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Nov. 9, 2012 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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November 9, 2012, Friday, Hour #2
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By the way, folks, just to clarify, those Obama USDA commercials for food stamps in Mexico, they were run on Spanish soap operas on the radio.
They were radio ads on Spanish soap operas in Mexico, and they advertised coming to America and getting food stamps.
So don't tell me that the Democrat Party does not present itself as the party of stuff.
We all know that it does.
Free stuff.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida, it's Open Line Friday.
Great to have you here.
Open Line Friday, where you get to choose whatever it is you talk about when we go to the phone.
So telephone number, 800-282-2882, the email address, LRushpo at EIBnet.com.
Interesting story here from Jonathan Alder at Bloomberg.
Let me give you the headline.
How Obama can heal his rift with business.
Now, we're getting stories all over the place.
How the Republicans can heal their rift with Hispanics.
How Republicans can reach out to the African-American community.
How Republicans can reach out to women.
How Republicans...
Here's a story.
How Obama can heal his rift with business.
I have an idea.
Obama talked about having a secretary of business, right?
Now, we already have one.
It's called the Secretary of Commerce.
But Obama talked about having a Secretary of Business.
I got an idea.
Appoint Mitt Romney as Secretary of Business.
In fact, Snerdley's in there laughing.
You shouldn't laugh.
Let me tell you, oh, it'd be bipartisan.
It would be just like Clinton and Bush going off to ravaged tsunami areas and hurricanes and all this stuff.
The parties working together.
What a great, what a great optic this would be after a divisive election where the country is considered to be divided and going farther apart.
You could clearly do that.
So appoint Mitt Romney as Secretary of Business.
But actually, it is a story here about how Obama now has to repair his badly damaged relationship with the business community, which overwhelmingly supported Romney.
And of course, what this presumes is, is that Obama wants to heal his rift with business.
Well, all this presumes is Obama wants business to do well.
All this presumes that Obama wants business to prosper and thrive.
Well, there isn't any evidence of that right now.
The four years of the Obama administration, look at the economic policies.
They're clearly anti-business.
They are anti-entrepreneur.
They are anti-job creation.
There hasn't been anything in the slightest regard that has been oriented toward job creation other than the stimulus and other government programs.
But what's happening is the private sector is shrinking.
Money is being taken away from the private sector via any number of government programs.
The government's what's swelling.
The government's what's getting bigger.
And now we've got the fiscal cliff that everybody's worried about that we're about to head over.
Taximaged and coming up next month.
Well, next January.
And we've got Obamacare about to be fully implemented and all kinds of new taxes and new regulations.
And so we've got to have everybody get together and try to come up with an answer to Taximageddon and to the fiscal cliff.
Because the Congressional Budget Office, the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, says if this Taximageddon happens, and if we go off the financial cliff, if we go up the fiscal cliff, and we're looking at another recession.
Oh, did you hear one of the theories to explain Romney's loss?
And of course, there are many.
Romney was too singularly focused on the economy.
And what he missed was, and what we all missed was, that the economy was getting better.
There were real signs of a strengthening economy.
And while that was happening, Romney was talking about a stinking economy.
So Romney appeared out of touch to millions of American voters who had this sense that the economy was coming back, that the job situation was improving.
The unemployment rate was coming down.
All kinds of new jobs are being created.
Yes, that was happening, folks.
That was happening.
And Romney just missed it.
Romney didn't see what was happening.
I mean, he's singularly focused on the economy would be all he would need to win the election.
Now, how many of you think that we're in the midst of a rebounding, recovering economy?
But that's, again, part of the news that is out there.
Obama ran, by the way, I mean, this Jonathan Alter story, it really is comical.
Obama now has to heal his Ritwood business.
He ran an anti-business campaign.
And he promised an anti-business climate.
He promised raising taxes.
He promised raising the capital gains tax.
He promised raising taxes on investment.
He ran an anti-business campaign.
He ran an anti-Wall Street campaign.
It was part of his class envy campaign.
He painted everybody in business, Allah Romney, as the enemy to the little guy, the enemy to Democrat voters.
Look at the number of people living in poverty, one out of six.
Look at the number of people on food stamps, 47 million, almost double the number of people on food stamps from the time Obama was emaculated to today.
Just the look at the money that we are spending to alleviate these problems.
Look at the money that we have spent.
What was the number we had in the last week of the campaign?
$60,000 per person spent on welfare in this country.
$60,000 spent on poverty reduction.
And there hasn't been any poverty reduction, particularly in terms of the, if you look at it as percentages.
In other news related to the hurricane, the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy in the Northeast, we're now at day 11 with no power in parts of New Jersey and New York.
And I just want to tell all of you there, don't worry.
The government's on the case.
Governor Christie's on the case.
Governor Cuomo's on the, oh, well, Governor Cuomo's blaming Con Ed.
And Con Ed's planning a rate increase.
I don't know if you've heard this or not.
Well, yeah, Con Ed's going to raise rates because they've missed out on a lot of revenue with this outage.
You don't know how that works?
Con Ed, there hasn't been any power to charge anybody for.
They've lost a lot of revenue.
They've got to make back the revenue they lost during the outage.
So when your power goes back on, there's also going to be a rate increase from Con Ed.
But don't worry about that because Governor Cuomo is really giving them the business about it.
Governor Cuomo is not going to put up with it.
Governor Christie is, well, just, I think all of you in New Jersey, be confident in your government.
Your government's on the case.
You have a lot of expectations.
There's a big storm and have the power be out for 11 days.
You think it should be back on right now.
You need more faith in your government.
They're working hard.
Remember, if you see a homeless person in New York, you are not permitted to donate food.
Mayor Doomberg has said that food donations to the homeless are not permitted because there is nobody in place right now to check the salt and fat content of the food that you are donating.
And therefore, no donations are permitted.
And of course, that makes perfect sense.
I mean, we wouldn't want to give people who are starving or haven't had food in a while, the stuff is non-nutritious.
We wouldn't want to give people food with too much salt and too much fat content.
It'd be unhealthy.
Even when they're hungry, that's right.
The mayor is exactly right about this.
You can't, I don't care, even in the midst of starvation, you still can't give people food without first checking the salt and fat content.
You people need to stop worrying in New York and New Jersey.
Your government's on the case.
They'll fix it.
Liquor drought looms in New Jersey after Sandy Floods, distributor's warehouse from the New York Post.
Floodwaters from the massive hurricane smack.
Yes, yes, I know Obama's got a dog and pony show going, and we're rolling on it.
I wasn't going to jip this because I don't know what it is.
He's addressing the fiscal cliff, but I can tell you it's a campaign appearance because he's got somebody ostensibly.
There's a crowd of people on risers behind him, and they apparently represent every faction of America.
You have a what?
Yeah, middle-class wallpaper.
You have a rabbi, you have a priest, you have a pregnant woman, a single woman, a married woman.
You probably got a couple gay people in there.
You got some blacks.
I mean, the whole beautiful, wonderful mosaic is represented there in 15 or 20 people.
They're standing behind Obama, and he's talking about the deficit and how we've got to reduce the deficit in a balanced and responsible way, which we know what he means when he says that.
And did he say this?
He wants to raise taxes on people over, was it, 250?
$250,000.
That's breaking news.
Did he say that in this?
That's not breaking news.
That's been news.
They've just wanted to do that for four years.
Okay, he wants to raise taxes on people and make over $250,000 a year.
But everybody's taxes are going to go up if the Bush tax cuts expire or the Bush tax rates expire.
Anyway, floodwaters from the massive, we're rolling on it.
Whatever he said here, we'll have it, and we'll put it in perspective for you.
Floodwaters from the massive hurricane smashed a New Jersey liquor distributor, causing tens of millions of dollars in damage to its supply of top-shelf adult beverage.
A sad mix of liquor and slush puddled on the ground outside Fedway Associates warehouse in Kearney, where the smell of red wine hung in the air as workers piled boxes and broken glass into an eight-foot-tall mountain.
The devastating deluge smashed bottles of pricey libations such as gray goose vodka, Cristal champagne.
That's going to be tough on P. Diddy.
P. Diddy and Jay-Z live on this stuff.
They live on Crystal.
See, it's described here as a river of booze pouring into a pile of soggy cardboard.
Our office building and warehouse buildings were hit with 10-foot tidal surges, and as a result, our infrastructure and our inventories were severely compromised, said the president of Fedway, Neil Barnett.
What do you think we could get shipped in there faster, gasoline or booze?
Booze?
I think so too.
I think probably, you know, gasoline shortages are one thing, but a liquor shortage, that's going to get people upset.
New Jersey, New York.
And we don't even have to relax the blends like we do for gasoline.
We don't need any regulation adjustments.
I checked the people think I'm making this up about the homeless.
Here it is.
It's from CBS.
New York, Mayor Bloomberg outlawed food donations to homeless shelters because the city can't assess their salt, fat, and fiber content, says Marsha Kramer of CBS News.
Glenn Richter arrived at a Westside synagogue on Monday to collect surplus bagels to donate to the poor.
However, under a new edict from the mayor's office, he can no longer donate bagels to the city homeless shelters because they're not being tested.
I'm not making this stuff up, folks.
Okay, here's all you need to know from what Obama said.
He said, I'm open to compromise.
I'm open to new ideas, but I refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced.
In other words, I'm all for compromising as long as we do it my way.
This is a replay.
This is exactly the kind of stuff he said after the 2010 elections and after he was elected in 2008.
It's the exact stuff he said.
I'm open for new ideas.
Anybody come up?
How will this do it?
So Paul Ryan showed up with all kinds of wonderful new ideas on healthcare, and Obama shut him down with a couple of evil stares.
It doesn't mean any of this.
And I'm telling you, for those of you, I don't know how many of our EIB stations gypped the president and cut out of this program.
But if you're back now, if that happened, I just want to tell you that you missed a couple of things that we pointed out on this program.
One is that the Obama administration did indeed run ads on Spanish language radio shows in Mexico.
Radio soap operas advising Mexicans coming to America how to get on food stamps.
Now, what is that if that's not Santa Claus?
He wasn't advising them how to come here and find work.
Because at the time the ads were running, there wasn't any.
Heck, there isn't now either.
The second thing is Jonathan Alter writing in Bloomberg has a story how Obama can heal his rift with business.
Yeah, see, the Republicans, they've got outreach problems with Hispanics and African Americans, single women, and women who want abortions and women who want birth control pills.
But Obama has to repair his relationship with business.
Really?
Now, if we were to treat Obama and the Democrats the same way the Republicans are being advised, what we would say to Obama is, you want to reach out to business, you better do all the things Romney suggested that he would do.
Well, isn't that what they're telling us?
The Republicans ought to do everything the Democrats do.
And then we would get the Hispanic.
You think the Democrats want us to have the Hispanic vote?
You think the Democrats want us to have the African American?
So why would we listen to them tell us what we need to do to get it?
The fact is, we're not going to get the Hispanic vote unless we try to be a bigger Santa Claus than they are or any of the other minority votes.
That's why people vote for the Democrat Party.
You may not like hearing it.
It may offend you, but why else do they?
Well, they're not racist.
Yeah, but at the end of the day, what does it really mean?
So anyway, to carry all this forward, if we're to be consistent, if Obama has a rift with business that he has to repair, he should do all the things Romney suggested that he would do.
Actually, my idea is for, you know, Obama talked about Secretary of Business, and I'm suggesting that Obama nominate Romney as his secretary of business.
It worked every time we put the Bushes and Clinton together for tsunami relief.
Oh, yeah, it was bipartisanship is working together.
And look what happens when we work together.
It actually would be a smart move for Obama to appoint Romney to something.
And if Romney took it, it'd be a huge deal for Obama.
Stop and think about it.
And I don't mean it in a good way.
Here's another example of me, El Rushbo, being the problem.
Charlie Cook yesterday in Washington, well-known pollster and analyst, during a leading authorities panel discussion about the election audience member said, what's the path forward for American Republicans, particularly the Hispanic vote?
I tend to think of myself, I'm a businessman, as sympathetic with the business community.
I think the business community has not taken a leadership role on the immigration issue and finding realistic, reasonable compromises and selling it within the Republican Party and getting some of the more exotic opinion leaders and talk radio people to shut the hell up.
When you're in a hole, stop digging.
And the Republican Party needs to, number one, address the immigration issue and stop alienating Latino voters.
So shut the talk radio people up and stop alienating Latino voters and address the immigration issue.
The only problem is, Mr. Cook, that 75% of the Democrats, Hispanics, are not voting for Democrats.
Because of the immigration issue, it just isn't the case.
Be right back, folks.
Isn't it amazing, ladies and gentlemen, to behold the inside-the-beltway conventional wisdom?
Everybody there, everybody in punditry, every liberal media, every conservative media person, every political strategist and analyst, every elected official all believe that the Republican Party will continue to lose elections because we're not for amnesty.
We have got to reach out.
And it's the Democrats that are trying to help us.
It's the Democrats and the media, the Democrats that elected Democrats trying to help us.
Yeah, yeah, there's you guys, you keep it.
Charlie Cook here said, you know, Republicans are digging a hole.
You got to stop digging the hole.
They have got to shut the talk radio people up and some of their more exotic opinion leaders and address this immigration issue.
Stop alienating Latino voters.
What does that mean?
It means we got to be for open borders and amnesty.
That's what we have to do as Republicans.
And then our policies will not differ from Democrats at all.
And then that will mean what on Election Day?
Does that mean that a whole bunch of Hispanics are going to vote for the Republican?
I want to take you back again.
Ronald Reagan, 1986, if you're just joining us, 1986, Ronald Reagan signed into law the Simpson-Mazzoli amnesty bill, which granted amnesty to 3 million illegals.
And we were told that that was it.
Okay, we got done now, and we're going to secure the border and we've solved the problem.
There won't be any more illegal immigration.
Well, we all know it's up to between 12 and 20 million illegals now, and we're talking about doing it all over again.
But in 1984, two years before amnesty, Ronald Reagan got 37% of the Hispanic vote.
Two years later, 1986, signs into law amnesty granting status, citizenship, to 3 million illegals.
Two years after that, George H.W. Bush, the Veep, runs for president as a Republican and got 30% of the Hispanic vote.
So Reagan, before amnesty, got 37%.
After amnesty, the Republicans got 30%.
We lost Hispanic voters after amnesty.
Now, I don't know if amnesty is why we lost 7% of the Hispanic vote, but we sure as hell didn't increase it with amnesty.
And yet, and yet, here we are in 2012, and all the wizards of SMART, all the smart people, you've got to do it again.
You Republicans, I mean, you're Neanderthals.
You've got to be like us Democrats, which, of course, is what the Democrats want, right?
I think they'd love it.
If the Republican Party caved, if the Republican Party gave up and just became Democrats that called themselves Republicans, that'd be cool.
It'd be cool with that.
So, carrying this forward, if we want outreach for the single women vote, we now have to be pro-abortion and we have to be in favor of giving away birth control pills as part of every health insurance policy in the country.
That's a ticket, right?
I mean, how else are we going to get those voters, folks?
We've got to reach out.
And next, we've got to reach out to the gay community and understand they're not happy with us because we're not for gay marriage on the Republicans.
Well, we got to throw that aside.
And the Republican Party now has to openly support gay marriage as part of the Republican Party getting with it.
Getting out of this hole that we're digging.
We've got to get real here in the 21st century.
We understand where this country is.
So we have to now promote and favor abortion and birth control pills, amnesty for illegal aliens, and gay marriage.
That's right.
And oh, the next thing we have to do, if we want to ever have a prayer at the young hip vote, we have got to come out for the legalization of marijuana right now.
Not next year, not next century, not next decade, but right now.
We need to support the legalization of drugs, starting with marijuana.
This is easy once you get the hang of it.
You just say yes to everything everybody wants.
It's easy.
Just say yes.
Or if you can't say yet, just make them think that you're saying yes.
That's an even better trick.
Make them think you are for gay marriage.
Make them think that you're going to promote abortion.
But whatever, that's the ticket, folks.
That's what we as Republicans are learning that we need to do.
Whatever anybody wants, we say you got it.
Yes, Mr. Sturgeley, a question from the program observer.
Right?
What happens to Republicans of the party?
Well, they're just, they're just, no, the existing Republicans who the conservatives, well, they're just going to have to realize that there's such a, it doesn't care what the conservatives do.
The best thing they can do is shut up.
That's what all smart people, the conservatives, be they elite opinion leaders or talk radio people, just need to shut up.
The Republican Party needs to shut the conservatives up, silence them.
Don't listen to them complaining and whining and moaning.
And just say yes to whatever these groups want.
That's the ticket.
That's what the Republican Party has to do.
And if you listen to the Republican Party leadership, some of them are getting it.
Oh, and we must also understand that we have to raise taxes.
Folks, as a party, we're not going to survive if we don't do these things.
This is what the smart people are telling us.
No matter where you go in Washington, this is what the smart people are telling us.
Snurdley, you say, what about the people can play?
Just the angry old white men.
I mean, they're just the party's old and white and angry, and they just, you got to ignore them.
They're the past.
They're the source of all the trouble in this country.
Old white guys, they're the reason the party's in trouble.
The Republican Party has got to find a way to just distance itself from those people.
Do you dispute that that's what we're hearing?
This is exactly what we're, I don't care.
We're hearing Charlie Cook.
We are hearing it from Diane Sawyer.
We're hearing it from everybody in the media.
We're hearing it from a lot of Republican consultants.
We're hearing it from a lot of so-called conservative media types.
All of this is what equals the Republican Party modernizing.
This is how we grow.
We have to throw away our dead weight, the old white conservative guys, get rid of them.
They're the ones dragging us down and say yes to everything everybody wants.
Santa Claus.
Back to the phones because it is Open Line Friday.
This is Rob in Columbus, Ohio.
Glad you waited, sir.
Great to have you here.
Believe me, it's a great honor and privilege, and I'm just so very glad that I was able to get through.
Thank you, sir.
Well, you're a hero.
You are.
Yeah, I'm waiting for you to go.
Oh, I'm sorry.
My hearing is really bad today, and it's taking me about a couple lines to understand what people are saying here as it's transcribed.
So thank you very much for that.
I appreciate it.
Sure.
Well, I mean, you're a hero, and I enjoy your humor, especially, because it's a combination of the truth, which all good humor is based in.
And I wanted to throw a word that I kind of like that explains exactly why Romney will not be picked as the assistant for Barack Obama because it's a combination of the word backwards and barack.
Barack O'Claus wants to take us barackwards.
Barackwards is where he really wants to go.
But anyways, my phone call was about this amazing coincidence of the 47% that was being used before the election, and Romney used that exact percent, and it was taken out of context and used by the Democrats.
And now all of the polls suddenly reflect that exact 47%.
And it just stands to reason that there's a possibility that just like the regime could manipulate the media, for example, with the YouTube video in Libya, that, you know, that Libyan video, the YouTube video came out before Libya was attacked, publicized before, just by coincidence and then used knowingly by the regime that the YouTube video had nothing to do with it.
Well, isn't it amazing how the last days of the polls, is it possible that the polls could be manipulated by the regime?
Because all the indicators were that the Tea Party was rocking and rolling, and Obama's campaign events were not nearly as strong as they were in 2008.
Romney was the opposite.
Everybody enthusiastic, way more people showing up to his campaign events.
And then amazingly, without explanation, everybody scratching their heads that suddenly it was a tie at 50-50 before the election, the last day, and then after Election Day, it just happens to be 47% that the Democrats would love to, they look at that 47% again.
Ha ha.
Well, who is the 47% in your analogy?
The people who voted for Romney?
Exactly.
And they're trying to throw it back in Romney's face, kind of like, look what we can do.
I mean, maybe it's not.
Maybe it's just a pure coincidence.
But when you have a regime that can do things like they defraud the world, that what really happened by trying to blame it on a YouTube video, these guys are not trustworthy.
I'm not going to drink the Kool-Aid about these polls just yet.
It's confusing.
I hate to disagree with you.
I think one of the lessons here is that the polls pre-election and exit were right on the money.
They were exactly right.
The polls even told us that there were going to be 3 million fewer Republican voters, and we did not have the wherewithal to see it.
We're looking at polls that show a Democrat sample of plus seven, plus nine, plus six, and we don't believe it.
We think that the polls are being rigged beforehand.
It turns out that they were exactly right.
The pollsters guessed right on the money turnout.
They got Obama's margin of victory pretty close.
There was, I mean, they hedged their bets on that.
Most people had it, Romney plus one or a tie.
But if you look, if you look at a county-by-county map of what party won what county, you're going to see, and Republicans are red, Democrats are blue.
You look at this and you will not understand how the Republicans lose elections.
You will not, if that's all you look at, the Democrats, here's the lesson here.
The Democrats won this election in five states.
They got their vote out better than we did in Ohio, Virginia, Florida, it looks like it's close enough.
And some of the other states that we thought were in the bag are close.
We're not anywhere near close.
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, nowhere near close.
Colorado, Nevada, nowhere near close.
But the Democrats won this election in five states.
That's where they got the electoral votes they knew they needed.
That's where they got their turnout, and we didn't.
And the polls called this right on the money.
So it doesn't matter that Romney's enthusiasm in his rallies was through the roof, and Obama's was nowhere there.
The votes didn't happen at those rallies.
That's why I keep I did.
I kept rejecting all that stuff.
I kept begging people, look, it's anecdotal.
It looks good.
Please don't make any value judgments based on it.
Anyway, it's hard not to.
I know.
I'm a little long.
I've got to take a break.
See, Daniel Craig, who plays James Bond in the new movie Skyfall, says there's no way there will ever be a gay James Bond.
Yes, there will.
Of course there will.
We've got to see where we're headed here, folks.
Of course there's going to be a gay James Bond.
He's going to get married in a James Bond movie.
It will happen.
All the pieces are in place.
This is a matter of time.
It'll happen.
Here's Rona in Tona Point, Arizona.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hi, Rush.
Hi.
We've been waiting a long time.
I know we have time constraints, so I'll try to check my propensity to go on and on about things.
I have a thousand different ideas, but I'll try to keep it limited.
First of all, I wanted to say, I listen to Fox a lot, Beckle, Juan Williams, Julie Roginsky or Roginsky, or however you pronounce her name.
And I'm sick and tired of them giving us advice on how to vote to win.
I'm a single white female unmarried woman, and I'm being told your vote doesn't count.
You're old.
You're anachronistic.
We need to move on.
And I'm also a Christian, and I'm not going to change my views to get along.
I am still anti-abortion.
Now, see, that's the problem.
If you are single white female, unmarried, you're a target audience for the Democrats.
I'm not a Democrat.
You've got to have a lot of sex.
You have to have a lot of sex.
I mean, that's part and parcel of it.
You have to have a lot of sex, need a lot of birth control pills and an occasional abortion, and you are made to order for the Democrat Party.
Well, you know what, Rush?
I'm old enough to know better.
Oh, you're over 30.
Okay, then that does disqualify.
I'm not the people they want.
Okay, yeah, you're over.
You know, I listen to you sometimes, and you'll be on a subject, and I'll think something, and then you'll turn right around and say it, and I'm like, I just thought that.
It's like I got it.
Doesn't that make you feel good, though?
Yeah.
But, you know, I did want to make a point about Beckle, and, you know, you need to do this, and you need to do that, and your vote doesn't count if you're white.
I'm not going to change my values to get elected, okay?
And number one, these people, like you say, Sandy.
Oh, well, Romney had the people until Sandy.
You have no principles if your mind can be changed over a storm.
Yeah.
You don't have no principles.
That's all bogus.
That's all stuff designed to confuse you and other people like you.
Believe me, believe me, if votes turned on the appearance of Obama in the aftermath of Sandy, then he is Santa Claus.
There's no other reason for the vote to turn.
He's going to come in and give stuff away.
He's going to come in and help.
He is Santa Claus if that's the only way it can matter.
It's all a crock, and you see it.
I'm glad you do.
Got to go back after this, folks.
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