the depth of the disappointment, the depth of the dissatisfaction with Obama can be reversed in three days with a storm where he doesn't fix anything, where he doesn't do anything.
And sitting in the White House looking like a president isn't going to cut it.
Supposed to do that anyway.
And by the way, can we see the pictures of you in the situation room when four Americans were killed in Benghazi, sir?
Could we finally hear what you knew and what you did when you found out that this was going on?
And when did you find out it was going on?
You have the gall to say it to the store, we leave no one behind.
Tell that to Tyrone Woods and Christopher Stevens and the other two.
We leave no one behind.
Not true.
And we'll be back.
Broadcast excellence resumes after this.
Let me amend.
I don't know what's going to work here.
I'm going to be honest.
I don't know, because I remember I was telling some people the other night when this uh when people started expressing their fears and concern to me.
I said, well, remember the late charge from the media and the Democrats in 2000, the Bush DUI.
That nearly cost Bush the election.
And that happened late.
I mean, in the last three or four days.
What is undeniable here is that Obama was flying around all over the country doing his campaign appearances and it wasn't working.
So now this is the strategy.
Sit around and in in the White House during a disaster to look presidentially go out there with Christie.
That's the latest strategy.
The flying around wasn't working.
And the way I know that is because folks, this is still weird to me.
Sunday afternoon he leaves Washington for Florida and a campaign appearance on Monday.
And on Sunday, when he left, the forecast for the storm were just as dire as they were the next day.
And yet he spent the night in Florida on Sunday night and went back Monday morning without doing a campaign appearance, and they let it out because they thought it wouldn't look good if he wasn't in Washington when this happened.
But he left town not worried about that.
Something happened.
Somebody on his staff said, you know, I'm overruling you, Mr. Brown.
We're taking you back.
This is silly.
You're not these campaign appearances aren't working, but that's still weird to me.
You leave Sunday, you know full well every bit the forecast on Monday, no different, terms of the storm.
You leave and you don't do the appearance, you make a big deal of flying home.
Maybe that's what it was.
I want one sound by here.
Mark Halperin was on TV today, and he's he's looking at all this polling data, Romney being way up in independence, and this is his thought on the election as we get down the closing days.
I think there's three possible outcomes right now.
Close Obama win, close Romney win, or big Romney win.
And if you talk to some Republicans, both connected to the campaign and one step away from the center of the campaign, they're starting to talk about the possibility.
And you see in the Republicans' movement into Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and perhaps Michigan, uh, the possibility that they're not just trying to hedge their bets or trying to expand the map out of desperation, but a real belief that this thing could be bigger.
There's an Oregon poll, for instance, that shows the race somewhat close.
Certainly closer than the president won by four years ago.
That's right.
I mentioned I've been mentioning Oregon for two weeks here, and it finally showed up yet.
So you got three things that can happen a narrow Obama win, a narrow Romney win, or a huge Romney win, but not a huge Obama win.
So two out of the three things that happen could be bad.
The way Halpern looks at it.
We'll see you tomorrow, folks.
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